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True Crime Campfire

You Belong to Me: The Murder of Robin Benedict

True Crime Campfire

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Love can be a pretty hard thing to define. It’s easier to say what it is not. Love is not secretly following someone and trying your best to keep her within sight every second of the day. Love is not trying to keep someone scared and uncertain so that they’ll rely on you more. And love is not thinking you own a person, and becoming furious when you find out that you do that. This is a story about someone who made all those mistakes, who mistook obsession for devotion, and whose towering sense of entitlement turned into awful violence. Join us live at Wet Hot Bad Magic Summer Camp in Equinunk, PA, September 10-13th! Visit ⁠badmagicproductions.com⁠ for more info and to buy tickets. Tickets are on sale now for CrimeWave 2.0! Visit crimewaveatsea.com/CAMPFIRE to get your discount code for $100 off your cabin and a private meet-and-greet with us! The cruise is Feb. 8-12, 2027. Sources: Don Stradley, Boston Tabloid https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/06/03/Missing-Beauty-killer-released/1326739080000/ https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/19/us/killer-marries-in-prison.html https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/28/us/professor-about-to-go-on-trial-admits-killing-his-young-lover.html Follow us, campers! Patreon (join to get all episodes ad-free, at least a day early, an extra episode a month, and a free sticker!): https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfire https://www.truecrimecampfirepod.com/ Facebook: True Crime Campfire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimecampfire/?hl=en Twitter: @TCCampfire https://twitter.com/TCCampfire Email: truecrimecampfirepod@gmail.com MERCH! https://true-crime-campfire.myspreadshop.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

0:04.8

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie. And I'm Whitney.

0:08.2

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

0:12.1

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.

0:18.7

Love can be a pretty hard thing to define. It's easier to say what it is not. Love is not

0:26.3

secretly following someone and trying your best to keep her within sight every second of the day.

0:32.9

Love is not trying to keep someone scared and uncertain so they'll rely on you more. And love is not

0:39.3

thinking you own a person and becoming furious when you find out that you don't. This is a story

0:45.7

about a man who made all those mistakes, who mistook obsession for devotion and whose towering

0:51.7

sense of entitlement turned into awful violence.

0:55.5

This is You Belong to Me, the murder of Robin Benedict.

1:07.9

So, campers, for this one we're starting out near the town of Mansfield, Massachusetts,

1:13.2

at a rest stop off of I-95, March 6, 1983.

1:19.0

A couple of men were going through the trash cans in the chilly early morning.

1:23.2

A new state law had gone into effect at the start of the year,

1:26.3

offering five cents for every

1:27.8

can or bottle brought in to be recycled. Going through trash cans like this wasn't going to make you

1:32.9

rich, but you might be able to buy a pack of smokes. In one of the trash cans, they found a brown

1:38.5

plastic garbage bag tied at the top. In it was a woman's tan corduroy blazer, and it was wrapped around something.

1:47.6

Inside the blazer was a large blue shirt and a small sledgehammer, something you'd use to

1:53.1

smash out plaster on an interior wall. All three items looked like they had trace amounts of blood on

1:59.5

them. The hammer was stuck to the

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