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...happy families are alike, wrote Tolstoy, but unhappy ones are unhappy in their own way. Perhaps none was unhappier last Thursday than the family of Eileen Franklin-Lipsker, who took the stand in municipal court in Redwood City, Calif., to accuse her father, George Franklin Sr., of sexually molesting and then beating to death her best friend, Susan Nason, in her presence more than 20 years...
When Franklin-Lipsker, now 29, first made that stunning disclosure last November, it broke open a case that local authorities thought they would never solve. Her story was credible enough for police to arrest Franklin, 50, a retired fireman and real estate agent, for first-degree murder and hold him on $2 million bail. Since then, the Franklin family has split apart. One of Franklin-Lipsker's three sisters distrusts her. Her brother, George Jr., will take the stand against her in their father's defense. Eileen's mother, who divorced George Sr. in 1975, is said...
...Franklin-Lipsker took the stand to tell her story under oath for the first time, she looked utterly normal, an attractive California suburbanite reminiscent in her demeanor and tightly pulled-back hair of Maureen Dean sitting primly behind her husband John during the Watergate hearings. Father and daughter avoided looking at each other. But when Eileen sheepishly admitted that she considered undergoing hypnosis for weight loss (hypnosis- induced memories are inadmissible in California criminal trials), George Franklin smiled and tried to catch his daughter's eye, as if he saw for a moment his pudgy little girl, not the accuser...
When she told her tale, Franklin-Lipsker became otherworldly, retreating into herself, a child of eight again, riding along in her father's Volkswagen van. As she now remembers that day, they stopped and offered a ride to Susan Nason, who lived five houses away. The two girls piled into the back to bounce on the mattress until her father pulled off the road near the reservoir and joined them. Eileen got into the front passenger seat; when she looked back she saw her father holding Susan's hands above her head, "on top of her, her legs spread apart...