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1995 Murphy, Robin 4-9-1995; Carmel
Topic Started: Aug 4 2006, 08:11 PM (780 Views)
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at Disappearance: 17 yrs
Date of Birth: 1/11/1978
Date of Last Contact: 4/9/1995
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'09"
Weight: 140 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Missing From: Carmel, NY
Notes: Child left residence to meet a friend at a local restaurant. She was last seen on foot at a shopping plaza in Carmel, NY.
Investigating Police Agency: Carmel Town Police Department

http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/missing/info/5379.htm
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Robin Frances Murphy


Above Images: Murphy, circa 1995


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: April 9, 1995 from Carmel, New York
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: January 11, 1978
Age: 17 years old
Height and Weight: 5'9, 140 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair, blue eyes. Murphy's hair was dyed black at the time of her 1995 disappearance.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A black and white plaid shirt, black jeans and black boots.


Details of Disappearance

Murphy was scheduled to meet her boyfriend, Matt Esposito, for dinner in their hometown of Carmel, New York on April 9, 1995. She was last seen at approximately 7:30 p.m., walking in the Shop-Rite Plaza Shopping Center (alternatively called the Carmel Center or the Nichols Plaza Shopping Center) on Route 52. Murphy never arrived at the restaurant and has never been heard from again. The shopping center is less than one mile from her residence.
Murphy's vehicle was located near the Burger King restaurant in the mall's parking lot shortly afterwards. Her keys, wallet, purse and checkbook were discovered in a marshy, grassy area behind the center several days later. Esposito was questioned regarding Murphy's case and cleared as a possible suspect early in the investigation.

A psychic told authorities that he believed Murphy's remains were in the Tilly Foster Mine quarry near Carmel. Investigators searched the area with dive teams in September 1999 but failed to locate any evidence related to her case. The psychic claimed that Murphy's body was near the numbers "5," "7" and "9." The houses surrounding the quarry are numbered in the specified order.

Authorities announced that Howard J. Gombert Jr. was a suspect in Murphy's disappearance after his arrest on sexual assault and child endangerment charges in March 2000. He was taken into custody after raping his live-in girlfriend and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Investigators stated that the endangerment counts were related to the woman's case. Gombert previously resided in Carmel and was employed at a laundromat in the shopping center where Murphy disappeared. There were reports that Gombert may have known Murphy in 1995. Anthony DiPippo, who was convicted together with Andrew Krivak of the 1994 murder of an eleven-year-old girl, claims Gombert is responsible for that child's murder and Murphy's. Gombert worked at a laundry at the Shop-Rite Plaza Shopping Center in 1995 was the last person to see Murphy alive. He has never been charged in connection with her disappearance.

Authorities stated that unspecified evidence connected to Murphy's case was discovered outside of Carmel in March 2001. A submersible device searched for additional materials in the Tilly Foster Mine quarry in December 2002. Officials said that the 2001 discoveries led them to the area, but they declined to elaborate.

Murphy liked to wear black clothing in 1995; she also enjoyed writing and listening to rock music. She dropped out of high school prior to her disappearance to take a job at a ShopRite supermarket. Murphy's disappearance remains unsolved. Foul play is suspected in her case.



Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Carmel Police Department
845-628-1300



Source Information
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education Of America
New York State Missing and Exploited Children Clearinghouse
The News-Times
The Journal News
Sex Offender Registry and Sex Crime Search, Info and Discussion



Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004.

Last updated June 8, 2005.

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Martin Crumblish Jr. vanished in Dobbs Ferry more than 30 years ago.
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Lee Higgins


Three local teenage girls reported missing believed to be runaways
Etan Patz. Elizabeth Smart. Lauren Spierer. Their disappearances prompted national media frenzies.

