A Seattle reporter tracked down missing Nick Francisco in Southern California recently, and did a fascinating interview with him. Watch the interview here.
Nick, who now goes by the new name of Alex Martin, however, doesn’t say much about the details of what happened. He doesn’t even mention Christine’s name once. The reporter has to poke and prod at him to get him to speak the few words he does say.
Nick is clearly upset and despondent, and could even be suicidal, or worse. He portrays a sadness that is hard to explain, and a hopelessness that causes me fear. I think I feel fear because Nick feels like a victim in every aspect of his life that he talks about here. When people feel their life is out of control, and that they are a victim at every turn, their potential to cause others harm grows exponentially. Nick works to stop himself from breaking down. He is extremely detached and is trying to detach more and more, yet he is in a lot of pain. I hope Nick finds help and soon.
Read moreThe reporter asks Nick about making the final decision to disappear in 2008, and Nick says, “Well, it was either doing that, or waking up the next morning with a gun to my mouth. I had one in the shed. It’s pretty cold when you put it in your mouth every day.”
What strikes me so much about this statement by Nick (aka Alex) is how Christine, his wife, portrayed something entirely different (source):
“My husband is missing and he would come home if he could,” Christine Francisco told FOX News [days after his disappearance].
Christine, who is pregnant with the couple’s third child, said her husband would never leave the family and believes he was the victim of foul play.
“He would not run out on his family ever,” she said.
In Christine’s interview with Greta van Susteren in the days after her husband disappeared, Greta asked Christine, “Did you get the sense that anything unusual was going on in his life?” Christine’s response as she holds back laughter, “Not at all. He sounded so excited to come home, and he was ready to go with the cookies.”
If you live with a man, and are married to him for seven years, and he is suicidal, don’t you think you’d know? Of if you didn’t, once he disappeared, don’t you think you’d look back and at least say that he wasn’t happy? How come Christine portrays something dramatically different? When I look back on my first review of Christine, suddenly her laughter make sense. I suspect she knew what she was saying was ridiculous.
I also found it so strange that Christine Francisco didn’t reveal any details about Nick when she said he was found safe and alive, either. I mean what sane woman, who was violated as she says she was, would protect a deadbeat dad, and not reveal what she found, where he was and what his new name was. Most mom’s would want to hold their husband accountable–especially if people called her suspicious!! Why on earth did she continue to protect him?
Now in this article about this case, KIRO7.com says: “…the state [of Washington] says its hands are tied. For reasons of confidentiality, they cannot talk about this case in particular.”
What the heck? Why this “confidentiality?” What is being kept behind closed doors? If this was just a simply runaway case, there would be no reason for confidentiality. Something is going on that we are not privy to, and for a reason. I have my suspicions, but I will not publicly discuss them, because they are speculative.
We still don’t know what the truth is, and we may never find out the truth, but for the first time, things are making a little bit more sense.
It’s a sad story from every angle…
