Robert Mirman, 63, was stabbed to death during an apparent robbery at the family grocery he owned on the corner of East Buchtel Avenue and Arlington Street in Akron, Ohio, on January 29, 1981. He had been discovered at the store after the attack. The business had been a neighborhood staple for decades, but the area had seen increasing danger and Mirman reportedly had been robbed multiple times before the fatal assault.

Local investigators, including the Akron Police Department, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Attorney General’s Office, have kept the case active in unsolved homicide files. No suspects have been arrested and no viable leads have been publicly reported; appeals for tips continue in hopes that new information will surface. If anyone has memories, observations, or information about Mirman, the scene or people in the area around January 29, 1981, please contact investigators.