NO SAFE PLACE

Paperback. A husband's sick demands were a prelude to murder. Everyone who knew them thought stunning Farah Fratta and her husband Robert, a firefighter and public safety officer, had it all - a solid, 9yr marriage, 3 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. 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 behaviour he'd ever heard. Then Fratta's behaviour 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 favour...and seal her fate. 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. Illus. with 16pp. of photos. 315pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.