On the evening of March 13th, 2015, fifty-year-old antique dealer Robyn Mercer had just finished dinner and then went out the front door of her house in West Molesey, Surrey, England, presumably to throw something into the garbage bins at the end of her driveway. She never returned to her home.
The following morning at around eight a.m., passersby found her dead body near the back gate. She had been bludgeoned to death, probably with a machete or an axe. Forensic examination determined that she had been struck once in the forehead, after which the perpetrator had continued to hit her repeatedly on the back of the head after she had collapsed to the ground.
Authorities were mystified as to the motive behind this seemingly random attack, and though six arrests were made over the course of the investigation—comprising four local men suspected of the murder and two women arrested for perverting the course of justice—no charges have yet been brought, and all six suspects remain free as of this writing.
Interestingly, Robyn’s ex-partner, Robert Webb, served eight months in jail in 2017 for forging Robyn’s will, but it does not appear that he is a serious suspect in her slaying.
The case remains open and active.
Crime Immemorial 