Robert Lee Clegg.

CRIME

Clegg is currently incarcerated for life in Wyoming for the April 1990, death of a teenage female. He has also admitted to a 1988 homicide of another teenage female in Sedona, Arizona.

BACKGROUND

While on leave from the U.S. Navy, Clegg was arrested in 1981 for three counts of rape in Thermopolis, Wyoming. He was convicted, sentenced to 5 to 7 years in a State penitentiary, and subsequently paroled. In July 1987, he traveled to Phoenix and then went to Cottonwood and Sedona, Arizona, where he remained until March 1988. For the remainder of that year, Clegg's known whereabouts were Saratoga, Wyoming, and Marshal, Virginia, where he attended a vocational school (name unknown) from March to August 1988.

Clegg then traveled to Ketchikan, Alaska, in January 1989. From January to July 1989, he remained in Alaska, where he was arrested for driving under the influence and eluding a police officer. At the time of his arrest, he had Canadian money in his possession, although inquiries to INTERPOL-Canada were negative.

Clegg returned to Saratoga, Wyoming, in July 1989, and began construction work that involved travel to the Denver, Colorado, area. On July 6, 1989, he was arrested by the Carbon County, Wyoming, Sheriffs Department for simple battery and placed on 6 months' unsupervised probation. On April 4, 1990, Clegg was arrested again and charged with the murder of a teenager who had disappeared 4 days earlier in Rawlins, Wyoming.

MODUS OPERANDI

On March 31, 1990, Clegg abducted the victim as she was walking in town, took her to a remote area, and sexually assaulted her. He then drove to another location, where he murdered and buried her. Clegg used a tire iron to beat the victim and then drove a vehicle over her. The car used in the crime was borrowed from one of Clegg's friends.

On April, 1, 1990, a family member reported the victim missing. That same day, her clothing was found along a major highway, approximately 5 miles from the body recovery site. Three days later, Clegg was identified and subsequently assisted in locating the victim's body. In an attempt to save himself from a death penalty conviction, he also admitted to a 1988 homicide in Sedona, Arizona, and led officers to the body.

The Sedona victim, who had a history as a runaway, was last seen by her father in January 1988. For this homicide, Clegg picked up the victim, who was hitchhiking on a highway near her home. He told the victim he would give her a ride, but that he had to stop at his house first. Instead, Clegg drove to a remote area, where he raped the victim. After making her lie face down on the ground, he struck the victim on the head several times with the flat side of a pick. Clegg then placed the nude body in the trunk and returned to work. Later, he drove to another remote area and dumped the body and clothing.

ALERT

Since Clegg's conviction, inquiries have been made to several law enforcement agencies, including the Alaska State Police, the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the Phoenix, Arizona, Police Department, the Lake Havasu, Arizona, Police Department, the Mohave County, Arizona, Sheriff's Department, and the Yavapai County, Arizona, Sheriff's Department. Investigators also contacted the Virginia State Police, the Fauquier County, Virginia, Sheriff's Department, the Douglas County, Nebraska, Sheriff's Department, INTERPOL-Canada, and NCIC. Should any chief, sheriff, or homicide investigator have any unsolved case that matches Clegg's MO, or if additional information is needed, contact Special Agent Charles Dorsey, FBI, Washington, DC, 1-202324-7786, or Jim Bell, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, VICAP, FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia, 1-800-634-4097.