Brighton Police say no one thing ties 67-year-old James Krauseneck to the murder of his wife 37 years ago. Rather, they say it’s the preponderance of the evidence against him which led them to charge Krauseneck with second degree murder.
Krauseneck has always maintained he came back home that day in 1982 to find his wife in bed with an ax embedded in her head. In a news conference Tuesday, Brighton police said they’ve taken a fresh look at the evidence, including new DNA evidence, and the timeline of the crime. They conclude Krauseneck and nobody else was home at the time the crime was committed.
Brighton Police Chief James Catholdi said there was no single piece of evidence that led to that conclusion. He said “the totality of the circumstances” says Krauseneck is the killer.