Comments on: S2 E15 Robert Hopkins Murder

By: Buddy Heins

Buddy Heins — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:55:28 +0000

In reply to Alan R. Henry. I'd like to find some articles of this incident. Dr. Branson was my mother's brother

By: Alan R. Henry

Alan R. Henry — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:47:27 +0000

What an ugly story. Poor Robert, and anyone else who had to go through that in that era. Seldom was anyone convicted of murdering a homosexual. A doctor at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C., Captain Edward C. Branson, treated me for pigeon toes and club feet, between March ’54 and April ’55. He and a friend, T.E. Drach, made a vacation trip at the end of May, ’55, to Jacksonville, and Green Cove Springs, FL. Dr. Branson and 18 year old sailor Robert Owen Emmett, left a bar and went to the woods. Long story short, Dr. made advances to Robert, got clubbed to death with a tree branch, and had his wallet and car stolen. Robert lived to be 80, Dr. Branson, only 33. Robert did very little time, less than six months. Articles printed in several papers can be found online. Our mom clipped out two right after it happened, and I saved them.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 20:42:14 +0000

I think “mystery man “as well, opportunistic violence, he took advantage of a nice trusting person.

By: James Hourston

James Hourston — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:32:00 +0000

Ah yes, the Im gay but the second I am not horny the guilt hits with the “no one can ever find out” panic attack syndrome.
No doubt done under the cover of darkness I feel it was a co-worker who killed the poor man who died a horrid death . A stranger would have not been in his home.