Yana and Anatoli Kolenda

Incident date: 2002 Oct 21

Child placement type: Adoption

Family size: 1 to 4

Two 11-year-olds, adopted at age 7 in Russia, by Richard and Gienia Kolenda, died in 2002--nearly five years after their arrival in America. Their adoptive father stabbed them and his wife to death at their home in Westfield, Mass., then fatally shot himself. The Kolenda's were both Polish immigrants, and had financial troubles.

Parent topics: abused adoptees

Documents

Title	Publication date
Child Maltreatment, Child Abuse Fatalities Among Internationally Adopted Children	2007 Nov 1
Adoptee deaths rare, experts say 12 Russian cases troubling, puzzling	2004 May 21
SIMILARITIES ARE FOUND IN SERIES OF FAMILY KILLINGS; MONEY, SELF-ESTEEM WOES ARE NOTED IN THREE CASES	2003 Jan 18
Boston globe: In Memoriam - 2002 murders	2002 Dec 31
Westfield family mourned by many	2002 Oct 29
Toli Kolenda (Obituary)	2002 Oct 25
Yana Kolenda - Obit	2002 Oct 25
Family died 'a terrible death'	2002 Oct 23
MONEY WOES SEEN AS MOTIVE FOR SLAYINGS; UNEMPLOYED WESTFIELD MAN KILLED FAMILY	2002 Oct 22
Former Florida Man Known for Helping Stray Cats Kills Family, Self	2002 Oct 21
Man who helped stray cats at Mayport kills family, self	2002 Oct 21
POLICE SAY MAN KILLED FAMILY, SELF	2002 Oct 21
Richard Kolenda - Funeral Home Obit	2002 Oct 20
Yana Kolenda - Funeral Home Obit	2002 Oct 20
Gienia Kolenda - Funeral Hom Obit	2002 Oct 20
Anatoli Kolenda - Funeral Home Obit	2002 Oct 20
Family helps cats find homes	2001 Jul 9
A bitter pill - Former franchisees find GNC's practices hard to swallow	2001 Jan 31
FRANCHISE FUROR	2000 Nov 12
Flurry of lawsuits against GNC sheds light on rough-and-tumble world of franchising	2000 Nov 12
Adoptions a cause for celebration	1998 Nov 28