Betty H. Brunton, a 52-year-old employee of Memorial Park Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Florida, was murdered on August 23, 1976. She had returned home to get her lunch when a man followed her to her house, entered the residence, and stabbed her; the weapon was left lodged in her stomach. Co-workers who became concerned found her body after initially thinking she had fallen ill. Emergency responders pronounced her dead at the scene and reported no obvious signs of forced entry or a visible struggle.

Investigators later identified Anthony Joe LaRette Jr. as the attacker. He was active between 1976 and 1980 and was arrested on August 7, 1980. Other names were investigated in 1979, including John Benjamin Kennedy, but no definite link to Brunton’s case was established at that time.

Does anyone have recollections of Memorial Park Cemetery or the neighborhood in 1976 that might shed light on Brunton’s last movements?