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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 29 2009, 09:04 PM Post #21 |
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http://www.uticaod.com/news/x23528140/Chil...-in-Adirondacks Discovery of child's bones in Adirondacks rekindles Sara Anne Wood case Local officials speak about Sarah Anne Wood case. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By CASSAUNDRA BABER Observer-Dispatch Posted Oct 28, 2009 @ 02:33 PM Last update Oct 29, 2009 @ 05:51 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREENFIELD — .The discovery of fragments of a child's skull in woods in Northern Saratoga County has refocused attention on the case of local missing girl Sara Anne Wood, whose admitted killer said he buried her in the Adirondacks. State Supreme Court Justice Michael Daley Wednesday said if they were Wood's remains, it would help bring closure to the case. He was the Herkimer County district attorney when Sara was abducted in August 1993 near her Frankfort home while walking her bicycle on Hacadam Road. “I would think that not only we would be hopeful, but I know there are other kids out there that are missing, but no one wants to get their hopes up,” Daley said. “I think it's really premature to speculate to any significance it may have on our case.” Lewis Lent of Massachusetts admitted in 1996 to killing Wood, and was sentenced in 1997 in Herkimer County Court to 25 years to life. He told authoritieshe buried Wood near Raquette Lake in Hamilton County and provided them with a crude map. Several excavations were done, but none was successful. Although Lent was sentenced in New York in connection with the Wood case, Lent is serving a life sentence in Massachusetts for the murder of 12-year-old Jimmy Bernardo of Pittsfield, Mass. He also was sentenced to serve 17 to 20 years for the attempted kidnapping of another girl in the state. The town of Greenfield, where the bones were found earlier this week, is about 100 miles southeast from Raquette Lake. The bones are believed to be that of someone who was 10 to 12 years old. Similar to Sara, Jaliek Rainwalker of Washington County was 12 when he disappeared two years ago. Trooper Jim Simpson of Troop D headquarters in Oneida said no local investigators will be headed to the scene. “It's going to be awhile before we know anything,” Simpson said. “It's six weeks away if anything. I'm sure (Loudonville state police will) bring us up to speed, but as of yet we're waiting to get that information.” State Police Maj. William Sprague declined to say who found the bone near the Greenfield-Edinburg town line. He said technicians will try to get DNA from the bones as part of attempts to identify the person, but that could take four to six weeks. Officials have asked that those tests be expedited. A search of the area for more bones was called off Wednesday because of heavy rains. "The obvious question is, 'Where are the rest?'" he said. In the meantime, state police sent information about the discovery to authorities across the state looking for insight on open cases that could provide a starting point for an investigation. Sprague said several police agencies from across New York already have contacted state police, but no solid connections have been established. "At this point, there are no links to any open cases," he said. - Contributing: Drew Kerr, Glens Falls Post Star |
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| tatertot | Feb 16 2013, 11:31 AM Post #22 |
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http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/201...993_murder.html Search for body of New York murder victim Sara Wood may be renewed; killer linked to disappearance of Jamie Lusher of Westfield By Staff and wire reports on February 15, 2013 at 2:40 PM, updated February 15, 2013 at 2:44 PM Authorities are considering resuming the search for the body of Sara Anne Wood, left, of Frankfurt, N.Y., who was killed in 1993. Three years later, Lewis Lent of North Adams admitted killing her, and said body was buried in the Adirondacks Mountains. HERKIMER, N.Y. – Authorities are discussing the possibility of resuming the search for a 12-year-old central New York girl who was abducted and killed nearly 20 years ago, according to the district attorney in the county where the victim was kidnapped near her rural home. Her killer was convicted in the 1990 death of 12-year-old Jimmy Bernardo of Pittsfield, Mass., and has been a suspect in the unsolved disappearance of 16-year-old Jamie Lusher, who set off from his father’s house on Ridgeway Avenue in Westfield, Mass., on his brand-new bicycle on Nov. 6, 1992, and was not seen again. Herkimer County District Attorney Jeffrey Carpenter told the Observer-Dispatch of Utica that his office and state police investigators have rekindled their discussions on tips that might one day lead to Sara Anne Wood’s body. The possibility of new searches hasn’t been ruled out, he said. “There have been efforts to locate her body in the past and, at this point in time, I think we will once again make an attempt to locate her body,” Carpenter told the newspaper. Sara was walking her bike to her family’s home in the Mohawk Valley town of Litchfield in August 1993 when she was abducted. Lewis Lent of North Adams, Mass., pleaded guilty three years later to killing the girl and later told authorities he buried her off a logging road in the Adirondack Mountains. More than a dozen searches over the years, including in the Raquette Lake area of the Adirondacks, have failed to find her body. Lent later recanted his story and has since refused to cooperate with authorities seeking Sara’s burial site. Lent, a 62-year-old former handyman and janitor, was sentenced to a prison term of 25 years to life in Wood’s killing. He is currently serving a life sentence for the 1990 murder of 12-year-old Jimmy Bernardo of Pittsfield, Mass. In 1993, Lent was sentenced to an additional 17 to 20 years in prison for the attempted abduction of a 12-year-old Pittsfield girl as she walked to school. In the Jamie Lusher case in Westfield, Lusher’s bicycle was found a few days later near a pond off Bennett Road on the north side of Westfield, about four miles north of his father’s house and in the opposite direction from Blandford where he was head to see his grandmother. Police drained the pond, and found nothing. No trace of Jamie has ever been found. Westfield police have previously said that witnesses placed Lent in Westfield on the day Jamie disappeared. In New York, officials believe “significant steps” have been made over the years to at least narrow down the possible location of Sara’s body. “As time goes on, the brand-new tips diminish but re-examining other avenues that we’ve currently examined, in light of new technology, becomes more of the focus,” said state police Capt. Mark Lincoln of Troop D based at Oneida. |
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