A Contractor's Bloody Trail Ends Beneath a Fir Tree
Tacoma detectives follow bloodstains from J. A. Frace's home to his bullet-riddled body, and suspect revenge.
Tacoma — Following a trail of bloodstains along an abandoned path a short distance from the Frace home, detectives and neighbors of J. A. Frace, a prominent Tacoma contractor, found the bullet-riddled corpse of Frace, who had been missing from his home since Wednesday evening. Frace, it is believed, had been murdered by some person inspired with motives of revenge, and his body had been dragged along the path and concealed beneath a heavy fir tree.
“Frace, it is believed, had been murdered by some person inspired with motives of revenge, and his body had been dragged along the path and concealed beneath a heavy fir tree.”
A century later, Tacoma still reckons with violent crime and the uneven attention given to different victims. The Frace case shows how a prominent citizen's disappearance could become a front-page mystery while countless other cases went unrecorded.
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