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PAGE 4THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, SEPTEMBER 19,2001 Woman clings to memories of murdered relatives WOMAN from page I But if there's someone who was involved and is alive, and police have evidence, evidence, I would certainly want to see them charged. This was a vicious, horrendous horrendous crime. It was so violent," Mrs. Dewcll said. "How someone could live with this in. their conscience conscience for all these years is beyond me. (The killers) should be made to pay for what they did. " Now' 58, she was seven- years-old when her great- grandparents were slain. Ms. Dewell recalls being at a Browmics gathering when she w'as summoned to her home and told the tragic news by family members. "I was called out by one of the leaders and told to go home. Everybody was crying. It was really hard for everybody at the time, not only for my grandparents grandparents by also my parents," the married mother of three said. Ms. Dewell, one of seven great-grandchildren, stayed in a room with her cousins and, being children, children, they were not told at the time of the horrible circumstances of the deaths, she said. Over the years, she would learn details of the sickening crime . that shocked the entire community community and stumped police police for decades to come. A neighbour found the Katerynychs' battered bodies Nov. 29, 1949 in their bungalow at 256 Park Ave., now McNaughton Avenue. The pair had been bludgeoned bludgeoned and stabbed to death in what appeared to be a home invasion. Robbery Robbery the apparent motive, the killer or killers had methodically ransacked the frail victims' neatly- kept home in a search for hidden savings. Mr. Katerynych struggled struggled fiercely to protect his wife and himself, according according to published news reports reports of the day. He was found face down in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor. He had been struck repeatedly repeatedly over the head, his skull crushed with a blunt object, possibly a club or hammer. Mrs. Katerynych was found sprawled in the bathroom doorway and had suffered blows to the IsJfw l mtW&BUS ! - ? - ' :• .■: > The Katernycli gravesite at Bond Head Cemetery in Newcastle. head, but bled to death from a stab wound to the neck. Neighbours Michael Shody and Lloyd Obrcns- ki, the latter who lived in a small shack on the "nice" couple's property, made the shocking discovery after growing concerned about the couple. Mrs. Katerynych had been fighting pneumonia and had not been well and neither had been seen for a few days. Neighbours said the couple were being watched and a suspicious black car had been spotted driving up and down their street prior to their deaths. They were thought to keep their life-savings hidden hidden in the house. "It must have been someone who knew their personal business," said Mrs. Dewell, whose maternal maternal grandmother was Polly Tkatch, Mr. Katerynych's daughter from an earlier marriage. Just prior to the murders murders Mr. Katerynych had sold six lots he owned on Rifsbri Road, Mrs.'Dewell said. "Over the years I',ve heard odds and ends about various possible suspects but the family never talked that much about it," she said. "At the time, everybody was a suspect." Mrs. Dewell clings to the few memories she holds of the Katerynychs. She recalls how their home was always warm and smelled of her greatgrandmother's greatgrandmother's spicy cooking. cooking. "I remember one lime she gave me a wicker basket basket and took me out to the hen house at the back and gave me sonic eggs. "She was very soft-spoken soft-spoken and mild-mannered. They seemed close." Mrs. Dcwell now lives near her widowed mother, Jannctte Nidery, one of Ms. Tkatch's three daughters. daughters. Her father was the late Robert Nidery. As reported by This Week, police began re-in- vestigating the doublemurder doublemurder in 1999 after two homicide detectives tasked with reviewing cold cases found an old letter - which had been sent to the police force 13 years earlier - from a man claiming to know who was responsible for the couple's slaying. The man, X, was tracked to a Quebec penitentiary penitentiary where he was serving time for violent offences. He agreed to cooperate cooperate with police and was enlisted as an "agent" to help detectives gather evidence against the living suspect. X was 11-years- old at the time of the murders murders and claimed he stood lookout in front of the house for the killers. This Week has learned. He identified one culprit as a man who died in a 1954 car crash and another who lived freely in Durham Region Region - until his death two week ago. Meanwhile, a reader who was 19 at the time of the murders contacted This Week on Monday and recounted a "strange" phone call she received from a man in the days after the crime. The woman said she called police in the mid- 1950s to pass on the information information but was told that the people responsible for the murders had been already already identified and had died in a car wreck. The woman said the man who called her following following the murders was not among those killed in the crash. Her information was forwarded to the cold squad currently investigating. investigating. 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