nancy guerraro said it was a personal ad posted on the internet that drew her best friend sheila faith to john robinson. she said that he had promised her a cruise, and that he would have someone to take care of debbie. that she would not have to worry about debbie. and she would have a life that was worth living. nanny said sheila and her quadriplegic daughter debbie left for a brief kansas visit in 1994. they never returned. alarmed, nancy tried desperately to find them, but they had vanished. what could have possibly led john robinson to seek out a lonely single mother and her severely disabled daughter? investigators got their answer when an alert kansas businessman gave them a call. randy davis runs and operates a postal store in the suburb where robinson lived. he said robinson was a regular customer. how often did he come in here? well, every month. on a regular basis over a six-year period. which of these mailboxes was john robinson s? 215 right there. what kind o
identify the victims? it s been a challenging process. the best way to identify them has been through dental analysis. and that means we have to go find who the dentist was that helped these women 10, 15 years ago and go find x-rays. fbi agent thomas lavin helped teresa williams escape from john robinson in 1985 when the fbi was hot on his trail. today, lavin is frustrated by the fact he didn t have enough evidence to put robinson away back then. if we had put him away back in 1985, these things wouldn t be happening today, i would assume. but a lot of that stuff is beyond my control. also devastated and angry, friends and family of john robinson s alleged victims. a detective called our house and started asking my husband some questions. he asked if he had heard about the serial killer in kansas. and my husband said yes. but we had no idea our friends
phone call. he was laughing on the phone with you? yeah, just about like, it s okay that she decided to go. i m glad for her. you know what i mean? in fact, he had told me that he had got an e-mail from her. that they were in california and that she would be getting in touch with him as they went along on their trip. what robinson didn t know, while he chuckled on the phone, was that the police were listening. carolyn had called the authorities in kansas. it turns out they knew robinson and they knew something else. that jim turner was robinson s internet alias. when the police were told the name was john robinson, how did they react? they immediately jumped on it. what suzette trouten s family did not know, but local police knew all too well is that john edward robinson was a convicted felon with a disturbing past. did investigators tell you that robinson was linked to a woman who disappeared in 1984? no. did they tell you he had been linked to a woman who disappeared in
them to be met, he decided to meet them himself. and the way he was going to do that was create his own, in this case, fictitious universe. it s hard to picture this bespectacled roly-poly man as charismatic. but john robinson proved even law enforcement wasn t immune to his charm. when his financial crimes landed him in prison in kansas, he persuaded prison officials to let him reprogram the prison computer system, saving the prison $100,000 a year. later while serving time at this prison in missouri, robinson convinced prison doctors that his health was so fragile that they recommended he be released without delay. he became very good friends with one prison doctor and the doctor s wife, the prison librarian. such good friends that when robinson left here, the librarian divorced her husband
i really didn t. i had my sister send an e-mail telling her i wanted her to call me, that i was sick. when she didn t answer, i knew. the troutens agonizing wait for news about suzette finally came to an end on june 2nd, 2000. after months of investigation and round-the-clock surveillance, police arrested john edward robinson. nothing could prepare the public for the horrors that arrest would yield. when we come back a detective called our house and started asking my husband some questions. he asked if he had heard about the serial killer in kansas. my husband said yes.