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[Music] [Applause] I have visible holes in my memory from when I was a kid you know
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trauma and it's a different kind of trauma because there's a monster involved it's 30 years later
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I can't imagine many things that are as terribly lifechanging I was two weeks away from
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my 17th birthday what could I have done and what could I have done okay I've got command
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on the phone down there a week ago today uh Sarah wood a 12-year-old left this church and was
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traveling a short distance about a mile to her home she made it about halfway and uh we found her bicycle at around
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4:30 that afternoon I am Dusty wood I am Sarah's older brother I was 16 when she was abducted
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in 1993 we need to know where Sarah is please help us find her when I got a call from my sergeant that there was a
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missing girl he didn't say runaway he said missing child which was unusual so I immedi imately drove up there this is
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a church uh that Sarah's father was pastor at at the time the day that this happened she was here doing school work
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tell me where she rode she would have gone right out out here and right down this road so this is where she took a
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turn yep her her house is not too far up here on the left this is the area where
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the bicycle was found I remember that moment I'm standing next to my mother and that's when you know it's all
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over it's all over [Music] command post we set up a station there we could do everything out of that
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church this s right up in here there were troopers from all over the state state there days went
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by weeks months right would either one of you have ever guessed the turn this case would take on January 7th 1994 no
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and this was still back in the day where teletypes would come across one came over that about an abduction or attempt
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at abduction in Massachusetts 12 year-old uh Rebecca Savar she's simply walking to school she's approached by a
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stranger who puts a gun to her and that broke the entire case she's the key she's the Lynch pin she she's what made
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it all happen she got away okay that's what put us out to Louis L leis lent came across as just kind of an ordinary
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guy he was a handyman and I don't think anybody would have ever conceived that he was doing what he was
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doing I'm Julia cowy retired FBI agent and profiler he was prepared with duct tape he had a gun with him he had a
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knife with him he had rope with him so he was always ready he's a child predator he enjoyed going out and
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driving around and in his words hunting for children he killed sir and what he did confess to
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it but we don't have sir's body finding the body is important because then my mother could know where she
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is do you think Louis lent will give that up I don't know if he does it won't be out of the goodness of his heart he
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does have a lot to hide [Music] [Music] my sister's life ended and I couldn't stop
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that someone hurt her and took her life I know at the time I felt like I could have done something but I
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couldn't she was an exuberant person she was excited to be alive it's been a little over three decades since his
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12-year-old little sister disappeared but for Dusty wood memories of Sarah have not faded with time morning Sarah
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what morning good morning you ready to eat no I was to he play video games every picture you see of her it's like a
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big beaming smile those bright blue eyes Dusty says the two of them had a lot in
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common I'm an extrovert she's pretty extroverted she's not a person in the background she stuck out hey Dad Dad
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over here she is funny I imagine she would be funny now on August 18th 1993 Dusty then just 16 years old was
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enjoying a lazy summer day with his family in seyat a small town in central New York that day we had gone shopping uh we
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had come home we just hung around the house we lived in the country so there wasn't a lot of stuff to
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do Sarah had made plans to ride her bike to Vacation Bible School at the church where her father was a pastor it was
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just about a mile down the road the last time I saw her she was singing Dolly Parton do you remember
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what song she was singing working 95 yeah she and I were at the front door and so I was listening to her as she's
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working 925 and then she uh got on her bike and was like see you later when Sarah didn't return home
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later that afternoon Dusty and Sarah's parents began to worry so I remember getting a phone call from my parents at
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my friend's house hey did you see Sarah and me being like No And so at that point we rode our bikes and came
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home didn't see her soon after that's when a neighbor came across Sarah's bike hidden in the bushes on the side of the
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road less than a half mile from the family's home police were called around 6:00 p.m. New York State
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Police Trooper Timothy Blaze who is now retired arrived at the scene so Tim where was her bicycle found it was off
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the grassy area it was in where the shrubs are and there was also some school paperwork that was around some
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papers were blowing around and at the time did anyone remember seeing a truck or or a child being grabbed or anything
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I mean she just vanished well as you can see I there's nobody here really to see
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anything you know by early evening the massive search for Sarah [Applause] began we'd be out in the woods searching
