Man charged with interfering in Badaracco investigation set to...

Man charged with interfering in Badaracco investigation set to go to trial next month

By Ethan Fry
Staff Writer



: 01/19/2009

DANBURY - Jury selection is scheduled to begin next month in the case of a city man charged with interfering in a murder investigation more than two decades old.

Ernest Dachenhausen, of Hillside Road, appeared briefly Friday in Superior Court. He withdrew an application he had filed for a pretrial diversionary program called accelerated rehabilitation, and Judge Susan Reynolds continued the case to Feb. 18.

On that date, jury selection is slated to begin in the case in which Dachenhausen faces a single charge of interfering with police.

Details of the charges have been unavailable for almost a year since Dachenhausen's arrest on the charge last April. Officials at the time said only that the charge stemmed from an investigation into the murder of Mary Badaracco, who disappeared from her Sherman home in August 1984.

Dachenhausen has been free after posting a $10,000 bond shortly after his arrest.