Case 4: The Slavemaster
from File 187 True Crime Podcast Hosted by Joe McReynolds and Dan Kewley
Before dating apps, before social media, there was a man who hunted through a modem. John Edward Robinson known online as Slavemaster. He used contracts, kindness, and the illusion of consent to trap women seeking connection. What police found on his farm wasn’t just murder… it was an archive. This is the chilling, fully-solved true story of how trust became a weapon and how the internet learned its first hard lesson.
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