Stephan Jenkins has a cold. Well, he had a cold. He feels better today. It was more like the flu, he says, and it coincided with Third Eye Blind’s appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series.

Army veteran Stephan Smerk, 53, pleaded guilty in October to the 1994 stabbing death of 37-year-old Robin Lawrence, who was home alone with her 2-year-old. Lawrence's murder went unsolved for ...