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A stranger killed Katy : the true story of Katherine Hawelka, her murder on a New York campus, and how her family fought back / by William D. LaRue.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Liverpool, NY] : Chestnut Heights Publishing, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: vi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781732241640
  • 1732241643
  • 9781732241626 (pbk.)
  • 1732241627 (pbk.)
Subject(s):
Contents:
The attack at Walker Arena -- Growing up Hawelka -- Positively Katy -- Walker -- Campus security -- The ICU -- Sure, I have nothing to hide -- Brian Milton McCarthy -- What are you doing? -- Friends and family -- Life support -- Cause of death -- Mourning -- The week after -- Joseph Fahey -- Crossfire -- $550 million -- Alternate realties -- Clark and Clarkson -- The plea -- The burden of this incident forever -- The Clarkson tapes -- Settlement -- 2009 -- Inmate 87D0088 -- The first parole hearing -- 2011 -- 2013 -- 2015 -- 2017 -- 2019 and beyond.
Summary: "In the early morning hours of August 29, 1986, Clarkson University sophomore Katy Hawelka - bright, pretty and full of life - strolled back to her upstate New York campus after a night out. On the dimly lit path beside the university's ice hockey arena, a stranger emerged from the darkness. The brutal sexual assault and strangulation that followed rocked the campus and the local community. When Katy was declared brain-dead three days later, her family's nightmare had only just begun. Terry Connelly soon learned details about her daughter's death that would make her blood boil. From the bungling campus guards who could have stopped the murder, to mistakes by others that allowed the killer to wander the streets committing violence, Katy's mother became certain of one thing: The criminal justice system only meant "justice for the criminals." A Stranger Killed Katy is the true story of a life cut tragically short, and of the fight by a grieving mother and others more than 30 years later to ensure that a killer would spend the rest of his life behind bars." -- back cover.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 364.1523 L336 Available 33111010519052
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

After Katherine "Katy" Hawelka is murdered in 1986 on an upstate New York campus, her family battles to keep the killer behind bars.

"In the early morning hours of August 29, 1986, Clarkson University sophomore Katy Hawelka - bright, pretty and full of life - strolled back to her upstate New York campus after a night out. On the dimly lit path beside the university's ice hockey arena, a stranger emerged from the darkness. The brutal sexual assault and strangulation that followed rocked the campus and the local community. When Katy was declared brain-dead three days later, her family's nightmare had only just begun. Terry Connelly soon learned details about her daughter's death that would make her blood boil. From the bungling campus guards who could have stopped the murder, to mistakes by others that allowed the killer to wander the streets committing violence, Katy's mother became certain of one thing: The criminal justice system only meant "justice for the criminals." A Stranger Killed Katy is the true story of a life cut tragically short, and of the fight by a grieving mother and others more than 30 years later to ensure that a killer would spend the rest of his life behind bars." -- back cover.

The attack at Walker Arena -- Growing up Hawelka -- Positively Katy -- Walker -- Campus security -- The ICU -- Sure, I have nothing to hide -- Brian Milton McCarthy -- What are you doing? -- Friends and family -- Life support -- Cause of death -- Mourning -- The week after -- Joseph Fahey -- Crossfire -- $550 million -- Alternate realties -- Clark and Clarkson -- The plea -- The burden of this incident forever -- The Clarkson tapes -- Settlement -- 2009 -- Inmate 87D0088 -- The first parole hearing -- 2011 -- 2013 -- 2015 -- 2017 -- 2019 and beyond.

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