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Reporter under scrutiny, the exboyfriend. People were pointing fingers at him. Reporter and three others she encountered that night i was scared. Reporter how many times did they talk to you . 30 plus reporter two tantalizing clues. A handprint. The subject had blood on their hand. Reporter and a trail on twitter. Incredibly powerful. You can almost see this happening in real time. Reporter could she help solve her own mystery . Shes fighting him off. It was so emotional. I wanted to jump out of my seat. Never in a million years would you expect Something Like that. Im lester holt and this is dateline. Heres Andrea Canning with finding sarah goode. Reporter on long island, about 10 miles down the shoreline from the mansions, the fancy cars, and the elites of the hamptons, is a blue collar beach town some call the poor mans paradise. but life was rich for these brothers and sisters in mastic, ny filled with the love of a large tightknit family. All that was taken away one warm evening when evil rolled in with the summer tide. Their youngest sister was missing. We just want you to come home safely. Reporter and for better or worse, this family would go to extraordinary lengths to find her. Were going to scour those woods right now. We were our own investigators. Heres me and five of the biggest guys you could probably imagine, knocking on your door. Were wanting answers. If you do not have a group, one right here. Reporter you ever seen so many people so involved in a case before, nonlaw enforcement . Gratefully, no. Missing person cases, especially missing girls, they always get everybodys emotion, you know, because its just so horrible. I always tell her im sorry that it happened to her. Reporter 21year old sarah goode was the little one with the big personality. Her older sisters, samantha, lizzy, tabitha, and jennifer, say even though sarah could take care of herself, they still saw themselves as her protectors. Was everyone kinda looking out for her, her being the baby . Always. Yeah. How many children in your family . Well theres nine of us. Nine siblings . Nine siblings. 20 grandchildren. 20 . Yes. Oh, my goodness. How does your mom keep up . I dont think any of us keep up. Every day theres somebody asking, how many of us are there again . Reporter Seven Sisters and two brothers. Jennifer, who was 12 when sarah was born, fondly recalls that day. I just remember going to the and mom let me change her first poopie diaper. So she was, like, your little baby, too, it sounds like. She was. I would wake up with her in the middle of the night and feed her. That is a sign of a big family when big sister is feeding the baby in the middle of the night. Yeah. And she screamed until you stuffed the bottle in her mouth. Reporter as sarah grew older and her siblings started to marry, her sisters husbands also looked out for her. Her brotherinlaw, nick giannetto, appointed himself chief protector. He met sarah when she was just 3yearsold. Vefs very outgoing and talkative and very fun to be around. Whenever i cooked something, she was right next to me and wanting to learn how to do it, or or taste it. You two really bonded . Oh, yeah, absolutely. I was always there for her, and if someone bothered sarah, sarah would definitely come to me and and let me know. I heard a little story about you. Sarahs oh, sarahs nails fingernails . Yes, yes, yes. Where does that come from it was just you know some of the sisters would always be painting their nails. And, you know, me owning a Hardwood Floor business, being very particular in how i laid my finish out and how nice and neat everything had to be, i said, you know what, how hard could it be to paint a fingernail, you know. Reporter it was just another way nick took care of sarah. But even under watchful eyes, the unexpected can happen. And it did. After a long romance with her high school sweetheart, at 17, sarah got pregnant. Was she excited to be a mom . Yeah, she was. A little nervous, but everybodys nervous the first time theyre a mom. But she had so much experience. You know, her sisters and brothers having so many kids. She was always babysitter number one. Reporter Allaura Cicero and sarah grew up in the same neighborhood and quickly became best friends. Allaura says she was especially happy to hear sarah was having a girl. I was like, oh, youre going to have a little sarah. Like, shes going to be just like you. And turns out thats what happened. She always put jocelyn first. Everything was always about jocelyn, as it should be. Reporter jocelyns dad couldnt be there when she was born. He had joined the army and was deployed overseas. When he returned home, it became clear his relationship with sarah wouldnt survive the challenges of grown up life. Im not really sure what happened there. I guess they grew apart. Reporter sarah was now a single mom raising a baby girl on her own with the help of her family of course. She was like a natural mother. You know, she knew what to do and how to take care of her and love her up every second. And thats what she did. It had to be easier for her, too, with all of you . Oh, yeah. Uhhuh. And then all this family she had builtin babysitters. Sarah didnt let teenagemotherhood stop her from following her dreams. S school. And then she went to college and graduated from there. Reporter she landed a job as a medical technician and still managed to be a hands on mom to her now 4yearold daughter. Happy birthday dear jocelyn describe sarah when she would see jocelyn. Her eyes would light up. Even for not seeing her for an hour, like when she, like, held jocelyn and kissed her on the cheek and stuff, you felt it in your own heart. It was amazing. Sarah was a great mother. You know, she really stepped up to the plate for jocelyn. Reporter so did nick, who was jocelyns godfather. He was there for her first halloween. Look at big uncle nick, you know, carrying jocelyn to her first house, you know, getting candy. Reporter and he helped in other ways. Like when sarah decided she needed to buy a car. Okay. What kind of car you want . I want a bmw. I want a bmw. Reporter it just so happened, one of his friends was selling a 1999 bmw. We go over there and look at it. You know, she loves the car. And im like, you know, let lets just sit back, you know, a day or two. Think about it, you know. Because they break down. Its expensive to fix. No. I dont see her sitting around, thinking about it. No, not at that age. She comes over, like, two days later shes like, youre coming with me to get this car right now. I want that car. Reporter and so she got it. Did she post her brandnew bmw oh my god all over social media . All over social media. Was that how you could tell sarah was happy . By looking at her instagram, twitter, or facebook . Yes. Besides that, she was just so happy all the time. You know, to get her to be mad was very hard. Reporter and on the night of friday, june 6, 2014, nick says sarah was happy. She had recently broken up with a boy shed been dating for two years and was looking forward to a night out with friends. Nick had agreed to babysit jocelyn and nothing seemed out of the ordinary when sarah came by his house to drop off her daughter. I had came home from work. And shes like, paint my and i was like, ah, leave me alone. Im im tired. Im going in the shower. She was like, no, i want you to paint them now. So i was like, all right, come on. We laughed and we talked and, you know, she was going out for the first time in a long time. Reporter before she left, sarah posted on instagram a smiling selfie showing off her freshly painted nails. Did she have any parting words when she left the house . Ill see you guys tomorrow. I love you. Kiss, kiss, kiss. Jocelyn, kiss. And very happy. Got in the car and left. Reporter but nick didnt see sarah the next day. No one did. She was supposed to pick up her daughter at a Family Birthday Party, but she never showed. And all calls and texts to her phone went unanswered. Thats got to be an awful feeling. Yes. In your mind and in your heart yourself, this is not normal, you know, this is not sarah. When we come back i need to report her now. The first clues to the mystery. Her car near the woods. What was it like seeing her car there . It was scary. It was hard and scary. Her messages on social media. Is someone following her . Did someone attack her . Very creepy what she posted. Very creepy, yes. Very creepy. A every dunk is wonderfilled so bring your milk and cookie skills let the oreo dunk challenge begin show your dunk for a chance to win. Show us your dunk with hashtag oreo dunk sweepstakes. 