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Bonner. When he was paroled in
1993, the 49-year-old Bonner
separated from her husband and
moved to Kansas to work for one
of Robinson’s companies. Once her
mother began to forward her
alimony cheques to Robinson’s P.O.
box, Bonner also disappeared.The move online
In the early 1990s, Robinson was
part of a secret sadomasochist
group called the International
Council of Masters, and he turned
to the same type of community
when his hunt for victims moved
online. Under the username
“Slavemaster”, he searched internet
messageboards for women who
classed themselves as sexual
submissives. In 1994, he met
45-year-old Sheila Faith on a forum.
Claiming to be wealthy, he offeredSheila a job and promised to pay
for her wheelchair-bound daughter
Debbie to have medical treatment.
Sheila believed she had met her
dream man. That summer, she and
Debbie went to Kansas City to meet
Robinson. Their social security
cheques were soon redirected to a
P.O. box in Kansas. At Christmas,
Sheila’s sisters received typed
letters with Sheila’s signature, but
she was already dead.
Robinson continued to lure
women to Kansas City with job
offers and a slave/master sexual
relationship. Some women balked
at signing blank stationery, or
escaped when Robinson’s
behaviour in the bedroom turned
into outright sadism.
Others were less lucky: first,
Polish immigrant Izabela Lewicka,
then 27-year-old Suzette Troutenboth fell prey to him. Suzette,
however, would be Robinson’s
downfall. She had agreed to keep
in regular phone contact with her
mother, but on 1 March her calls
were replaced by emails. These
emails sounded nothing like
Suzette, and her sister, Dawn,
called the police on 25 March 2000.
Robinson’s ruse was soon
discovered. Searches of his trailer
and storage locker revealed it all:
financial papers belonging to Lisa
Stasi, Beverly Bonner, and the
Faiths; blank paper pre-signed by
Suzette; photographs of Izabela
in bondage; videos of Robinson and
his victims engaging in BDSM;
slave contracts, and more.
The following morning, a K-9
police dog search of Robinson’s
Linn County farm revealed Suzette
and Izabela’s bodies in big plastic
drums. Beverley Bonner’s and the
Faiths’ remains were found soon
afterwards in a storage locker in
Raymore, Missouri. Although Stasi,
Godfrey, and Clampitt were never
found, Robinson was convicted
of eight counts of murder and
sentenced to death. ■Sends letters and emails to the victim’s familyLures victim away from her home with
false promisesMurders the victim, steals
her identity, and continues to
cash her chequesUsing an alias, trawls
online forums to meet
potential victimsPlaces an ad for
a fake job under a
false nameAnyone could create an
email account and sign it
as you. If you would
telephone, I would feel
much, much better.
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