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-[Robinson on phone] Hello? -[Carolyn on phone] Who is this?
[Robinson] This is John.
[Carolyn] Well, son, have you heard from Susie?
[Robinson] Susie?
Uh... Golly.
No, not for...
Well...
I guess since the first of the month.
[Carolyn] I'm really getting very nervous about this.
I don't know if I should maybe call the police or something.
[Robinson] Why?
Hon, she's a big girl.
[theme music playing]
Welcome to Very Scary People.
I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
When Paula Godfrey answered a "Help Wanted" ad for a personal assistant,
it seemed like a great opportunity.
Her job would include benefits plus training and travel.
It sounded too good to be true.
It was.
Almost as soon as Paula started,
her family stopped hearing from her.
Turns out her new boss was not who she thought he was.
In reality, John Robinson was a con man,
with a penchant for rough sex that included bondage, discipline and sadomasochism,
or BDSM.
This is part one of the Slave Master.
On January 9th, 1985,
Lisa Stasi was staying in a motel in Kansas City.
Lisa was 19 at the time
and had a daughter, Tiffany.
Tiffany at the time was under six months of age.
That night, Lisa calls her mother-in-law
and is crying and very upset.
And tells her mother-in-law, "Why are you trying to take my baby away?"
And the mother-in-law says, "We're not trying to take the baby away."
Lisa says, "They've made me sign four blank sheets of paper."
Her mother-in-law said,
"By no means, do not sign anything.
No one's trying to take your baby away from you."
And she heard extreme fear
in her daughter-in-law's voice.
And then Lisa says,
"Here they come. I've gotta go."
And that was the last anyone ever heard from Lisa.
[Tony] John Robinson had a...
I think a very unique and interesting upbringing.
Just seemed like a average kid.
[Singular] Robinson was born in late 1943 in Cicero, Illinois.
He grew up in a neighborhood that was sort of renowned
for criminal behavior because Al Capone had, uh, an office there,
and there was a famous shoot-out in the neighborhood.
It was part of the local folklore really.
So, Robinson would have absorbed some of that
and maybe he thought that was something that might help you get ahead in life.
He was the middle child of five.
[Singular] His father worked as a machinist
and was known as a drinker,
sort of trudging off to work and trudging back.
His mother was known as the disciplinarian in the family.
According to Robinson, she was quite cold,
uh, especially when meting out the discipline.
[Joyce] John Robinson attended the Quigley Preparatory school.
He wanted to attend seminary to become a priest early on.
So, he was, in his youth, quite a straight arrow.
[Joyce] John Robinson was in the Boy Scouts, became an Eagle Scout,
and that group travelled to London to perform in front of Queen Elizabeth and sing.
And backstage, he met Judy Garland
who was also there performing for the Queen.
And he went up to Judy Garland and said,
"We Americans got to stick together."
At which point, she, surprisingly, gave him a kiss on the cheek
and said, "You're right."
This was a very bold move for a 13-year-old.
[Glatt] And later, the encounter was in theChicago Tribune.
I think it just showed that John Robinson
was very personable and a very likable kid.
He really had a way of relating to people and getting them to trust him.
[Meier] Even in his childhood though, people said that he was a...
a little bit of a con man.
That he manipulated people,
that he did a lot of different things to get what he wanted.
[Douglass] I doubt whether anyone would absolutely believe
that, uh, another person could turn out to be
the kind of person that John Robinson became.
From the very beginning, much of what he did was a scam.
And that scam was at first theft and forgeries,
and later on it would take a human toll.
[Haymes] In 1961, Robinson got a job as an X-ray technician.
He created lot of diplomas that said he was qualified.
But as far as I know, they're all bogus.
Once he began working there, it was noticed that he really didn't know what he was doing.
[Meier] He had none of the training or knowledge to do that.
He started stealing from his employer so the job didn't last very long.
[Glatt] This was just the first in a long line of future scams
he would become involved with where he faked his credentials,
got jobs he wasn't qualified for,
and milked the companies for various amounts of money.
And more often than not, got away with it.
In the '60s, one of Robinson's job was with Dr. Wallace Graham.
[Singular] Who was the personal physician to President Harry Truman.
[Haymes] Dr. Graham hired him as an office manager
and very quickly money started disappearing.
And it turned out that Robinson had embezzled
a great deal of money from him, almost putting him out of business.
