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now to a major update to a long running 48 Hours investigation this week the show is looking into the more than 30e
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search for a victim of a serial killer 12-year-old Sarah Anne wood was abducted in New York in 1993 on her way home from
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church the man who murdered her is behind bars but authorities say he refuses to give her family the piece of
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knowing where he left her body 48 Hours correspondent Aon morard has been on this case since the very beginning and
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has the latest on the unending search for Sarah Dusty wood was just 16 years old when
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his sister Sarah disappeared on August 18th 1993 she was an exuberant person she was
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excited to be alive Sarah was last seen riding her bike from church in SEO at New York when she didn't arrive home a
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massive search began 48 Hours cameras were given unprecedented access we need to know where Sarah is please help us
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find her but there were no leads until 5 months later when 12-year-old Becky Savar was almost abducted by a man in a
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truck as she walked to school in Pittsfield Massachusetts he said do you see the gun I have he's like just do
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everything I stay everything would be perfectly okay that's when Becky faked an asthma attack and I just ran police
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learned a man named LS lent had been driving the truck at first lent denied knowing about Becky but but he soon
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confessed to trying to take her New York state police detective Frank Lawrence we
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spent a lot of time with him lent eventually also confessed to the kidnapping sexual assault and murder of
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Sarah M Wood after pleading guilty lent with sentenc to 25 years to life in prison well she was vulnerable he was
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hunting and he found the victim but the guilty plea didn't end the search for Sarah I handed him a piece of paper and
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this is where Drew hundreds searched in brutally cold conditions but the map LED
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nowhere for years New York state police detectives ree TR and John valon visited
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lent in prison trying to get an answer to the question where is Sarah isn't it difficult for the two of you not to just
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jump across the table and grab him no one of the things you have to do is you have to leave hate outside of the room
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when you go in finding the body is important then and my mother could know where she
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is a Mor morard joins us now um Aaron why do investigators believe that they can still find where she is buried after
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all of this time well and it's impressive isn't it that they are still looking they're so still devoted to this
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case well lent professed to be a religious guy um and he's now in his 70s and they believe that he might want to
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clear his conscience and not just say where he left sarahan wood but there's another young man that he had confessed
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to and then recanted confess to um they want to find Jamie lusher's body as well
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so they're hoping that over time also he's known for kind of doing out information over time and so we thought
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um it's really worth going back and looking at this you know lent confessed to the two killings also kidnapping
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Becky but yet he stayed under the radar to detectives investigating him didn't know that he was a possible sex offender
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how did he do that well I have to tell you that is the scariest part of this story and why it's so important for
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parents to see this this story because he hid behind the Bible he went to Bible school he helped everybody um in fact
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people trusted him so much that they would have him take care of their kids oh man and one of his victims came
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because someone hired him to work in a cinema and K and he would hire kids to help him and and that's how he found one
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of his victims so it's a very very frightening situation I hope this family can have closure yeah Aon Mor thank you
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so much you can watch Aaron's full report the unending search for Sarah anwood on 48 hours tomorrow night at 109
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