This is 38-year-old Robert Jason Burdick.
Up until the 1st of May, 2008, Robert Burdick has had two separate lives.
The first of those lives wasn’t bad. An entrepreneur, Robert Burdick had recently started his own company, WB Technologies, which appears to specialize in home and business security systems. As you’d expect with someone whose profession involved securing people’s homes, Robert Burdick had no criminal record, other than speeding tickets.
Raised in a Christian household by two loving adoptive parents, Robert Burdick’s former girlfriend Gretchen Glaize has nothing but glowing reviews of her former paramour:
He was the best guy I ever dated in my life. He wined and dined me in expensive restaurants. His family is wonderful and accepting.
Odd. You’d think that Gretchen would have held onto that guy like crazy. She’s not getting any younger, you know. But no, Gretchen and Robert Jason Burdick broke up after almost a year of dating, which started in April of 2005 and lasted until early 2006.
After breaking up with Gretchen, Robert Burdick dated around the area, always leaving the women he dated with a good taste in their mouth. Robert Burdick even participated in a bachelor auction for the local Habitat for Humanity chapter.
So Robert Burdick was a nice guy, not at all like the man that authorities referred to as the “Wooded Rapist.”
For 14 years, starting in 1994, the “Wooded Rapist” has been working Nashville, attacking and raping women at night, usually during the rain and near…well….wooded areas. His modus operandi was usually to break into a house, hold a pistol or knife to the woman while raping her, then running off.
The last rape which can be attributed to the “Wooded Rapist” happened on the 1st of February, 2008, when a 16-year-old girl was assaulted on the driveway of her home at night by a masked man with a knife who emerged from a wooded area close by her family’s home.
Women in the area, who do not like being raped, lived in fear, fear which escalated after each reported rape. Serial rapists have that effect on a community.
Law enforcement officials enjoy catching serial rapists. The smiles on officers’ faces that accompany the thought of catching a serial rapist are right up there with the smiles that come with the apprehension of a child molester.
In 2006, a grand jury was presented with evidence against the “Wooded Rapist.” In the proceedings, the rapist was referred to as “John Doe” and the authorities had a considerable amount of evidence against him. DNA evidence taken from several of the victims formed a DNA profile that, according to the prosecutors, would match only one person in several billion. The jury thought the argument was convincing enough and returned an extensive indictment against Mr. John Doe. Five counts of aggravated rape, one count of attempted aggravated rape, one count of attempted rape, one count of aggravated assault and six counts of aggravated burglary were laid on the door of the “Wooded Rapist.”
The only thing left to do was find the guy and put a name to the indictment.
On the 28th of April, 2008, at about 30 minutes past midnight, police officer Elliot Hamm responded to a call in Brentwood. A resident had seen a man wandering around the area while dressed in black, wearing a mask and carrying a flashlight.
Driving around the area, Officer Hamm noticed Robert Jason Burdick in a Jeep, parked on the side of the road. As Robert Burdick started the Jeep up, Officer Hamm came over for a little chat.
Robert Burdick remained calm, cool and collected - as people should when talking to the police. When asked why he was in the area, Robert Burdick told Officer Hamm that he had just left a party, and that he’d had to park on the street due to a lack of parking space closer to the house. When the officer asked to search the Jeep, Burdick refused to allow him to do so, which was perfectly within his rights.
After collecting Robert Burdick’s information, Officer Hamm had no choice but to let him go. Of course, Officer Hamm checked into whether or not there had been a party…and there hadn’t been.
With that interesting tidbit of information in hand, Officer Hamm forwarded Burdick’s info to his police department’s Criminal Investigations Division. Investigators started 24-hour surveilance on Mr. Robert Jason Burdick, who was suddenly very interesting to everyone who had been working the “Wooded Rapist” cases.
Robert Burdick was followed to a Tee Gee’s restaurant, where he ordered the house special, ate and left. Detectives, who had been following Robert Burdick for several days, approached the manager of the restaurant, identified themselves and asked for the spoon, fork, soup bowl and glass that Robert Burdick had used during his meal.
The restaurant manager was happy to help, and police took in the items to be examined for DNA evidence.
