The investigation was terminated, as Godfrey was of legal age and there was no evidence of wrongdoing. Several days later her parents received a typewritten letter, with Godfrey's signature at the bottom, thanking Robinson for his help and asserting that she was "OK" and did not want to see her family. Police questioned Robinson, who denied any knowledge of her whereabouts.
After hearing nothing further from her, Godfrey's parents filed a missing persons report. Godfrey told friends and family that Robinson was sending her away for training. In 1984, having established two more fraudulent shell companies (Equi-Plus and Equi-2), Robinson hired Paula Godfrey, 19, ostensibly to work as a sales representative.
After his release, he formed a bogus hydroponics business and stole $25,000 from a friend to whom he promised a fast investment return so the friend could pay for his dying wife's health care. Īfter completing his probation In 1979, Robinson was arrested for embezzlement and check forgery for which he served 60 days in jail in 1982. Under that guise, he hosted an awards luncheon in his honor. In 1977, he was named to the board of directors of a local charitable organization where he forged letters from its executive director to the mayor of Kansas City and from the mayor to civic leaders, naming him as the organization's Man of the Year. Robinson became a Scoutmaster, a baseball coach and a Sunday school teacher. In 1975, it was extended again after an arrest on charges of securities fraud and mail fraud in connection with a phony medical consulting company he had formed in Kansas City. In 1971, he was arrested for embezzling firm funds, and was ordered back to Kansas City where his probation was extended. In 1970, Robinson violated probation by moving to Chicago without his probation officer's permission, and gained a job as an insurance salesman at the R.B. He was sentenced to three years probation. Wallace Graham, where he worked as a radiographer using forged credentials. In 1969, Robinson was arrested in Kansas City for embezzling $33,000 from the medical practice of Dr. In 1964, he moved to Kansas City and married Nancy Jo Lynch, who gave birth to their first child, John Jr., in 1965, followed by a daughter, Kimberly, in 1967, and twins Christopher and Christine in 1971. In 1961, he enrolled at Morton Junior College in Cicero to become a medical radiographer, but dropped out after two years. He enrolled at Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, a private boys school for aspiring priests, but dropped out after one year due to disciplinary issues. : 4 In 1957, he became an Eagle Scout and traveled to London with a group of Scouts who performed before Queen Elizabeth II. Robinson was born in Cicero, Illinois, the third of five children of an alcoholic father and a disciplinarian mother.
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