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| Birth | 1977 | |
| Age | 48 years |
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Dorothy Marie Robards (b. 1977) is known for the poisoning murder of her father in 1993, at age 16, in Fort Worth, Texas. The trial received media attention since she was a promising student, and patricide is a rare crime more commonly committed by men.
Robards was convicted of murder in a 1995 trial and sentenced to 27 years in prison. She was released on parole in 2003. She is believed to now be living under a new private identity.
The crime was fictionalized in Megan Abbott's 2018 novel Give Me Your Hand, and covered in episodes of Forensic Files (Season 6, episode 5 (2001)), Redrum (Season 2, episode 17 (2014)), and Deadly Women (Season 6, episode 2 (2012)).