Lex Bakker
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100 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Lex Bakker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Within hours, Mary Gipp made a deal. She'd cooperate if she wasn't prosecuted.
She said her boyfriend, Joe Price-Dash, who knew Frada from the gym, was hired by him to set up the murder.
According to Mary Gipp, Price-Dash hired that neighbor, 18-year-old Howard Guidry, to be the trigger man. Guidry would get $1,000. Joe Price-Dash would drive Guidry to the murder scene, pick him up afterwards, and use Gipp's cell phone to tell Bob Frotta when it was done.
But Mary Gipp knew Farah. They both worked out at the gym. Had you done the right thing back then, Farah would be alive. Those three kids would have a mom. Instead, while Price Dash and Guidry were killing Farah, Mary Gipp was home, killing time. Do you remember what you were doing?
She waited for her boyfriend to return. Did you say anything to him?
And then, Mary Gipp and Joe Price-Dash had sex.
She's a... Soul of a devil. When Fara's parents heard prosecutors gave Mary Gipp immunity, it sounded to them like a deal with the devil.
But without Gipp, the prosecutors could not make as strong a case against Bob Frotta. How important a witness was she? Number one. Here's why. When Price Dash left Gipp's house after the murder, he left the gun behind and she began collecting evidence.
After Mary Gipp got immunity, she gave police that serial number she copied down, and they ran it immediately. That's when they learned the gun had been purchased by suspect number one. That trace came back to Robert Allen Frada. Police didn't have to look far for this gun. It was right under their noses in one of their own evidence rooms.
It had been used in a bank robbery after the murder, and luckily for detectives, the alleged bank robber had been caught with it. He was in jail, and his name was Howard Guidry. To my right is Howard Guidry. Guidry was questioned. It wasn't long before he confessed to everything and he even went with police to the murder scene.
To show them how he did it.
The dominoes were falling quickly. After Guidry confessed, Price Dash was arrested and also confessed. They were both charged with murder. They fingered Frotta, and five months after the crime, Bob Frotta, who hoped a well-timed trip to church would shield him from suspicion, was arrested and charged with murdering the mother of his three children.
Proving that he did will be harder than prosecutors thought. By the time the trial began, Price, Dash and Guidry said their confessions were coerced, withdrew them and refused to testify. To back up Mary Gipps' details of the conspiracy, prosecutors would have to call one witness who saw Bob Frotta making all those phone calls the night of the murder.
Prosecutor Kelly Siegler had no choice. Frata's young son, Bradley, was called to testify against his own father.
But it worked. Bob Frada was convicted of murdering his wife. It took the jury less than one hour. He was sentenced to death along with Price Dash and Guidry.
Of course, it wasn't over. It wasn't even close to over.
Four years after his murder conviction, nobody thought Bob Frotta was going anywhere but the Texas death chamber. And they were all wrong.
13 years after the murder, a federal judge threw out Frotta's conviction, ordered a new trial, and set off a new round of legal wrangling. My head was spinning. The judge said there is no doubt that Frada is a vile man, but there was testimony linking Frada to the murder that should never have been admitted. And suddenly, there is a very real chance. I was nervous, very nervous.
That Bob Frada will be set free.
Fata's daughter is now 18. She should be getting ready for her high school prom. Instead, she's getting ready for her father's second murder trial.
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