History

Robert was born on October 8, 1973, in Lakewood. He married Gina Mulvihill at the turn of the millennium and had a daughter by her, Stacy.

The Winters family lived in a pleasant suburban home on Kleinfeld Road, in the upwardly mobile district of “west Lakewood”, where they passed a staunchly middle class existence. Stacy would recall Robert’s enthusiasm over having an automatic garage door installed at the house, showing off the mechanism for it to the neighbors.¹

Murder

On the evening of October 18, 2015, Robert and Gina booked a table at an Asian fusion restaurant for a date night.² Gina and Robert left Stacy home alone, where she clandestinely arranged a date of her own with her boyfriend Brock.³

On their way back from the restaurant,⁴ a mechanism of uncertain provenance released a toxic agent into the car, killing Gina and Robert. Their bodies were found later in the evening, after the murders of Stacy and Brock, by Deputy Richard Steele.⁵

Origins and Development

Robert and Gina Winters were created in 2025, when the Volume I Prologue was rewritten. They have no precedent either in the original 2019 Volume I or in the 2015 Season 1 AU, where Stacy’s unseen parents are described as being “out of town on vacation” at the time of their daughter’s murder.⁶

1. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Prologue ↩︎
2. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 8 ↩︎
3. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Prologue ↩︎
4. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 12 ↩︎
5. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 8 ↩︎
6. Season 1 AU: Pilot, Post 9 ↩︎