DNA Evidence Solves Decades-Old Virginia Murder Case
TL;DR
Decades after Robin Lawrence's brutal 1994 murder in Virginia, DNA evidence and genetic genealogy led to the arrest of Stephan Smerk, a man who confessed to the crime, bringing closure to a case that had gone cold for years.
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