Robert Simon (biker)

On September 7, 1999, a reported fistfight broke out between Ambrose Harris and Robert Simon while the pair were in one of the prison recreational areas. Harris repeatedly kicked and stomped Simon before jumping from a table's stainless steel stool and landing on his head, fatally crushing Simon's skull.

Franklin Township police sergeant Ippolito Gonzalez died the following day via the gunshot wounds sustained from the incident. A firearms expert would later testify that the weapon found near Simon when during his apprehension was the same one used to kill Gonzalez. Despite pressure from his fellow Warlocks, Robert R. Simon eventually confessed to the crime and, as a result, was sentenced to death by the State of New Jersey in April 1997.

Simon was paroled in February of 1995, having served a total of 12-and-a-half-years of prison time. With approval from the New Jersey parole board, he settled at Black Horse RV Trailer Park in Williamstown, New Jersey when released. The property, known was owned by Marianne Mihalick who lived with her daughter right across from his trailer home at 3944 South Black Horse Pike. As claimed by Mihalick, they both had been unaware of Simon's murderous homicidal history as he misled them to believing he was just a reformed drug dealer.

On May 6, 1995, Robert Simon along with the vice president of the Warlocks' South Jersey chapter, Charles "Shovel" Staples, were both sitting in a car in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey when they were pulled over by 15-year Franklin Township police veteran Ippolito "Lee" Gonzalez as part of a routine traffic stop. Earlier that day, a nearby Environmental Heating building had been burglarized and the vehicle occupied by both men was situated within the vicinity.

After a total three parole rejections, Simon was recommended for parole in November 1994 by a PBPP hearing examiner under the conditioned that he abstain from alcohol and avoid contact with the Warlocks Motorcycle Club. Suspiciously, it is known that one of the club's members began to make arrangements for Simon's living arrangements even before Simon's parole was approved.

On January 21, 1993, the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (PBPP) denied a parole application they received from Simon citing his high risk of continued involvement with the Philly Warlocks along with his need for substance abuse treatment. Despite this, he was classified as merely a "low risk" on parole assessment documents.

In 1982, Simon was convicted for the 1974 second-degree murder of his 19-year-old girlfriend, Beth Smith Dusenberg, who had refused to engage in group sex with him and other members of the Warlocks MC. According to his fellow Philly Warlock bikers, Simon talked about having sexual intercourse with Dusenberg's mummified corpse after he buried it in a water-filled strip mine near Hazleton and even hoped to decorate his jail cell with physical photographs of such evidence. John Lavelle, the Judge who handled Simon's trial, stated that dozens of Warlocks bikers would circle the courthouse on their motorcycles each day in during 1995 in an attempt to intimidate the jurors - quite possibly the reason behind his rather lenient sentencing.

The Warlocks Motorcycle Club menaced the state of Pennsylvania during the 1970s and Simon was often described as an ill-tempered and especially dangerous member by those who knew and encountered him. At various points in his career as a hardened outlaw biker, Simon burned down a store Ocean City, New Jersey boardwalk and committed armed robbery. A frequent user of drugs and alcohol, he went by the club moniker "Mudman" as well as informal nickname of "Bobby Simon". At one point, Robert Simon had a spider-web tattooed onto his elbow - which was rumored to signify he had murdered someone.

Throughout his youth, Robert Simon was a member of an Upper Darby street gang known as the Warlords. The Warlords would eventually merge with another group from Darby to create the Warlocks Motorcycle Club - also referred to as the Philly Warlocks. Founded in 1967, the Warlocks MC are self-described as a "one-percenter" outlaw motorcycle club and are designated as a violent criminal organization by law enforcement. Although the club was predominately based within their founding location of Philadelphia as well as other parts of Pennsylvania, they also maintained a chapter within New Jersey. Being a member of the gang was such a substantial part of Simon's life to the point where he would even tout his religion as "Warlock". He was said to have held the club title of "enforcer" - and was utilized by his fellow Warlock co-founders to intimidate the club's rivals.

Robert R. "Mudman" Simon (September 4, 1954 – September 7, 1999), also known as Bobby Simon, was an American criminal, murderer and member of the Pennsylvania-based Warlocks MC biker gang. He had formerly been sentenced to death by the state of New Jersey on May 6, 1995 for his part in the fatal shooting of Franklin Township police sergeant Ippolito Gonzalez. However, he was ultimately beaten to death at New Jersey State Prison by a fellow death row inmate before he could be executed.

Robert Ronald Simon was born on September 4, 1951, in Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. His criminal wrongdoings reportedly began as early as age 8. Additionally, he was placed into juvenile detention on at least two separate occasions.