Man Guilty of Killing 3 in Sex-Slave Case
A man with a taste for sadomasochistic sex was convicted of murdering three women and stuffing the bodies of two of them into barrels on his rural property.
John E. Robinson Sr., 58, could get the death penalty for the slayings of Suzette Trouten, 27, of Newport, Mich., and Izabela Lewicka, 21, a former Purdue University student from West Lafayette, Ind. Their bodies were found in the 85-gallon barrels.
Both women had met him over the Internet and had come to Kansas to be his sex slaves.
Robinson also was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1985 disappearance and death of Lisa Stasi, 19, whose body has never been found. He also is awaiting trial in Missouri on charges of killing two women and a girl whose bodies were found in barrels in a storage locker in suburban Kansas City, Mo.
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