Jack Robinson

Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

Unresolved Productions

History, True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 January 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In August of 1996, newly-retired Jack L. Robinson was prepared to start the next chapter of his life. After spending twenty-five years in the United States Air Force (including a stint in Vietnam) and an additional twenty years as a civil servant working at Moncrief Army Health Clinic in his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, Jack had accomplished more than most.

On an uneventful summer day, Jack went down to the Rosewood Boat Landing in his old neighborhood of Olympia. This boat ramp, which not many locals were aware of, was hidden behind the rock quarry. Yet Jack found himself there at approximately 6:00 PM on August 17th. He started talking to a younger man, and the two walked into a nearby clearing. Soon, their argument took a violent turn, and Jack was murdered at the hands of this unknown assailant.

In this episode, I go through the story, and try to separate the facts from the theories. I also speak to Jack's only child, Tammy, who has kept the case alive online and in the media.

Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

Music

Graham Bole - "We Are One"

Robert Farmer - "Why So Seeming Fast But So Deadly Slow"

Cory Gray - "Piano (Anticipation)"

Daniel James Dolby - "Broken Things"

Borrtex - "Silence"

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0:00.0	On a late summer day, in the town of Columbia, South Carolina, a strange occurrence was
0:17.2	unfolding down near the river.
0:19.8	Columbia, a relatively large city of 100,000 people, is split in half by the Congurie River.
0:25.8	The Congurie is the result of two different rivers, the Saluda and Broad Rivers, which
0:31.0	meet at the junction where Columbia was founded.
0:34.6	A man was going down to the Congurie River to a secluded little stretch of land hidden
0:39.2	away from the main roads.
0:41.4	He parked in a gravel parking lot, which he really had to know existed before going there.
0:47.0	Just a short distance away, shrouded by a small patch of woods that thrived alongside
0:51.6	the river, was a boat ramp that plunged into the Congurie.
0:56.0	Jack was 65 years old, a military vet who had spent time in Vietnam.
1:01.3	He was, by all accounts, a pretty regular guy.
1:04.4	He was unmarried, with only a single child from his loan marriage and now two young grandchildren.
1:10.1	And other than some volunteer work he did, he primarily kept to himself.
1:14.6	On Saturday, August 17, 1996, the temperature in Columbia was in the low 90s, which
1:21.4	isn't unusual for that time of year.
1:23.9	The sun would not set until roughly 8 pm, and it wouldn't be truly dark until 8.30
1:28.9	or 9.
1:30.3	At that time, Jack Robinson arrived at this parking lot, approximately 6 pm.
1:35.0	It would still be daylight.
1:36.5	Yet, despite the sun still shining, despite the handful of witnesses that saw Jack arrive
1:41.8	at the parking lot, police have yet to figure out what this man was doing at the boat landing.
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