Article: 'The Perfect Love' Lost; Fire in Victim's Shop Set to Hide Homicide, Police Say

They found each other online and e-mailed for six months before they spoke by telephone, then courted six months more in long- distance calls before they met and got married slightly more than two years ago.

Yesterday, Cliff Sosin grieved as Maryland authorities determined that his 39-year-old wife, Vanessa Yvette Johnson, was stabbed to death Saturday in her consignment shop in downtown Rockville.

Johnson's shop at 18 W. Montgomery Ave. was in a two-story brick building near a Rockville police station and the Montgomery County courthouse, in a central business district where violent crime is rare.

Although her body was found during a fire at the shop, the office of Maryland's chief medical ...

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