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Family wonders why murder charge was suddenly dropped in shotgun slaying


By Dan Herbeck
While his wife and three daughters slept in their bedrooms just steps away, Kenneth A. Poloncarz was murdered outside his West Seneca home during a booming thunderstorm early on the morning of April 23, 1977.
His killer fired two shotgun blasts that struck Poloncarz, 33, in the upper body in his driveway on Garry Drive.
The crime occurred around 4:45 a.m., after Poloncarz had spent time bowling and socializing at the old Lucky Strike Lanes in Lackawanna and a nearby tavern.
Forty-three years later, his widow, Paulette, and daughter, Krissy Pittner, still think about that horrific night.
They also think about the man who was charged with murdering their father, and why the case against him was never pursued. ....

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