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John Edward Robinson Sr.
“Slavemaster”
“John Osborne”
“JR”
Information summarized by
Ashley Lynnes, Rachel Lythgoe, Keely Maitland, Charity Martin
Department of Psychology Radford University Radford, VA 24142-
Date Age Life Event
Cicero has long history of crime and became world famous as the headquarters for Al Capone. 12-27-43 0 Born in Cicero, Illinois. The third of five children of Alberta and Henry Robinson. 1955 12 Joined the Boy Scouts, was sponsored by the Holy Name Society of Mary Queen of Heaven Roman Catholic Church.
Fall of 1957 13 Was accepted to the Quigley Preparatory Seminary. This was a 5 year course for young men who planned to become a priest later. 11-03-57 13 Was named an Eagle Scout. Was said to be an elite future leader. Was overly pompous after the ceremony. Mid November 1957
As an Eagle Scout he traveled to London to sing for the Queen of England, afterwards backstage he received a kiss from Judy Garland. He then told actress Gracie Fields that he planned to study for priesthood when he completed Quigley Preparatory Seminary located in Chicago. Was a member of the Cardinal’s Cathedral Choristers, a group that sang at Sunday Mass at Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral. High school
At Quigley Preparatory Seminary, he was a poor and failing student and a discipline problem. He got into squabbles and shoving matches with his classmates and spent much time in after school detention. Left Quigley at the end of his freshman year. (Source: Lee Regner, classmate)
1961 17
Enrolled at the Morton Junior College in Cicero to train to become a medical X-ray technician. With his continuing delusions of grandeur, he is now determined to become a doctor. Dropped out of Morton after only 2 years 1964 21 Moved to Kansas City and married Nancy Jo Lynch. 1964 21 Robinson got his first job as an X-ray technician even though he had not finished his training in tech school. He was hired at Children’s Mercy and General
Hospital. He displayed fake diplomas and recommendation letters from Morton. He told them he needed a night job while he was in medical school to become a doctor. This was his first fraud. He was fired after they figured out he really didn’t know what he was doing.
1965 21
Wife Nancy gives birth to their fist child. Named him John Jr. Was known to be unfaithful to his wife; He went out to bars while Nancy cared for the baby. Was also known to have many girlfriends.
Hired by Dr. Wallace Graham as an x-ray technician at the Fountain Plaza X-ray Laboratory. Robinson stole from Graham; he drained the practice’s bank account within six months of being hired. He engaged in sexual encounters with office staff and patients. Bragged to Dr. Graham’s 15 year old son about his double life and his sexual liaisons. Told Dr. Graham’s son that he liked go to a club that male transvestites went to.
1969 25
Robinson is arrested and charged with embezzling $33,000 from Dr. Grahams practice. Robinson was convicted of theft and was sentenced to three years of probation.
1970 26
In 1970, he was arrested for stealing 6,200 stamps from Mobile Oil Corp., his employer at the time. He made a deal with the court to pay restitution and the charge was dropped to a misdemeanor.
1970 26
Finds new work with R.B. Jones Company selling insurance. Moves his family back to Chicago for his new job which breaches the conditions of his 3-year probation and he doesn’t tell his probation officer.
Was doing very well selling insurance but couldn’t resist stealing and was caught embezzling $5,586.36 from R.B Jones. Was again given a break when he agreed to pay restitution and the case was dropped, the Jackson County Court was reported to and ordered Robinson back to Kansas where the judge extended his 3 year probation. 1971 26 Nancy gives birth to fraternal twins- Christopher & Christine. The Robinson’s move into a bigger house in Missouri. 1971-? 26 Robinson decides to start his own medical consulting business called Professional Services Association, Inc.
No specific dates
Robinson was hired by the University of Kansas Medical Center as a business consultant for its Family Practice Department. Was let go after people became suspicious of him and after he requested the corporation’s checkbook. Forges many more letters trying to get his company status and is caught. December 10, 1975
Federal Grand Jury in Missouri returned a four-count indictment for securities fraud, mail fraud and for falsely misrepresenting his company PSA. May 24, 1976 32 Robinson pleads no contest to the charges of interstate securities fraud and was fined $2,500 and furthered his probation by three more years.
No Specific Dates
Robinson family moves to a new house and over next few years became a Scoutmaster, coached a tee-ball team, refereed school volleyball games, bought two horses, and became a Sunday School teacher at a Presbyterian church even though he was Catholic and dressed up like Santa for the neighborhood children. No Specific Dates
Forms a new company called Hydro-Gro and cons a family into investing $ 25,000.