He embezzled at least $30,000 from him.
He ended up being convicted for that embezzlement,
and he was put on a probation.
So, while he was already building this pattern of criminal behavior,
he hadn't served any time.
[Joyce] The more he got away with it,
the more he learnt he could get away with crimes.
And he wouldn't stop.
And he sort of now evolved into creating these businesses of his own.
They were all sort of fronts for his criminal activities.
[Joyce] In the late '70s, Robinson started a company called Hydro-Gro,
which was a hydroponics company.
Growing plants indoors under artificial lights.
He included a pamphlet stating that he had a far-reaching imagination.
In 1977, there was a, uh, banquet to honor the "Man of the Year"
in Kansas City.
And it was covered by the local media including
our newspaper The Kansas City Star.
And the mayor proclaimed Robinson as "Man of the Year."
For his... philanthropic efforts, I guess.
As it turns out, it was a fake.
It was just some phony thing that he concocted
and bamboozled everybody, including the media.
[Singular] He had created a plaque for himself.
He had created an event for himself.
And when they found out about it,
everybody was pretty mortified.
He was kind of the archetypal small-time chiseler.
Most white-collar criminals do not evolve into violent criminals.
But his case is very different from that.
By the '80s, he was evolving into something else.
Up through 1984,
Robinson was really viewed as a con man.
And con men don't usually hurt anyone
because they're smart enough to know that if you actually hurt someone,
the penalty is gonna be enhanced.
Which made it more surprising when we found out
that he was also a serial killer.
[Joyce] In the early '80s, Robinson started yet another company
called Equi-II
which was a consulting company.
What he was actually consulting, we don't really know.
Equi-II was what we would consider
a... just a sham job.
He just used it as a front to meet women.
[Joyce] It was at this time that he hired a young woman by the name of Paula Godfrey
to work as a secretary for him.
[Tony] Paula had just graduated high school, honors student,
she enjoyed figure skating.
By all accounts a good kid.
[Meier] Whether he hired her to help in his business is really debatable.
It never appears that she ever really did any work for him.
[Rick] They had a fabulous package of benefits,
financial and you were gonna travel the world.
And this looked like the golden opportunity.
The last we heard about Paula, she called her grandmother
and informed her that she was going to San Antonio
for business and she was going to train down there.
[Haymes] And late in the summer of '84, Paula Godfrey went missing.
[Singular] Her parents were obviously concerned.
They made a missing persons report
to the Overland Park Police Department.
But soon after, the family receives a letter
that is allegedly from Paula.
And in the letter she says, "Hey, I'm travelling, life is good.
John Robinson's a wonderful person.
He's helped me start a new life.
And I'm fine. I'm just happy as can be."
This is to become a theme that's repeated over and over.
[Douglass] Based on the fact that letters showed up
indicating that she was somewhere else,
it became more of a person who may have just left,
which is not all that uncommon.
[Singular] The investigation never really developed.
[Paul] She's one of several women that
nobody really knows what happened to 'em.
And we'll probably never really know
what happened to 'em.
Robinson was very adept at manipulating people.
[Barbara] He looked like a family man.
He dressed like the guy next door that you see pushing the lawn mower.
He didn't dress like a guy that was out looking for girls.
He didn't look scary, like someone you had to be careful of.
He did all these monstrous things
but he looks like, you know, Joe Schmoe next door.
[Meier] In 1964, Robinson met his wife Nancy.
And she became pregnant.
They ended up getting married.
They had four kids.
[Tony] In the late '70s, they moved to Olathe,
which is, uh, a suburb of Kansas City,
probably, I don't know, 20-mile drive or so from downtown Kansas City.
[Rick] It was a upper scale suburban neighborhood.
Ironically, he had a reputation in the community
of being somewhat of a family man.
[Meier] He appeared to be a caring, loving father,
he was involved in his kids' activities,
he was involved in his church.
[Glatt] He took great pride at Christmas as being the neighborhood Santa Claus.
There are even pictures of him online in the Santa Claus costume.
And everybody thought he was such a nice guy.
[Singular] He did a lot of things to make himself look respectable.
But he didn't call that much attention to himself.
[Tony] I think part of the reason why he got away with what he did for so long
because he was able to create this veneer of a normal person.
[Haymes] And unfortunately nothing could be further from the truth.
