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...stands almost 6 ft. tall and weighs 195 lbs., but John Robinson was nearly invisible. No one knew what he did for a living. He worked mostly at home, tapping away at a computer, speaking vaguely about some businesses he ran and occasionally disappearing in his pickup truck. The lot around the gray mobile home he kept on a hilltop in the east Kansas town of Olathe is well trimmed, with a weathered figurine of the Virgin Mary set on the lawn and a grill on the back porch. Most of his neighbors couldn't recall ever seeing...
...Robinson's camouflage of drab normality fell away last week, revealing what authorities say is a stealthy serial murderer with a taste for sadomasochistic Internet sites and a likely connection to the killings and disappearances of nine people in Kansas and Missouri going back to 1984. If true, this would make him the most prolific serial killer to strike this region in a decade, and authorities say they are not done searching for bodies...
Investigators tracing Robinson's steps have uncovered a gruesome harvest. Three large drums from a Missouri storage locker he rents were pried open. Each contained a body. Across the border, Kansas police combing farmland Robinson owns unearthed two more drums. These too contained bodies. One of those was that of Suzette Trouten, 28, a Michigan woman who met Robinson online and traveled to a Kansas motel where he promised her work. Another is thought to be Izabela Lewicka, 22, a Polish immigrant who struck up a friendship with Robinson and, possibly, Lisa Stasi, a Texas single mom whom he employed...
...European economy may be a bit sluggish, but just how productive, really, is the U.S. approach? "Half of all Americans report some kind of stress, and 63% say they'd rather have more time off than more money," says Robinson. "We have no identity outside of work, and there's this new glorification of the tech guy who works 18 hours a day. The issue is: How does a corporation reward the people responsible for this economic boom? It's all going to the CEOs through stock options and executive-vacation packages...
...Robinson knows we'll see chimps back in orbit before we see a federal mandate for vacation time. But he hopes a debate on the bottom-line realities of burnout will inspire a rash of enlightened self-interest among employers. So before you see how far you can get this summer on your short vacation leash, take a trip to Escapemag.com and sign a petition. Provence, Tuscany, the Greek isles--your employer owes you nothing less. Workers of the world, unite...