Malcolm Robbins, a serial killer and pedophile, murdered a confirmed four underage boys in as many states in a 1979-80 killing spree. Robbins was born in Rockland, Maine on July 7, 1960, one of several siblings. Poverty and dysfunction ran in the Robbins family; his grandmother had been one of 11 siblings in a household with no father present. She became pregnant at 16 and eventually gave birth to six children, including Malcolm's mother, who herself became pregnant in her teens.The family were poor and Malcolm's mother made an income chiefly from welfare, working as a waitress, and prostitution; at least two of her children were fathered by her uncles, both of whom were in jail when Malcolm was born. He was developmentally slow and couldn't walk until he was 3 years old. Robbins was allegedly molested by boyfriends of his mother; he was expelled from kindergarten for fighting with other children. One psychologist said it was highly unusual for a kindergartener to have such a hard time getting along with his peers. Rockland police, who had arrested most of the Robbins clan numerous times, often visited the house, typically to bring Malcolm home when he ran away, and noticed that it was filthy and strewn with garbage. At school, Malcolm was known for being dirty, dressed in rags, friendless, and having poor verbal and social skills.
When Malcolm was 9 years old, a school psychologist tried to warn his mother about his poor performance at school, but she wasn't interested. The psychologist made the same observation about the filthy conditions in the house. A year later, Malcolm was expelled from school and sent to a juvenile reform school which his mother preferred to being harrassed by school authorities. After a few days there, he was put in Pineland Hospital and Training Center in New Gloucester, where he stayed for nine months. The program mainly dealt with anger management; sexual abuse was not discussed, nor was it part of the program at that time.From the training center, Robbins was sent to a children's psychiatric unit at Pineland Hospital for 30 days, but he ended up spending nine months there. The facility was originally for mentally retarded adults and none of the staff had any experience with children. Robbins went back to the training center only with a report that it lacked proper external controls to handle him.He was released around his 13th birthday, but some months later got caught molesting two boys and was sent back to the reform school, who were not informed of that incident. Robbins's behavior continued to worsen and he was repeatedly punished and put in solitary confinement, attempting suicide at least once. The suicide attempt was not discussed and he was merely put on anti-psychotic meds. Robbins was freed in April 1975 and returned to his mother's custody. Five months later, Robbins was busted again for child molestation. A court-ordered psychiatric examination ruled him insane, but he was merely put back in the reform school despite recommendations that Bangor Mental Health Center was a more suitable facility for him. The reform school could have still committed Robbins to Bangor, but never did so and nobody on the staff there could explain why.
Why were boomers like this?
Robbins ran away from the reform school, was quickly caught and brought back, and stayed there for six months before the staff prepared a report on him. Nobody who'd recommended he go to Bangor was involved in the staffing report and he spent the next year at the reform school.In August 1976, Robbins was released to the custody of his aunt and her husband, who worked as a car mechanic. Malcolm developed an interest in and eventually learned how to work on cars. Two months later, Robbins molested another young boy but was let off the hook when his aunt made a deal with the boy's parents to not press charges against him. He was still required to undergo psychiatric treatment, which he hated. Psychiatrists concluded that he had a bad temper and a fixation with firearms. In June 1977, Robbins was arrested again for child molestation, but got off with only paying a fine.In early 1978, Robbins ran away from home and began living as a gay man. After his 18th birthday that summer, he left Maine with a 40 year old lover and the two moved to Palm Springs, California together. Robbins had another brief gay relationship in 1979, went to Los Angeles, and met another lover in a gay club who moved in with him. In June 1980, they moved to Santa Barbara but Robbins cheated on his partner with an older man and they immediately broke it off. Robbins also had a habit of making extended journeys around the country, typically lasting 2-3 months, before coming back to California. Those who knew him said he was extremely immature, a habitual liar, and a manipulator with poor self-control. At some point, Robbins began telling acquaintances that he and his partners were undercover cops trying to nab the elusive Freeway Killer, but nobody believed him.
