Posted on 12/24/2012 4:09:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
Thirty-seven years ago Barbara Hill was sitting in her Cranford home six months pregnant when she got a call from her grief-stricken father.
Her 57-year-old aunt, Lena Triano, had been found raped, tied up and murdered in the quiet Ripley Place home in Westfield where she lived alone. Hill’s father, Joseph Triano, had just returned from the house where he’d identified his sister’s brutalized body.
"He had nightmares for years," Hill said of her now-deceased father. "He hired private detectives. He would have been really gratified to see this day come."
Today, nearly four decades since Triano’s death a judge in juvenile court in Elizabeth convicted 52-year-old Carlton Franklin, whose home abutted Triano’s in 1976, of her murder.
The case lay dormant for decades until Union County Prosecutor’s agent Vinnie Byron and Sgt. Harvey Barnwell reopened the file after uncovering DNA evidence on Triano and at the crime scene which would lead to Franklin.
"He got away with murder for 36 years and finally justice prevailed," Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow said after the verdict.
Since Franklin was 15-years-old at the time of the murder the state could not waive him up to adult court because juveniles under the age of 18 could not be tried as adults in 1976.
After a five-day trial before Judge Robert Kirsch, Franklin was convicted of felony murder for killing Triano in the act of rape. He faces up to 20 years in prison under 1976 guidelines when he is sentenced on Jan. 31.
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And perhaps you don’t read so well. Reading the exerpt posted, his race is unknown. Nickcarraway in post 2 admits he didnt go to the link. Also, maybe you haven’t been on FR long enough to know that if you make an assertion here, be prepared to back it up with links with facts. It’s not up to others to prove your “statistics” correct.
Courtesy ping to nickcarraway.
According to statistics, black males rape white women at 8 times the rate of the reverse.
The reverse? Only 8 times? I am shocked that so many white women were raping black men in 1976.
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Oh please.
Yes, there are none so blind as those who will not see.
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