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Tulsa dentist, Bert Franklin, charged for trying to buy ‘hit’ on mistress – before she could testify about death of her 19-month-old son he is accused of killing

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"ra-headers">&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;050000&semi;">Tulsa dentist accused of killing his mistress&&num;8217&semi;s toddler&comma; now faces additional charges of conspiring to have the boy’s mother killed<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;050000&semi;">Bert Glen Franklin&comma; is charged with trying to have Roxanne Lewis Randall killed before she could testify about death of her son<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;050000&semi;">36-year-old Franklin allegedly&comma; killed Henry Lewis inside his mom’s Oklahoma City home<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;050000&semi;">Bert Franklin’s trial was set to begin for the July 2016 death of 19-month-old Lincoln Von Henry Lewis is delayed because prosecutors tacked on a conspiracy to commit first-degree murder charge <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;050000&semi;">The married father-of-four who has been in jail since his July 2016 arrest&comma; allegedly tried to recruit fellow inmate to kill his ex-mistress&comma; for &dollar;300<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;050000&semi;">Franklin&&num;8217&semi;s murder-for-hire plot was exposed by jailhouse informants he was trying to recruit for the &&num;8216&semi;<strong>hit&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<aside id&equals;"ra-left">&NewLine;<section class&equals;"ra-meta">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-date-updated">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-286282" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Bert-Franklin-2-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Bert Franklin 2" width&equals;"628" height&equals;"757" &sol;>Bert Franklin was charged with trying to kill his former mistress&comma; who was set to testify against him&period;<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"photo-caption margin-top-lg scroll-y">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"font-serif font-size-med margin-bottom-lg">Bert Glen Franklin&comma; a Tulsa dentist accused of killing his mistress&&num;8217&semi;s 19-month-old son&comma; on Monday faced additional charges of conspiring to have the boy’s mother killed&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;section>&NewLine;<&sol;aside>&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body">A dentist on trial for killing his mistress’ son has been trying to kill his former paramour so she wouldn’t testify against him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bert Franklin’s trial was set to begin for the July 2016 death of 19-month-old Lincoln Von Henry Lewis&comma; who prosecutors say the dentist killed inside his mom’s Oklahoma City home&period;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<article>Footage from a home surveillance video&comma; shown in court during his arraignment in Sept 2016&comma; showed the dentist fatally beating the boy that  resulted in fatal skull fractures&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;As reported by <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;newsok&period;com&sol;bond-denied-for-tulsa-dentist-accused-in-death-of-okc-mistresss-19-month-old-son&sol;article&sol;5514250" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">The Oklahoman<&sol;a>&comma; footage shown in court during a Sept 2016 bond hearing for Bert Franklin&comma; showed the Tulsa dentist allegedly abusing Lincoln Lewis&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;As the defense raised questions about the video because the critical moments took place off camera&comma; the prosecutor informed the court that a three-hour gap of surveillance video around the time of this incident had been deleted&comma; and had to be recovered&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lincoln died from his injuries at a Tulsa hospital on July 18&comma; 2016&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;After the facts of the new allegations emerged in the last two months&comma; the initial trial date had been pushed back by District Judge Cindy Truong&comma; because prosecutors tacked on a conspiracy to commit first-degree murder charge&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-286275" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Lincoln-Von-Henry-Lewis-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Lincoln Von Henry Lewis 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"799" &sol;>19-month-old Lincoln Von Henry Lewis was beaten to death by Franklin&comma; his mother&&num;8217&semi;s boyfriend<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Prosecutors said Franklin&comma; 36&comma; convinced his wife to bring in &dollar;300 so he could fund the assassination of Lincoln’s mother&comma; Roxanne Lewis Randall&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The plan fell though because the fellow jail inmates he enlisted to help were confidential informants already working with law enforcement in unrelated cases&comma; investigators reported&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Franklin who has been married since 2003 was living in Tulsa with his wife and four daughters&comma; at the time&period; He reportedly was having an affair with the victim&&num;8217&semi;s mother&comma; Roxanne Lewis Randall&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In jail since his