The accomplice who paid a teenage hitman to kill a former cop's wife in 1994 has died on death row more than three decades later.

Joseph Prystash died on death row more than two years after Fratta was executed for killing his wife, Farah, in 1994, TDCJ confirms. Editor's note: The above video originally aired in 2023.

Joseph Prystash arranged the murder-for-hire of Farah Fratta. Her husband, a former police officer, was the mastermind of the killing in Harris County. HOUSTON – A Houston-area hitman died of ...

Joseph S. Nye Sr. (third from left) on a September 2021 fishing trip in Alaska. Nye was joined by Graham T. Allison ’62, David E. Sanger ’82, and Nye’s three sons. By Courtesy of David E. Sanger ...

Gipp stated Bob Fratta had approached her live-in boyfriend, Joseph Prystash, at the gym, offering him $2,000 and a Jeep to kill his wife. Prystash then acted as the middleman, enlisting another, ...

Joseph Fratta was arrested in the bloody encounter that occurred around 4 a.m. on May 27 in the vicinity of the suspect’s home on Rolling Hill Green, according to the criminal complaint and police.

Investigators also spoke with Joseph Prystash, who apparently hired Howard Giudry, on Robert Fratta's behalf, to shoot Farah Fratta in the couple's home. Prystash and Giudry would both confess to ...

A one-time police officer convicted of hiring two men to kill his estranged wife has died by execution. Robert Fratta, 65, died Tuesday at the Hunstville Penitentiary in Texas after receiving the ...

A one-time police officer convicted of hiring two men to kill his estranged wife has died by execution. Robert Fratta, 65, died Tuesday at the Hunstville Penitentiary in Texas after receiving the ...

Fratta later contacted middleman, Joseph Prystash, who put him in touch with assassin Howard Guidry. Both Prystash and Guidry are on death row for the murder but are yet to recieve an execution date.

Robert Fratta's accomplices remain on death row after his execution There were two other men convicted in the 1994 murder of Farah Fratta. Howard Guidry and Joseph Prystash both remain on death row.