Reginald Robertson: Fiancé Sentenced to Life Without Parole in 2021 Disappearance and Presumed Death of Newnan Mother Tiffany Foster
In 2025, Reginald Robertson was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, after a Coweta County jury convicted him on all 10 charges connected to the 2021 disappearance of his fiancée, Tiffany Foster.
The 35-year-old Newnan mother of three vanished on March 1 of that year, and her body has never been found.
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| Tiffany Foster |
According to 11Alive News, the case began when Foster, also known as Tiffany Starks, left the apartment she shared with Robertson to go shopping and did not return.
She was 35 years old at the time, and in the days that followed, she missed a class, her job, and a planned flight to Texas, leading to a missing persons report.
A week after she disappeared, her Nissan car was discovered with her purse and cell phone still inside, however, Foster was no were to be found.
Robertson, who reported her missing, was later arrested for stealing that same vehicle and, for kidnapping and aggravated assault charges.
These charges were not directly tied to her disappearance but in 2023, a grand jury indicted him in connection with Foster’s presumed death.
Robertson was charged with malice murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, rape, concealing the death of another, burglary, financial fraud, theft by taking, and forgery.
During the trial, prosecutors presented a history of abuse that they said Foster endured.
They showed jurors a text message she had sent to a friend in which she wrote, “If something happens to me, Reggie did it.” The state also pointed to a reported 2020 kidnapping and a sexual assault in early 2021.
Then, they built their case around a collection of other circumstantial evidence, including:
- A charred and rust-covered wood chipper discovered on land linked to Robertson’s grandmother in Troup County.
- Cadaver dogs alerted to the odor of human decomposition inside the machine and in the soil nearby.
- A man who was incarcerated with Robertson testified that he heard Robertson use a jail phone to instruct someone to “get some canned goods and put them down a pipe” — language that prosecutors argued was coded talk for a staged rescue attempt.
- Cell tower data placed Robertson and a co-defendant, Jeremy Walker, near Coweta County around the time Foster’s phone abruptly disconnected from the network at 4:09 a.m. on the morning she vanished.
- Traffic camera footage also showed her car moving hours after Robertson claimed she had left the apartment.
- Cadaver dogs alerted to the odor of human decomposition inside the machine and in the soil nearby.
- A man who was incarcerated with Robertson testified that he heard Robertson use a jail phone to instruct someone to “get some canned goods and put them down a pipe” — language that prosecutors argued was coded talk for a staged rescue attempt.
- Cell tower data placed Robertson and a co-defendant, Jeremy Walker, near Coweta County around the time Foster’s phone abruptly disconnected from the network at 4:09 a.m. on the morning she vanished.
- Traffic camera footage also showed her car moving hours after Robertson claimed she had left the apartment.
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| Reginald Robertson |
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| Reginald Robertson at a press conference before his arrest |
Robertson’s defense team maintained that he was innocent and told the jury he had simply been doing yard work at his grandmother’s place when the allegations began to spin out of control.
They also challenged the reliability of the jailhouse witness, disputed the forensic connection between the wood chipper and any crime, and reminded the court that no body and no definitive cause of death had ever been established.
Even without the victims body, the jury returned guilty verdicts on every count wrapping up a trial that spanned roughly two weeks. For the murder, kidnapping, and rape convictions, the judge imposed a life sentence with no chance of release, while the remaining seven counts added another 80 years in prison, as reported by CBS News.
Foster’s family members were present throughout the proceedings. Her sister, Kimberly Bryan, previously said that Robertson “ripped away a light in our family,” and explained how difficult it has been to face Foster’s children without answers.
Relatives still gather to mark her birthday every year and during Foster’s 40th birthday, her mother, Katrina Hill, told a reporter at that event, “We still don’t have closure and we haven’t received justice yet for her.”
Hill said closure would only come when she knows where her daughter is and can properly lay her to rest.
Jeremy Walker, the co-defendant charged with concealing Foster’s death, is scheduled to face his own trial, even as the search for her remains continues.
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