No Safe Place

The shocking story of a marriage gone brutally wrong describes the case of Robert Fratta, who along with two others, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the brutal rape and murder of his wife, Farah. Reprint.

HE ABUSED HER BODY...

Everyone who knew them thought stunning Farah Fratta and her husband Robert, a firefighter and public safety officer, had it all -- a solid, nine-year marriage, three beautiful children, and a comfortable house in a middle class Houston suburb. But behind closed doors, Robert's deviant sexual appetites trapped Farah in a world of sick perversity...until she filed for divorce in 1992.

HE TERRORIZED HER IN HER OWN HOME...

During a bitter custody suit, Farah bravely recounted -- in graphic detail -- her husband's bizarre sexual demands, which the presiding judge called the most depraved behavior he'd ever heard. Then Fratta's behavior turned violent. Hoping to intimidate his wife into dropping the proceedings against him, he hired an ex-con to brutally rape and torture her with a stun gun. Two years after the case began, the court was about to rule in Farah's favor...and seal her fate.

THEN HE TOOK HER LIFE...

On the night of November 9, 1994, as an unsuspecting Farah stepped out of her car, a man wearing a black ski mask emerged from the backyard and pumped two lethal bullets into her head. Charged with Farah's murder, Fratta tried to use a visit with his children as an alibi. Instead, he and two others were convicted of the bloody plot and sentenced to die by lethal injection.