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On November 9, 1994, 33-year-old Farah Fratta (August 5, 1961 – November 9, 1994) was gunned down at her home in Atascocita, Texas.Investigations revealed that Robert Alan Fratta (February 22, 1957 – January 10, 2023), a police officer and the estranged husband of Farah, had masterminded her murder by hiring two men to kill her, for which the motive was related to the unresolved divorce ...
Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people. [1] It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of compensation, monetary or otherwise. Either party may be a person, group, or organization.
Investigation Discovery series Nothing Personal: Murder for Hire aired an episode titled "Deadly Divorce" in 2011. [10] In 2021, the Vengeance: Killer Millionaires episode entitled "Cashed Out" covered the case, and in 2023, season 1 of CNBC's true-crime series Blood & Money [11] covered the murder in episode 2, "The Millionaire's Defense."
Not implicated in the murder-for-hire plot was Schmall’s ex-wife. Darren Schmall, the victim’s father, was critical of the investigation and the prosecution of the case. He said it fell ...
Hired Wife was dramatized as a radio play on an hour-long broadcast of Lux Radio Theatre on November 3, 1941. William Powell and Myrna Loy play the Aherne/Russell roles. [2] On September 22, 1941, at the end of Lydia Cecil B. DeMille announced [3] that Powell and Loy would play in a performance of Third Finger, Left Hand on September 29.
A Caseyville businessman accused of hiring a hitman to kill his estranged wife’s girlfriend had ... but rather this was a calculated and cold-hearted murder-for-hire scheme based on a personal ...
Here's an interesting solution to the dilemma faced by most working couples at some point or another: One spouse gets a great job offer in another city, but the other spouse doesn't want to leave ...
Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is a retired American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award–nominated film American History X.