‘There’s more to this’: the disappearance of Frances Hatadis, a South Tahoe cold case

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‘There’s more to this’: the disappearance of Frances Hatadis, a South Tahoe cold case

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Although the photo of Frances Hatadis with the City of South Lake Tahoe Police Department is black and white, the description as having blue eyes and gray hair begins to cast color in the mind’s eye. Yet, certain details surrounding her case remain gray. The 68-year-old mysteriously vanished from South Lake Tahoe at the beginning of August 1997. “Chapter one in the cold case handbook is evidence will be lost,” SLTPD li…