"Serial killer confesses to ’92 slaying of Westfield boy; Pond in Becket to be searched for remains" by Colin A. Young | Globe Correspondent, July 15, 2013
WESTFIELD — More than 20 years after James "Jamie” Lusher disappeared from Westfield, child serial killer Lewis S. Lent Jr. has confessed to abducting the 16-year-old, killing him, and then dumping his body into Greenwater Pond in Becket, officials said Monday.
“To this day, when I see a kid, a 16-year-old kid on a bike with black hair, I will instinctively look,’’ the victim’s father, James Lusher, said Monday. “My closure is finding my son, his body.”
Lent, formerly of North Adams, confessed to murdering Lusher in return for not being prosecuted for the 1992 killing and provided information that could open the door on other unsolved cases in the area, Hampden District Attorney Mark G. Mastroianni said.
“Lent is someone who law enforcement here and in other places is very interested in,’’ he said. “He is a subject that is on the radar for other cases. This information and the new information gathered from Lewis Lent has reinvigorated investigations.”
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