ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A former Gig Harbor man and Weyerhaeuser executive has been convicted for the brutal ax-murder of his wife, which happened nearly four decades ago in upstate New York.

In 1982, James Krauseneck, now 69, killed 29-year-old Cathleen Krauseneck with an ax to the head after she discovered that he had not completed his Ph.D. as he had claimed.

Cathleen’s murder had remained unsolved for years. The slaying, known as “the Brighton Ax Murder,” inspired the 2021 Netflix horror film, “Things Heard & Seen.”

Krauseneck would go on to marry three more times before he was arrested at his vacation home in Arizona in 2019 for his first wife’s murder.