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I said, i need to report her now. Reporter that report set things in motion. Prosecutor Janet Albertson, who was brought on to this missing persons case from the beginning, learned that on the day sarah was a noshow at the party, a woman had spotted a blue bmw abandoned next to a wooded lot. A Police Officer had responded to that location, thinking that maybe this is a stolen car, the plates were were bent. Reporter albertson says the bmw was found less than a mile from sarahs mothers house where sarah and jocelyn also lived. When the officer, ran the plate number, it came back to sarah goode with an address. And after that, he went to sarahs home and there was nobody there because as we would later learn, they were at the birthday party. Reporter around the same time lizzy was at the Police Station, that officer noticed the abandoned car was still in the same spot. Theff again. And at this point now, sarahs family had reported her missing. So things were really clicking now. Exactly. And once it came back as a missing person, well now theyve got a reason to really pay attention. Reporter and her beloved car was the biggest clue. Detectives needed the spare key, so they headed over to sarahs house. Her sister jennifer was there and she desperately wanted to know, where was the car . I just remember overhearing one detective tell the other detective that the car is in Eagle Estates. And then i was on the phone with nick. And thats when i told him like he said the Eagle Estates. Then we all followed them. You went straight there to where the car was . Right. They told us not to go follow them and i said i dont care if you have to arrest me. Im following you. Reporter Eagle Estates was a place they knew well because it was so close by. A large entourage of sarahs family headed over there and tried to approach her bmw, but police wouldnt let them get too what was that like, seeing her car there . What did that it was scary. Tell you . It was hard and scary. They wouldnt let us go to it. They would not let us near it. Reporter the police had a job to do, so things got heated. Sarahs sisters say they shouted at detectives and detectives shouted back. We were yelling at them. I was like, open the trunk. Yeah, we were yelling they were like, were not touching it. Is she in there . Were not doing anything until you leave. They were yelling at us, you guys have to leave. But did you say, no, im not leaving . Or did you leave . Yeah. We did, but then they threatened they would arrest us. So obviously we dont want to be arrested. So we we did leave. And we kind of left. Kind of because we kept on circling around in our cars instead of our feet. But i wasnt going to leave her if she was in there. Reporter later that night, the family finally got some answers. Detectives told them, sarah was not in the car. Were you trying to hold onto hope . Yeah. Trying to, yeah. Reporter hope turned to action, and the family got organized in a big way. And then we we just started searching, just anywhere we thought to even just go, we just went. How many search volunteers are we talking about . There was at least 200 the first day. Pretty humbling because you can see how many people that she touched and cared about her. Yeah. We just put it together in an hour on, you know, social media and this is how many, how many people we have right now. But theres more people on the way and theres already people searching. Reporter beyond searching, this large family started its own investigation, making calls and combing through social media. Checking facebooks, make sure she didnt update anything. Reporter the professional detectives were also looking at sarahs online life, piecing together clues from the friday night she went missing. They started with that picture she posted on instagram of her freshly painted nails. They learned she was at nicks house around 6 00pm. And from the picture, they could she had on tank tops and this very unique tank top over it with an owl face and her little headband. Reporter police then confirmed that after sarah kissed her daughter goodbye and left her brotherinlaws house, she drove to a friends place. She hooked up with a a friend of hers, a childhood friend by the name of jason flores. Reporter a timeline was coming together. She picked up jason in her bmw. She and jason had referred to each other as cousins because they had been neighbors growing up when they were younger, but they had drifted apart. She had really just kind of connected with jason about two weeks before. Reporter at 6 51 pm, a second selfie. Jason took a selfie of the two of them where you can see sarah driving. And shes so happy. I mean, she was just beaming, you know. She just looked like a happy kid, like, for her first night out in a while. Reporter they picked up brandon allen, a good friend of jasons and a new friend of small gathering, a dozen or so young people hanging out in this front yard. Investigators estimate they stayed there about 40 minutes. Before they left, they took this group shot at 10 18 pm. Thats sarah in the pink sweatshirt next to jason. Where does she go . Does she go home . No. At that point, she and jason are going to go back to brandons house. And he lives on only around the corner. So, sarah drove jason and brandon back to brandons house, where they watched the hobbit, a movie. Reporter around 1 00 in the morning, jason, sarahs childhood friend, wanted to leave. Sarah agreed to drive him home. After she dropped him off, he sent her a text at 1 17 am. Basically saying, are are you home okay . And she responds, yes. And we know thats on jasons phone, jasons phone, because the police have taken his phone to to download the information. Reporter all this seemed routine, then something ominous. On sarahs twitter feed, her days before sarah went missing she had tweeted, so, you know i live on a dead end. I see you creepin. and a second one, getting threatened for days now. Is that the new thing to do . That end part really is the one that that got to me. Like, was someone following her . Did she get to the house and someone attack her . Its a dark, dead end, very dark where she parks. Theyre very creepy, what she posted very creepy, yes. Very creepy. Reporter no one had any idea who or what she was referring to. There were so many questions, and sarahs brotherinlaw wanted answers. With the help of some large friends, nick went looking for anyone who was with sarah the night she vanished. He sounded more like a detective than a floor refinisher. Who was she talking to, whod you see her talking to, whod you see her last leave with at the party, who she who she was socializing with. I mean, youre big, strong nick. Did you want to be like, you know what . I want to put this to use and go find out some information here . I did. Were wanting answers, you know, and heres me and five of the biggest guys you could probably imagine, knocking on your door. Was anybody getting you really hot under the collar . No, no. I wasnt getting nothing from anybody. So thats got to be frustrating in itself. Yes. That nobodys standing out. Nobodys standing out. Everybody was really, sincerely telling the truth. Reporter but there was someone in particular nick wanted to question, sarahs exboyfriend. Their twoyear relationship had just ended, and sarahs family was getting suspicious. No one can say what was really going on between them, why they split. But we thought we knew him well enough to you know, we ought he was a great guy, and she loved him. You dont know everybody. You dont know exactly what someone is capable of doing. You dont. Its not easy to just trust people that way. And he didnt show up to work the day after . Yeah. She went missing . Uhh, hmmm. Coming up new questions about the ex. Reporter dj had left a ire there were rumors going around about dj and his family. The mother had threatened her. The detective did say, nick, you really cant trust nobody at this point. Why are you deleting these photos . Because my teeth are yellow. Why dont you use a whitening toothpaste . Im afraid its bad for my teeth. Try crest 3d white. Crest 3d White Diamond strong toothpaste and rinse. Gently whiten. And fortify weak spots. Delicious, freshly brewed coffee cits one dollar. Go to mcdonalds and get 1 any size coffee or 2 small specialty beverage. And, every 6th mccafe beverage is free with our app. Wake up and win the day. If you do not have a Group Reporter three days after single mom sarah goode disappeared from her home on the south shore of long island, scores of searchers continued to comb the woods, post signs and follow leads hoping to locate her. Your baby girl cant wait to give you that great big hug when you come home. Reporter so far detectives were revealing only one clue to the public. The fact that her car was found unoccupied, she loves this car, something is suspicious here and we want to find this girl. Reporter nicole allegrezza, a reporter for the advance, a local long island newspaper was assigned to the story. It was the biggest story that i had gotten yet. And it also hit home because she was about the same age as me, a little bit younger. Did the story just start to take on a life of its own . Yes, it did, because of her age and because of how many friends and how big her family was. A lot of it took to social media really quickly and blew up from there. What was going on social media . What were people saying . Well, there were hashtags created almost immediately. Sarahgoode. Findsarahgoode. Reporter and on instagram her friends were getting worried. I pray n hope they find u soon sarah n u come home to your family n daughter. I really hope shes okay. Come home baby girl. There were postings on where they were going for searches, who was going for searches, how many people were searching. Everybody was looking for sarah. Reporter and nicole says during the searches, the gossip mill was buzzing with rumors about sarahs recent breakup with her longterm boyfriend. His name was dj. There were a whole bunch of rumors going around about dj and and that things were not going well in their relationship and that they had just broken up, i think, ten days they said before she went missing. Reporter so nicole was a bit taken aback when she spotted the exboyfriend while she was out covering the story. She saw him in a crowd of searchers. As a reporter, i felt like i had to talk to him once i knew who he