Free Anyone You Want Me to Be by John Douglas Page A

younger partner, Special Agent Jeffrey Dancer, about the two vanished women (Godfrey and Stasi) and the missing baby. Haymes not only wanted the FBI’s expertise, but there were other legal issues as well. The Missouri-Kansas border ran right through Kansas City, and that made everything in this complicated set of circumstances even more complicated. Robinson used the old criminal trick of moving quickly between jurisdictions, something that other serial killers, such as Ted Bundy, had once done.
    “Robinson was jumping back and forth across state lines, which was frustrating to local law enforcement,” says Haymes. “State lines are a pretty big barrier for local city police. Robinson lived in Kansas but had this supposed charitable apartment in Missouri. He was soliciting babies from organizations in Missouri and Kansas. Lisa Stasi was from northeast Kansas City, Missouri, but she technically disappeared out of Overland Park, which is in Kansas. So that creates all sorts of problems.
    “I would not be surprised that Robinson didn’t decide that the more he jumped around, the more difficult it would be. I don’t know how much he intentionally chose these locations, but it was effective in making things more difficult for us.”
    The FBI agents did some legwork on Robinson and quickly discovered his activities on many criminal fronts. They also connected him with the ex-convict Irvin Blattner, who may have helped Robinson with several moneymaking scams. The U.S. Secret Service was investigating both men for forging a signature on a government check. While Haymes and the FBI were trying to construct a case against the pair, the district attorney’s office in Johnson County was working on a parallel investigation into Equi-II and the apparently fraudulent role Robinson had played in posing as a divorce lawyer for Mildred Amadi. Law enforcement was moving in on Robinson from every side and his arrest seemed imminent, but the closer they got, the more resourceful he became.
    One lead the police ran down was a Cora Holmes, who’d met Robinson through a stripper friend of hers. Holmes was looking for work and had called the man to see if he could employ her in any capacity. He explained to her that the cops were harassing him about a missing person and he needed her help. Holmes then lied to the police by telling them that Lisa had recently spent the night at her house and had made plans to go to Arkansas with a man named Bill Summers. While Holmes was misleading the local detectives, Special Agent Lavin and Overland Park detective Cindy Scott contacted the woman whom Robinson claimed had hired Stasi as a baby-sitter. Under their grilling, she admitted that she too had lied for Robinson because she owed him $900 and had posed nude for him in the past. He had pictures of her that she didn’t want shown around, so she’d gone along with his plan.
    The FBI now created a sting operation, using one of their agents to go undercover as a prostitute. Her job was to have lunch with Robinson, while wearing a wire, and to tape their conversation. During the meal, he told her that he ran a business employing call girls. His clientele consisted mostly of professional men—doctors, lawyers, and judges—and the work paid extremely well. If the agent was willing to fly to Dallas or Denver for a weekend encounter, she could earn as much as $3,000, but there were conditions. She would not only have sex with the men but engage in sadomasochistic practices. The S&M routines, he explained to the agent in disguise, usually involved a dominant partner and a submissive one, with the former pursuing pleasure through bondage or various ways of inflicting pain on the submissive. The dominant might spank, tie up, or whip the other person. The agent expressed her willingness to work with Robinson, but the FBI quickly backed off from the scheme because they realized just how serious he was and were afraid she might get hurt.
    The FBI felt that