48 Hours “The Unending Search for Sara Anne Wood” March 15 2025 Recap & Preview
This Saturday, March 15, 2025, at 9:00 PM ET/PT, 48 Hours presents an encore of “The Unending Search for Sara Anne Wood”, a heart-wrenching and haunting investigation into the 30-year-long search for the body of 12-year-old Sara Anne Wood, who was abducted and murdered by convicted child serial killer Lewis Lent.
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Correspondent Erin Moriarty takes viewers inside law enforcement’s relentless pursuit of answers in a case that has never fully been solved. Sara Anne Wood disappeared on August 18, 1993, while walking home from church in Sauquoit, New York. Despite Lent’s conviction and imprisonment for the crime, he refuses to reveal where he buried Sara’s body, continuing to play a devastating game of cat and mouse with investigators.
Moriarty provides exclusive interviews, including one with Sara’s brother, Dusty Wood, who shares the emotional toll the unrelenting mystery has had on his family. Dusty reflects on how crucial it is to find his sister’s remains so his mother can finally have closure. The episode revisits the extensive search efforts over the years, including the unprecedented access 48 Hours had when the search first began. The story also includes a chilling interview with 12-year-old Becky Savarese, who survived an attempted kidnapping by Lent and helped crack open the case.
Despite Lent’s confessions and providing a map to where he claimed to have buried Sara, searches have continued across remote locations without success. New York State Police have kept up their efforts, visiting Lent in prison and conducting multiple searches, including in the Adirondack Mountains, Pownal, Vermont, and Lanesborough, Massachusetts. However, the body remains unfound, and Lent’s refusal to fully cooperate with authorities only deepens the mystery.
The case has left a family devastated but determined to raise awareness about child abductions and protect other children from predators like Lent. Tune in for this gripping encore episode of 48 Hours to hear more about the search that has stretched across decades and the continuing fight for justice.
