SPRINGFIELD, Va. — A newly obtained piece of evidence by WUSA9 showed the confession by a man who pleaded guilty to randomly killing a Springfield woman in 1994. Stephan Smerk, 52, accepted a plea ...

When Stephan Smerk called Fairfax County Police Detective Melissa Wallace on Sept. 7, 2023, she was shocked to hear what he had to say. "He says, I'm at the police department to turn myself in," ...

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 October to ...

"I’d probably be a serial killer,” Stephan Smerk recently said after the brutal 1994 killing of Robin Lawrence in West Springfield NBC Universal, Inc. When killer Stephan Smerk confessed to fatally ...

Fairfax County Police Department chief Kevin Davis addresses the details of the arrest made in connection with the 1994 killing of Robin Lawrence. Fairfax County Police Department Screengrab from ...

FAIRFAX, Va. — The man who police said confessed to stabbing and killing a Springfield woman in 1994 pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Friday. Investigators from Fairfax County traveled to ...

When killer Stephan Smerk confessed to fatally stabbing a Fairfax County, Virginia, wife and mom, he seemed almost eager to tell detectives about the terrible crime he committed nearly three decades ...