BENNINGTON, VT (WGGB/WSHM) – Authorities report that two decades-old kidnapping cases, one of which has ties to western Massachusetts, have been resolved.

In a joint statement, the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office and the Bennington, VT County State’s Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that 65-year-old David Allen Morrison has pleaded guilty to the 1981 kidnapping of Laura Sheriden in New Ashford, MA and the 1986 murder of Sarah Hunter in Pawlet, VT

Prosecutors said that, on June 23, 1981, Sheriden, who was 15 years old at the time, was walking home when a passerby, later identified as Morrison, reportedly her a ride home. Morrison drove past the girl’s house and, after quickly realizing that she was in danger, Sheridan escaped from the vehicle when it pulled over at a res

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