Surf photographer who drew map that led Jake and Callum Robinson and Jack Carter Rhoad to the idyllic beach camp where they were murdered tells The Daily Beast he is “heartbroken.”
The hulking 6-foot 4-inch Australian with shoulder-length brown curly hair stopped by Dible’s photography booth near Ocean Beach on April 5, where they got chatting over a shot of a local surf break. Dible remembers a “kung-fu style grip of a handshake” and a conversation that parlayed into a hangout at Callum’s house the next day to drop off the print.
“The tourists refused and tried to fight back, but the robbers were armed. When the criminals took out their guns, the three tried to de-escalate things, but it was too late, they beat the three of them and then shot them in the head,” a Baja state investigatorThe Daily Beast spoke to several devastated friends, teammates, and coworkers to learn more about the beloved trio whose murders reverberated across hemispheres.
Seyfarth remembers how impressed he was with Carther’s humor, self-awareness, and eagerness to be a valuable teammate. If another teammate was having a hard day or expressed frustration, Seyfarth said it was Carter who would try to lift them up.“His humor was well beyond his years, too,” the coach said. “For him, every day in practice was a great thing. He was the life of the party, loved to travel, and enjoyed the outdoors.
“Someone of that size and presence quickly became a very focal part of the team,” Parker Bratton, a teammate who helped Stevenson’s Mustangs win the 2013 NCAA title, told The Daily Beast. Bratton, who returned to the Mustangs this year as part of its coaching team, added of his mate, “It was pretty phenomenal to see someone like that. I’m a pretty big guy, I’m like 6 foot 1, 200lbs, he made me feel pretty small.
“Cal is often the center of attention everywhere he goes. He just had this effect on the world—everyone was just happy to be with him,” Peter Green, a former teammate and one of his best friends, told The Daily Beast. “And he was equally as happy to be with people. I am just so thankful to be his friend.”His size, speed, and agility immediately made him a big name in the sport—but it was his kindness, ease, sensitivity, and infectious smile that made him a star.
Months later, during his senior year, Callum was picked 27th overall in the Major League Lacrosse draft to join the Chesapeake Bayhawks. He was just one of a handful of Stevenson players to go pro. Swarupa Ellamaraju met Carter in 2019 when he was working as a staff services recruiter for other companies. She said that Carter had a “knack for finding connections” and took pride in finding candidates who wanted to help the company’s purpose.
Jake, meanwhile, was also finding his feet. Described as “a happy, gentle, and compassionate soul who was pursuing a career in medicine,” by his mother, Jake also had a love for surfing. As part of the trip, Jake trekked 10,000 feet above sea level and “watched the sunrise” over the seventh-highest mountain in the world, Dhaulagiri. In typical Robinson family style, he made time to meet and greet the locals, “organizing and playing a giant game of hacky sack with nearly 50 local kids.”
In a statement to The Daily Beast, Williams said Jake “embedded himself in the fabric of our hospital making a lasting difference to the lives of those he cared for and his colleagues. His collaborative spirit, sense of fun, and dedication to his future as a doctor has been fondly remembered by our entire hospital community.”
“He was looking forward to this next chapter in his life and we made a tentative plan to see each other in person in May,” she said. “When he didn’t reach out again, I had an eerie feeling something was not right.”Callum was excitedly detailing his itinerary for his birthday trip with Jake and some friends. In response, Green asked Callum to be a groomsman at his wedding.“It was one of the very few times I’ve ever heard him so excited,” Green recalled about the April 19 call.
Exactly what happened to Carter, Jake, and Callum over the next few days is still unknown. On April 29, the FBI and Mexican authorities initiated a search after the trio was officially reported missing. Group chats began blowing up, culling information from local Mexican news outlets and their own knowledge of the Baja peninsula to determine if the lack of communication was a cell service problem or something more dangerous.
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