Robinson charmed his way onto the board of directors of a local handicapped service organization. His first act on the board was to order stationery for the group with which he forged a letter from the executive director to the mayor and from the mayor to other civic leaders inviting them to an awards luncheon, honoring an anonymous recipient of the “Man of the Year” award. The winner turned out to be Robinson, an award completely engineered by Robinson. The persons whose names Robinson forged read about the event in the newspaper and exposed Robinson as a fraud. Meanwhile Robinson is beating his wife Nancy and starving his dog and 2 horses. March 1979 36 Robinson is discharged from federal probation with an excellent report from his
serve the time. Robinson made the cover of a national trade magazine called Farm Journal. The editors were unaware of his criminal record. The article was promoting people to invest in his Equi-2 company. 2 ranchers did and lost $ 10,000 each.
1987 43
Told Catherine Clampitt of Overland Park, KS she could have a job at Equi-II, his firm. She vanished that spring. She was officially reported missing on June 15
1987 Began serving a four year sentence in Kansas Hutchison Correctional Facility for several charges of fraud.
June 1989 46
Robinson’s father dies. Robinson then suffers from a series of strokes that left permanent neurological damage and the right side of his face was then partially paralyzed and looked “slack” on that side.
1991 47
After serving time in Kansas he was transferred to two prisons in Missouri for violating probation and an old fraud charge. While at Western Missouri Correctional Facility he became friends with the prison librarian Beverly Bonner.
Robinson was freed. Bonner divorced her husband and moved to Olathe, Kansas. She told her family she had a job with Robinson’s company and the job included foreign travel. Beverly told her ex-husband that she was going to be traveling abroad and gave him an address at a post office box that he could use to mail her alimony. She disappeared almost immediately and Robinson placed her belongings in a storage locker in a Kansas City suburb. Jan. 1994 Beverly Bonner was never seen again, but her mother continued to send Beverly her alimony checks to a mail box in Olathe at a business called the Mailroom.
Summer of 1994
A man known only as “John” whisked Sheila Dale Faith and her daughter Debbie Lynn from Pueblo, Colorado after meeting Sheila through an ad. “John” portrayed himself as a wealthy man who would support Sheila and Debbie, pay for therapy for Debbie and give Sheila a job. They packed up their belongings and moved to the Kansas City area, where they promptly disappeared. They vanished but their mail, including their disability checks, was being forwarded to a mail box at the Mailroom. For years, the Social Security Administration continued to send checks to this suburban Missouri post office box that they had given out as their new address. Every month, John Robinson came by and picked up checks made out to Bonner and the Faiths.
December 1995
Robinson had collected enough money from Beverly Bonner’s alimony checks and from the Faith’s Social Security to put $95,000 down for a house for his son and new grandchildren on Big Pine Key Florida. Robinson is known as a dirty old man in his own neighborhood and made sexual advances to many of his female neighbors. He even crept around the trailer park slowly driving by their trailers on a golf cart when he knew that their husbands were out.
1996 52
Robinson and his wife moved into a new mobile home in Olathe’s Santa Barbara Estates, he spent a lot of time in front of his five computers searching the BDSM (bondage discipline sadomasochism) on the internet.
Late in 1997 Robinson became acquainted online with a freshman at Purdue University named Izabela Lewicka, a polish immigrant living in north-central Indiana with her parents, both of whom university professors. In late 1997 Izabela told her parents that she was dropping out of school to move to Kansas City where a rich entrepreneur had offered her an internship. Izabela had also signed a 115- item slave contract with Robinson, a fact she did not tell her parents. She never returned home and communicated with her parents only through e-mail.
1998 54
Izabela registered at a local community college as Izabela Lewicka Robinson. While Robinson had given her a ring and paid for a marriage license, he never picked it up.
Summer of 1999
Izabela told her friends that she and Robinson were going on a trip and would be gone for an extended period of time. She was never seen again. Robinson told a Web designer that he had hired she had been caught smoking marijuana and had
been deported. Izabela’s parents continued to get emails from their “daughter” until Robinson’s arrest.
Fall of 1999 55
Robinson met Suzette Trouten in a BDSM chat room in late 1999. Suzette, 27, was a health care worker from Michigan and Robinson promised her $60,000 a year if she would take care of his diabetic, wheelchair-bound father. In addition to the $60,000+ a year, Robinson promised that he, Suzette, and his “father” would be traveling the world together. September 1999
Robinson buys 16 acres of old farm land in La Cygne, Kansas. He stores an old trailer on the property which he later hides 2 bodies in.
February 2000
Suzette Trouten moved to Kansas City to work for “JR.” Before she was to depart from Michigan she left Robison’s name and phone number with her mother, Carolyn Trouten, with whom she was very close. Carolyn Trouten received several typed letters from Suzette which that were allegedly written while she traveled abroad but had Kansas City postmarks and were uncharacteristically mistake-free. Carolyn later testified that Suzette was a poor speller and never typed notes to friends or family.
