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Bobbie Jean Robertson

Case from Fort Smith, AR dated Oct 21, 1981

Victim Details

Bobbie Jean Robertson

Female

White / Caucasian

Fort Smith

AR

1981-10-21

38

Bobbie

Jean Robertson

07/12/2026

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Bobbie Jean Robertson, a 38-year-old woman, found her life tragically cut short on a dark evening in Fort Smith, Arkansas. On October 12, 1981, while working as a convenience store clerk, she was abducted by a man who would later be identified as Marion Albert Pruett. This encounter was not a simple robbery gone wrong; it was the beginning of a terrifying ordeal that would end in her murder. Pruett, a man already on a violent crime spree across multiple states, forced Bobbie Jean into his car an ...
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  • Arkansas executes man convicted of 5 slayings - Tampa Bay Times
  • National News Briefs; Execution in Arkansas - The New York Times
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