‘Active Duty’ Army Worker Confessed to 1994 ‘Heinous’ Murder of Virginia Mother While Her 2-Year-Old Daughter Was Nearby: Police

A man in New York confessed to brutally stabbing a Virginia woman to death in 1994 and then leaving her toddler to fend for herself for days, RadarOnline.com has learned. According to the Fairfax County Police Department, 51-year-old Stephen Smerk of Niskayuna, New York, was arrested after DNA evidence matched him to the murder of 37-year-old Robin Lawrence, who was stabbed multiple times at her Springfield, Virginia, home on Nov. 20, 1994, while her 2-year-old daughter was also home, as Front Page Detectives reported. Lawrence’s husband was away on a business trip and had not heard from his w…

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