Twelve-year-old Jimmy Bernardo disappeared from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, after being last seen the evening of October 22, 1990, outside the Pittsfield Plaza Cinema Center. His parents reported him missing that night. A month later, on November 21, 1990, hunters found his body off a remote dirt road in Newfield, New York, about 200 miles from where he had last been seen; investigators concluded he had been murdered.

The case remained cold until January 1994, when a separate attempted abduction of a 12-year-old girl in downtown Pittsfield produced a detailed description that led police to 43-year-old Lewis Lent, a former handyman and part-time janitor who had worked at the movie theater where Jimmy was last seen. Lent was questioned and, over several days, confessed to murdering Jimmy Bernardo, saying he had lured Jimmy into the theater, abducted him, held him overnight, and strangled him the next day.

Lent was indicted in February 1994 for the kidnapping and murder of Jimmy Bernardo and later pleaded guilty and received life without parole. Does anyone have memories of Pittsfield in 1990 or information about the area around the Pittsfield Plaza Cinema Center that could shed light on Jimmy’s last known movements?