Reginald Potts Threatened To ‘Erase’ Nailah Franklin, Say Prosecutors

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Reginald Potts has been charged with the killing of Nailah Franklin

Prosecutors say Reginald Potts threated to “erase” Nailah Franklin.

Calling Nailah Franklin’s killing “premeditated,” an assistant state’s attorney says that Reginald Potts stalked and threatened to “erase” Nailah Franklin before she was killed, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

A first assistant state’s attorney says Reginald Potts was caught on video stalking Nailah Franklin and explains how Reginald Potts’ and Nailah Franklin’s cell phone records tore apart Reginald Potts’ alibi.

Witnesses at Nailah Franklin’s building also saw Reginald Potts stalking Nailah, according to law enforcement officials.

“It was premeditated,” First Assistant State’s Attorney Robert Milan said after the hearing. “This defendant went through a lot of trouble and time in order to take Ms. Franklin out to an abandoned area — a desolate area — and take her life.” …

In early September, Franklin sent an e-mail to friends discussing Potts’ criminal past, Milan said. When Potts found out, he made threatening calls to her. “He told her he could have her erased,” Milan said.

Cell phone records –television news reports say GPS signals — indicate that Reginald Potts and Nailah Franklin were on 159th Street in Calumet City where Nailah Franklin was was later found dead by police, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

The cell records depict Potts and Franklin traveling east in Calumet City at the same time that night, and show them both in the area where Franklin’s body was later found, Milan said.

After dumping Franklin’s body, Potts kept her cell phone and drove her car to Hammond, Ind., where he left it, Milan said.

Prosecutors say after Nailah Franklin was killed, Reginald Potts kept her cell phone and made three hang-up calls to 911 operators using Nailah Franklin’s phone.

CBS 2 News Chicago reports how Reginald Potts’ story fell apart when law enforcement investigated cell phone GPS records.

Prosecutors say global positioning system records from a cell phone helped solve the murder of Nailah Franklin. A judge Monday denied bail for her ex-acquaintance, Reginald Potts.

As CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker reports, the man charged with killing Franklin can blame his arrest on his cell phone. Police say Potts is a suspect in Franklin’s death because on the day she disappeared Potts gave one story to police, but the satellite records on his cell phone told another.

News reports are detailing Reginald Potts’ violent past.

Reginald Potts’ ex-wife also alleges that he made threats against her, reports the Naperville Sun.

The threats Reginald Michael Potts Jr. made against Nailah Franklin in the days before her murder are not the first he’s made against women in his life. …

According to court records, Potts contacted his ex-wife via e-mail Oct. 10. That message was sent less than a month after the murder of Franklin, a 28-year-old pharmaceutical sales representative from Chicago whom Potts had been seeing on and off for the past year.

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