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Adam Leroy Lane Case Update

By David Lohr

Last month, 43-year-old trucker Adam Leroy Lane had another murder charge added to his list of crimes as he made his way through the northeast during the summer of 2007.  This time Lane faces a murder charge in Pennsylvania for the death of Darlene Ewalt, who authorities say he stabbed to death as she was talking on the telephone on the patio in the back yard of her Harrisburg home at 2:00 a.m. on July 13, 2007.  While languishing in a Massachusetts prison on a 30-year sentence for the Chelmsford home invasion involving an attack on a 15-year-old girl who he attempted to rape and kidnap, Lane had also been charged with murdering 38-year-old Monica Massaro in her Bloomsbury, New Jersey home on July 30, 2007.  He has since been transferred to a jail in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where he awaits trial for Massaro's murder, to which he has pleaded not guilty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on September 10, 2008 (boomark / email).