Stephan Smerk, who for years lived a quiet life in Niskayuna, was sentenced Friday for the 1994 stabbing death of Robin ...

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

When Fairfax County police confronted Stephen Smerk, he was married and raising two high school-aged children in a quiet town ...

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.

The Niskayuna man arrested in 2023 and later pleaded guilty in a three-decade-old Virginia murder was sentenced to a total ...

That is, until November 1994, when Robin was brutally murdered inside her home. “My grandpa called my mom we were literally about to get in the car. I think that week and drive down to Fairfax, ...

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins caught up with DJ Daniel, the 13-year-old cancer survivor honored by President Donald Trump during his address to Congress. On Friday, Smerk apologized for his crime, saying he ...

The Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office announced on Friday that 53-year-old Stephan Smerk was sentenced to 70 ...

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 ...

A Niskayuna man was sentenced to 70 years behind bars for a 1994 cold case killing in Fairfax Vounty, Virginia.Stephan Smerk, 53, was sentenced Friday in the Co ...