Daily News | Family of Joy Hibbs’ accused killer said aunt he assaulted bore striking similarities to victim
Over three decades passed before Robert Atkins was charged for fatally stabbing his 35-year-old neighbor Joy Hibbs and setting fire to her Croydon home in 1991.
Charlene, Atkins family and prosecutors alleged, was a spitting image of Joy Hibbs — from her slender frame and brunette hair to her gentle southern drawl and the two women’s identical ages. She was found with her underwear pulled down, Atkins testified, and had been admitted to a hospital for her injuries. He told the court his aunt had been “left for dead” and recalled a phone call years after the alleged attack in which his brother blamed “bad drugs.” Robert had told him he heard voices telling him to attack, he recalled. Prosecutors said he’d been “listening to Ozzy [Osbourne]” and was “compelled to do it.
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