Season 37 of CBS’s popular investigative series 48 Hours kicks off with an episode focusing on the 30-year search for the body of murder victim Sara Anne Wood. The 12-year-old girl went missing on August 18, 1993 while walking home from church in Sauquoit, New York. Lewis Lent was ultimately convicted of her murder but has refused to give her family peace by revealing the location of her body.
“It’s 30 years later … I can’t imagine many things that are as terribly life-changing,” said Sara’s older brother, Dusty, in an interview with 48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty. He added, “Finding the body is important because then my mother could know where she is.”
Dusty now dedicates his time to spreading awareness of child abductions. “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 Lewis Lent, that it be done.”
48 Hours has been reporting on Sara Anne Wood’s case since she vanished and was given access to the search as it was underway. And back in 1994, Moriarty did an interview with the girl who helped crack the case. 12-year-old Becky Savarese was the victim of an attempted kidnapping, and the information she supplied the police led them to Wood’s killer, Lewis Lent.
“He told us about his ‘master plan,'” says retired New York State Police detective Frank Lawrence. “Once he found the acceptable vulnerable individuals, he was gonna bring ’em back to his house and put ’em in, I describe it as a coffin, but keep them alive. So he could use them and have them whenever he wanted them.”
CBS offers this description of the 30-year quest for Wood’s final resting place: “After Lent confessed to killing Wood, he drew a map to where he said he buried her in a remote location in the Adirondack Mountains, leading police on an extensive search. She was never found. Was he toying with investigators? New York State Police detectives refuse to give up. They continue to visit Lent in prison hoping that he will tell them where he buried Wood’s body and possibly disclose the murders of other victims. In November 2023, they searched in a rural area near Pownal, Vt., and in June 2024, they searched a property in Lanesborough, Mass., connected to Lent, with no luck.”
Season 37 premieres on Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 10pm ET/PT. Per CBS, the series has been the top non-sports primetime program for 18 straight seasons.
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