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[Music] it was one of the most horrific crimes that they had ever seen in the Rochester
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New York area said district attorney Sandra dorly on February 19th 1982 Kathy kosnik was found murdered in bed with an
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axe lodged in her head the case is known as the Brighton axxe murder this is the
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axe that was found in Cathy's head at the time that Mr cnck came home Jim kosnik Cathy's husband quickly became
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the prime suspect in his wife wife's murder so you're saying that this man who had never shown any sign of violence
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before and never shows any violence after snaps one night one night in his life and puts an axe in his wife's head
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yep yeah kik's current wife Sharon says she doesn't believe it Jim is a decent loving human being there is no way Jim
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would ever ever have done anything like that James K's and just doesn't look like an Axe Murderer no but Ted Bundy
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didn't look like a serial killer I did not murder Kathy retired detective Mark libertore and his partner Steve hunt say
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in 1982 investigators didn't find many useful forensic Clues like fingerprints but in the dining room they did find
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valuable items scattered on the floor and on the floor was Kathy's purse with the contents strewn about including a
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silver tea set everything was standing straight up like it was set there neatly it looked like someone had pushed the
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pause button on a burglary and there was a door leading into the house they had a
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paint of glass broken out and there was a mul which is like a heavier axe on the
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ground leaning up against the wall right next to that but Liberator and Hunt say
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the most important sign of a burglary was missing nothing was taken there's an officer involved in
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this case from the 1980s who hits the nail on head we and Brighton do not handle a lot of homicides we do handle a
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lot of burglaries and this was not a burglary investigators suspected the killer tried to Stage the scene to look
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like a burglary and they thought Cathy's husband was the man they were looking for but Jim kosnik willingly provided
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statements to police he said he had left for work at about 6:30 a.m. that day and
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returned later that evening and found his wife dead autopsy findings reportedly narrowed down Cathy's time of
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death to between 4:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. if true that meant she could have died before her husband said he left for work
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or after back in 1982 the time of death gave a very broad range yeah the science
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was that you really could not pinpoint with little clear evidence of a motive and nothing to directly tie kosnik to
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the murder the case went cold no one was ever charged with a crime then in 2018 Authority consulted forensic pathologist
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Dr Michael Boden using the same file from 1982 Boden said it appeared Kathy kosnik died around 3:30 a.m. if true
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that put the murder hours before Jim said he had left for the office in November of 2019 Jim kosnik was charged
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with Cathy's murder 40 years have passed since Brighton resident Kathleen cenek was found murdered in her own home now
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prosecutors say cen's then husband committed the crime do you have any doubt about Jim kck's guilt and his
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wife's murder I have absolutely no doubt none none whatsoever I did not murder Kathy