Born
30 Apr 1966, Indiana

Death
17 Oct 1987, Hanover Township, Shelby County, Indiana

Tragically, James Robbins was one of the victims of an unidentified American serial killer who killed at least eleven young boys and adult men in Indiana and Ohio between June 1980 and October 1991, dumping their bodies near Interstate 70. He was known as the “I-70 Strangler” who killed at least another 24 young men and boys. Though officially unsolved, Herb Baumeister was named the prime suspect in the case in April 1999 by law enforcement. According to investigators, bodies related to the “I-70 Strangler” case stopped being found in 1991 after Baumeister bought the Fox Hollow Farm, which he would use as a burial site for his subsequent victims.

On October 15, 1987, 21-year-old James Robbins went missing at around 10 p.m., shortly after leaving his mother’s home in Indianapolis and walking to the southern part of the city. Two days later on October 17, his naked corpse bearing strangulation marks was found in a ditch in rural Shelby County, near Interstate 70 south of Glennville. While investigating his murder, police located two witnesses who gave conflicting information; one claimed that they had seen a red Jeep Wrangler Renegade near the crime scene, while another said that the car was a Chevrolet Blazer.