As you’ve probably guessed by now, the DNA profile that the grand jury agreed was responsible for several of the “Wooded Rapist” rapes matched the DNA collected after Robert Jason Burdick’s delicious and filling Tee Gee’s meal.
The police have their man, and the “John Doe” designation on that indictment will now be replaced with the name of Robert Jason Burdick. Other than Robert Burdick, his family and the women he recently dated - everyone’s pretty much happy about this development.
As of the time of this writing, Robert Jason Burdick hasn’t said anything to investigators. He is being held without bond, and faces a long, long time in prison.
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Sweet.
Just too bad there had to be so many victims…
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Moral of the story
If you are someone doing something of interest, eat fast foods only and clean up after yourself. Dispose of your straws and sporks such that no one can definitely trace such back.
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Spend the money on a real good “gentlemen’s club” (read as pervert’s place) where a certain amount of sexuality is part of the job description - no rape.
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Date sluts - get some definite return on the investment!
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Spend the money on a hooker - still a crime, but at least there is some compensation. It’s also kind of hard to “rape” a hooker - look at the job description
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Take matters in your own hands. Internet porn is plentiful and if you’re not too picky free!
Bottom line
Most women (99.999%) don’t like being raped, but there are plenty of alternatives for getting off, and even more if one is willing to exchange a piece of wallet for a piece of ass!
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rx queen reply on May 5, 2008:
lol at fred. it’s warped as all hell, but the alternatives you listed are actually more logical and sensible than just going out on a raping spree. but you have to remember that rapists like unsuspecting victims (because it’s about “power”), not just any old street whore willing to go down for a 20 spot…
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Fred reply on May 6, 2008:
Even if it’s about power, one can boss a lap dancer around a bit. One can do much more with a crack whore…….
Maybe I am just not sick enough to understand RJB, but then again why shoud I reach out to him?
Simply lock him up and let the GP know that he’s also a child fucker (16 is still a child). Problem solved
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hmm…I wish there was a “if he did it then yes” choice…I must say, it’s very very good evidence that he did in fact do what he is accused of, and yet there is always that miniscule error of doubt in forensics that may allow the innocent to be found guilty. All they have on this guy is afterall DNA evidence, strong yes, but not 100%. I hope if he is the Wooded Rapist; that he burns for a very long, long time.
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“Women in the area, who do not like being raped”
I think this must be the understatement of the year.
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TurtleMania reply on May 5, 2008:
Yes.
Assuming that there’re women that do enjoy it - ha.
I am sure they were eagerly waiting for Mr. Burdick’s love-joy.
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Meaghan reply on May 9, 2008:
You can’t rape the willing.
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There is always some wiggle room.
Someone can lie.
Someone can take a bit of Sample B and call it sample A and poof there is a match.
I am sure that now the police have a suspect, other consistencies will further indite Mr Woody here.
So while there is always a doubt, where do we draw the line and put our faith in the system is the question when determining guilt?
Then what will his debt be to society?
He’ll never repay any “debt” to his victims, but I hope that if he is single and has some property, that his assets be sold off as to help cover the costs to his victims.
I am sure that the GP will be giving RJB some “victim awareness” therapy as well. While he’s no virgin in front, I am sure that his rear end virginity will be taken from him!
So RJB - get ready to have your shit packed for you!
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Where’s my motivation?
This guy is boring!
Why couldn’t he commit the crimes wearing a garter, wig, and heels?
Kudos to the person that alerted the authorities.
I wish we had more citizens aware!
You know, as a scan Bob’s photo I find nothing motivating.
Only one thing comes to mind and I’ll share that with you.
I’d like to scoop his eyeballs out with my thumb.
I want to delight in the trickle of blood running down his face.
The blood of tears for all the victims that endured the pain and suffering.
I’ll catch the blood with my tongue and some I’d let stain his grey shirt.
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Trace reply on May 7, 2008:
TM, after that post, I have fears that someday we will read about you on this site…
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three cheers for the exellent police work!
too bad he already made so many victims, but at least he will do so no more.
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Fred,
Your philosophy is terribly misguided. it is not hust about “getting off” or, as mentioned, there are a ton of easier ways. It is the power, control, fear, etc. and these are not truly obtained when paying for it!
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Fred reply on May 6, 2008:
Like I said before - I am not sick enough to understand this POS.
