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Chilling encounter 3 decades after slaying

Christopher Bates, left, and criminal justice Professor at

Photo credit: Steve Pfost | Christopher Bates, left, and criminal justice Professor at LIU C.W. Post, Sean Grennan, right, inside Lorber Hall on the campus of C.W. Post. (Sept. 26, 2012)

There are some crime scenes detectives never forget.

For LIU Post criminal justice Professor Sean Grennan, hardened by years of investigating hundreds of homicides for the NYPD, it was that frigid February morning in 1980 when he arrived in an exclusive Queens neighborhood to find a successful Wall Street trader bludgeoned and fatally stabbed in his home.

He remembers every detail, every...

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