When Stephan Smerk called Fairfax County Police Detective Melissa Wallace on Sept. 7, 2023, she was shocked to hear what he had to say.
“He says, I’m at the police department to turn myself in,” Wallace told “48 Hours” correspondent Anne-Marie Green, in “Closing the Cold Case of Robin Lawrence,” airing Saturday, Oct. 25 at 10/9c on CBS and Paramount+. “And I said, turn yourself in for what?”
Smerk, a married 52-year-old father of two living in Niskayuna, New York, was calling to confess to the 30-year-old cold case murder of Robin Warr Lawrence…