[Paul] He was able to compartmentalize
that kind of criminal activity,
that kind of horror that he's inflicting on so many people,
at the end of the day, go home and bounce a baby on his knee.
[Haymes] One thing that came up over and over again was John Robinson's contact
with women other than his wife.
[Glatt] He gave the outward appearance of being a devoted family man, a father,
but he would have many affairs with different women.
[Haymes] There was always a string of girlfriends on the side.
Sexual activity was a major part of Robinson's lifestyle.
A area of interest
that he took on was the BDSM lifestyle.
BDSM is bondage, discipline and sadomasochism in consensual relations.
Robinson referred to himself as a Master.
That's a person who has dominance over women.
[Paul] The Master is somebody who is the domineering figure in the relationship that
tells you what to do, when to do it,
what sexually to do, all that kind of stuff.
And he was able to find women that were into that lifestyle.
[Singular] There were clubs in Kansas City where you could engage in
those kinds of activities if you wanted to.
He was a man who was 5'9".
He was pudgy.
He was not a great physical presence.
But this notion of being this ultramasculine, dominant male,
you know, clearly appealed to his psyche.
He was drifting further and further into not only
small financial scams and murder,
but these adventures into these darker realms of the sexual underground.
During the day, he would be out doing his thing, scam type things,
BDSM activities, hooking up with all these women.
At night, he would go home, usually about five o'clock,
and be home the rest of the evening.
[Rick] We referred to him as John Walton
when he wasn't involved with his other activities.
He was always there with Nancy at supper.
[Singular] One of the unusual aspects of it
is that neither he nor his wife, who knew about some of these affairs,
seemed to have any interest in getting divorced.
Robinson sort of needed that... that stability in this part of his life
to be really aberrant in another part of his life.
[Paul] Sheila and Debbie Faith were a mother and daughter that lived in Colorado.
Sheila Faith was a middle-aged woman.
Her daughter, Debbie,
was disabled and wheelchair-bound.
In 1994,
Robinson meets Sheila.
He tells her, you know, great things about himself,
and what a businessman he is.
He portrayed himself pretty much always the same way.
The gentleman farmer, he's wealthy, he owns a lot of businesses.
He would often times use the picture of him
standing in that field with his foot up on a stump,
talking about all this property he owned and how wealthy he was and...
Just a super nice guy.
[Tony] And Robinson offered Sheila the chance to come
to the Kansas City area and
that he would take care of her and her daughter.
[Singular] What he was extremely good at, of course,
was finding the vulnerabilities in people, zeroing in on them,
exploiting them and getting them
to do what he wanted to do.
[Rick] He would promise everything and anything
depending on what the needs were of his victims.
[Joyce] Sheila had told her friends that she had met her dream man,
that he was gonna take them on an extended cruise.
She was very excited about going to Kansas City.
[Tony] He actually drove all night to Pueblo, Colorado and picked them up
and brought them back with him.
[Rick] The only thing we know about Sheila and Debbie Faith
is they arrived in Kansas City area
and were never seen again.
John Robinson dodged some suspicion because
Sheila and Debbie Faith were never reported missing.
[Paul] We always suspected that was more than anything else a money scam for him.
They received Social Security disability benefits from the federal government.
He continues to collect their benefits for many years after that.
[Joyce] He would collect on their Social Security checks
in the amount of $80,000.
He almost had a constant stream of incomes from people he'd scammed or killed.
This guy would do anything for a buck.
And he doesn't care who he hurts or what kind of position they are in in life.
If it benefits him, it's a good deal.
[Haymes] I think Robinson was able to get away with his crimes
because he picked victims that didn't have a lot going for them
and would have less people looking for them.
He had a tendency to find women at their lowest point.
Every single one of them had a marked vulnerability.
And he knew it, and he found it, and he seized upon it.
They didn't all look the same,
they weren't all the same scam,
but that was the one thing he knew how to do.
To find vulnerability and exploit it.
[Paul] Here comes their knight in shining armor or so they think,
he'll use them for a while and then...
kill 'em.
Welcome back to Very Scary People.
John Robinson found some victims by posting fake jobs.
Others by luring them with promises of love and financial support.
In 1984, he set his sights
on a new and especially vulnerable group of potential victims.
Young, unwed mothers.
[Haymes] In December of 1984, I was District Supervisor
for the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole...
[phone ringing]
[Haymes] ...and I got a call
from an organization known as Birthright.
