Killings Spark Search for 2 Missing Californians

Police fear that a Fullerton woman and her daughter, last seen five years ago, were victims of a man already charged with killing five other women in Kansas and Missouri.

Sheila Dale Faith, who would now be 51, and her daughter Debbie Lynn Faith, who would be 21, had “known connections” to the suspect and may have moved from Fullerton to the suspect’s Kansas hometown in 1994, authorities said.

Investigators, citing a court-issued gag order, declined to elaborate on the nature of the link between the suspect, John Edward Robinson Sr., and the former Fullerton residents. But they asked the public’s help Thursday, urging anyone who has seen the women over the last five years to call police.

“We’re concerned about them,” said Sgt. Rick Roth, a member of the Lenexa, Kan.-based task force probing the slayings.

Police believe the women are among six people linked to Robinson who have been missing for years. The grisly case unfolded June 3, when authorities discovered the bodies of two women in barrels on Robinson’s property near La Cygne, Kan.

On June 5, three more bodies were found in barrels in a storage locker in Raymore, Mo.

Authorities have said Robinson, 56, trolled the Internet for sex under the name “slavemaster” and may have met some of his victims online.

In Fullerton, Sheila and Debbie Lynn Faith lived in a large apartment complex with Sheila’s husband, John. Debbie Lynn was developmentally disabled and confined to a wheelchair.

A year after John Faith’s death in 1993, Sheila called one of her sisters in Texas and told her she and her daughter were heading to the Kansas-Oklahoma area, police said.