March 3, 2000

Detroit News
By Katie Merx
Metro Section

Man has 12 wives, cops say

Livonia resident is charged with polygamy, larceny, theft in a nationwide crime spree!

By Katie Merx / The Detroit News

LIVONIA -- A Livonia man -- with eight aliases and even more wives -- was charged Thursday with polygamy and larceny.

He also stands accused of bigamy, larceny and theft in at least nine other states.

Police arrested Bobby Joe Sexton in his mother's apartment at Ziegler Place senior apartments this week, after he applied for a driver's license and tags using the same alias -- Robert Lynn Norris -- that he used Feb. 9 to marry a Dundee woman....

March 6, 2000

Fraud Suspect Has Many Wives, Cops Say Police Find Four, Suspect Seven More

March 6, 2000

By Janet Prasad

MONROE, Mich. (APBnews.com) -- When Bobby Joe Sexton got married last month, he and his new wife started planning to buy a home together.

A week later, the same day they planned to look at a home for sale, Sexton allegedly disappeared with some of his spouse's cameras. His new wife contacted police, only to find out she was one of many wives Sexton had been accumulating over the last couple of years,
authorities said.

Michigan investigators say they know of at least four other women living in Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee who claim to be Sexton's wives, but they believe there are even more women that Sexton has married and left....