[Sandra] Something like this had never happened before
and had never really happened since.
I just remember thinking, he was an evil man.
[women on phone]
This is one of the worst crime scene you could possibly imagine.
[Stephen] All you see is some hair,
and you see this axe just sticking out.
He's the devil,
as far as I'm concerned.
He'd be lying not only to himself but to everyone.
This case was a puzzle but a lot of pieces just don't get that puzzle.
[Jim speaking]
[detective speaking]
I knew this guy 100% did it.
[Alicia] In this case though not everyone believes that
the right person has been caught.
[Alicia] Your home is supposed to be a place that's familiar and safe.
And at People Magazine we know that there's really no greater threat or fear
than when evil penetrates the walls of the place that we call home.
In 1982, Brighton, New York is a quiet suburb
of the bustling city of Rochester.
[Gloria] I'm Gloria Winkowski.
My husband and I moved to Brighton
September of 1981, with our two little kids.
Brighton was very quiet. You know, very safe.
And lot of places for the kids.
Lots of young couples starting to move in.
One of those young couples is Jim and Cathy Krauseneck
and their three-year-old daughter, Sara.
James and Cathleen Krauseneck were from Mount Clemens, Michigan.
In the late 1960's, they both went to the same high school.
But they didn't know each other very well.
[Stephen] My name is Stephen Hunt.
I'm and investigator with the Brighton Police Department.
James Krauseneck was from a affluent family.
Cathy was from a blue-collar family.
Jim was a very quiet reserved person.
In high school, he wouldn't say much.
Whereas Cathy was a vibrant outgoing personality.
They ended up becoming close when they went to university in 1970.
Jim was studying economics
and Cathleen was studying occupational therapy.
It really ramped up when they went to college in Michigan.
And from there they're inseparable.
[Christine] Kathy and Jim married in 1974.
And they went to Fort Collins, Colorado,
Jim went to Colorado State University to get his doctorate in economics.
And Cathy got a job working in occupational therapy.
Then in 1978,
their daughter Sara was born.
[Alicia] After Jim finishes his Ph.D.,
he begins teaching college economics.
But soon after a new opportunity presents itself.
[Stephen] He was approached by Eastman Kodak
for job in up here in Upstate New York at Kodak as an economist.
So, the Krausenecks moved to Rochester
in the fall of 1981.
[Alicia] The family settles in Brighton and Jim's new higher salary
affords Cathy the option to now be a stay-at-home mom.
But this major life move doesn't come without it's struggles.
[Christine] Jim really liked his job but it was a really high pressure job.
He was going to work like, 6:30 in the morning
and then coming home sometimes late at night.
Cathy wasn't overly happy living in Brighton.
She felt really isolated.
You know, Jim had the car.
He would take the car everyday to work.
And so he was stuck at home.
But soon, Cathy makes a new friend.
I met Cathy in September of 1981
at the preschool where our children attended.
Cathy and Gloria realized they have a lot in common.
[Gloria] She was just like me.
We moved to Brighton around the same time.
And we were of the same age.
Twenty-nine exactly.
Our children were also of the same age.
And we found out both our mothers were Polish.
And we started making cookies together
because you know, the Polish people love to
bake and make pierogies and all those wonderful things.
Cathy and I spoke to each other everyday.
She'd either call me or I'd call her.
And if I didn't call her she'd call me to find out why I didn't call her.
[Alicia] The week of February 15th, 1982,
the kids are out of school for winter break.
[Gloria] Thursday morning we talked
and Cathy goes, "I got a favor to ask you.
I've got a doctor's appointment for Sara tomorrow.
If Jim doesn't leave me the car,
will you pick me up and take me and Sara to doctor's?"
I said, "Of course. Absolutely."
She goes, "I'll call you in the morning and let you "know.
The next day arrives and there's no word from Cathy.
I must have called at least... ten times.
It rang and rang and rang.
[telephone ringing]
And I actually had this awful feeling come over me.
It was like, oh my God, something must've happened there.
[Christine] Then around five o'clock in the afternoon,
the Brighton Police department gets a 911 call from a neighbor across the street.
[women on phone]
[Christine] Jim and Sara stays with the neighbor
and then a few minutes later the police arrive.
[Richard] The officers approached the house
and saw that there was broken glass in the door.
It appeared to be forced entry to the house.
The officers entered the house then went upstairs
and went into the master bedroom
and in the bed is... Cathy.
