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Alexander Olive

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Alexander Olive

Real Name: Alexander Sol Olive
Nicknames: Alex, Salaam Roberson
Location: South Lake Tahoe, California
Date: November 9, 1985

Bio[]

Occupation: None (minor)
Date of Birth: May 16, 1981
Height: approx. 4' at time of disappearance
Weight: approx. 35lbs at time of disappearance
Marital Status: Single (minor)
Characteristics: Biracial (African-American/Caucasian) male with red hair and brown eyes. He had a birth mark on the outside of his left calf, a very small scar on the right corner of his mouth, scars around both of his ankles, and a speech impediment.

Case[]

Details: Alexander is the four-year-old son of Rosemary Judith "Judy" Olive, a former delivery room nurse at Herman Hospital in Houston, Texas. On June 14, 1980, she met his father, Ulysses Roberson, after his sister gave birth at the hospital. At first, she believed that he and his sister were a married couple named Mr. and Mrs. Tony Rich. A few weeks later, they invited her to their house. She then learned that they were actually siblings. She also learned that they ran an astrology business out of their home. He offered to do her chart for free, as long as she filled out a few forms.
The forms asked Judy for information about her personal life, such as the first day of her last menstrual cycle, financial assets, and debts. She was invited back for dinner exactly twenty-two days later. She did not realize that the date had been carefully selected based on her menstrual cycle. That night, after drinking a suspicious mixed drink, she "fell under" Tony's spell. Before long, he had lured her into his bedroom for a massage. After it, he told her to turn over, and claimed that their "psychic centers were to become one". They then had sexual intercourse.
Judy soon learned that "Tony's" real name was Ulysses. What she did not know was that he was trying to make a Haram-like cult, with multiple wives and children. When she was two months pregnant, she moved in with him. Three months later, her family kidnapped her and placed her in a de-programming center. Afterwards, she went to live with her older brother in California, to await the birth of her child. On May 16, 1981, Alexander was born. Her family believed that her involvement with Ulysses was finished. They were unaware that she had written to him about Alexander.
When Alexander was four months old, Judy slipped away from her brother's house to have a secret rendezvous with Ulysses. She was soon back in the cult, along with Alexander. Ulysses decided that they would call him "Salaam". During the next eighteen months, he took on more "wives" like Judy and had children with most of them. He maintained several residences and moved from city to city. He also continued to lure vulnerable women into the group, using a wide variety of scams.
At Ulysses' insistence, Judy went back to nursing and agreed to sign over her paychecks to him. While she worked, she left Alexander in the care of Ulysses and the other wives. She began to have concerns about him and the cult. In 1985, she remained in San Francisco while Ulysses moved the "family" to Seattle, Washington. While there, he and one of his wives were arrested for child abuse. Alexander was placed in foster care and Ulysses fled. He dispersed his family to several locations, including Sacramento, which was where Alexander was taken.
After the abuse charges, Judy began to look for shelters where she could escape with Alexander. However, she was still working in San Francisco, and could only visit him on weekends. During one visit, she was horrified to find Ulysses packing a gun and acting extremely paranoid. Incredibly, he bragged that he had hung Alexander by his ankles to drive out a demon. When looking at him, she noticed that he had large bruises on his face and his lips were dry, cracked, and bleeding. Despite this, she felt that she was not "strong" enough to escape with him.
On November 9, 1985, a few days after Judy returned to San Francisco, Ulysses moved Alexander to Lake Tahoe. He then gathered up the children and one of his wives and loaded them into his van. Suddenly, he ran back upstairs to retrieve a bundle. Another one of his wives witnessed this and believed that it contained a bruised and beaten Alexander. He was never seen again; no one would say where the family had gone in the van.
When Judy confronted Ulysses about Alexander's disappearance, he beat her savagely, breaking her jaw in three places. At this point, she finally went to the police to report him. He was arrested and charged with rape and child abuse. He was convicted and sentenced to twenty years in prison. He has refused to reveal Alexander's whereabouts.

Ulysses roberson in 1992

Ulysses Roberson in 1992

Suspects: Ulysses Roberson is the prime suspect in Alexander's disappearance. Judy had witnessed him abusing Alexander in the past. He had also been arrested for abusing another one of his children. When Alexander vanished, another of Ulysses' wives saw him leaving with a bundle. She believed that it contained a bruised and beaten Alexander.
There has been some speculation that Ulysses may have murdered Alexander through extreme physical abuse and then left him in a cold garage before disposing of his body elsewhere.
Extra Notes:

  • This case first aired on the December 9, 1992 episode.
  • It was excluded from the Film Rise release of the Robert Stack episodes.

Results: Unresolved. In 1997, Pamalar Lewis, one of Ulysses' wives told police that she had witnessed him severely beat Alexander with a piece of firewood at the home in Lake Tahoe around the time he vanished. She also told investigators she last saw him wrapped in a blanket with a possible limb sticking out. However, authorities did not feel that her witness testimony was enough to charge Ulysses.
In 2001, Raj Roberson was interviewed by investigators; she was the wife that went with Ulysses in the van when Alexander vanished. She claimed that she had seen him beat Alexander in the garage that day. She also claimed to have seen Alexander's body floating in a bathtub. She told police that she was then forced by Ulysses to help him take Alexander's body to a van. He forced her to close her eyes as he drove for several hours to get rid of Alexander's body. After that, he threatened to kill her if she went to the police.

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Ulysses Roberson in 2009

DNA testing done in 2001 proved that Alexander's blood was on clothing found in Ulysses' van in 1986. This helped authorities to charge Ulysses with his murder in October. However, he was not tried until fall 2009. Prosecutors believed that Alexander was beaten to death by him simply because he had soiled his pants. Other former members of the cult claimed that he was targeted the most for abuse by Ulysses because he was biracial and small. Some of Ulysses' other children also claimed that he had abused them. Another wife testified that, shortly after Alexander's disappearance, he had claimed that Alexander was gone "and would not be coming back".
Several witnesses testified that they had seen Alexander alive for several years after his disappearance. Some witnesses even claimed to have seen him as recently as 2001. However, most of these witnesses were strangers. Some had seen the broadcast and called the telecenter. In December 2009, Ulysses was convicted of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. He was denied parole in 2015.
Tragically, Alexander's remains have never been found. It is believed that they are located in a remote location, a two or three-hour drive from South Lake Tahoe.
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