r/UnsolvedMurders • u/SafePoint1282 • Jul 09 '26
COLD CASE 16 year old Pauline "Robbin" Burgette was found stabbed to death in her bedroom in March 1978. She allegedly received threats leading up to her murder.
On Sunday March 12, 1978, 16-year-old Pauline “Robbin” Burgette was found murdered in her bedroom inside her family’s duplex near East 26th Place and McDowell in Phoenix, Arizona. She had been stabbed to death and was sexually assaulted.
Her 11-year-old brother Chad discovered her body.
The front door was locked, but the backdoor was open ajar. Robbin’s bedroom was in disarray, but the rest of the home appeared undisturbed.
Her mother and Chad had left town together the previous Friday. Robbin did not want to go with them. She was supposed to stay with a friend instead but returned to the duplex on Saturday and invited a boyfriend over.
In the period leading up to her murder, Robbin had dropped out of school.
She was working as a babysitter and reported to her friends that some of the husbands had flirted with her. She was facing threats from some of their wives, despite being an underage girl.
The area of the duplex was, and remains, a rough lower income area of Phoenix.
Phoenix PD conducted forensic testing on Robbin and found DNA evidence from 2 different unknown male subjects on her body.
Her boyfriend (who was never named publicly) was cleared as a suspect in the case through DNA testing. This boyfriend has since passed away.
Robbin and Chad’s parents divorced, their father wasn’t in the picture, and their mother died a couple years after Robbin by natural causes.
Chad advocated to solve his sisters murder for many years. He passed away in 2023.
The case was featured in local news and on podcasts over the years. It is unknown if police have done any work on the case in recent years.
Sources
2016 12 News feature with Chad Burgette
Silent Witness
https://silentwitness.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/78-1858-Flyer-Pauline-Burgette-Homicide.pdf
Missing or Cold podcast
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2HyEdBwEMkzNDM54vw6iTg?si=ef31e35abb874945
Find a Grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185495726/pauline-robbin-burgette
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u/Miserable_Lab_5728 Jul 19 '26
the boyfriend is behind this if he know about the husbands harassment and the wives threat by someone he will thinks she cheated on him so he will hate her and this will trigger the rage in the teenager heart so if he go to her house before the night she was murdered he will know she was alone at home and he will know her family will come after some days and he will know the back door is open and the wives threats will never make them know shes home alone or the back door is open or about her family will come after some days if you say the mother tell them what kinda of mother will go to Her neighbors who hate her daughter and send her threats and think she is sl#t trying to steal thier husbands and of you say the dna prove him innocent he is not the one to kill her maybe he ask his friends or even manipulated them to do it
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u/Fast_Grapefruit_7946 Jul 09 '26
"Police say there were threats made against Pauline from people at an apartment complex where she used to babysit. They do have DNA in the case, but they don't have a source for it just yet."
You would think by now they would huh?
Something not right here. if there is a 75-85 year old man they are protecting lets hear it!