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I love his smile he has a beautiful smile and look at his eyes they just Sparkle my name is Sharon kosnik and I'm
Jim's wife I've been his wife for 23 years these were beautiful happy days before this whole nightmare
started nearly 40 years have passed since Brighton res Kathleen cenek was found murdered in her own home now
prosecutors say cen's then husband committed the crime that's Jim as a young man so this is Jim's first wife
Kathy yes it is you can see Jim and Kathy so obvious they love one another it was one of the most horrific
crimes that we've seen in Rochester she looked like she's just lying there on her right side sleeping it does not
appear that she ever saw this coming she ever will cop the case is known as the Brighton Axe Murder this is the axe that
was found in Kathy's head at the time that Mr crra came home her three and a half-year-old daughter was there
throughout the day with her mom dead in the bed how soon did Jim krack become the
suspect in his wife's murder oh I think within 24 hours they felt that there just wasn't enough evidence to charge
him at that point they went through the years thinking we're going to get something it just went cold the case has
been unsolved for 40 years I think that people they just want to know what happened James cnck will stand trial
later this year for the murder of his wife in their Brighton home nearly 40 years ago no other physical evidence at
the scene points to anyone other than James Kik basically it became who else could it be they were so
focused on Jim if Jim krack did not kill his wife who did larab early on police learned about this fell who was living
not far from the crime scene this evil evil evil man that lived so close to Kathy and Jim he hated women oh he was a
oneman crime wave he was a psychopath they ignored him I have absolutely no doubt that James krack killed Kathy
krack that morning so you're saying that this man who had never shown any sign of
violence before and never shows any violence after snaps one night one night in his life
and puts an axe in his wife's head yep yeah Jim is a decent loving human being there is no way Jim would ever ever have
done anything like that James Kik just doesn't look like an Axe Murder no but Ted Bundy didn't look like a serial
killer I did not murder Kathy [Music] [Music] on a wintery night near Rochester New
York retired detective Mark Liberator is showing us how we helped bring one of the coldest cases in America to
trial on February 19th 1982 police officers arrived at this home which direction was her bedroom
right over here to the right and encountered a horrific scene their bed was on this wall the body of a
29-year-old mother Kathy kosnik dead in bed with an axe lodged in her head it was a single Blow To The Head and she
died instantly according to the medical examiner Jim C told police he arrived home from work and found his wife's
body his three and a half-year-old daughter Sarah was there and unharmed minutes later he showed up at his
neighbor's house seemingly traumatized with Sarah in his arms the neighbor called 911 her husband's here and he
can't even talk after Jim told her he thought Kathy was dead okay there's someone right over there dispatch
immediately sent First Responders Brighton police Lieutenant Bill flood arrived to get a statement from K neck
he was moaning he was crying CR neck a Kodak company Economist said he'd left for work that morning at the usual time
around 6:30 he said he had been gone all day Kathy had planned to stay home to take care of Sarah you could tell that
the little girl had been left alone it looked obvious to us that she had dressed herself it seemed obvious to
detective flood that Sarah was confused about what had happened Sarah said she had seen a bad man sleeping in Mommy and
Daddy's bed with an axe in his head asked if the man was black or white she said he was many colors but flood thinks
Sarah hadn't seen a man at all that it was her mother in bed covered with blood and what does a three and a
half-year-old do Gary Craig reports for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle you know the
murder in and of itself is baffling and hard to believe but you add this element
where Kathy's daughter has been left in the house with her murdered mother it's inconceivable that somebody
could do that Liberator and his partner Steve hunt of Brighton PD say the first investigators at the scene found no
significant forensic Clues like fibers or fingerprints and in 19 1982 DNA had not yet become an investigative tool but
there was something about the scene that struck them immediately it looked like someone had pushed the pause button on a
burglary and there was a door leading into the house they had a paint of glass broken out and there was a mul which is
like a heavier axe on the ground leaning up against the wall right next to that the axe found at the door and the one in