Patz was 6 when he vanished while walking to a bus stop in lower Manhattan in 1979. Smart was 14 when she was kidnapped from her Utah home in 2002, reunited with her family nine months later. And Lauren Spierer, the Indiana University junior from Greenburgh, was 20 when she disappeared in June 2011 in Bloomington, Ind., after a night of partying. All have been the subjects of countless news stories.
But for other missing young people, including some in the Lower Hudson Valley, the spotlight has faded.
In Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, there are 12 people who went missing under the age of 21, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
Some parents have endured decades without answers, eager to learn whether their loved ones are alive or dead.
Others cling to hope because only months have passed.
Regardless, optimism ebbs by the day.
Karen Kelly, 71, of Lake Placid has waited more than 30 years for news about her son, Martin Crumblish Jr., who vanished in Dobbs Ferry. She moved from the village in 1992 because she was unable to bear the constant reminders of his disappearance.
“Every time I’d see a mound of dirt, I’d wonder whether he was under it,” Kelly recently told The Journal News. “If he was killed, was it fast? Did he suffer? So many things with a missing child. Wherever your mind can go, it goes.”
Crumblish is one of 121 children reported as missing in New York state and more than 2,500 in the country.
To solve many of the cases, police need a witness to come forward, a parent to surrender or a match in a DNA database.
Media bias, some experts suggest, accounts for why some missing children’s cases draw more attention than others.
Seong-Jae Min, an assistant professor of communication studies at Pace University, told The Journal News that his research demonstrates that media outlets cover missing-persons cases with a tacit awareness of bias.
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Factors that contribute to disproportionate coverage of certain missing children include race, gender, attractiveness and social status, he said.
“There is a long line of media research that documented the media’s over-representation of white victims,” Min said. “Missing-children cases are no exception. White missing children … tend to receive a lot more coverage, although half of all missing children in the real world are minorities.”
The bias may be because the majority of American journalists are white, Min said, and news organizations, deliberately or not, tend to prefer news stories that concern the majority audience group, which is white.
A child’s appearance can play a significant role in coverage, he said.
“It is a bit disturbing to say that better-looking missing children receive more media coverage, which basically means that attractiveness may determine one’s life or death as attractive children receive more coverage and hence increase the likelihood of being found,” said Min, who has compared FBI statistics to television news coverage and found a high representation of missing children who are white.
“While there are no conclusive, empirical results, the media may like stories of young, cute missing girls,” Min said.
“This also has to do with the make-up of the journalists and news audience. … From (the majority) perspective, cute, young girls are more ‘vulnerable’ and hence they need to be protected more.”
Still, news coverage or lack thereof doesn’t relieve anguish for families of the missing.
Vivian Jones of Yonkers hasn’t heard from her daughter, Stevie Bates, since April.
“I don’t know where my daughter is, and I don’t know when I’m going to know where she is and what happened to her,” Jones said.
“It’s difficult to get out of bed, but we have to keep looking for her.”
Tom Mauriello, 51, of Rye Brook knows his son is in another country, but he can’t do anything to get him back.
“It’s just awful,” he said. “I’ve shed so many tears over this. I’ve cried over this over and over and over again.”

Factors that contribute to disproportionate coverage of certain missing children include race, gender, attractiveness and social status, he said.

“There is a long line of media research that documented the media’s over-representation of white victims,” Min said. “Missing-children cases are no exception. White missing children … tend to receive a lot more coverage, although half of all missing children in the real world are minorities.”
The bias may be because the majority of American journalists are white, Min said, and news organizations, deliberately or not, tend to prefer news stories that concern the majority audience group, which is white.
A child’s appearance can play a significant role in coverage, he said.
“It is a bit disturbing to say that better-looking missing children receive more media coverage, which basically means that attractiveness may determine one’s life or death as attractive children receive more coverage and hence increase the likelihood of being found,” said Min, who has compared FBI statistics to television news coverage and found a high representation of missing children who are white.
“While there are no conclusive, empirical results, the media may like stories of young, cute missing girls,” Min said.
“This also has to do with the make-up of the journalists and news audience. … From (the majority) perspective, cute, young girls are more ‘vulnerable’ and hence they need to be protected more.”
Still, news coverage or lack thereof doesn’t relieve anguish for families of the missing.
Vivian Jones of Yonkers hasn’t heard from her daughter, Stevie Bates, since April.
“I don’t know where my daughter is, and I don’t know when I’m going to know where she is and what happened to her,” Jones said.
“It’s difficult to get out of bed, but we have to keep looking for her.”
Tom Mauriello, 51, of Rye Brook knows his son is in another country, but he can’t do anything to get him back.
“It’s just awful,” he said. “I’ve shed so many tears over this. I’ve cried over this over and over and over again.”
http://www.lohud.com/article/20120819/NEWS...?nclick_check=1



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Robin Murphy, a tall, dark-haired teenager, was last seen more than 17 years ago at the ShopRite plaza on Route 52 in Carmel, about a quarter-mile from her home. She had driven there to meet her boyfriend, Matt Esposito, who worked at Burger King in the plaza. He never saw the 17-year-old.

Investigators found Murphy’s car parked near the restaurant and her purse, wallet and keys in a grassy area behind the shopping center. A man who told police he saw Murphy that night, Howard Gombert, remains a “person of interest,” in the case, Carmel police Lt. Brian Karst said.
Gombert, 49, who is serving 30 years in a Connecticut prison for sexual assault, had two prior rape charges against him dismissed in Putnam County. Investigators have twice searched the Tilly Foster Mine for evidence in the April 9, 1995, disappearance.
http://www.lohud.com/article/20120819/NEWS02/308190057
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