A defendant dubbed by the police when the “shopping cart kidney” is on trial In Virginia Accused of beating two women in 2021, they met on social media dating apps and brought them to his hotel room.
Jury members were shown on Monday a video that claimed to show suspicious Anthony Robinson that in October 2021 Room 336 of the Howard Johnson Hotel entered with Beth Redmon, 54, from Harrisonburg, and then the next morning a leaf -covered body from the room.
He then drove the car to the tree line, near the back of the hotel, Said the police.
Anthony Robinson, dubbed by the police as the “shopping cart murderer” is on trial in Virginia accused of beating at least two women in 2021, they met on social media apps and brought them to his hotel room. (Harrisonburg Police Department)
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Justice officers at Rockingham County Circuit Court say that he did the same with Tonia Smith the following month, 39, from Charlottesville.
When opening statements, public prosecutor Marsha Garst told jury members Robinson “killed these women to meet his sexual requirements,” said WTOP News.
Robinson is also linked to two dead from other women in Fairfax County and one in Washington, DC, but is not on trial for their death.
“Beth and Tonita entered the gates of hell,” Garst said the court, Per WMRA, “He kills women for sport,” she said.
On November 24, 2021, the Harrisonburg police found the corpses of Redmon and Smith behind the parking lot of Howard Johnson Motel.
Shopping cart where fairfax murder detectives found human remains. (Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office)
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Researchers found several injuries to different parts of the women’s bodies, sweatshirts around some of their mouth wrapped and left naked except the socks on their feet, according to WHSV. The police also found thousands of pornographic URLs on his phone because the headlines looked like the two victims.
Robinson’s defense team asked: “What really happened in room 336?”
Robinson stayed at the hotel as part of his compensation for working in a nearby chicken processing factory, according to an employee of the hotel, and his defense says that public prosecutors are unable to provide evidence of what happened during the period that the Women were killed.
Beth Redmon, 54, Van Harrisonburg, Left, and Tonia Smith, 39, Van Charlottesville, on the right, were found dead in 2021. (Fox 5 DC (WTTG))
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The coroner ruled the way of death as a murder But according to WHSV did not have a clear cause of death and that proof that the prosecutors presented would leave more questions than answers.
Louis Nagy, Robinson’s lawyer, said that there was “a lot of evidence” prior to and after the alleged incident, but could not prove anything in the middle, per WHSV.
He also called the use of prisoners by the public prosecutor to prove the middle and said that the credibility of the prisoners is not sustainable. For example, one of the prisoners was convicted fraud Earlier reports of the publications.
