John Edward Robinson was born on December 27, 1943. He is an American serial killer, embezzler, forger, con man, and kidnapper who was convicted and found guilty for three counts of murder in 2003. These crimes were committed anywhere in Kansas City, and Kansas, which he received two death sentences for the two of them.
In 2005, on his trial, he admitted that he was responsible for killing 5 more women across the river in Kansas City, and Missouri which results in him receiving multiple life imprisonments without a possibility of parole to avoid more potential crimes. The authorities were concern that there might be undiscovered victims as well. For the record, he counted 8 murder convictions across both states which remains him on death row in Kansas.
He has even made himself famous to be recognized as the "Internet's First Serial Killer" or "Slavemaster".
: General and Criminal Profile
Robinson was the third of five children of an alcoholic and abusive father and a strict mother. He was able to perform before in Queen Elizabeth II. He enrolled himself in a Seminary but dropped out dues to disciplinary issues. Later on, he became a medical X-ray technician but soon gets fired after two years. In 1964, he married Nancy Jo Lnych and had 4 children.
He was arrested for the first time in Kansas City in 1969 because of stealing $33,000 from the firm he worked on, particularly under the medical practice of Dr. Wallace Graham. He forged the credentials of the doctor including his signatures. He was given 3-year probation.
Years after, he continued his crimes by forging documents and embezzling money from the companies he has worked for. He has this profile of looking like a professional that makes him easy to manipulate people. In an interview with someone he has worked with, "he doesn't look dangerous". Just when you think that a person can't do something heinous. Like they say, evil has no face.
Basically, he started forging documents and signatures from 1969 to 1983. He was in and out of the prison.
: Timeline of his Murders
In 1984, Robinson established deceptive, fictional, and fraudulent shell companies named Equi-Plus and Equi-2. He hired Paula Godfrey who was 19, to work as his sales representative. Godfrey told her friends and family that she's out for training. Days after not hearing from her, her family filed a missing report. After a while, her parents received a typewritten letter telling her that everything was fine, and she's super thankful for Robinson for giving her an opportunity to earn with her signature at the bottom. The investigation stopped as there were no pieces of evidence of wrongdoing. However, Paula Godfrey's remains were never discovered.
In 1985, using an alias of John Osborne, Robinson met Lisa Stasi together with her 4-month old daughter, TIffany. He met them at a battered women's shelter in Kansas City. Robinson worked there as a staff and he promised to take care of Lisa and her daughter by giving them an apartment to live in and a bright future for her daughter. He then asked her to sign several sheets of blank stationery.
A few days later, Robinson contacted his brother and sister-in-law that he knew a mother of a baby who committed suicide and asks if they are willing to adopt the baby. For $5,500 in "legal fees", which Robinson made it all up, the couple received Tiffany with authentic-appearing adoption papers with forged signatures of lawyers and a judge. Stasi's remains were never recovered until now.
In 1987, Robinson met Catherine Clampitt, who was 27, left her child with her parents in Texas to find a job in Kansas. Robinson hired her and promised her extensive travels and a new wardrobe. She just disappeared in June of the same year. Her body was never found.
In 1987 - 1993, Robinson was imprisoned because of multiple fraud convictions in Kansas (1987-1991) and in Missouri for another count of fraud and parole violations. In Missouri's Correctional Facility, he met Beverly Bonner, 49, the prison librarian. He promised Bonner to take care of her for their future together. Robinson arranged alimony checks from Bonner and deceived her family by continuously cashing out those checks. Her family never heard from her again. Her body was discovered in a storage facility in Missouri
Later that year, Robinson discovered the internet and explored various social networking sites naming himself the "Slavemaster". His activities were to look for women who were willing to be the submissive partner role during sex.
Sheila Faith, with her 15-year-old daughter Debbie who was paralyzed due to cerebral palsy, responded to Robinson's offer about their future together if she comes to Kansas. Desperately, they went to Kansas and went missing after. Their bodies were found in a storage facility in Missouri as well.
Robinson continued his deceptive activities online by portraying a wealthy businessman with cars, watches, and luxurious personal belongings. Another respondent to his "Slavemaster" activity, Izabela Lewicka, 21, a Polish immigrant in Indiana. He married Lewicka with a fake contract he made himself and let Lewicka sign a 115-item slave contract making Robinson control her life from then on. In the summer of 1999, she disappeared. Her remains were discovered at Robinson's ranch near La Cygne, Kansas.
The same year when Lewicka vanished, Suzette Trouten, a licensed practical nurse moved from Michigan to Kansas for Robinson to be his submissive sex slave. Robinson promised her to travel the world with her. Her mother received several letters from Suzette telling her that she's enjoying traveling with Robinson with postal stamps from different countries. Although those letters were just made in Robinson's office. Suzette's mother, doubted the letters as they were all mistake-free and unusual. She called Robinson and he told her that Suzette ran off after stealing money from him.
: Arrest & Trial
As the crimes were committed, Robinson's name attracted the authorities both in Kansas and Missouri as his name popped up into several missing person investigations.
He was then arrested in June 2000, at his farm in Kansas, when a woman filed a sexual battery complaint against him. He was also charged by another woman with whom he stole sex toys. This led to the investigations around the farm and the authorities found the decomposing bodies of two women, Lewicka's and Trouten's in two closed chemical drums.
The task force soon discovered bodies of the other three victims inside a drum: Bonner's, Faith's, and her daughter's in Missouri. These five women were murdered in the same strategy as they were bludgeoned severely in their heads with a heavy and blunt instrument.
In 2002, Robinson stood trial in Kansas for the murders of Stasi, Lewicka, and Trouten, along with lesser charges. He was convicted on all counts. He was sentenced to death for Trouten and Lewicka's murder. However, he has only been convicted of life imprisonment for Stasi's murder because she was killed before Kansas implemented the death penalty.
In 2003, Robinson acknowledged his murder for the deaths of Godfrey, Clampitt, Bonner, and the Faiths.
As of now, Robinson remains to be in death row in Kansas waiting for his execution.
It is believed that he is responsible for the 8 murders but his total victim tally remains unknown.
Curious about how Tiffany is doing right now? What was her reaction after learning her true identity? Stay tuned for my next article.
Omg that's the scariest one you've wrote about so far or i just haven't seen the other articles yet pa but seriously, this is scary