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for her at midnight 1:00 in the morning hoping that we find her in maybe a hole or a she fell down in something 48 Hours
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was invited by Sarah and Dusty's parents Bob and Francis Wood to witness those early days of the inves
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tigation in hopes that the media attention would help find Sarah hold for an officer and I'll be right with you it
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would become one of the largest searches for a missing child during that time the first day was
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the worst first night we're uh just checking to see if anybody have any information on the
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Sarah Woods case first night of course you know I was up on the road all night out in the woods all night second day I
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was was on the road all night watching SW pioner W Federation command post Bob Wood's tiny church was turned into a
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state police command post command post the more people we can reach early on while the thing is still fresh in their
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minds the better chance we stand of maybe turning something up that that'll help
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us the big thing as far as the uniform Troopers are concerned is the door to- door anything out of the ordinary in the
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past week or so can that be done with the chopper the thing that keeps everybody going is
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the uncertainty not knowing whether she's dead whether she's alive whether she's a mile away or whether she's 120
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mil away so now all I'm doing is praying and encouraging people cuz they're doing
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all the work we've expanded the search operation we're probably into the area of 600 square
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miles I'm getting in fresh Crews I got more crews coming in from different parts of the state you we're going to be
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crawling on our hands and knees it's it's really thick once we get down in there let's find that guy Bud let's go
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when you're dealing with a child it hits you personally it hits me personally you tend to devote 110% let's
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go track me I hope we find this girl thank you Lord for this day and we thank you all for the good food that we have
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we do ask that you would uh be with Sarah nourish her protect her please bring her home to us tonight how's it
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going guys Sarah's father doing a good job out there that's like like you know I'm on a precipice and there's a there's
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a deep dark Cliff there hi how you doing hun good I'm glad you're here I really am and if I step over and and in
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self-pity and start to go down there I may not be able to get back up how you I'm doing this fine Francis is
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strengthening daily she's in the Bible a lot Dusty he's strong he's real strong tell me about yourself oh myself yeah
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U I don't know what we need is a break a good solid lead that we can take and finish this
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case up with and Bob believed police were going to get that break we're doing the state
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of Texas if enough people could see his daughter's face somebody stops one of these stores and gases up 10 minutes
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later to can see my daughter they can make the phone call we need to get you see this little person here this is my
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baby whatever I have to do I'm going to do to find this little girl here Sarah's
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Mother Francis made a public plea whoever behind this I don't hate you I don't hate you I just want my daughter
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back that's I just want her here right here with us investigators were determined to find out what happened to
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Sarah and they did not shy away from looking anywhere or at anyone our entire family was focused on getting Sarah back
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so so you want to investigate me I'm okay with that Sarah's got to come home we'll do whatever it
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takes [Music] period when this happened people realize this could happen to anybody it could be
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their children retired New York State Police detect actives reys TR and John Fallon
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were state troopers when Sarah wood disappeared in 1993 my daughter was only 5 miles from
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there when this happened at her grandparents house 3 years old it's home TR and Fallon were part of the army
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of investigators from around the state thank you your help assigned to search for Sarah we had no vehicle she didn't
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just go into thin air they would join Frank Lawrence one of the lead detectives something or someone had to
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have taken her there it is right there Sarah Channel 2 yet despite the weeks of media attention that Sarah's case
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received Lawrence now retired from the New York State Police says law enforcement still had very little to go
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on somebody took her we didn't know so when you don't know you have to eliminate everything every possibility
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and you start local and that included question questioning the people closest to Sarah her brother and her parents you
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had to look at the woods the woods were looked at it wasn't that tough though it's very it's always difficult to do
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that you know especially in this case because they're such good parents Bob Wood was there every day
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glad you're here though you're helping out a lot every day investigation isn't over uh this is one facet I had a hard
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time going to every day once the woods were elimin ated Lauren says they turned their attention to investigating known
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and suspected sex offenders each and every one of them had to be spoken with and
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eliminated and we did we did and they still had nothing we got this section done despite the long hours and heavy
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Manpower until a bitterly cold day in January 199 4 5 months after Sarah disappeared officer Timothy Blaze was
