WESTFIELD — For decades, Westfield police were baffled by the death of Lena Triano, a quiet secretary who lived alone in the Ripley Place home where she was killed in 1976.
The 57-year-old Triano looked after the neighborhood kids, loaned money to a close friend, and liked to speak Italian, said the friend, Maria Sclama, now 74. She never had any kids and was never married, but was, by all accounts, a warm lady with a caring heart.
So who, police wondered, would have wanted to kill Triano, let alone rape, strangle and stab her to death? Full Article
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