Jim Krauseneck returned from his job as an economist at Eastman Kodak on a gray evening in 1982 to find his wife, Cathy, murdered in their bed. Her blond hair spilled over the pillow; blood covered her eyes. An ax was imbedded in her skull.
Jim found their 3 1/2-year-old daughter in her bedroom across the hall. Sara wore two sweaters she had put on backward. She had been alone in the house with her mother’s corpse for the entire day.
Jim ran with his daughter to a neighbor’s home in the affluent suburb of Brighton, NY. The investigation began minutes later, when the neighbor phoned local police.
Thirty-seven years passed before Jim Krauseneck was indicted for Cathy’s murder. In the meantime, he married three more times, became a vice president of a Fortune 500 company, and raised Sara, his only child.
Now a mother of two daughters, Sara accompanied her father to court in Rochester, NY, for his arraignment in November 2019, attended his trial in 2022, and spoke in his support at his sentencing. Jim Krauseneck is now serving a prison term of 25 years to life.
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