On June 15, 1980, Christopher Finney, age 6, vanished while heading home from his father's shop in Isla Vista. Chris had last been seen riding a red motorcyle driven by a shirtless blonde man in shorts. His skeletonized remains were found in September in a lagoon near UC Santa Barbara. Examination of the remains found the cause of death to be a broken neck caused by someone forcibly grabbing and twisting it. If Finney had been sexually abused, any evidence of it was long gone.On November 26, Robbins was arrested on the other side of the country in Millville, New Jersey on suspicion of murdering 9 year old Evan Bailey, who disappeared from Vineland on the 17th. To the surprise of police, Robbins immediately confessed to kidnapping, raping, and stabbing to death Bailey. He showed where the body was dumped and it was found there, the forensic evidence correlating his confession; Bailey's throat had been cut and he had assorted other injuries. There was also evidence that his anus had been penetrated with a foreign object. Robbins said that he sodomized Bailey, beat him when he resisted, chased him when he tried to escape, and stabbed him so he couldn't identify him.To their even greater surprise, Robbins admitted to multiple other murders of young boys in different states. The first victim was Stephen Little, 7, who was murdered in Dallas on December 27, 1979. Robbins had just left California and arrived in Texas, where he encountered Little on a playground. He convinced the boy to get in his van, raped and strangled him, threw the body in a dumpster, and lit it on fire. The body was found after the Dumpster fire had been noticed and put out. However, Robbins later changed his story and said he was still in California on December 27. But he couldn't offer any alibi for where he'd been that day and witnesses reported seeing him in Dallas when the murder took place.
The next victim, William Lepko, was 17 and a lot older than the others. He disappeared from Wheeling, West Virginia on January 29, 1980. Lepko's mother claimed he went to a party with a man who offered to buy his '74 Nova. After Robbins was arrested, the car was found and proven to have been registered in his name on February 4, a few days after Lepko disappeared. When questioned, Robbins said he took Lepko to the party, tried to make sexual advances on him, and was rebuffed. Supposedly they got into a brawl that culminated in Robbins stabbing him in the stomach. He put the body in the trunk of Lepko's car and drove it to Maine. Robbins tried to bury it but as it was wintertime he couldn't dig into the frozen ground and had to give up. He gave Lepko's wallet to an ex-boyfriend of his mothers and told him what happened. The boyfriend said he should register the car in his own name. Lepko's remains were not found until February 1981 and it was concluded that he died of stab wounds to the head and neck rather than the stomach as Robbins claimed.Finally, there was Christopher Finney. Robbins said he gave the little boy a ride on his motorcycle, sodomized him, and choked him to death afterwards. He said Chris was indignant at what he'd done to him and retaliated by kicking him and the tires of the bike, so Robbins lost it and choked him. He collected Chris's clothes and took them home. Robbins sold his motorcycle shortly afterward and left Isla Vista. A roommate later found a child's T-shirt in his bedroom.
Robbins also claimed to have killed or was suspected of killing other children in different states. He claimed he killed a boy in Minden, Nevada. The body was found November 15, 1980 and identified as that of 15 year old John Powers, who had disappeared from Sunnyvale, California. Robbins was further suspected in killing two girls, Teresa Flores and Martha Mezo, ages 5 and 4, who were found in a shallow grave near San Miguel on May 29. They were both strangled, but interviews with Robbins disproved the idea that he could have killed them. Besides, all his known victims were male. Robbins was also suspected in the Atlanta Child Murders as he had been in Atlanta around the time when they happened, but was quickly ruled out.Due to the multi-state nature of Robbins's crimes, it was a matter of debate as to where and when he should be tried. However, a deal was eventually worked out to try him first in New Jersey for the Evan Bailey murder. His trial in the Garden State began April 1981 and he pled guilty and got 30 to life. Robbins served two years of his sentence in a New Jersey prison before being sent to California where he pled guilty to murdering Christopher Finley. In May 1983, he was sentenced to death by a Santa Barbara County judge, but would be allowed to serve out his sentence in New Jersey. Over the next six years, Robbins would stand trial for the Little and Lepko murders in Texas and Maine and was sentenced in both. In February 1989, California attorney general John Van de Kamp wrote his New Jersey counterpart Peter Perretti requesting that Robbins be sent back there so he might be executed. New Jersey governor Tom Kean agreed to extradict Robbins, who tried to appeal to the Supreme Court, but they declined to hear the case.
