‘A bad man hurt mommy’: Cathy Krauseneck’s family recalls ax murder and justice finally served decades later

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Cathy was found slain in her bed with an ax lodged in her head in Brighton in upstate New York on Feb. 19, 1982. She was just 29-years old.

The sister of young mom Cathy Krauseneck — who was found murdered with an ax nearly 40 years ago — recalled how “devastated” she was after the tragic slaying.

“I was devastated,” she recalls. “And here I [was] at my sister’s funeral; My best friend, my mentor, my world.”” went cold for decades until authorities reopened the investigation in 2015. Cathy Krauseneck was asleep when her husband James Krauseneck attacked her with an ax, prosecutors during James’ trial.in prison.

The little girl told police that she saw a “bad man” in her parent’s bedroom, but James refused subsequent interviews with cops,The day after the murder, James left Rochester with Sara in tow, to return to Michigan, where his family lived.

 

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