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, was 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 had responded to that location, thinking that maybe this is a stolen car, the plates were were bent. albertson says the bmw was found less than a mile from sarah s mother s 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 sarah s home and there was nobody there because as we would later learn, they were at the birthday party. around the same time lizzy was at the police station, that officer noticed the abandoned car was still in the same s
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? i ll see you guys tomorrow. i love you. kiss, kiss, kiss. jocelyn, kiss. and very happy. got in the car and left. but nick didn t 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. that s got to be an awful feeling. yes. in your mind and in your heart your soul you re saying to yourself, this is not normal, you know, this is not sarah. coming up. the first clues to the mystery, her car near the woods and her messages on social media. was someone following her? did someone attack her?
so were you thinking about him as you re learning this information? at that point i really couldn t rule out dj. the detective did say to me, nick, you really can t 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 him-wise. but he followed the detective s request and stayed away from the ex-boyfriend, for the time being. nick and the rest of sarah s 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. coming up tears were rolling down my eyes. i says, if i find the person who hurt her, i will bring him to you. pain and rage, a family hellbent on getting answers.
wouldn t let us go to it. they would not let us near it. the police had a job to do, so things got heated. sarah s 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, we re not touching it. is she in there? we re not doing anything until you leave. they were yelling at us, you guys have to leave. but did you say, no, i m not leaving? or did you leave? yeah. we did, but then they threatened they would arrest us. so obviously we don t 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 wasn t going to leave her if she was in there. 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. hope turned to action, and the family got or
and when they looked at the forensic evidence, the prosecutor says it was clear the struggle began inside sarah s bmw. there was a significant amount of blood and a large clump of her hair in the door jam. it s 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. sarah s bmw had been towed to the police department s impound yard where forensic experts went to work. they spent quite a long amount of time going over that car. besides blood and hair, something else caught their 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 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