By John E. Douglas, Stephen Singular
John Douglas - The Bestselling writer of Mindhunter and the undisputed grasp profiler of serial criminals -- tells the chilling real tale of John Robinson - The internet's first serial murderer.
In Olathe, Kansas, a balding, pudgy father of 4 sits in legal convicted on 3 counts of murder -- of capital homicide -- and suspected in a minimum of 5 different disappearances.
During the final 1/2 the Nineteen Nineties, John Robinson exploited the Internet's lively international of sadomasochism with terrible effects. via haunting chat rooms, he pinpointed weak ladies who have been trying to find romance and stalked them online, nefariously convincing them of his adulthood, sensitivity, and monetary balance. He appeared like the right guy. He enticed those ladies with bargains of a pretty good courting and a profitable activity, persuading them to maneuver to his fatherland. when they arrived in Kansas, the ladies perpetually disappeared.
After a dramatic trial and days of severe jury deliberation, Robinson now faces the loss of life penalty. annoying as his crimes can be, what's so much alarming is how he chosen and lured his sufferers and the way willingly they replied. John Robinson improved the looking flooring, the innovations, and the expertise of the sexual predator. he's the world's first-known net serial killer.
Law enforcement officials, prosecutors, and the coauthors of Anyone you will have Me to Be have struggled to resolve the enigma that's John Robinson. They exhibit what can get it wrong in a global the place relationships are with out actual touch, exhibiting how simply mainstream american citizens might be drawn into the darkish underground of cybercrime. the net has tremendously extended the world of delusion -- from the restricted confines of actual truth to the global level of digital fact -- and a person can get entangled in an online seduction. Erotic fantasies, which have been as soon as socially off-limits and intensely inner most, are actually immediately obtainable.
This speedily starting to be group mask a sinister fact: With just a desktop, an online connection, and a knack for creativity, criminals have the facility to arrive thousands of unsuspecting sufferers whereas closing in whole keep an eye on in their personal -- frequently fake -- photo. John Robinson used to be a real innovator during this number of crime.
via interviews with legislations enforcement experts, internet specialists, and others, John Douglas and Stephen Singular illustrate, with this example, a miles higher -- and extra scary -- trend of web intercourse and violence.
As know-how proliferates within the twenty-first century, so do possibilities for enterprising criminals like John Robinson. not anyone is healthier outfitted than John Douglas and Stephen Singular to show the underworld of the web and to warn humans in regards to the risks of our on-line world. A cautionary and academic story approximately being cautious of strangers and fake intimacy, "Anyone you will have Me to Be" can also be a terrifying, high-tech tale of crime and punishment.
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Spectators filled the courtroom to hear him ring the rafters with rhetoric and watch him fall to his knees and weep before the jury. Only prosecutors were glad when he left town. But on May 14, 1987, Lester’s world collapsed. He had already resigned his license to practice law. Gone were the diamonds and fancy suits. One newspaper compared him to a dethroned heavy-weight. He was fifty-five. Stooped and abject, he stood before a federal judge, having waived his right to a trial, and wept not for a client, but for himself.
Lester must be kidding. This was robbery! Lester suggested that Roger go back to his cell to think things over. The sooner he came to a decision, the better, because if he was not going to hire Lester Burns, he had better get someone else, quick. There would be an extradition order coming down from Kentucky. There wasn’t any time to waste at all, but Roger could sleep on it, if he wished. “You don’t hire the best for peanuts,” Lester told him. As he headed for his car, Lester ran into Carol and Sherry, who were with two other women Carol introduced as Louise Farley and Sharon Wilson, Donnie Bartley’s mother and sister.
High cheekbones, a tanned, coppery complexion, and a regal carriage exuding confidence suggested a Shawnee chief, maybe Tecumseh himself somewhere in the background ennobling the tough Scottish strains. His hair was sandy; his eyes gleamed turquoise. “Momma and I just about raised him,” Governor Chandler recalled twenty-five years later in speaking to a reporter who was preparing a front-page feature story on Lester. “He just had that Clay County determination about him. Under other circumstances, he might have had an average life.