After almost three decades on the run, Stephan Smerk has been sentenced for first-degree murder in crime ‘among the worst’ Fairfax County had ever seen, James Liddell writes ...

Army veteran Stephan Smerk, 53, pleaded guilty in October to the 1994 stabbing death of 37-year-old Robin Lawrence, who was home alone with her 2-year-old. Lawrence's murder went unsolved for ...

Army veteran Stephan Smerk, 53, pleaded guilty in October to the 1994 stabbing death of 37-year-old Robin Lawrence, who was home alone with her 2-year-old.

Stephan Smerk of Niskayuna was sentenced Friday to life in prison with all but 70 years suspended, the Office of the Fairfax Commonwealth's Attorney said in a news release. The 53-year-old ...

The Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney's Office announced on Friday that 53-year-old Stephan Smerk was sentenced to 70 years in prison for the 1994 murder of Robin Lawrence.

In November 1994, Stephan Smerk fled his Virginia Army barracks with one intent - to kill. “Something came over me,” Smerk once told cops. “I just had to kill somebody. I can’t explain it ...

A man who confessed to fatally stabbing a stranger in a brutal attack while her toddler daughter was home, then evading capture for decades as he built a quiet suburban life, was sentenced to ...

More than three decades after a young mother was stabbed to death in her Springfield, Virginia, home while her toddler was nearby in her crib, justice finally has arrived for her family.

NISKAYUNA — A 53-year-old Niskayuna man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after receiving a 70-year sentence for murder in a decades-old cold case. Stephan Smerk confessed in ...

Suddenly, Army soldier Stephan Smerk forced his way inside and stabbed the mom of one 49 times. The gut-wrenching case went cold for three decades, leaving Lawrence's family with so much pain and ...