THE CASE AGAINST ROBERT ALAN FRATTA
Categories: Essays
Written By: Billy Sinclair
Let me state at the outset that I believe Robert Fratta contracted to have his wife, Farah, murdered in Harris County, Texas, in 1995. The following facts about this high-profile case were drawn from a July 22, 2008 decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversing Fratta’s capital murder conviction and death sentence. Fratta is undergoing a second capital murder trial in Harris County as of this posting.
In 1983 Fratta worked as a public safety officer in Missouri City, Texas. Public safety officers in Missouri City were cross trained as police officers and firefighters. Fratta married Farah that year and the couple had three children. The marriage soon soured as Farah learned of Fratta’s bizarre and perverse sexual demands which, according to A&E’s popular American Justice program, included feces consumption for sexual gratification. Fratta’s sexual perversions were documented at his first trial by a psychologist, friends of Farah, and friends of Fratta.
By March 1992 Farah could no longer endure the physical, emotional and sexual abuse Fratta was inflicting on her, she filed for a divorce. A divorce trial was set for November 1994. The couple underwent psychological evaluations to determine the parent most suited to be named conservator of the children. Once the divorce proceedings were underway, Fratta made it clear to a number of people that he wanted to see Farah dead. The gym where he worked out seemed to be the place he liked most to discuss his desire to either kill or have Farah killed. One of the cop’s work out acquaintances testified at the first trial that Fratta made comments about “putting some [9mm] slugs into Farah” following a fight with his wife.
He also liked to talk about killing Farah with his police buddies. One fellow Missouri police officer also testified about threatening comments Fratta had made to him about Farah. According to the officer, Fratta said “he would kill her (Farah) and he would be out in five years and get his kids back, but he wouldn’t pay her [child support payments].”
Fratta was an arrogant man. He believed the universe revolved around him. The power of good looks, muscular physique, and the authority of being a cop consumed any normal remnants of modesty. He was also a bitter, angry man. The one woman with whom he had shared all his intimate secrets and sexual perversions had come to detest him. He no longer had any power over her. He told another fellow police officer that “I just ought, I’ll kill her, and I’ll do my time and when I get out, I’ll have my kids.”
Fratta had another gym buddy named James Podhorsky who sometimes joined Fratta on excursions into Houston’s topless clubs. Podhorsky testified at trial that Fratta would carry a gun with him on these journeys into the city’s night life—something that didn’t sit well with Prodhorsky. He said Fratta told him that he [Fratta] carried the gun in case he ran into Farah at which time he would shoot her and make it look like a car jacking.
It’s amazing that Fratta could tell fellow cops and gym buddies that he wanted his wife dead and no one reported the threats to the police. But it gets even better than that. Fratta asked several other people if they knew anyone, particularly a black person, who would be willing to kill Farah. Two were women. One he met in a diner and the other he met through an online dating service. He even asked yet a third gym buddy if he knew anyone who would “knock [Farah] off.”
Yet on another occasion he and another fellow were discussing problems they were both having with their wives. Fratta suggested that the fellow officer kill Farah and he would kill the officer’s wife.
Most of these people would later say they did not report Fratta’s threats because they had not taken them seriously; that they thought he was joking or blowing off steam. Anytime a man starts talking about killing his wife, either to her directly or to other people, he will eventually carry out the threats. I’ve known a significant number of wife killers. They are all same: cowards. They have to pump themselves up into a killing fever before they can carry out the act. It’s one thing to kill a person in a fit of anger or rage, perhaps unintentionally, but it’s quite another to carry out the act personally. Fratta apparently never could crank up his nerve to do the ugly deed himself, so he had to find someone else to do his dirty work. Fratta became so desperate to find a contract killer that he pressed Prodhorsky, who was having financial problems, to do the killing. He tried to convince Prodhorsky with the warped theory that he had let so many people know he wanted Farah dead that when she finally was killed, the police would not know how to conduct their investigation because there would be too many leads.
On November 9, 1994, Fratta finally got the chance to put that warped theory into practice. He ate dinner with Farah and their three children at Wyatt’s Cafeteria. He then drove the three children to a Catholic church in Humble, Texas. He left two of them at the church’s nursery and took the oldest child to a catechism class. He then joined a church meeting set up for parents whose children were preparing for first communion. He was laying the groundwork for his alibi, even though he was not his normal cocky self and was drawing the attention of others at the church. One witness said he appeared “tense” when he dropped the children off at the nursery. Others witnesses said he kept leaving the parents meeting so he could make and answer phone calls in the parish office.