All you see is some hair and you see this axe just sticking out.
Once the officers secure the house,
they report the gruesome scene to their superiors.
[Richard] When I got there around 7:00 pm that evening,
the crime scene technicians were in the premises starting the process.
Upon inspection of the master bedroom, where the body was found,
did not appear to be any sign of a struggle.
My name is Patrick Gallagher.
I'm an assistant district attorney at the Monroe County, DA's office.
She was in bed, was covered with blankets.
Does not appear she'd been disturbed in any way.
She was clothed with a night gown and underwear.
Her underwear were still on. There were no signs of sexual assault.
According to the medical examiner at the scene,
the time of death was between 4:30 am and 7:30 am.
All the evidence indicated that she was sound asleep when she was murdered.
And it appeared that she was struck with one swift blow from behind
burying the axe into her skull
causing immediate instantaneous death.
Detective Corrigan proceeds to investigate the rest of the house.
[Richard] Upon reviewing the entry door to the house,
it appeared that someone had taken another axe
which was a wood splitting maul
and had punched out this small six by eight size pane of glass
and then set it down against the wall to the right of the door
and that appeared to be the point where
someone had forced entry to the house.
On the inside of the house, there was property laid out
in the dining room, the property being
a silver service set, household artifacts.
And they appeared it like, they're gonna be placed into a plastic garbage bag.
[Stephen] Inside the black garbage bag,
they found a latent shoe print with a unusual siped pattern.
We assumed that the killer left that shoe print.
Also Cathy's purse was on the floor
and the contents were dumped out.
Based on everything I saw it looked like,
the perpetrator was in the middle of a burglary.
Across town Gloria Winkowski hears the heart breaking news.
My husband had to come in and tell me she was murdered.
And I said, "I don't believe it.
I don't believe it." So I started calling her house again.
The policemen answered. I thought it was Jim.
I go, "Is this Jim?" And he goes,
"No, this is officer so and so."
I go, "Please tell me it's not true."
He goes, "It is." And I go, "oh my God!"
That was probably one of the worst things I've ever had happen to me in my life,
losing a friend like that.
It really, really was.
That night, Jim Krauseneck and his daughter Sara
are taken to the police station for an interview.
He appeared to be a man that was in shock by what he had found
and what had happened to his soulmate, to his wife.
Concerned about his daughter.
She's tired.
This is whole a lot of stimulus for a three-year-old child.
[Patrick] Jim went through the events of that day.
He said, he woke up.
And that morning it was just a quiet house,
Cathy was asleep still.
And Sara was still asleep.
Jim indicated that he had left for work at 6:30 that morning.
And that his wife was alive and well when he left.
[Patrick] Jim said he had a normal day.
Sara had a doctor's appointment in the afternoon.
And so he said he got home around 4:50 pm to take her to her doctor's appointment.
He then went upstairs.
And that's when he found his wife in bed with an axe in her head.
He said that he went to his daughter Sara's room
and she was in there huddled in a corner.
She was not harmed.
So, he grabbed her went out the front door
right across the street to the neighbor's house
and then the neighbor called 911.
Then the police asked Jim if the weapons found at the scene were familiar to him.
Jim indicated that both maul and the axe were both his.
And that they were both in the garage when he left for work that morning.
After they finished taking Jim Krauseneck's statement investigators realized
they have a possible witness to the murder.
[Richard] We didn't want to interview Sara.
You know, she's three-years-old, she's had a toddler.
We didn't know how this impacted her.
But we knew we had to talk to her.
Sara said, "When I woke up,
daddy was gone and mummy was gone and nobody was there to feed me or dress me."
She was all alone all day long,
roaming around.
[Patrick] She said that she had to feed herself breakfast.
And at some point made her way to her mom's room.
She described seeing what she said was a bad man in mommy and daddy's bed.
And when asked what color he was?
You know, was he white? Was he black?
She said he was many colors.
It appeared right away to officers that she was describing her mom
lying in bed and just couldn't recognize her mom
due to the trauma to her mom's head.
The morning after the murder with no family nearby,
Jim decides to take Sara back to his parents' house in Michigan,
while the news of Cathy's murder hits the airwaves.
In his 22 years on the force, the lieutenant says,
he's never had to investigate a case this brutal.
As for the neighborhood, well, you get the feeling here
it'll take quite sometime to get over the shock of it.
They were the warmest, nicest people that you'll ever imagine.
They have a lovely little daughter.
