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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...