was. But i also was a little cautious to go near him because i was, like, what if he actually had an involvement in this . Reporter investigators, who were working around the clock in hopes of finding sarah alive, heard about the exboyfriend. Did he need to be looked at . I think everybody should be looked at. Because when you dont know what happened, you cant exclude anybody. Reporter there was an anonymous call on the Crime Stoppers tipline. Detectives learned a strange and disturbing story about the exboyfriend, dj, and his mother. Dj had left a threatening a voicemail. Uhhuh, yes. The message that dj left in the voicemail wasnt physically threatening bodily harm to sarah. It was more, take that post down, bitch. Reporter that post, albertson says, was a message sarah put on her Facebook Page insulting dj and a member of his family. She says the message upset djs mother so much that the mother called sarah and threatened to kill her. So sarah called 911. What is her complaint in the call . What or what is her concern . I think her concern in the call was just to make a report. And really, the report she was looking to make was that the mother had threatened her about this post. Reporter the prosecutor thought this might explain one of sarahs strange tweets. The one she posted just four days before she went missing. Getting threatened for days now. Is that the new thing to do . The tweet was clearly associated with the phone call from the ex boyfriend about, take the post down, and put the post up. Reporter but she wasnt sure what to make of the other one. Sooo, you know i live on a dead end. I see you creepin. obviously her and dj had broken up. I dont really know what the tweet was about. Reporter detectives questioned the exboyfriend dj and took his prints. And continued their investigation. All right. Lets go. Reporter sarahs family also kept digging. At first, her brotherinlaw nick didnt think dj had anything to do with sarahs disappearance. After all he was one of the first people to volunteer in the search. He was there from day one when sarah went missing. I mean, immediately came to my house. I was getting a bunch of friends together and we were going to go ow looking for sarah. Reporter that was until. Nick heard about djs angry words on sarahs voicemail. Once we found out, he kinda stood away. The detectives really didnt want us talking to him information . At that point i really couldnt rule out dj. The detective did say to me, nick, you really cant trust nobody at this point right now. So maybe you want to just leave him alone. What did you think when he said that to you . You know, a lot of things. You know . A lot of bad things, i guess you could say. You know, hurting himwise. Reporter but he followed the detectives request and stayed away from the exboyfriend, for the time being. Nick and the rest of sarahs family had others to question. Anyone who was with sarah the night she disappeared was on their radar. They threw me up against the car and started screaming at me and all that. Really . Yeah. They were blaming anybody who was there that night. 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I wanti did my ancestrydna and where i came from. And i couldnt wait to get my pie chart. The most shocking result was that im 26 native american. I had no idea. Just to know this is what im made of, this is where my ancestors came from. And i absolutely want to know more about my native american heritage. Its opened up a whole new world for me. Discover the story only your dna can tell. Order your kit now at ancestrydna. Com. Sarah goode had now been missing for four days and her family was doing Everything Possible to find her and then some. We just stayed up all night going over the same things over and over again. Talking amongst ourselves. Like, what can we do tomorrow. You guys are all in the dark, right, about this investigation . Thats why we had to do everything ourselves. Thats why you decided to start investigating . Right. Yeah. Reporter and as for sarahs brotherinlaw nick, police were worried he might be taking things too far. I get called back into the precinct. They tell me, you got to calm down. Youre going to hurt somebody. Reporter but nick wasnt ready to back down. As tears were rolling down my eyes, i said, you know, if i find the person that hurt her or harmed her in any which way, i will bring him to you. Almost like nick the bounty hunter. Yeah. Yes, yes. And they knew i wasnt playing. They knew i was really serious at that point. Think you couldve brought that person in alive . I dont. At that time . No. Reporter he was determined to get answers. His mission was to find anyone who might know where to find sarah. That included sarahs childhood friend jason flores and her new friend, brandon allen. All three of them had been at brandons house watching a movie the night she disappeared. Luckily for brandon, the police got to him first. Detectives called him in the middle of the night. He came down to the Police Station voluntarily, i think on that sunday night. Brandon, was questioned by the police for hours. Any red flags with him . I dont think so, really early on. I mean, he he didnt have that much contact with sarah. He didnt have that deeper relationship with her. Reporter brandon shared his story with us. He says all he wanted to do was help find sarah. At that point im thinking, all right. Theres something wrong here. We got to go and help as much as we can just figure out where she is. What kinda questions where they asking you . Whens the last time you seen sarah . Whens the last time you talked to her . And what were you telling them . Whatever they wanted to know. Whats their tone . Aggressive. Did you start to get a little worried . Like do they think i know where she is . Yeah. At some point i did feel like i had to convince them. Reporter detectives also asked him to give a dna sample and Something Else he didnt understand at the time, handprints. He agreed to both. Did you have anything to do with sarahs disappearance . No. Reporter brandon says he had only met sarah a few weeks earlier. He did know her exboyfriend dj though, and had heard about the breakup. He and dj had gone to high school together. were you friends . We were acquaintances. I would see him around school and outside of school and stuff. He was all right. Was he, kind of known around the school because of yeah his athletics . Yeah. I would say so. Did sarah ever talk about him . No. She didnt really mention him because im pretty sure when she started hanging out with us thats when they first broke up. Reporter a b her exboyfriend or anyone else that night. Instead she looked happy and carefree as she left his house around 1 00 a. M. She goes on home. And thats it . That was the last time ive ever seen her. Reporter the police let brandon go but told him to stay in the area. He left the precinct, he says, and joined the search for sarah. Why did you feel the need to be there . Just because i felt like i had an obligation. Reporter he had no idea his presence would cause such a stir with some members of sarahs family who were also out looking for her. You know, they threw me up against the car and started screaming at me and all that. They didnt know who to blame. So they were blaming anybody who was there that night. They knew that you had been with sarah that night. Yeah. What did you say to them . At that point i was just, like, begging for my life. Like, im sorry. Like, i please dont hurt me. I dont know where she is. You know . Like, let me go. Did you really think they were going to hurt you . Yeah. They were telling me if i didnt tell them where she was they were gonna kill me. Wow. And there were witnesses there who i was with who can back that up. Were you really afraid . Uhhuh. I re traumatized. Reporter but while brandon was saying he had nothing to do with sarahs disappearance, Police Received puzzling information on the crimestoppers tipline. They heard about brandons brother posting this picture on social media. And the brother also mentioned in another post that sarah had been at their house the night she went missing. So brandons brother had posted his bloody knuckles on facebook and said that sarah had been there . Well is that odd . There were there were two different posts on two different days. Reporter the posts, she says, were not related. The picture of the knuckles had nothing to do with sarah. He was not there the night that this occurred. Hes not at the party with these kids. And he wasnt at the house with them watching the hobbit. Reporter detectives chased down more tips and questioned more people. But so far nothing was bringing them closer to finding sarah. So they pressed on. Along with her exboyfd her new friend brandon, detectives were looking at someone else. They asked him to come to the station. He goes from mr. Nice guy to we know you know where she is. Smacking me, choking me, spitting on me. Coming up the last known person with sarah that night. In jail. I was crying myself to sleep. Did you feel like you were enemy number one . Most definitely. With sprints unlimited plan and my amazing iphone 7 unlimited data, talk and text. Plus hd video and 10 gb of mobile hotspot. For people with hearing loss, all for just 22. 