Police find five bodies in barrels

Kansas City - Homicide investigators were yesterday draining a pond on the property of a man who is considered the prime suspect…

Kansas City - Homicide investigators were yesterday draining a pond on the property of a man who is considered the prime suspect in the deaths of five women whose bodies were found stuffed in barrels. Police were alerted to Mr John Edward Robinson (56), by two women who filed reports saying they were brutalised by him in hotel rooms after meeting him through his Internet site, on which he solicited sadomasochistic sex, police officials said.

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