And, uh, Birthright was a program
that tried to help young girls who were pregnant
find a way to keep the baby.
They told me that they had been contacted by Robinson
who wanted to know if they had any young girls that needed help.
He started an organization
called Kansas City Outreach
that supposedly was charity to help young women, single mothers
who needed a leg up in the world.
[Singular] John Robinson and his scams would gravitate
toward fields that looked very benevolent.
Other serial killers have done these same kinds of things.
Ted Bundy, for example, worked in a suicide hotline.
Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer,
was a president of his church.
[Rick] Robinson was going to different hospitals
and trying to get them to sign on
to this outreach program
for unwed mothers
that he would put up in apartments and take care of.
[Haymes] After receiving the call, I began
looking into his background.
I was immediately convinced that he was up to no good.
One of my early thoughts
when I learned that he was seeking out young women with babies
was that he potentially was
going to sell the baby.
And possibly use the mother to sell into white slavery.
I had contacted the FBI to see if they were aware
of any baby selling operations in the Kansas City area,
and they were not.
[Singular] Stephen Haymes is a very interesting
and important part of the story in many ways
because he was the first person in law enforcement
that the red flags sort of went out.
Stephen Haymes knew instinctively
that something about Robinson was wrong,
something was dangerous.
I'm still not
thinking that... that he's a murderer at that point,
at least with his own hand.
[Douglass] Lisa Stasi was the next individual
encountered by John Robinson.
Lisa married a man
and together, they had a baby, Tiffany.
The marriage was rocky, did not work out.
They separated and, uh, her husband
re-enlisted in the military and... and left.
She, uh, made contact with a hospital,
and when they learned about the Kansas City Outreach Program,
thought it was a perfect program for Lisa.
It seemed like a legitimate
outreach organization.
Lisa was promised a job, education,
and she thought she would be providing
a better life for her and her young daughter.
He put her up in a hotel in Overland Park,
told her that he was gonna help her start a new life.
[Joyce] On January 9, 1985, Lisa went to visit
her sister-in-law, Kathy Klinginsmith.
And it was a very, very vicious snowstorm going on.
[Meier] While she was there, Robinson went back
to the hotel, found out that she was not there.
[Haymes] And in the middle of a horrible snowstorm,
Robinson shows up at the sister-in-law's home
and is upset that Lisa had left the motel.
He demanded that she and the baby, Tiffany,
leave with him immediately.
Kathy Klinginsmith would later say in court
that she saw pure evil in his eyes that day.
[Haymes] So he collects Lisa and Tiffany
leaving behind her car,
baby food, diapers,
and whisked them away.
[phone ringing]
[Glatt] A short time later,
Lisa makes that call to her mother-in-law
about people wanting to take her baby.
[Haymes] That last conversation, you know,
"They've made me sign four blank sheets of paper."
[Meier] Lisa Stasi was never seen again.
[Haymes] After Lisa goes missing,
the mother-in-law receives a letter.
It's typed.
Lisa's brother also receives a similar letter,
as does a shelter.
There were three letters that were sent
and all three were very generic.
One of the letters from Lisa said,
"Thank you for all your help. I do really appreciate it.
I've decided to leave Kansas City
and try to make a new life for myself and Tiffany.
She deserves a real mother
who works and takes care of her."
At the bottom, it was signed Lisa Elledge Stasi.
[Rick] Their family really didn't buy into it
because the letters were so generic.
It didn't sound like her
and you don't sign your official name
including your middle name to your family members.
[Singular] The Overland Park police department was contacted
about her disappearance.
But again, there wasn't enough to really launch an investigation.
[Douglass] At this point, there was no sign of foul play.
So like many cases of a disappearing person
with some reason to believe that they simply left on their own,
the case went no further.
[Haymes] On January 10 of 1985,
I decided I had enough
information looking into his background
that I wanted to confront him directly
about what was going on. At that point,
I still don't know about Lisa and Tiffany.
Ironically, the letter I sent on January 10
is also the same day that Lisa Stasi
and baby Tiffany were last seen.
I've often wondered if I would have
made my direct contact with him,
you know, a week or two earlier,
maybe she wouldn't have gone missing.
I mean, those are the sort of, uh, regrets that you always have.
[Paul] There was a common thread with all these women.
The last time anybody had seen 'em,
they all become involved with John Robinson.
