ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VA (Rocktown Now) — It appears that attorneys for the so-called Shopping Cart Killer will get their wish and have one trial instead of two separate murder trials.

According to online records, Anthony Eugene Robinson had a pre-trial motion this week in Rockingham County Circuit and now he will have one trial that is set for January 27th of next year.

Earlier this month, a judge had rejected a defense motion combining the two trials.

However, the September 23rd date for the start of what would have the been the first trial is no longer on the docket.

Robinson is accused of murdering Harrisonburg resident Beth Redmon and Tonita Smith of Charlottesville. Both of their bodies were discovered in an underdeveloped lot off Country Club Rd. in Harrisonburg near the Howard Johnson Hotel – where video evidence allegedly shows Robinson meeting with the victims – in November of 2021.

Although the remains of both Redmon and Smith were discovered in the same lot, investigators determined that they were murdered on separate occasions. Causes of death for both women have been disputed as well.

Police say Robinson would meet his victims on dating sites and would allegedly kill them and ditch the bodies in a shopping cart. He is believed to have murdered two other women in Washington, D.C. and Fairfax, respectively, and disposed of their bodies in a similar fashion.

Like Redmon and Smith, their causes of death remain undetermined.

He has also been linked to two murders in Fairfax County and one in Washington, D.C. but has not been charged in those cases.