The Unending Search for Sara Anne Wood | Full Episode | Forensic Files

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

The episode details the abduction and murder of Sarah Wood, her family's ongoing search for closure, and the confession of her killer, Lewis Lent.

Key points

The Disappearance of Sarah Wood. Sarah Wood, a 12-year-old girl, vanished while riding her bike to church.
A Break in the Case. An attempted abduction of another girl leads investigators to a suspect, Lewis Lent.
The Search Begins. A massive search operation is launched for Sarah, involving police and volunteers.
Lent's Disturbing Confession. Lewis Lent confesses to kidnapping and murdering Sarah Wood, revealing chilling details.
The Search for Sarah's Body. Police search a remote area based on Lent's confession, hoping to find Sarah.
The Confession. In 2013, Lewis Lent confessed to killing Jamie Lusher, a case that haunted investigators.

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