L.I. woman stabs lover in fear of fiance

BOHEMIA, N.Y., March 10 (UPI) -- A Long Island woman stabbed and killed her lover when he refused to leave her house out of fear she would get caught cheating on her fiancé.

Nina Strazzulla, 36, has been charged with second-degree murder after confessing to the stabbing death of Michael Senia, 37, with whom she had been involved for six months.

Strazzulla stabbed Senia in the back about 4 a.m. Wednesday because she thought her live-in fiancé, a long-haul trucker, would return home soon, the New York Daily News said Thursday.

"The rule was that the victim had to leave before the fiancé came home, but he didn't follow the rule," said Suffolk County detective Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick.

"The suspect was afraid she would be discovered," prompting an argument that ended with her plunging a knife into Senia's back, he said.

Despite Strazzulla's concerns, no one reported seeing her fiancé or his truck in the hamlet of Bohemia Wednesday and police said they did not know his whereabouts.