Kids, elderly, and people with respiratory or heart issues should limit outdoor activity by Katie Bourque TOPICS: FAIRFAX COUNTY ... from the crime scene to Stephan Smerk. Just hours after ...

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 ...

“It’s hard to explain,” Smerk told the detective. “I knew I was going to kill somebody. I did not know who I was going to kill.” When Fairfax County police confronted Stephan ...

Stephan Smerk, 52, had been serving in the Army at a base in Arlington, Va., when, in November 1994 ... according to a narrative provided by Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney's Office.

Stephan Smerk confessed ... according to the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney's Office. He broke into Lawrence’s home in nearby West Springfield, Va., and stabbed her 49 times while ...

FAIRFAX, Va. — The man who police said confessed ... New York and located 52-year-old software engineer Stephan Smerk, after leads developed from a Northern Virginia lab company that specializes ...

One night in November 1994, then-Army soldier Stephan Smerk left his ... to the release from the office of Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano, Smerk turned himself in at a local ...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va ... Investigators used DNA evidence to connect software engineer 53-year-old Stephan Smerk to the murder of 27-year-old Robin Lawrence 29 years later, ending in a guilty ...

In November 1994, Stephan ... Smerk from 1988 (middle) and 1998 (right) were used in his arrest after they were compared to a digital composite created from DNA by Parabon NanoLabs (left) (Fairfax ...

I think that week and drive down to Fairfax, Virginia ... when advanced DNA testing led detectives to Stephan Smerk. He lived in Niskayuna at the time of the arrest and had no connection to ...