The Girl who Escaped a Killer - January 12 2024

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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January 12th: Lewis Lent Jr. Convicted (1995) One mistake can land a killer straight in the hands of police. On January 12th 1995 a man was convicted after one young victim managed to trick him and escape with her life. https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lent-lewis.htm#:~:text=Lewis%20Lent%2C%20a%20janitor%20from,Pittsfield%2C%20Massachusetts%20native%20Jimmy%20Bernardo., https://www.berkshireeagle.com/arts_and_culture/books/lewis-lent-jimmy-bernardo-true-crime-berkshires/article_6988f8f4-a653-11ed-8e6f-e7f928ff0b76.html, https://www.berkshireeagle.com/archives/update-lewis-lent-case-revived-with-search-of-greylock-glen/article_f263a7d6-3c63-5c41-ade9-436cbc7209bd.html, https://www.syracuse.com/vintage/2016/10/throwback_thursday_lewis_lent.html, https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2013/07/15/serial-killer-lewis-s-lent-jr-confessed-to-kidnapping-murder-of-jamie-lusher-in-1992-officials-said/, https://www.uticaod.com/story/news/2018/08/12/it-s-like-talking/6493627007/, https://www.wamc.org/new-england-news/2013-07-15/child-serial-killer-lewis-lent-linked-to-cold-case Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrives, I found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:13.0	One a cop of murder...
0:14.8	One mistake can land a killer straight in the hands of police.
0:19.4	On January 12, 1995, a man was convicted after one young victim managed to trick him and escape
0:26.9	with her life.
0:28.3	So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a
0:32.9	morning cup of murder.
0:35.4	On January 7, 1994, Rebecca Savarese, a 12-year-old girl living in Pittsfield,
0:41.7	Massachusetts, just narrowly escaped the clutches of a man named Louis Lent, Jr.
0:48.7	Forcing the girl into his borrowed pickup truck as she walked home from school, Rebecca made
0:53.7	the quick and incredibly
0:55.0	smart decision to feign losing consciousness. And when her attacker led up for just a moment,
1:01.7	she bolted away, shrugged out of her backpack when he grabbed her, and left him behind just as
1:07.3	another man showed up and sent her would-be killer running in the opposite direction.
1:13.3	Describing the man as, quote, all dressed in grungy clothes, she told officers how he approached her
1:19.1	and said, quote, you see the gun I have, before motioning to the blue pickup truck parked just
1:24.9	outside the nearby bank. She said that after her mother told her to, quote, do anything, if ever captured,
1:32.7	the young girl chose to fight instead of obey.
1:36.2	And while also saving her own life, the action ended up leading police straight to an unknown
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