John Edward Robinson (serial killer)
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John Edward Robinson (born December 27, 1943) was convicted in 2003 of the murders of several women.
Robinson was born in Cicero, Illinois, a town famous for its connection to Al Capone. As a Boy Scout he performed before Queen Elizabeth II at a concert in London and became an Eagle Scout. He had dreams of becoming very important. He was named Man Of The Year once at a Kansas City charity and is described by acquaintances as very personable and easy to like.
Beneath his outward charm, however, he was a con artist and thief who served time in jail in 1987 on charges of felony theft. He was supposed to serve five years, but he was released after only four years for good behavior. He was then handed to Missouri authorities, who arrested him because his conviction in Kansas violated one of the conditions imposed when Robinson was released on probation from a Missouri jail after being convicted of forging signatures on some documents. But he started complaining of chest pains and was released with a doctor's recommendation letter.
It was while at that jail that he met one of his lovers and victims, a married woman named Beverly Bonner.
In 1995, Robinson bought a computer and started looking for females to unleash his sexual fantasies on. He would lure them by calling himself the Slave Master, and telling them what they wanted to hear.
According to the police, he would later meet some of those women in person and have sex with them. Then, the women he met disappeared. In the summer of 2000, some of their bodies appeared at Robinson's farm, including those of Bonner and teenager Debbie Faith, who had tagged along with her mother the day her mother went to meet Robinson.
Robinson was accused of murdering three of these women. He was convicted in Kansas and sentenced to death. He then pled guilty in Missouri and did not receive a second death sentence from a Missouri court. Robinson could be the first person executed by lethal injection in the state of Kansas.
In 2001, a book about him and his victims, Internet Slave Master, was released, covering his life up to the trial. A second book has also been released covering his life and his trial and conviction.
Email hoax
The trial also spawned a number of e-mail hoaxes, with web users warned first against the username SlaveMaster, SweetCaliGuy4evr, Free_mumia911, and most recently, Monkeyman935.
The email usually looked something like this:
- Subject: FROM THE STATE POLICE: NOT A JOKE
- PLEASE READ THIS: State Police Warning for Online
- WARNING FROM THE STATE POLICE . . USA (Not a joke.)
- State police warning for online: Please read this "very carefully"..then send it out to all the people online that you know.
- Something like this is nothing to be taken casually; this is something you DO want to pay attention to. Think of it as a bit of advice too.
- If a person with the screen-name of Monkeyman935 contacts you, do not reply.
- DO not talk to this person; do not answer any of his/her instant Messages or e-mail. Whoever this person may be, he/she is a suspect for murder in the death of 56 women (so far) contacted through the Internet.
- Please send this to all the women on your buddy list and ask them to pass this on, as well. This screen-name was seen on Yahoo, AOL, AIM, and Excite so far.
- This is not a joke! Please send this to men too...just in case! Send to everyone you know! Ladies, this is serious.