MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Robin Pope
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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MD State Police
Please contact the MD State Police at 410-822-3101.
Metro County Crime Stoppers
Please contact the Metro County Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-866-756-2587.
Queen Anne’s County Sheriff’s Office
You can also anonymously contact the Queen Anne’s County Sheriff’s Office at 410-758-6666.
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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.
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