50 mo for four lines. Visit sprintrelay. Com. Hdid you get that email i sente wyou. Before you wake up. When life keeps you up. Zzzquil helps you fall asleep in less than 20 minutes. Because sleep is a beautiful thing. As one day passed, then two, then three, four and five still no sign of sarah. For her family, the not knowing was unbearable. I think deep down, you hope, like, if you found her, like, maybe she was still alive. And she was breathing, you might be able to help her. Reporter each night, sarahs sisters, brothers, cousins, her entire extended family piled into one house, comforted by the closeness. We all stayed at my moms house every single night on the floor, couches, kitchen, rooms. We were everybody was there. We didnt en you heard the helicopters. We went back out to search. Oh, yeah, we were out. We were out all hours of the night. If we heard a helicopter, we all jumped in our car to follow it. Or if we heard a police car, we were going. We were going to find it. Reporter they were relentless. Using the hashtag findsarahgoode, they organized a massive search effort covering miles and miles. How grueling was the search . It was horrible. It was bad. It was raining. Some days it was steaming hot. Even it was hot, you were still in layers because you were in woods and you didnt want the ticks all over you. And every day, no answers . No sarah. Reporter family and friends searched places like the Smith Point County Park sarah loved. And the tick infested woods near where her car had been found. For three of her six sisters jennifer, tabitha, and samantha the search was especially difficult. All three of you were pregnant during the search . That must have just added to how hard it was . Probably worse because i know by the end of the day my feet were so swollen, i didnt even want to move off of the couch but i knew i had to because i wanted to find her. You feel sick to your stomach, but you couldnt tell if it was sickness from pregnancy or sickness because youre afraid youre going to find her and shes going to be dead. Reporter besides having to battle the elements and nagging desperation, they couldnt shake another feeling. Paranoia. I didnt know who did it. So even when we were searching i was like, maybe that kid did it, you know, i dont know. And then it could have been somebody right under your nose . Yeah, exactly. I was afraid they were searching with us and that, you know, were staring down people and then even going in the store youre staring at people because you dont know. Maybe you did it. Maybe you took my sister. Where did you put her . Reporter and they werent about to sit back and wait for police to find sarah. In what seemed like parallel investigations, everyone detectives talked to, the family tried to talk to, as well. One person her sisters hadnt been able to reach was sarahs childhood friend, jason flores. He was the one sarah dropped off before going home that night. Since he was the last person known to be with her before she vanished, they called his cell phone. We tried to, but no one ever answered. Did anyone worry that he couldve been involved or know something . Yeah. We dont know how or why but we just thought he was there with her. We just speculated that he had to have something to do with it. Reporter not about to sit around and wait for jasons call, sarahs brotherinlaw nick and his large posse went out looking for him. You couldnt find him . No. Do you think that was on purpose, on jasons part . I think at that point, the word was out that, you know, we were out looking and we were going to do whatever it had to take to get answers. So hiding pretty good. Do you think jason was nervous, worried that you were out looking for him . I would yes, yes. Absolutely. Because he wasnt making himself readily available, did that say anything to you . You have to say to yourself, does he know something . Obviously she was with him. Hes got to know something. Reporter what nick didnt know was the real reason jason was mia. He was behind bars. Detectives had brought him in for questioning and discovered he had an unrelated harassment warrant, so they were able to detain him. Two days jason was with investigators . Yes. He spent a significant amount of time with 6th precinct detectives. Did they feel, like, hey, if you know we have to find sarah uhhuh. If you know something, tell us. Oh, absolutely. Hes the last person that she drops off. So, you know, at this point, you have to look at these people very seriously. And you have to make sure that theyre telling you the truth. Reporter prosecutor albertson says jasons story was consistent, and he was adamant that he had no idea where sarah was. Did they take his dna as well . They did. He consented. And he gave them his handprints. Reporter again handprints, not your typical Police Request in a missing persons case. The Reason Police were collecting them would soon become clear. Jason also agreed to turn over the clothes he was wearing the night sarah went missing. His encounter with police all seemed very cooperative. Everything is not what it seems. Reporter but when jason flores sat down to speak to us, he says his visit with detectives at the 6th precinct was like a scene out of a bad cop film. The detectives call me. And i willingly went there, obviously. Because how would i not go . You know what i mean . To the Police Department . Yeah. So we get there, this and that. He goes from mr. Nice guy to we know you know where she is. Smacking me. Choking me. Spitting on me. Wow. And, i was scared. Anything, they still had me, like thinking in my head, like, what the [ bleep ] is going on right now . I didnt get no phone call, no one read me my rights. What were they asking you . What kind of questions . It went from how do you know sarah to where the [ bleep ] is she . You [ bleep ] little [ bleep ]. We know you know where she is. Yeah, you were in Eagle Estates . Where the [ bleep ] were last night . Like just ripping my mind apart. Reporter and he says it didnt get easier when he was left alone in the jail cell. Make me go crazy and cry in the cell all night. You actually were crying . Yeah. I was crying myself to sleep. On a roll of toilet paper that was my pillow. What were you thinking about, as far as sarah . I was worried. I was concerned. Because she had a lot to lose. Beautiful baby, beautiful family. Nice job. Good career going for herself. Did you have anything to do with sarahs disappearance . Not one bit. Reporter after two days they let him go but warned him to stay close. Did you feel like when you were walking out of that Police Department that they werent done with you . That they still felt like oh, i knew. I knew they werent. How many times did they come and talk to you 30 plus. Reporter the police declined to comment on jasons claims of how he was treated by detectives. As for sarahs family, they had their own suspicions. Her family was convinced it was me. They were . Yeah. How did you know that . The cops made it seem like that. Did you feel like you were enemy number one . Most definitely. I felt so targeted. And it wasnt a good feeling. Reporter sarahs family and friends were becoming more and more desperate. 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Reporter sarah had left a trail of cyber clues. And her best friend Allaura Cicero was determined to follow them. What was it that made you decide i need to do something more here than just search . There were so many like, i felt like i just had to find stuff out. Reporter and she had an idea of where to start. Turns out sarah was on allauras family cell phone plan. That meant allaura had access to sarahs phone records. So she pulled them up on her cell. What did you find . Anything that jumped out at you . Just random numbers that ive never seen before the same numbers over and over again. Like, back and forth. Did you start calling any of the numbers . I did. And . What kind of response were you getting when you would call . Last we seen her was at the party. Thats about it. Nobody knew anything. Reporter as allaura scrolled through sarahs call log, there was one number that caught her attention. It was a number that kept reoccurring. So we wanted to figure out who it was, you know. So we called and then who answered . Dante. Just the same response as everyone else. I dont know where she is. Havent seen her. Reporter dante taylor was a friend of jason flores and was part of the group sarah was hanging out with that friday night. His name wasnt familiar to her, but alluaras boyfriend had heard of him. My boyfriend was like, oh, i think thatshe block. So thats when we realized that that was the neighbor. Did your boyfriends family want to keep an eye on dante . I guess we were looking out for him. Looking out for everyone, you know. Its just like, when youre in a situation like that, every little thing that happens, youre paying extra attention to at this point. Reporter her boyfriends mother, dehlia mckernan, heard about sarahs connection to dante, so she decided to pay extra attention to him. He lived with his mom, a few houses away. What kind of things were you seeing . Anything suspicious . You know, at the time, i wouldnt know if it was suspicious. Reporter like when she says she thought she saw dante cleaning out his car. Yeah, on two different occasions i noticed that he had all of the he had the car doors open, the trunk open. He was in and out of the vehicle just unusual behavior. You know just wondering, i was wondering what is he doing. D y tell sarahs family what im seeing . Oh, well, i was always in contact with them. Reporter not content to sit back and just watch delia became dantes parttime shadow. You actually followed him . I actually on occasion . I did. I actually did. Because, honestly, i really, really thought he would lead us to sarah. Werent