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working in the command center when a message came in Via teletype a device that police departments used at the time
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to share information one came over that about an abduction or attempted abduction in Massachusetts that I handed
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off to Frank another 12-year-old girl named Becky Savar was almost abducted as she walked to school in Pittsfield Mass
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Massachusetts 100 miles away Becky didn't respond to 48 Hours most recent requests for an interview but back in
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1994 she did speak with me and told me her remarkable story I was coming up here it was 7:10 in the morning on
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January 7th at one of the busiest intersections in town I was listening to my music he was on the side of me like
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where I am yeah he was saying stuff before I didn't know what he was saying so I took my earphones out to um hear
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what he was saying and then he said do you see the gun I have I was like yes I I see the gun you have he's like just do
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everything I say everything would be perfectly okay I was like all right he had it up against you he he had about
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maybe an inch away from me were you scared no you weren't scared I wasn't scared we turned down here to where his
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truck was parked now he wants you to go in the truck that's over there right you're not intending to go to that truck
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no it if I got away I didn't care if you shot me I I just knew I wasn't not going
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to get into that truck why why did you know that was that something someone had told you or I I
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just felt it inside me I knew I was not going to get into that truck that's when
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Becky came up with an idea that possibly saved her life she faked an asthma attack I started a fake that I was like
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losing breath when I was trying to take my backpack off uh when I he tried to grab for me he got
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in my backpack and said and I just ran Becky ran into a man clearing snow off a sidewalk who called the police at about
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the same time a witness called in with three digits from the truck's license plate investigators began searching for
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the vehicle I remember it well because it was a blizzard despite the snowstorm a Pittsfield officer spotted a truck
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with those three digits in its license plate sitting in a driveway in a residential area the officer quickly
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called for backup and they knocked on the door and said who was driving this truck earlier the homeowner told the
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officers a friend named Lis lent had borrowed the truck and he just happened to be sitting in the kitchen when police
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entered the house to question lent he denied knowing about Becky but willingly agreed to come down to the police
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station had LS lent that name Lewis lent ever come up before no not in our investigation had he ever been connected
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to a disappearance of a child no but he had a criminal history yeah some minor things like bad checks and forg checks
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things like that but nothing that approaches this and when investigators search lent's vehicle they knew they had
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the right man they found Rebecca's backpack they found found the gun they found duct tape and clothesline rope
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basically his kidnapping abduction kit although the attempted abduction was 100 Mil away in Pittsfield
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Massachusetts everyone wondered if lent could have also taken Sarah got a call from the lieutenant he says well go home
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and pack a bag and you're going to Pittsfield [Music] almost 12 hours after the attempted
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abduction of 12-year-old Becky Savar New York state police detective Frank Lawrence struggled through a
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snowstorm and finally arrived at Pittsfield Massachusetts eager to speak to LS lent but he would have to wait his
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turn there's similarities but it's a Pittsfield case okay they would talk to him then we'd get him in between and he
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was willing to talk to you yeah he talked to us and during their conversations Lauren says he and two
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other New York investigators made sure Lewis lent understood why they were there I actually showed him this poster
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and I said to him Lou this is who I'm here to talk to you about so he knew that eventually we're going to be
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talking about this okay how did react did he he he was he was he was flat flat yeah he was flat to the whole thing did
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that make you think he had no idea who she was I I didn't really care I was going to find out that's what we were
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there for but getting LS lent to admit anything was not going to be easy although Becky Saar and a witness picked
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him out of a lineup it took lent until the next morning to admit he had tried to take her LS lent was arrested and
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charged with kidnapping and assault with deadly weapon but New York investigators
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were not D with lent they started to ask him questions about other missing kids we talked to him we spent a lot of time
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with him and that's when Lauren says he and New York investigators came up with a strategy we found out that he was
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religious so he says they brought a Bible into the interview room that Bible set on the table in front of him anytime
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he would wander okay we would use the Bible and we go Lou you got to tell the truth and this comes from the heart you
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got to tell us the truth we would go back to the Bible and Lauren says the strategy appeared to be working because
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as the hours went by lent started to reveal things about himself and some very disturbing plans for the future
