1 00:00:14,448 --> 00:00:18,482 >>> I HAVE VISIBLE HOLES IN MY 2 00:00:18,482 --> 00:00:20,758 MEMORY FROM WHEN I WAS A KID. 3 00:00:20,758 --> 00:00:25,413 YOU KNOW, TRAUMA. 4 00:00:25,413 --> 00:00:27,137 AND IT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF 5 00:00:27,137 --> 00:00:31,000 TRAUMA BECAUSE THERE IS A 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,482 MONSTER INVOLVED. 7 00:00:33,482 --> 00:00:36,620 IT'S 30 YEARS LATER. 8 00:00:36,620 --> 00:00:39,517 I CAN'T IMAGINE MANY THINGS THAT 9 00:00:39,517 --> 00:00:42,000 ARE AS TERRIBLY LIFE CHANGING. 10 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,275 I WAS TWO WEEKS AWAY FROM MY 11 00:00:44,275 --> 00:00:45,517 17th BIRTHDAY. 12 00:00:45,517 --> 00:00:46,793 WHAT COULD I HAVE DONE? 13 00:00:46,793 --> 00:00:49,103 WHAT COULD I HAVE DONE? 14 00:00:49,103 --> 00:00:52,344 >> COMMAND IS ON THE PHONE. 15 00:00:52,344 --> 00:00:53,965 THEY WILL EXPECT YOU DOWN THERE. 16 00:00:53,965 --> 00:00:57,137 >> A WEEK AGO TODAY, SARA WOOD, 17 00:00:57,137 --> 00:00:59,620 A 12-YEAR-OLD, LEFT THIS CHURCH 18 00:00:59,620 --> 00:01:02,793 AND WAS TRAVELING A SHORT 19 00:01:02,793 --> 00:01:04,586 DISTANCE, ABOUT A MILE TO HER 20 00:01:04,586 --> 00:01:04,896 HOME. 21 00:01:04,896 --> 00:01:07,000 SHE MADE IT ABOUT HALFWAY. 22 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,379 AND WE FOUND HER BICYCLE AT 23 00:01:09,379 --> 00:01:10,758 AROUND 4:30 THAT AFTERNOON. 24 00:01:10,758 --> 00:01:12,000 >> I AM DUSTY WOOD. 25 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,827 I AM SARA'S OLDER BROTHER. 26 00:01:16,827 --> 00:01:18,620 I WAS 16 WHEN SHE WAS ABDUCTED 27 00:01:18,620 --> 00:01:20,000 IN 1993. 28 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 >> WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE SARA 29 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:24,655 IS. 30 00:01:24,655 --> 00:01:26,448 PLEASE HELP US FIND HER. 31 00:01:26,448 --> 00:01:28,551 >> WHEN I GOT A CALL FROM MY 32 00:01:28,551 --> 00:01:29,448 SERGEANT THAT THERE WAS A 33 00:01:29,448 --> 00:01:30,172 MISSING GIRL. 34 00:01:30,172 --> 00:01:32,551 THEY DIDN'T SAY RUN-AWAY, HE 35 00:01:32,551 --> 00:01:35,137 SAID MISSING CHILD, WHICH WAS 36 00:01:35,137 --> 00:01:35,378 UNUSUAL. 37 00:01:35,378 --> 00:01:37,758 SO I IMMEDIATELY DROVE UP THERE. 38 00:01:37,758 --> 00:01:40,620 THIS IS A CHURCH THAT SARA'S 39 00:01:40,620 --> 00:01:42,620 FATHER WAS PASTOR AT THE TIME. 40 00:01:42,620 --> 00:01:44,827 SHE WAS HERE DURING SCHOOL WORK. 41 00:01:44,827 --> 00:01:45,965 SHE WOULD HAVE GONE RIGHT OUT 42 00:01:45,965 --> 00:01:47,378 HERE AND RIGHT DOWN THIS ROAD. 43 00:01:47,378 --> 00:01:49,103 >> SO THIS IS WHERE SHE TOOK A 44 00:01:49,103 --> 00:01:49,310 TURN. 45 00:01:49,310 --> 00:01:51,275 >> YEP, HER HOUSE IS NOT TOO FAR 46 00:01:51,275 --> 00:01:52,241 UP HERE ON THE LEFT. 47 00:01:52,241 --> 00:01:54,378 THIS IS THE AREA WHERE THE 48 00:01:54,378 --> 00:01:55,551 BICYCLE WAS FOUND. 49 00:01:55,551 --> 00:01:57,206 >> I REMEMBER THAT MOMENT. 50 00:01:57,206 --> 00:01:59,000 I'M STANDING NEXT TO MY MOTHER, 51 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,758 AND THAT'S WHEN YOU KNOW. 52 00:02:01,758 --> 00:02:02,620 IT'S ALL OVER. 53 00:02:02,620 --> 00:02:13,965 IT'S ALL OVER. 54 00:02:13,965 --> 00:02:15,724 >> WE SET UP A STATION THERE. 55 00:02:15,724 --> 00:02:17,827 WE COULD DO EVERYTHING OUT OF 56 00:02:17,827 --> 00:02:18,793 THAT CHURCH. 57 00:02:18,793 --> 00:02:20,413 >> THERE WERE TROOPERS FROM ALL 58 00:02:20,413 --> 00:02:21,000 OVER THE STATE THERE. 59 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,034 >> ALL OVER THE STATE THERE. 60 00:02:23,034 --> 00:02:25,551 >> DAYS WENT BY, WEEKS, MONTHS? 61 00:02:25,551 --> 00:02:26,034 >> RIGHT. 62 00:02:26,034 --> 00:02:28,068 >> WOULD EITHER ONE OF YOU HAVE 63 00:02:28,068 --> 00:02:31,034 EVER GUESSED THE TURN THIS CASE 64 00:02:31,034 --> 00:02:33,620 WOULD TAKE ON JANUARY 7th, 1994? 65 00:02:33,620 --> 00:02:34,448 >> NO. 66 00:02:34,448 --> 00:02:35,965 >> THIS IS STILL BACK IN THE DAY 67 00:02:35,965 --> 00:02:39,620 WHERE TELETYPES WOULD COME 68 00:02:39,620 --> 00:02:39,862 ACROSS. 69 00:02:39,862 --> 00:02:42,551 ONE CAME OUT ABOUT AN ATTEMPTED 70 00:02:42,551 --> 00:02:44,413 ABDUCTION IN MASSACHUSETTS. 71 00:02:44,413 --> 00:02:46,551 >> A 12-YEAR-OLD IS SIMPLY 72 00:02:46,551 --> 00:02:47,344 WALKING TO SCHOOL. 73 00:02:47,344 --> 00:02:49,724 SHE'S APPROACHED BY A STRANGER 74 00:02:49,724 --> 00:02:51,930 WHO PUTS A GUN TO HER, AND THAT 75 00:02:51,930 --> 00:02:52,482 BROKE THE ENTIRE CASE. 76 00:02:52,482 --> 00:03:00,413 >> SHE'S THE KEY. 77 00:03:00,413 --> 00:03:01,034 SHE'S THE LYNNINCHPIN. 78 00:03:01,034 --> 00:03:02,965 >> LOUIS CAME ACROSS AS JUST AN 79 00:03:02,965 --> 00:03:03,931 ORDINARY GUY. 80 00:03:03,931 --> 00:03:06,793 HE WAS A HANDYMAN. 81 00:03:06,793 --> 00:03:07,448 I DON'T THINK ANYBODY WOULD HAVE 82 00:03:07,448 --> 00:03:09,517 EVER CONCEIVED THAT HE WAS DOING 83 00:03:09,517 --> 00:03:13,896 WHAT HE WAS DOING. 84 00:03:13,896 --> 00:03:18,413 I'M JULIA COWLEY, RETIRED FBI 85 00:03:18,413 --> 00:03:19,827 AGENT AND PROFILER. 86 00:03:19,827 --> 00:03:21,586 HE WAS PREPARED WITH DUCT TAPE. 87 00:03:21,586 --> 00:03:22,758 HE HAD A GUN WITH HIM. 88 00:03:22,758 --> 00:03:28,137 HE HAD A KNIFE WITH HIM. 89 00:03:28,137 --> 00:03:28,620 HE HAD ROPE WITH HIM. 90 00:03:28,620 --> 00:03:29,310 SO HE'S ALWAYS READY. 91 00:03:29,310 --> 00:03:30,413 HE ENJOYED GOING OUT AND DRIVING 92 00:03:30,413 --> 00:03:33,586 AROUND AND IN HIS WORDS HUNTING 93 00:03:33,586 --> 00:03:34,034 FOR CHILDREN. 94 00:03:34,034 --> 00:03:36,448 >> HE KILLED SARA WOOD. 95 00:03:36,448 --> 00:03:38,482 HE DID CONFESS TO IT. 96 00:03:38,482 --> 00:03:41,930 BUT WE DON'T HAVE SARA'S BODY. 97 00:03:41,930 --> 00:03:45,413 >> FINDING THE BODY IS IMPORTANT 98 00:03:45,413 --> 00:03:49,241 BECAUSE THEN MY MOTHER COULD 99 00:03:49,241 --> 00:03:51,862 KNOW WHERE SHE IS. 100 00:03:51,862 --> 00:03:56,379 >> DO YOU THINK LOUIS BLUNT WILL 101 00:03:56,379 --> 00:03:57,137 GIVE THAT UP? 102 00:03:57,137 --> 00:03:57,620 >> I DON'T KNOW. 103 00:03:57,620 --> 00:03:59,689 IF HE DOES, IT WON'T BE OUT OF 104 00:03:59,689 --> 00:04:00,862 THE GOODNESS OF HIS HEART. 105 00:04:00,862 --> 00:04:06,068 THE GOODNESS OF HIS HEART. HE DOES HAVE A LOT TO HIDE. 106 00:04:06,068 --> 00:04:46,793 HE DOES HAVE A LOT TO HIDE. 107 00:04:46,793 --> 00:04:55,103 ♪ 108 00:04:55,103 --> 00:04:59,344 >> MY SISTER'S LIFE ENDED, AND I 109 00:04:59,344 --> 00:05:00,620 COULDN'T STOP THAT. 110 00:05:00,620 --> 00:05:03,931 SOMEONE HURT HER AND TOOK HER 111 00:05:03,931 --> 00:05:04,172 LIFE. 112 00:05:04,172 --> 00:05:06,793 I KNOW AT THE TIME I FELT LIKE I 113 00:05:06,793 --> 00:05:11,103 COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING, BUT I 114 00:05:11,103 --> 00:05:11,379 COULDN'T. 115 00:05:11,379 --> 00:05:13,448 SHE WAS AN EXUBERANT PERSON. 116 00:05:13,448 --> 00:05:15,172 SHE WAS EXCITED TO BE ALIVE. 117 00:05:15,172 --> 00:05:18,034 >> IT'S BEEN A LITTLE OVER THREE 118 00:05:18,034 --> 00:05:19,896 DECADES SINCE HIS 12-YEAR-OLD 119 00:05:19,896 --> 00:05:22,068 LITTLE SISTER DISAPPEARED. 120 00:05:22,068 --> 00:05:25,482 BUT FOR DUSTY WOOD, MEMORIES OF 121 00:05:25,482 --> 00:05:27,103 SARA HAVE NOT FADED WITH TIME. 122 00:05:27,103 --> 00:05:28,827 >> GOOD MORNING, SARA. 123 00:05:28,827 --> 00:05:29,310 >> WHAT? 124 00:05:29,310 --> 00:05:30,000 >> GOOD MORNING. 125 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,827 >> GOOD MORNING! 126 00:05:31,827 --> 00:05:32,655 >> READY? 127 00:05:32,655 --> 00:05:33,310 >> NO. 128 00:05:33,310 --> 00:05:36,172 I WANT TO STAY HERE FOR A VIDEO 129 00:05:36,172 --> 00:05:36,379 GAME. 130 00:05:36,379 --> 00:05:38,551 >> EVERY PICTURE YOU SEE OF HER, 131 00:05:38,551 --> 00:05:40,862 IT'S LIKE A BIG, BEAMING SMILE. 132 00:05:40,862 --> 00:05:41,758 THOSE BRIGHT BLUE EYES. 133 00:05:41,758 --> 00:05:44,655 >> DUSTY SAYS THE TWO OF THEM 134 00:05:44,655 --> 00:05:47,241 HAD A LOT IN COMMON. 135 00:05:47,241 --> 00:05:49,068 >> I'M AN EXTROVERT. 136 00:05:49,068 --> 00:05:51,448 SHE'S PRETTY EXTROVERTED. 137 00:05:51,448 --> 00:05:53,241 SHE'S NOT A PERSON IN THE 138 00:05:53,241 --> 00:05:53,551 BACKGROUND. 139 00:05:53,551 --> 00:05:54,655 SHE STUCK OUT. 140 00:05:54,655 --> 00:05:57,068 >> HEY, DAD! 141 00:05:57,068 --> 00:06:00,827 DAD, OVER HERE. 142 00:06:00,827 --> 00:06:04,793 >> SHE WAS FUNNY. 143 00:06:04,793 --> 00:06:06,275 I IMAGINE SHE WOULD BE FUNNY 144 00:06:06,275 --> 00:06:06,482 NOW. 145 00:06:06,482 --> 00:06:09,965 >> ON AUGUST 18th, 1993, DUSTY, 146 00:06:09,965 --> 00:06:11,793 THEN JUST 16 YEARS OLD, WAS 147 00:06:11,793 --> 00:06:13,482 ENJOYING A LAZY SUMMER DAY WITH 148 00:06:13,482 --> 00:06:24,275 HIS FAMILY IN SEQUIOT. 149 00:06:24,275 --> 00:06:25,310 >> WE JUST HUNG AROUND THE 150 00:06:25,310 --> 00:06:25,620 HOUSE. 151 00:06:25,620 --> 00:06:27,000 WE LIVED IN THE COUNTRY, SO 152 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,000 THERE WASN'T A LOT OF STUFF TO 153 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:29,344 DO. 154 00:06:29,344 --> 00:06:31,620 >> SARA HAD MADE PLANS TO RIDE 155 00:06:31,620 --> 00:06:33,344 HER BIKE TO VACATION BIBLE 156 00:06:33,344 --> 00:06:35,965 SCHOOL AT THE CHURCH WHERE HER 157 00:06:35,965 --> 00:06:37,310 FATHER WAS A PASTOR. 158 00:06:37,310 --> 00:06:40,000 IT WAS JUST ABOUT A MILE DOWN 159 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:40,517 THE ROAD. 160 00:06:40,517 --> 00:06:44,206 >> THE LAST TIME I SAW HER, SHE 161 00:06:44,206 --> 00:06:45,931 WAS SINGING DOLLY PARTON. 