Robert Allen Hale

Robert Allan Hale (April 7, 1941 – May 26, 2008) — known as Bobby Hale, as well as Papa Pilgrim and Sunstar — was an American criminal who mentally, physically, and sexually abused his wife and 15 children in the Alaskan wilderness.

Robert Allan Hale was the son of Virginia and I. B. Hale. He had a twin brother, Billy, and younger brother, Tommy. He grew up in Fort Worth, Texas and attended Arlington Heights High School.

As an eighteen-year-old senior, Hale eloped in Ardmore, Oklahoma with 16-year-old Kathleen "K.K." Connally, the daughter of future Texas governor John Connally. On March 16, 1959, the couple were married in Ardmore prior to moving into an apartment in Tallahassee, Florida. Hale worked for a boat company earning $75 per week. The couple had been married only 44 days when Kathleen died after a 20-gauge shotgun discharged behind her right ear on April 28, 1959. Hale spent that night in jail; police reported that he was held in "protective custody" pending the ruling of a coroner's jury.

On April 29, Hale testified that Kathleen had left their apartment after an argument on the evening of April 27 and did not return until noon the following day. According to Hale, he spent the night looking for her and returned to find her sitting on a couch holding the gun. He said that his wife was about to commit suicide and that the gun discharged when he lunged at it. Both fathers testified at the inquest; John Connally stated that his daughter was pregnant and had been despondent over the move to Florida. After deliberating for 45 minutes, Hale was cleared of responsibility for Kathleen's death when the jury ruled it to be an accident.

On August 7, 1962, before living in Alaska, Hale and his twin brother "Billy" Hale were observed by an FBI agent as they burglarized the Los Angeles apartment of Judith Exner, who claimed to be a mistress of President John F. Kennedy.

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