None of 'em ever been seen again after that involvement.
There was no activity, no credit card activity,
no phone activity, nothing from any of these women.
Most of the cases, as soon as John Robinson was contacted,
by either a family member or the police,
then what I would call a cover-up started.
[Paul] He had a very similar pattern
for most of his victims. He would get these ladies
convinced that he was getting ready to take 'em on a trip.
And he would say to them, "You know, you're gonna be
traveling all the time. You're gonna wanna contact your relatives.
So why don't you pre-write some letters right now?
And the ones that you don't pre-write,
would you sign your signature to the bottom of these
pages of stationery?"
So he could mail 'em while they're traveling the world.
[Singular] It was a good way of keeping families
and law enforcement at bay.
And he used it over and over again in the future.
[Paul] He was very adapt at doing things
to throw off an investigation.
Steve Haymes was feeling uneasy
about Robinson and these missing women.
[Joyce] Stephen Haymes sent a letter to Robinson
saying he wanted to come in
to his office to meet with him.
[Haymes] Robinson shows up at my office on the 24th.
Here's this, uh, rather ordinary looking man.
Very business man looking. He's...
not a dangerous looking person at all.
Not a dangerous acting person.
He's got a smile on his face and you can tell
he's... he's just trying to lure you in to his con.
Robinson wants to know what's going on.
I talk to him about the birthright situation.
They had been contacted by Robinson.
Wanted to know if they had any young girls that needed help.
And he says, "Oh, yeah, that's... that's true.
You know, we are a group of businessmen.
We just wanted to give back to the community."
I'm telling him this doesn't make any sense.
Are you incorporated? You know, is it not for profit?
"Well, no, we haven't done that.
I've got an attorney that's working on that."
One of the interesting things about Robinson
is, is that, you know, he never admits defeat.
You can never back him into the corner,
and he'll say, "Oh, okay, you got me."
[Paul] John Robinson lied as a lifestyle.
He was one of those people who's just gonna tell you
lies to tell you the truth.
Even if it was easier to tell you the truth.
It's almost a pathological
thing with him.
[Haymes] When you confront him
with the facts that... that show that he's lying,
he says, "Oh, well, you know, that's just partially true."
And then immediately spins a new yarn about
how, you know, "This is really what happened,"
which requires that you go back
and reinvestigate everything.
So it was very frustrating.
Nothing is easy with John Robinson.
[Meier] Haymes was not comfortable
with the answers that Robinson was giving him.
As such felt it was necessary
I gotta do something with this guy.
After my first contact with...
face-to-face with Robinson in January of '85,
I was involved almost daily in investigating him.
Haymes spent the next six months
looking into Robinson's background.
[Haymes] I contacted the social workers
at the hospital about the Kansas City Outreach Program,
and they told me that one girl that had been referred to him,
Lisa Stasi, and her baby, Tiffany,
had not been seen for some time.
I learned more and more about his criminal activity
and it's just going on everywhere.
Was certainly convinced that he was up to no good.
There's this obvious string of... of young girls
that have gone missing.
But we still don't know at that time
what's happening to them,
where they are, were they killed by Robinson,
were they sold into white slavery?
If they were killed, were they killed by his own hand?
There's more unanswered questions at that point than there are answers.
The next best thing was to get him off the street.
It's kind of the... the Al Capone thing.
If you can't get him for what Capone did,
you get him for income tax evasion.
The goal was really to get him off the streets
for anything that we could.
In Johnson County, Kansas,
the police were investigating Robinson for fraud.
He would be arrested for that,
he would be sent to trial for that,
and he would be convicted of fraud
in 1987.
And he would then serve the next six years
in prison in Kansas.
I was relieved that he couldn't victimize any other young women.
[Meier] But before he went to prison, he placed this ad
in a newspaper asking for help.
And a young woman by the name
of Catherine Clampitt showed up.
[Haymes] Catherine Clampitt was a young, somewhat
troubled young girl.
Catherine's family described her as being
a very intelligent young lady.
Had a bit of a wild side, maybe adventurous side.
Clampitt had a young child that she left with her parents
when she came up here to the Kansas City area.
[Tony] She answered a job ad that he had put out
saying looking for somebody that was interested
in a great job
with travel, new wardrobe.
The kind of thing that, you know, any young person
might look at and go, "Wow, this sounds great."
[Haymes] Robinson convinced her that,
you know, he really had a... a good job for her.
