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Dee Ziegert, mother of murder victim Lisa Ziegert, among mourners at Workers Memorial Day

Published: Friday, April 29, 2011, 8:28 PM     Updated: Friday, April 29, 2011, 8:28 PM

By Jim Kinney, The Republican The Republican

The Republican | Michael S. GordonThe family of Richard T. Tyson, who died at age 24 in August 2010 in a workplace accident at Yankee Candle, listens to the names of fallen laborers during the annual Workers Memorial Day ceremony Friday at Teamsters Hall Local 404 in Springfield. His fiance, Nicole M. Gerrard of Chicopee, center, holds their son, Jaykob Richard Tyson, 6 months. Her mother, Maureen T. Morrissette, of Chicopee, is at left. At right are Richard's parents, Brenda S. and Ronald J. Tyson. Richard and Nicole have a daughter, Jaelyn Tyson, 3½ and Richard has a son, Thomas J. Tyson, 7.

SPRINGFIELD – Dee Ziegert is calling for security cameras, silent alarms, panic buttons wired into police dispatch centers or anything else that could have made a difference for her daughter, Lisa M. Ziegert.

Lisa Ziegert was kidnapped from her job at an Agawam gift shop in April 1992. The crime was never solved.

“That’s a fact I must face anew every day,” Dee Ziegert said Friday at a Workers Memorial Day observance sponsored by the Western Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health and conducted at Teamsters Local 404 on Progress Avenue. “In some ways it feels like it just happened. Maybe if there was an alarm the police could have arrived in time. Maybe if there was security footage, the police could have caught Lisa’s killer.”

Ziegert said many people don’t think about her daughter’s death as a workplace fatality. But she was kidnapped form her job. At first she was even reluctant to speak at Friday’s observance.

“But that’s not standing up for Lisa,” Dee Ziegert said. “Someone has to stand up for Lisa.”