Karen Robinson was a 21-year-old woman from Fresno, California, who was murdered on August 21, 1983. Her killing was later linked to Wilbur Lee Jennings, a convicted serial killer whose victims in Fresno County between 1981 and 1984 were often found in irrigation ditches or canals, earning him the nickname The Ditchbank Murderer.

Jennings was convicted of second-degree murder in Robinson’s case; he received first-degree murder convictions for other victims and was sentenced to death in 1986. His prosecutions included charges such as rape, robbery, and kidnapping, and later forensic work linked him to additional crimes. Robinson’s death was one of the crimes that formed part of the broader case against Jennings.

Does anyone have memories of Karen or information about her life in Fresno that could add to the record?