And it's... it just doesn't make sense. It just...
This case like, rocked New York.
They called it, "The Brighton ax murder."
We have people that are scared.
They're thinking that there's some homicidal maniac with an axe
running around killing people.
Police say, because of the nature of this crime,
they believe the murderer to be a person who is mentally unstable.
With all the publicity surrounding the case,
a flood of tips pour in to the Brighton Police department.
[Richard] We got a lot of phone calls.
One of those phone calls was about a fellow by name Ed Laraby.
Ed Laraby is a career criminal.
An angry man, a violent man.
I'm Bob Napier.
And I'm the defense attorney for Edward Laraby.
Ed was convicted of multiple rapes and...
he did an extended period of time in state prison
between 1973 and 1980.
[Bill] Ed Laraby was more than a bad dude.
I've never encountered anyone with that level of
sociopathic rage against women.
[Robert] At the time of the Krauseneck murder,
he was on parole.
Ed Laraby in his past certainly committed burglaries.
And his modus operandi would be to case suburban homes,
look in the windows,
specifically, look for a possible female victim
creating the opportunity of both of sexual assault as well as a burglary.
But Laraby's criminal record isn't the only thing that sticks out to police.
[Richard] At the time he lived in an apartment complex
probably within half a mile of the Del Rio Drive address where the crime occurred.
My partner went to Ed Laraby's address and knocked on the door
to verify his activities on the day of the crime.
Ed Laraby became verbally violent,
swearing at my partner, threatening him and was,
you know, totally uncooperative.
We were able to follow up though
and verify that he was employed at the point of time.
Laraby does maintenance for several bars and taverns,
and it's a job that keeps him out and about on most days.
[Richard] We were able to verify that he did work that day.
A co-worker saw him.
But it's possible that Laraby had a window of opportunity during his commute to work.
[Richard] Laraby's one hour drive time from home to work was the only blank spot
that could not be verified somebody or documented.
But police didn't have any other evidence
to show that he was responsible for the crime.
There were no prints, latent prints that were discovered back at the scene.
And DNA wasn't even on the radar back then.
They had no specific information that Laraby was involved in this crime
outside of the fact that he lived down the street and had committed burglaries.
You only really consider someone that's got something
to put your teeth into and run with.
And that didn't really materialize.
Detectives interview the people in town that are closest to Cathy,
including her best friend Gloria.
[Gloria] The Brighton Police department sent a detective.
And I talked to him for about an hour and a half, two hours.
I told him everything I knew about Cathy.
Gloria had mentioned that Cathy wanted to have a second child
but Jim wasn't onboard with that.
She always said to me, "You're so lucky that you have two."
Then I said, "Well, I want to have more."
And she goes, "Oh wow, that's great."
She goes, "Jim doesn't want any more children.
Sara's gonna be our only one."
Gloria goes on to say
that Cathy told her Jim had been coming home from work in a bad mood.
And he was in an especially foul mood
the night before the murder.
[Gloria] When Jim got home from work he was a real bear, like a real grump.
By Thursday night, we were talking
and when Jim got home from work she goes, "I can't talk now.
You know, I've to get off the phone 'cause Jim's home."
Her tone was somewhat fearful.
And that was it. That was the last time I talked to her.
Detectives continue their interviews with Jim's co-workers
and his superiors at Kodak.
[Richard] We were advised that for a week before the murder Jim was being pressured
by HR, Human Resources to supply
his doctorate from Colorado State University in economics
to prove to Kodak that they had hired a Ph.D.
But Jim kept making excuses, it must have got lost in the mail,
my advisor got sick.
Different reasons why the paperwork requested by Kodak wasn't provided.
[Alicia] Police check with Colorado State University where Jim went to grad school,
and Jim's advisor tells them Jim failed his oral exams
and never completed his degree.
Investigators also found out that Cathy called Colorado State University
to try and figure out why they were not confirming his Ph.D.
So we know at some point she believed he had his Ph.D.
And from that we know that Jim have lied to Cathy as well about his Ph.D. status.
[Stephen] So what we know is that, you got Cathy who is lonely in the house,
wants to have another kid.
Now all of a sudden she discovers Jim's job is based on a lie.
His pay and his position were based on that doctorate.
And I've talked to people from Kodak and, yeah, it was...
he was probably gonna lose his job.
There's definitely gonna be some stress in that house.
And I believe it was coming to a head that week.
