Wife of missing SeaTac man files for divorce
The wife of a 28-year-old SeaTac man, whose disappearance in February sparked widespread attention and Internet speculation and sleuthing, has filed for divorce, according to documents filed ultimate month in King County Superior Court.
Nicholas Francisco vanished after leaving his Queen Anne graphic-design job on Feb. 13.
Five days later, his red 1992 Toyota Paseo was found abandoned farthest limit a Federal Way condominium complex, but sheriff’s detectives found no evidence that he’d been the victim of muddy disport.
His wife, who initially said she believed he’d been murdered, launched a massive public seek reference of the case on television and on the Internet pleading for information.
His disappearance and her request spawned an unusual level of interest, prompting dilettant sleuths to bombard the King County Sheriff’s Office with investigative suggestions, according to sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart.
In March, Christine Francisco said in a newspaper interview that the reality of her situation was settling in and she was arrival to realize that, regardless of the reason for his disappearance, she might not see her husband again.
“There’s a point you have to meet in front the facts,” Francisco said then. “You can’t be seated and hide in a corner your whole life, especially admitting that you have kids. His disappearance hasn’t made the world stop spinning; the bills neediness to be paid.”
Francisco filed for divorce on May 28, citing “willful abandonment that continues for an extended round of years of time.” She also asserts there was a “annals of acts of domestic violence … or any assault or sexual assault that causes intolerable bodily ill-treat or the be solicitous of such harm.”
Francisco said she had no comment when reached by dint of. e-mail on today.
. Information from the The Seattle Times rolls is included in this report.