162 00:06:45,931 --> 00:06:47,000 >> DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT SONG SHE 163 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,310 WAS SINGING? 164 00:06:48,310 --> 00:06:51,448 >> "WORKING 9:00 TO 5:00." 165 00:06:51,448 --> 00:06:52,827 SHE AND I WERE AT THE FRONT 166 00:06:52,827 --> 00:06:55,793 DOOR, SO I WAS LISTENING TO HER 167 00:06:55,793 --> 00:06:56,724 AS SHE'S -- 168 00:06:56,724 --> 00:06:58,862 ♪ WORKING 9:00 TO 5:00. 169 00:06:58,862 --> 00:07:01,172 >> THEN SHE GOT ON HER BIKE, AND 170 00:07:01,172 --> 00:07:03,034 SHE WAS LIKE, SEE YOU LATER. 171 00:07:03,034 --> 00:07:05,000 >> WHEN SARA DIDN'T RETURN HOME 172 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,034 LATER THAT AFTERNOON, DUSTY AND 173 00:07:07,034 --> 00:07:10,620 SARA'S PARENTS BEGAN TO WORRY. 174 00:07:10,620 --> 00:07:11,896 >> I REMEMBER GETTING A PHONE 175 00:07:11,896 --> 00:07:13,758 CALL FROM MY PARENTS AT MY 176 00:07:13,758 --> 00:07:15,172 FRIEND'S HOUSE. 177 00:07:15,172 --> 00:07:18,620 HEY, DID YOU SEE SARA? 178 00:07:18,620 --> 00:07:21,517 AND ME BEING LIKE NO. 179 00:07:21,517 --> 00:07:23,275 SO AT THAT POINT, WE RODE OUR 180 00:07:23,275 --> 00:07:25,000 BIKES AND CAME HOME, DIDN'T SEE 181 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:25,206 HER. 182 00:07:25,206 --> 00:07:26,862 >> SOON AFTER, THAT'S WHEN A 183 00:07:26,862 --> 00:07:29,655 NEIGHBOR CAME ACROSS SARA'S BIKE 184 00:07:29,655 --> 00:07:31,068 HIDDEN IN THE BUSHES ON THE SIDE 185 00:07:31,068 --> 00:07:32,689 OF THE ROAD, LESS THAN A HALF 186 00:07:32,689 --> 00:07:34,551 MILE FROM THE FAMILY'S HOME. 187 00:07:34,551 --> 00:07:36,310 POLICE WERE CALLED. 188 00:07:36,310 --> 00:07:38,034 AROUND 6:00 P.M., NEW YORK STATE 189 00:07:38,034 --> 00:07:40,344 POLICE TROOPER, TIMMY BLAISE, 190 00:07:40,344 --> 00:07:43,931 WHO IS NOW RETIRED, ARRIVED AT 191 00:07:43,931 --> 00:07:44,551 THE SCENE. 192 00:07:44,551 --> 00:07:46,413 >> SO, TIM, WHERE WAS HER 193 00:07:46,413 --> 00:07:47,103 BICYCLE FOUND? 194 00:07:47,103 --> 00:07:49,413 >> IT WAS OFF THE GRASSY AREA. 195 00:07:49,413 --> 00:07:51,689 IT WAS IN WHERE THE SHRUBS ARE. 196 00:07:51,689 --> 00:07:53,758 AND THERE WAS ALSO SOME SCHOOL 197 00:07:53,758 --> 00:07:55,344 PAPERWORK THAT WAS AROUND. 198 00:07:55,344 --> 00:07:56,689 SOME PAPERS WERE BLOWING AROUND. 199 00:07:56,689 --> 00:07:59,172 >> AT THE TIME, DID ANYONE 200 00:07:59,172 --> 00:08:00,758 REMEMBER SEEING A TRUCK OR A 201 00:08:00,758 --> 00:08:01,724 CHILD BEING GRABBED OR ANYTHING? 202 00:08:01,724 --> 00:08:03,344 >> NO, NO. 203 00:08:03,344 --> 00:08:05,586 >> SHE JUST VANISHED. 204 00:08:05,586 --> 00:08:06,758 >> THERE IS NOBODY HERE TO 205 00:08:06,758 --> 00:08:07,724 REALLY SEE ANYTHING. 206 00:08:07,724 --> 00:08:10,000 >> BY EARLY EVENING, THE MASSIVE 207 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,034 SEARCH FOR SARA BEGAN. 208 00:08:14,034 --> 00:08:16,413 >> WE'D BE OUT IN THE WOODS 209 00:08:16,413 --> 00:08:18,034 SEARCHING FOR HER AT MIDNIGHT, 210 00:08:18,034 --> 00:08:20,206 1:00 IN THE MORNING, HOPING THAT 211 00:08:20,206 --> 00:08:23,586 WE FIND HER IN MAYBE A HOLE OR 212 00:08:23,586 --> 00:08:26,448 IF SHE FELL DOWN IN SOMETHING. 213 00:08:26,448 --> 00:08:30,137 >> "48 HOURS" WAS INVITED BY 214 00:08:30,137 --> 00:08:33,413 SARA'S PARENTS, BOB AND FRANCIS 215 00:08:33,413 --> 00:08:35,000 WOOD, TO WITNESS THOSE EARLY 216 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,344 DAYS OF THE INVESTIGATION IN THE 217 00:08:36,344 --> 00:08:38,206 HOPES THAT THE MEDIA ATTENTION 218 00:08:38,206 --> 00:08:39,344 WOULD HELP FIND SARA. 219 00:08:39,344 --> 00:08:41,309 >> CALL FOR AN OFFICER, AND I'LL 220 00:08:41,309 --> 00:08:42,275 BE RIGHT WITH YOU. 221 00:08:42,275 --> 00:08:44,379 >> IT WOULD BECOME ONE OF THE 222 00:08:44,379 --> 00:08:46,172 LARGEST SEARCHES FOR A MISSING 223 00:08:46,172 --> 00:08:48,310 CHILD DURING THAT TIME. 224 00:08:48,310 --> 00:08:50,413 >> THE FIRST DAY WAS THE WORST. 225 00:08:50,413 --> 00:08:54,000 THE FIRST NIGHT. 226 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,551 >> WE'RE TRYING TO SEE IF YOU 227 00:08:55,551 --> 00:08:57,620 HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THE SARA 228 00:08:57,620 --> 00:08:58,310 WOOD CASE. 229 00:08:58,310 --> 00:08:59,724 >> THE FIRST NIGHT, OF COURSE, I 230 00:08:59,724 --> 00:09:01,689 WAS ON THE ROAD ALL NIGHT, OUT 231 00:09:01,689 --> 00:09:02,793 IN THE WOODS ALL NIGHT. 232 00:09:02,793 --> 00:09:04,827 THE SECOND DAY I WAS ON THE ROAD 233 00:09:04,827 --> 00:09:07,103 ALL NIGHT WATCHING. 234 00:09:07,103 --> 00:09:10,172 >> TO FEDERATION COMMAND POST. 235 00:09:10,172 --> 00:09:12,482 >> BOB WOODS' TINY CHURCH WAS 236 00:09:12,482 --> 00:09:14,655 TURNED INTO A STATE POLICE 237 00:09:14,655 --> 00:09:15,103 COMMAND POST. 238 00:09:15,103 --> 00:09:16,758 >> THE MORE PEOPLE WE CAN REACH 239 00:09:16,758 --> 00:09:18,379 EARLY ON WHILE THE THING IS 240 00:09:18,379 --> 00:09:20,379 STILL FRESH IN THEIR MIND, THE 241 00:09:20,379 --> 00:09:21,689 BETTER CHANCE WE STAND OF 242 00:09:21,689 --> 00:09:23,862 TURNING UP SOMETHING THAT WILL 243 00:09:23,862 --> 00:09:24,448 HELP US. 244 00:09:24,448 --> 00:09:26,068 THE BIG THING AS FAR AS THE 245 00:09:26,068 --> 00:09:28,931 UNIFORMED TROOPERS ARE CONCERNED 246 00:09:28,931 --> 00:09:29,379 IS THE DOOR TO DOOR. 247 00:09:29,379 --> 00:09:30,344 >> ANYTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY 248 00:09:30,344 --> 00:09:32,000 IN THE PAST WEEK OR SO? 249 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,448 >> NO. 250 00:09:33,448 --> 00:09:35,241 >> CAN THAT BECOME THE CHOPPER? 251 00:09:35,241 --> 00:09:36,931 >> THE THING THAT KEEPS 252 00:09:36,931 --> 00:09:38,172 EVERYBODY GOING IS THE 253 00:09:38,172 --> 00:09:40,068 UNCERTAINTY, NOT KNOWING WHETHER 254 00:09:40,068 --> 00:09:42,034 SHE'S DEAD, WHETHER SHE'S ALIVE, 255 00:09:42,034 --> 00:09:44,172 WHETHER SHE'S A MILE AWAY OR 120 256 00:09:44,172 --> 00:09:44,793 MILES AWAY. 257 00:09:44,793 --> 00:09:46,758 >> SO ALL I'M DOING IS PRAYING 258 00:09:46,758 --> 00:09:48,310 AND ENCOURAGING PEOPLE BECAUSE 259 00:09:48,310 --> 00:09:49,103 THEY'RE DOING ALL THE WORK. 260 00:09:49,103 --> 00:09:51,448 >> WE HAVE EXPANDED THE SEARCH 261 00:09:51,448 --> 00:09:54,206 OPERATION PROBABLY IN THE AREA 262 00:09:54,206 --> 00:09:59,000 OF 600 SQUARE MILES. 263 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,137 >> I'VE GOT MORE CREWS COMING IN 264 00:10:01,137 --> 00:10:02,241 FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE 265 00:10:02,241 --> 00:10:02,482 STATE. 266 00:10:02,482 --> 00:10:03,896 >> YOU KNOW, WE WILL BE CRAWLING 267 00:10:03,896 --> 00:10:05,793 ON OUR HANDS AND KNEES. 268 00:10:05,793 --> 00:10:07,241 IT IS REALLY THICK ONCE WE GET 269 00:10:07,241 --> 00:10:07,827 DOWN THERE. 270 00:10:07,827 --> 00:10:09,965 >> WHEN YOU ARE DEALING WITH A 271 00:10:09,965 --> 00:10:12,000 CHILD, IF IT HITS YOU 272 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,413 PERSONALLY, IT HITS ME 273 00:10:13,413 --> 00:10:16,310 PERSONALLY, YOU TEND TO GO 110%. 274 00:10:16,310 --> 00:10:18,275 >> I HOPE WE FIND THIS GIRL. 275 00:10:18,275 --> 00:10:19,896 >> THANK YOU, LORD, FOR THIS 276 00:10:19,896 --> 00:10:20,034 DAY. 277 00:10:20,034 --> 00:10:23,517 AND WE THANK YOU FOR THE GOOD 278 00:10:23,517 --> 00:10:24,310 FOOD WE HAVE. 279 00:10:24,310 --> 00:10:28,965 WE ASK THAT YOU BE WITH SARA AND 280 00:10:28,965 --> 00:10:30,758 NOURISH HERE, PROTECT HER. 281 00:10:30,758 --> 00:10:31,517 PLEASE BRING US HOME TONIGHT. 282 00:10:31,517 --> 00:10:33,482 >> HOW IS IT GOING, GUYS? 283 00:10:33,482 --> 00:10:36,206 IT'S LIKE I'M ON A PRECIPICE AND 284 00:10:36,206 --> 00:10:39,241 THERE IS A DEEP, DARK CLIFF 285 00:10:39,241 --> 00:10:39,448 THERE. 286 00:10:39,448 --> 00:10:39,724 HI. 287 00:10:39,724 --> 00:10:42,586 HOW ARE YOU DOING, HUN? 288 00:10:42,586 --> 00:10:44,103 I'M GLAD YOU ARE HERE. 289 00:10:44,103 --> 00:10:44,965 I REALLY AM. 290 00:10:44,965 --> 00:10:48,862 >> IF I GO DOWN IN SELF-PITY AND 291 00:10:48,862 --> 00:10:50,310 START TO GO DOWN THERE, I DON' 292 00:10:50,310 --> 00:10:52,827 THINK I WILL GO BACK UP. 293 00:10:52,827 --> 00:10:57,103 >> FRANCES IS STRENGTHING DAILY. 294 00:10:57,103 --> 00:10:59,551 SHE'S IN THE BIBLE A LOT. 295 00:10:59,551 --> 00:11:00,310 SHE'S STRONG. 296 00:11:00,310 --> 00:11:03,862 REAL STRONG. 297 00:11:03,862 --> 00:11:04,068 MYSELF? 298 00:11:04,068 --> 00:11:10,862 I DON'T KNOW. 299 00:11:10,862 --> 00:11:14,034 >> WHAT WE NEED IS A BREAK, A 300 00:11:14,034 --> 00:11:16,068 GOOD SOLID LEAD THAT WE CAN TAKE 301 00:11:16,068 --> 00:11:16,862 THIS UP WITH. 302 00:11:16,862 --> 00:11:18,724 >> AND BOB BELIEVED POLICE WERE 303 00:11:18,724 --> 00:11:20,000 GOING TO GET THAT BREAK. 304 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,931 >> WE'RE DOING THE STATE OF 305 00:11:21,931 --> 00:11:22,137 TEXAS. 