road and look for the suspect and keep his eye on the composite at the same time to try to find someone that looked just like that. but someone did look just like that doug de silva. de silva lived 100 miles away, but his ex-wife and daughter both lived in the same mobile home park as kaye robinson. a year earlier, he was the suspect in the murder of a 16-year-old girl at a nearby high school. police brought de silva in for questioning. in the middle of the interrogation, he did something very odd. he asked for a job application because he said he wanted to become a state trooper. we thought maybe he might even be taunting us at that point. we were very suspicious of that. police put together a photo lineup, and kaye robinson identified de silva as the man who attacked her.
11-year-old son. laurel is a farming town and a regular working class person lives there. one night around 2:00 in the morning, kaye was awakened by someone banging on her front door. who s there? she went to the door, looked out the window and saw this stranger out there. they said they wanted to use the telephone. said their name was jack wilson, they needed a ride. could they use the telephone? kaye refused to let wilson inside. you can t come inside. i think you should leave. you need to go. kaye robinson called 911 and the delaware state police did respond, but didn t see anything out of the ordinary, so they cleared the scene without any further investigation. thinking everything was all right, kaye went back to bed. a half hour later, she was
assaulted her, and carried on a lengthy conversation. when she pleaded for her son s life, the man s demeanor changed. he begged her for forgiveness. and then he gave her some directions to not get up until a certain time and take a shower. then she was allowed to go to work but not to call the police. the man s point of entry, a broken window at the front of the house. 43-year-old mark eskridge was tied to that crime through his fingerprints. the known standards of one mark eskridge were identified to the latent prints from the point of entry from the crime scene. the kaye robinson case was similar in many ways. single mothers in a trailer park with a son. early morning hours, lots of conversation, a knife was used in both. and eskridge looked similar
fortunately, investigators had the dna of kaye robinson s attacker. and when they compared eskridge s dna to the biological sample from kay robinson s rape test kit, investigators finally got the answer they d been waiting for. when i received the call that the dna was a match, i couldn t believe it. i was overjoyed. i couldn t wait to call kaye robinson. i went through a lot of emotions. i thought, oh, my god, i m glad i didn t kill de silva, because it would have been the wrong guy. but, i mean, he could have been his twin. they were identical. investigators believe mark eskridge targeted kaye robinson since they lived in the same mobile home park. and he probably knew she was a single mother living alone with her son. prosecutors think that eskridge knocked on kaye s door claiming he had car trouble because he wanted to make sure no men were
awakened again by a noise in her kitchen. that s when she saw the same man she had seen on her porch in her kitchen holding a butcher knife. he chased kaye through the house, grabbed her by the arm, put a knife to her throat, and told her to follow his orders. if not, he said he d kill her son, who was in the adjoining bedroom. from that point, there was little she could do. it was just completely three hours of torture. just horrific torture that she endured. after sexually assaulting her, the man told kaye that he lived in the same mobile home park and had two children. then he stabbed her almost 30 times and left her for dead. before leaving, the perpetrator checked on kaye s son, who pretended to be asleep. when the man left the house, kaye s son rushed to their neighbor s house for help.