What I was getting at is if Mr. Nice Date was not happy with the results he was getting on his dates, he should have done something different.
Basically from reading the story, it seemed that he was the classic “nice guy” who needed toi get off somehow as opposed to someone who needed some type of control or had other issues, like Norman Bates of Psycho with his mother.
While I can not crawl in his head and know him exactly, he sounded like the guy who just really needed to get laid no matter what.
IMO he’s not so much a control freak as maybe someone who’d rape someone fantisizing about what he should have gotten from his last date. So yes a bit on control - enough control as to coerse his date into having sex.
So I still believe in what I first said IN THIS CASE ONLY. This guy needed to get off and if he could not control or even manage his dates, then he was going to control someone else as to get what he wanted - sex.
To me he comes accross as a nice person if you know him or he knows you, but to him a stranger is a “something” that he can use. So he does need to be dealt with harshly because to him, we are “somethings” unless he chooses to elevate us to “someones”
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Oh, from what I read about this guy, it seems like he averaged one rape per year over a 14 yr span.
Doesn’t seem like someone with a huge appetite.
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kitty "roberts" reply on May 7, 2008:
should i call the jensen beach police to report my “father” robert c roberts to report that he raped me repeatedly? i am sure there were others as well.
perhaps call a detective?
kitty
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i think i should call the local police to haul him away tonight with sirens. i think he should be locked up and wear an orange jump suit.
additionally, i would like to marry my new boyfriend-some time. i would like to dump “roberts” in the trash and take his name. can we get married on line (joke). i know he has moved in next to me and i left a love note in his mail box tonight. i truly believe he is the only man i offically dated that treated me like a treat lady. he is the cutest old dude i have ever layed eyes on. i am going to create the most wonderful sculpture and leave it in the mail box. we are the perfect healing pair.
i think his name is love.
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true love is simple. rape is bunco. my “dad” doesn’t even deserve how well they treat you in prison.
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Fred reply on May 7, 2008:
Sorry to read about what your “dad” did to you. No excuse.
While prisons are not exactly Hilton Hotels, they are more like the sanitariums of the begining of the 1900’s, where the focus is on rehabilitation and dignity rather than punishment.
Cwetain crimes done by certain criminals a rehab approach is in the long run a better deal for all, but for other crimes, real punishment is needed.
Also - this guy’s picture is getting gray hair - I am sure that this country can give us a few new POS to send to hell!
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Fred- I may be off the mark, but I’m pretty sure that Mr. Rapist was probably having sex with his various girlfriends over the years, especially when they were together for at least a year. And I’m going to bet that Mr. Rapist had victims during that those relationships.
Rape is not about ‘getting some sex that your girlfriend isn’t putting out’ kind of a deal. I’d guess if you asked his girlfriends, he probably rocked it in the sack– the women that he raped…eh, not so much. They’d probably have complaints about his techniques.
FYI- it’s just as easy to rape a prostitute as a non-prostitute. All you have to do is have sex with them when they weren’t wanting to. With that thought process, you could throw 20 bucks at anyone you forced to have sex with you, and call it a mutually fullfilling transaction. It’s a simplistic viewpoint of rape.
“it seemed that he was the classic “nice guy” who needed toi get off somehow as opposed to someone who needed some type of control or had other issues” I beg to differ. Obviously he DID have control issues and other problems. Most of the classic ‘nice guys’ that I know who don’t have girlfriends, and don’t pay for hookers seem to do just fine with masturbation. They don’t seem to feel the need to rape anyone, much less rape hookers to get their $20 worth.
“he sounded like the guy who just really needed to get laid no matter what”. That’s a little misleading, since that covers almost every guy in the world between the age of 14 to 99. And quite a few women, also. It’s not an excuse for rape.
“This guy needed to get off and if he could not control or even manage his dates, then he was going to control someone else as to get what he wanted - sex.”
Rape is not about sex. And I will bet Mr. Rapist was getting plenty of sex from his dates/girlfriends. Just because a woman says her boyfriend seemed like a really great guy doesn’t mean he wasn’t getting any sex from her. I’ve been married to one nice guy, one not-nice guy, and I’ve had a few ‘nice’ boyfriends—- who I was having sex with. Being ‘nice’ doesn’t mean you don’t have access to consentual sex.