306 00:11:22,137 --> 00:11:23,896 >> IF ENOUGH PEOPLE COULD SEE 307 00:11:23,896 --> 00:11:25,103 HIS DAUGHTER'S FACE. 308 00:11:25,103 --> 00:11:27,068 >> SOMEBODY STOPS AT ONE OF 309 00:11:27,068 --> 00:11:28,586 THESE STORES AND GASES UP, YOU 310 00:11:28,586 --> 00:11:30,413 CAN SEE MY DAUGHTER AND THEY 311 00:11:30,413 --> 00:11:31,482 COULD MAKE THE PHONE CALL WE 312 00:11:31,482 --> 00:11:32,137 NEED TO GET. 313 00:11:32,137 --> 00:11:33,551 >> THIS IS MY BABY. 314 00:11:33,551 --> 00:11:35,310 WHATEVER I HAVE TO DO I'M GOING 315 00:11:35,310 --> 00:11:37,620 TO DO TO FIND THIS LITTLE GIRL 316 00:11:37,620 --> 00:11:37,931 HERE. 317 00:11:37,931 --> 00:11:43,344 >> SARA'S MOTHER MADE A PUBLIC 318 00:11:43,344 --> 00:11:43,551 PLEA. 319 00:11:43,551 --> 00:11:44,758 >> I DON'T HATE YOU. 320 00:11:44,758 --> 00:11:46,448 I JUST WANT MY DAUGHTER BACK. 321 00:11:46,448 --> 00:11:47,000 THAT'S ALL. 322 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,379 WE JUST WANT HER HERE, RIGHT 323 00:11:48,379 --> 00:11:49,275 HERE WITH US. 324 00:11:49,275 --> 00:11:50,689 >> INVESTIGATORS WERE DETERMINED 325 00:11:50,689 --> 00:11:52,689 TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO 326 00:11:52,689 --> 00:11:52,896 SARA. 327 00:11:52,896 --> 00:11:56,275 AND THEY DID NOT SHY AWAY FROM 328 00:11:56,275 --> 00:11:59,103 LOOKING ANYWHERE OR AT ANYONE. 329 00:11:59,103 --> 00:12:02,241 >> OUR ENTIRE FAMILY WAS FOCUSED 330 00:12:02,241 --> 00:12:03,172 ON GETTING SARA BACK. 331 00:12:03,172 --> 00:12:05,724 SO YOU WANT TO INVESTIGATE ME? 332 00:12:05,724 --> 00:12:08,655 I'M OKAY WITH THAT. 333 00:12:08,655 --> 00:12:10,137 SARA HAS GOT TO COME HOME. 334 00:12:10,137 --> 00:12:14,482 SARA HAS GOT TO COME HOME. WE'LL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES, 335 00:12:14,482 --> 00:12:24,655 WE'LL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES, 336 00:12:24,655 --> 00:12:27,068 >>> WHEN THIS HAPPENED, PEOPLE 337 00:12:27,068 --> 00:12:28,413 REALIZED THIS COULD HAPPEN TO 338 00:12:28,413 --> 00:12:29,103 ANYBODY. 339 00:12:29,103 --> 00:12:30,551 THIS COULD BE THEIR CHILDREN. 340 00:12:30,551 --> 00:12:34,862 >> RETIRED NEW YORK STATE POLICE 341 00:12:34,862 --> 00:12:37,620 DETECTIVES REESE TRAIN AND JOHN 342 00:12:37,620 --> 00:12:39,724 FALAND WERE STATE TROOPERS WHEN 343 00:12:39,724 --> 00:12:41,896 SARA WOOD DISAPPEARED IN 1993. 344 00:12:41,896 --> 00:12:44,000 >> MY DAUGHTER WAS ONLY FIVE 345 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,482 MILES FROM THERE WHEN THIS 346 00:12:45,482 --> 00:12:48,034 HAPPENED AT HER GRANDPARENTS' 347 00:12:48,034 --> 00:12:49,241 HOUSE, THREE YEARS OLD. 348 00:12:49,241 --> 00:12:49,896 IT'S HOME. 349 00:12:49,896 --> 00:12:52,137 >> THEY WERE PART OF THE ARMY OF 350 00:12:52,137 --> 00:12:53,758 INVESTIGATORS FROM AROUND THE 351 00:12:53,758 --> 00:12:55,758 STATE ASSIGNED TO SEARCH FOR 352 00:12:55,758 --> 00:12:56,000 SARA. 353 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,965 >> WE HAD NO VEHICLE. 354 00:12:57,965 --> 00:13:01,689 SHE DIDN'T JUST GO INTO THIN 355 00:13:01,689 --> 00:13:01,896 AIR. 356 00:13:01,896 --> 00:13:03,482 >> THEY WOULD JOIN FRANK 357 00:13:03,482 --> 00:13:05,551 LAWRENCE, ONE OF THE LEAD 358 00:13:05,551 --> 00:13:05,862 DETECTIVES. 359 00:13:05,862 --> 00:13:07,793 >> SOMETHING OR SOMEONE HAD TO 360 00:13:07,793 --> 00:13:08,793 HAVE TAKEN HER. 361 00:13:08,793 --> 00:13:11,000 >> THERE IT IS RIGHT THERE. 362 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:11,517 SARA, CHANNEL 2. 363 00:13:11,517 --> 00:13:13,724 >> YET, DESPITE THE WEEKS OF 364 00:13:13,724 --> 00:13:16,586 MEDIA ATTENTION THAT SARA'S CASE 365 00:13:16,586 --> 00:13:18,103 RECEIVED, LAWRENCE, NOW RETIRED 366 00:13:18,103 --> 00:13:19,655 FROM THE NEW YORK STATE POLICE, 367 00:13:19,655 --> 00:13:22,137 SAYS LAW ENFORCEMENT STILL HAD 368 00:13:22,137 --> 00:13:23,344 VERY LITTLE TO GO ON. 369 00:13:23,344 --> 00:13:24,931 >> SOMEBODY TOOK HER. 370 00:13:24,931 --> 00:13:25,482 WE DIDN'T KNOW. 371 00:13:25,482 --> 00:13:27,448 SO WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW, YOU HAVE 372 00:13:27,448 --> 00:13:30,068 TO ELIMINATE EVERYTHING, EVERY 373 00:13:30,068 --> 00:13:30,379 POSSIBILITY. 374 00:13:30,379 --> 00:13:31,068 AND YOU START LOCAL. 375 00:13:31,068 --> 00:13:33,931 >> AND THAT INCLUDED QUESTIONING 376 00:13:33,931 --> 00:13:36,482 THE PEOPLE CLOSEST TO SARA, HER 377 00:13:36,482 --> 00:13:38,068 BROTHER AND HER PARENTS. 378 00:13:38,068 --> 00:13:39,896 >> YOU HAD TO LOOK AT THE WOODS. 379 00:13:39,896 --> 00:13:41,758 >> THE WOODS WERE LOOKED AT. 380 00:13:41,758 --> 00:13:43,103 >> WASN'T THAT TOUGH, THOUGH? 381 00:13:43,103 --> 00:13:44,862 >> IT'S ALWAYS DIFFICULT TO DO 382 00:13:44,862 --> 00:13:45,172 THAT. 383 00:13:45,172 --> 00:13:47,034 YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IN THIS 384 00:13:47,034 --> 00:13:51,034 CASE BECAUSE THEY'RE SUCH GOOD 385 00:13:51,034 --> 00:13:51,275 PARENTS. 386 00:13:51,275 --> 00:13:53,275 BOB WOOD WAS THERE EVERY DAY. 387 00:13:53,275 --> 00:13:54,551 >> I'M GLAD YOU ARE HERE. 388 00:13:54,551 --> 00:13:57,275 YOU'RE HELPING OUT A LOT. 389 00:13:57,275 --> 00:13:57,724 >> EVERY DAY. 390 00:13:57,724 --> 00:13:59,206 >> THE INVESTIGATION ISN'T OVER. 391 00:13:59,206 --> 00:14:01,137 >> I HAD A HARD TIME GOING THERE 392 00:14:01,137 --> 00:14:01,655 EVERY DAY. 393 00:14:01,655 --> 00:14:03,827 >> ONCE THE WOODS WERE 394 00:14:03,827 --> 00:14:04,862 ELIMINATED, LAWRENCE SAYS THEY 395 00:14:04,862 --> 00:14:07,068 TURNED THEIR ATTENTION TO 396 00:14:07,068 --> 00:14:08,517 INVESTIGATING KNOWN AND 397 00:14:08,517 --> 00:14:10,034 SUSPECTED SEX OFFENDERS. 398 00:14:10,034 --> 00:14:12,000 >> EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM 399 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,965 HAD TO BE SPOKEN WITH AND 400 00:14:15,965 --> 00:14:16,896 ELIMINATED. 401 00:14:16,896 --> 00:14:18,379 AND WE DID. 402 00:14:18,379 --> 00:14:20,000 WE DID. 403 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,275 >> AND THEY STILL HAD NOTHING. 404 00:14:22,275 --> 00:14:24,413 >> WE GOT THIS SECTION DONE. 405 00:14:24,413 --> 00:14:27,068 >> DESPITE THE LONG HOURS AND 406 00:14:27,068 --> 00:14:29,896 HEAVY MANPOWER. 407 00:14:29,896 --> 00:14:32,206 UNTIL A BIT EARLY COLD DAY IN 408 00:14:32,206 --> 00:14:35,517 JANUARY 1994, FIVE MONTHS AFTER 409 00:14:35,517 --> 00:14:39,827 SARA DISAPPEARED, OFFICER 410 00:14:39,827 --> 00:14:40,793 TIMOTHY BLAISE WAS WORKING IN 411 00:14:40,793 --> 00:14:42,655 THE COMMAND CENTER WHEN A 412 00:14:42,655 --> 00:14:46,137 MESSAGE CAME IN VIA TELETYPE, A 413 00:14:46,137 --> 00:14:47,448 DEVICE THAT POLICE DEPARTMENTS 414 00:14:47,448 --> 00:14:49,517 USED AT THE TIME TO SHARE 415 00:14:49,517 --> 00:14:49,862 INFORMATION. 416 00:14:49,862 --> 00:14:51,172 >> ONE CAME OVER ABOUT AN 417 00:14:51,172 --> 00:14:53,379 ABDUCTION OR ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION 418 00:14:53,379 --> 00:14:54,931 IN MASSACHUSETTS THAT I HANDED 419 00:14:54,931 --> 00:14:55,517 OFF TO FRANK. 420 00:14:55,517 --> 00:14:57,896 >> ANOTHER 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL 421 00:14:57,896 --> 00:15:00,689 NAMED BECKY SAVARESE WAS ALMOST 422 00:15:00,689 --> 00:15:05,517 ABDUCTED AS SHE WALKED TO SCHOOL 423 00:15:05,517 --> 00:15:08,103 IN MASSACHUSETTS, 100 MILES 424 00:15:08,103 --> 00:15:08,655 AWAY. 425 00:15:08,655 --> 00:15:10,620 BECKY DIDN'T RESPOND TO "48 426 00:15:10,620 --> 00:15:11,655 HOURS" MOST RECENT REQUEST FOR 427 00:15:11,655 --> 00:15:12,482 AN INTERVIEW. 428 00:15:12,482 --> 00:15:15,103 BUT BACK IN 1994, SHE DID SPEAK 429 00:15:15,103 --> 00:15:17,793 WITH ME AND TOLD ME HER 430 00:15:17,793 --> 00:15:18,517 REMARKABLE STORY. 431 00:15:18,517 --> 00:15:20,758 >> I WAS COMING UP HERE. 432 00:15:20,758 --> 00:15:24,275 >> IT WAS 7:10 IN THE MORNING ON 433 00:15:24,275 --> 00:15:26,827 JANUARY 7th AT ONE OF THE 434 00:15:26,827 --> 00:15:28,000 BUSIEST INTERSECTIONS IN TOWN. 435 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:29,241 >> HE WAS ON THE SIDE OF ME. 436 00:15:29,241 --> 00:15:30,724 >> LIKE WHERE I AM? 437 00:15:30,724 --> 00:15:31,965 >> YEAH. 438 00:15:31,965 --> 00:15:33,344 HE WAS SAYING STUFF BEFORE. 439 00:15:33,344 --> 00:15:34,413 I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS 440 00:15:34,413 --> 00:15:37,137 SAYING, SO I TOOK MY EAR PHONES 441 00:15:37,137 --> 00:15:38,724 OUT TO HEAR WHAT HE WAS SAYING. 442 00:15:38,724 --> 00:15:40,931 AND THEN HE SAID, DO YOU SEE THE 443 00:15:40,931 --> 00:15:41,482 GUN I HAVE? 444 00:15:41,482 --> 00:15:43,034 I WAS LIKE, YES, I SEE THE GUN 445 00:15:43,034 --> 00:15:43,862 YOU HAVE. 446 00:15:43,862 --> 00:15:45,586 HE'S LIKE JUST DO EVERYTHING I 447 00:15:45,586 --> 00:15:45,758 SAY. 448 00:15:45,758 --> 00:15:47,827 EVERYTHING WILL BE PERFECTLY 449 00:15:47,827 --> 00:15:48,000 OKAY. 450 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,103 I WAS LIKE, ALL RIGHT. 451 00:15:49,103 --> 00:15:51,482 >> HE HAD IT UP AGAINST YOU. 452 00:15:51,482 --> 00:15:54,344 >> HE HAD IT PROBABLY AN INCH 453 00:15:54,344 --> 00:15:55,068 AWAY FROM ME. 454 00:15:55,068 --> 00:15:56,620 >> WERE YOU SCARED? 455 00:15:56,620 --> 00:15:58,344 >> NO, I WASN'T SCARED. 456 00:15:58,344 --> 00:16:00,275 WE TURNED DOWN HERE TO WHERE HIS 457 00:16:00,275 --> 00:16:01,034 TRUCK IS PARKED. 458 00:16:01,034 --> 00:16:02,655 >> NOW, HE WANTS YOU TO GO IN 459 00:16:02,655 --> 00:16:03,655 THE TRUCK THAT'S OVER THERE. 460 00:16:03,655 --> 00:16:04,620 >> RIGHT, RIGHT. 461 00:16:04,620 --> 00:16:06,068 >> YOU'RE NOT INTENDING TO GO 462 00:16:06,068 --> 00:16:06,655 INTO THAT TRUCK. 463 00:16:06,655 --> 00:16:07,103 >> NO. 464 00:16:07,103 --> 00:16:10,103 IF I GOT AWAY, I DIDN'T CARE IF 465 00:16:10,103 --> 00:16:11,344 SHE SHOT ME. 466 00:16:11,344 --> 00:16:12,965 I JUST KNEW I WAS NOT GOING TO 467 00:16:12,965 --> 00:16:13,862 GET INTO THAT TRUCK. 