Cathy's head both belonged to the Crow's necks in the dining room there were valuable items scattered me on the floor
was Kathy's purse with the contents strewn about there was a tea set on the floor too everything was standing
straight up like it was set there neatly and a black garbage bag next to it inside was a faint shoe print as if
someone had stepped in it to hold it open but despite many apparent signs of a burglary Liberator and Hunt say the
most important one was missing nothing was taken there's an officer involved in this case from the 1980s who hits the
nail on the head we and Brighton do not handle a lot of homicides we do handle a
lot of burglaries and this was not a burglary investigators suspected the burglary was simply staged to cover up
the real crime Cathy's murder and they began to focus on her husband let's f I mean more often than
not it's the husband it's domestic so police are going to go there but could Jim Kik have committed such a brutal
murder and left his baby daughter alone in that house we spoke to friends and family who
said the couple had seemed happy Kathy and Jim had grown up in the same small town in Michigan but on
opposite sides of the tracks Cathy's father was a trucker Jims owned a successful carpet store they met
at high school began dating in college and married after graduation it was a fancy wedding
Kathy's cousin Susie was just a kid like like a princess wedding kind of deal Jim
was pursuing an economics degree in Colorado when they had Sarah in 1978 she was just so excited about her
daughter her just so excited about her Kathy kik's friend Kathy beee and you can tell how beautiful she is says she
was a warm Soul who lived for love but remembers feeling that the last time they saw each other just six months
before the murder something just didn't seem right not the vivacious Cathy that I remembered what was the next thing you
heard I got a call from my sister and she told me about Kathy being murdered if Kathy and Jim were having trouble
they kept it to themselves but police grew suspicious when they discovered a pamphlet in the
couple's car that offered services including marriage counseling and there was more when they
went to Kodak they learned that Jim Kik had gotten his job under false pretenses
claiming to have a PhD when he never actually completed the program there was also kik's Behavior
newspaper reporter Gary Craig says initially he was cooperative he was willing early on to give statements Kik
had spoken to investigators that night and the next morning even agreeing to another meeting that afternoon but when
the time came he was gone less than 24 hours after he found his wife murdered yes
kik's parents had driven from Michigan and returned there with Jim and Sarah police say Jim left town without telling
them I wouldn't consider it normal um but this is America and he's free to do so when Rochester authorities followed
them to Michigan Kik continued answering their questions and even provided hair and blood
samples 10 days after the murder he hired a lawyer by this point police were focused squarely on Jim kosnik but they
had a problem they needed to establish exactly when the murder had happened had Jim even been at home at the time
remember he told police he left for work at about 6:30 a.m. back in 1982 the time
of death gave a very broad range yeah the science was that you really could not pinpoint autopsy findings reportedly
narrowed the time of death to between 4:30 a.m. and as late as 7:30 a.m. an hour after Kik claimed to have left the
house with no direct evidence against him nor any clear motive authorities didn't want to try their luck with a
jury the investigation went cold no one was ever charged with a crime kosnik and
Sarah eventually moved out west he would briefly wed twice more before marrying his current wife Sharon 23 years ago
never dreaming that his past would come looking for him we were in the bedroom as about 9 or 9:30 in the morning we
heard the doorbell ring [Music] [Music] in 1997 Sharon James ran into Jim kosnik
an old friend at a trade show when Sparks flew and he asked me out and from then on for two years we
dated they both lived near Seattle kosnik and his daughter Sarah had moved there 10 years earlier but couldn't
leave the past behind he was devastated with the death of Kathy Sharon says he told her about
Cathy's 1982 murder but didn't offer details and I didn't want to pry because he would start getting
emotional what was it that made you fall in love with him Jim is so honest he's so loving I wanted to be a part of his
family they married in 1999 you like to spend a lot of time together oh absolutely as the years roll by Sharon
had no idea that more than 2,000 miles away in Rochester New York someone else would set her sights on Jim
kosnik Monroe County district attorney Sandra dly Kathy really needed to have Justice in 2015 the FBI provided
resources to help Brighton police with their investigation I mean you look at all
