Posted on 07/30/2010 4:24:08 PM PDT by csvset
VIRGINIA BEACH
A former Navy lieutenant commander who was scheduled to be released [1]next month after serving sixteen years for a murder-for-hire plot against his wife in Virginia Beach has died.
Michael Fricke, 54, died Thursday of injuries he sustained when he was attacked with a baseball bat by another military prisoner at Fort Leavenworth, a prison spokeswoman confirmed today.
A brief fight broke out between Fricke and the other inmate on July 24 around 2 p.m. while several inmates were playing sports, according to the spokeswoman.
Fricke was taken by helicopter to a local medical facility and died Thursday at about 11:50 a.m. after his family authorized taking Fricke off life support.
Fricke was convicted in 1994 by a military court at Norfolk Naval Station of the premeditated murder of his wife, Roxanne Fricke.
His 31-year-old wife was shot in the parking lot of a grocery store in Kempsville in 1988. Two other men were implicated in the murder-for-hire plot, then had charges dropped against them.
Fricke, who was a trustee at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, was supposed to be released next month to Edgewater, Fla., according to documents from Fort Leavenworth provided by Roxanne Fricke's mother, Elizabeth Wade.
He was sentenced to 30 years, but eligible for parole after 10.
Wade said members of his family, including the couple's son, who was 13 months old at the time of the murder, live there.
Wade said that an official from Fort Leavenworth called her Thursday to inform her Fricke was dead.
"All we can say is God takes care of everything," Wade said. "Maybe not the way we want it to be taken care of. But I did not want him to walk outside prison walls."
Messages left for relatives of Michael Fricke were not returned.
*Man who had wife killed in Va. Beach in '88 to be freed
Archives: Fricke hired killer, witness says
*Archives: Fricke likely to spend 20 to 25 years in jail
From today's article.
"All we can say is God takes care of everything," Wade said. "Maybe not the way we want it to be taken care of. But I did not want him to walk outside prison walls."
I love a story with a happy ending.
Yep,, gives one a warm feeling that sometimes,,, justice is served.
Why don't they just give them knives in this prison?
Karma can be a b&tch!!
This is a TRAGIC story. I feel so horrible....for the taxpayers who had to feed and house this creep for 16 years.
This is one of a few posts tonight that gave me a smile.
Thanks
That’s the way the ball bounces.
All’s well, that ends well...
Where it’s ONE, TWO, THREE strikes you’re out at the old ball game!!!!
WHACK....thank you sir may I have another!!!
WHACK....thank you sir may I have another!!!
WHACK....thank you sir may I have another!!!
WHACK....THUD!!!!!
“....who was scheduled to be released [1]next month....”
That’s the best part.
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