468 00:16:13,862 --> 00:16:15,586 >> WHY DID YOU KNOW THAT? 469 00:16:15,586 --> 00:16:17,000 WAS THAT SOMETHING SOMEONE HAD 470 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,137 TOLD YOU OR -- 471 00:16:18,137 --> 00:16:20,172 >> I JUST FELT IT INSIDE ME. 472 00:16:20,172 --> 00:16:21,586 I KNEW I WAS NOT GOING TO GET 473 00:16:21,586 --> 00:16:23,103 INTO THAT TRUCK. 474 00:16:23,103 --> 00:16:27,206 >> THAT'S WHEN BECKY CAME UP 475 00:16:27,206 --> 00:16:28,551 WITH AN IDEA THAT SAVED HER 476 00:16:28,551 --> 00:16:28,862 LIFE. 477 00:16:28,862 --> 00:16:31,965 SHE FAKED AN ASTHMA ATTACK. 478 00:16:31,965 --> 00:16:34,000 >> WHEN I WAS TRYING TO TAKE MY 479 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,724 BACKPACK OFF, HE TRIED TO GRAB 480 00:16:35,724 --> 00:16:38,724 FOR ME, AND HE GOT MY BACKPACK 481 00:16:38,724 --> 00:16:40,000 AND I JUST RAN. 482 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,379 >> BECKY RAN INTO A MAN CLEARING 483 00:16:42,379 --> 00:16:43,862 SNOW OFF A SIDEWALK, WHO CALLED 484 00:16:43,862 --> 00:16:44,655 THE POLICE. 485 00:16:44,655 --> 00:16:46,862 AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME, A 486 00:16:46,862 --> 00:16:48,724 WITNESS CALLED IN WITH THREE 487 00:16:48,724 --> 00:16:51,068 DIGITS FROM THE TRUCK'S LICENSE 488 00:16:51,068 --> 00:16:52,103 PLATE. 489 00:16:52,103 --> 00:16:53,103 INVESTIGATORS BEGAN SEARCHING 490 00:16:53,103 --> 00:16:54,482 FOR THE VEHICLE. 491 00:16:54,482 --> 00:16:57,413 >> I REMEMBER IT WELL BECAUSE IT 492 00:16:57,413 --> 00:16:57,793 WAS A BLIZZARD. 493 00:16:57,793 --> 00:17:01,206 >> DESPITE THE SNOWSTORM, AN 494 00:17:01,206 --> 00:17:02,655 OFFICER SPOTTED A TRUCK WITH 495 00:17:02,655 --> 00:17:05,068 THOSE THREE DIGITS AND ITS 496 00:17:05,068 --> 00:17:06,344 LICENSE PLATE SITTING IN A 497 00:17:06,344 --> 00:17:09,241 DRIVEWAY IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA. 498 00:17:09,241 --> 00:17:11,413 THE OFFICER QUICKLY CALLED FOR 499 00:17:11,413 --> 00:17:11,655 BACKUP. 500 00:17:11,655 --> 00:17:13,723 >> AND THEY KNOCKED ON THE DOOR 501 00:17:13,723 --> 00:17:15,723 AND SAID, YOU KNOW, WHO WAS 502 00:17:15,723 --> 00:17:16,689 DRIVING THIS TRUCK EARLIER. 503 00:17:16,689 --> 00:17:18,448 >> THE HOMEOWNER TOLD THE 504 00:17:18,448 --> 00:17:22,550 OFFICERS A FRIEND NAMED LOUIS 505 00:17:22,550 --> 00:17:24,482 HAD BORROWED THE TRUCK, AND HE 506 00:17:24,482 --> 00:17:25,448 JUST HAPPENED TO BE SITTING IN 507 00:17:25,448 --> 00:17:26,689 THE KITCHEN. 508 00:17:26,689 --> 00:17:30,137 WHEN POLICE ENTERED THE HOUSE TO 509 00:17:30,137 --> 00:17:31,896 QUESTION LENT, HE DENIED KNOWING 510 00:17:31,896 --> 00:17:33,931 ABOUT BECKY, BUT WILLINGLY 511 00:17:33,931 --> 00:17:36,000 AGREED TO COME DOWN TO THE 512 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:36,344 POLICE STATION. 513 00:17:36,344 --> 00:17:39,896 >> HAD LOUIS LENT, THAT NAME, 514 00:17:39,896 --> 00:17:42,000 LOUIS LENT, EVER COME UP BEFORE? 515 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,000 >> NO, NOT IN OUR INVESTIGATION. 516 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,517 >> HAD HE EVER BEEN CONNECTED TO 517 00:17:46,517 --> 00:17:48,172 A DISAPPEARANCE OF A CHILD? 518 00:17:48,172 --> 00:17:48,724 >> NO. 519 00:17:48,724 --> 00:17:50,206 >> BUT HE HAD A CRIMINAL 520 00:17:50,206 --> 00:17:50,482 HISTORY. 521 00:17:50,482 --> 00:17:52,793 >> SOME MINOR THINGS LIKE BAD 522 00:17:52,793 --> 00:17:53,827 CHECKS, FORGED CHECKS AND THINGS 523 00:17:53,827 --> 00:17:55,275 LIKE THAT, BUT NOTHING THAT 524 00:17:55,275 --> 00:17:55,827 APPROACHES THIS. 525 00:17:55,827 --> 00:17:58,068 >> AND WHEN INVESTIGATORS 526 00:17:58,068 --> 00:17:59,379 SEARCHED HIS VEHICLE, THEY KNEW 527 00:17:59,379 --> 00:18:00,655 THEY HAD THE RIGHT MAN. 528 00:18:00,655 --> 00:18:02,965 >> THEY FOUND REBECCA'S 529 00:18:02,965 --> 00:18:03,206 BACKPACK. 530 00:18:03,206 --> 00:18:05,000 THEY FOUND THE GUN. 531 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,137 THEY FOUND DUCT TAPE AND 532 00:18:07,137 --> 00:18:08,655 CLOTHESLINE ROPE. 533 00:18:08,655 --> 00:18:10,137 BASICALLY HIS KIDNAPPING, 534 00:18:10,137 --> 00:18:10,551 ABDUCTION KIT. 535 00:18:10,551 --> 00:18:12,655 >> ALTHOUGH THE ATTEMPTED 536 00:18:12,655 --> 00:18:16,793 ABDUCTION WAS 100 MILES AWAY 537 00:18:16,793 --> 00:18:19,103 FROM PITSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, 538 00:18:19,103 --> 00:18:20,965 EVERYONE WONDERED IF LENT COULD 539 00:18:20,965 --> 00:18:22,068 HAVE ALSO TAKEN SARA. 540 00:18:22,068 --> 00:18:23,275 >> GOT A CALL FROM THE 541 00:18:23,275 --> 00:18:23,620 LIEUTENANT. 542 00:18:23,620 --> 00:18:26,827 HE SAYS, WELL, GO HOME AND PACK 543 00:18:26,827 --> 00:18:27,379 A BAG AND YOU ARE GOING TO 544 00:18:27,379 --> 00:18:33,137 A BAG AND YOU ARE GOING TO PITSFIELD. 545 00:18:33,137 --> 00:18:40,172 PITSFIELD. 546 00:18:40,172 --> 00:18:42,034 >>> ALMOST 12 HOURS AFTER THE 547 00:18:42,034 --> 00:18:44,862 ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION OF 548 00:18:44,862 --> 00:18:47,413 12-YEAR-OLD BECKY SAVARESE, NEW 549 00:18:47,413 --> 00:18:49,344 YORK STATE DETECTIVE FRANK 550 00:18:49,344 --> 00:18:51,068 LAWRENCE STRUGGLED THROUGH A 551 00:18:51,068 --> 00:18:55,758 SNOWSTORM AND FINALLY ARRIVED AT 552 00:18:55,758 --> 00:18:57,310 PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, EAGER 553 00:18:57,310 --> 00:18:59,241 TO SPEAK TO LOUIS LENT, BUT HE 554 00:18:59,241 --> 00:19:01,586 WOULD HAVE TO WAIT HIS TURN. 555 00:19:01,586 --> 00:19:03,344 >> THERE'S SIMILARITIES, BUT IT 556 00:19:03,344 --> 00:19:07,931 IS A PITTSFIELD CASE. 557 00:19:07,931 --> 00:19:09,034 THEY WOULD TALK TO HIM AND WE 558 00:19:09,034 --> 00:19:10,586 WOULD WALK TO HIM IN BETWEEN. 559 00:19:10,586 --> 00:19:12,034 >> DURING THEIR CONVERSATIONS, 560 00:19:12,034 --> 00:19:13,896 LAWRENCE SAYS HE AND TWO OTHER 561 00:19:13,896 --> 00:19:16,310 NEW YORK INVESTIGATORS MADE SURE 562 00:19:16,310 --> 00:19:17,758 LOUIS LENT UNDERSTOOD WHY THEY 563 00:19:17,758 --> 00:19:18,172 WERE THERE. 564 00:19:18,172 --> 00:19:20,344 >> I ACTUALLY SHOWED HIM THIS 565 00:19:20,344 --> 00:19:22,551 POSTER, AND I SAID TO HIM, LOU, 566 00:19:22,551 --> 00:19:26,862 THIS IS WHO I'M HERE TO TALK TO 567 00:19:26,862 --> 00:19:29,137 YOU ABOUT SO HE KNEW EVENTUALLY 568 00:19:29,137 --> 00:19:31,103 WE WALK TALKING ABOUT THIS. 569 00:19:31,103 --> 00:19:31,310 OKAY. 570 00:19:31,310 --> 00:19:33,551 >> HOW DID HE REACT? 571 00:19:33,551 --> 00:19:34,241 >> HE WAS FLAT. 572 00:19:34,241 --> 00:19:35,724 >> FLAT? 573 00:19:35,724 --> 00:19:36,310 >> YEAH. 574 00:19:36,310 --> 00:19:37,551 HE WAS FLAT THROUGH THE WHOLE 575 00:19:37,551 --> 00:19:37,793 THING. 576 00:19:37,793 --> 00:19:39,068 >> DID THAT MAKE YOU THINK HE 577 00:19:39,068 --> 00:19:40,689 HAD NO IDEA WHO SHE WAS. 578 00:19:40,689 --> 00:19:43,000 >> I DIDN'T CARE. 579 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:43,827 I WAS GOING TO FIND OUT. 580 00:19:43,827 --> 00:19:45,827 >> GETTING LOUIS LENT TO ADMIT 581 00:19:45,827 --> 00:19:48,862 ANYTHING WAS NOT GOING TO BE 582 00:19:48,862 --> 00:19:49,896 EASY. 583 00:19:49,896 --> 00:19:50,413 ALTHOUGH 584 00:19:50,413 --> 00:19:52,137 ALTHOUGH BECKY SAVARESE AND A 585 00:19:52,137 --> 00:19:54,206 WITNESS PICKED HIM OUT OF A 586 00:19:54,206 --> 00:19:55,965 LINEUP, IT TOOK LENT UNTIL THE 587 00:19:55,965 --> 00:19:57,551 NEXT MORNING TO ADMIT HE HAD 588 00:19:57,551 --> 00:19:59,172 TRIED TO TAKE HER. 589 00:19:59,172 --> 00:20:01,413 LOUIS LENT WAS ARRESTED AND 590 00:20:01,413 --> 00:20:02,655 CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING AND 591 00:20:02,655 --> 00:20:04,724 ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, 592 00:20:04,724 --> 00:20:06,793 BUT NEW YORK INVESTIGATORS WERE 593 00:20:06,793 --> 00:20:07,517 NOT DONE WITH LENT. 594 00:20:07,517 --> 00:20:10,000 THEY STARTED TO ASK HIM 595 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,586 QUESTIONS ABOUT OTHER MISSING 596 00:20:11,586 --> 00:20:11,793 KIDS. 597 00:20:11,793 --> 00:20:12,793 >> WE TALKED TO HIM. 598 00:20:12,793 --> 00:20:14,241 WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH HIM. 599 00:20:14,241 --> 00:20:16,482 >> AND THAT'S WHEN LAWRENCE SAYS 600 00:20:16,482 --> 00:20:18,275 HE AND NEW YORK INVESTIGATORS 601 00:20:18,275 --> 00:20:19,620 CAME UP WITH A STRATEGY. 602 00:20:19,620 --> 00:20:22,655 >> WE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS 603 00:20:22,655 --> 00:20:22,965 RELIGIOUS. 604 00:20:22,965 --> 00:20:24,655 >> SO HE SAYS THEY BROUGHT A 605 00:20:24,655 --> 00:20:27,379 BIBLE INTO THE INTERVIEW ROOM. 606 00:20:27,379 --> 00:20:28,827 >> THAT BIBLE SAT ON THE TABLE 607 00:20:28,827 --> 00:20:30,275 IN FRONT OF HIM. 608 00:20:30,275 --> 00:20:32,862 ANY TIME HE WOULD WANDER, OKAY, 609 00:20:32,862 --> 00:20:36,448 WE WOULD USE THE BIBLE, AND WE'D 610 00:20:36,448 --> 00:20:38,448 GO, LOU, YOU HAVE TO TELL THE 611 00:20:38,448 --> 00:20:38,793 TRUTH. 612 00:20:38,793 --> 00:20:39,586 IT COMES FROM THE HEART. 613 00:20:39,586 --> 00:20:41,068 YOU HAVE TO TELL US THE TRUTH. 614 00:20:41,068 --> 00:20:43,827 WE WOULD GO BACK TO THE BIBLE. 615 00:20:43,827 --> 00:20:45,931 >> AND LAWRENCE SAYS THE 616 00:20:45,931 --> 00:20:47,068 STRATEGY APPEARED TO BE WORKING 617 00:20:47,068 --> 00:20:50,413 BECAUSE AS THE HOURS WENT BY 618 00:20:50,413 --> 00:20:52,758 LENT STARTED TO REVEAL THINGS 619 00:20:52,758 --> 00:20:54,931 ABOUT HIMSELF AND SOME VERY 620 00:20:54,931 --> 00:20:56,206 DISTURBING PLANS FOR THE FUTURE 621 00:20:56,206 --> 00:20:59,206 THAT INVOLVED KIDNAPPING YOUNG 622 00:20:59,206 --> 00:21:00,448 VICTIMS. 