those boxes of paperwork and evidence if see it's daunting detectives Mark Liberator and Steve hunt of the Brighton
PD took the lead and pouring over the file they too became convinced the evidence pointed to one person Jim
kosnik so on April 16th 2016 we were just having a lazy Saturday morning and then all of a sudden the
doorbell ring hi Mark Lor how are you you wanted to surprise us probably a little bit surprised while
we're here did Jim at that point think maybe I better call a lawyer no no not at all um on the contrary she says her
husband welcomed them in and allowed them to record the conversation hopefully you get some good newes we
just want to kind of revamp everything go through everything again with you she says they sat around the kitchen table
talking for more than an hour they said we think we know who killed Kathy and we
need your help and in in that type of a tone I'm sure you think about this who could possibly
done for a long time but but then Sharon says detectives Liberator and Hunt suddenly turned up the heat did you have
anything to do with this I didn't K Kathy I disagree well I think you did you could see his heart pounding through
his shirt that would be a very scary thing that somebody's accusing you of killing someone I would say scary if you
did it was that the first time then you started hearing details of what happened
to Kathy yes Sharon says it also was the first time she had heard any suggestion
that her husband was involved did you ever ask him point blank no I didn't I didn't have to you didn't have to know
no I know I know he did not murder his wife Sharon how can you be so sure you only have Jim's word for it no
when you're married to a man you know his heart and you know his soul Jim could never Aaron never in this world do
something so horrific you know somebody listening to would say you sound a little naive didn't you have some doubts
didn't you want to know more I you can call me naive I suppose but she insists that no one who has
known Jim Kik as well as she has for as long as she has could possibly have doubts no I'm not going to question him
I don't doubt for a moment he was innocent but the detectives still HED to find what investigators 40 years ago
were never able to find a Smoking Gun that tied Jim kraic to the bright ax murder now you have to remember back in
1982 there was no such thing as DNA testing so my first thought was you know what can we test are we going to find
someone else's DNA on any item within the home we sent the evidence from 82 back to the FBI lab the results there
was no DNA evidence that directly tied kosnik to the crime but none tying anyone else to the murder either and
although DNA evidence can degrade over time the most important thing was finding the absence of someone else's
DNA within that home but to charge Jim kosnik they want wanted to prove his wife had died before he had gone to work
Jim claimed to have left the house at around 6:30 a.m. and Kathy had been fine we need a definitive time of death back
in 1982 the medical examiner was unable to narrow the time of death enough and since then other experts have agreed
with her in 2018 prosecutors turned to Dr Michael Boden for over 50 years Boden a forensic
pathologist has been hired to work on a who's who of who D it cases from the assassination of JFK Boton testified
that a single bullet struck the president's back to the reported suicide of disgraced Finance year Jeffrey
Epstein often raising eyebrows and generating controversy in this case using the same file from
1982 Boden said in his analysis it appeared Kathy died at about 3:30 a.m. that would be hours before Jim Kik
said he left for work that day you know some people may say that we're looking for an opinion that you were just
looking for somebody who would pick a time of death that was before K left the house in order to secure an indictment
absolutely but if in fact Dr Boden had agreed with the other medical examiners would you have hired him
absolutely not armed with Dr B's opinion on Kathy's time of death along with what
they believe is evidence of a stage burglary prosecutors went before a grand jury Jim kraic was indicted on November
1st 2019 he voluntarily surrendered to authorities a week later do you have any doubt about Jim kik's guilt and his
wife's murder I have absolutely no doubt doubt none none whatsoever but Jim kik's
attorneys say there's a mountain of doubt in this case because Jim kosnik is not the bright Ax Murderer there was
someone who could be responsible for it a Serial Predator had been living in the
neighborhood who actually confessed to killing Kathy [Music] there really is no evidence that Jim
cren had killed his wife attorneys Bill Easton and Michael Wolford are trying to
save James KCK he is the most reserved humble uh gentle person a man both believe had zero motive for murder they
had a wonderful relationship a wonderful family and so his lawyers insist that February 19th 1982 was a typical morning
