Virginia police on Friday said they arrested an alleged serial killer who they say is behind at least four homicides in the state since August.
They said the alleged serial killer, Anthony Eugene Robinson, 35, has been dubbed "the shopping cart killer" because of his modus operandi.
Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said he meets victims on dating sites and then at motels.
“After he inflicts trauma to his victims and kills them, he transports their bodies to their final resting place, literally, in a shopping cart. And there’s video to that effect,” Davis said.
Three of the victims identified so far are women; the identity of a suspected fourth victim has not yet been determined due to decomposition, police said.
Davis was joined by Harrisonburg Police Chief Kelley Warner and Forensics Maj. Ed O'Carroll who also shared details of their investigations into suspected serial killer at a Friday press conference.
The law enforcement officials said they would scour the state and Robinson's travel records to see if there are more victims than the four currently identified.
“We need to act right now with our law enforcement partners to figure out who else our killer has had contact with, and what’s his MO — dating sites, motels, blunt force trauma, shopping cart, final resting place," Davis said.
"He’s killed four already and we suspect that he has more victims. He’s a predator.”
Robinson’s attorney, Louis Nagy, declined to comment.
Harrisonburg Police Chief Kelley Warner said her department found the bodies of two victims, 54-year-old Allene Elizabeth “Beth” Redmon, and 39-year-old Tonita Laurice Smith, in a Harrisonburg commercial area on Nov. 23 and arrested Robinson in connection with their murders as a result of video surveillance and cell phone footage that placed him with the victims prior to their deaths.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/serial-killer-may-4-slayings-virginia-police-say-rcna9178
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