Farah was a beautiful young woman. While she was afraid of her husband, there is no indication that she suspected he would either kill her or have someone else do it. The last night of her life she left a beauty salon at around 7:45 p.m. after getting a haircut. She went straight home and pulled into the driveway close to 8:00 p.m. It was at this point that neighbors from across the street, who were watching television in their living and from which they had a view of Farah’s house, heard a shot. One of the neighbors heard a scream, rushed to the window, and saw Farah fall to the ground next to her vehicle. A few moments later the neighbor heard a second shot. Several minutes later she saw either a black man or someone dressed in black standing beside Farah’s house. Another witness reported seeing a similar type person. A few minutes later a car drove up in front of Farah’s house, the killer got into the vehicle, and the vehicle sped away. Neighbors called 911 and Farah was rushed to Hermann Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead in the emergency room.
The police quickly arrived at Farah’s house. One of the first officers there noticed Farah’s purse had not been touched. He knew it was not a robbery or a car jacking. Fratta arrived at the house half an hour or so later. He told one officer that “he was in a hurry and … wanted to expedite the matter” because he had his children with him. This blasé attitude would coincide with what investigators learned from other witnesses about Fratta’s odd behavior at the church earlier that evening. The police immediately absorbed the information that the husband showed no indication of sadness, surprise, much less concern. In fact, one detective observed that Fratta “seemed very confident, very composed [and] well in command of the situation.” This same detective questioned Fratta later that night and sensed the husband was not telling the truth. With Fratta’s consent, the detective searched Fratta’s vehicle in which he found more than a one thousand dollars in cash and a 9mm pistol
Fratta was detained in the homicide division at the police station for fourteen hours. He was questioned by several detectives—and while they all had their suspicions that he was involved in his wife’s death, they did not have probable cause to hold him. They let him go. The next day Fratta went to a tanning salon where Prodhorsky worked and told him: “if everybody keeps their mouth shut everything will be all right … [but] if shit ever hits the fan, just tell them that you went over there to scare her and the first bullet you shot that went by her head actually grazed her and then you got scared and that’s when you fired the second shot.” Prodhorsky was not stupid. He realized Fratta was trying to shift the investigation toward him.
While the investigation into Farah’s murder remained active, it was not until March 1995 that Harris County Sheriff Department investigator Danny Billingsley placed the focus of the investigation on Howard Guidry after he was arrested on March 1st for robbing a local bank. The arresting officers found a .38 caliber pistol in his back pack. A few days after the Guidry’s arrest, a woman named Mary Gipp told a sheriff department investigator that Guidry had been involved in Farah’s murder. The detective ran a registration check on the .38 and learned the pistol had been purchased by Fratta in 1982. Farah’s father also identified the weapon as the one Fratta had given him in 1993 for safekeeping and retrieved it in 1994. A ballistic expert also told investigators that one of the bullet fragments recovered in Farah’s garage had been fired by the .38, and while another fragment had been too damaged to link to a specific weapon, it was identified as the remnant of a .38 slug.
It didn’t take much of a police effort to get Guidry to confess. He told Billingsley that on the afternoon of November 9, 1994, he and a man named Joseph Prystash drove to Farah’s house in Prystash’s vehicle. The duo then went to a nearby grocery store. They made calls to a pay phone located at the store to determine if it received calls. Having determined that it could receive calls, Psystash drove Guidry back to Farah’s house and dropped him off. Guidry carried the .38 and a cell phone given to him by Prystash. He climbed a fence in Farah’s backyard where he waited in a play house for her to return home. After a period of time Guidry became nervous when Farah did not returned home. He called Prytrash at the pay phone. Prystash instructed the triggerman to stay put.
Shortly afterwards, Farah returned home and pulled into the garage. Guidry exited the play house and tried to open a side door to the garage. The door was locked, so he just stood outside and waited for Farah to exit the garage. When Farah opened the door, Guidry stepped inside and shot her in the head. He shot her a second time in the head because she was still moving after the first bullet struck her. Guidry then walked back to the play house where he called Prystash. He told Prytrash the job was done and to come pick him up. He then climbed back over the fence in the backyard and hid behind a bush near the garage until Prystash arrived. Guidry said he had expected to receive $1,000 as soon as the killing was done.
