James Jamie Lusher Jr. was 16 when he left his father’s home in Westfield, Massachusetts, on November 6, 1992, riding a brand new gray-green Huffy mountain bike toward his grandmother’s house in nearby Blandford. A special needs student described as hyperactive and functioning at about a 12-year-old level, he never arrived. A waitress at a Westfield Friendly’s reported serving him two days later, but that lead did not establish his whereabouts.

On November 11 a hunter found Jamie’s bicycle abandoned near a pond in a heavily wooded part of Westfield. Authorities conducted intensive air and ground searches and drained the pond without finding him. In July 2013 convicted murderer Lewis S. Lent Jr., who had been in the Westfield area in 1992, confessed to abducting and killing Jamie and said the body had been disposed of in Greenwater Pond in Becket. A multiagency three-day dive search of the 88-acre pond recovered no remains or belongings; Lent later recanted the confession.

The case remains an endangered missing person investigation with foul play suspected. If anyone has information about Jamie’s plans, movements that day, or sightings after November 6, 1992, please come forward.