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COLD CASE: NY Man Confesses To Grisly 1994 Virginia Murder, Police Say COLD CASE: NY Man Confesses To Grisly 1994 Virginia Murder, Police Say
Cold CASE: NY Man Confesses To Grisly 1994 Virginia Murder, Police Say A 51-year-old New York man has been arrested in a Virginia homicide, cracking a 29-year cold case, authorities announced. Stephen Smerk, of Niskayuna, NY, is facing second-degree murder in the Nov. 20, 1994 death of 37-year-old Robin Lawrence, who was found dead in a Springfield, VA home, Fairfax County police said. Smerk is believed to have stabbed Lawrence inside of her Reseca Lane home, when he was 22 years old, authorities said. In 1994, a DNA profile was developed; however, at the time there was no match in any system for the recovered DNA. In the years that followed, detec…