Lillian Robinson, a 52-year-old Black woman, disappeared from Baton Rouge, Louisiana in January 2000. Her case became one of several that alarmed the community as women were being targeted and killed by a predator. In March 2000 two fishermen found Robinson’s body floating in the Atchafalaya Basin, about 35 miles west of Baton Rouge. Investigators concluded she had been killed before her body was discarded and that the condition of the remains suggested postmortem abuse.

Robinson’s death was later linked to other Baton Rouge-area slayings that shared similar features, including strangulation and disposal in remote locations. The investigation initially stalled in part because her body was recovered in a different jurisdiction, so the cases were not at first connected. In April 2004 Sean Vincent Gillis confessed to eight murders and admitted killing Robinson; he was charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder. Did anyone who knew Lillian or her routine in Baton Rouge in early 2000 see anything that could help fill gaps in the timeline?