Lena Triano's Family Grateful for Guilty Verdict
Family members thank Westfield Police Department, the Homicide Task Force and the Union County Prosecutor's Office in seeking justice for aunt.
Lena Triano's niece, Joan Polese (nee Triano) of Scotch Plains, and her grand niece, Christina Freitas, of Atlanta, Ga., are grateful that justice has finally been served. Triano was murdered in her home on Ripley Place in Westfield in 1976 but it wasn't until the case was reopened that a suspect, Carlton Franklin, was arrested in April 2012. Franklin, 52, was found guilty of her murder it was announced today by Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow. "We are very pleased to hear that Carlton Franklin has been found guilty of this horrific crime," said Freitas, who was 1-year-old at the time of her great aunt's murder. "When Aunt Lena was murdered, the loss to our family was very traumatic and the not knowing all these years left an …
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