it was mainly filled with nondescript clutter. dusty and old. in the back left corner, three more barrels. i think everyone in law enforcement that day had a pretty good idea what was going to be found in those barrels. within ten minutes of being there on scene that day, i think you just knew that this was going to be the kind of case that every community hates to get. clay county prosecutor chris koster oversaw the 12-hour recovery process. they were carefully loaded then into a police vehicle, and we brought them up to be examined at the jackson county medical examiner s office that night. that must have been a horrific scene. yeah, it was something i won t forget. in each of the barrels was the body of a female. it was clear they had not been in there days or weeks. we were talking about years that these barrels had been hidden away. were all of these women killed the same way? it appears they were killed in generally the same way. the charging document states that
a frightening discovery on a la cygne farm in kansas. june 2000. la cygne, kansas, population just over 1,000. a rural community seven miles from the missouri border. a town where issues involving land conservation generally making the news now making national headlines, because of john robinson s farm. police found two barrels stuffed with the remains of two females. and the next day, across the border in missouri, investigators opened a storage locker robinson had rented. the storage facility was about a 10 x 12 storage facility. it was mainly filled with nondescript clutter. dusty and old. in the back left corner, three more barrels. i think everyone in law enforcement that day had a pretty good idea what was going to be found in those barrels. within ten minutes of being there on scene that day, i think you just knew that this was going to be the kind of case that every community hates to