With all of this in mind, investigators turned back to the evidence,
and begin looking at the crime scene in a new light.
[Richard] This was the neatest burglar that we've ever seen.
A regular burglar, they pretty much go like Vikings through a house.
You'd pull drawers out you dump them under floor to see what's in there
to pick through.
There were items left around
that a regular burglar would normally just grab stuff in their pockets.
It just did not fit the mold of a burglary.
[Patrick] It just looked like the whole thing had been staged.
And have to ask yourself why stage a burglary?
And the answer is pretty simple.
To make it look like somebody from outside of the house killed Cathy.
When in fact it was somebody inside the house.
[Alicia] Within days after the murder of Cathy Krauseneck,
her husband Jim has risen to the top of the suspect list.
So a team of Brighton investigators went to Michigan
to speak with James Krauseneck again.
[Richard] Jim came to our hotel room with his father, Jim Sr.
and his brother-in-law who was an attorney.
Maybe 15 to 20 minutes since the discussion with Jim,
the brother-in-law would say, so, what are you finding about the burglary?
And before myself or the other officer could answer Jim jumped up
and raged, upset, I don't wanna talk about this. I don't wanna hear this.
This is it. I don't want any part of this.
And he terminated the interview.
[Alicia] Jim's reaction to the mentioning of the burglary
raises investigators suspicions
but without any evidence or probable cause to arrest him they have to let him walk.
Few days later Jim agreed meet with the investigators again
but this time at the hospital to give blood, hair and saliva samples
for him and for Sara.
[Richard] We needed those samples to eliminate them
from an outside party or an intruder.
[Alicia] Jim refuses to meet again.
So with Jim out of reach, detectives pay a visit to Cathy's family.
I promised the family, as long as I am alive on this earth, I will do anything I can
to solve your daughter's murder.
The Brighton PD chases down every credible lead
and is growing increasingly frustrated.
[Richard] We were really coming up with nothing.
We spent months trying to develop any suspect or motive
or outside party,
either forensically, talking person to person.
Information coming in to follow up, nothing could be produced.
[Gloria] I would think about her quite often.
I prayed every night that they'd find justice for her.
Every time I saw a policeman I'd go, are you gonna open up the Krauseneck case?
I didn't want that to die.
[Alicia] For decades, the case really lies dormant.
Until 2014 when a voice from the past returns.
[Christine] In 2014, the police get a
confession letter by Ed Laraby
that he says he killed Cathy Krauseneck.
In 2014 he was serving a life sentence for rape
as well as a attempted murder of a correctional officer.
Laraby has recently confessed to another murder from 1991.
Stephanie Kupchynsky was a 27-year-old music teacher
who Laraby raped and strangled to death
and dumped her body in the woods.
[Laraby speaking]
This other murder bares some similarities to the Krauseneck murder.
Both are attractive women in their twenties.
And it's a home invasion that turns into a homicide.
Given these similarities and Laraby's violent criminal background,
the Brighton police think his letter might have some credibility.
Also, Laraby was suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease
and he's so close to death.
Maybe he just wanted to clear his conscience
and just admit what he had sone before he died.
But Ed Laraby wants certain favors in exchange for his confession.
[Sandra] My name is Sandra Doorley.
I'm the Monroe County district attorney.
And I've been a prosecutor now for over 31 years.
He wanted money put aside for his children.
He wanted a headstone.
He wanted to not be buried within
the department of corrections prison system.
He wanted to be buried as a free man.
[Alicia] Before agreeing to any of Laraby's requests,
Brighton police and the DA's office
examine his confession very carefully.
[Stephen] Laraby said that he was working,
doing drugs, drinking,
and that he went to the Krausenecks' and Cathy answered the door.
[Patrick] He said they had a conversation.
He decided at that point
that he was going to rape and kill her.
So then he rapes her and then kills her with an axe from the garage.
[Stephen] But the way he described the scene and her murder was way off.
He said that it had happened in the summer of 1981.
He said that she was a heavy-set, white female, dark hair.
He sexually assaulted her, he took her underwear.
But none of that happened.
That's not how it happened.
Not one thing that he said matched the evidence of the crime scene.
It was not credible. It was simply not credible.
It appears he was just trying to say anything he could to get the benefits he wanted.
A few weeks later Ed Laraby dies in prison
and Cathy Krauseneck's case remains unsolved.
But in 2015, the case gets new life
when the FBI takes an interest.
