[TX] Ex Cop Fratta on death row for murdering Farah is denied appeal

Farah Baquer Fratta with children
 

Former Missouri City cop on death row denied federal appeal
Houston Chronicle
By Keri Blakinger
Thursday, May 3, 2018
A former Missouri City police officer now on Texas death row lost out on a federal appeal Tuesday, bringing him one step closer to the death chamber. Robert Fratta was sentenced to death by a Harris County court in 1996 after jurors found him guilty of hiring someone to murder his wife Farah Fratta... Farah and Robert Fratta were in the midst of a contentious divorce and slated for a child custody hearing less than three weeks after the 34-year-old mother was shot in the head while stepping out of her car. Robert Fratta was at church at the time of the crime, but investigators immediately zeroed in on him as a prime suspect...[Full article here]

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