623 00:21:00,448 --> 00:21:02,862 >> HE TOLD US ABOUT HIS MASTER 624 00:21:02,862 --> 00:21:05,103 PLAN ONCE HE FOUND THE 625 00:21:05,103 --> 00:21:07,000 ACCEPTABLE, VULNERABLE 626 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:07,310 INDIVIDUALS. 627 00:21:07,310 --> 00:21:08,758 HE WAS GOING TO BRING THEM BACK 628 00:21:08,758 --> 00:21:11,965 TO HIS HOUSE AND PUT THEM IN 629 00:21:11,965 --> 00:21:14,137 WHAT I WOULD DESCRIBE AS A 630 00:21:14,137 --> 00:21:15,482 COFFIN, BUT KEEP THEM ALIVE SO 631 00:21:15,482 --> 00:21:17,413 HE COULD USE THEM AND HAVE THEM 632 00:21:17,413 --> 00:21:19,103 WHENEVER HE WANTED THEM. 633 00:21:19,103 --> 00:21:20,620 >> INVESTIGATORS WOULD LATER 634 00:21:20,620 --> 00:21:23,413 FIND THE BEGINNING OF HIS 635 00:21:23,413 --> 00:21:24,068 HORRIFYING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT 636 00:21:24,068 --> 00:21:27,517 WHEN THEY SEARCHED LENT'S 637 00:21:27,517 --> 00:21:30,000 BEDROOM AND FOUND THIS WOODEN 638 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,689 PARTITION WALL AND THINGS ONLY 639 00:21:31,689 --> 00:21:32,827 GOT WORSE. 640 00:21:32,827 --> 00:21:37,551 >> HE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT JIMMY 641 00:21:37,551 --> 00:21:37,827 BERNARDO. 642 00:21:37,827 --> 00:21:40,379 >> JIMMY BERNARDO WAS A 643 00:21:40,379 --> 00:21:41,482 12-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO HAD GONE 644 00:21:41,482 --> 00:21:45,896 MISSING THREE YEARS EARLIER IN 645 00:21:45,896 --> 00:21:46,448 PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. 646 00:21:46,448 --> 00:21:48,827 A MONTH LATER HUNTERS WOULD FIND 647 00:21:48,827 --> 00:21:49,931 HIS BODY. 648 00:21:49,931 --> 00:21:52,000 THE CASE WOULD STUMP LOCAL 649 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000 INVESTIGATORS FOR YEARS. 650 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,103 BUT NOW LENT WAS ABOUT TO TELL 651 00:21:55,103 --> 00:21:57,931 EVERYONE WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO 652 00:21:57,931 --> 00:21:58,137 JIMMY. 653 00:21:58,137 --> 00:22:00,655 >> HE WAS RIDING HIS BIKE 654 00:22:00,655 --> 00:22:02,344 THROUGH A STRIP MALL IN 655 00:22:02,344 --> 00:22:04,172 PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. 656 00:22:04,172 --> 00:22:05,827 LOUIS LENT WAS A JANITOR AT THE 657 00:22:05,827 --> 00:22:07,931 CINEMA CENTER THERE IN 658 00:22:07,931 --> 00:22:08,206 PITTSFIELD. 659 00:22:08,206 --> 00:22:09,586 >> WHEN JIMMY STOPPED IN FRONT 660 00:22:09,586 --> 00:22:11,241 OF THE CINEMA TO WAIT FOR A 661 00:22:11,241 --> 00:22:13,344 FRIEND, THAT'S WHEN LENT SAID HE 662 00:22:13,344 --> 00:22:15,000 OFFERED HIM MONEY TO HELP HIM 663 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,482 CLEAN THE MOVIE THEATER. 664 00:22:17,482 --> 00:22:18,896 JIMMY AGREED. 665 00:22:18,896 --> 00:22:21,793 >> ONCE LENT GOT HIM INSIDE, HE 666 00:22:21,793 --> 00:22:23,413 OVERPOWERED HIM AND KIDNAPPED 667 00:22:23,413 --> 00:22:23,620 HIM. 668 00:22:23,620 --> 00:22:25,862 >> LENT TOLD INVESTIGATORS HE 669 00:22:25,862 --> 00:22:28,827 TOLD JIMMY 200 MILES TO A RURAL 670 00:22:28,827 --> 00:22:31,862 AND ISOLATED AREA NEAR HIS HOME 671 00:22:31,862 --> 00:22:32,482 DOWN OF NEW YORK. 672 00:22:32,482 --> 00:22:34,965 THEN HE SAID HE STRANGLED JIMMY 673 00:22:34,965 --> 00:22:36,724 TO DEATH AND LEFT HIM THERE. 674 00:22:36,724 --> 00:22:40,241 >> HE HAD DETAILS ON ONLY THE 675 00:22:40,241 --> 00:22:41,172 KILLER THE POLICE KNEW. 676 00:22:41,172 --> 00:22:43,206 >> AS HORRIFIC AS THAT 677 00:22:43,206 --> 00:22:45,172 REVELATION WAS, INVESTIGATORS 678 00:22:45,172 --> 00:22:48,413 KEPT PRESSING HIM ABOUT SARA 679 00:22:48,413 --> 00:22:48,655 WOOD. 680 00:22:48,655 --> 00:22:50,896 >> THE MOMENT WE TALKED ABOUT 681 00:22:50,896 --> 00:22:52,551 SARA, WE'RE PROBING. 682 00:22:52,551 --> 00:22:53,068 HE'S RESPONDING. 683 00:22:53,068 --> 00:22:55,172 >> AND THEN FIVE MONTHS AFTER 684 00:22:55,172 --> 00:22:57,793 SHE WENT MISSING, LOUIS LENT 685 00:22:57,793 --> 00:23:00,862 FINALLY CONFESSED. 686 00:23:00,862 --> 00:23:02,482 LENT ADMITTED THAT HE HAD 687 00:23:02,482 --> 00:23:04,862 KIDNAPPED, RAPED AND THEN 688 00:23:04,862 --> 00:23:06,068 MURDERED SARA M. WOOD. 689 00:23:06,068 --> 00:23:08,689 >> SHE WAS VULNERABLE. 690 00:23:08,689 --> 00:23:09,517 HE WAS HUNTING. 691 00:23:09,517 --> 00:23:11,172 AND HE FOUND A VICTIM. 692 00:23:11,172 --> 00:23:14,103 >> AND JUST LIKE JIMMY BERNARDO, 693 00:23:14,103 --> 00:23:16,413 DETECTIVE LAWRENCE SAYS LENT'S 694 00:23:16,413 --> 00:23:17,655 ACCOUNT MATCHED DETAILS ONLY 695 00:23:17,655 --> 00:23:20,379 KNOWN TO INVESTIGATORS. 696 00:23:20,379 --> 00:23:22,241 LENT KNEW SPECIFICS ABOUT WHAT 697 00:23:22,241 --> 00:23:24,862 SARA HAD BEEN WEARING AND 698 00:23:24,862 --> 00:23:26,448 DETAILS ABOUT HER BIKE THAT HAD 699 00:23:26,448 --> 00:23:28,000 NOT BEEN MADE PUBLIC. 700 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,137 >> HE KNEW THAT THE CHAIN ON THE 701 00:23:30,137 --> 00:23:31,000 BIKE WAS BROKEN. 702 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,862 AND HE ALSO SAID THAT THE BIKE 703 00:23:32,862 --> 00:23:35,620 WAS A LITTLE BIT BIG FOR HER. 704 00:23:35,620 --> 00:23:37,034 I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. 705 00:23:37,034 --> 00:23:39,413 I FOUND OUT LATER THAT IT WAS. 706 00:23:39,413 --> 00:23:41,068 >> THEN LAWRENCE SAYS LENT DREW 707 00:23:41,068 --> 00:23:43,206 THEM A MAP SHOWING WHERE HE SAID 708 00:23:43,206 --> 00:23:46,000 HE BURIED SARA'S BODY. 709 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,793 >> THIS IS JUST A COPY, 710 00:23:47,793 --> 00:23:48,068 OBVIOUSLY. 711 00:23:48,068 --> 00:23:48,827 >> RIGHT. 712 00:23:48,827 --> 00:23:51,000 BUT THIS IS ACTUALLY WHAT LOUIS 713 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:51,379 LENT DID. 714 00:23:51,379 --> 00:23:52,000 >> HE DREW THAT. 715 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,724 I HANDED HIM A PIECE OF PAPER, 716 00:23:54,724 --> 00:23:55,827 AND THIS IS WHAT HE DREW. 717 00:23:55,827 --> 00:23:59,413 >> AND WHERE DID HE SAY HE PUT 718 00:23:59,413 --> 00:24:00,379 HER? 719 00:24:00,379 --> 00:24:02,655 >> UP BY BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE. 720 00:24:02,655 --> 00:24:06,172 >> BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE IS LOCATED 721 00:24:06,172 --> 00:24:09,517 IN A REMOTE AREA IN NEW YORK'S 722 00:24:09,517 --> 00:24:09,793 MOUNTAINS. 723 00:24:09,793 --> 00:24:12,034 WITHIN HOURS, POLICE FROM ALL 724 00:24:12,034 --> 00:24:13,655 OVER NEW YORK STATE WERE 725 00:24:13,655 --> 00:24:15,931 DISPATCHED AND SEARCHED THE 726 00:24:15,931 --> 00:24:16,413 AREA. 727 00:24:16,413 --> 00:24:18,275 BOB WOOD WAS THERE ALONG WITH 728 00:24:18,275 --> 00:24:21,655 DUSTY, WHO WAS A SENIOR IN HIGH 729 00:24:21,655 --> 00:24:21,896 SCHOOL. 730 00:24:21,896 --> 00:24:23,172 >> IT WAS VERY COOL. 731 00:24:23,172 --> 00:24:24,793 IT WAS RIDICULOUS. 732 00:24:24,793 --> 00:24:28,482 AND IT WAS TONS OF SNOW. 733 00:24:28,482 --> 00:24:30,517 MEMBER A LOT OF HELP. 734 00:24:30,517 --> 00:24:31,275 A LOT OF PEOPLE. 735 00:24:31,275 --> 00:24:32,793 >> WAS THAT A TIME WHEN YOU 736 00:24:32,793 --> 00:24:34,241 THOUGHT YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO 737 00:24:34,241 --> 00:24:35,517 BRING SARA HOME? 738 00:24:35,517 --> 00:24:36,620 >> YEAH. 739 00:24:36,620 --> 00:24:40,827 >> FOR OVER 50 DAYS THEY 740 00:24:40,827 --> 00:24:42,344 SEARCHED FOR SARA. 741 00:24:42,344 --> 00:24:44,068 >> IT WAS 30 BELOW ZERO. 742 00:24:44,068 --> 00:24:46,103 WE COULD ONLY STAY OUTSIDE FOR 743 00:24:46,103 --> 00:24:47,137 20 MINUTES AT A TIME. 744 00:24:47,137 --> 00:24:50,862 WE WERE IN WAIST-HIGH SNOW. 745 00:24:50,862 --> 00:24:51,206 WE HAD SHOVELS. 746 00:24:51,206 --> 00:24:51,896 WE'RE DIGGING. 747 00:24:51,896 --> 00:24:53,482 WE'RE LOOKING FOR ANY EVIDENCE 748 00:24:53,482 --> 00:24:55,793 AT ALL HAVING TO DO WITH SARA. 749 00:24:55,793 --> 00:24:57,793 THEN SOMEBODY WOULD COME UP WITH 750 00:24:57,793 --> 00:24:58,931 SOMETHING THAT HAD SOMETHING TO 751 00:24:58,931 --> 00:24:59,896 DO WITH HERE. 752 00:24:59,896 --> 00:25:00,896 IT JUST DIDN'T HAPPEN. 753 00:25:00,896 --> 00:25:02,344 >> AS INVESTIGATORS CONTINUED TO 754 00:25:02,344 --> 00:25:06,000 LOOK FOR SARA'S BODY, LENT WOULD 755 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,896 FACE MURDER CHARGES IN BOTH 756 00:25:08,896 --> 00:25:10,896 MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW YORK. 757 00:25:10,896 --> 00:25:13,724 >> IT WAS A RARE OCCASION WHERE 758 00:25:13,724 --> 00:25:15,172 EVERYONE WAS LASER FOCUSED ON 759 00:25:15,172 --> 00:25:19,172 ONE EVENT, WHICH WAS FIND SARA, 760 00:25:19,172 --> 00:25:32,000 BRING HIM TO 761 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,689 >>> BEFORE LOUIS LENT COULD BE 762 00:25:33,689 --> 00:25:40,000 TRIED FOR SARA WOOD'S MURDER IN 763 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,000 NEW YORK, HE FIRST HAD TO FACE 764 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,448 CHARGES IN MASSACHUSETTS. 765 00:25:42,448 --> 00:25:46,413 IN 1995 LOUIS LENT WENT ON TRIAL 766 00:25:46,413 --> 00:25:49,931 AND WAS ULTIMATELY CONVICTED FOR 767 00:25:49,931 --> 00:25:51,724 SAVARESE' ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING 768 00:25:51,724 --> 00:25:54,103 AND WAS SENTENCED TO 17 TO 20 769 00:25:54,103 --> 00:25:54,551 YEARS. 