The daughter of one of three women found dead within a three-month span in Dallas said Thursday she was relieved the suspected suspect in her murders had been caught and that her mother’s decision to engage in sex work should not diminish her “value.”
“I just want people to know that no matter what lifestyle they choose, they are still loved,” Janetria Oliver said. of his mother, Kimberly Robinson, in an interview. “I want people to know how much fun it was and how much I’m going to miss her, how much we miss her.”
Robinson, 60, was one of three women found between April and last weekend near downtown Dallas. The Dallas Police Department said this week that at least two of the women had possible ties to sex work.
Robinson’s nude body was discovered April 22 in an area near the Trinity River, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.
She had been fatally stabbed, a police spokeswoman said.
On June 24, a fisherman found the partially nude body of another woman, 25-year-old Cherish Gibson, approximately 200 yards from where Robinson had been found, according to the affidavit.
Gibson had also been stabbed, police said in a news release. His cell phone was later found in a field about 1.5 miles from his body, according to the affidavit.
The man arrested in all three murders, Oscar Sanchez Garcia, 25, has been charged with two counts of murder and faces a third, Dallas County jail records show. He is being held on $4 million bail.
Their home address listed on the warrant is approximately half a mile from where the bodies of Gibson and Robinson were found. Authorities used tire marks, phone records, license plate cameras and other evidence to link Sánchez García to the murders, according to the affidavit.
Authorities have not provided a possible motive.
Oliver, who is in the Air Force and stationed in South Carolina, described Robinson as a “free spirit” who was born and raised in Dallas and loved the Cowboys. One of six children, she had three children, 12 grandchildren and was still a child at heart herself, Oliver said.
Robinson cleaned houses for a living and had a “different lifestyle,” Oliver said, referring to sex work. Although Robinson never explicitly told her daughter about the job, Oliver said, his family knew she had done it in the past.
Oliver said he wasn’t aware of what his mother was up to in April. Although Robinson lived with Oliver and her husband for a while, Oliver said she moved to South Carolina from Texas late last year and last spoke to Robinson a few months before her death.
“He seemed like he was doing fine and he reiterated how much he loves me and my brothers,” Oliver said in a text message.
For months Oliver believed his mother might have died after a fight with friends. When Sanchez Garcia was arrested Wednesday, Oliver said someone from the police department called and gave him the news. Oliver said they didn’t tell her much, but what he learned floored her.
“I never in a million years thought it would have been this person,” she said, adding: “I’m not sure how they were linked, but she didn’t deserve to be taken away from us like that.”
