McLean Home Invasion: Lawyer to Serve Life in Prison for Violent Attack

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA — A former military attorney will spend the rest of his life behind bars, after a home invasion that saw him slash the throats of a McLean couple, The Washington Post reported.

Judge Randy Bellows on Friday accepted the sentencing handed down by the jury in June, calling the attack on the McLean couple "brutal" and "callous," The Post reported.

Andrew Schmuhl, 33, was sentenced in June to two life terms plus 98 years for the Nov. 9 attack on attorney Leo Fisher and his wife, Susan Duncan, of McLean and Bellows affirmed that Friday.

Fisher is a managing partner at the Arlington law firm, Bean, Kinney & Korman, where Schmuhl's wife Alecia had worked. After she was fired from the firm, the two Springfield lawyers hatched a plot to terrorize Fisher and his wife, according to police and

The two drove to the McLean home in 2014 with a a taser, duct tape and throw-away cell phones; Andrew Schmuhl gained entry by pretending to be some sort of law officer. Although she stayed in the car during the three-hour ordeal, surveillance video later showed Alecia Schmuhl purchasing a Taser gun before the attack.

During the torture session at their home -- which including Schmuhl stabbing, slashing, Tasering and shooting a gun, according to reports -- Susan Duncan was able to sound an alarm that contacted police, prompting the Schmuhls to flee the home. The two were picked up after a car chase with Andrew Schmuhl wearing only a diaper.

Schmuhl's attorney said his client was intoxicated on drugs and didn't remember the attacks.

Both Fisher and Duncan survived.

Alecia Schmuhl will stand trial in September.

Photo of Alecia and Andrew Schmuhl courtesy of FCPD