luthersmama
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There has been a conviction. Lent got convicted of Sara's murder in 1996.
Quite right. I had forgotten. I think he was convicted in a couple of the other cases first - the attempted abduction at least.
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There has been a conviction. Lent got convicted of Sara's murder in 1996.
Thanks. I wonder if we are familiar with the case of the other body he did not want to reveal. How many more could there be from years passed?There has been a conviction. Lent got convicted of Sara's murder in 1996.
I didn't know Sara Anne Wood, but her disappearance changed my life dramatically.
I was 10 when she disappeared. Just 2 years younger than her. I remember seeing her picture flash on the news, and my parents made the decision that night that my sister and I were no longer allowed to be outside alone. We were too young to really understand at the time, and I remember fighting them every step of the way about it. (I'd just gotten the freedom to ride my bike where I pleased... and now it was being taken away!) But now, almost 18 years later, I understand that they were just trying to protect us.
We'd been to Frankfort maybe 5 times a year for as long as I could remember, my Aunt and Uncle lived very near to where she disappeared. We weren't allowed to go there anymore either.
My parents sat me down and explained to me that someone had stolen a little girl who was riding her bike alone. And that when little girls are stolen like that horrible horrible things happen to them, and they usually never get to come home. And if, by the grace of god they do return, then it's usual not "home" that they come to. They said that there are men out there who are ready and willing to steal children away and hurt them. And that most of the time, they don't just hurt them, they kill them. And then after they said all of that, they told me that they loved me more than anything they could ever imagine and if something like that happened to me or my sister, it would be the end of their world.
Needless to say, this scared me. I cried all that night. I cried for the little brown haired girl who was probably never going to get to come home. I cried for me and for my sister knowing that at any moment, we could be stolen away by a stranger who wanted to hurt us. I cried for Sarah Anne's parents, because I couldn't imagine what they were dealing with. And finally, I cried for my parents. My father who got tears in his eyes when he talked of someone stealing us, My mother who became physically ill after explaining to me that the world wasn't all ice cream and roller skates and barbies, like I had thought it was.
At 10, I found out that the world was actually a dangerous scary place, not the wonderful playground that I thought it was.
I'm sure there were many little girls who found out the dangers of the world that summer... I surely can't be the only one.
Happy Belated Birthday (March 4th) Sara Anne Wood, even though I was only 10 when Lewis Lent unleashed his evil on you, I still haven't forgotten you. I'll tell my daughters and nieces your story, and I hope that they'll tell theirs too. You will never be forgotten.
LITCHFIELD, N.Y. -- Twenty years after her disappearance, the search for Sara Anne Wood could soon resume.
Nearly 20 years after Sara went missing, New York State Police investigators and Herkimer County prosecutors have rekindled their discussions on tips that might one day bring Sara home.
Herkimer County District Attorney Jeffrey Carpenter and state police officials would not reveal the substance of their talks, but the possibility of any new searches for Saras body are not ruled out.
There have been efforts to locate her body in the past and, at this point in time, I think we will once again make an attempt to locate her body, Carpenter said.
Wood disappeared on Aug. 18, 1993, while riding her bicycle near her home. Lent told police when he pleaded guilty that Wood is buried in the Adirondack Mountains with at least one other missing child he murdered. But Lent refused to tell state police where the hand-dug graveyard is located.
More than a dozen searches over the years, including in the Raquette Lake area of the Adirondacks, failed to find Wood's body.
Lent later recanted his confession and claimed he did not kill Wood.