LOWELL, Mass. - A trucker charged in a New Jersey woman's killing and suspected in a string of crimes along the East Coast pleaded guilty Tuesday to attacking a 15-year-old girl with a knife at her family's home.

Adam Leroy Lane was immediately sentenced to 25 to 30 years in prison in the attack, which ended when the girl's parents subdued him.
Lane has since been charged with murder in the stabbing of Monica Massaro, 38, in her Bloomsbury, N.J., home during the same weekend he attacked the girl in Chelmsford. Authorities in Pennsylvania and North Carolina have said they also are investigating Lane in connection with other crimes.
Lane, 43, of Jonesville, N.C., was arrested July 30 after he broke into the home of Jeannie and Kevin McDonough in the middle of the night. Authorities had said Lane, who was wearing a mask and gloves, tried to rape the couple's then-15-year-old daughter but her parents heard her cry and found Lane on top of her with a knife. The McDonoughs said Tuesday they might never have heard their daughter's muffled scream if their air conditioner had not been broken that night.
Kevin McDonough seized Lane and held him in a headlock on the floor, and Jeannie McDonough cut her hand when she grabbed the knife's blade during the struggle. Their daughter ran out of the house and called police.
"I'm a pretty strong guy but I felt like Hercules that night," Kevin McDonough told reporters after Tuesday's hearing.
Lane was carrying knives, choke wire and a belt with Chinese throwing stars during the attack, police said.
He pleaded guilty to nine of 10 charges against him in the Chelmsford attack, including home invasion, armed assault in a dwelling, assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors agreed to drop a charge of assault with intent to rape a child.
In court, Jeannie McDonough glared at Lane as she described the psychological trauma the attack caused. She said while she and her husband struggled with Lane, the trucker told her to take care of the gash in her hand and promised he would leave.
"I thank God every day that I didn't listen to your misguided words," she said. "Realize this, Adam Leroy Lane, that someday you will be held accountable — not only in a court of law."
When the judge asked Lane if the prosecution's description of his actions was fair and accurate, Lane said, "pretty much."
About a month after Lane's arrest in Massachusetts, he was charged in Massaro's killing. Pennsylvania authorities said they were investigating Lane in the July 13 fatal stabbing of Darlene Ewalt, 42, in her house, and the July 17 slashing of a woman who survived.
Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said he did not know when Lane would be transported to New Jersey.

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