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that involve kidnapping young victims he told us about his master plan and once he found the acceptable vulnerable
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individuals he was going to bring him back to his house and put him in like a c like I describe as a coffin but keep
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them alive so he could use them and have them whenever he he wanted them investigators
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would later find the beginning of his horrifying construction project when they searched lent's bedroom and found
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this wooden partition wall and things only got worse he wanted to talk about Jimmy
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Bernardo Jimmy Bernardo was a 12-year-old boy who had gone missing three years earlier in Pittsfield
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Massachusetts a month later Hunters would find his body the case had stumped local investigators for years but now
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lent was about to tell everyone what had happened to Jimmy he was riding his bike through a
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strip mall in uh Pittsfield massach assetts leis Lun was a janitor at the cinema center there in Pittsfield when
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Jimmy stopped in front of the cinema to waake for a friend that's when Len said he offered him money to help him clean
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the movie theater Jimmy agreed and then once lent got him inside he overpowered him and kidnapped him lent told
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investigators he drove Jimmy 200 miles to a rural and isolated area near his hometown of Reynoldsville New York then
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he said he strangled Jimmy to death and left him there he had details that only the Killer and the police knew as
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horrific as that Revelation was investigators kept pressing him about Sarah wood the more we talked about
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Sarah we're probing he's responding and then five months after she went missing Lewis lent finally
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confessed lent admitted that he had kidnapped raped and then murdered Sarah M Wood she was
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vulnerable he was hunting and he found the victim and just like Jimmy Bernardo detective Lawrence says lent account
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match details only known to investigators lent news specifics about what Sarah had been wearing and details
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about her bike that had not been made public he knew that the chain on the bike was
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broken and he also said that the bike was a little bit big for her I didn't know that I found out later
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that it was then Lawrence says lent drew them a map showing where he said he buried Sarah's body this is just a copy
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obviously right but this is actually what lisis Lun did he drew that I handed him a piece of paper and this is what he
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drew and where did he say he put her Al Route 28 up by Blue Mountain Lake Blue Mountain Lake is located in in a remote
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Woody area near racket Lake in New York's adarand de mountains and within hours police from
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all over New York state were dispatched and searched the area Bob Wood was there along with Dusty
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who was a senior in high school it was very cold it was ridiculous and it was tons of snow remember a lot of helping a
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lot of people how you guys doing for tarps up here was that a time when you thought you might be able to bring Sarah
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home yeah for over 50 days they searched for Sarah in the ater rondex it was 30 below zero we could only stay outside
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for 20 minutes at a time we were in was high snow we had shovels we're digging we're looking for any evidence at all
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having anything to do with Sarah and we were hoping we somebody would come up with something that had something to do
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with her it just didn't happen as investigators continue to look for Sarah's body lent would face murder
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charges in both Massachusetts and New York it was a rare occasion where everyone was laser focused on one event
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which was find Sarah bring him to [Music] Justice before leis Len could be tried
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for Sarah Woods murder in New York he first had to face charges in Massachusetts in 1995 Lewis went went on
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trial and was ultimately convicted for Becky sav's attempted kidnapping and was sentenced to 17 to 20 years almost 1 and
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A2 years later after taking a plea he was given a life sentence for murdering Jimmy
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Bernardo television radio and newspaper outlet and then on June 6th 1996 Lewis lent arrived at Herer New
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York to a media frenzy and the district attorney wanted Justice for Sarah Anne wood and her family Jeffrey Carpenter is
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Herkimer County's district attorney he wasn't in office when Sarah wood was murdered but he is studied Lewis lent's
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Case Files he says the DA's office thought Lewis lent was going to ple guilty to killing Sarah but without
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warning lent changed his mind but it's my understanding that when he entered the courtroom and he saw certain members
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of the public especially I think her family he decided on that day he did not want to enter a plea Days Later lent
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would change his mind again and finally entered a guilty plea what do you remember of him sitting there I couldn't
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believe how small a man you know I couldn't believe it not imposing almost 4 years after Sarah wood was
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abducted and murdered LS lent was sentenced to 25 years to life he was sent back to Massachusetts to serve the
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rest of his life in prison he will never cause harm to anyone else but it was not over for the Wood family and New
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York State Police investigators they still needed to find Sarah he changes his story so often it's
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hard to hard to tell what's the truth and what's fiction in fact detective Tren says lent's original story that he
