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LISA STASI WAS BORN LISA ELLEDGE, ON APRIL 11^TH, 1965, IN HUNSTVILLE ALABAMA. SHE MARRIED CARL STASI IN AUGUST 1984 AND ONE MONTH LATER THEIR DAUGHTER TIFFANY LYNN WAS BORN. BUT THEIR MARRIAGE WAS NOT GOOD AND BY THE END OF THAT SAME YEAR CARL RE-ENLISTED IN THE U.S. MILITARY AND MOVED TO ILLINOIS. AND LISA AND TIFFANY MOVED INTO HOPE HOUSE WHICH WAS A SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN IN THE KANSAS CITY AREA.

ON JANUARY 9^TH, 1985, LISA MET A MAN BY THE NAME OF JOHN EDWARD ROBINSON WHO WAS ALSO KNOWN AS JOHN OSBOURNE, WHO TOLD HER HE WAS A BENEFACTOR FOR SINGLE MOTHERS AND SAID HE COULD HELP HER OUT. HE PAID FOR THEIR STAY AT A RODEWAY INN IN OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS, UNDER THE KANSAS CITY OUTREACH PROGRAM, A PLACE WHERE YOUNG MOTHERS STUDY FOR THEIR GED.

ON THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 8^TH,  LISA DROPPED OF BABY TIFFANY AT HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S SO SHE COULD BABYSIT HER AND SHE PICKED HER UP IN THE MORNING OF JANUARY 10^TH.

LISA’S MOTHER-IN-LAW, BETTY STASI, HAD RECEIVED A HYSTERICAL PHONE CALL FROM HER. SUPPOSEDLY, LISA TOLD HER SHE WAS MADE TO SIGN FOUR PIECES OF BLANK PAPER. AFTER A WHILE SHE SETTLED DOWN BUT THEN SAID, “HERE THEY COME NOW,” AND SHE HUNG UP THE PHONE. AND THAT WAS THE LAST TIME ANYONE EVER HEARD FROM HER.  THAT IS ASIDE FROM A FEW SUSPICIOUS LETTERS HER FAMILY RECEIVED DAYS LATER. THEY WERE TYPED AND THEY SAID SHE MOVED WITH HER DAUGHTER TO MAKE A NEW LIFE FOR HERSELF. HOWEVER, THEY KNEW SHE COULDN’T TYPE ENOUGH TO TYPE THAT LETTER, SO THEY FIGURED SOMETHING HAD TO HAVE HAPPENED TO HER. HER MOTHER PAT SAID SHE WOULD NEVER HAVE LET THAT BABY GO WILLINGLY. NEVER. HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO HURT HER OR SOMETHING. SHE WOULD HAVE FOUGHT HIM TOOTH AND NAIL. SO, WHEN JOHN WAS ARRESTED, THEY FOUND A LITTLE PEACE.

IN THE YEAR 2000, JOHN ROBINSON WAS ARRESTED FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A WOMAN AND STEALING SEX TOYS FROM ANOTHER WORMAN. IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS POLICE SEARCHED HIS 16-ACRE PROPERTY IN KANSAS AND ALSO A STORAGE UNIT IN MISSOURI. DURING THOSE SEARCHES THEY UNCOVERED THE BODIES OF FIVE WOMEN THAT WERE EACH INDIVIDUALLY STORED IN BARRELS. THE BODIES AT THE 16-ACRE PROPERTY WERE 27-YEAR-OLD SUZETTE TROUTEN AND 21-YEAR-OLD IZABELLA LEWICKA. AND THE BODIES AT THE STORAGE UNIT WERE 49-YEAR-OLD BEVERLY BONNER, 45-YEAR-OLD SHEILA FAITH AND HER 15-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER DEBBIE FAITH. JOHN ROBINSON USED BEVERLY BONNER’S NAME TO REGISTER THE STORAGE UNIT.

JOHN’S BROTHER, DONALD ROBINSON AND HIS WIFE HAD BEEN TRYING TO CONCEIVE FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS BEFORE THEY CONSIDERED ADOPTING. AROUND THE TIME LISA WENT MISSING, JOHN HAD CONTACTED DONALD TELLING HIM THAT A WOMAN HAD KILLED HERSELF IN A HOTEL ROOM AND THAT HER BABY WAS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION. AND THAT WOMAN AND BABY WERE NONE OTHER THAN LISA AND TIFFANY.

AFTER HIS ARREST IT WAS LEARNED THAT BABY TIFFANY LNN STASI WAS ADOPTED BY JOHN ROBINSON’S BROTHER AND HIS WIFE IN 1985. SHE WAS RENAMED HEATHER TIFFANY ROBINSON AND GREW UP IN ILLINOIS. SHE SAID SHE ALWAYS KNEW SHE WAS ADOPTED AS AN INFANT. SHE WAS NEVER AWARE OF HER BIOLOGICAL MOTHERS FATE UNTIL SHE WAS 15 YEARS OLD WHEN JOHN ROBINSON WAS ARRESTED. SHE STATED, “WHEN I LEARNED JOHN WAS ARRESTED, I REMEMBER MY ADOPTIVE MOTHER RUNNING UP AND DOWN THE STAIRS PANICKING. HOW COULD HE DO THIS TO US? WE’RE GOING TO JAIL. THIS IS HORRIBLE. OUR LIVES ARE OVER.” SHE SAYS THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME SHE EVER SEEN HER FATHER CRY.

THE INVESTIGATORS LINKED JOHN ROBINSON TO LISA STASI’S DISAPPEARANCE. HE ADMITTED RESPONSIBILITY HOWEVER NEVER GAVE UP HER LOCATION.

A CONVICTED SERIAL KILLER AND CON MAN, HE USED THE ALIAS SLAVEMASTER ONLINE TO LURE HIS VICTIMS. HE WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KANSAS FOR THREE MURDERS AND TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE IN MISSOUR FOR FIVE OTHERS.

HEATHER DID AN INTERVIEW WITH 20/20 WHERE, SHE SAID SHE IS ON A QUEST TO FIND THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HER BIOLOGICAL MOTHER, WHO WAS JUST A TEENAGER HERSELF WHEN SHE DISAPPEARED. SHE SAID, “I WANT TO FIND OUT WHERE SHE IS. I WANT TO KNOW WHO SHE WAS. SHE WAS A SCARED, ABUSED 19-YEAR-OLD GIRL WITH A NEWBORN, DESPERATE TO KEEP HER CHILD AND BE A MOTHER. I KNOW I WILL FIND HER.”

20/20 JOINED HEATHER AS SHE RETURNED TO THE LOCATION WHERE THE RODEWAY INN ONCE WAS AND THE LAST PLACE SHE AND HER MOTHER WERE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN TOGETHER. HEATHER SAID, “SHE HAD EVERYTHING TAKEN FROM HER. JUSTICE AND CLOSURE FOR ME IS FINDING HER REMAINS AND GIVING HER A PROPER BURIAL. CLOSURE IS KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED, AND PEACE IS FINALLY BEING ABLE TO DEFINITIVELY SAY LISA WAS A PERSON, THIS IS WHAT THEY DID TO HER, THIS IS WHERE SHE IS, AND THEN TO BE ABLE TO FINALY MOVE ON WITH MY LIFE.”

LISA WAS DECLARED DEAD IN 1985.