Antoinette Frank (born 30 April 1971) is a former New Orleans police officer who was convicted of one of the most notorious crimes in recent New Orleans history: the robbery of a restaurant where she worked as a security guard, and the murders of three people, including her partner on the police force, who was also a security guard at the restaurant. Frank is one of two women on Louisiana's death row at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Wo...
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Antoinette Frank (born 30 April 1971) is a former New Orleans police officer who was convicted of one of the most notorious crimes in recent New Orleans history: the robbery of a restaurant where she worked as a security guard, and the murders of three people, including her partner on the police force, who was also a security guard at the restaurant. Frank is one of two women on Louisiana's death row at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel, Louisiana.
Frank had an unstable childhood, but she wanted to become a police officer since she was a small girl.
Frank was from a broken family: her brother was a fugitive from law, her father would appear in her life only occasionally, and Frank became distressed about these issues, needing psychiatric help. It had been told by Frank that her father abused her sexually, mentally and physically when she was a child.
According to author Chuck Hustmyre, a former federal agent and author of the book about Frank, Killer with a...
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