sister lizzy says she knew something was terribly wrong when sarah didn t respond to messages that her daughter was asking for her jocelyn s like, oh, i miss my mom. i said, oh we ll cal her. and we called her and it went to voice mail. that s whe i i just thought somethin was not right because she woul always answer, especially if you mentioned jocelyn. it s heartbreaking when you think that a little girl wants to talk to her mom and you can t find her uh-huh. when sarah still hadn t appeared by sunday afternoon lizzy went to the police station to report her missing. i said, i need to report her now. that report set things in motion. prosecutor janet albertson, since retired, wa brought on to this missing person s case from the beginning, learned that on the day sarah was a no-show at the party, a woman had spotted a blue bmw abandoned next to a wooded lot a police officer ha responded to that location thinking that maybe this is
amount of time going over that car. besides blood and hair, something else caught thei attention. they noticed almost immediately on the hood of her bmw was red-brown staining karen oswald, a fingerprint expert, worked the case. she says once investigator visually inspected the stainin on the hood, they dusted it fo prints there were a few handprints that were developed on the hood and were you able to ge prints off of them? was it usable handprint they weren t usable the way they were with just the whit fingerprint powder. ther weren t enough characteristics to compare it to somebody else then they did a second test using a chemical called amid black. and this time, there wa enough detail. one of th handprints was useable for comparison. and the test tol them something else. so if there s blood on this palm print it s going to now show up with this chemical hopefully, yes. and what happened when yo put the chemical on it it did develop. so the palm print turne
nyquil severe. continuing our story, sarah goode, a young, single mom, wa missing. in your mind, in your heart in your soul, you wanted answers. her ex-boyfriend and thre others that night were under scrutiny did you feel like you wer enemy number one definitely. where was she? a break in the case was coming. you can t ask for bette evidence than the bad guy print and blood. i just wanted to rip hi heart out of him sarah goode disappeared after a night out with friends and her brother-in-law, nick learned more than what the were telling. he soon learne that a party-goer called sarah s phone that evening and
was his house sarah had been a that night. he says once he wa cleared, detectives starte treating him differently they just wanted to kno what we knew you could feel that yeah. they re not really lookin at me. they just want me t help uh-huh. and someone police had kept in jail for two days, the last known person to see sarah alive, jason flores was also cleare by his palm print. and they come to my house and tell me. who came? the detectives? yeah, because they know how much i went through and this wasn t easy for anyone to go through. especially someon you re accusing of it. i jus thinking, like, wow, i jus really feel sarah, like, wit me right now as oswald cross-checked pal prints, delia mckernan had bee keeping a close eye on her neighbor dante taylor. remember, he d been with the group sarah was hanging out with tha fateful night and his cell number showed up on sarah
blue yes. blue which means that there wa very likely blood in that palm print. correct and that s a big deal it s a tremendous deal. while oswald and her team examined the prints, other investigators tested the blood to see who it belonged to. the blood came back to sara goode. oswald believed the kille had attacked sarah, got he blood on his hands and the carelessly left his prints. so that s why detectives had been gathering handprints from ever potential suspect. the prosecutor says they knew if they could find a match, the could likely solve this crime. it s almost like it was the killer s calling card. it was his signature. the print specialist wa able to compare that blood signature with those o potential suspects detective sent her way you don t always know homicide s level of interest i somebody. you re going t compare these prints to anybod they ask and one by one she checke for possible matches helping police cross names off their list, like sarah s