MINOCQUA, WI (WSAU-WAOW) — Details of the criminal complaint against Robin Mendez accusing him of killing his wife Barbra in 1982 have come to light following his initial court appearance on first degree murder charges Tuesday.
According to court documents obtained by Newsline 9, Mendez had been having an affair with a fourteen year old girl at his church and told the girl he hadn’t been sexually active with his wife in some time. The two had plans to run away together, and the girl had said she wished Barbra would die “so we could be together.” The girl also told investigators that she had lied when she said Mendez couldn’t have committed the crime because she was talking to him on the phone at the approximate time of her death.
Additionally Mendez’s daughters say they feel he “manipulated them into providing a false alibi for him,” and say he never took them to their mothers grave. Barbra’s sister also pointed out that Mendez never purchased a headstone for her.
Later on when his daughters confronted him about the murder. “Both said…Robin Mendez would say that he would tell them someday what happened to their mother, but he could not tell them now,” according to the complaint. Meanwhile another woman who married Mendez in 1984 and divorced him in 2002 called him a pathological liar who couldn’t tell the truth about anything. Additionally he was caught peeping at the couple’s 14 year old daughter in the shower.
In another instance Mendez reportedly told a Minocqua police officer “if I kill myself, then you all won’t know 50 years from now about the murder,” the complaint said the officer found that comment strange.
Barbra’s body was found in the Park City Credit Union where she was employed. The cause of death was listed as multiple blunt injuries to the head including abrasions, lacerations, and a skull fracture. It’s believed that a pry bar or wonder bar could have been used in the attack.
Police say they have been building the case against Mendez for months now by re-interviewing witnesses. He was arrested on Monday and is being held on $250,000 cash bond.
