43 Facts About Antoinette Frank

Antoinette Renee Frank was born on April 30,1971 and is a former officer of the New Orleans Police Department who, on March 4,1995, committed a violent armed robbery at a restaurant which resulted in the murders of two members of the Vietnamese-American family who ran the establishment, as well as NOPD officer Ronald A Williams II.

Antoinette Frank was aided by her probable lover, drug dealer Rogers Lacaze.

Antoinette Frank applied to the New Orleans Police Department in early 1993.

Antoinette Frank was hired on February 7,1993, and graduated from the police academy on February 28.

On November 25,1994, Antoinette Frank handled an incident in which Rogers Lacaze, a known drug dealer, had been shot.

Antoinette Frank had taken a statement from Lacaze after he was shot on the street, and initially got closer to him in hopes of turning his life around.

Antoinette Frank kept up her relationship even though she was well aware she was jeopardizing her career.

Antoinette Frank refused to discuss her relationship with Lacaze during the DOC investigation, except to say that she was trying to help him.

The investigator questioned Antoinette Frank about trying to buy 9mm ammunition for Lacaze at Walmart on the day before the Kim Anh murders, but stated that she was a police officer and that there was nothing wrong with her buying ammunition.

Antoinette Frank refused to discuss anything regarding the murders - every time the investigator asked her a question, she told him to "look it up in the record" or asserted her innocence.

However, during her interview with the DOC investigator, Antoinette Frank claimed to have had a male suitor but refused to go into specifics because he worked for the police department.

In police uniform, Antoinette Frank exited the squad car and told Wallace and Stevens to get out and go to the back of the car.

Antoinette Frank then told the man that "Lacaze was the good guy" and that Wallace was the one causing the problems.

Antoinette Frank informed him that Lacaze was with her and ordered him released.

Williams was a colleague of Antoinette Frank who had been working as the security guard that night to supplement his policeman's salary.

Antoinette Frank joined the New Orleans Police Department in 1991 and was a married father of two.

When Chau went to pay Williams, Chau noticed Antoinette Frank approaching the restaurant.

When Chau had let her out on the last visit, she could not find the front door key, and with Antoinette Frank returning for the third time, she sensed something was wrong.

Antoinette Frank entered the front door using the key she had stolen from the restaurant earlier and walked quickly past Williams, pushing Chau, Chau's brother Quoc, and a restaurant employee into the doorway of the restaurant's kitchen.

Chau initially could see Antoinette Frank looking for something in the kitchen.

Antoinette Frank got the money out of a microwave, then shot 21-year-old Ha three times as she knelt, pleading for her life.

The robbers fled the restaurant, and Antoinette Frank dropped Lacaze off at a nearby apartment complex, both knowing that witnesses were left behind.

Antoinette Frank heard the 911 call on her portable police radio saying that an officer was down at the Kim Anh restaurant.

Antoinette Frank borrowed a patrol car and returned to the scene.

Parking in the rear, Antoinette Frank entered through the restaurant's back door and made her way through the kitchen to the dining room, where Chau waited for help at the front door.

Chau told Antoinette Frank she knew what she had done and cried to the officers that Antoinette Frank had committed the crimes.

Antoinette Frank believed Williams was shortchanging her on hours and pay at the Kim Anh, and wanted revenge.

Chau and Antoinette Frank were questioned in detail while seated at different tables in the restaurant.

Antoinette Frank was arrested and charged with three counts of first degree murder.

Antoinette Frank was taken to police headquarters for additional questioning, where she later confessed to the crimes along with Lacaze.

Antoinette Frank was believed to be the first New Orleans police officer to have been charged with killing a fellow officer.

Antoinette Frank was found guilty as charged and sentenced to death.

Antoinette Frank was formally sentenced to death on October 20,1995, and sent to Death Row at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St Gabriel, near Baton Rouge.

Antoinette Frank's name was inscribed on the Memorial Wall at The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington DC.

In 1993, a year and a half before the murders at the Kim Anh, Antoinette Frank's father had stayed at her home for a time before she then reported him missing.

On October 18,2006, Antoinette Frank's lawyers argued before the Louisiana Supreme Court that her death sentence should be overturned because she was denied state-funded experts to help prepare for the sentencing phase of the trial.

In September 2009, Antoinette Frank's lawyers moved to have Judge Marullo removed from Antoinette Frank's ongoing post-conviction appeals on grounds of bias, given that he had already signed two death warrants for her.

Antoinette Frank's attorney stated she would appeal the ruling to the state's supreme court, which had already overruled both of Marullo's death warrants.

Marullo's signature appeared on an order authorizing Antoinette Frank to take the murder weapon from the evidence room; Marullo has long maintained the signature was forged.

Antoinette Frank was profiled in an episode of Deadly Women in 2009, Snapped: Killer Couples in 2015, and I'd Kill For You in 2016.

In November 2020, TV One debuted a movie inspired by Antoinette Frank called Blood On Her Badge Archived November 24,2020, at the Wayback Machine.

LCIW was damaged by 2016 flooding, so its prisoners, including Antoinette Frank, were moved to other prisons.

However, Antoinette Frank was not one of the few inmates who had exhausted all appeals and became eligible for execution, because she is currently filing a post-conviction appeal against her death sentence, and the motion is pending.