you nervous . I mean, if he really did have something to do with her disappearance, then that would make him very dangerous. Ah, yes. And you know, sometimes you think with your heart. And you really hope for the best. And you think that this if this could lead you to sarah, then yeah. Youre following him where, then . So what kind of places are you ending up . He went to an Auto Parts Store on one occasion. He stopped at a hero shop. He stopped in the parking lot of a shopping center. I just kept thinking, okay. Sooner or later, hes going to make his way back to sarah. Did you feel at all like kind of an amateur private detective . I felt like a mom. And it was extremely personal because of the connection and the history that we have with sarahs family. Reporter delia had known sarah since she was a little girl. Who was the sarah you knew as a child . And beyond . Feisty. Independent. Loving. She had a beautiful smile. She was very familyoriented. She loved, adored her daughter. Reporter when nick, who was running out of patience, heard about dantes number showing up on sarahs call log, he started following him. Nick had heard the Police Wanted to talk to dante, so when he spotted him outside his house, nick called 911. This is about the sarah case, the girl thats been missing. Okay. And that kid dante is on the corner, sitting in his car. Reporter but nick didnt wait for police to arrive. He went right up to dante and confronted him. Im like, get against the car, you blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, every curse word. He seemed pretty like, confident. Like. You mustve wanted so badly to get this man to tell you where she was. Yes. But the police show up . And there was nothing i could do. Reporter as the detectives approached dante, nick continued yelling. Im just cursing at him and, you know vocally, being nasty to him. He wasnt saying nothing back to me. Reporter by this time a whole entourage of sarahs family had shown up. The police respond, more family came down and it got chaotic. Reporter prosecutor albertson says the familys presence wasnt helping matters. With nick and the rest of sarahs family now shouting at dante, the police worried about his safety. Mr. Taylor was ultimately transported to the local precinct. And then subsequently he was interviewed by detectives. Was dante taylor giving them anything . Was he helping . He provided the police he provided the police with his palmprints, his fingerprints. He provided them with a buccal swab. He gave a consent to search his phone. Reporter and when detectives confronted dante with phone records showing he had been talking to sarah the night she went missing, he had an explanation. He was calling, not to speak to sarah, but to speak to jason and that sarah picked up. Reporter and they confirmed dante was telling the truth. Sarahs childhood friend jason had been using sarahs phone that night to communicate with dante because his own phone didnt have cell service. Mr. Taylor was released and he was free to go home while the investigation continued. Did that say something, that he willingly gave his prints and was talking to police . Sure. Its always interesting when somebody gives you their samples. Reporter and he had even been supporting the search. Posting this on twitter. It was a real whodunnit. Did anyone questioned so far know where to find sarah . Her family and friends were about to make a discovery that would finally lead to some answers. Coming up everybodys screaming and yelling and crying on the floor. A dramatic turn in the case. You felt helpless. Its a big pill to swallow. When dateline continues. Ive found a permanent escape from monotony. Together, we are perfectly balanced. Our senses awake. Our hearts racing as one. I know this is sudden, but they say. If you love something set it free. See you around, giulia wecagefree eggs. Ng and we care about amazing taste. Because at hellmanns, were on the side of food. Th. Oh, bakedon alfredo . E. Gotta rinse that. Nope. No way. Nada. Really . Dish issues . Throw it all in. Cascade platinum powers through. Your toughest stuckon food. Nice. Cascade. Never waver. Because going around is rarely ever as enjoyable. Ugh. And your soul, youre saying to yourself this is not normal. Her family wanted answers. We just started searching. We were our own investigators. Under scrutiny, her she was with that night. Did you feel like you were enemy number one . Most definitely. Where was she . A break in the case was coming. You cant ask for better evidence than your bad guys print in blood. You just wanted to rip his heart out of him. Here again is andrea. Six days and still no sign of sarah goode. Her brotherin law nick had run out of people to question. So he did what many others do when they start to lose hope. He went to church. I get on my hands and knees and i say, you know what, lord . You could not give me anything else in this lifetime. Let me bring her home, you know. I want to find her. Reporter later that day, nick met up with a search party. By now he and the rest of the family had exhausted every possible lead. So they decided to retrace their steps and went back to the woods not far from where sarahs car had been found. I park. I get about a halfablock over. I get a phone call. They think they see a body in the woods. So we all start running and now theres i couldnt tell you maybe 15, 20, 30 people at the end of the woods. And the smell was really bad. Then you knew it was a body. Reporter nick and sarahs brother frankie took a closer look. You know everybodys screaming and yelling and crying on the floor. Was something telling you it was her . The sweater, it was a total indication. So me and frankie look at each other and say, were going to tell them its not her. Why . We still wanted hope that she was alive. Nick and frankie left the woods. And later ran into one of sarahs sisters. And i just remember screaming at him like, like, you have to tell me if its her or not. And i just remember my brother was like, its not her. And he just kept walking. Like, they just didnt want to talk about it. Did you believe him . I didnt believe him. I know it was her. Reporter sarahs family and friends had never stopped looking. Their tireless efforts had finally paid off. They had found sarahs body. Any last bits of hope were gone. One of the searchers called 911. When sarahs sister tabitha heard the sirens it became all too real. There was like a white noise, like, you just felt go through your body, that you knew something whether it was sarah or something of sarahs, it was found. How do you get that official confirmation that it really was her . They made us all go back to my moms house because it was around the block. He just stood us all in a circle and just said that they believe it was sarah. B t yeah. They wouldnt say it really was her. Reporter as chief of the homicide unit for the Suffolk County d. A. s office, Janet Albertson headed straight to the scene. Unfortunately, you know her body had decomposed a significant amount in that short sixday period. Its just sad. You know youre just standing over this what was clearly six days before, a beautiful, young girl. And what you had left was a horror. Reporter albertson says she didnt need to wait for test results. She knew it was sarah. She recognized her clothes from these pictures. Did the shirt match the photos . Yeah. And when the medical examiner removed the garments and she laid them out on the gurney to be photographed, you could visualize each of the tank tops including the owl shirt and the pink sweatshirt. Reporter the same crowds o family and friends who had searched for sarah had now come to say farewell. Nick was back at church. This time for sarahs funeral. How is everyone handling the news that this part of everything has now very tragically and sadly come to an end . It just really you know, a punch in the face. Its just youre mad almost. Youre mad at yourself almost, you know . Because you couldnt do like, you felt helpless. And youve always been sarahs protector. Yes. Thats how i felt. Like i failed. And you were the last member of her family to say goodbye. Yes. Its a big pill to swallow you helped her get ready. For her night out. And i painted her nails. Yes. Yev you should always tell your loved ones you love them. You really dont know. Reporter his deep sorrow was clouded by anger and suspicion. Now that the search for sarah was over, it was time to find her killer. So far detectives had made no arrests, but nick had his eye on someone. He was the only one. That i just wanted to rip his heart out of him. Coming up thats a big deal . Tremendous deal. A telltale piece of evidence. Its almost like it was the killers calling card. It was his signature. Ting at. At olive garden. 