Clare Schroeder

“‘He wasn’t there to teach my brothers how to throw a football, or how to change a flat tire’”

Clare Schroeder · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

Clare Schroeder recounted the pain of her father's absence, as reported by the New York Times.

“For reasons that I will never comprehend, the press and the public seem far more interested in the difficulties that Katherine Power has inflicted upon herself than in the very real and horrible suffering she inflicted upon my family.”

Clare Schroeder · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

At Power's sentencing in 1993, Clare Schroeder voiced frustration that the press focused more on Power's suffering than her family's.

“We did not ask to have our father murdered. We did not choose this life … But Katherine Power chose to flee and for 23 years my family has had to live with the open wound of her unresolved crime.”

Clare Schroeder · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

Clare Schroeder spoke at Power's sentencing in 1993 about the lasting wound her family endured.

“I was a senior in high school and I thought the Vietnam War was wrong but I don’t recall going out and robbing banks and killing people to express myself.”

Clare Schroeder · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

Clare Schroeder told a local TV station that the family denied Power's claim that the Vietnam War radicalised her.

“Nor was he there to comfort them at the funeral of one of Clare’s brothers, Walter, who was hit by a truck and killed at age six. And he was not there to celebrate when four of his children were sworn in as police officers.”

Clare Schroeder · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

Clare Schroeder described the milestones her father missed, as reported by the New York Times.