“He referred to himself in emails on a BDSM website as master. And that’s what we knew him as, the slave master. Anybody who really is a master, it’s very, very rare for them to refer to themselves as master. In our world, that’s a huge red flag because you knew somebody was getting hurt. But the question was what was consensual and when did it cross the line? It’s one of those awe moments where everybody’s jaw kind of drops, then you know the hair stands up on the back of your neck. There was no crime scene. There was no body. There was just no hard evidence to indicate that anything had happened to them. He knew what the rules of the game were. He was able to turn those rules to his own benefit.”
“Lisa Stacy was a troubled young woman, uh, 19, and she was involved with a man named Carl. She got pregnant. Um, they got married and they had this, um, baby, Tiffany Lynn Stacy. But, um, the marriage quickly fell apart within a few months. The couple splits and Carl moves to the Chicago area where he re-enlists in the Navy.”
“The Kansas Outreach Program was a program that a businessman named John Osborne had started to help, um, young women with, uh, young babies get a restart in life.”
“They’re saying you’re going to take my baby away from me. You’re saying I’m a bad mother.”
“We’re, you know, we’re not trying to take your baby away.”
“They’ve made me sign four blank sheets of paper.”
“Don’t do anything. Don’t sign anything. I’m not involved in this in any way.”
“They’re coming now.”
“It was not John Osborne that had rented the room but a John Robinson.”
“I was referred to me with a young baby. I said I would put her up in my Kansas City outreach program.”
“Lisa came to his office with a young man by the name of Bill who she said was her new boyfriend and that, you know, they were going to go off together and they were going to start a new life.”
“I’ve been down and out. You know, things haven’t been going good but I’ve got an opportunity here to start a new life and I’m going to do that.”
“She was going to move up here to try to improve her life. She answers an ad in the newspaper for an executive secretary working for a busy CEO.”
“Yeah, I saw her a couple of weeks ago,” or “I know that she didn’t go to work for Robinson after all.”
“She was going to move to Kansas because she was going to go to work for a wealthy businessman that did a lot of international traveling, and she was going to take care of this businessman’s ailing father while they traveled.”
“Susette had decided to take off with a man named Jim Turner and they were going to be sailing around the world and she was not going to be working for him after all.”
“We knew he was a con man. We knew he was a thief.”
“He referred to himself in emails on the BDSM website as master. And that’s what we knew him as, the slave master.”
“I would like to file…”
“I came to Lenexa to work for a man she knew as James Turner. She was down on her luck. She was unemployed at the time, had no money.”
“Who had rented the room?”
“James Robinson.”
“Jesus Christ.”
“You know, you guys really making a big production out of this, aren’t you?”
“I’m not sure which came first.”
