BRUNSSUM - Following the arrest of two boys aged fifteen and seventeen from Brunssum last Friday, two more Brunssumers (aged seventeen and twenty-two) were arrested last night on suspicion of involvement in the death of their fellow townsman Arnold Vink 77. They too are in custody. According to press officer W. Smits, the four youths are suspected of the same thing: on March 5, they allegedly broke into Vink's house. The man himself reported this burglary, which included the theft of jewelry and a VCR. On March 10, a housekeeper found the lifeless body of the infirm Brunssumer. Justice suspects the youths returned to the man's home on De Ruyterstraat in the Brunsumm neighborhood of Egge after March 5. Smits neither confirms nor denies that Vink was allegedly beaten to death during a burglary. He would not say how the man was killed.
Nor would he say whether the suspects deny or confess their involvement. The two men arrested last night were searched, but the press officer would not say whether it yielded anything.

Because Finch was wearing only one of slippers when he was found and the other is without a trace, his violent death has also been called the "slipper murder.

The two boys arrested Friday will be arraigned today before the magistrate judge, who will test whether they are justified in detaining them. If so, the prosecutor will extend their so-called detention for three days.

According to counsel S. van Berge Henegouwen of the 15-year-old suspect, this could mean that the justice system is not so sure of its case: had it been, it would have demanded their detention for ten days. Press officer Smits countered that the prosecution is proceeding "proportionately and cautiously" in this case.