TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15. 2002
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Jury views sex scenes on tape in sadomasochism murder trial
The Associated Press
OLATHE — Jurors saw firsthand yesterday the lurid sexual activities they heard so much about in the first week of the John E. Robinson Sr.trial.
For nearly 40 minutes, prosecutors played a video of Robinson engaged in a sadomasochistic sex session with Suzette Trouten, a woman he's charged with killing.
Several jurors covered their eyes at least briefly from the graphic sexual content of the video, which was filmed in a hotel room. In the video, Trouten performs acts on herself and Robinson and professes her allegiance to Robinson, who was her sex master.
"The most important thing in life you are is my slave." Robinson
tells Trouten.
Suddenly, the video stops, cutting back to a scene in the children's movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, that had been taped over.
The video was a graphic start to the second week of the case against Robinson, 58, of Olathe. He is charged with capital murder in the deaths of Trouten, 27, of Newport, Mich., and Izabela Lewicka, 21, a former Purdue University student. Both women's bodies were found in barrels on his Linn County property in June 2000.
Robinson also is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Lisa Stasi, 19, who disappeared in 1985 and whose body has never been found. He faces three other murder charges in Missouri.
Lenexa police Detective Dawn Layman, who was part of a 30-member task force investigating the death of Trouten, testified Monday about items found at an Olathe storage locker Robinson had rented.
She said the search yielded numerous items owned by Trouten and Lewicka, including their drivers' licenses, Social Security cards, sex toys and a sixpage "sex slave" contract with 115 rules.
Also recovered were pre- addressed and signed cards that the state says Robinson intended to send to the women's family members after the women disappeared.
Friends testified last week that Trouten hid her interest in sexual bondage and discipline from her
family.
Robinson's wife, Nancy, testified that she was aware of her husband's sexual lifestyle and affairs but still loved him.
Andrew and Danuta Lewicka are expected to testify today about their daughter's decision to leave West Lafayette, Ind., to move to Kansas to be with Robinson.
In yesterday's testimony, Rita Grant, who lives next to Robinson's property in Linn County, said that in 1999, one of her cats ran into Robinson's barn. She said she was startled when she discovered Robinson digging holes in the barn's dirt floor.
Grant said Robinson was angry and told her he did not want her or her animals near the barn.
Former Cornhusker missing in Indonesia
The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — Jacob Young waited by the telephone yesterday for any word about his son who had been reported missing in the area of two explosions in Bali, Indonesia, over the weekend.
"Every time the phone rings, you grab it with a little bit of hope, but nothing yet," Young said from his home in Midland, Texas.
dreds, mostly tourists.
Family and friends of former University of Nebraska football standout Jake Young anxiously waited for any news. No one had heard from the 34-year-old attorney since two blasts ripped through a popular nightspot Saturday in Bali, killing more than 180 people and injuring hun-
"We're just sitting here and waiting," Young's father said. "This is the worst part. This could go on for days."
Young, who recently was working in Hong Kong, had been in Indonesia to play in a rugby tournament. After the competition, he planned to move back to the United States to rejoin his wife, Laura, and 2-year-old son, Wilson, who recently moved to the Kansas City, Mo., area.
"He apparently was going to play one lastmatch with the rugby team," said Rep. Tom Osborne, R-Neb., Young's former coach at Nebraska.
Osborne's office was working with Young's family to relay the
latest developments from Indonesia.
Young's father said Monday that he had received an e-mail from his son's rugby club in Hong Kong that said he was still missing.
"They have people still looking. They have found nothing," he said.
Six other rugby players on the team and two fans also were reported missing. Two referees with the club were badly injured.
The State Department reported that at least two Americans had been killed and three were injured.
"We just simply know nothing further," Young's father said.
Young had been done corporate merger work while in Hong Kong
for the London-based Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells, the world's largest law firm, Osborne said.
Young was on the board of directors for the University of Nebraska Alumni Association for two years before starting a leave of absence in July 2001 to work in Hong Kong. He graduated from the university in 1991 with a degree in accounting/finance and earned his law degree there in 1994.
A native of Midland, Texas, Jake Young became the first Cornhusker offensive lineman to play as a true freshman since the NCAA restored freshman eligibility in 1972. He went on to become an Associated Press All-American center for Nebraska in 1988 and 1989.
Testimonies continue in quadruple homicide
The Associated Press
WICHITA — Toni Greene told jurors yesterday that she was just being a nosy mother when she went through the jacket pockets of a young man her teenage daughter had met at the mall days earlier.
She found a diamond engagement ring in the pocket of Jonathan Carr's leather jacket. He was sleeping on her living room couch at the time.
But it was not until later that day — when she heard on the television that an engagement ring had been stolen from the victims of a quadruple homicide that morning — that she connected the ring and the car parked outside her house with the crime.
Greene gathered her daughter, Tronda Adams, and a niece and went to a neighbor's house across the street.
"I was afraid," she testified.
She called 911.
"I told them the guy they are looking for is in my home," she said.
Jonathan Carr bolted from the house when police arrived and was arrested a short distance away just hours after his brother, Reginald Carr, was arrested at his apartment.
The brothers are on trial in Sedgwick County District Court for crimes stemming from a nine-day robbery and killing rampage in December 2000. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Yesterday, Greene identified on the witness the diamond ring she saw in Jonathan Carr's pocket that day.
It was the ring prosecutors content was the engagement ring Jason Befort planned to give his girlfriend, the sole survivor of the shootings that left four others dead.
Greene also identified the brothers as the two men who had been at her house the night earlier as well, leaving together sometime between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. — just hours before two armed intruders broke into a Wichita house and abducted the five people.
The Carr brothers are being tried on a total of 113 charges, most of them stemming from the events of Dec. 14 and Dec.15, 2000, when five friends were abducted from a Wichita home, forced to engage in sexual acts and to withdraw money from ATMs before they all were shot. Four of them — Aaron Sander, 29; Heather Muller, 25; Brad Heyka, 27; and Jason Befort, 26 — died. Befort's girlfriend, then a 25-year-old teacher, survived a head shot wound, running naked about a mile to find help.
The Carrs also are being tried in the Dec. 11, 2000, shooting of Ann Walenta, 55, who later died, and the Dec. 7, 2000, robbery in which Andrew Schreiber was abducted and forced to withdraw cash from ATMs.
For more than two hours yesterday morning, family members of the four victims identified for the court items that had belonged to their loved ones and were later found in Reginald Carr's apartment when he was arrested.
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