🕊️ The Gutter Report: Who Really Killed Theresa and Little Tommy?
New DNA evidence, ignored suspects, and a conviction still under fire
🧱 Philip Robinson during a recent interview, still incarcerated more than 30 years after his conviction.
📍 Staten Island, NY — For more than three decades, the murders of Theresa and her young son “Little Tommy” have been officially labeled a solved case. Philip Robinson was convicted in 1993 and sentenced to 50 years to life. The state said justice had been served.
But new DNA evidence, public interviews with the victim’s own family, and long-standing questions about the original investigation have reopened a case many now believe was never truly closed at all.
At the center of it all: a man still in prison for a crime that modern science and multiple witnesses say he may not have committed.
🕊️ The Victims
🕯️ Theresa and her son “Little Tommy,” photographed together before their murders in 1993.
Theresa and her young son were killed in a crime that shocked Staten Island. Their deaths became one of the borough’s most haunting cases — officially “solved,” yet still surrounded by unanswered questions.
For their family, the pain never ended. And for the public, the truth was never fully told.
🧩 The Official Story
In 1993, Theresa and her son were found brutally murdered. Police arrested Philip Robinson, and prosecutors built a case that relied heavily on witness testimony and circumstantial evidence. A jury convicted him, and Robinson has spent more than 30 years behind bars.
For decades, that was the end of the story.
Until DNA entered the picture.
🧬 The DNA That Changed Everything
Years after Robinson’s conviction, forensic testing uncovered male DNA from two unknown individuals connected to the crime scene — DNA that does not match Robinson.
According to reporting by NBC New York, the genetic material recovered — including fingernail scrapings — excluded Robinson entirely and instead pointed to unknown contributors.
This means the biological evidence at the center of the case points to someone else.
Not one unknown person.
Two.
Yet Robinson remains incarcerated.
🧑🏼⚕️ Unorthodox Evidence Handling
🔨 The hammer and bag introduced as key evidence and subjected to DNA testing.
Robinson’s defense team has long argued that detectives used highly questionable methods during the original investigation.
One of the most serious claims: police allegedly sent two civilian witnesses into a hospital and directed them toward specific evidence that later became part of the case against Robinson.
In modern criminal procedure, this kind of practice would be considered highly irregular. Allowing untrained civilians to interact with potential evidence creates obvious risks of contamination, coaching, and narrative shaping.
The defense maintains that this alone should have disqualified large portions of the state’s case.
🏠 The Alternate Suspect the Jury Never Heard About
🍺 Mortiruaty, Theresa’s partner — described by her daughter as an abusive alcoholic who was never seriously investigated.
While Robinson was prosecuted, another man — Mortiruaty, Theresa’s partner at the time — was never treated as a serious suspect.
That man has since passed away.
But Theresa’s own daughter has gone on record in a televised interview stating:
He was a severe alcoholic
He was physically abusive
Her mother suffered broken bones during the relationship
The family had escape plans wherever they lived
And she believes he was responsible for the killings
You can watch the full interview here:
👉🏾 Who Really Killed Theresa and Tommie? New DNA Evidence Uncovered in 1993 Slayings — NBC New York
In the segment, she directly questions why police never treated him as a serious suspect, despite years of documented domestic violence and instability.
Her words were not whispered in private. They were said publicly, on camera — and anyone can watch it for themselves.
Yet despite this, investigators allegedly never pursued him as a primary suspect.
🕳️ Tunnel Vision and Investigative Blind Spots
The pattern that emerges is familiar in wrongful conviction cases:
A suspect is identified early
Alternate theories are ignored
Evidence is interpreted to fit the original narrative
New information is dismissed rather than integrated
In Robinson’s case, defense attorneys argue that once police focused on him, every other lead — including domestic abuse, alternate DNA, and family testimony — was sidelined.
Not because those leads didn’t exist.
But because they didn’t fit the story.
⚖️ The DA Responds
👨🏼💼 Richmond County District Attorney Michael E. McMahon at a January 2026 press conference.
The Richmond County District Attorney, Michael E. McMahon, issued a formal written response opposing the motion to overturn Robinson’s conviction.
His office said the case was reviewed by the Conviction Review Unit over two years, that surviving witnesses were interviewed, and that they reached the same conclusion as the original jury — that the conviction was supported by the evidence.
He also stated the case is now the subject of pending litigation and further comment will only be made through court filings.
⏳ February 6: A Man Still Fighting for His Name
Robinson is scheduled to return to court on February 6th, seeking relief based on the DNA evidence and investigative failures.
He is no longer asking for mercy.
He is asking for honesty.
After more than 30 years behind bars, he is still waiting for a system that claims to value truth to finally act like it.
🕊️ Rest in Peace — and Still Waiting for Justice
Rest in peace to Theresa and Little Tommy.
Their lives mattered. Their pain mattered. Their story deserves more than a closed file and a convenient conviction.
But justice is not served by keeping the wrong man in a cage.
If the DNA doesn’t match, if the victim’s own family is pointing elsewhere, and if the investigation itself was compromised — then this is no longer about law. It’s about accountability.
So this isn’t just “Free Phil.”
This is:
Free Philip Robinson — because Theresa and Little Tommy deserve the truth, not a placeholder.
And on February 6th, may the courtroom finally choose courage over comfort.
Not for clicks — for clarity.
— Elliott Carterr, LFTG Radio
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