770 00:25:54,551 --> 00:25:55,620 ALMOST ONE-AND-A-HALF YEARS 771 00:25:55,620 --> 00:25:58,206 LATER AFTER TAKING A PLEA, HE 772 00:25:58,206 --> 00:26:01,172 WAS GIVEN A LIFE SENTENCE FOR 773 00:26:01,172 --> 00:26:02,482 MURDERING JIMMY BERNARDO. 774 00:26:02,482 --> 00:26:04,172 >> TELEVISION, RADIO AND 775 00:26:04,172 --> 00:26:05,586 NEWSPAPER OUTLETS -- 776 00:26:05,586 --> 00:26:09,103 >> AND THEN ON JUNE 6th, 1996, 777 00:26:09,103 --> 00:26:11,862 LOUIS LENT ARRIVED IN NEW YORK 778 00:26:11,862 --> 00:26:14,000 TO A MEDIA FRENZY. 779 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,137 >> AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY 780 00:26:16,137 --> 00:26:17,586 WANTED JUSTICE FOR SARA M. WOOD 781 00:26:17,586 --> 00:26:18,413 AND HER FAMILY. 782 00:26:18,413 --> 00:26:22,000 >> JEFFREY CARPENTER IS THE 783 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,000 DISTRICT ATTORNEY. 784 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,000 HE WASN'T IN THE OFFICE WHEN 785 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,965 SARA WOOD WAS MURDERED, BUT HE 786 00:26:27,965 --> 00:26:29,724 HAS STUDIED LOUIS LENT'S CASE 787 00:26:29,724 --> 00:26:30,241 FILES. 788 00:26:30,241 --> 00:26:33,103 HE SAYS THE D.A. OFFICE THOUGHT 789 00:26:33,103 --> 00:26:34,413 LOUIS LENT WAS GOING TO PLEAD 790 00:26:34,413 --> 00:26:36,137 GUILTY TO KILLING SARA. 791 00:26:36,137 --> 00:26:37,758 BUT WITHOUT WARNING, LENT 792 00:26:37,758 --> 00:26:38,551 CHANGED HIS MIND. 793 00:26:38,551 --> 00:26:40,068 >> IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT 794 00:26:40,068 --> 00:26:41,551 WHEN HE ENTERED THE COURTROOM 795 00:26:41,551 --> 00:26:42,827 AND HE SAW CERTAIN MEMBERS OF 796 00:26:42,827 --> 00:26:44,551 THE PUBLIC AND ESPECIALLY, I 797 00:26:44,551 --> 00:26:46,931 THINK, HER FAMILY, HE DECIDED ON 798 00:26:46,931 --> 00:26:49,793 THAT DAY HE DID NOT WANT TO 799 00:26:49,793 --> 00:26:50,965 ENTER A PLEA. 800 00:26:50,965 --> 00:26:52,551 >> DAYS LATER LENT WOULD CHANGE 801 00:26:52,551 --> 00:26:55,275 HIS MIND AGAIN AND FINALLY 802 00:26:55,275 --> 00:26:56,827 ENTERED A GUILTY PLEA. 803 00:26:56,827 --> 00:26:58,379 >> WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER OF HIM 804 00:26:58,379 --> 00:26:58,965 SITTING THERE? 805 00:26:58,965 --> 00:27:00,551 >> I COULDN'T BELIEVE HOW SMALL 806 00:27:00,551 --> 00:27:01,517 A MAN. 807 00:27:01,517 --> 00:27:02,275 I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. 808 00:27:02,275 --> 00:27:03,448 NOT IMPOSING. 809 00:27:03,448 --> 00:27:05,034 >> ALMOST FOUR YEARS AFTER SARA 810 00:27:05,034 --> 00:27:07,344 WOOD WAS ABDUCTED AND MURDERED, 811 00:27:07,344 --> 00:27:10,310 LOUIS LENT WAS SENTENCED TO 25 812 00:27:10,310 --> 00:27:11,413 YEARS TO LIFE. 813 00:27:11,413 --> 00:27:13,689 HE WAS SENT BACK TO 814 00:27:13,689 --> 00:27:16,758 MASSACHUSETTS TO SERVE THE REST 815 00:27:16,758 --> 00:27:20,000 >> HE WILL NEVER CAUSE HARM TO 816 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:20,724 ANYONE ELSE. 817 00:27:20,724 --> 00:27:22,172 >> BUT IT WAS NOT OVER FOR THE 818 00:27:22,172 --> 00:27:24,206 WOOD FAMILY AND NEW YORK STATE 819 00:27:24,206 --> 00:27:26,206 POLICE INVESTIGATORS. 820 00:27:26,206 --> 00:27:29,000 THEY STILL NEEDED TO FIND SARA. 821 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,724 >> HE CHANGES HIS STORY SO 822 00:27:31,724 --> 00:27:33,517 OFTEN, IT IS HARD TO -- HARD TO 823 00:27:33,517 --> 00:27:35,206 TELL WHAT'S THE TRUTH AND WHAT'S 824 00:27:35,206 --> 00:27:35,482 FICTION. 825 00:27:35,482 --> 00:27:39,620 >> HAVE IN FACT, DETECTIVE SAYS 826 00:27:39,620 --> 00:27:42,517 LENT'S ORIGINAL STORY THAT HE 827 00:27:42,517 --> 00:27:44,000 BURIED HER IN THE LAKE AREA 828 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,413 TURNED OUT TO BE A LIE. 829 00:27:45,413 --> 00:27:47,172 >> HE CASHED A CHECK ON AUGUST 830 00:27:47,172 --> 00:27:50,724 18th IN PITTSFIELD AT 6:18 P.M. 831 00:27:50,724 --> 00:27:52,482 SO HE DID NOT PHYSICALLY HAVE 832 00:27:52,482 --> 00:27:55,000 TIME TO ABDUCT SARA AT AROUND 833 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,689 2:30 P.M. AND THEN DRIVE TO THE 834 00:27:57,689 --> 00:28:04,068 ADD RON DAMAGES, DIG A GRAVE, 835 00:28:04,068 --> 00:28:05,896 BURY HERE AND DRIVE BACK AND 836 00:28:05,896 --> 00:28:07,000 CASH A CHECK. 837 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,103 >> INVESTIGATORS CONTINUED TO 838 00:28:09,103 --> 00:28:11,413 VISIT HIM IN PRISON HOPING THAT 839 00:28:11,413 --> 00:28:13,172 OVER TIME HE WOULD REVEAL WHERE 840 00:28:13,172 --> 00:28:15,586 HE BURIED SARA AND PERHAPS EVEN 841 00:28:15,586 --> 00:28:19,000 DISCLOSE THE MURDERED OF OTHER 842 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:19,655 VICTIMS. 843 00:28:19,655 --> 00:28:24,379 DETECTIVES FALLON AND TRENE SAY 844 00:28:24,379 --> 00:28:26,137 THEY VISITED LENT IN PRISON 845 00:28:26,137 --> 00:28:27,310 ABOUT 20 TIMES. 846 00:28:27,310 --> 00:28:29,413 >> ISN'T IT DIFFICULT FOR YOU 847 00:28:29,413 --> 00:28:31,172 TWO TO NOT JUST JUMP ACROSS THE 848 00:28:31,172 --> 00:28:32,000 TABLE AND GRAB HIM? 849 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:32,517 >> NO. 850 00:28:32,517 --> 00:28:34,206 ONE OF THE THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO 851 00:28:34,206 --> 00:28:35,482 IS YOU HAVE TO LEAVE HATE 852 00:28:35,482 --> 00:28:36,965 OUTSIDE OF THE ROOM WHEN YOU GO 853 00:28:36,965 --> 00:28:37,103 IN. 854 00:28:37,103 --> 00:28:38,862 >> THEY DIDN'T PUSH HIM, BUT 855 00:28:38,862 --> 00:28:40,689 DURING THEIR CONVERSATIONS, LENT 856 00:28:40,689 --> 00:28:43,000 REVEALED THAT HE OFTEN SUFFERED 857 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,862 FROM BLACKOUTS AND CLAIMED HE 858 00:28:45,862 --> 00:28:47,931 HAD AN EVIL ALTER EGO THAT HE 859 00:28:47,931 --> 00:28:48,724 CALLED STEVEN. 860 00:28:48,724 --> 00:28:50,689 >> HE HAS THIS DICHOTOMY. 861 00:28:50,689 --> 00:28:51,931 THAT'S THE WORD HE USED. 862 00:28:51,931 --> 00:28:54,379 HE HAS A REALLY GOOD SIDE THAT 863 00:28:54,379 --> 00:28:55,620 STUDIES THE BIBLE AND ACTUALLY 864 00:28:55,620 --> 00:28:57,586 WAS A TRAVELING MINISTER. 865 00:28:57,586 --> 00:29:00,482 THEN HE HAS THIS EVIL SIDE, AND 866 00:29:00,482 --> 00:29:05,724 HE HAS THESE UNCONTROLLABLE 867 00:29:05,724 --> 00:29:06,896 COMPULSIONS, THAT'S THE WAY HE 868 00:29:06,896 --> 00:29:08,482 PUTS IT, THAT HE COULDN'T STOP. 869 00:29:08,482 --> 00:29:10,482 >> HE MANAGED TO HIDE THAT EVIL 870 00:29:10,482 --> 00:29:13,103 SIDE FROM NEARLY EVERYONE HE 871 00:29:13,103 --> 00:29:13,310 KNEW. 872 00:29:13,310 --> 00:29:20,000 BACK IN 1994, "48 HOURS" 873 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,000 CORRESPONDENT RICHARD 874 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:22,965 INTERVIEWED HIS FRIENDS. 875 00:29:22,965 --> 00:29:24,482 >> THIS SIDE WALL HERE WAS 876 00:29:24,482 --> 00:29:26,000 CAVING RIGHT IN. 877 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:26,379 >> RIGHT. 878 00:29:26,379 --> 00:29:29,379 >> AND HE HELPED YOU WITH THAT, 879 00:29:29,379 --> 00:29:29,586 TOO. 880 00:29:29,586 --> 00:29:32,586 >> OH, YES. 881 00:29:32,586 --> 00:29:36,103 >> TO PHIL, LENT WAS A GOOD 882 00:29:36,103 --> 00:29:36,413 SAMARITAN. 883 00:29:36,413 --> 00:29:38,793 >> HE CAME OVER AND SAID, I'D BE 884 00:29:38,793 --> 00:29:40,827 GLAD TO GIVE YOU A HAND. 885 00:29:40,827 --> 00:29:43,000 I HEARD YOU ARE DOING WORK ON 886 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:43,827 YOUR FOUNDATION. 887 00:29:43,827 --> 00:29:48,000 I WOULD BE GLAD TO HELP YOU OUT. 888 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,482 WE PUT IN PROBABLY HUNDREDS OF 889 00:29:50,482 --> 00:29:51,620 HOURS WORKING TOGETHER IN THAT 890 00:29:51,620 --> 00:29:51,862 CELLAR. 891 00:29:51,862 --> 00:29:52,517 IT WAS HARD WORK. 892 00:29:52,517 --> 00:29:54,551 >> HE DID THAT ALL OUT OF THE 893 00:29:54,551 --> 00:29:55,655 GOODNESS OF HIS HEART? 894 00:29:55,655 --> 00:29:56,413 >> YES, HE DID. 895 00:29:56,413 --> 00:29:58,172 >> THE DEAN OF STUDENTS AT A 896 00:29:58,172 --> 00:30:00,413 BIBLE SCHOOL THAT LENT ATTENDED, 897 00:30:00,413 --> 00:30:02,034 HE WAS A GENTLEMAN. 898 00:30:02,034 --> 00:30:03,000 >> HE WAS INTELLIGENT. 899 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,517 HE WAS UNASSUMING. 900 00:30:04,517 --> 00:30:05,689 HE WAS QUIET. 901 00:30:05,689 --> 00:30:07,137 ONE THING ABOUT LOUIE THAT 902 00:30:07,137 --> 00:30:09,482 EVERYONE REMEMBERED WAS HE 903 00:30:09,482 --> 00:30:11,000 ALWAYS HAD HIS HAND OUT TO SHAKE 904 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,655 YOUR HAND WHEN YOU WERE MEETING 905 00:30:12,655 --> 00:30:12,862 LENT. 906 00:30:12,862 --> 00:30:15,000 IF YOU DIDN'T WATCH OUT, HE'D 907 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,137 GIVE YOU A BIG BEAR HUG. 908 00:30:17,137 --> 00:30:19,551 >> HE HAD A LOT OF CHILDREN. 909 00:30:19,551 --> 00:30:21,620 THEY WOULD PLAY VIDEO GAMES, GO 910 00:30:21,620 --> 00:30:25,000 TO THE MOVIES, AND HE WOULD 911 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:25,827 BRING THEM HOME. 912 00:30:25,827 --> 00:30:27,551 >> LENT SEEMED LIKE A MENTOR TO 913 00:30:27,551 --> 00:30:27,827 CHILDREN. 914 00:30:27,827 --> 00:30:30,034 >> THEY CALLED HIM A BIG 915 00:30:30,034 --> 00:30:30,310 BROTHER. 