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Reporter with Hearst Connecticut Media
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She never knew her mother. Now she’s pushing New Haven police to solve her killing

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By Lisa Backus Verified
NEW HAVEN — Caroline "Carrie" Martin doesn't remember her mother, Patricia Konesky, who was found dead with nearly 250 stab wounds in 1987 in the dugout along the old third baseline of New Haven's Kimberly Field. But that hasn't stopped the 57-year-old New York resident from seeking justice for the woman she never really knew. "I do wonder what she was like," Martin said.
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She never knew her mother. Now she’s pushing New Haven police to solve her killing Original

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By Lisa Backus Verified
| New Haven Register Verified
Carrie Martin reflects at the site of her mother's murder at Kimberly Field in New Haven April 27, 2026. Martin's mother, Patricia Konesky, was found dead in a dugout at Kimberly Field nearly 40 years ago. Dave Zajac/Hearst Connecticut Media Carrie Martin walks in the area where her mother, Patricia Konesky, was found murdered 40 years ago at Kimberly Field in New Haven, April 27, 2026.
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Police: Man charged with trying to extort $200K from Fairfield College Preparatory School

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By Lisa Backus Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Fairfield police car. Fairfield police arrested a local man on a charge that he tried to extort $200,000 from Fairfield Preparatory School. (Hearst Connecticut Media file photo) FAIRFIELD-A local man was charged with attempted first-degree larceny after he allegedly tried to extort $200,000 from Fairfield College Preparatory School, police said.
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