I appreciate your attempts to analyze this POS, but considering that he is, according to DNA, a rapist, he needs to be analyzed using basic info regarding rape. And rape is not just about not getting your rocks off with your girlfriend, and being ‘forced’ to then rape other women. It is about control and violence, and even S/M wouldn’t relieve that because that’s consentual.
If rape was all about getting some sex, there would be more DNA material available in rape cases. Surprisingly, there’s a large number of rapes that result in the POS NOT ‘getting off’. Because it wasn’t about getting off, it was about being violent towards another person in the most extreme way possible, short of killing them.
I understand where you’re coming from, but it seems you don’t really have an understanding about what rape is about, or who can possibly be a rape victim.
c
About the power thing-
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I am with you on this one glory. in this case, it is definetly about control. Also, I think that rape was part of what got him off. Lots of sick people out there!
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I feel sorry for this man’s family and his former girlfriends. Imagine hearing the man you had adored and dated for a long time turned out to be a serial rapist! I feel sorriest of all for his victims, of course, and hope they can sleep a little easier now that a suspect in prison.
The suspect I wouldn’t mind castrating myself.
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This is the type of thing that is just waiting to elevate into something way more extensive….like murder…like little girls…who knows what else he may be tied into. When you think serial you think more than one a year….so who knows.
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Also, I don’t understand the whole sex thing. Maybe the control and fear and domination, I could kind of fathom, but as far as the sex with a total stranger, I mean how many guys get a way with getting a girl to suck his dick in a forceful way…come on, just fucking bite it. I don’t even really get the whole one-night stands thing from a bar. I mean Yeah yeah yeah I’ll make out with a total stranger if the opportunity arises, but I’m hesitant to have sex with someone I don’t know. Yeah I’m 21, but the last girl I dated, I waited like 4 weeks to fully hook up with her and thats a lot these days. I don’t understand how rapists freely go and rape people without even hesitating to think about catching anything.
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TurtleMania reply on May 13, 2008:
It’s because they have something to give…
no need to play catch and wear a catcher’s mitt KWIM
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umm…they could catch a whole lot…
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TurtleMania reply on May 13, 2008:
Oh, allow me to explain.
For example, I’ll be Robert.
I have every VD imaginable under the sun.
Why would I worry about catching anything?
- For I am the giver and my victim is the taker.
You got it now?
Most times the victim won’t admit/publicize that they caught something.
I believe the act of rape is horrible enough to bear.
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well I know what you’re saying. I was just stating that if it’s going to be a followed through thought process, which obviously this one was because he didn’t get caught for years, that he may have done some research on his victims.
If I was a guy I’m going to be careful where I stick my goods, even so I am being a girl. I gotta do a finger test.
Most people won’t admit if they have something, nonetheless even more so why you need to be careful becuase it could spill into a whole new realm of consequence.
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There is a knot in my stomach I think I’ll be sick
I once knew the monster called Jason Burdick
The paper read she was a sleep in bed
Home is a place were nothing can hurt
In the darkness a stranger did lurk
Dazed and confussed to see such a sight
Not giving in without a fight
Not his first ball game no ordinary punk
Not going to die without taking a chunk
He gathered his tools guns, plastic ties and duct tape he continued to rape
Fooling everyone with a false cape
Happen many times over 14years
Holding us hostage with our fears
Horrible but true my dears
16 to 61 he continued to assault
Noone could stop him its not your fault
His DNA the police did find
On a dish he left behind
Believe they violated his 4th amendment right
What if he showed up at your house tonight?
6 charges and others pending
He deserves to be punished on this I’m not bending
He hurt them on the bed and the floor
Tonight he is in jail and will do this no more
For this I say gayley
Thank you to a little dog named Bailey
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can a true sociopath or pyschopath ever be fully rehabilitated? if not why should we waste our resources keeping him or her alive? after he or she has done so much damage to individual and collective human spirit……
i really did not used to believe in evil, i hope that it turns out that i don’t. but too much damage has been done by these people. we have a responsibility to stop the violence and protect people.
i honestly need time to mentally resolve this issue and i don’t seek vengeance, but justice.
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maybe i should seek peace and joy instead. yep-that’s it.
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