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Lessons from the Froeschle Murder

We will never know exactly how Katie Froeschle ended up inside a rental home, where she was clubbed to death with a motorcycle muffler pipe. But we can still learn from her.

By Randi Meyer | Updated on October 05, 2009

Her mother told reporters she never thought being an insurance adjuster could be dangerous. She worried more about her daughter living alone in Tampa. Leonore Froeschle described her daughter by saying, “She’s not naive. She knew how to handle people.”

Yet on Nov. 12, 2004, Katrina “Katie” Froeschle, a 25-year-old Farm Bureau insurance adjuster assigned to inspect hurricane damage to a roof at a remote Sulphur Springs, Fla., rental property, was no match for the new tenant, 27-year-old Jason Matthew Funk.

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