[COLD CASE FILES] Man Found Guilty Of 1982 Ax Murder Of Wife After Case Went Unsolved For Nearly 40 Years | PHOTOS

[PEOPLE | full story] On a frigid February night in upstate New York four decades ago, James Krauseneck came home from work and found his wife, Cathy Krauseneck, in bed with an ax blade embedded deep in her forehead. Grabbing the couple's 3-year-old daughter, James ran to get help from a neighbor, who told police he "had a look of terror on his face" and seemed unable to speak. At the time, James was a 30-year-old economist at Eastman Kodak in nearby Rochester. For years, police in Brighton searched for whoever killed the 29-year-old mom as she slept with her young daughter nearby. Decades passed and the case went cold.

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