Seventy-six-year-old Arthur Brumhill worked part-time at Denton’s pet and garden center on Wellingborough Road in Northampton, England. On the evening of January 20th, 1993, a witness saw Arthur in the shop, talking to a young man in his teens with mouse-brown hair who stood about five feet five inches tall. According to the witness, the conversation between the two appeared friendly.
The following morning, however, a shop assistant showed up to work and found Arthur Brumhill dead in the basement. He had been savagely beaten in the head, possibly with a tire iron, and straw had been scattered over his body.
A small sum of money was also taken from the store. Investigators found no sign of forced entry, suggesting that Arthur had likely let the killer in. After the murder, the attacker escaped through an upstairs window.
In the days following the crime, several arrests were made, but no one was charged. One of the suspects taken into custody was Stuart Jenkins, a former army sergeant who had worked at the pet store for a month in 1992 when he was seventeen years old. Although he was released in 1993, he was arrested for the murder again in 2015 due to new forensic evidence. In 2017, however, Jenkins was found not guilty and cleared.
Since that time, there have been no new developments, and the brutal slaying of Arthur Brumhill is still unsolved.
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