TAMPA | Thirteen years ago, Valessa Robinson was a dark mystery — a teenage girl from the comfortable suburbs convicted in the stabbing death of her own mother, the body left stuffed in a garbage can ...

The father of slain Carrollwood real estate agent Vicki Robinson said Tuesday that his granddaughter's plea for forgiveness is "ridiculous." "There is no excuse for what she's done," Arthur Klug said ...

The St. Petersburg Times is providing expanded coverage of Valessa Robinson's first-degree murder trial, which begins in Tampa this morning. During the past year, three Times reporters have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A man whose 1998 murder of his girlfriend’s mother gained national headlines apologized in court Monday as his ...

TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A Florida woman who as a teenager was convicted of killing her mother was released from prison early Friday, officials said. Valessa Robinson, 30, was released from a ...

This piece originally appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on April 22, 2000. TAMPA—The night before the verdict, Valessa Robinson’s lawyers hit Burdines. Dee Ann Athan, Lyann Goudie and Lisa Campbell ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Valessa Robinson was 15 when she helped her friends kill her mother in a Tampa suburb in 1998 and 17 when she was convicted of third-degree murder. Now 30, Robinson is scheduled to ...

MIAMI, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A woman convicted for the 1998 murder of her mother is scheduled for an early release from a Florida prison, state corrections officials said. Valessa Robinson, 30, is scheduled ...

TAMPA, Fla. - A 17-year-old girl whose mother was choked, injected with bleach and stabbed to death was convicted Friday of a lesser charge of third-degree murder. The jury rejected a first-degree ...

TAMPA - Valessa Robinson was 15 when she helped her friends kill her mother in a Tampa suburb in 1998 and 17 when she was convicted of third-degree murder. Now 30, Robinson is scheduled to be released ...

Why did Vicki Robinson, a single mother and real estate agent with no enemies, disappear? That's the question police initially asked in July 1998. When her daughter vanished, too, and two of her ...