The FBI get a cold case working group.
And basically, they would offer services up to agencies the area
that had cold cases that needed some help.
So, after this invitation from the FBI there was energy within the department.
And I couldn't wait to get into it
and actually to see what we had and what we could do.
[Patrick] In 1982, the main things they did were check items for fingerprints.
And they also were able to do hair analysis of various items.
But it was very limited what they were able to do.
[Sandra] Technology has certainly changed since back in 1982.
So I was focusing on DNA.
I wanted everything tested to the best of our ability.
I wanted to know if there was another DNA profile in that house.
If there was evidence of an outsider coming in that morning,
then that was where my investigation should focus.
If not then we needed to focus on people inside of that house.
[Patrick] So the FBI was sent any items that Brighton police
or the DA's office thought could be helpful.
They were sent the axe and the maul.
They were sent the garbage bag that was left there half open with the shoe print.
In addition to the DNA testing, investigators re-examine the burglary.
They feel that not only is it staged but it defies logic.
One of the things that really hit me right away was the use of both an axe and a maul.
No matter how I wrap my head around it,
I couldn't come up with a reason why an intruder
would need to use both the axe and the maul.
I could see you breaking the window with the maul and leaving it there.
But you see Cathy upstairs sleeping,
and then you run back downstairs, go pass the maul that you just left
and then go into the garage get the axe
and go pass the maul again, go upstairs, put the axe in her head.
That stuff just doesn't makes sense.
[Patrick] The only reason that that maul was needed was because
the axe was not available at that time,
because the axe was already in Cathy's head.
Results of the DNA from the axe and the maul
have come back from the FBI.
[Patrick] And there was dried blood on the axe, they had determined it was Cathy's DNA.
But they did not find any other profiles,
known profiles or unknown profiles on any of the items.
Which was consistent with the theory that
there was no stranger in this house.
[Christine] So that made it more convincing to them
that the real culprit was Jim Krauseneck.
In addition to everything else, the DA's office also re-examines the time of death.
Our office reached out to one of the more well known
medical examiners in the country, Dr. Michael Baden.
And he looked at the case.
His new analysis puts the time of death at around 3:30 in the morning.
An hour earlier than the original estimate.
That would've been a time when James Krauseneck was present in the house.
The next step was let's see if we can talk to Jim Krauseneck again.
Let's see if we can talk to Sara Krauseneck again.
Let's talk to the only two people who might know what happened that morning.
[officer speaking]
When investigators from the DA's office
went and knocked on Sara's door out of the blue,
she did not know they were coming.
And at the same time Brighton police had two investigators from their office
go to talk to James Krauseneck.
We did them both at the same time because we didn't want them talking.
The interview started with us just talking about 1982
and what he remembered.
We got past the introductions and the building rapport
then we just switch gears.
[Stephen] His mannerisms, he's back and forth in his chair.
He was struggling to talk.
Dry mouth, you can see the saliva thickening in the corners of his mouth.
He was visibly shaken.
I went into this being like, 97% sure that he did it.
When I left that interview I was 100% sure that he did it.
The County DA goes to a grand jury to present their circumstantial case.
And the grand jury indicts Jim on one count of murder in the second degree.
James Krauseneck Jr. surrendered to authorities on Friday, November 8th
at the hall of justice in Rochester where he's charged with murder
in the second degree
by way of a grand jury indictment.
I had my suspicions, you know? The more I thought about him, the way he was...
I could see that he did it.
You are not supposed to be happy in things like this.
But I was happy, really happy that they were finally gonna
hopefully get justice for Cathy.
I believed in our case, i believed in our evidence.
But we knew it was not gonna be an easy case.
It was gonna be an uphill battle.
[Sandra] Over the next couple of years,
we worked with the investigators to put the case together.
Then close to trial time, one of the detectives uncovers something
that had gone unnoticed.
[Stephen] Right before the trial,
something told me to look at the pictures from the crime scene.
And there's a picture of the black bag
with a latent shoe print with a sipe pattern.
Also, there's one picture in particular
with Jim's clothes on it and there's a pair of boat shoes in the foreground.
What struck me is what if the siped pattern was from the boat shoe?
We didn't have Jim's boat shoes to compare to.
So I Goggled boat shoe soles
and a Sebago Docksider came up
and the bottom of that sole is a siped pattern.
It doesn't take an expert to look at those two patterns, put 'em side by side and say,
that's the sipe pattern from the boat shoe.
