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UPDATED: Jonesville trucker confesses in video about New Jersey killing
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Published: September 30, 2008
Updated: 10/06/2008 09:09 am
FLEMINGTON, N.J.
A truck driver suspected of attacking women in several states along the East Coast pleaded guilty on last week to killing a New Jersey woman.
Adam Leroy Lane, 44, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in state Superior Court, admitting that he stabbed 38-year-old Monica Massaro inside her Bloomsbury home in July 2007.
A day later, Lane attacked a 15-year-old girl in her bed outside Boston, a crime for which he has already been sentenced to 25 to 30 years in Massachusetts. The assault was foiled when the girl's parents heard her cry out and her father grabbed Lane and held him in a headlock until police arrived.
Under his plea deal in New Jersey, Lane could receive a 50-year sentence to run consecutively to the Massachusetts sentence.
Massaro's mother, Fay Massaro, sobbed in court as Lane described how he cut her daughter's throat and mutilated her dead body.
Lane, according to his public defender, Peter Abatemarco, pleaded guilty to spare everyone the trauma of a trial.
"He's sort of resigned to spending the rest of his life in prison," Abatemarco said.
Lane is also charged in the death of a Pennsylvania woman last year and the slashing of another woman. Prosecutors say he carried out the late-night attacks randomly along his trucking routes.
Authorities in Lane's hometown of Jonesville, N.C., have said they want to question him about the unsolved 1996 killing of a police officer there.
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