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Sarah goodes family and friends walked the beach in mastic, new york, to say their final goodbyes at a place that had always brought her such joy. But as they tossed flowers into the ocean they felt no peace. Weeks had gone by with no word on who killed sarah. Youre trying to grieve the loss of your sister and theres a realization that theres a killer on the loose . We werent told anything, basically. We were just told that they were looking into people and they have people in mind. Yeah, i think we called found somebody or if they were questioning more people and we just got the runaround. Thats got to put the whole community on edge . Uhhuh. Reporter what the family didnt know was police were getting closer to finding her killer. And now sarahs body gave investigators more clues. They could tell it was a brutal murder. She had been stabbed more than 40 times. This young lady has six Sharp Force Injuries to her forehead, a broken nose, a a stab wound that went through and through the front to the back of her shoulder. Shes a got a stab wound into the clavicle. Shes got two stab wounds to her lower leg. Reporter the prosecutor had a theory as to what started this vicious attack. The killer wanted something from her she didnt want to give hup. And he was pulling her towards him. Reporter albertson believes sarah had resisted a sexual advance, so her attacker raped her before stabbing her to death. Its very clear when you looked at it that he landed on her from behind, pinned her down, and inflicted those injuries. Because she had bruising on her legs, front and back, inside the right and left thigh that were inflicted while she was alive. Reporter semen was found in sarahs body and leaves and twigs had been stuffed between her legs in an attempt, the prosecutor surmised, to cover up dna. This is brute force. This is an animal. Reporter and when they looked at the forensic evidence, the Prosecutor Says it was clear the struggle began inside sarahs bmw. There was a significant amount of blood and a large clump of her hair in the doorjam. Its a frightening discovery, finding hair and blood. It is. And the amount of hair that was out hanging out of that door jam was significant. Reporter sarahs bmw had been towed to the Police Departments impound yard where Forensic Experts went to work. They spent quite a long amount of time going over that car. Reporter besides blood and hair, Something Else caught their attention. They noticed, almost immediately on the hood of her bmw was redbrown staining reporter karen oswald, a fingerprint expert, worked the case. She says once investigators visually inspected the staining on the hood, they dusted it for prints. There were a few handprints that were developed on the hood. And were you able to get prints off of them was it . Was it usable handprint . They werent usable the way they were with just the white fingerprint powder. There werent enough characteristics to compare it to somebody else. Reporter then they did a second test using a chemical called amido black. And this time, there was enough detail. One of the handprints was useable for comparison. And the test told them Something Else. So if theres blood on this palm print its going to now show up with this chemical . Hopefully, yes. And what happened when you put the chemical on it . It did develop. So the palm print turned blue . Yes. Blue. Which means that there was very likely blood in that palm print. Correct. And thats a big deal. Its a tremendous deal. Reporter while oswald and her team examined the prints, other investigators tested the the blood came back to sarah goode. Reporter oswald believed the killer had attacked sarah, got her blood on his hands and then carelessly left his prints. So thats why detectives had been gathering handprints from every potential suspect. The Prosecutor Says they knew if they could find a match, they could likely solve this crime. Its almost like it was the killers calling card. It was his signature. Reporter the print specialist was able to compare that bloody signature with those of potential suspects detectives sent her way. You dont always know homicides level of interest in somebody. Youre going to compare these prints to anybody they ask. Reporter and one by one she checked for possible matches helping police cross names of their list, like sarahs exboyfriend, dj. His prints did not match. Neither did brandon allens. It was his house sarah had been at that night. He says once he was cleared, differently. They just wanted to know what we knew. You could feel that. Yeah. Theyre not really looking at me. They just want me to help. Uhhuh. Reporter and someone police had kept in jail for two days, the last known person to see sarah alive, jason flores was also cleared by his palm print. And they come to my house and tell me. Who came . The detectives . Yeah, because they new what i went through and they knew like, i mean, this wasnt easy for anyone to gohrough. Especially someone youre accusing of it. I just thinking, like, wow, i just really feel sarah, like, with me right now. Reporter as oswald crosschecked palm prints, Delia Mckernan had been keeping a close eye on her neighbor dante taylor. Remember, hed been with the group sarah was hanging out with that fateful night and his cell number showed up on sarahs phone records. Were you glued to your window . Absolutely. As crazy as that might sound, yes. Reporter even though dante had been questioned by detectives and let go, continued to watch him. Using her high powered binoculars, she kept an eye on his house. Were you looking for every little everything. Anything you could see . Everything. Even if it was an article of sarahs clothing, or, perhaps a womans bag, or something that was out of character for him. Reporter and sure enough one thing caught her attention. She watched as dante tried to hide his car, at least thats what it looked like to her. At one point, he actually put garbage pails behind his vehicle and kind of thought that that would help conceal it. Reporter and then one night, coming home from dinner, delia says her street was blocked off a police flatbed was towing away dantes car. We were unable to access my street because the tow truck had was blocking it. And also, the officers were not allowing anyone. Even if you lived here, they werent allowing anyone down the street. We thought, at that point, okay. This is really serious. Like, this is this could be it. Reporter but weeks passed police didnt arrest anyone. Meanwhile, from the time sarah had gone missing, dante had been hanging out with brandon and jason. Theyd all been friends for years. What kind of guy was he . He was definitely a ladies man. He was very jealous. He was a jealous type of man. Did the ladies like him . Yeah. I guess it was his eyes. Thats what i always heard, was that they liked his eyes. And did he like the attention from women . Yeah. He liked to be the center of attention all the time. Anywhere we were he would try to be on the spotlight. Reporter and brandon says dante was trying to make something of his life. Why did he want to go into the marines . I dont know. Probably just like anybody else though. Serve their country. Reporter but dante dropped out not long after basic training and had recently returned home. And while sarah was missing, brandon says dante seemed off. Its hard to explain. You know, you would have to see for yourself. You know . Like, being around him and getting vibes. It just wasnt right. Something wasnt right. Talk about those vibes. Creepy. Like, like, hell just stand there and just stare at you. Did that make you uncomfortable . I would just look away. But yet you all kept hanging out with him . Yeah. Reporter and jason thought maybe dantes short stint in the marines had changed him. We were actually good friends at one point. And then he went away. Came back and then he was just weird. Reporter jason remembers a weird incident one day when they were at a barbecue not long after sarah went missing. Dante got into an argument with another one of their friends and pulled out a shotgun. So dante popped his truck and started pointing the gun at him. And then brandon ran up to dante and pushed him back with the gun. And dante put the gun back in his trunk and that was that like. What did you think when he pulled out a gun . I was just on the roof, like, im staying over here. Im not going near that gun. Yes. Reporter to his friends, dantes behavior seemed erratic, but there was Something Else to consider. Just as jason, brandon and the exboyfriend had done, dante willingly gave his handprints. If his prints had matched wouldnt police have arrested him . There was more to this story, so much more. Coming up if you follow it, its amazing. A deep dive into sarahs cell phone records reveals an earlymorning rendezvous. You see sarah is home and all hell breaks loose from there. When dateline continues. Bu. We all have the same answer. Watch me. Thank you. With 9 lobster dishes. Est is back try succulent new lobster mix match or see how sweet a lobster lovers dream can be. Theres something for everyone and everyones invited. So come in soon. Moms know their kids need love, encouragement and milk. With 8 grams of natural protein, and 8 other nutrients to provide balanced nutrition. Moms know kids grow strong when they milk life. For years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. But for many businesses, its out of reach. Why promise something you cant deliver . 