A 43 year old woman is killed in her home during a robbery On October 6, 1970, Lucille Patriquin, a 43-year-old woman from Plainville, Massachusetts, was found dead in her home. Contemporary references and later memorial records place her death in Norfolk County and list her burial at Rock Hill Cemetery in neighboring Foxborough, tying her name and dates to the community where she lived and was laid to rest.
The killing shocked a quiet town, and police opened a homicide investigation.
Publicly accessible summaries describe her death as the result of violence inside the residence, the kind of intimate, disquieting crime that leaves few witnesses and forces detectives to reconstruct a final afternoon from fragments: a ransacked room, a door left ajar, neighbors remembering nothing out of the ordinary until the sirens came. Despite the urgency of those first hours, the case did not resolve in the weeks and months that followed, and it gradually slipped from the front page into the long, patient work of a cold case file.
No arrests have been announced in the decades since, and no suspect has been named in the online public record. The case endures in regional obituary and newspaper databases and in local archives, but those listings offer no indication of charges or a prosecution, only the bare confirmation that a life ended and that the investigation remains without a publicly identified perpetrator.
