An execution date has been set for a former Missouri City police officer who has been behind bars for more than 25 years after orchestrating his wife’s death. Robert Alan Fratta, 65, is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on January 10, 2023.
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The murder-for-hire plot made national headlines, with unfolding details showing a couple in the middle of a bitter custody battle and divorce, and a mother’s untimely end that forever altered a family. Robert Fratta was accused of recruiting two men from his gym, Howard Guidry and Joseph Prystash, to take his wife’s life.
During trial, defense attorneys argued that Fratta suffered paranoid delusional thinking from a brain injury, also, from witnessing his father suffering a deadly heart attack during a hunting trip when Fratta was a teenager. They said Fratta was emotionally stunted, seeing himself as a victim and was fearful of losing custody of his children.
Two of the couple’s children testified in court. Fratta’s adult daughter, who was 4 years old when her mother died, said she saw no remorse from her father when she visited him once in jail. She went on to say, because of him, she developed trust issues with men and relationships.“I didn’t want to say anything to him. He’s such a dog and a monster. I was wasting my time if I had said something to him,” Lex Baquer said outside the courtroom.
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