Suzette Marie Trouten was 27 when she left her Newport, Michigan family in March 2000 after connecting online with a man who offered her a caregiver job in Kansas. Her daily contact with family stopped suddenly when her regular calls abruptly ceased, prompting concern.

Investigators later tied Suzette to John Edward Robinson Sr., who had lured women online with false job offers. In June 2000 authorities searching Robinson’s rural Kansas property recovered Suzette’s body and that of Izabela Lewicka stuffed inside an 85-gallon barrel. The cause of Suzette’s death was blunt force trauma to the head.

Robinson was arrested and prosecuted; the trial included testimony about his manipulation and murders of multiple women. In 2002 he was convicted of the capital murders of Suzette Trouten and Izabela Lewicka and sentenced to death.