TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – A truck driver has been charged in the stabbing death of a Bloomsbury woman – linked to the crime after being charged in Massachusetts with trying to rape and kidnap young girl, authorities said Tuesday.

The body of 38-year-old Monica Massaro was found in her Bloomsbury apartment on July 30.

But authorities were stymied in finding her killer for weeks because she was “very outgoing” and had made many friends throughout the country via the Internet, said Dan Hurley, deputy chief of investigation for the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office.

On Aug. 20, they got their break. A federal database that keeps information on truck drivers who are criminal suspects came up with the name of a 42-year-old trucker from Jonesville, N.C., Adam Leroy Lane.

On the same day that Massaro’s body was found, Lane had been arrested in Chelmsford, Mass., for allegedly trying to rape a teenage girl after breaking into her home in the middle of the night, said Corey Welford, a spokesman for the Middlesex, Mass., district attorney’s office.

Authorities said he was thwarted when the girl’s father heard her scream and held Lane in a headlock against the floor until police arrived.

Welford said that during the attack, a masked and gloved Lane was armed with several knives and was wearing a belt with Chinese throwing stars and choke wire. Found in the cab of his truck parked just off Interstate 495 was a copy of the movie “Hunting Humans,” a 2002 movie about a serial killer who picks his victims at random and stalks them, authorities said.

As Lane sat in a Massachusetts jail cell, ordered held without bail on an array of charges from attempted murder to home invasion, authorities in Hunterdon noticed similarities between the two crimes and were able to confirm that Lane was in the area of Massaro’s apartment around the time she was killed, Hurley said.

According to Hurley, an affidavit completed by a state police detective indicated that Lane had some of Massaro’s belongings and receipts from a Bloomsbury truck stop dated around the time she was killed.

Hurley said Lane has been charged with one count of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree burglary and one count of third-degree possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes.

“We still have a lot to do forensically, but we feel very comfortable with the case,” Hurley said.

Hurley said authorities are going to look into whether Lane could be linked to any other crimes near East Coast truck stops.

“Anything that has occurred around or near a truck stop is certainly going to be looked at,” Hurley said. “We’re going to drill into his past pretty good.”

Lane is scheduled to appear in a Lowell, Mass., court on Sept. 5 for a hearing on the charges against him in that state.

It was not clear if Lane had retained legal counsel; after-hours messages left with authorities in Massachusetts were not immediately returned.

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