in a home defined by love until a stranger slipped in and took it all away Jim cnck went to work someone came in
and killed Kathy kosnik we think that someone was Ed laraby Ed laraby a monster just down the
road he was just a VI ENT son of a gun and terrible terrible human being from Rochester's back streets to New York's
toughest prisons Ed laraby had a reputation and record as a violent sexual predator larby hunted women he
was a psychopath before dying in prison in 2014 larby was locked up for a total of
32 years on charges that ultimately included a Ed murder robbery and his sick specialty rape but all too often
larby was released back on the streets and every time he was free he would rape again he liked to laugh at women and
humiliate them you probably know as much about Ed larby as anyone I think so right yeah Rachel rear wrote catch the
sparrow a heroine story painfully close to home it's about the the murder of my stepsister in
1991 27-year-old Stephanie kinsky was a music teacher and violinist when her life tragically intersected with Ed
larabe it's mindboggling to me that he was ever free in 1991 freshly paroled after
serving a sentence for robbery larabe had come back to the suburbs of Rochester his familiar hunting ground he
got the job at at Newcastle apartment complex which is where my step sister lived larabe himself said that they were
foolish to hire him it wasn't long before Stephanie went missing it was like she evaporated Stephanie kin's
death rattled many when she disappeared from her apartment in 1991 her remains found 7 years later the remains of
Stephanie kiny lay scattered in a shallow stream bed she had been strangled more than a Dozen Years Later laraby by
then convicted of other crimes and back in prison admitted he was her killer what made him confess to Stephanie's
murder what ultimately made him confess um was that he was dying laraby who was suffering from ALS came up with a bucket
list of a dying man Pizza sandwiches and he was angling for an agreement to be buried off prison grounds so in
2012 Ed laraby confessed he went into Stephanie's apartment then she screamed and then he choked her and she died and
he confessed to killing her but Ed larby didn't stop was Stephanie kuchinski once he confessed to
Stephanie's murder and realized that he could get things in exchange for confession all of a sudden then he
started M wheeling and dealing and making more deals Ed larby contacted the FBI claiming he was a serial killer and one
of the victims he listed was a Rochester housewife murdered on a February morning
in 1982 29-year-old Kathy KRA neck laraby lived very close by and she was someone
that uh he was going to pray on the idea that decades earlier Ed larby might have
murdered Kathy doesn't come as a surprise to inv investigators and those who know him best everybody from back in
that time frame is familiar with that he would have been out of prison at the time that Kathy was killed free violent
and just down the road police went to question him shortly after Kathy's murder but Ed laraby wasn't talking back
then they filed their report and then backed off and is it fair to say the police dropped the ball in that case
because you've got a sexual Predator within minutes of the house and they they don't do anything more than visit
him once oh I think it's very fair to say that to have apparently ignored Ed larby
in 1982 whether he did or didn't do it is clearly was just a major lapse in the investigation I don't know that I'd use
the phrase drop the ball and unfortunately the officer and the sergeant who approved that report are
both deceased still the FBI and detectives lior and Hunt don't believe Ed larby murdered
Kathy he was a bad man he was bad man but he's not our bad man this is a guy who has a long history of
hurting women and he's confessing to killing Kathy krack yeah but his was way off
base why are you so sure it's not Edward larby because his confession didn't match up to the facts as simple as that
larby said Kathy had dark hair when in fact she was blonde that she was heavy set when she wasn't even Rachel rear who
knows all too well the damaged larby can do doesn't believe he killed Kathy to me
I was like it's not his Mo I don't think he was a serial killer he's a serial rapist after four Decades of dead ends
law enforcement was convicted that James kosnik not Ed laraby wielded that Bloody
axe this man is an innocent man he has been treated so unjust become 2022 James kosnik successful businessman
and father headed to trial The 40-Year-Old murder case could hinge on mere minutes and prosecutors
proving that Kik was home when Kathy was killed you look at the evidence it's clear she was killed in her
sleep after four decades as James Kow finally came to trial prosecutors were betting on
Michael Boden that forensic pathologist they had engaged and his theory of when Kathy most likely died about 3:30 a.m.
