Amos Robinson and Abron Scott allegedly raped and killed 19-year-old Grams, whose beaten body was found behind a Tampa Heights dental office on Aug. 18, 1983, Hillsborough County State’s Attorney Andrew Warren said during a news conference on Thursday after his suspension.  as an attorney for Florida Governor Ron DeSandis for his stance against criminalizing abortion providers.
A grand jury indicted Robinson and Scott on Thursday in the rape and murder of Linda Lansen, whose beaten body was found in the Town and Country in July 1983 in bushes with a gunshot wound to the head, Warren said.
“These two men not only robbed me, but they robbed a 7-year-old girl of her mother,” said Linda Sheffield, Lansen’s niece, during Thursday’s news conference.
“When they are initially murdered, the shock is there, but 39 years later the shock is gone,” he said.  “But the emptiness remains, and the pain remains and the crying remains. It doesn’t go away.”
Robinson and Scott are also the subjects of other cold case investigations from the same time period in the Tampa Bay area, Warren said.
“We now know that these two men went on a horrific spree of rape and murder in Tampa Bay in the summer and fall of 1983,” Warren said.
It is unclear whether Robinson and Scott have attorneys at this time.


DNA LEADS TO CLAIM AND NEW DELIVERY 
In 2018, Warren’s office created a conviction review unit to help overturn and prevent wrongful convictions.  Two years later, Robert DuBoise, who spent 37 years in prison for the rape and murder of Grams, was acquitted.
“Our investigation found DNA evidence that Robert did not kill Barbara Grams, however, this DNA evidence provided new evidence and a new investigation was initiated,” Warren said.
The DNA sample that did not contain material from DuBoise was funneled through a national database of DNA samples from convicted felons and led investigators to Scott and Robinson, who were already serving life sentences in a Florida prison for a murder they committed in Pinellas County in October.  of 1983, Warren said.
With this information, investigators were able to build a case for Grams’ murder and open a cold case investigation into Lansen’s murder.
At the time of DuBoise’s trial, there was no physical or circumstantial evidence linking DuBoise to the attack, according to The Florida Innocence Project.
Prior to his sentencing, he was taken to the Hillsborough County Jail.  A jailhouse informant who spoke with DuBoise later falsely testified that DuBoise confessed to the crime while in jail, The Florida Innocence Project reported.
“I feel sorry for the families who have waited so long to get real closure,” DuBoise told CNN on Friday.  “I spent 37 years in prison for a crime I was completely innocent of. This is what happens when the police focus on the wrong person, create evidence to fit their theory and don’t investigate to find the truth. Lives are destroyed and communities are made less safe.” .