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buried her in the racket Lake Area turned out to be a lie he cashed a check on August 18th in Pittsfield at 6:18
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p.m. so he did not physically have time to abduct Sarah at around 2:30 p.m. and then drive to the aderan Dex dig a grave
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bury her and then drive back to Pittsfield cash a check so investigators continued to visit lent in prison hoping
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that over time he would reveal where he buried Sarah and perhaps even disclose the murders of other
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victims detectives Fallon and TR say they visited Lon prison about 20 times isn't it difficult a time so for the two
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of you not to just jump across the table and grab him no one of the things you have to do with is you have to leave
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hate outside of the room when you go in they didn't push him but during their conversations lent revealed that he
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often suffered from blackouts and claimed he had an evil Alter Ego that he called Steven he has this dichotomy is
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the word he used he has a really good side that studies the Bible and actually was a traveling Minister then he has
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this evil side and he has these uh uncontrollable compulsions this is the way put it to do terrible things that he
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could not stop somehow lent managed to hide that evil side from nearly everyone he knew Le Len spent the last year back
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in 1994 48 Hours correspondent Richard slesinger interviewed some of lent's friends the sidewall here it was caving
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right in right and uh he helped you with that too huh oh yes to Phil shy who is legally blind lent was a Good Samaritan
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months just came over and said well I'd be glad to give you a hand I hear you're
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doing uh work on your foundation he said I'd be glad to help you out we built a border all the way around we put in
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probably hundreds of hours working together in that summer it was definitely hard work he and he did that
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all out of the goodness of his heart yes he did to Frank Colette the dean of students at a bible school that lent
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attended he was a gentleman he was in intelligent he was unassuming he was quiet uh one thing about Louie that
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everyone remembered was he always had his hand out to to shake your hand when you were meeting one and if you didn't
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watch out he give you a big bear hug he had a lot of children with him young kids kids would play video games
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and then they would come in go to the movies and he would bring them home to Richard Balman who employed him lent
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seemed like a mentor to children they called him the Big Brother they did oh yeah the kids yes Balman owned the movie
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theater where lent worked as a janitor for six years and he thought he knew lent very well I I hired him I worked
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side by side with him what's what's tell me what's going on I just feel as though I may have
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missed something that he might have said or done that would have ke me that would
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have let you know just given me a clue that there's something wrong this guy people have trouble understanding that
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you can have this very religious God-fearing nice polite man in contrast that to his other side where he is
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hunting and praying on and killing children those can exist in one person Julia cie is a retired FBI agent and
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profiler who worked on cases like the Golden State killer she now hosts a true crime podcast called the consult real
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FBI profilers this podcast is about criminal profiling cie has never met LS lent but at our request she reviewed his
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background and studied his confessions she says that what appeared to be lent's desire to help people could actually
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have served a selfish purpose by helping all these people this is a way to maybe
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hide who he really is to gain people's trust when you do that you can manipulate them you can control them
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it's strategically motivated as opposed to being motivated by true emotion just like other serial killer she has studied
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cie says lent is completely self-centered his needs come before anybody else's obviously he had no
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regard for his victims he has no regard for victim's families something Reese TR
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says he is seen firsthand he knows what emotions are that other people have but he doesn't
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feel them himself one of the things that he said in the past that is that the murders ruined his life he's remorseful
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that he got caught that it ruined his life but he doesn't think in terms of it ruined anybody else's his life he just
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doesn't think that way Lewis lent so quickly admits to kidnapping and and killing Sarah wood why not tell it all
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why not give all the details it's just a secret he wants to hold on to it's his it's the only thing he has that's his
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own that he can control and a bit of sadism knowing that family members want answers continuing to hurt them is
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something I think that he Fe s off of it's It's there's some enjoyment in there most Killers Don't tell us
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everything they rarely give the full story instead lent reveals what he wants when he wants on his own timetable and
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in 2013 he revealed something new I've described it as speaking directly to the devil he really is the
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[Music] devil how do you warn your loved ones about child Predators for an in-depth
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look at the case go to 48 [Music] hours.com as detectives Fallon and train continued to question Lewis Len about
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Sarah wood and other possible victims in 2013 he made yet another confession he ended up admitting to uh killing Jamie
