Robert Francis Garrow Jr. was an American serial killer who was active in New York in the early 1970s. Garrow went on an 18-day killing spree and stabbed four people to death before being apprehended. His criminal trial, known as the Buried Bodies Case, became an important case in legal ethics after his attorneys refused to disclose the location of the bodies of two of his victims, citing attorney-client privilege. Garrow was later shot dead while escaping from prison in 1978.