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Her name is Katy: Family of murdered Clarkson student awaiting parole decision for killer


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 exceptionally warm as her wit was sharp.
Graduating from Henninger, Katy headed 142 miles north to Clarkson University in Potsdam to study business. The day after arriving for her sophomore year in August 1986, Katy was attacked, beaten, raped and strangled outside the university’s Walker Arena. She died three days later on Sept. 1, Watertown doctors declaring her brain dead and th ....

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'A Stranger Killed Katy': North country journalist, author tells Hawelka's story | Local History


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 How Her Family Fought Back.”
Mr. LaRue’s initial curiosity — he and Katy’s convicted killer Brian M. McCarthy share a hometown of Parishville — led him to approach Katy’s siblings and mom, Terry Ryan Taber, about telling their ongoing story. ....

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