well they needed a Dr boten Who said basically that it happened at 3:30 in the morning that was different than any
other medical examiner that uh was was involved in this case one of them was Katherine Maloney a forensic pathologist
who would testify for the defense something she had seldom done before can you pin point the actual time of death
no oh my goodness I wish I could the best you're going to do is is a window of several hours drct Maloney thinks
it's possible Kathy could have died much later in the day I mean so you're saying
that Dr Boden is wrong I disagree with him um I think he's wrong I think she likely died sometime between like 5:00
a.m. and 1:00 p.m. timing of the death seemed crucial if Kathy was murdered in the dead of night night before Jim Kip
went to work then prosecutors say her killer wasn't an intruder it had to be her husband an opening statements today
for the James crck trial 198 the stage was set for a gruesome drama in search of its final Act what makes this case so
unique is it happened over 40 years ago so we're over those decades Hearts have been broken relationships shattered
really how would you describe the last 40 years on your family this been a terrible it's just God awful and cousin
Susie jaimovich witnessed the shift in Kathy's now 95-year-old father Bob schlasser who today believes kosnik is a
killer but for years was certain his son-in-law was innocent I just didn't think that he would that he would do
such a thing I mean had there ever been a real serious problem in their marriage
that anybody had heard oh not that I knew of but investigators believe the marriage was secretly crumbling he
snapped is what we believe he just snapped people look at Jim K neck he just doesn't look like an Axe Murder
what's the Axe Murder look like Bob believes that over time kosnick began separating Sarah from her mother's
family the child who was home when her mother was murdered we didn't see s Sarah anymore Not only was Kathy taken
away Sarah was taken away Sarah is a grown woman now firmly standing by her dad as sure that he's innocent as
prosecutors Constance Patterson and Patrick Gallagher are certain he's Kathy's killer no doubt at all
absolutely no doubt in my mind but as the trial moved forward lawyers on both sides confessed that they had a daunting
challenge Tom itself dealing with with memory issues dealing with deceased witnesses
witnesses can't recall what happened 40 years ago so investigators pursued evidence that didn't rely on the
frailties of memory they homed in on the physical crime scene I wanted to not only prove that that Kathy was clearly
killed in the early morning hours but also prove that it was a stage burglary there's a lot of questions and things
just didn't make sense authorities argued the scene was staged by someone who had no idea what a
burglary looked like uh the house wasn't ransacked in fact there was Cash on the
dresser in the room where Kathy was killed that wasn't taken the broken glass the seemingly precise placing of
that mall they wanted us to believe that the mall was used to break that pain of
glass that silver tea set barely Disturbed and when you look at the pieces that don't fit the reason they
don't fit is because it was a stage burglary then there was that faint shoe print investigators found inside this
garbage bag prosecutors thought the print told a story the only way that gets in there is when the bag is being
opened when items are being placed in that bag and somebody is putting their foot on there so they can hold it open
so you're stepping on the edge of that bag holding one Edge and you're placing that silver in the bag investigators say
the print was from special foot wear a boat shoe and why boat shoe and so there's a picture in that bedroom where
you can see next to the bed you can see these boat shoes and and whose shoes are
those and those are James kik's shoes he's a boat shoe wearing guy and we don't have uh murderers running around
in February in the winter time wearing boat shoes and killing people but the shoes kic wore back them
were not tested to see if they were a match and his lawyers say it's not just the wrong Theory it's the wrong
man they say it's Ed laraby that career Criminal Who before he died had confessed to killing Kathy he lives
4minute walk away but there's the problem of L's Mo remember he was a repeat sex offender was there any sign
that Kathy had been sexually assaulted or that she had had any contact at all with her killer none
whatsoever do you believe that there was tunnel vision in this investigation I think it would almost be
the dictionary definition of tunnel vision there was this overwhelming urge and desire to solve the crime and the
Hadad toe Jim kosnik I know he did it I know it was him come closing statements cameras were
allowed into the courtroom as lawyers made their final pleas the mystery of Kathy kik's death remains to
this day and we submit it has not been resolved by this trial Common Sense tells you this was a stage burglary
those are the only reasonable inferences that can be drawn from this case there are no
eyewitnesses there are no ear witnesses there is no direct evidence that that was the case 40 years ago and that's the
case now but Gallagher reminded the jury of that time stamp 3:30 a.m. that pathologist Michael Boden put as Kathy's
possible time of death Common Sense tells you she died early that morning as we said at the outset there is no new
evidence simply a new opinion by Dr Boden we don't think that cuts it 40 years after that off awful day the case
would now go to a jury were you worried I was worried yes and Jim being the husband and that's been the typical Fall
