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Man Arrested in Virginia Shopping Cart Killer Investigation
Anthony Robinson believed responsible for five or more murders
In a December 2021 press conference, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said that a man named Anthony Robinson is suspected of killing at least four women in Virginia. Robinson had been charged with two of the deaths in November 2021, but police now believe he may be responsible for the deaths of two other women in Virginia and possibly a fifth murder in Washington, D.C.
According to the Fairfax County police, 35-year-old Robinson allegedly lured women he met on dating websites such as Plenty of Fish and Tagged to local motel rooms where he would torment them, kill them and then dump their bodies in vacant lots using shopping carts to transport them there.
The bodies of four of the women were found in two different areas of the state and attributed to a serial killer nicknamed the “Shopping Cart Killer” by investigators in the case prior to Robinson’s arrest.
54-year-old Allene Elizabeth “Beth” Redmon and 39-year-old Tonita Lorice “Nita” Smith were…
