BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – A man serving a sentence of 60 years to life in prison for the blunt force death of a Burlington convenience store worker has died in prison.

Samuel Wright Jr., 29, was convicted of killing Kimberly Giroux, 26, in a 1986 robbery at Champlain Farms in Burlington. She was stabbed and beaten. Richard Aiken, 18, was also killed, but prosecutors had no evidence to connect Wright to his murder. The incident led to the business becoming known locally as a “murder mart.”

Wright has been serving time in a federal prison in Florida since 1989. He was 66 years old and the cause of his death has not been revealed.

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