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Corpus Delicti

67: Dark Shadows: John Edward Robinson, Part 2

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week, we pick up where we left off with the story of John Edward Robinson, also known as the Internet's First Serial Killer. Find out what happened once police were able to search his home, and how he earned his place in serial killer history.


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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"

Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"

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Nick Scarantino
Scarytino.com

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward_Robinson
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2001/06/jr-robinson-serial-killer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnrknMGRlWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr2z-C4L7xo
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article125598669.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everyone, it's Jen.

0:25.3

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.4

And welcome back to part two of our serial killer series.

0:30.8

Now, I'll kind of give you a heads up.

0:33.0

This week is going to be fun and exciting, but next week we are going to be eaten turkey,

0:38.3

and we're not going to release an episode.

0:41.3

Yes, so please forgive us, but we are giving you a heads up, and we're going to take a little bit of time around Christmas too, but we'll talk about that when we get there.

0:49.3

But we just wanted to be able to have the whole week off. I'm traveling, so I'm not going to have time to edit

0:54.9

or anything like that. So we will not have an episode next week for Thanksgiving. We've got some

1:00.6

amazing stories about to come through the pipeline. And also, everybody have a really happy and safe

1:06.4

Thanksgiving. If you're traveling, be safe, have fun, enjoy it. and we will see you guys in two weeks but now

1:13.7

for the rest of the story so if if you're just now joining us you will want to stop and go back to

1:18.5

part one we're we're picking up smack in the middle so high level overview is four women are

1:25.6

missing three from the 80s, one from 2000.

1:30.3

They all went missing because they took a new job and ended up writing letters home to their families saying,

1:37.3

hey, I started a new life elsewhere. Don't worry about me. Don't contact me. And the cases all went cold until two sex workers came forward and said that a man

1:49.9

had basically gone too far. They were all a part of the BDSM community, which is basically

1:56.7

bondage, slave and master community. And he went too far. She said, stop, you're doing too much.

2:04.1

And he didn't. So they went to go search his property. And that's where we're picking up.

2:10.3

That's the very, very high level overview. The police finally had a good reason to move forward

2:15.3

with the investigation of John Robinson, but his story

2:19.5

gets so much crazier than this, so I hope you're ready. Another woman comes forward and says

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