Anonymousabout 21 hours ago
Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife, Dr. Cerina Wanzer Fairfax, in the basement of their Annandale home on April 16, 2026, before killing himself as the couple's contested divorce neared trial — an act corroborated by the home surveillance cameras Cerina had installed. The killings cap a seven-year arc that began with 2019 sexual-assault allegations Fairfax denied and were never adjudicated, but criminological evidence points more directly to a pending separation, a recently acquired firearm, and a fabricated domestic complaint Fairfax filed against his wife three months earlier. Virginia's domestic-violence fatality-review infrastructure — among the oldest in the country — was not positioned to intervene in a case that looked, from the outside, like a wealthy professional divorce.