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Police search Mass. town for remains of notorious child serial killer’s victims
No additional evidence was found, officials said.
Officials searched a property in Lanesborough Tuesday for evidence of crimes allegedly committed by admitted child serial killer Lewis Lent in the 1990s.
Investigators were searching in the area of Summer Street, WWLP reported.
Tuesday’s search didn’t lead to additional evidence, a spokesperson for the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office said. The property has been searched before in connection to the same case, according to the spokesperson.
Lent is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the 1990 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old James Bernardo, whose body was found in the woods of New York State. He has also pleaded guilty to the murder of Sara Anne Wood, 12, and confessed to the murder of 16-year-old James Lusher.
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The bodies of Wood and Lusher have never been found. Lent, who is from North Adams, is also allegedly implicated in numerous other child kidnapping cases.
The search involved multiple agencies including Massachusetts and New York State Police.
“Law enforcement bodies are in regular communication regarding the unsolved crimes to have allegedly been committed by Lewis Lent,” the spokesperson said. “Law enforcement in both Massachusetts and New York are dedicated to bringing justice for the children who remain missing and will continue to investigate all leads until their cases have been solved.”
In 2013, Lent told police he dumped Lusher’s body in a pond near Becket. An extensive search failed to yield any evidence.
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Police searched Mount Greylock for possible remains of Lent’s victims in 2015. No remains were found at that time, The Boston Globe reported.
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