Lisa Stasi was 19 and a new mother when she disappeared from Overland Park, Kansas, on January 9, 1985. Recently separated and staying at a women’s shelter, she accepted help from a man identified as John Edward Robinson, who told her about a program for single mothers. The last contact reported was a frantic phone call to her mother-in-law in which she said she had been made to sign blank papers before the call ended. Typed letters later sent to family purportedly from Lisa raised suspicion because that was not her usual way of communicating.

In 2000, after Robinson’s arrest in connection with multiple disappearances, investigators linked him to Lisa’s case. He was charged with first-degree murder in her death; a jury convicted him in 2002 and sentenced him to life for Lisa’s murder while imposing death sentences for other victims. Lisa’s body has never been found. Robinson’s conviction in Lisa’s case was overturned on appeal in 2015 on a legal technicality. Lisa’s daughter Tiffany was raised by Robinson’s brother as Heather Robinson and learned she was Lisa’s child as a teenager.

Does anyone have information about Lisa’s last days in Overland Park or about contacts she made through the shelter?