HARRISONBURG, VA — The man known as the "Shopping Cart Killer" was sentenced to life in prison this week for murdering two women in Virginia in 2021, according to a report.
Anthony Eugene Robinson was sentenced on Friday after was convicted last year of killing 54-year-old Allene “Beth” Redmon and 39-year-old Tonita Lorice Smith in a Harrisonburg motel room, WTOP reported. A jury found him guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated murder and two counts of concealing a dead body.
At the time, the jury recommended that Robinson receive four life sentences, plus 10 years in prison and a $400,000 fine, according to WTOP.
Robinson is also connected to the killings of three other women, but has not been formally charged in their deaths.
Authorities believe Robinson was involved in the 2021 death of Sonya Champ, 40, of Northwest Washington, D.C., who was found a few blocks from Union Station in a shopping cart covered with a blanket.
Robinson has also been linked to two other deaths after Fairfax County Police found two badly decomposed bodies on Dec. 15, 2021, in a large plastic container near a shopping cart in the Alexandria area. Police identified the victims as Cheyenne Brown, 29, of Washington, D.C., and Stephanie Harrison, 48, of Redding, California.
Police said they believe the women were victims of the "Shopping Cart Killer" because the person used shopping carts to move and dump murder victims' bodies in remote areas.
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