Trucker Adam Leroy Lane confessed to detectives that he parked his rig at a truck stop off Route 78

"My husband and I will never have another happy day for the rest of our lives. Life has lost its meaning for us," said the victim's mother, who sobbed as Ouslander recapped the night her 38-year-old daughter was killed. Lane confessed to detectives that he parked his rig at a truck stop off Route 78 in Bloomsbury and went into town checking for unlocked doors. He said he found the entrance to Massaro's home wide open, entered, and murdered the woman after they scuffled in her bedroom. State Police discovered Massaro's body after troopers were asked to go to her home to check on her well-being. Mahon said he didn't understand how Lane, a father of two young girls, could inflict such "evil." Lane's public defender, Peter Abatemarco, said there was no explanation, noting his client had no previous record. Lane is to return to Massachusetts next week, where he is serving 25 years for attacking a 15-year-old girl in her home in suburban Boston, just hours after Massaro was killed.
Hunterdon County Prosecutor J. Patrick Barnes was the first to spot similarities between the attack on the teenager and Massaro's murder. Detective Jeffrey Farneski from the prosecutor's office and State Police Detective Geoffrey Noble later convinced Lane to give a video-recorded confession. Massaro's mother credited the law enforcement officers who finally stopped Lane, using a cryptic reference to a DVD movie, "Hunting Humans," that was found in his truck. "Without them," she said of the officers, "he might still be hunting humans."
admitted killer never turned to face his victim's family yesterday when he was sentenced to 50 years in state prison for the murder of a woman in her Hunterdon County home. Trucker Adam Leroy Lane also didn't look at the investigators who caught him and were present in a Flemington courtroom to see him convicted in the July 29, 2007, slaying of Monica Massaro. State Superior Court Judge Roger Mahon received no final statement from Lane, and noted he saw no remorse from the man, except over the fact that he was captured for the grisly crime. "Putting him to death would be too good for him. I hope that he will suffer every day for what he has done and never taste freedom again," Massaro's mother, Fay, said in a prepared statement that was read for her in court by a victims' advocate.
Lane, 44, of North Carolina admitted he parked his rig at a truck stop in Bloomsbury sometime during the night Massaro was killed, entered her home, slit her throat and watched her die. He also confessed that he butchered her body to make it look like a more maniacal person attacked the woman. First Assistant Prosecutor Charles Ouslander insisted Lane intended to kill, and showed no mercy. "I ask that the court show no mercy toward the defendant now," Ouslander told the judge. The state successfully sought to keep Lane in jail for the rest of his life, by tacking on the conviction to a 25-year sentence he already is serving in Massachusetts for a similar but unrelated attack on a 15-year-old girl. Massaro's murder, according to authorities, capped off a July 2007 string of slayings along his truck route from Virginia to New England. Investigators have labeled Lane a serial killer, and charged him with a second killing near Harrisburg, Pa., a little more than two weeks before Massaro was murdered. Darlene Ewalt was stabbed to death from behind as she sat on the rear patio of her home in West Hanover on July 13, 2007, according to police.