Editing John Edward Robinson (section)

==Murders==
Robinson is known to be responsible for eight [[homicide]]s, but his total victim tally remains unknown. [[Kansas]] and [[Missouri]] police note that long stretches of Robinson's time remain unaccounted for, and considering how some of Robinson's confirmed victims have never been found or were not reported missing, authorities fear that there are additional undiscovered victims. "He's maintained the secrets about what he's done with the women. He won't ever tell. It's the last control he's got," said one investigator. "There are probably other barrels waiting to be opened, other bodies waiting to be found."<ref name="ccf"/>
* In 1984, having established two more fraudulent [[Shell corporation|shell companies]], Robinson hired '''Paula Guylene Godfrey''', aged 19, ostensibly to work as a sales representative for Robinson's management consulting firm, Equi II. Godfrey was interested in pursuing a business career and told her family that Robinson had arranged for her and a group of women to fly to [[San Antonio, Texas]] to enroll in a clerical skills course. Robinson picked Godfrey up at her residence in [[Overland Park, Kansas]] on September 1, 1984, to drive her to the airport for her flight.<ref>[https://charleyproject.org/case/lisa-stasi Paula G. Godfrey], The Charley Project.</ref> After hearing nothing further from her, Godfrey's parents filed a [[missing person]]s report. Police questioned Robinson, who denied any knowledge of her whereabouts. Several days later, her parents received a typewritten letter, with Godfrey's signature at the bottom, thanking Robinson for his help and asserting that she was "OK" and did not want to see her family. The investigation was terminated as Godfrey was of legal age, and there was no evidence of wrongdoing. No trace of Godfrey has ever been found.<ref name="trutv"/>
* In 1985, using the alias '''John Osborne''', Robinson met 19-year-old '''Lisa Stasi''' and her four-month-old daughter, '''Tiffany Stasi''', at Hope House, a shelter for homeless women in [[Kansas City]]. Stasi told relatives that she was joining the [[Kansas City]] Outreach Program, an organization designed to assist young mothers. Robinson presented the program to Lisa as a way to receive free room and board while studying for her [[GED]]. He promised Stasi a job and a stable living situation in [[Chicago]] in exchange for signing several sheets of blank [[stationery]]. Lisa and Tiffany checked into Room 131 at the Rodeway Inn in [[Overland Park]] in early-January 1985. Lisa told her relatives that "Mr. Osborne" arranged and paid for their new accommodations.<ref>[https://charleyproject.org/case/lisa-stasi Lisa Stasi], The Charley Project.</ref> On January 10, Robinson arrived at Lisa's sister-in-law's house where Lisa and Tiffany entered his vehicle and purportedly returned to the motel. A few days later, Robinson contacted his brother and sister-in-law who had been unable to adopt a baby through traditional channels, informing them that he knew of a baby whose mother had killed herself. For $5,500 in "legal fees", the couple received Tiffany, whose identity was confirmed by [[DNA testing]] in 2000, and a set of authentic-appearing adoption papers with the forged signatures of two lawyers and a judge. Stasi was never heard from again.<ref name="trutv" />{{rp|4}}
*27-year-old '''Catherine Frances Clampitt''' left her child with her parents in [[Wichita Falls]], [[Texas]], and moved to Kansas City to live with her brother's family and find employment in January 1987. She located an advertisement for Equi II, a management consulting firm in [[Overland Park, Kansas]], shortly after her arrival which promised extensive traveling and a new wardrobe. Robinson hired her and Clampitt began staying at several local hotels near the Equi II offices. On June 15, 1987, Clampitt left to have a meeting with Robinson. She has not been seen since. Her missing persons' case remains open.<ref name="clampitt">{{cite web |url=http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/clampitt_catherine.html |title=Catherine F. Clampitt |date=October 12, 2004 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820083620/http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/clampitt_catherine.html |archive-date=August 20, 2017}}</ref>
* Between 1987 and 1993, Robinson was incarcerated, first in [[Kansas]] on multiple fraud convictions and later in Missouri for another fraud conviction and [[parole]] violations. At the [[Missouri Department of Corrections|Western Missouri Correctional Facility]], he met 49-year-old '''Beverly Bonner''', the prison librarian. Upon his release in January 1994, Bonner left her husband, a prison doctor, and moved to Kansas to work for him. After Robinson arranged for Bonner's [[alimony]] checks to be forwarded to a Kansas [[post office box]], her family never heard from her again. For several years, Bonner's mother had been forwarding her alimony checks and Robinson continued cashing them.<ref name="Radford">{{cite web | last =Lynnes | first =Ashley |author2=Rachel Lythgoe |author3=Keely Maitland |author4=Charity Martin  | title =John Edward Robinson Sr. | work =Radford. U. Psych405 | url =http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Robinson,%20John%20Edward%20-%202005.pdf | access-date =2010-08-13 }}</ref>
* After his release, Robinson discovered the [[Internet]] and roamed online [[chatroom]]s using the name '''Slavemaster''', looking for women who enjoyed playing the [[Dominance and submission|submissive partner role]] during sex. An early online correspondent was '''Sheila Faith''', 45, whose 15-year-old daughter '''Debbie Faith''' was a wheelchair user due to [[spina bifida]]. Robinson, portraying himself as a wealthy businessman and [[philanthropy|philanthropist]], offered to pay Debbie's medical expenses and give Sheila a job. In 1994, the mother and daughter moved from [[Fullerton, California|Fullerton]], [[California]], to Kansas City and immediately disappeared. Robinson cashed Faith's [[pension]] checks for the next seven years.<ref name="trutv" />{{rp|6}}
* Robinson became well known in increasingly popular [[BDSM]] chatrooms. In 1999, he offered a job and a [[Bondage (sexual)|bondage relationship]] to '''Izabela Lewicka''', a 21-year-old Polish immigrant living in [[Indiana]]. When she moved to Kansas City, Robinson gave Lewicka an engagement ring despite still being married and brought her to the county registrar, where they paid for a marriage license that was never picked up. It is unclear whether Lewicka believed she and Robinson were married; she told her parents that she had married but never told them her husband's name. She did sign a 115-item slave contract that gave Robinson almost total control over every aspect of her life, including her bank accounts. In 1999, Lewicka disappeared. Robinson told a web designer he employed that she had been caught smoking [[marijuana]] and deported.<ref name="trutv" />{{rp|8}} Her body was found in a drum on Robinson's farm in Kansas in 2000.<ref name=":0" />
* In March 2000, a 27-year-old [[licensed practical nurse]] named '''Suzette Trouten''' moved from [[Michigan]] to Kansas to travel with Robinson as his submissive sex slave. Trouten's mother received several typed letters signed by her daughter and purportedly mailed while the couple was abroad, although the envelopes all bore Kansas City postmarks. The letters were, her mother said, uncharacteristically free of typographical errors. Later, Robinson told Trouten's mother that she had run off with an acquaintance after stealing money from him.<ref name="trutv" />{{rp|9}} Along with Lewicka, her body was found in a drum on Robinson's farm in Kansas in the same year.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |title=Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet |isbn=1439189471 |author-link=John E. Douglas |first1=John |last1=Douglas |first2=Stephen |last2=Singular|year=2003 |publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXugzgPZNqEC}}</ref>