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Reporter Lawrence Opisso, an assistant District Attorney with the Suffolk County d. A. s office, worked the case. And jason texts her, are you home . Are you home safe . And she says, yes. And all hell broke loose from there. Reporter he says after that text, sarah got a call from someone else. Somebody is speaking to her and theres conversations going back and forth. Reporter when detectives tracked the cell phone movements, they could see whoever was talking to sarah started off in mastic, new york. Then traveled about ten miles north to where sarah was living near Eagle Estates. Shes home. But we see this phone number, this cell instrument with this phone number move very deliberately right up to sarah goodes home, where the phones come together. Reporter once the cell phone pinged near sarahs house all phone communication stopped. Prosecutors believe thats when sarah and her caller started communicating in person. She receives a call from a young man and at 1 30 in the morning, you know, she went out to meet him. Reporter albertson theorized sarah, who was 21 and a single mom, wanted to make the most of this rare night out. So when she got an offer to keep the party going, she took it. I think her decision was just kind of naive and foolish. And unfortunately, you know, it turned out to be fatal. Reporter so who was this person sarah met up with on the night she was murdered . Police traced the number. It ultimately was identified to dante taylor. Reporter 19yearold dante taylor, the handsome marine corps dropout. When police had questioned him, back when sarah was missing, he told them he and sarah never got together after the group split up that night. He maintained that he asked her to hang out and that she said, no, she wasnt going to hang out. And he was confronted with phone records and cell tower information that said otherwise. And, you know, he basically said those records must be wrong. So the records are not wrong. You know, people are liars. Records arent. Reporter and even though sarah and dante were part of the group hanging out together the night she went missing, their mutual friend jason flores says the two barely interacted. He didnt make any comment, oh, shes cute, or any he came up to her car and we were sitting in her car. Reporter he says the three of them had a short conversation. And then he walked away. And that was the only thing. Reporter the family had also been suspicious of dante. When they called him while looking for sarah. We talked to him twice. Once at night, when we first started. And then in the morning. I think he just switched that either he did or didnt see her. I dont remember. Reporter he might not have gotten his story straight . Yeah. Reporter police already had cell records linking dante to sarah. So what about his palm print . Karen oswald remembers when dante came in to give his prints. He was a regular guy. He was polite, helpful. He was a nice guy. When someone acts like that do you think, oh, it probably wasnt him. I dont make a determination on whether i think it was them or not. Ive seen enough people who have done really bad things, and to your face theyre nice, theyre polite, theyre respectful. But demeanors change. Reporter oswald carefully compared the ridges from the bloody palm print to dantes. Finally a hit. It matched to dante taylor. Reporter how did that feel to make that match . That now youve potentially caught the killer. In one instance it feels great because you always want to be part of that team that gives the evidence that catches somebody whos done something this awful. But the reality is you never actually want to work a case like this. You never want to hear the story of what happened to sarah. You immediately think, you know, she met this guy at a party. That could have been me or any of my friends or my sister. Reporter but even with the palm print and the cell phone records all pointing to dante as sarahs Killer Police didnt arrest him. There was a problem and a brand new lead. Coming up we received information that there might be another victim out there. Another victim . He had a knife and he had it at my throat. He just kept saying ill kill you. Difference in network reliability. Can you hear that . vo get unlimited plus get hd video and 10 gbs of mobile hotspot. 22. 50 per line for four lines. Thats 50 off for people with hearing loss, verizon and at t rates. Visit sprintrelay. Com. Get 10 off your purchases of 25 or more sonoma for the family. Like 9. 99 boys sonoma tees. Plus, 8. 99 sonoma towels and youll get kohls cash too keep it simple with sonoma only at kohls. They have to be great on the inside and outside. My hygienist said to think of my teeth like an apple. To strengthen both, she said to go pro. 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Reporter that was the time when nick had called police, and when they showed up, they handcuffed dante, brought him to the precinct, questioned him for hours, and got his handprint, but they never read him his rights. Him that he was not under arrest, that he was, in fact, free to go. Reporter but albertson knew there was a strong possibility a judge might not see it that way and could supress dantes palm print, meaning the most damning piece of evidence linking him to sarahs murder would be thrown out. Because police never read him his rights, for now, dante walked free. His neighbor delia continued to spy on him, and one day as a car drove past her, she saw something alarming. He was hiding crouched down in the backseat, and so, i made it a point to slow my vehicle as i passed, and i looked into the vehicle, and thats when i saw dante hiding in the backseat. What did you think of that . I thought, wow, hes going to get away. Hes going to go on the run. Hes going to leave. Did you tell someone immediately . I did. Reporter thats how albertson learned dante was leaving for florida on a oneway ticket. We were grateful for the observations that she made because thats what led us to the one way ticket. Reporter since detectives werent ready to charge him with murder, they couldnt stop him from leaving town. Instead they kept working the case hoping for a plan b, and then we received information that there might be another victim out there. Reporter the information came from sarahs friend jason flores. During one of his many interviews with police, jason told them about another girl who said dante had attacked her. This girl, she messaged me, like, a couple months after me and dante hung out with her. She was like, oh, how can you let him do that to me . I was like, what are you talking about . Shes like, he put a knife to my throat and tried to rape me in the room. You tell the police about that . Yeah, i showed them the messages. I printed them out for them. Reporter the girl was nicole lukas. He just kept saying ill kill you. Dont [bleep] with me. Reporter the incident happened about two years earlier in dantes house. Jason says she told him she was so afraid of dante, she never reported it to police. Now the police went looking for her and what she told them sounded like an eerie echo of what they believed happened to sarah. He kept trying to touch my body, and he opened the zipper to my shorts, and then he had a knife above his bed, and he had it at my throat. He was like waving it around. Reporter nicole shared her story on video with a reporter from newsday, a long island newpaper. And he said that he would kill me, and he said are you scared, and i said no cause i was just trying to like i didnt want to show him fear. And then he got he actually touched my throat with the knife. Reporter nicole says they struggled, he punched her several times and then she panicked and hit him in the face. That was my chance to run cause he was like he was like on his side. He was just in shock that i smacked him. Reporter she escaped and for years tried to forget it ever happened. I didnt want to talk about it. I just wanted it to be left alone, but what happened to sarah goode, i wanted to help them in a way. Reporter nicole was now willing to press charges and detectives hoped her case might give them a second shot at dante taylor. If they could get a warrant to arrest him for attempted rape, they would be able to take his palm prints again. This palmprint could hold the key to this whole case. Correct. Reporter so detectives tracked down people who corroborated nicoles story, and this, the Prosecutor Says, gave police what they needed. Was this kind of like a doover . In a way yes. Reporter now they could arrest dante on the attempted rape charge and use his new palm prints in sarahs case. It helped protect case. It helped protect the integrity of the evidence. How you doi why did you do it, dante . Reporter so more than a month after sarah had been brutally murdered, detectives flew down to florida armed with a warrant and brought her suspected killer back to new york where he was charged with rape and firstdegree murder. Whyd you kill her . Whyd you do it dante . Reporter sarahs brotherinlaw nick heard about the arrest from police. The detectives called at night, very late, and said that they were bringing dante taylor back. He was the one who murdered sarah. What was it like to hear that . A lot of emotions. Just want to get a hold of him really. You know . Just give him to me. Dont even, you know, worry about anything else. The court of nick . Yeah. Yeah. Reporter he wasnt surprised to hear who it was. He was the only one the to him, face to face, like me and you, i felt something that i just wanted to rip his heart out of him. It was just real bad. Reporter sarahs sister lizzy will never forget hearing the news. The detective called me and said that, we arrested him, and then my body just i guess it went into shock, cause just felt like the blood drained out of my body. I dont know why i was freezing cold and then i was sweating, and i didnt know what to do. Reporter the familys rage against dante taylor would slowly simmer during the two years before his trial. And when they finally entered the courtroom, it would take all their strength to keep their anger from boiling over. You had to hold yourself in the seat cause he was right there. If you just picked up your hand every time he walked in, the smirk he had on his face. Want to jump over and deck him. Om claim in court. From the very beginning, you cant trust the police or the District Attorney in this case. And one haunting detail her family never heard. I wanted to jump out of my seat. What will the jurys verdict be . When dateline continues. We do wad to get clean. Mmm, cushiony. And we can use less. 