916 00:30:30,310 --> 00:30:30,758 >> THEY DID? 917 00:30:30,758 --> 00:30:31,241 >> YES. 918 00:30:31,241 --> 00:30:31,793 >> THE KIDS? 919 00:30:31,793 --> 00:30:32,965 >> OH, YES. 920 00:30:32,965 --> 00:30:35,517 >> HE OWNED THE MOVIE THEATER 921 00:30:35,517 --> 00:30:37,310 WHERE LENT WORKED AS A JANITOR 922 00:30:37,310 --> 00:30:40,137 FOR SIX YEARS, AND HE THOUGHT HE 923 00:30:40,137 --> 00:30:40,758 KNEW LENT VERY WELL. 924 00:30:40,758 --> 00:30:42,862 >> I HIRED HIM. 925 00:30:42,862 --> 00:30:54,482 I WORKED SIDE BY SIDE WITH HIM. 926 00:30:54,482 --> 00:30:58,931 WHAT'S -- WHAT'S -- TELL ME 927 00:30:58,931 --> 00:30:59,275 WHAT'S GOING ON. 928 00:30:59,275 --> 00:31:01,413 >> IT JUST FEELS LIKE I MAY HAVE 929 00:31:01,413 --> 00:31:03,275 MISSED SOMETHING, THAT HE MIGHT 930 00:31:03,275 --> 00:31:08,517 HAVE SAID OR DONE THAT WOULD 931 00:31:08,517 --> 00:31:10,137 HAVE GIVEN ME A CLUE THAT THERE 932 00:31:10,137 --> 00:31:11,448 WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS 933 00:31:11,448 --> 00:31:11,655 GUY. 934 00:31:11,655 --> 00:31:14,000 >> PEOPLE HAVE TROUBLE 935 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,137 UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU CAN HAVE 936 00:31:15,137 --> 00:31:19,000 THIS VERY RELIGIOUS GOD-FEARING, 937 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,862 NICE, POLITE MAN IN CONTRAST TO 938 00:31:22,862 --> 00:31:26,310 HIS OTHER SIDE, WHERE HE IS 939 00:31:26,310 --> 00:31:28,241 HUNTING AND PREYING ON AND 940 00:31:28,241 --> 00:31:29,931 KILLING CHILDREN. 941 00:31:29,931 --> 00:31:33,241 THOSE CAN EXIST IN ONE PERSON. 942 00:31:33,241 --> 00:31:36,206 >> JULIA COWLY IS A RETIRED FBI 943 00:31:36,206 --> 00:31:37,655 AGENT AND PROFILER THAT WORKED 944 00:31:37,655 --> 00:31:40,000 ON CASES LIKE THE GOLDEN STATE 945 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:40,206 KILLER. 946 00:31:40,206 --> 00:31:42,931 SHE NOW HOSTS A TRUE CRIME 947 00:31:42,931 --> 00:31:45,068 PODCAST CALLED "THE CONSULT." 948 00:31:45,068 --> 00:31:47,482 REAL FBI PROFILERS. 949 00:31:47,482 --> 00:31:48,931 >> THIS PODCAST IS ABOUT 950 00:31:48,931 --> 00:31:49,655 CRIMINAL PROFILING. 951 00:31:49,655 --> 00:31:52,862 >> KELLY HAS NEVER MET LOUIS 952 00:31:52,862 --> 00:31:54,827 LENT, BUT AT OUR REQUEST SHE 953 00:31:54,827 --> 00:31:56,655 REVIEWED HIS BACKGROUND AND 954 00:31:56,655 --> 00:31:58,896 STUDIED HIS CONFESSIONS. 955 00:31:58,896 --> 00:32:00,379 SHE SAYS THAT WHAT APPEARED TO 956 00:32:00,379 --> 00:32:03,000 BE LENT'S DESIRE TO HELP PEOPLE 957 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,655 COULD ACTUALLY HAVE SERVED A 958 00:32:05,655 --> 00:32:06,241 SELFISH PURPOSE. 959 00:32:06,241 --> 00:32:08,931 >> BY HELPING ALL THESE PEOPLE, 960 00:32:08,931 --> 00:32:11,758 THIS IS A WAY TO MAYBE HIDE WHO 961 00:32:11,758 --> 00:32:14,586 HE REALLY IS, TO GAIN PEOPLE'S 962 00:32:14,586 --> 00:32:14,793 TRUST. 963 00:32:14,793 --> 00:32:16,758 WHEN YOU DO THAT, YOU CAN 964 00:32:16,758 --> 00:32:17,896 MANIPULATE THEM. 965 00:32:17,896 --> 00:32:19,448 YOU CAN CONTROL THEM. 966 00:32:19,448 --> 00:32:22,000 IT'S STRATEGICALLY MOTIVATED, AS 967 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,413 OPPOSED TO BEING MOTIVATED BY 968 00:32:23,413 --> 00:32:24,586 TRUE EMOTION. 969 00:32:24,586 --> 00:32:26,793 >> JUST LIKE OTHER SERIAL 970 00:32:26,793 --> 00:32:29,689 KILLERS SHE HAS STUDIED, COWLEY 971 00:32:29,689 --> 00:32:32,379 SAYS LENT IS COMPLETELY 972 00:32:32,379 --> 00:32:32,758 SELF-CENTERED. 973 00:32:32,758 --> 00:32:34,551 >> HIS NEEDS COME BEFORE ANYBODY 974 00:32:34,551 --> 00:32:35,517 ELSE'S OBVIOUSLY. 975 00:32:35,517 --> 00:32:37,517 HE HAD NO REGARD FOR HIS 976 00:32:37,517 --> 00:32:37,965 VICTIMS. 977 00:32:37,965 --> 00:32:42,103 HE HAS NO REGARD FOR VICTIM'S 978 00:32:42,103 --> 00:32:42,379 FAMILIES. 979 00:32:42,379 --> 00:32:43,586 >> SOMETHING HE HAS SEEN 980 00:32:43,586 --> 00:32:43,896 FIRSTHAND. 981 00:32:43,896 --> 00:32:45,827 >> HE KNOWS WHAT EMOTIONS ARE, 982 00:32:45,827 --> 00:32:48,758 THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE, BUT HE 983 00:32:48,758 --> 00:32:51,068 DOESN'T FEEL THEM HIMSELF. 984 00:32:51,068 --> 00:32:53,379 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HE SAID 985 00:32:53,379 --> 00:32:55,379 IN THE PAST THAT IS THAT THE 986 00:32:55,379 --> 00:32:57,931 MURDERS RUINED HIS LIFE. 987 00:32:57,931 --> 00:33:01,000 HE'S REMORSEFUL THAT HE GOT 988 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:01,344 CAUGHT. 989 00:33:01,344 --> 00:33:03,517 BUT HE DOESN'T THINK IN TERMS OF 990 00:33:03,517 --> 00:33:05,241 IT RUINING ANYBODY ELSE'S LIFE. 991 00:33:05,241 --> 00:33:09,275 >> LOUIS LENT SO QUICKLY ADMITS 992 00:33:09,275 --> 00:33:12,034 TO KIDNAPPING AND KILLING SARA 993 00:33:12,034 --> 00:33:12,413 WOOD. 994 00:33:12,413 --> 00:33:14,551 WHY NOT TELL IT ALL? 995 00:33:14,551 --> 00:33:16,620 WHY NOT GIVE ALL THE DETAILS? 996 00:33:16,620 --> 00:33:18,758 >> IT IS JUST A SECRET HE WANTS 997 00:33:18,758 --> 00:33:19,379 TO HOLD ON TO. 998 00:33:19,379 --> 00:33:20,000 IT'S HIS. 999 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:26,344 IT IS THE ONLY THING HE HAS THAT 1000 00:33:26,344 --> 00:33:27,172 IS HIS OWN. 1001 00:33:27,172 --> 00:33:28,758 KNOWING THAT FAMILY MEMBERS WANT 1002 00:33:28,758 --> 00:33:30,586 ANSWERS, CONTINUING TO HURT THEM 1003 00:33:30,586 --> 00:33:31,965 IS SOMETHING I THINK THAT HE 1004 00:33:31,965 --> 00:33:34,172 FEEDS OFF OF. 1005 00:33:34,172 --> 00:33:35,931 THERE IS SOME ENJOYMENT IN 1006 00:33:35,931 --> 00:33:36,758 THERE. 1007 00:33:36,758 --> 00:33:38,413 MOST KILLERS DON'T TELL US 1008 00:33:38,413 --> 00:33:38,965 EVERYTHING. 1009 00:33:38,965 --> 00:33:41,482 THEY RARELY GIVE THE FULL STORY. 1010 00:33:41,482 --> 00:33:44,379 >> INSTEAD, LENT REVEALS WHAT HE 1011 00:33:44,379 --> 00:33:47,448 WANTS WHEN HE WANTS ON HIS OWN 1012 00:33:47,448 --> 00:33:48,137 TIMETABLE. 1013 00:33:48,137 --> 00:33:53,034 AND IN 2013, HE REVEALED 1014 00:33:53,034 --> 00:33:53,517 SOMETHING NEW. 1015 00:33:53,517 --> 00:33:55,310 >> I DESCRIBED IT SPEAKING 1016 00:33:55,310 --> 00:33:56,517 DIRECTLY TO THE DEVIL. 1017 00:33:56,517 --> 00:34:00,517 HE REALLY IS THE DEVIL. 1018 00:34:00,517 --> 00:34:16,000 HE REALLY IS THE DEVIL. >> HOW DO YOU WARN YOUR LOVED 1019 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:16,827 >> HOW DO YOU WARN YOUR LOVED 1020 00:34:16,827 --> 00:34:21,379 >>> AS DETECTIVES FALLON AND 1021 00:34:21,379 --> 00:34:22,931 TREIN CONTINUED TO QUESTION 1022 00:34:22,931 --> 00:34:25,241 LOUIS LENT ABOUT SARA WOOD AND 1023 00:34:25,241 --> 00:34:27,655 OTHER POSSIBLE VICTIMS, IN 2013, 1024 00:34:27,655 --> 00:34:29,103 HE MADE YET ANOTHER CONFESSION. 1025 00:34:29,103 --> 00:34:32,862 >> HE ENDED UP ADMITTING TO 1026 00:34:32,862 --> 00:34:34,000 KILLING JAIME WASHER. 1027 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,551 > NINE MONTHS BEFORE SARA WAS 1028 00:34:37,551 --> 00:34:39,310 ABDUCTED, JAIME, A 16-YEAR-OLD 1029 00:34:39,310 --> 00:34:41,206 TEEN WITH DISABILITIES, 1030 00:34:41,206 --> 00:34:44,482 DISAPPEARED IN WESTFIELD, 1031 00:34:44,482 --> 00:34:45,655 MASSACHUSETTS, JUST 40 MILES 1032 00:34:45,655 --> 00:34:48,275 FROM THE PITTSFIELD AREA. 1033 00:34:48,275 --> 00:34:51,724 >> AGAIN, HE WAS RIDING HIS BIKE 1034 00:34:51,724 --> 00:34:55,241 THROUGH A PARKING LOT OF A 1035 00:34:55,241 --> 00:34:55,757 FRIENDLY'S RESTAURANT. 1036 00:34:55,757 --> 00:34:57,482 >> HIS BICYCLE WAS LATER FOUND 1037 00:34:57,482 --> 00:34:59,862 IN A WOODED AREA CLOSE BY. 1038 00:34:59,862 --> 00:35:01,965 LENT TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT 1039 00:35:01,965 --> 00:35:04,724 AFTER HE KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED 1040 00:35:04,724 --> 00:35:06,517 JAIME, HE DISCARDED THE 1041 00:35:06,517 --> 00:35:12,620 TEENAGER'S REMAINS IN GREENWATER 1042 00:35:12,620 --> 00:35:13,827 POND IN MASSACHUSETTS. 1043 00:35:13,827 --> 00:35:16,448 >> WE HAD DIVERS GO WITH THE 1044 00:35:16,448 --> 00:35:17,379 MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE 1045 00:35:17,379 --> 00:35:20,068 DIVERS, AND THEY ALL DOVE UPON 1046 00:35:20,068 --> 00:35:20,758 AND NOTHING WAS FOUND. 1047 00:35:20,758 --> 00:35:24,344 >> AS HE HAS DONE MANY TIMES 1048 00:35:24,344 --> 00:35:25,862 BEFORE, LENT WOULD LATER RECANT 1049 00:35:25,862 --> 00:35:27,517 HIS CONFESSION. 1050 00:35:27,517 --> 00:35:28,206 AUTHORITIES DECIDED NOT TO 1051 00:35:28,206 --> 00:35:30,482 CHARGE LOUIS LENT WITH JAIME'S 1052 00:35:30,482 --> 00:35:32,000 MURDER, HOPING THAT ONE DAY HE 1053 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,586 WILL LEAD THEM TO HIS BODY. 1054 00:35:33,586 --> 00:35:36,103 >> AT THIS POINT, WE'RE NOT 1055 00:35:36,103 --> 00:35:37,896 INTERESTED IN FURTHER 1056 00:35:37,896 --> 00:35:38,172 PROSECUTION. 1057 00:35:38,172 --> 00:35:39,068 HE'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE. 1058 00:35:39,068 --> 00:35:41,344 >> AT A PRESS CONFERENCE SHORTLY 1059 00:35:41,344 --> 00:35:43,206 AFTER THE CONFESSION, JAIME'S 1060 00:35:43,206 --> 00:35:44,724 SISTER TALKED ABOUT THE GRIEF 1061 00:35:44,724 --> 00:35:46,655 SHE ENDURED SINCE HER BROTHER 1062 00:35:46,655 --> 00:35:47,137 WENT MISSING. 1063 00:35:47,137 --> 00:35:48,793 >> ANYBODY THAT KNOWS ME KNOWS I 1064 00:35:48,793 --> 00:35:49,620 TALK ABOUT THIS. 1065 00:35:49,620 --> 00:35:53,620 I THINK ABOUT THIS EVERY DAY. 1066 00:35:53,620 --> 00:35:58,379 >> IT'S THE SEARING HEARTACHE 1067 00:35:58,379 --> 00:36:00,000 THAT KEEPS AUTHORITIES MOTIVATED 1068 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,172 TO FIND THE MISSING. 