Black Rapist Who Held Knife to White Woman’s Throat Convicted of Murder

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February 3, 2014

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The father of the deceased said that he and his wife were ‘elated’ to learn that there would be no chance of parole.

A man from Florida has been convicted of murdering a woman from Maine.

Adrianne Robert was just 29-years old when she was stabbed to death in Florida.  She had moved there from Greene, Maine to work as a graphic designer.

Prosecutors argued Thomas Hampton Frederick had met Robert at a strip club in Clearwater, walked her home, had sex with her and then stabbed her.

Thomas Frederick sits during the murder trial at the Pinellas County Criminal Justice Center in Clearwater
Thomas Frederick attacked her after scoping her out at a club. He followed her home and then raped the woman while holding a steak knife to her eye on her bed, then fatally stabbed her in a bathroom, plunging the knife 4 1/2 inches deep into her chest.

Defense attorneys said Frederick killed Robert in self defense.

Frederick was sentenced to life in prison with no parole.  It took the jury less than two hours to return a guilty verdict.