Fairfax County, Virginia, police officers introduced Friday that they might have come throughout a fifth sufferer of the "purchasing cart killer" after a deceased girl was present in a purchasing cart in Washington, D.C. Officers imagine that the killer could also be luring ladies utilizing courting apps.
"This week we additionally acquired a reputable tip that implies our individual of curiosity could also be an individual of curiosity in a Washington DC case the place a girl was discovered deceased in a purchasing cart," Fairfax County Police spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi mentioned on Twitter. "Digital data locations him in that space on the time of her disappearance."
The physique of the lady in query was discovered by authorities within the Washington, D.C., space. She had been coated up by a blanket.
Regulation enforcement was led to the realm of the deceased girl after receiving an undisclosed tip. Her id has not been revealed.
The fifth physique was discovered as police proceed to research 35-year-old Anthony Robinson, a Washington, D.C., man presently being held on two counts of first-degree homicide and extra counts of unlawfully transporting or concealing a lifeless physique.
These costs have been primarily based on the stays of two ladies present in Harrisonburg, Virginia, this previous November.
Robinson would allegedly use purchasing carts to maneuver the stays of his victims, thus incomes him the moniker of the "purchasing cart killer."
4 ladies in whole discovered all through the state of Virginia have been named as potential victims of the killer: The 2 ladies in Harrisonburg that have been discovered on the finish of final 12 months, and a further two ladies have been additionally discovered deceased in Alexandria.
The 2 ladies present in Harrisonburg have been beforehand recognized as Allene Beth Redmon, 54, of Harrisonburg and Tonita Lorice Smith, 39, of Charlottesville. The invention of those our bodies finally led to the arrest of Robinson on Nov. 23.
The information of a possible fifth sufferer comes as officers on Friday additionally confirmed the identities of the 2 victims that have been discovered within the Alexandria space: Stephanie Harrison, 48, of Redding, California, and Cheyenne Brown, 29, of Washington, D.C.
Decomposition of the Alexandria our bodies had made identification tough, however investigators had begun to imagine that one of many stays was Brown after she was reported lacking this previous October. Detectives had additionally flown out to Redding to work on confirming Harrison's id.
These actions finally led to the affirmation of the our bodies as Harrison and Brown, with Fairfax County authorities including that "a personal lab in Fairfax County stepped as much as expedite the DNA processing of our victims."
Whereas Robinson has not been charged in reference to the Alexandria ladies, Fairfax officers have mentioned that they are going to probably deliver costs in reference to the killings.
Because the investigation into Robinson's actions continues, police mentioned that they imagine he could have used two courting apps, Loads of Fish and Tagged, to try to lure ladies to him.
Authorities said that they believed extra victims might probably be discovered, including that there have been probably folks on the market who had managed to flee. "We imagine there could possibly be extra [victims]," Gugliemi added on Twitter, pleading for the general public to come back ahead with data.
This sentiment was echoed by Fairfax Police Chief Kevin Davis, who said that "we imagine there are survivors on the market."
Newsweek has reached out to the Fairfax County Police Division for remark.
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