Episode Summary
When a young woman and her dog go mysteriously missing, only to be found dead in the Chesapeake Bay, police must untangle a series of events to determine if this was an accident or something far worse… murder.
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Episode Info
If you have any information about the death of Robin Pope in March of 2013, please contact the MD State Police at 410-822-3101, or the Metro County Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-866-756-2587. You can also anonymously contact the Queen Anne’s County Sheriff’s Office at 410-758-6666.
Head to the Crime Junkie YouTube channel to check out The Deck’s episode on Dana Chisholm!
Robin Pope and her dogs (Bella on the right).
Robin Pope was a breast cancer survivor.
Robin Pope (left) and her husband, Wayne (right), with whom she had recently separated.
Robin and Bella.
Robin Pope (right), presumably with her two daughters.
Episode Source Material
- Breaking Homicide: Death by the Bay (series) via Discovery+.
- The Star Democrat (Easton, MD): Police continue search for missing Kent Island woman by Angela Price.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): Police search Chesapeake Bay for missing woman after her dog is found dead by Katherine Shaver.
- Eye on Annapolis (Annapolis, MD): Multiple Jurisdictions Searching For Missing Woman.
- CBS Baltimore/WJZ News (Baltimore, MD): Police, Volunteers Continue Search For Missing Stevensville Woman.
- WMAR 2 News (Baltimore, MD): Robin Pope’s daughters talk about new evidence, reward in missing woman’s case by Joce Sterman.
- CBS Baltimore/WJZ News (Baltimore, MD): Body Found Off Kent Island, Same Place Robin Pope Went Missing.
- CBS Baltimore (Baltimore, MD): Looking For Closure: Family Members Still Puzzled By Mystery Surrounding Death Of Robin Pope.
- Capital Gazette (Annapolis, MD): One year after Kent Island woman disappeared, police say husband ‘person of interest’ by Ben Weathers.
- WMAR 2 News (Baltimore, MD): Police: Without conclusive autopsy results, may never learn if Robin Pope’s death was a crime.
- The Kent Island Bay Times and Record Observer (Chester, MD): Still no answers in mysterious death of Robin Pope by Hannah Combs.
- Crime Watch Daily: An affair + estranged husband + a house on the water = A mystery via YouTube.
- The Kent Island Bay Times and Record Observer (Chester, MD): Information still sought in nine-year-old cold case by Hannah Combs.
- WMDT (Salisbury, MD): Queen Anne Co. Sheriff’s office seeking help from community to crack 11-year-old case by Javari Burnett.
- Remembering Robin (unk): Timeline of Events – March 1st – April 2, 2013.
- Crime Weekly: Death By The Bay: What Happened to Robin Pope (Part 1) (podcast) via YouTube.
- Crime Weekly: Death By The Bay: What Happened to Robin Pope (Part 2) (podcast) via YouTube.
