And she was just a crying and then she finally settled down and she says, 'Here they come now,' she said. "She said she decided not to have a relationship with her biological father, Carl Stasi. "That was the whole problem — that we had was the possibility of losing you," Donald Robinson told Heather Robinson.In that conversation, Donald Robinson also told his adoptive daughter that he and his wife had been trying to conceive "for at least five years" before they considered adopting.Around the time Lisa Stasi went missing, John Robinson contacted his brother, claiming that a woman had killed herself in a hotel room and that her baby was available for adoption. "But we want her to know, that we're her family and we love her. She taught me to not have hate in my heart and to forgive John…because she did," Heather Robinson said. "He was a very good conman," she said.Heather Robinson acknowledges she "probably witnessed" her mother's murder as a baby, but she said "no one seems to know the details of what actually happened. He slaps you on the back. I want to meet my daughter. They’d initially confirmed her identity by matching her fingerprints and footprints with those from the hospital where she was born. Brown, the detective, said authorities recovered about 18 hammers from John Robinson’s property and had then examined at a lab. I know Don lost two jobs from the media attention and them finding out who his brother was," Heather Robinson said. “Heather’s dedication to finding out more about her mother — how she lived and how she died — is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.”Robach tells PEOPLE she has profound respect for Heather, citing her “ability to move forward despite all of the incredible tragedy she’s endured. John Robinson was sentenced to death in January 2003. At the height of his power in the early 1980s, his ministry employed 91,000 secret police and 190,000 informants.
"But Lisa Stasi's late mother Pat Sylvester said in a 2000 interview with ABC News that she suspected something was seriously wrong. It was over 23,000 pages of police reports. She was crying hysterically and told them that she had to sign four pieces of paper. "Then the second barrel was all of a sudden very interesting and opened that up. He's got a good handshake," said Steve Haymes, a former district supervisor for the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole, who investigated Robinson starting in 1985.Morrison said that Robinson scammed Suzette Trouten, 28, of Newport, Michigan, in 1999 by persuading her to work as the caretaker for his supposedly elderly father. "She later uncovered even more about her uncle's invented story surrounding her background. By the time Heather Robinson was a teenager, she had long known that she had been adopted as an infant, and grew up knowing only her loving family in Illinois.But in 2000, the then-15-year-old's world was shattered when she learned that the man she knew as her uncle, John Robinson, was actually a "When I heard that John had been arrested… I remember [my adoptive mother] running up and down the stairs panicking. "Heather Robinson developed a relationship with Sylvester. He was given the plea deal but he gave no information in exchange.He is now 75 and on death row in Kansas. He would pilfer stamps from, from an employer or money from a potato chip company up in Liberty," said Mark Morris, another former reporter at The Kansas City Star. During their conversation, Heather Robinson asked him about the night that he learned his brother was a serial killer and that he had been raising one of his brother's victim's daughters as his own.