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The Valessa Diaries

Warning: Readers of these journals may find some content objectionable. Do not continue if you fear you'll find the material offensive.

Names of people not directly related to the case have been removed.

Valessa Robinson's diaries chronicle her early teen years up to three weeks before her mother's murder. In her own words, Valessa Robinson paints a self-portrait of a misguided, sometimes angry teenager who dabbled in drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll.

But little in the thoughts that Valessa memorialized in her diaries from age 12 to 15 indicate that she would come to murder her own mother.

The diaries were released Monday by the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office, three days after a jury convicted Robinson of third-degree murder in the death of her mother.


Book One
Book Two

- School Days
- Just one of them days
- Happy Thanksgiving weekend!
- B*U*S*H
- Busted hard core
- Party Time
- Spring Break fun
- Pathetic Prom
- The end of a kick-ass weekend
Book Three

- Mall Madness
- One-sided Love
- The unknown future



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