So I reached out to people that were close to Jim in his life.
And I asked them what are Jim's favorite type of shoes?
And they all said the same thing, boat shoes.
[Alicia] In late August of 2022,
40 years after Cathy Krauseneck's murder,
Jim Krauseneck stands trial.
Cathy's 94-year-old father has waited
half his life for this day.
I wanted justice done for my daughter.
And I'd like to have it as soon as possible.
At my age, I don't know how long I'm gonna be along around here.
Cathy's family was there. Her sister, her cousins and her father.
And they were there everyday for the trial.
We want justice for my sister. Justice for Cathy.
Sara is a victim in this as well.
I want her to see justice. We love her.
And we need a speedy trial.
The prosecution lays out it's plan in their opening statement.
We started our case with two words "common sense."
I knew it was a very circumstantial case.
We knew that we had the facts that point to Jim Krauseneck
as the person responsible of this crime.
But could we get the people to use their common sense and make those inferences.
[Bill] The prosecution's case is essentially, "use your common sense."
But if your common sense tells you something is guilty
that doesn't mean anything.
It's what's the evidence that shows it?
And without direct evidence that he did it,
we're nowhere near beyond a miserable doubt.
The prosecution presents their argument that the burglary was staged.
[Patrick] Outside of that broken window in the porch and the items
placed on the floor of the dining room nothing is out of place.
This is not what a burglary looks like.
For the defense, it's our theory that even if it were staged,
why couldn't someone else have staged it?
Ed Laraby had broken into houses to assault women before.
He had an equal motive to stage a burglary.
The prosecution also presents one of the more crucial arguments
against Jim Krauseneck.
Motive.
I submit to you that there is evidence of a motive here.
We have the defendant with this life that he's carefully crafted.
Beautiful wife, great job... but it's built on this lie.
The defendant did not have a Ph.D. and he said he had a Ph.D.
He knows that things are gonna come crashing down around him.
It could cause a degree of insecurity.
But to translate that into a motive
to put an axe into your wife's head?
It doesn't make any sense.
Finally the prosecution presents the shoe print evidence from the garbage bag.
Think about when this burglary was committed.
It's February, there's snow on the ground.
Who's committing a burglary in boat shoes.
Their theory was no one else would be wearing moccasins other than Jim Krauseneck.
He was a boat-shoe type person.
That's speculative nonsense.
We don't know that.
[Alicia] Once the prosecution rests,
the defense knows that in order to get a not guilty verdict
they only need to show that there's reasonable doubt
that Jim committed this crime.
And in this case, there was another suspect who actually confessed.
Edward Laraby.
What do we know about Edward Laraby?
Ed Laraby had a history of stalking women,
breaking into their residence or houses,
and violently attacking.
It's our theory Laraby entered their house
as he did often to attack Cathy.
After four weeks, the case comes to a close.
And the jury adjourns to deliberate.
[Helen] I'm Helen Newman.
I was the foreperson of the jury during James Krauseneck's trial.
A man's whole future and life is at stake here.
So we did not want to rush it.
When we did finally take out for a vote,
some of the jurors were stuck on how could someone, a father
leave their young child home all day
in the same house with her dead mother?
And that was probably the most important roadblock
to coming to a verdict.
After three days, the jury has reached a verdict.
[woman speaking]
[Helen speaking]
We decided that if a husband can kill his wife
in such a horrific manner,
why wouldn't we believe that he could also leave
his young child home alone with her dead mother?
We did it! Justice for Cathy!
I'm gonna get my daughter's body removed from the Krauseneck plot
and moved back to her mother and her brother in Michigan.
[Sandra] I... I just felt... so happy for the family.
All I could think of was that after all of these years
they were finally getting justice.
Everybody told us we couldn't win 40-year-old case, but we did.
I'm happy that justice was finally found for Cathy.
But I just think that it's just so heart breaking
that Sara will never know what a wonderful mother she had.
And how much she loved her.
While many are relieved and elated by the guilty verdict,
there are some who feel quite the opposite.
My mother's killer got away with her murder.
And my father's life has been taken by a failed justice system
that convicted him of a crime he did not commit.
Now, 40 years after Cathy Krauseneck's murder,
Her husband, at the age of 70
is sentenced to 25 years to life.
I wish she was right here,
you know, alive and happy.
There's something about Cathy, she's like an angel.
Which she is now.
She's finally up there resting in peace I hope.