1069 00:36:01,172 --> 00:36:03,793 SOON AFTER LENT CONFESSED TO 1070 00:36:03,793 --> 00:36:06,413 KILLING JAIME, D.A. JEFFREY 1071 00:36:06,413 --> 00:36:08,310 CARPENTER GOT PERMISSION TO TAKE 1072 00:36:08,310 --> 00:36:11,793 LENT, WHO WAS SERVING HIS LIFE 1073 00:36:11,793 --> 00:36:13,965 SENTENCE IN MASSACHUSETTS OUT OF 1074 00:36:13,965 --> 00:36:16,000 PRISON AND BACK TO NEW YORK. 1075 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,206 THIS TIME THEY DROVE HIM AROUND, 1076 00:36:18,206 --> 00:36:19,931 HOPING HE WOULD REVEAL ANYTHING 1077 00:36:19,931 --> 00:36:22,793 THAT WOULD HELP THEM FIND SARA. 1078 00:36:22,793 --> 00:36:24,758 >> SO REALLY WHAT DID WE HAVE TO 1079 00:36:24,758 --> 00:36:25,068 LOSE? 1080 00:36:25,068 --> 00:36:26,413 WE HAD TO DO IT? 1081 00:36:26,413 --> 00:36:28,448 WE DROVE TO THE MASSACHUSETTS 1082 00:36:28,448 --> 00:36:28,758 BORDER. 1083 00:36:28,758 --> 00:36:32,310 WE DROVE TO THE VERMONT BORDER. 1084 00:36:32,310 --> 00:36:34,724 HE TOOK US TO WHERE SHE WAS 1085 00:36:34,724 --> 00:36:35,000 ABDUCTED. 1086 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,103 HE TOOK US TO WHERE HE CLAIMED 1087 00:36:37,103 --> 00:36:38,206 HE MURDERED HER. 1088 00:36:38,206 --> 00:36:39,758 >> AFTER THREE LONG DAYS AND 1089 00:36:39,758 --> 00:36:42,620 OVER 600 MILES OF DRIVING, 1090 00:36:42,620 --> 00:36:43,448 CARPENTER SAYS NEW YORK 1091 00:36:43,448 --> 00:36:45,275 AUTHORITIES ENDED THE OPERATION. 1092 00:36:45,275 --> 00:36:47,827 >> THE CONSENSUS WAS HE 1093 00:36:47,827 --> 00:36:49,000 ABSOLUTELY KNEW WHERE SHE WAS. 1094 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,689 HE JUST WAS NOT GOING TO TELL 1095 00:36:50,689 --> 00:36:50,862 US. 1096 00:36:50,862 --> 00:36:53,172 >> BEFORE CAR CENTER SENT LENT 1097 00:36:53,172 --> 00:36:56,137 BACK TO MASSACHUSETTS, HE 1098 00:36:56,137 --> 00:36:59,896 RECORDED THIS CONVERSATION WITH 1099 00:36:59,896 --> 00:37:00,068 HIM. 1100 00:37:00,068 --> 00:37:01,758 >> WE SPENT SOME TIME HERE THE 1101 00:37:01,758 --> 00:37:02,965 LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. 1102 00:37:02,965 --> 00:37:04,793 HOPE YOU FEEL YOU WERE TREATED 1103 00:37:04,793 --> 00:37:06,448 WITH RESPECT. 1104 00:37:06,448 --> 00:37:06,896 >> YES. 1105 00:37:06,896 --> 00:37:07,482 >> TREATED WELL? 1106 00:37:07,482 --> 00:37:08,034 >> YES. 1107 00:37:08,034 --> 00:37:09,793 >> THAT WAS OUR END OF THE 1108 00:37:09,793 --> 00:37:10,827 BARGAIN, RIGHT? 1109 00:37:10,827 --> 00:37:11,448 >> YEP. 1110 00:37:11,448 --> 00:37:15,310 >> WHAT WAS YOUR END OF THE 1111 00:37:15,310 --> 00:37:15,586 BARGAIN. 1112 00:37:15,586 --> 00:37:16,724 >> DO THE VERY BEST I CAN TO 1113 00:37:16,724 --> 00:37:17,586 FIND SARA. 1114 00:37:17,586 --> 00:37:18,103 >> YEAH? 1115 00:37:18,103 --> 00:37:19,724 IS THAT WHAT WE'VE DONE? 1116 00:37:19,724 --> 00:37:21,068 >> THAT'S WHAT WE'VE DONE. 1117 00:37:21,068 --> 00:37:24,758 >> I WOULD SAY THAT, UH, THAT 1118 00:37:24,758 --> 00:37:28,172 I'VE TRIED. 1119 00:37:28,172 --> 00:37:32,758 I WAS ABSOLUTELY SURE THAT I 1120 00:37:32,758 --> 00:37:34,551 KNEW THE ROUTE. 1121 00:37:34,551 --> 00:37:37,000 BUT WHEN IT CAME DOWN TO IT, I 1122 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,724 COULD ONLY GET PARTIAL OF WHAT 1123 00:37:38,724 --> 00:37:40,827 I -- WHAT ACTUALLY WHERE I WENT. 1124 00:37:40,827 --> 00:37:41,896 >> WHAT WAS GOING THROUGH YOUR 1125 00:37:41,896 --> 00:37:43,206 HEAD WHEN YOU WERE TALKING TO 1126 00:37:43,206 --> 00:37:43,379 HIM? 1127 00:37:43,379 --> 00:37:44,689 >> ANGER. 1128 00:37:44,689 --> 00:37:48,241 HE DOES NOT FORGET DETAILS. 1129 00:37:48,241 --> 00:37:49,034 HE RECALLS DETAILS. 1130 00:37:49,034 --> 00:37:51,413 HE RECALLS MANY THINGS UNTIL HE 1131 00:37:51,413 --> 00:37:54,000 WANTS TO PRETEND HE DOESN'T 1132 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:54,275 REMEMBER. 1133 00:37:54,275 --> 00:37:58,034 >> A DECADE AFTER THAT GROUP WAS 1134 00:37:58,034 --> 00:38:00,862 SEARCHED, IN NOVEMBER OF 2023, 1135 00:38:00,862 --> 00:38:02,793 INVESTIGATORS WERE BACK OUT 1136 00:38:02,793 --> 00:38:03,827 LOOKING AGAIN. 1137 00:38:03,827 --> 00:38:06,724 THIS TIME AT THE GREEN MOUNTAIN 1138 00:38:06,724 --> 00:38:10,793 NATIONAL FOREST IN VERMONT AFTER 1139 00:38:10,793 --> 00:38:13,379 DETECTIVE TRINE IDENTIFIED AN 1140 00:38:13,379 --> 00:38:15,137 AREA WITH LANDMARKS THAT LENT 1141 00:38:15,137 --> 00:38:16,344 HAD TALKED ABOUT DURING THEIR 1142 00:38:16,344 --> 00:38:17,241 MANY CONVERSATIONS. 1143 00:38:17,241 --> 00:38:18,758 >> JUST TOO MANY THINGS MATCHED 1144 00:38:18,758 --> 00:38:19,172 UP. 1145 00:38:19,172 --> 00:38:21,724 A LOT OF BOXES WERE CHECKED. 1146 00:38:21,724 --> 00:38:23,482 >> WHAT'S MORE, SEARCH AND 1147 00:38:23,482 --> 00:38:25,275 RESCUE DOGS TAKEN TO THE AREA 1148 00:38:25,275 --> 00:38:28,344 HAD ALERTED TO A POSSIBLE BODY 1149 00:38:28,344 --> 00:38:28,758 THERE. 1150 00:38:28,758 --> 00:38:32,586 >> SO WE WERE HOPEFUL, OPTIMIST 1151 00:38:32,586 --> 00:38:33,724 OPTIMISTIC THAT WE WOULD FIND 1152 00:38:33,724 --> 00:38:35,172 SOMETHING THERE, AND WE NEVER 1153 00:38:35,172 --> 00:38:35,724 FOUND ANYTHING. 1154 00:38:35,724 --> 00:38:37,724 >> BUT AUTHORITIES KEPT LOOKING. 1155 00:38:37,724 --> 00:38:39,379 EARLIER THIS YEAR, DETECTIVES 1156 00:38:39,379 --> 00:38:41,655 WENT BACK TO THE CELLAR THAT 1157 00:38:41,655 --> 00:38:44,000 LENT WORKED IN WITH PHIL TO SEE 1158 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,724 IF THEY MISSED SOMETHING IN 1159 00:38:46,724 --> 00:38:46,931 1994. 1160 00:38:46,931 --> 00:38:50,724 THE SEARCH TURNED UP NO NEW 1161 00:38:50,724 --> 00:38:51,241 EVIDENCE. 1162 00:38:51,241 --> 00:38:53,034 >> DO YOU FEEL IN A WAY THAT YOU 1163 00:38:53,034 --> 00:38:56,241 MIGHT BE RUNNING OUT OF TIME? 1164 00:38:56,241 --> 00:38:58,172 LOUIS LENT IS IN HIS 70s. 1165 00:38:58,172 --> 00:38:59,724 >> IT IS A CONCERN, BUT THAT'S 1166 00:38:59,724 --> 00:39:01,379 ONE OF THE THINGS WE CAN'T 1167 00:39:01,379 --> 00:39:01,655 CONTROL. 1168 00:39:01,655 --> 00:39:04,275 >> REGARDLESS OF THE CHALLENGES, 1169 00:39:04,275 --> 00:39:05,413 AUTHORITIES SAY THEY WILL NEVER 1170 00:39:05,413 --> 00:39:09,000 STOP LOOKING FOR SARA WOOD AND 1171 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,000 JAIME LUSHER. 1172 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000 DUSTY WOOD SAYS HE CHOOSES NOT 1173 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,586 TO THINK ABOUT LOUIS LENT. 1174 00:39:16,586 --> 00:39:19,689 >> AND EVERY DAY I'M LESS ANGRY 1175 00:39:19,689 --> 00:39:23,241 BECAUSE I DEVOTE MY ENERGY TO 1176 00:39:23,241 --> 00:39:24,068 POSITIVE THINGS. 1177 00:39:24,068 --> 00:39:25,965 >> EVERY YEAR DUSTY AND SOME 1178 00:39:25,965 --> 00:39:28,000 FAMILY MEMBERS PARTICIPATE IN 1179 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,448 THE RIDE FOR MISSING CHILDREN. 1180 00:39:30,448 --> 00:39:30,931 >> READY? 1181 00:39:30,931 --> 00:39:33,793 >> ROLLING! 1182 00:39:33,793 --> 00:39:36,758 >> A 78-MILE BIKE RIDE THAT WAS 1183 00:39:36,758 --> 00:39:40,000 CREATED IN SARA'S HONOR BY BOB 1184 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:40,758 WOOD. 1185 00:39:40,758 --> 00:39:44,000 THE RIDERS WORE JERSEYS THAT 1186 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:45,758 WERE TURQUOISE AND PINK, THE 1187 00:39:45,758 --> 00:39:48,758 COLORS THAT SARA WORE WHEN SHE 1188 00:39:48,758 --> 00:39:51,827 WAS ABDUCTED. 1189 00:39:51,827 --> 00:39:56,034 RIDERS STOP AT SCHOOLS ALONG THE 1190 00:39:56,034 --> 00:40:00,137 WAY TO TALK ABOUT ABDUCTION 1191 00:40:00,137 --> 00:40:00,448 PREVENTION. 1192 00:40:00,448 --> 00:40:02,379 >> THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR 1193 00:40:02,379 --> 00:40:04,965 US AS A FAMILY IS TO PROTECT 1194 00:40:04,965 --> 00:40:06,793 KIDS AND MAKE SURE THAT IF THERE 1195 00:40:06,793 --> 00:40:09,172 IS ANYTHING THAT CAN BE DONE TO 1196 00:40:09,172 --> 00:40:12,344 PROTECT THEM FROM MONSTERS LIKE 1197 00:40:12,344 --> 00:40:15,758 LOUIS LENT THAT IT BE DONE. 1198 00:40:15,758 --> 00:40:19,413 >> RIDERS PAY SILENT TRIBUTE TO 1199 00:40:19,413 --> 00:40:20,724 THOSE CHILDREN WHOSE FAMILIES 1200 00:40:20,724 --> 00:40:23,517 HOLD OUT HOPE THAT THEY WILL BE 1201 00:40:23,517 --> 00:40:25,551 FOUND ALIVE. 1202 00:40:25,551 --> 00:40:28,000 AND TO CHILDREN WHO WENT MISSING 1203 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,206 AND ARE NEVER COMING HOME, LIKE 1204 00:40:32,206 --> 00:40:33,655 SARA M. WOOD. 1205 00:40:33,655 --> 00:40:36,172 DUSTY SAYS HE AND HIS FAMILY ARE 1206 00:40:36,172 --> 00:40:37,689 GRATEFUL TO THEIR COMMUNITY, WHO 1207 00:40:37,689 --> 00:40:42,517 HAVE SUPPORTED THEM SINCE THE 1208 00:40:42,517 --> 00:40:43,310 BEGINNING. 1209 00:40:43,310 --> 00:40:46,310 >> THERE WILL BE NEVER WAY TO 1210 00:40:46,310 --> 00:40:50,931 REPAY THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS 1211 00:40:50,931 --> 00:40:54,103 THAT OPENED UP THE POSSIBILITY 1212 00:40:54,103 --> 00:40:56,827 OF GIVING THE BEST CHANCE TO MY 1213 00:40:56,827 --> 00:40:57,034 SISTER. 1214 00:40:57,034 --> 00:40:59,344 >> HE'S NOT SURE IF THEY WILL 1215 00:40:59,344 --> 00:41:02,172 EVER FIND HIS SISTER'S BODY. 1216 00:41:02,172 --> 00:41:04,103 BUT HE IS AT PEACE. 1217 00:41:04,103 --> 00:41:06,551 >> I'M WAITING FOR THE DAY I 1218 00:41:06,551 --> 00:41:13,103 CAESAR -- SEE SARA IN HEAVEN. 1219 00:41:13,103 --> 00:41:15,068 AND I KNOW THAT DAY IS COMING, 1220 00:41:15,068 --> 00:41:19,689 AND I KNOW THAT DAY IS COMING, AND THAT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD. 1221 00:41:19,689 --> 00:41:57,931 AND THAT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD.