Robin Benedict

Murdered
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What happened to Robin Nadine Benedict?
On March 5, 1983, Robin Benedict, a 21-year-old sex worker from Boston, Massachusetts, disappeared after visiting the home of Tufts University professor William Douglas in Sharon. Benedict, an aspiring artist who had dropped out of the Rhode Island School of Design, met Douglas in Boston's Combat Zone, a notorious red-light district, where he became obsessed with her. Douglas, a married father of three, was known to spend lavishly on Benedict, funding her lifestyle with money embezzled from the ...Read More
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    Victim Details

    Robin Benedict

    April 19, 2023

    Female

    Caucasian / White

    Boston

    MA

    1983-03-05

    1961-07-19

    21

    Robin Benedict

    Robin

    Benedict

    Brown

    Yes

    10/08/2024


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    10/18/2024
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