Guidry’s confession led to Prystash’s arrest. He also confessed. His confession pretty much tracked what Guidry had told the police. Psystash said the cell phone he gave to Guidry belonged to Mary Gipp. Prystash confirmed that Guidry was suppose to get a $1,000 for carry out the contract killing while he (Prystash) was suppose to get a couple thousand and a Jeep.
The detectives finally had enough evidence to arrest Fratta who was subsequently indicted for capital murder. The State’s case against Fratta rested on the prosecutorial theory Fratta had made arrangements through Prystash to have Farah killed. Prystash secured the killing services of Guidry. Mary Gipp knew all the players. She was Prystash’s girlfriend, and she knew both Fratta and Farah from the gym where she and Prytash worked out. She lived next door to Guidry and knew about the murder plot but did nothing about it. Prystash and Guidry were tried separately and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to die but they did not testify against Fratta. Gipp did. While she had known for some time that Fratta wanted his wife killed, and she suspected he was recruiting Prystash to do it, it was not until the weekend before the actual killing that she knew Prystash had agreed to take part in the plot. She told the jury that on the night of the murder Guidry and Prystash returned to her apartment where they unloaded two spent shells from the .38, threw them away, and Prystash told her Farah had been killed.
While the Fifth Circuit properly ruled that Fratta’s confrontation rights had been violated because Billingsley had testified at Fratta’s trial about portions of Guidry and Prystash’s confessions without him having an opportunity to cross examine the two, there is little room to doubt Fratta guilt in this case. Former Harris County prosecutor Kelly Seigler refused to cut a deal with Prystash to have him testify against either or both Fratta and Guidry. Now that both Prystash and Guidry are sitting on death row there is no incentive for either to cooperate with the prosecution and testify against Fratta at his current trial. One or both of them might eventually do so out of spite if they believe Fratta will walk free and leave them holding the bag.
Cases like Fratta’s make argument against the death penalty difficult. He is the poster boy for death penalty advocates —a cop who hires a couple of thugs to kill his wife because he does not want to pay her child support. He tortured the women when they lived together as husband and wife and decided to kill her when she would no longer be a willing participant in his sexual perversions or a victim of his physical abuse.
There are some who even advocate Fratta’s cause of innocence. But the murder connections are inescapable. Howard Guidry was arrested with the murder weapon on him—a weapon registered to Fratta. Guidry lived next door to Mary Gipp. She was Prystash’s girlfriend. Gipp and Prystash worked out at the same gym with the Frattas. There are a thousand other little odds and ends that create reasonable inferences of guilt against Fratta—like the repeated threats, for example—but it’s these murder connections that convince me he is guilty of having his wife killed.
.I know a little about the law. I understand Fratta’s constitutional right of confrontation was grossly violated by Seigler’s ruthless prosecutorial tactics. She knew she couldn’t use Guidry/Psystash’s confessions against Fratta without allowing him an opportunity to confront and cross examine them as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. Instead of putting Guidry and Prystash on the witness stand, Seigler put Billingsley up there to testify about the two confessions; and while Billingsley never mentioned Fratta’s name, it was so clearly evident that Fratta had a right to cross examine both of them. Seigler could have made a deal with either or both Guidry and Prystash. She really didn’t try. She wanted three capital convictions and three death sentences to put in her death penalty hat.
If Robert Alan Fratta walks free, and some prominent legal experts are predicting he will, it will be because of Kelly Seigler putting her ruthless professional ambition before the realities of the case. The police did not have enough evidence to even arrest Fratta until they stumbled upon Guidry after his arrest for the bank robbery. Clearly, Seigler knew the only real provable connection between Fratta and the ruthless murder of her wife was through one or both of the murder participants. She didn’t do the deal.
The Fratta case personifies the corruption of the death penalty. It’s application is too often influenced by the political ambitions of pro-death penalty prosecutors. The whole time Seigler was pursuing death cases with former Harris County District Attorney Charles “Chuck” Rosenthal’s blessings, she had an obvious political ambition to one day be in Rosenthal’s chair and become the top prosecutor in the death penalty capital of America.
