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Robin Lyons
Internationally Selling Mystery Author
My hard-hitting, true crime posts aim to inform you and provide me with story inspiration. Have a look and see what you think.
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The Most Extreme and Traumatic Way Possible
School employees are still committing crimes at their schools. Some of those crimes involve students, which is the worst school crime of all.

Robin Lyons
May 23


Operation We Will Find You
The following words were on a sign I saw on the inside of a restroom stall at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport…. If you are a...

Robin Lyons
Aug 30, 2024


Summer Camp Volunteer
Every place where children spend time—be it school, daycare, extra-curricular activities, sports, membership organizations—sexual...

Robin Lyons
May 17, 2024


Beware of the Manny
There are a few big city areas where the price of a nanny is high—Southern California is that type of place. But, as with anywhere, you...

Robin Lyons
Jan 20, 2024


The Impostor
If you’re on any social media platform, you know how easy it is to open an account—using whatever name and profile you want. It’s not...

Robin Lyons
Oct 20, 2023


Online Enticement
Like so many young people today, the 13-year-old girl in this true crime was into gaming and anime. Her parents homeschooled her. The day...

Robin Lyons
Aug 11, 2023


The Innocent Don’t Talk
You have an emergency and dial 911. You instantly trust the person on the other end. In this true crime, the person on the other end of...

Robin Lyons
Jan 7, 2023


A Bunch of Malarkey
This true crime case involves a school custodial supervisor and several male students—most were friends of the employee’s son. The...

Robin Lyons
Jul 29, 2022


Sneak-A-Peek
Have you ever sneaked a peek at what a person next to you is texting?

Robin Lyons
Apr 8, 2022


Good Job, Becky!
As I've said before, the Dark Web is real, not made up by Hollywood for movies. Sadly, nothing good happens on the Dark Web. If I'm...

Robin Lyons
Aug 13, 2021


Missing Child
The six-year-old's father did not know when he dropped off his son at school it would be the last time he saw him. He’s been missing for...

Robin Lyons
Jun 25, 2021


Catfished
Here’s a brief explanation before the true-crime case summary… Catfish: Yes, it’s a fish. It’s also when someone creates a false identity...

Robin Lyons
Jun 18, 2021


The Worse Is Yet to Come
His employer terminated his high school teaching position long before the authorities knew about the crime which sent him to federal...

Robin Lyons
Jun 4, 2021


To Drunk To Remember
He had barely settled into a full-time teaching career, with three years at the school district teaching history to high school students,...

Robin Lyons
May 21, 2021


A Pit Bull with a Badge
This week I honor another recipient of the *Crystal Kipper & Ali Kemp Memorial Award—Kansas City Police Detective Maggie McGuire. Det....

Robin Lyons
Apr 23, 2021


Rising Star
At the time Tammy Dickinson, U.S. Attorney for Western District of Missouri presented *The Crystal Kipper & Ali Kemp Memorial Award to...

Robin Lyons
Apr 16, 2021


Victim Advocate
At the time the Crystal Kipper & Ali Kemp Memorial Award was presented to him, James (JD) Kanatzar worked as a Special Agent with the...

Robin Lyons
Apr 9, 2021


Predators Are Everywhere
When you take your children to the mall, to church, to visit a friend in the hospital, your child being sexually abused n the restroom...

Robin Lyons
Feb 6, 2021


The Pageant Ruse
Parents of school-age children will want to read this. Another method used by a sexual predator to trick children into compliance. Huge...

Robin Lyons
Dec 5, 2020


School Custodian Busted
Prior to his arrest he worked as a junior high school custodian for a K-12 school district. Sadly, this is another case of a sexual...

Robin Lyons
Apr 21, 2015
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