John Edward Robinson(born December 27, 1943) is an American serial killer who was convicted in 2003 of the murders of three women during a fifteen-year period. He subsequently admitted responsibility for five additional murders during that time. Because he made contact with most of his post-1993 victims via on-line chat rooms, he is sometimes referred to as "the Internet's first serial killer".

"...considered the first serial killer to use modern technology, the internet, to seek out his victims; all this while he maintained a marriage, a family and many ties within his community, none of whom suspected him of anything. He spent many years getting away with these crimes, avoiding prison over and over, and convincing people he was a good person, very successfully. Finally, he got lazy and was caught. He was sentenced to death in 2002, but avoided it by making a plea bargain in exchange for two life sentences without parole by sharing with prosecutors where the three additional undiscovered bodies were located. He is incarcerated in Kansas."

https://serialkillercalendar.com/JOHN-EDWARD-ROBINSON-THE-SLAVE-MASTER.php

Early life

Robinson was born in Cicero, Illinois, the third of five children of an alcoholic father and a disciplinarian mother. In 1957 he became an Eagle Scout, and reportedly traveled to London with a group of Scouts who performed before Queen Elizabeth II. Later that year he enrolled at Quigley Preparatory Seminary, in Chicago, a private boys' school for aspiring priests, but dropped out after one year due to disciplinary issues.

In 1961 he enrolled at Morton Junior College in Cicero to become a medical X-ray technician, but dropped out after 2 years. In 1964 he moved to Kansas City and married Nancy Jo Lynch, who bore their first child, John Jr., in 1965, and fraternal twins Christopher and Christine in 1971.

https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/robinson-john-edward.htm

Early crimes

Robinson was arrested for the first time in Kansas City in 1969, after embezzling $33,000 from the medical practice of Dr. Wallace Graham, where he worked as an X-ray technician, a job he obtained using forged credentials. He was sentenced to 3 years' probation.

In 1970 Robinson violated probation by moving back to Chicago without his probation officer's permission (or knowledge), and took a job as an insurance salesman at R.B. Jones Company. In 1971 he was arrested once again for embezzlement from that firm, and ordered back to Kansas City, where his probation was extended. In 1975 it was extended again after another arrest, this time on charges of securities fraud and mail fraud in connection with a phony "medical consulting" company he had formed in Kansas City.

During this period, Robinson cultivated and maintained the outward appearance of a personable, community-minded citizen and family man; he became a Scoutmaster, a baseball coach, and a Sunday school teacher. In 1977 he talked his way onto the board of directors of a local charitable organization and forged a series of letters from its executive director to the mayor of Kansas City, and from the mayor to other civic leaders, commending his generous volunteer efforts and generally singing his praises. Eventually he had himself named the organization's “Man of the Year", and threw a festive awards luncheon in his own honor.

In 1979, Robinson finally completed probation, but by 1980 was under arrest again on multiple charges, including embezzlement and check forgery, for which he served 60 days in jail in 1982. He formed a bogus hydroponics business and swindled a friend out of $25,000 who had hoped to receive a fast investment return to pay for his dying wife's health care. At this time he reportedly began sexually propositioning many of his neighbors’ wives, triggering a fistfight with one of the husbands. He also joined a secret sadomasochism cult called the International Council of Masters and became its “Slavemaster”, whose duties included luring victims to gatherings to be tortured and raped by cult members.

Interesting Details

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In 1985, using the name John Osborne, he met Lisa Stasi and her four-month-old daughter, Tiffany, at a battered women’s shelter in Kansas City. He promised Lisa a job and an apartment in Chicago, and asked her to sign several sheets of blank stationery.

A few days later Robinson contacted his brother and sister-in-law, who had been unable to adopt a baby through traditional channels, and informed them that he knew of a baby whose mother had committed suicide. For $5,500 in “legal fees,” Don and Helen Robinson received a baby — who was later determined, via DNA testing, to be Tiffany Stasi. Baby Tiffany’s biological mother, Lisa Stasi, was never heard from again.

https://mckoysnews.com/internets-first-serial-killer-john-edward-robinson-internet-slavemaster/

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Though far from a problem child, by her late teens, Izabela was more interested in paganism, vampires and Goth culture than attaining good grades. Her father, a professor at the university, pushed her to work harder, but Izabela felt that he simply didn’t understand her. How could he? Unbeknownst to her parents, Izabela was heavily involved in BDSM, and had been a slave for years before finally parting ways with her master. On at least one occasion, she had allegedly visited a dungeon in Chicago to attend a function by Black Rose: a group for BDSM enthusiasts, cross-dressers and fetishists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rose_(BDSM_organization)