Personally, I think Robert Alan Fratta is despicable. As I’ve said, I’ve known many like him – wife killers, women abusers. They are no different on the social ladder than child molesters. But I don’t think he deserves to be executed by the State of Texas, anymore than I think any of the other inmates on death row should be executed. But his case still leaves a real bad taste in my mouth.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:42 am
I was a neighbor with Bob Fratta when he lived on Deer Timbers. His kids played with my daughter. He did say to me he wished it was legal to kill his wife . His children are the ones that are going to suffer, AGAIN. I hope the Grandparents keep custody of the youngest. I’d hate for her to have to go back to her father after all these years.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I believe Robert Fratta is innocent. If you read his “open letter to chuck Rosenthal there are so many inconsistensies. people realy need to check out what happened to miller . he was part of a meeting of the true hitman and who paid for hire. and robert’s name and robert was not there. I truely believe that prystash set him up. also people do not realize that the gun that was frattas was paid to prystash in exchange for work done on frattas car.. THAT is how it got in prystash and whoever else’s hands. as far as sexual preverances. c’mon. tell me how many men reading this does not have skeletons in their closet or fetishes they wish they could do and I doubt the one they brang up was even true. who cares what anyones fetish is anyways. people need to look at miller and all who were at that meetring. It will show roberts innoscence
April 17th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
I also feel Texas need to figure out something with their legal system. where a prosecutor can try cases and get promoted and all for the sake of how many people she puts to dealth row? why does she not go and see the conditions these men are living in at the polunsky unit and others. these are humans. jail is one thing but torment and torture is another.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Betsy – hope you’re right. But I don’t believe you are. Why would two contract killers–or just killers for that matter–select Robert Fratta’s wife to kill? Billy Sinclair
April 20th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Veronica – that will never happen, if Fratta is acquitted at current trial. The children will remain with grandparents. Billy Sinclair
April 24th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
the perversions ARE true but have no bearing on guilt or innocence. I know this for a fact. amber would not have to go back to her dad, shes too old now. lets just watch and see what happens, i think it could go either way. the da and the detectives did a lot of screwing up on this case, guilty or not and unfortunately that makes guilty men walk free sometimes.
April 28th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Dear Mr. Sinclair,
please contact me in private at my email address.
It’s about the Fratta case.
Thanks alot.
May 11th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
I was in the church that night and he kept getting up and he made eye contact with me and I couldn’t understand. I was there for a meeting for my little girls first communion ………I feel God is always in charge and will expose you for what you are
May 16th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
He should FRY!!!! Lethal injection is too quick and painless for him. The death penalty would be an excellent deterrent if the years of appeals would become void. I believe the person should have a one year period from the time he or she is sentenced to death to provide new information. If nothing turns up then on day 366 fry them. Good Old Sparky, wish you would rise again. The fact of the matter is , our justice system has turned so far to the right for the accused until it is now a sham.
May 20th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Betsy, then why did Bob tell several people he wanted his wife dead? At the gym (was it Ballys in Humble?) and at the Missouri City PD, according to reports, are two places he openly discussed his desire to have his wife dead. I wish there would have been a change in venue, because who in Harris County had not heard of this case? Even though Guidry and Prystash did not testify last week, don’t you think the jury knew about their previous testimonies?
I also question putting somebody to death when they did not do the actual shooting. Ms. Gipp is the person who could have prevented all this stuff. She had foreknowledge of the killing and said nothing. Instead, after the fact she was a RAT by narking on her ex-boyfriend. What a dim-wit. No wonder she’s got severe circles under her eyes and looks like she’s been run over by a Mack truck.
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I live with Mary and I know the truth. I was at the trial and saw fratta. What I saw was dead eyes.
May 23rd, 2009 at 3:15 am
Fratta was convicted once again. I agree wtih you that cases like his make arguing the case against capital punishment harder, yet locking people like him up for the rest of their natural lives makes more sense to me than killing them. Besides, Texas has a rotten record when it comes to convicting innocent people. I, like you, believe that Fratta is guilty but since this is Texas, I will never be absolutely sure of it.
May 27th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Robert Fratta bought that 1980 Jeep Cj-7 from me when I was 20 or 21 l can’t remember… He called himself Bob or Bobby gets fuzzy.. I hated to sell it but the engine threw a rod and I had no cash at the time to restore it. I placed an add in the green sheet and he was the first to show up with cash $1300. Told me “he wanted to fix the Jeep up before his divorce went through.” I think I remember the encounter so well because I hated to let go of the Jeep.
I know this sounds weird but would anyone know where the jeep is today or how to find it? Auctioned off or impounded somewhere?
May 28th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
“Betsy” believes he is innocent only because if you read the articles in the chron she is going to be marrying him. Good luck
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:54 am
Betsy-unfortunately you are wrong. Robert Fratta was a very abusive man who had his wife killed. Prystasch and Guidry are two bafoons who lack the mental capacity to even scheme to have someone set up. The evidence is overwhelming. Is it possible a roid-rage, egotistical, narcassistic controlling man killed his wife because he was frustrated and mad? I think it is.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Mr Sinclair,
Can you please contact me. I need your assistance.
Thank you.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Christy – send me an email at billywaynesinclair@gmail.com and I will determine if I can provide assistance as you request. Billy Sinclair
September 29th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
I just watched the American Justice segment on this wife murderer and I am so relieved that he is on death row and hopefully will DIE SOON!! One thing that really got me was when he was interviewed on TV the day after his wife was murdered and he showed absolutely no remorse or concern! In fact he wiped some blood off his face, smiled and then winked at the TV camera! That along with all the incriminating evidence was a slam dunk case in my opinion!
September 29th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
He is so guilty. The evidence is overwhelming and he should be put to death for the murder.
September 29th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
When is the execution date? I’ll supply the popcorn and soda. One more scumbag off the face of the earth. I wish we could put battery acid in his lethal injection so he can suffer awhile. Goodbye Bob you will not be missed….
September 29th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
To poor Betsy, Honey you need to get a life defending this murderer. He killed his wife plain and simple. His death can’t come quick and painfully enough. I don’t really get people like you and probably never will….Oh well…
October 8th, 2009 at 2:19 am
These “make him suffer” comments are as appaling as Fratta’s crime… But they probably reflect the real problem of crime in the USA: taste for violence at all level of society. Sad.
October 8th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Nick – Unfortunately, our society is passing through a period of fear, paranoia, and suspicion – a social mileau receptive to primal emotions: the need for revenge, a collective desire to see others suffer, and an intolerance toward compassion and forgiveness. This is why the frontier “hang ‘em high” mindset reigns supreme in the State of Texas – and politicians are hell bent to cater to that mindset.
As for the nation’s “crime problem,” the murder rate and levels of violent crime have been in a steady decline for nearly three decades. The “crime problem” is a fabrication of cable news channels driven by a need for ratings, and its been exploited by every victims interest group in this country. Believe me, the “crime problem” cannot possibly keep pace with the ever increasing pathological need by so many in our society to be “victims.” The ideology of victimization is far more dangerous to society than the infamous “crime problem.” Billy Sinclair
November 18th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
i know Robert many years ago. He was always correct to me. I dont know if he have done it, he always says No. When you write to him say HEY from Petra/Germany
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:41 am
I know of only one bird – the parrot – that talks; and it can’t fly very high.
February 5th, 2010 at 12:09 am
Of course Fratta should get the death penalty. I am truly at a loss for why people think a proven killer should get to live out his life completely while his victim had their life shortened. The overly ambitious District Attorney should have been fired or had her duties reduced greatly and never allowed to try a capital case again.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Burn this motherfucker in hell, then raise him up, and do it again.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Bob Fratta is guilty. That said, let’s pray that a custodian of the court and legal system such as Kelly Seigler, who’s ambitions and own theatrics as well as questionable ethical behavior had thrown the cases if many in Harris County into turmoil, guilty or not, gets her time in jail as well.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Just saw a show about this case. Mary Gipp could have save a woman’s life but it was too much of a hassle…easier to just stay out of it. She might as well have pulled the trigger herself. I don’t know how she can live with herself.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
I hope he burns in hell
February 6th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
He eats poop!!!
February 7th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
I have to admit I saw this 48 Hours Mystery and Bob Fratta’s incredibly handsome looks almost knocked me off the couch. I immediately thought “what did he do?” I watched the episode and reviewed the case online. Typical, the handsome,charming and its all about me, people. Remember him looking at himself in the mirror and being more concerned with himself? I can bullshit the drawers off the Blessed Mother. I don’t want her to have custody and I’ll have to pay child support. I’m entitled to getting what I want. I always have.
OK..He should have found a partner who was into the same shit as he was, pardon the pun.
No one did anything when he kept knocking on doors to get someone else to do the job, the police included. If you knock on enough doors, one eventually will open.
His claim is he didn’t do it, he just got someone else to do it so he doesn’t deserve to die.
Well if you didn’t instigate it, it wouldn’t have happened.
Beauty fades, dumb is forever. I hope they find a needle as big as his ego. We won’t even talk about self-centered Mary Gipp.
This case gives a whole new meaning to “eat shit and die”
February 7th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Ladies and Gentlemen, there’s one thing to have a fetish, and then there’s this guy! There’s just some things you just don’t do! The lady that feels that he’s innocent, have you ever went that far? To agree with something as nasty as that, what could you be thinking? I’ve followed this case since it first began, back when Miss Baquer first died, it was on American Justice. No one should have to live that kind of disgust.That is beyond the norm, there’s a difference between fetish and filth.No human being should have to endure that sort of behavior.Not to even mention the children should have to be without a mom all because she’s not into that kind of thing. So to me she died because she had class and was not a freak.
February 7th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Donna I truly agree with that, how could she live with herself. That would haunt me for the rest of my life. And she knew Miss Baquer from the gym, I’m sorry for what I’m about to say, but I think that she was waiting on the money. Who’s to say that she might have been a druggie and waiting to get a fix, according to the show 48hrs. it said that she and her man had sex after he took Miss Baquer’s life. How sick is that? And what was pissing me off, she kept smiling through the interview, what in the hell was so funny? She shouldn’t have gotten a deal, she should have went to jail for having that much knowledge and not a reporting it. What if the shoe was on the other foot?
February 9th, 2010 at 11:51 am
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March 4th, 2010 at 3:48 am
i am friends with all of your children and you are a peice of shit!!!! i know!!!!!!!!!
March 19th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Wow! what an idea ! What a concept ! Very Nice…
March 31st, 2010 at 5:57 pm
In this case and many other cases, differences of opinion will always occur. I just watched this on 48hrs and I was appalled at the way Robert Fratta smiled in the camera during his first interview. To me that spells a guilty man. Even when the detective asked him what should happen to someone who has their wife killed and he said it depends on the circumstances, WTF…I mean really? What makes it more sad besides the fact three innocent children were left without parents, is this poor woman was executed for 1000.00 dollars?? Seriously, no amount of money can compare to a person’s life but its just even worse to me that this man valued her life just that much and someone could be willing do commit a crime like that. It just disgusts me to think of the people who commit these crimes and think they get away. I for one believe they all should be serving life if not on death row, and that includes Mary Gipp. All I could think about as I watched her interview was how much of a cold, heartless evil bitch she is and how I hope she had a life of misery, which from the looks of her she’s led a harsh life. How can someone live with knowing they helped directly or indirectly someone else to be murdered? Life is so precious and we only receive one, who are these people to have decided that this woman should not have lived?
As for those with opinions on death penalty or not…honestly I thank God I’ve never been placed in a position where one of my love ones was murdered, so I can’t say, but I do believe the death penalty is the easy way out. When I hear of how someone murdered another, the suffering they inflicted on their victims and then they get the death penalty and basically are put to sleep it sounds ridiculous. People should suffer for their crimes, at least with life in prison, no parole, they stand a better chance of being confined, however in my belief in God, I know there is no stronger or worse punishment than the wrath of God.
April 18th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
An incredible write-up.
June 9th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
I know friends and family also. He made it a point that night at church to make contact with people who he never talked to, who he knew couldn’t stand him for all he had done thus far to his wife. He made it a point to make verbal contact with people who he NEVER spoke to. That alone screams guilty. Not to mention the gun was HIS.
To Friend- I AGREE!
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:59 am
to me it would be hard to recall ever seeing a more self consumed, full of himself piece of shit. i hope he finds a good boyfriend in livingston.
July 23rd, 2010 at 5:56 pm
I know he is Guilty of Murder . And now must pay the price !
July 23rd, 2010 at 6:16 pm
this guy is right where he belongs
locked up
keep him locked up!
July 23rd, 2010 at 10:23 pm
I’ve lived in Texas most of my life. I go back and forth with my feelings about the death penalty. I am not god, so why should I have the right to make that decision.
I am from the area where this happened, and worked next door to the bank that Guidry robbed, I was friends with those tellars! I was watching a rerun about this case this morning, and forgot how sad it all was. That poor woman, their children, and her parents, so many lives he so selfishly destroyed. Not to mention his own parents!
This case is one of the many over the years that will make me say to myself, If you can’t handle being given a Death Sentence, then stay out of Texas!