March 1, 2000
The last time Carolyn Trouten heard from her daughter, Suzette. After contact with Suzette dropped off, Carolyn called the telephone numbers her daughter gave her and was surprised to have Robinson answer the phone. After all, the letters she received from her daughter said they were traveling together. Robinson denied this and said she had run off with an acquaintance and stolen money from him. Carolyn contacted the Lenexa police and filed a missing persons report.
Spring 2000 56
Robinson sent money to Vickie, a recently laid off psychologists from Texas who was suffering from depression and lack of meaningful relationships. Police had tapped Robinson’s phone and were aware of his contacts with Vickie. When she visited him over the Easter weekend, the police listened in the next room of a hotel while Robinson and Vickie engaged in very rough sex. Robinson forced her into sex acts Vickie did not want to do, took photos when she was tied up despite her explicit instructions not to, and slapped her much harder than she expected. These acts constituted sexual battery. In addition, Robinson left her without any money and alone in a strange city for several days before returning. When he came back, he ordered Vickie to return to Texas to await further instructions, but kept the $ worth of S&M toys and props she brought with her.
Jeanna, an unemployed accountant also from Texas, came to Kansas City ready to begin work as Robinson's executive assistant for his hydroponics business. He put her up in the hotel where he had sodomized and robbed Vickie, and left her for several days. When he returned he savagely beat her for not assuming a position naked in the corner when he entered the room. He then had sex with her. Jeanna was not interested in extreme physical pain or photography, but he took his liberties with her and then photographed the bruises on her body. Following the same pattern as before, he gave Jeanna $100 and sent her home, ordering her to put her possessions in storage and then return to Overland Park. She followed his orders, but when she returned to Kansas, Robinson continued to play too rough and abandoned her in the motel. In fear, she contacted the police.
June 2, 2000 56
Police arrested Robinson at his home. With them they brought search warrants for his mobile home and desolate ranch 30 miles away. At his ranch in La Cygne the task force, with the help of a cadaver sniffing dog found the bodies of Suzette Trouten and Izabela Lewicka decomposing in 55-gallon chemical drums. In Raymore, Missouri police searched a storage facility where Robinson rented two garages. There, also in 55-gallon drums were the bodies of Shelia and Debbie Faith and Beverly Bonner.
June 21, 2000
A former acquaintance said John Edward Robinson may have been member of a cult involving bondage, rape and torture. According to the informant Robinson's job in their cult was to recruit women. These women were then raped and tortured. The witness -- who remains unnamed -- saw Robinson participate in three Kansas
Grades in school Average IQ Unknown Work History Served in the military? No Branch N/A Type of discharge N/A Saw combat duty N/A Killed enemy during service? N/A Applied for job as a cop? N/A Worked in law enforcement? no Fired from jobs? Yes Types of jobs worked X-Ray Technician, Manager positions, Self- Employed , & started fake consulting firms, White Collar Criminal Employment status during series Self-employed
Relationships
Sexual preference Heterosexual Marital status Married Number of children 4 children; 2 boys and 2 girls Lives with his children Yes Living with Wife
Triad
Animal torture no Fire setting no Bed wetting no
Killer Psychological Information
Abused drugs? No Abused alcohol? Yes Been to a psychologist? Yes, in prison Time in forensic hospital? Unknown Diagnosis No problems
Killer Criminal History
Committed previous crimes? Fraud Spend time in jail? Yes, weeks Spend time in prison? 6 years in Kansas and Missouri 1987- Killed prior to series? Age? No
Serial Killing
Number of victims 8 known Victim type Girls into BDSM, vulnerable young girls (1980 killings) Killer age at start of series 40 years old Gender of victims Female Race of victims White Age of victims Late teens- 49 years old Method of killing Blows to the head Type of serial killer Organized lust How close did killer live? Drove to crime Killing occurred in home of victim? No, possible in the hotel where they were staying Killing occurred in home of killer? No Weapon Killer brought with him Behavior During Crimes Rape? Yes
Tortured victims? Yes Stalked victims? No Overkill? No Quick & efficient? Yes Used blindfold? No Bound the victims? Yes, sex acts After Death Behavior Sex with the body? No Mutilated body? No Ate part of the body? No Drank victim’s blood? No Posed the body? No Took totem – body part No Took totem – personal item Yes, kept some of their clothing, jewelry, and art work Robbed victim or location Stole $500 in sex toys from a survivor Disposal of Body Left at scene, no attempt to hide No Left at scene, hidden No Left at scene, buried No Moved, no attempt to hide No Moved, buried Yes, barrels Cut-up and disposed of No Moved, too home Yes, on his land Sentencing Date killer arrested June 2, 2000 Date convicted January 2003 Sentence Sentenced to Death Killer executed? No Did killer plead NGRI? No Was the NGRI plea successful? No Name and state of prison Kansas Killer committed suicide? No Killer killed in prison? No Date of death Still alive
