Hi Bingeers and welcome back to Binge, your now weekly podcast where we cover multiple

cases that are connected not by a common offender but by a common theme and this week and last

we're looking at occupational hazards when you're a woman working alone in an open easily

accessible business. Last week we explored the dangers of being a female real estate agent

and this week it's hospitality and retail. We have four cases where being a woman working by

herself in a job that interfaces with the public was a fatal vulnerability for its victims

and in some of the cases I'll be telling you about on this episode the victim was male so just

working in a convenience store or a retail store by yourself regardless of what sex you are can

potentially expose you to deadly violence. It doesn't happen often it really doesn't but it does

happen and that alone is scary it's the stuff of nightmares and that's what the i70 killer was.

He was the stuff of nightmares a stranger who drifted in from out of the blue killed for no good

reason and then disappeared right back into the void so we're starting on the morning of April 8th

1992 when Robin Faldauer found herself working her shift at Payless shoe store all of them.

Robin was one of only two full time workers at the store and although she had expected to work

that morning with the other one named Brenda we'll call her. Brenda had found in sick that morning

so Robin was there all by herself and it was a slow morning not many customers but it was a

weekday a Wednesday and not really peak shopping so Robin could totally handle it herself.

It was shortly after her lunch break ended at around one o'clock this someone entered the store

and bought two pairs of shoes and then sometime not long after that sale a man entered the store

and forced Robin into the back room where he murdered her and then fled the crime scene.

The first indicator to anyone outside the store that something was wrong was when the district

manager of Payless called to check in with Robin but the phone just kept ringing. He called

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