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POTSDAM — Katherine Mary “Katy” Hawelka — she was the peacemaker. When Katy died in 1986, she was 19, the second oldest of four children raised in Central New York. Joe was 16, Carey 17, and Betsy 21. “When somebody’s passed, you always say these wonderful things about them,” Carey Hawelka Patton said. “But they’re true.” The kind of sisters who are best friends, Carey and Katy were almost inseparable through adolescence at Henninger High School in Syracuse. Quarrels among the siblings were often broken up by Katy, whose smile was as exception...

POTSDAM — Katherine Mary “Katy” Hawelka — she was the peacemaker. From his father’s recollections of the Korean War and the life of a Panama Canal Pilot, to collectible Simpsons merchandise, William D. LaRue has first-class writing range. His latest publication, about what happened to Katherine M. “Katy” Hawelka in 1986, is strangely personal. A St. Lawrence County native and retired Syracuse Post-Standard journalist, Mr. LaRue has penned his fourth book, “A Stranger Killed Katy: The True Story of Katherine Hawelka, Her Murder on a New York Campus, and...

New book tells story of Syracuse native’s 1986 murder at Clarkson University Updated Jan 17, 2021; Posted Jan 17, 2021 "A Stranger Killed Katy," which tells the story of Syracuse native Katy Hawelka's 1986 murder at Clarkson University in Potsdam, will be released on Jan. 18, 2021.William LaRue Facebook Share Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse native Katy Hawelka was brutally raped and murdered on the Clarkson University campus in 1986 in a crime that shook the North Country and Central New York alike and raised questions about safety on college campuses and the parole hearing process. In “A S...