Police say a fifth victim may be linked to the man they have dubbed the “shopping cart killer.”
Anthony Robinson, 35, has already been charged with killing two women, and now it’s a chance he’s connected to a body found in Washington, D.C., authorities reported Friday.
Investigators allege Robinson met his victims on dating websites and accused him of luring them into motels where he killed them before transporting their bodies in shopping carts.
This week, police received a “critical tip” l that might connect Robinson to another case involving a woman whose body was found in a shopping cart in Washington, DC, Fairfax County Police Bureau Chief of Major Crimes Cyber and Forensics Ed O’Carroll said during the Friday news conference.
“That deceased woman in a shopping cart was covered only with a blanket. We believe this may be Anthony Eugene Robinson’s fifth victim,” O’Carroll said, adding that digital evidence has pal ed Robinson in the same vicinity around the time the victim disappeared.
Robinson was charged in November with the deaths of Elizabeth Redmon, 54, of Harrisonburg, and Tonita Lorice Smith, 39, of Charlottesville. Their bodies were found a short distance from each other on November 23.
Police used video surveillance and cell phone records to link Robinson to Redmon and Smith, leading to his arrest.
He is currently detained at the Rockingham County Adult Detention Center in North Carolina. CNN reported that he faces two counts of first-degree murder and two felony counts of concealing, transporting, or altering a dead body.
