OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – The girlfriend of an Oshkosh man, who was found dead, after a fire, is suggesting foul play was involved.
The body of Frank Larsen, 49, was discovered earlier this month in a storage unit on West Third Street.
Larsen called his girlfriend of six years on February 4th, the day of the deadly fire.
“Call me later when you get a chance,” he said in a voicemail message to Stella Rangeloff. “If don’t answer right away, I will go outside and smoke and call you right back, but please call me, I want to talk to you today. I miss you. I love you. Bye.”
Rangeloff did just that, but tells FOX 11 she only heard a muffled sound.
“I hung up, and I called back over, and over, and over like, this is weird; what was this?”
Rangleoff was supposed to meet Larsen at their storage shed in Oshkosh that night.
She started to worry, because of events leading up to that day.
Just months before he died, Larsen had told Rangeloff he had seen a vehicle on several occasions come inside the AAA Mini Storage facility and park right outside of his unit, sometimes for minutes on end.
“I’m never going to forget that car, ever, ever!” said Rangeloff. “I don’t think it’s ever gonna get out of my head,I’m not even gonna lie.”
Rangeloff says she also received an ominous threat.
“Saying he would pay a bum to burn that storage unit with him in it!” she recalled.
And Larsen was missing items he always had with him.
“Things missing, like keys, his necklace, his ring, his backpack,” Rangeloff explained. “I know when there’s a fire, things get destroyed, but I don’t think a fire can destroy keys, I don’t think it could destroy jewelry.”
The fire and cause of death is still under investigation.
Rangeloff thinks there’s more to the story, and she just wants answers.
“I want them [police] to really look into this, because this man did not deserve to have this happen to him at all, whatever happened, but I know for a fact the inside of it [storage unit] just…it’s not right.”
And closure for her and her son, who she says adored Larsen.
Rangeloff says Larsen wasn’t living in the storage unit. She says he often used the storage unit as a hangout and getaway.
