Robin Leslie Losch, a 14-year-old white female from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was reported missing by her parents on July 8, 1975, after she failed to return home from summer classes at Stranahan High School. She had last been seen at a local grocery store. Two days later, on July 10, her partially submerged body was discovered by a vacationing family in a canal off U.S. Highway 27, a remote area near the Everglades in western Broward County.
One of her arms was visible above the waterline, protruding from the dense aquatic vegetation.
The body of the 14-year-old white female was found fully clothed, and the autopsy determined that she had drowned. Unlike many other victims in the same area and time period, there were no immediate signs of sexual assault or blunt force trauma. However, the location of her body—just half a mile from where the bodies of two other 14-year-old girls, Barbara Schreiber and Belinda Zetterower, had been found weeks earlier—raised suspicions of a serial offender operating in the region. Marijuana was reportedly found in Robin's jeans pocket, though investigators did not publicly link this to the cause or circumstances of her death.
Robin's death was ultimately associated with a broader series of unsolved homicides in South Florida during 1975, often referred to as the “Canal Murders” or “Flat-Tire Murders.” These cases involved young women and girls whose bodies were discovered in or near canals in Broward and Dade Counties. Many of the victims were white females, and several had been sexually assaulted, beaten, or shot before being dumped in remote waterways. The pattern suggested the possibility of one or more serial killers targeting vulnerable young women in the area.
In 2023, investigators from the Broward County Sheriff's Office announced a breakthrough in two of the related cases—those of Barbara Schreiber and Belinda Zetterower—through DNA evidence. A known felon, Robert Clark Keebler, who had died in 2019, was identified as a suspect. In 2025, a second suspect, Lawrence Stein, who died in 2005, was also linked to those murders. However, authorities stated that these suspects were not believed to be connected to all of the canal murders, including that of 14-year-old white female Robin Leslie Losch. Her case remains officially unsolved, and no arrests have been made in connection with her death.