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Lusher nine months before Sarah was abducted Jamie Lusher a 16-year-old team with disabilities disappeared in
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Westfield Massachusetts just 40 mil from the Pittsfield area again he was riding his bike um
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through a parking lot of a Friendly's Restaurant his bicycle was later found in a wooded area close by Len told
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investigators that after he kid K napped and murdered Jamie he discarded the teenager's remains in greenwater pond in
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Becket Massachusetts we had divers go actually with the Massachusetts State Police
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divers and they all Dove the pond and uh nothing was found as he has done many times before lent would later recant his
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confession authorities decided not to charge Lewis lamp with Jaime's murder hoping that one day he will lead them to
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his body at this point we're not interested in further prosecution he's not going anywhere at a press conference
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shortly after the confession Jim's sister talked about the grief she endured since her brother went missing
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anybody that knows me knows I talk about this I think about this every day it's this searing heartache in part
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that keeps authorities motivated to find the missing so soon after lent confessed
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F to killing Jamie da Jeffrey Carpenter got permission to take glent who was serving
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his life sentence in Massachusetts out of prison and back to New York this time they drove him around
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hoping he would reveal anything that would help them find Sarah so really what did we have to lose we had to do it
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we drove to the Massachusetts border we drove to the Vermont border he took us to where she was AB Ed he took us to
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where he claimed he murdered her but after three long days and over 600 miles of driving Carpenter says New York
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authorities ended the operation the consensus was he absolutely knew where she was he just was not going to tell us
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before Carpenter sent lent back to Massachusetts he recorded this conversation with
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him you know we spent some time here last couple of days hope you feel you were treated with
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respect oh all the way yeah treated well yes well that was our end of the bargain
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right right Y what was your end of the bargain do the very best I can to find Sarah yeah yeah is that what we've done
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that's what we've done I would say that uh that I tried I was absolutely sure that I knew the
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route going when it came down to it I could only get partial of what I what I actually where I actually went what was
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going through your head when you're talking to him anger he does not forget details he
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recalls details he recalls many things until he wants to pretend he doesn't remember a decade after that fruitless
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search in November of 2023 investigators were back out looking again this time at the Green Mountain
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National Forest in Vermont after detective train identified an area with landmarks that lent had talked about
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during their many conversations just too many things matched up a lot of a lot of a lot of
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boxes were checked what's more search and rescue dogs taken to the area had alerted to a possible body there so we
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were hopeful optimistic that we would find something there and we we never found anything but authorities kept
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looking earlier this year detectives went back to the seller that lent worked him with Phil sh's to see if they missed
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something in 1994 the search turned up no new evidence do you feel in a way that you
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might be running out of time Lis lent is in his 70s it's a concern but that's one
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of the things we can't control regardless of the challenges authorities say they will never stop looking for
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Sarah wood and Jamie Lusher Dusty wood says he chooses not to think about LS lent every day I'm less
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angry because I devote my energy to positive things every year Dusty and some family members participate in the
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Ride For Missing Children ready a 78 mile bike ride that was created in Sarah's Honor by Bob Wood the riters
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wore jerseys that were turquoise and pink the colors that Sarah wore when she was
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[Applause] abducted Riders stop at schools along the [Music] [Applause] way to talk about abduction prevention
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the most important thing for us as a family is to protect kids and make sure that if there's anything that can be
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done to protect them from Monsters like LS lent that it' be done writers pay silent tribute to those
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children whose families hold out hope that they will be found alive and to children who went missing
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and are never coming home like Sarah M wood Dusty says he and his family are grateful to their Community who have
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supported them since the beginning there will be never a way to repay the kindness of
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strangers that opened up the possibility of giving the best chance to my sister he's not
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sure if they will ever find his sister's body but he is at peace I'm waiting for the day I see
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Sarah in heaven and I know that day is coming and that makes me feel good [Music]
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[Music] [Music] CBS next Saturday a former state trooper's wife found dead in her bathtub
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it was a gunshot but was it a cover up for murder Dan thought he was smart enough to trick everybody packed duffel
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bag wet towels it looks odd a new 48 Hours next Saturday at 109 Central on CBS in streaming on Paramount Plus