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Robyn Star Field: Her Story. The Crime. The Search for Justice
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 20 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
She stepped off the bus. She never came home.
On a Tuesday afternoon in April 1986, thirteen-year-old Robyn Star Field stepped off her school bus in Berea, Ohio, walked toward home, and vanished.
The boy who killed her lived less than a block away. He was fifteen years old, a classmate she had dated and then broken up with that spring. He had told his aunt what he planned to do. He had told his best friend on the school bus, in writing. No one stopped him.
Robyn was found the next morning at Mill Stream Run Reservation, nine miles from her front door, wrapped in a bed sheet. The trial that fall produced a conviction for aggravated murder and a sentence of twenty years to life. The judge called him a cold, calculating, violent murderer.
That should have been the end. It was the beginning.
For nearly forty years, Robyn's family showed up at every parole hearing the State of Ohio scheduled. Five times the man who killed her asked to be released. Five times the family appeared, gave their testimony, and watched the board deny him. They did it for the rest of their lives.
On December 30, 2025, in a prison medical bed in Columbus, Ohio, Warren Paxton Brown died. He had spent four decades inside. He never walked free.
This is the story of how Robyn lived. How she was taken. And how a family refused, year after year, to let her killer be forgotten by the system that held him.
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