[Tony] After she answered that ad,
she was never seen again.
[Rick] Letters started showing up and they were hand-written
by Catherine Clampitt.
She enquired about her kid, she had a kid.
She would ask questions in the letters,
saying that she was traveling but it was suspicious
because those letters all came from the Kansas City area.
[Haymes] Even after the Kansas conviction,
you would think that he would be
at least trying to be at his best behavior.
But he's not.
[Rick] I never met anybody that didn't hate John Robinson.
And I also did not find anybody
that he ever told the truth to.
I don't think you could probably trust anything
that came out of his mouth.
[Tony] I've heard that somebody is a silver tongued devil,
which, in his case, is pretty apt.
In the late 1980s, John Robinson is sentenced to prison.
And at the prison, he meets
a woman by the name of Beverly Bonner
who worked in the prison library
and was married to the prison doctor.
Robinson became very, very friendly with her.
In fact, he manipulated her while he was in prison,
and they soon started an affair actually.
[Joyce] In 1993, John Robinson
was released from prison.
[Tony] And Beverly decides that she's going to leave her husband
and run off with this guy.
She got divorced,
moved up here to be with him.
[Rick] He made her an officer in his business.
He also opened a couple credit cards under her name.
And then, she also disappeared.
[Joyce] Her family started receiving letters
saying, "Having a great time in Europe."
And they were postmarked from France and Switzerland.
No one ever questioned that she wasn't in the Kansas City area.
They just assumed she was off traveling
because of these postmarked envelopes.
In Beverly Bonner's case,
her son died.
And yet, she never wrote a word about it.
[Paul] Bonner had maintenance payments
routinely coming to her from her ex-husband, the doctor,
as part of the divorce package.
[Meier] Robinson has those sent to a post office box
in Olathe, Kansas,
where he then collects them and cashes them.
[Joyce] Robinson continued to cash those checks
for the next 18 months,
which would have been at least $18,000.
He's always looking for a buck no matter how he can get it.
[Singular] It's interesting that through his criminal career,
money was a factor.
If you think about a lot of serial killers,
you don't often have money as a component of that.
From the very beginning, he was determined
to take money from people by illegal and illicit means.
[Haymes] When Robinson was released from prison,
he lived in Missouri,
just south of Kansas City
in a trailer that his wife had rented there.
That was not within the jurisdiction
of my district office.
But I held his file back in my desk drawer.
I would review the file periodically.
Was there anything I missed? You know, what...
What more could I do?
What more could I investigate?
[Douglass] In the '90s, the Internet became
an incredible part of our everyday life.
[Glatt] The irony was that Robinson learned
about the Internet while he was in prison.
He was very, very smart
and he had a very good head for it.
He used to see Internet to meet and attract women.
[Glatt] For a long time, he'd be involved
in BDSM and sadomasochism,
and he gravitated towards those chat rooms.
He actually referred to himself as Slave Master.
[Singular] He had five computers set up
and with some or all of those computers,
he was hunting
for new women to victimize in some way.
This guy would connect with women all over America.
[Douglass] It is commonly understood
that he was the first serial killer
to use the Internet as a stalking ground for finding victims.
[Singular] Once he got his hands on computers,
the whole game changed and expanded for Robinson.
And he would now use that
in the evolution of his criminal career.
[Tony] After about a decade of instances
where women met John Robinson and then disappeared,
it's still happening.
[Nancy] He told me that he had a job with the state department
and that would also be the reason
why he was away all the time.
[Joyce] Robinson met Suzette through an online chat room.
On March 1, she totally disappeared.
[woman on phone] I don't know if I should
maybe call the police to jump in.
[man on phone] Why?
[Haymes] They began putting the pieces together.
This guy is a... a serial killer.
How much crazier can this thing be?
[Rick] When we lifted it back up, we saw
a little red streak
of red liquid going down the side of the barrel.
[Haymes] He is just evil itself.
I mean, he's the definition of evil.
John Robinson's fatherly demeanor helped shroud
the depraved sex life he lived behind closed doors.
He was cunning
and managed to dodge suspicion about
the ever-growing list of women in his life
who were never seen again.
That is until one victim's disappearance
set off alarm bells with her family,
and her mother confronts Robinson
in part two of the Slave Master.
I'm Donnie Wahlberg, thanks for watching.
Good night.
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