Phil Stanford

Phil Stanford
Stanford in 2019
OccupationsJournalist and Author

Phil Stanford is an American journalist and author. He is best known for his work on the 1989 murder of Oregon Department of Corrections director Michael Francke and his efforts to prove the innocence of Frank Gable, who was wrongfully convicted of the crime. His 1994 Oregonian series on the “Happy Face Killer” case resulted in two innocent people being released from prison. And his book The Peyton-Allan Files makes the case that the 1960 murder of two Portland teenagers was committed by the serial killer Ed Edwards and not the two men wrongly convicted of the crime. He is the author of Portland Confidential and three other books, as well as the lead writer and an executive producer of the hit podcast series "Murder in Oregon: Who Killed Michael Francke?"