Arizona authorities then petitioned Robbins for answers in the death of 13 year old Robert Stevens, who had left his home on South Craycroft Road in Tucson on September 30, 1979 and was last seen riding a bicycle near I-10. On October 14, his decomposed remains were found under a mesquite tree, apparently strangled. Robbins was suspected because he was known to have visited the Tucson area in the fall of 1979, but he denied killing Stevens, whose murder remains unsolved.
Robbins remained on death row in California's San Quentin prison. In March 2019 Governor Gavin Newsom placed a moratorium on capital punishment in the state and ordered all inmates removed from death row. Robbins was moved to Corcoran Prison. He was in poor health by this time and passed away from natural causes on January 27, 2023.
>>18021442>At school, Malcolm was known for being dirty, dressed in rags, friendless, and having poor verbal and social skills.sounds like the average /pol/ user when he was in school
>>18021442poor guy never even had a chance with this upbringing
>>18021454>In June 1977, Robbins was arrested again for child molestation, but got off with only paying a fine.Yep, it was the 70s alright.
>>18021518Obsessed
>>18021518All he could manage was a few grunts that sounded like "it was dah J00z!"
how sad
>>1802144570s psychiatry was honestly just like facepalm tier.
>>18021442I always thought Maine was some wealthy bedroom community New England state and all. This sounds like something that would happen in Kentucky or some other godforsaken state.
>>18021449You try being raised the way he was and see how you turn out.
>>18021449does a guy born in '60 really even still count as a boomer?
>>18021556Maine outside of Portland and the coastal regions is super rural and isolated. Nothing but forests for miles and tiny forgotten communities
>>18021618>>18021556Nowadays Rockland is a hipster bedroom community but in those days it was an impoverished squalid shithole. Most of Maine had been in a semi-permanent economic depression since the whaling industry died off near the end of the 19th century.
>>18021625
>>18021632right. you see it was pretty much always a shithole that lost population except for a few times.
>>18021595Baby Boomers got their name for being born between '40-'60~.
>>18021632wasn't even booming during the years of postwar prosperity
>>18021645Nope.
>>18021454This guy should have just been taken out back and shot when he was a teenager.
past a certain point the entire extended family should have been euthanized for the greater good of the world. For 99.9% of human evolutionary history people who caused these kind of problems and raised these types of families tended to just be outright killed or banished on the first instance of nonsense
>>18021595Not really, no.
>>18021882That's the purpose of "rule of law" and "due process" btw, as well as the elimination of the right to association. To force the presence of these people upon you.
>>18022617the Civil Rights Act will never be repealed, /pol/
>>18022712It will not be repealed by an orderly vote of US Congress, that is very much true.
>>18022730they don't want to lose their voter base
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSboXppHS7o
>>18022733
>>18022752>why is a historically marginalized group of people more prone to crime?wonder...
>>18022759When does the cooldown on the historic marginalization end? Right now their violence transcend income and even gender differences; black women are more violent than white men.
>>18021442>>18021445the Carter years were pretty grim ones; the country was turning into Honduras
>>18021882i hear in China they used to put the entire family of convicted criminals to death
True crime nigga has been on a roll
>>18022846in a few months it will be possible to discuss crime cases from 2001. can't wait for the Andrea Yates thread.
>>18022765>black women are more violent than white men.Source?
>>18021442>>18021484He was Irish, of course he was a violent murderous pedophile.
>The witnesses explained that defendant, like other people with similar childhood experience, was unable to differentiate between tender and violent feelings. Any emotional arousal could turn instantly into an urge to crush and destroy.
being a retarded pedophile serial killer pre 1990s was so easy. they practically let you do it
>>18022892>>18021454>In June 1977, Robbins was arrested again for child molestation, but got off with only paying a fineand this proves it
>>18021595boomers go all the way to 64Obama is a boomer
>>18023065completely arbitrary definition
