The Bodies in the Barrels

Police in Kansas go after a financial con man suspected of murderous prowling on the Internet

He stands almost 6 ft. tall and weighs 195 lbs., but John Robinson was nearly invisible. No one knew what he did for a living. He worked mostly at home, tapping away at a computer, speaking vaguely about some businesses he ran and occasionally disappearing in his pickup truck. The lot around the gray mobile home he kept on a hilltop in the east Kansas town of Olathe is well trimmed, with a weathered figurine of the Virgin Mary set on the lawn and a grill on the back porch. Most of his neighbors couldn't recall ever seeing him, but a...

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