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The Family That Caught Suspected Serial Killer Adam Leroy Lane

By David Lohr

As a writer who makes his living from the true-crime genre, I am frequently contacted by people who have a story to tell, usually an unpleasant one that doesn't have a happy ending.  Such was the case, I thought, when Chelmsford, Massachusetts resident Jeannie McDonough, 47, e-mailed me recently to tell me how she, her husband, Kevin, and then-15-year-old daughter, Shea, had collectively joined forces to fight off a masked intruder last July 30 as he attempted to assault Shea.  Imagine my further surprise when Jeannie told me that they had later learned that the suspect, Adam Leroy Lane, 43, was a suspected serial killer who, police said, had allegedly stabbed a woman to death a day earlier.  Fortunately, the McDonough family lived to tell their story, and it had a reasonably happy ending, for them at least...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).