Olathe ? Fingerprints from John E. Robinson Sr. were found on property belonging to an alleged victim, including newspaper wrapping dated one month after authorities believe the woman died, a police analyst testified Wednesday.

Johnson County Sheriff’s Deputy Lyla Thompson said fingerprints matching those taken from Robinson when he was arrested on June 2, 2000, were found on glassware, an oil lamp and an April 1, 2000, edition of The Kansas City Star.

The items were previously identified as belonging to Suzette Trouten, who authorities allege was murdered by Robinson on or before March 1, 2000.

Thompson’s testimony was among the strongest links to date in the multiple-murder trial. Prosecutors were expected to conclude their case today.

Sex and money

Robinson, 58, of Olathe is charged in Kansas with capital murder in the deaths of Suzette Trouten, 27, who moved to Kansas from Michigan in early 2000, and Izabela Lewicka, 21, a Polish immigrant and former Purdue University student. Robinson also is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Lisa Stasi, 19, who disappeared in 1985 and has never been found.

The bodies of Trouten and Lewicka were found inside 85-gallon yellow barrels on property Robinson owned in Linn County.

Robinson is awaiting arraignment on capital murder charges in Cass County, Mo., in the deaths of Beverly Bonner, 49, of Cameron, Mo., and Sheila Faith, 45, and her daughter Debbie, 16, both formerly of California. Those bodies were found on June 5, 2000, three days after Robinson’s arrest in Kansas.

Johnson County Dist. Atty. Paul Morrison is seeking the death penalty, alleging that the killings were part of Robinson’s common scheme that involved financial gain, sadomasochistic sex or both.

Officials from the Social Security Administration and banks in the Kansas City area identified more than 100 benefit checks sent to the Faiths, which were deposited in Robinson’s numerous accounts. The checks totaled more than $29,000.

Criminal past

Jurors also heard from Dr. William Bonner of Nevada, Mo., the ex-husband of Beverly Bonner.

Bonner testified that he and his former wife met Robinson at the Western Missouri Correctional Facility in Cameron, where Bonner was the physician, she was the librarian and Robinson was serving time for a probation violation.

It was the first jurors had heard about Robinson’s criminal history, which dates to the late 1960s.

Prosecutors allege that Robinson used $14,000 that Beverly Bonner received in a divorce settlement for his own personal and business gains. Missouri prosecutors have charged Robinson with two counts of felony fraud and 54 counts of forgery. He does not face similar charges in Kansas.

More fingerprints

Earlier Wednesday, Steven Warlen of a Kansas City, Mo., crime lab, testified that he found fingerprints on pieces of plastic that were discovered along with three barrels in a Raymore, Mo., storage locker rented by Robinson. Those barrels contained three bodies, and Warlen passed the fingerprints on for further analysis.

Thompson was expected to identify the Raymore fingerprints as also belonging to Robinson.

Sandra Shields, a woman from the Kansas City area, testified Wednesday that she had a master-slave relationship with Robinson for five months in 1995 after responding to his advertisement in a local newspaper. Shields said she took a job doing research for Robinson’s publishing company and the two talked of traveling to Switzerland, but never left the United States.

Shields said Robinson gave her several items that he claimed were from his deceased sister, including a framed embroidered angel that had previously been identified as created and owned by Sheila Faith.