Smithsonian curator killed in apartment elevator

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Alfred Steck was riding the elevator up to his Silver Spring high-rise apartment when he became another victim in a bloody string of robbery murders in the summer of 1980.

Police are still looking for the two men who were seen running from the apartment building shortly before Steck’s body was discovered.

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