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Yeah, he didnt want them to influence the jurors in case they saw it. Reporter her family complied with the judges order. They sat quietly in the courtroom while the prosecution laut no. You never say its going to be a slam dunk. Reporter prosecutors took the jurors through the timeline of the night of the murder. No detail was too small. They began with sarahs selfie showing off her red nails. Its amazing if you look at the social media in this case and the instagram and the twitter, you can almost see this happening in realtime. Reporter to further bolster the timeline, prosecutor Lawrence Opisso also showed the jury sarahs cell phone records and cell tower data. They illustrated that not only was dante taylor the last person to be with sarah. He had also returned to the scene of the crime. The records tell really a story of a killer who went from his home to her home, and returned there several times in the course of the next few days almost to see what was happening, and how the investigation was developing. Reporter their theory, after dante taylor lured sarah out of into the woods, raped her and stabbed her more than 40 times. The jury saw photos of the blood and hair found in sarahs bmw. And to support the theory of rape, a crime lab expert testified that dantes dna sample was a Perfect Match to the semen found in sarahs body. This was about complete domination of that young lady because she ends up in the woods face down, the way the jury saw her, with her legs slightly splayed out. Shes naked from the waist down. Her upper garments are on but pushed up. And her little black sandals are zippered and strapped to her feet still. Reporter the prosecution painted a portrait of a brutal killer who had carelessly left his calling card. Albertson showed the jury dantes handprint covered in sarahs blood. And there was Something Else investigators had discovered that albertson also believed was irrefutable evidence. One small blood stain. That bloodstain came back to sarah goode. Reporter a fact Janet Albertson ended with in her closing argument. One bloodstain from a dead girl is one bloodstain too many. Reporter nick listened to the testimony. And there was something he found especially hard to hear. He was the one who had lovingly painted sarahs nails right before she went out that night. When janet said to the jury, we have no more of her fingers no more, but we have her fingernails that were painted. And i wanted to jump out of my seat and strangle him. Reporter but according to Defense Attorneys john lewis and debra buxbaum, nicks rage was misplaced. They claimed dante taylor was innocent. Theres no direct evidence that links dante taylor to this crime. I felt like this really was a case of classic tunnel vision where from the get go this seemed to be targeted at d dante taylor. And any information that they came across or that they uncovered during their investigation that didnt point to dante taylor basically got swept aside or kept or got ignored. Reporter his attorneys acknowledged to the jury that sarah and dante did meet. But they said it was simply a sexual encounter between two consenting adults and dante left her unharmed. They called a former medical examiner to the stand who testified there was no physical evidence on sarahs body that proved she had been raped. There is no evidence that that semen was placed there as part of a forcible compulsion. Reporter and then an explosive claim. Lewis told jurors not only had detectives botched the investigation, but he believed they were unethical. You think the police made mistakes from the very beginning. Mistake is being generous. It was no mistake. It was intentional. You believe he was framed b detectives . I believe that the evidence, okay, is questionable. And thats the issue. The issue is i dont know what the truth is. And if you dont know what the truth is, then thats problematic, dont you think . Reporter the defense accused the police and prosecution of withholding information for a year and a half about other possible suspects. Like the crimestoppers tip about sarahs exboyfriends angry words. Why do you think they were withholding all this information from you . Because thats the way they operate. Reporter as for the drop of sarahs blood found in dantes car, lewis questioned how it got there in the first place. I dont think that was competent evidence to begin with based upon fact that four detectives searched that car for over an hour before releasing it back to dante taylor and never fo reporter he says it wasnt until ten days later, when police searched the car again that they found the blood. And that bloody palm print on sarahs car . The defense didnt deny it was dantes print. Instead they disputed whether or not it was actually a bloody print. There were discrepancies in the testing. The first sample from the print came back positive for blood. The second, done more than a year later after the print had been chemically processed, came back negative. Reporter but wasnt it red . Or brown . I dont believe that thats the case. Its going to be hard for the viewers to understand, like, what else could it be . Okay. So nobody nobody owns photoshop . None of your viewers know what photoshop is . Well but now youre accusing the police of changing the color of the photo of the of the im im saying from the very beginning, you cant trust the police or the District Attorney in this case. Thes print. I mean, these are just allegations by you. Im not saying they did or they didnt. Im saying ill never know whether they did or they didnt. And thats the scary part. Reporter police and the prosecution unequivocally deny photoshopping or planting evidence. They say this was all part of the defenses smokescreen. And as for withholding evidence, they say they turned over everything in plenty of time for trial. The defense attorney just kept saying, you cant trust the police. You cant trust the prosecutor. And its really the only argument he made. Reporter after more than four weeks of testimony, the case went to the jury. There was not a seat in the courtroom for deliberation. There were lines of people outside. The familys getting more and more, you know, upset, and anxiety ridden. So its really nervewracking. Reporter three days went by before the jury reached a verdict. Dante taylor was found guilty of rape and firstdegree murder. I felt like sarah was just right here and i could see her and picture her saying, we got this piece of [ bleep ]. Is this closure . I mean whats the emotion . I wouldnt say closure. Shes not coming back. Its never going to bring her back so but we got him. Reporter family and friends poured out of the courtroom and gathered outside to show jurors their gratitude. Then they visited sarahs grave as if to let her know justice had finally been served. The ways of truth and love have always won. Stand up. Reporter a month later, in front of a packed courtroom, dante went before the judge to hear his sentence. Dante taylor, for your conviction for murder in the first degree on count one your sentence is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Your punishment will be the maximum, the only appropriate punishment for the evil man that did this. You may make chalk marks on the cell block and your walls in the cage in which you live, and they will have no significance. You may circle dates on the calendar but they will mean nothing because there is no date for you to get out. Reporter dante is appealing his conviction. Since dante received the maximum sentence, the d. A. s office decided to drop the attempted rape charge. For sarahs family, the judges words were exactly what they wanted to hear. It was nice to know that hes on our side. He wasnt on his side. And he was emotional, too. You could when he started reading what he was going to say, he was trying to hold back tears. You could tell. Reporter sarahs family is grateful her killer received the maximum penalty. But his punishment is only a small comfort. Sarahs death has left a giant hole in the fabric of this tight knit family, one they say that i would trade places with her in a heartbeat if it meant that she could come back. We were supposed to be her protector. I always said that the older ones were supposed to go first, not the younger ones. What you just said is something that a parent would say. She was like our baby. She was our baby sister. Cause i was older than her you know, try to protect her anyway that we could. You know all, everybody. Do it for each other. Reporter and now theyve focused their attention on sarahs baby. Her daughter jocelyn is being raised by their mother, but like everything else, its really a family affair. We find comfort going to moms house when jocelyn is there and, you know, her spirit is just like sarahs. So its like sarah growing up i believe sarah, you know. Left us this gift. Shes our other little angel that was given to us from sarah so her spirit can live on. Give me a kiss. Thank you. Can i have another kiss . Thank you. Thats all for this edition of dateline. Well see you again next friday at 9 00 and of course ill see you each night for nbc nightly news. Im lester holt. For all of us at nbc news, good night