July 2016 arrest&comma; Franklin&&num;8217&semi;s murder-for-hire plot which began in August was in the works as recent as Sunday&comma; prosecutors charged in an affidavit cited by <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;newsok&period;com&sol;tulsa-dentist-charged-in-death-of-19-month-old-boy-now-accused-of-conspiring-to-have-the-childs-mother-killed&sol;article&sol;5574585" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">the Oklahoman<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Bert-Franklin-3&period;png&quest;ssl&equals;1&amp&semi;w&equals;476" alt&equals;"Bert Franklin 3" width&equals;"621" height&equals;"519" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;Bert Franklin who is on trial for the death of Lincoln last summer was sold out by the jail house snitches he hired kill the toddler&&num;8217&semi;s mom&comma; a key witness against him<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module h">Franklin allegedly&comma; asked a fellow inmate in August about &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the possibility of killing a witness in the murder case&comma;” the affidavit claimed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The inmate was an informant for a separate case for an investigator for Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office&period; The two men chatted about bringing in another man formerly in jail&comma; who turned out to be another informant&comma; to potentially execute the contract&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Authorities gave the inmate a cellphone capable of recording &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;to provide Franklin with a tool should he choose to act on his predisposition and move forward in his plans&comma;” the affidavit continued&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Last Thursday&comma; the suspect sent a text to his wife through the county jail’s messaging system&comma; telling her how distressed he was&period; Franklin asked her to deposit &dollar;300 into the bank account of another inmate&comma; which prosecutors said was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;compensation for the murder if and when Franklin decided to act&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;He later called the wife&comma; with the contraband phone to vent how his lawyers had a weak case&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-286283" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Bert-Franklin-6&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Bert Franklin 6&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"1471" &sol;>Bert Franklin a Tulsa&comma; Oklahoma dentist is on trial in Oklahoma County facing first-degree murder and murder by child beating&period; The charges have just been expanded to include attempted first-degree murder of his victim&&num;8217&semi;s mother<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>The next day he called the informant outside of jail with &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;step-by-step driving instructions” to find the home of Randall&comma; the key witness in his case&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He gave out the where security cameras were in the home on Sunday&comma; the affidavit claimed&comma; as well as tips for handling Randall’s dog&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Those same surveillance cameras captured what prosecutors said was Franklin kicking and dropping Lincoln&period; It showed him walking around with the limp toddler in his arms&period; But his defense had argued he was actually trying to deal with Randall’s dog&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He also told the man&comma; his former jail mate&comma; to find Randall on Facebook to see what she looked like&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Mr&period; Franklin swears up and down he didn&&num;8217&semi;t have anything to do with it&comma;” his attorney&comma; Scott Adams&comma; said&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;newsok&period;com&sol;tulsa-dentist-charged-in-death-of-19-month-old-boy-now-accused-of-conspiring-to-have-the-childs-mother-killed&sol;article&sol;5574585" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">according to the Oklahoman<&sol;a>&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He didn&&num;8217&semi;t want anything bad to happen to Ms&period; Randall&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Franklin has denied killing Lincoln&comma; and last week turned down a deal that carried a 30-year sentence&period; &&num;8216&semi;The only reason he directed his wife to put the &dollar;300 in the account was because Franklin was afraid for his life behind bars&&num;8217&semi;&comma; Adams said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Prosecutors who have accused Franklin of repeatedly manipulating his family for more than a year that he’s been incarcerated&comma; do not believe his wife was part of the plot&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Franklin was manipulating his wife throughout his incarceration at the county jail&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the investigator wrote&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Franklin has developed a pattern of getting her to put money on other inmates&&num;8217&semi; accounts in the county jail under the guise of spiritually related reasons&comma; when in fact those moneys were used by Franklin for other purposes in the jail&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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