Robinson admits five killings in Missouri

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. -- A man already convicted of killing three women in Kansas pleaded guilty Thursday to five more murders in Missouri, where some of the victims' bodies were found in barrels in a rented storage locker.

John E. Robinson Sr., of Olathe, Kan., avoided trial and a possible death sentence in Missouri by admitting that he killed two women and a girl whose bodies were found in the Raymore storage locker and two other women whose bodies have never been found. Under the agreement, Robinson will serve five life sentences in prison without possibility of parole.

Robinson, 59, has already been sentenced to death in Kansas for two of the three murders of which a Johnson County jury convicted him in October 2002.

In his pleas Thursday, Robinson admitted that he killed Beverly Bonner, 49, of Cameron, Mo.; Sheila Faith, 45, and her paraplegic daughter, Debbie, 16, both formerly of California; Paula Godfrey, 19, of Olathe; and Catherine Clampitt, 27, who had moved from Texas to Johnson County and was working for Robinson when she disappeared.