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

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 ...

When first responders arrived at the upstate New York home of Cathy Krauseneck, they had no idea of the horror they were ...

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.

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.

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 learned his lesson, and always struck Schlosser as a fine young man, clean-cut and quiet, and, most importantly, kind toward Cathy. The two married in 1974.

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.

Krauseneck learned his lesson, and always struck Schlosser as a fine young man, clean-cut and quiet, and, most importantly, kind toward Cathy. The two married in 1974.

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. 19, 1982, with 3½-year-old Sara in the home.