Guy the husband must have done it I was very fearful what do you make of the case
against Jim krack see a timeline of how the investigation unfolded at 48 hours.com
[Music] Jim kik's fate will be determined by 12 strangers they want to hold someone
accountable for this I was very fearful because it's Sharon and Sarah's future as well on Friday night the jury
hadn't finished their deliberations and I was so thankful I thought oh you know give us this
weekend did you think this could be the last weekend you could spend with him I I think deep down I probably
[Music] did all together it takes the jury less than 10 hours of deliberations the poor
person please rise to reach a verdict guilty Jim kosnik is guilty of second degree
murder I remember standing up but I saw this one Deputy across from me and I said oh please let me hug my
husband he said no no I I can't we got our Justice for 40 years thank God we got
it unfortunately there is a presumption of guilt if the husband is living in the
home and the wife is killed he's almost presumed guilty defense attorney Mike Wolford says that Jim Kik was convicted
because of who he was not what he did I think there was a gut reaction on the part of of the jurors that well he
probably did it but the jurors we spoke to in insisted they decided this case on
the evidence evidence they admit had divided them at the start I just kept thinking someone else really could have
done this the forensics did not point to anybody else the first time they voted we were told six said guilty three not
guilty three undecided the most important thing to me was the stage burglary scene they said that stage
scene was a critical clue and there was something else they seemed to agree on that in the end it was impossible to say
exactly when Kathy died we threw out all of that testimony we it it meant nothing
to us but their verdict means everything to kik's heartbroken daughter Sarah who
tells the judge at sentencing it adds insult to deep injury I've been blessed with the most extraordinary parents
sadly they have both been taken from my life my mother's killer got away with her murder and my father's life has been
taken by a fail justice system that convicted him of a crime he did not commit but Sarah's grandfather Kathy's
father once to make sure Jim kenck spends the rest of his life paying for her death and Jim I hope you'll live to
be a hundred years old and enjoy your new home and finally it's up to Jim cren himself to take one last opportunity to
address the court to this day it's still very difficult for me to talk about the
circumstances that surrounded her death all I see is Kathy with an ax in her head and Sarah standing in the
hallway dis shuffled with an empty and distant look on her face I did not murder C Kathy I love Kathy with all my
heart and with all my soul the judge is unmoved giving the 71-year-old kosnik 25 years to Life
Behind Bars before his own life is over there's one more thing Kathy's father wants to
do for decades Kathy has been buried in Jim's Family plot I want to move my daughter's remains where her mother and
brother are but to move her Bob schlasser needs Sarah to agree and that may never
happen Sarah and Sharon continue to support Jim who intends to appeal his conviction you're going to stand by him
no matter what oh absolutely Sharon Kik rejects the possibility that her husband has
permanently traded his golden years for the hardened medal of a prison cell we have a lot of hope we have a lot of
faith this is not our retirement this is a hiccup this is just a just a a pause and kik's lawyers say
that forcing him to defend a 40-year-old case violated his constitutional right to a fair
trial are you worried at all about that if an app hel Court ruled in favor of Jim krack and said that his rights have
been violated then it would all be for nothing it wouldn't all be for nothing Kathy's story was able to be told and
that family was able to get justice justice has been done for Kathy [Music] I'm Aaron morard and this is my life of
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James Krauseneck was convicted of one of the oldest, coldest cases in America – known as the Brighton Ax Murder. Authorities say he killed his wife with an ax while she slept. Months after the 71-year-old was sentenced to prison, he died of cancer. His family and legal team are appealing the verdict, hoping to clear his name. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports. (This episode aired on Feb. 25, 2023.) Watch more full episodes of "48 Hours" on Pluto TV.

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Brief Summary

Jim Kosnik is tried for the 1982 murder of his wife Kathy, raising questions about evidence and justice after 40 years.

Key points

The Brighton Axe Murder. A horrific crime from 1982 that remains unsolved for decades, involving Jim Kosnik.
The Investigation Goes Cold. Despite initial suspicions, the case went cold for 40 years without charges.
Jim Kosnik's Alibi. Jim claimed he left for work at 6:30 a.m., but the time of death was later.
New Evidence Emerges. In 2015, the FBI provided resources to help reopen the investigation into Kathy's murder.
Jim Kosnik Indicted. In 2019, Jim Kosnik was indicted for Kathy's murder after decades of investigation.
The Trial Begins. The trial for James Kosnik begins, focusing on the crucial timing of Kathy's death.

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I have absolutely no doubt that James krack killed Kathy.

A strong assertion about Jim's guilt.

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