Dateline goes back 40 years to investigate a 1982 murder that shook a peaceful suburban neighborhood in Brighton, New York.

On Friday's "Dateline," a new team of detectives revisits the nearly 40-year-old cold case of Cathy Krauseneck, a wife and ...

Dateline looks at one of the state's most unsettling cold cases in the history of upstate New York in "The Bad Man", the 1982 ...

Find out more about the murder of Cathy Krauseneck, found dead in bed in Brighton, New York, with an ax still stuck in her ...

The trial, which is expected to last up to a month, revolves around the murder of Krauseneck’s wife, Cathleen "Cathy" Krauseneck, 29, who was found dead in their Brighton home on Feb. 19, 1982.

In 1982, Cathy Krauseneck, a young mother, was killed in her bed – an ax lodged in her head. Investigators believe the crime scene was staged to look like a burglary to cover up the real crime ...

Krauseneck said he was at work at Kodak at the time. The prosecution said the house was set up to look like Cathy was killed during a botched burglary. “James Krauseneck stole 40 years of freedom.

Investigators who showed up to Jim and Cathy Krauseneck ’s house on Feb. 19, 1982, encountered a brutal scene they would never forget: Cathy, a 29-year-old mother, had been killed in her bed ...

Both Cathy and Jim Krauseneck lived in the Mount Clemens area, about 30 miles northeast of Detroit, but did not know each other well then.They attended Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo ...

Krauseneck has been married three times since Cathy's death — he and his current wife have been together since 1999 — but his previous spouses did not provide investigators with a marital ...

Cathy Behe intends to keep tabs on the trial of Jim Krauseneck as best she can. She recalls seeing the family returning to Michigan in the fall of 1981 at a neighborhood playground.

And he took charge at testimony from a prosecution witness, Dr. Michael Baden, a forensic pathologist who put a time-of-death for Cathy firmly before 6:30 a.m., prior to when Krauseneck left for work.