LITTLE ROCK, Ark.– The mother of the homicide victim identified 23 years after her murder spoke only to FOX16 Friday.
Pearl Dixon said she has some closure after she found out what happened to her 35-year-old daughter when she disappeared more than 2 decades ago in Little Rock.
The 84-year-old said, “I ask God help me. Hell body, I’ve been missing her a long time.”
Even though her daughter Cynthia Robinson’s case is unsolved Dixon said her prayers have been answered.
“It’s been kind of like it was kind of worry. Like I was wondering all the time. Wondering where was she. Where was she?”
She said her 35-year-old daughter would have been 58-year-old if she was still alive.
Dixon said she thought her daughter was still alive even though she went missing more than 2 decades ago.
She explained, “Because people had been telling me they saw her out on the streets and someone say she went out of town.”
The mother said she learned a few months ago those were rumors and her daughter was murdered.
Sgt. Mike Blain with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office described where they found a body on February 18, 1994, “In a small area a body of water on Settlement road in Northwest Pulaski County District.”
Pulaski Deputies announced Friday the FBI used new technology to identify the body as Dixon’s daughter Cynthia Robinson.
He said, “We knew it was a black female at the time and based on her autopsy that she had suffered several gunshot wounds.”
Dixon said she did not even know about that discovery back then.
“I would like to know who did this to her,” she told our reporter Price McKeon.
PCSO gave pictures of a unique sweater they found Robinson wearing when she was murdered.
Her mother said, “I just I didn’t really know. I just whether… I just thought she was just out there on the streets.”
Deputies said Robinson was a prostitute on Asher Road in the capital city during the time she died.
“I believe God forgiven her. I believe she had time you know. I believe she had the time the Lord to work things out for her because I’ve been praying for her a long time. She was raised up,” Dixon said.
PCSO Lt. Cody Burk said detectives are aware of prostitutes being murdered in the 1990s. He said at this time they have not connected Robinson’s murder to the murders of prostitutes within Little Rock because her body was dropped off nearly 20 miles outside the city limits unlike the cases connected previously. However, he added they have not ruled out the possibility her case could be connected.
He said PCSO has reached out to LRPD about those cases to see if there is any connection.
Deputies released a picture of a ring she was wearing at the time of her death as well as a picture of a unique sweater she was wearing.
Sgt. Blain said, “Our appeal to the public today is anyone who knew Cynthia Robinson in her life particularly in the end of ’93 beginning of ’94 we definitely want to speak with you.”
Dixon said she did not know the people her daughter associated with around the time of her murder.
“I didn’t know the people that she you know associated with. I didn’t know the people,” Robinson’s mother explained.
As our reporter left her home Friday, she said she hoped by talking about her story of not giving up hope to find answers about her missing daughter she will inspire other people missing loved ones to never give up hope.
Anyone with any information should contact the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office.
