In February 2000, nurse's aide Suzette Marie Trouten left her home in Michigan and drove to Kansas City, telling her family she had taken a job with a man she'd met on the Internet. This would be her opportunity to earn enough money to finish nursing school. It would also be the last time Suzette's loved ones ever saw her alive.
Two Texas women alleged that after contacting them through Web sites devoted to bondage, discipline, and sadomasochism, John Edward Robinson, Sr. - businessman, husband, and father of four - promised them financial support in exchange for sex. First pressuring them to sign 'slave contracts', he'd then brutally assaulted them.
Bespectacled Robinson had been married to the same woman for 36 years. He was an Eagle Scout who'd once been honored as Man of the Year for his work with the handicapped. Yet from the mid-1980s through 2000, at least seven women, a teenager, and a baby disappeared after being lured into his clutches. Following a trail of missing persons reports, fraud charges, parole violations, S&M sex encounters and, finally, the grisly remains of some of his victims, investigators would zero in on America's first known cyber serial killer - and surfing the Net would never be the same.
