![]() ![]() ![]() When the Brighton police in 2015 renewed the investigation, assisted by the FBI, the family found new hope for answers. 19, 1982, with 3½-year-old Sara in the home. For years, the police suspected Krauseneck of the killing of his wife.Īnd now, more than 37 years later, the 68-year-old Krauseneck is accused of the horrific killing that stood as one of the region's most notorious unsolved homicides - the "Brighton ax murder" as it came to be called. He maintains his innocence and has pleaded not guilty. ![]() That was before someone took an ax and, with a single strike to the head, killed Cathy Krauseneck as she slept on the morning of Feb. That was when all seemed comfortable within the Krauseneck home. They were a family that, seemingly stress-free, traveled from Michigan to Colorado to Virginia and then to Brighton for Jim Krauseneck's career. That was when "Jim" Krauseneck and Schlosser's daughter, Cathy, seemed to be a loving young couple the proud and doting parents of a cherubic daughter, Sara. identified as kin - not necessarily close, but always friendly. There was a time when Robert Schlosser and James Krauseneck Jr. ![]() James Krauseneck said he discovered the body of his wife, Cathy, murdered with an ax in their Brighton home. ![]()
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