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John Edward Robinson

When he was young, John Edward Robinson thought about becoming a priest. As an adult, he turned to a life of crime. In 1969, the 26-year-old embezzled 300,000 dollars from a doctor. He embezzled money from another business in 1971 and, in 1975, got into trouble for securities and mail fraud.

He escalated from fraud to murder in 1984. He hired 19-year-old Paula Guylene Goddrey to work for his consulting firm. He picked her up on September 1st, 1984. He was supposed to take her to the airport for a clerical skills course in San Antonio. However, she was never seen again.

In 1985, he met 19-year-old Lisa Stasi. The teen had a four-month-old named Tiffany. Lisa & Tiffany left her sister’s place and got into a car with John on January 10th, 1985. Lisa was never seen again.

Soon after she went missing, John contacted his brother and sister-in-law and told them he knew a woman had deleted herself and left behind a baby they could adopt for $5,500 in legal fees. Soon, they had a new baby with authentic-looking adoption papers.

Over the next 14 years, six more women who had dealt with Robinson disappeared.

In June 2020, He was arrested, and his farm was searched after a woman accused Robinson of violating her.

21-year-old Izabela Lewicka and 27-year-old Suzette Trouten were found in drums on the property.

As the investigation progressed, authorities learned about the baby John handed over to his brother and sister-in-law in the 80s. DNA tests confirmed that the girl was the daughter of Lisa Stassi.

Legal Proceedings

Robinson faced charges for the murders of Trouten, Lewicka, and Stassi in Kansas.

He received two death sentences and one life without parole sentence.

In 2003, he pleaded guilty to 5 murders in Missouri. He was sentenced to 5 life without parole terms.

In 2015, his convictions for the murders of Stassi and Trouten were overturned, but he remains on death row for Lewicka’s death. Now 83 years old, he has never revealed the locations of his six missing victims.