Robert Askins
Robert Elwood Askins (January 7, 1919 – April 30, 2010) was an American
murderer,
sex offender, and suspected
serial killer from
Washington, D.C. who was convicted of the fatal poisoning of Ruth McDonald in 1938 and was a prime suspect in two other murders committed decades apart. He was also a suspect in the
Freeway Phantom murders in the early 1970s, in which at least five girls and one woman were abducted and killed in the area.
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