Robinson’s final victim would be 27-year-old Suzette Trouten: a bisexual nurse’s aide, forced to supplement her meagre $10/hour income by working part-time at a Big Boy restaurant. As with the Faiths and Izabela Lewicka, Suzette’s past had been a turbulent one. Growing up in a broken home in Michigan, she had been sexually abused as a child, and had attempted suicide. A hardcore BDSM practitioner, Suzette had served two masters, and was a Gorean submissive. Robinson ensnared Suzette Trouten using a nearly identical modus operandi to the one he employed on Izabela Lewicka. The two began communicating when he responded to an ad Suzette had posted in 1999 on the Fetish/BDSM website ALT.com (spelling and grammatical errors have been left in tact):

On September 11, 1999, Suzette received a reply from midwestmaster@email.com: Read your ad. Let’s talk about the possibilities – John Rob. Within a matter of days, Suzette had agreed to be Robinson’s slave, even signing her emails “On bended knee, Suzette.” The brunette gushed to her family and friends about the rich Missourian who had offered her $65,000/year to travel the world with him while she cared for his elderly diabetic father. Those closest to her thought it sounded too good to be true; Suzette was often prone to exaggeration. Still, they were glad to see her happy.

Under the auspices of meeting his father, Robinson bought Suzette Trouten flights to Kansas City in October and November. While there, she signed contracts for a car and an apartment lease, along with a 25 page slave contract containing over 100 rules. Robinson manipulated her into providing him with her e-mail passwords, and snapped photographs of her posing in the nude.

Upon returning to Michigan, Suzette boasted of being picked up by a millionaire in a limousine who had introduced her to his crabby “Papa John.” Strangely, Robinson’s real father had died in 1989, begging the question: “was Suzette lying?” Her mother, Carolyn Trouten, is adamant that the story was far too detailed to have been fabricated. Perhaps Suzette met an accomplice of Robinson’s. If so, did this unknown third party have any idea what Suzette’s “master” had in store for her?

...As she awaited the big day, Suzette passed her time having rough sex with Robinson, and building a website for “The International Council of Masters”—an order of BDSM doms to which he claimed elite membership.

On Friday June 2, two detectives from Overland Park arrested John Robinson at his trailer in Olathe. He was charged with sexual battery, theft and blackmail. The decision had been a hasty one, made the previous day, after wiretaps on his cellphone indicated he was attempting to entice a 17-year-old mother to his Linn County farmhouse. He had promised to take care of her and her baby in exchange for sex. The resemblance to the Lisa Stasi case was chilling.

Evidence:

– A receipt from 1985 indicating that Lisa Stasi had stayed at the Rodeway Inn

– A blank piece of paper marked only by Stasi’s signature, including an envelope addressed to her brother

– A 1999 statement of Debbie and Sheila Faith’s social security benefits

– Scraps of paper with John Robinson’s various e-mail address scrawled across them

– An application for an employment identification number filed by Beverly Bonner

– Robinson’s address book with the name “Beverly Bonner” crossed out twice under “B”

Once they had removed more than a dozen boxes of evidence from the trailer, they drove to Robinson’s 10′ x 15′ storage locker in Olathe. Snipping the hasps with bolt cutters, the investigators entered unit B18 and recovered:

– A Compaq Presario computer belonging to Suzette Trouten

– A yellow legal pad listing Suzette’s friends and family members, along with their phone numbers, residential and e-mail addresses

– Suzette’s passport application, driver’s license, and Social Security card.

– 42 envelopes made out to different members of the Trouten family along with 31 sheets of paper marked only with the words “Love ya, Suzette”

– Suzette’s journal, textbooks, and jewellery

– Dildos, butt plugs, electrodes, a collar, a speculum and electrical device belonging to Suzette Trouten

– A video cassette that would later be revealed to show Robinson and Suzette engaging in BDSM sex

– Three bags of sex toys, one of which had been stolen from Liz Kelly

– More of the Faiths’ Social Security statements

– Social security cheques made out to Sheila and Debbie Faith

– Izabela Lewicka’s social security card, driver’s licence, passport, high school diploma, Olathe public library card, resident alien card and a document granting Robinson power of attorney over her

– Nude photographs of Izabela Lewicka and Suzette Trouten

– Slave contracts for Izabela Lewicka, Suzette Trouten and Liz Kelly

https://www.serialkillerquarterly.com/skq-review/welcome

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From "Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet" by John Douglas

(due to being a preview, some pages are omitted, I just ordered a copy so when I receive it and have the time I'll see what else I can find)

https://books.google.com/books?id=sXugzgPZNqEC&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=%22International+Council+of+Masters%22&source=bl&ots=kbfzsHGJVa&sig=ACfU3U1jqmkDnc7QkZ5S1avzndRw-HZQhg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjy5vSIppHpAhWEZ80KHVKUDl4Q6AEwBHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22International%20Council%20of%20Masters%22&f=false