Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Krauth not guilty of murder, judges in Danbury rule

Case tried by Rosemarie Paine, TLC 2000

DANBURY -- After living under a cloud of suspicion for nearly two decades and facing the possibility of a long imprisonment, Donald Krauth walked out of state Superior Court in Danbury on Wednesday a free man.


Krauth, a 50-year-old construction worker who was extradited from his home in Minnesota last year, was facing up to 60 years in prison on a murder charge for the strangulation death of Charles Cromwell in the victim's Bethel home on March 29, 1992.


The defendant, who was released from custody less than an hour after a panel of three judges found him not guilty, asserted his innocence when approached in a Superior Court stairwell.


"All I have to say is I have damn good attorneys," he told a reporter. "I didn't do it."



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