Police said Robbins did not molest or harm the woman or her daughter. She didn’t resist Robbins ″because he told me he would kill us both,″ she said. ″He was sweating and angry, shouting at me constantly as he tied my hands and legs together behind my back,″ she recalled. She said Robbins produced a handgun and forced her and her 13-year-old daughter into their basement, where he blindfolded and bound them with tape and cord. Barkley said Robbins came to her suburban Akron home in February 1970, identifying himself as a Chicago doctor who was reclocating in the area and wanted to look at her home, which was for sale. ″If he is the one they’re looking for now, I’m glad he’s dead - not only for what he did to me and my daughter, but what he did to others,″ Dorothy Barkley of Tallmadge, Ohio, an early victim of Robbins recently told the newspaper. In each case, he blindfolded his victims, muzzled them with duct tape and tied them up with cord. Pennsylvania police also have received inquiries from Mayfield Village, Ohio, and Burlington, Iowa, where murders of women fit the same pattern of an encounter with a short, well-dressed man with glasses who was involved with real estate sales, the newspaper reported. the rape of one woman and the killing of another near Baltimore and the killing of a woman in Chester, W.Va., in July, according to the newspaper. Since the shooting, police have been trying to determine if Robbins had a role in various unsolved crimes during the past several years in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan and Iowa with which he has thus far been only loosely connected, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.Īuthorities are re-checking the details of the torture and rape of a Butler woman in 1985 the killing of a woman in Reed City, Mich. Less than an hour earlier, Robbins allegedly had tried to enter the Brothers Valley Township home of Mary Marker, 42, wife of state trooper David Marker, and allegedly shot her in the face with a handgun, according to authorities. Robbins shot himself to death April 14 during a confrontation with a Pennsylvania state trooper in Somerset County, according to authorities. Pennsylvania authorities are scheduled to meet this week with other police agencies to share evidence in their investigation of Gary Alan Robbins, a Murrysville real estate and insurance salesman who was charged in 1971 with armed robbery in an Ohio assault. (AP) _ Authorities investigating rapes and murders in at least five states are trying to unravel the life of a 53-year-old suburban Pittsburgh businessman who committed suicide during a confrontation with police.
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