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On Sunday, Feb. 9, a relative called 911 to report a medical emergency

Janet Rischeill Kelsen was found dead from blunt-force head trauma

Her death was at first considered accidental, say police

The close-knit town of Exeter, N.H., was shaken when Janet Rischeill Kelsen, 88, was allegedly bludgeoned to death in her home in February.

Residents and store owners in the sleepy New England town said they worried more about break-ins and theft than homicide, according to Seacoastonline .

“You have something like that happen, especially to an elderly person who is defenseless, it’s not really on your mind,” Ward Dilmore, whose wife manages Exeter Fine Crafts on Water St. in Exeter, told Seacoastonline in February.

Now, nine months later, authorities have arrested a suspect:

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