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For years, it looked like investigators would never figure out why 23-year-old Cora Okonski disappeared. One spring day, she left home to buy cigarettes from a local convenience store. She was never seen again. Family, friends and police searched for her, but years passed by without a trace of the young mother. In fact, so much time passed that it looked like they\u2019d never figure out what happened to her. Then, 16 years after Cora went missing, police made an arrest.

Then Kristin gives us the heebie jeebies with the tale of John Edward Robinson, often dubbed the internet\u2019s first serial killer. John didn\u2019t start off as a killer. For years, he was just a thieving con man. He was so conniving that at one point, thanks to an enormous ego and a lot of forged letters, he convinced the mayor of Kansas City to give him the \u201cMan of the Year\u201d award. Over time, John evolved from serial fraudster to serial murderer. His killing spree ended when police discovered barrels containing women\u2019s bodies on his property. Warning: This story is as disgusting as it is disturbing.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cSerial Killer JR Robinson\u2019s Sinister Alter Ego,\u201d by David McClintock for Vanity Fair
\n\u201cTearful wife of accused serial killer offers an alibi,\u201d CNN.com
\n\u201cDeath sentence is upheld for serial killer John E. Robinson Sr.,\u201d Kansas City Star
\n\u2026and good ol\u2019 Wikipedia \xa0

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cCora Ann Okonski\u201d IowaColdCases.org
\n\u201cWhere Is Cora Ann\u201d by John Speer, The Tama News-Herald
\n\u201cMurder trial for Iowa woman whose body was never found begins Monday\u201d by Grant Rodgers, Des Moines Register
\n\u201cCara Okonski feared for her life, friend testifies in murder trial\u201d by Trish Mehaffey, The Courier
\n\u201cTait Purk guilty of 1st degree murder\u201d by John Speer, The Toledo Chronicle
\n\u201cJudge overturns murder conviction of Tama County man in fiancee\u2019s death\u201d by Trish Mahaffey, The Gazette
\n\u201cJudge recuses self in Tait Purk murder trial\u201d by John Speer, The Toledo Chronicle
\n\u201cUPDATE: Tait Purk found guilty in disappearance of Cora Okonski\u201d by Trish Mehaffey, The Gazette
\n\u201cTait Purk sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing fiancee in 2000\u201d by Trish Mahaffey, The Gazette