John Robinson was known in Kansas and Missouri as a con man and eventually found himself locked up for about six years in state prison.

But when he was released, the prison librarian moved to be with him and then she disappeared.

It would take four more women to go missing before he was stopped.

I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines in part two of this look into Kansas City serial killer John Robinson and all of his crimes.

This case is local to me and only partially resolved so my hope is that one day we can have

it fully resolved, but we can't if we stop talking about it, so let's

keep going. I want to just send a quick thank you to my editor Nico, who I thank plenty in emails, but I'm going to thank again here.

He was willing to pick up this extra episode so that we can have this three-parter come out in

one week's time versus stretching it out.

So huge thank you to Nico.

Last episode we talked about the first three murder victims.

Paula Godfrey, a promising figure skater hoping to go pro, Lisa Stacy, a young mother trying to accept a helping hand to make a better future for herself and her daughter, and Catherine Clampett, a woman working to get back on her feet and thought

she got the job opportunity of her dreams. And of course we have the surviving victims like Tiffany,

the baby who was taken from her mother,

her adoptive parents who had to struggle years later

with their love for their daughter

and their disgust over how John Robinson brought her into their lives.

And of course we have the large number of people who lost their money to as many schemes

and any of the women he coerced into sex work.

Today we are going to talk about the next known victims of John Robinson starting with

49-year-old Beverly Bonner. If you remember from last time Beverly met John while he was

serving a sentence for probation violations related to fraud in Missouri. He

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