Investigators entered the weekend with clues, but still no answers, about the death of a 35-year-old Henderson, Ky. woman whose body was left in a popular fishing area in Warrick County.
The body of Kristina Robison was found Nov. 2 in the Bluegrass Fish and Wildlife area near New Harmony Road and Klippel Road. That’s a few miles north of the Kentucky state line.
Investigators aren’t calling it murder. The Warrick County Coroner’s Office, which performed an autopsy on Robison on Nov. 3, says the cause of her death won’t be known for four to six weeks. Why? That’s how long it will take to get back the results of toxicology tests performed on her body.
But investigators aren’t calling it a drug overdose, either.
“That we are not aware,” Sgt. Bill Russell of the Henderson Police Department (HPD) said when asked about that possibility on Friday. “We’re just covering all angles to find out the cause of death.”
Robison’s death was first investigated by Indiana State Police (ISP) — until somehow detectives determined the young woman died in Henderson before her body was placed in the fish and wildlife area. HPD took over the investigation from there.
Investigators may not be letting on all they know, but they have offered a basic outline of the events surrounding Robison’s death.
ISP identified a man they call a “person of interest” in the case — a man who “became startled” before he took Robison to Bluegrass Fish and Wildlife area and left her there, according to a statement issued this week by HPD.
The as-yet-unidentified man was found and arrested on unrelated drug charges and outstanding warrants. He was being held at the Knox County (Indiana) detention center as of earlier this week.
Roommates of Robison told WFIE-TV this week they last saw her when she left to run errands with a man she had met on an online dating site.
Russell, HPD’s spokesman, told the Courier & Press this week that the man investigators believe was with Robison “had (outstanding) warrants, so he didn’t want to stop to do anything.”
“We’re just assuming that he got startled and left the area because there’s warrants, and then he dropped her off somewhere to where he wouldn’t get caught,” Russell said.
As ISP had done, Russell was careful to say there has been no official finding that Robison’s death was murder.
Much depends, apparently, on the results of those toxicology tests.
Warrick County Coroner Alissa Enright told the Courier & Press she wasn’t able to offer Henderson police any preliminary opinion or hunch about Robison’s death after the autopsy.
“Not until I get the full — I’ve got to see it all in full to be able to give them some sort of opinion,” Enright said. “And I’m just not able to do that yet.
“I didn’t even give them a direction to go in until we get all of it back, yeah. Unfortunately.”
Still, there is a person of interest, a man investigators believe was with Robison before her death. HPD spokesman Russell told the Courier & Press Friday there may be some news on the case next week.
“That’s our big thing, is just trying to figure out the cause of death — get a time frame, different places they’d been, stuff like that,” Russell said.
“We’re just trying to narrow down everything that happened prior to (Robison’s death), whatever happened, and to find out what happened.”
This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Here’s why there are still no answers on the death of 35-year-old woman
Reporting by Thomas B. Langhorne, Evansville Courier & Press / Evansville Courier & Press
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