on the jersey shore. organized searches for sarah stern dwindled as the temperature dropped and gradually the story faded from the new cycle. a 19 year aspiring artist who vanished into thin air. and the authorities were baffled. you got to the point where you thought this was just going nowhere? we were at a standstill. we were at a dead end. with no activity on her social media or her phone, or her bank accounts, and no credible sighting of any sort, the chance that cyrus simply ran away seemed vanishing lee slim. the one thing that we knew and that was she likely didn t leave. so something bad happened to that girl? as we progressed, we began thinking that maybe that was a possibility, absolutely. mike and christine kept looking for any strap of a clue. handing out sirens photo to captains heading out to sea.
business. opening the safety deposit box. they got a search warrant. at which point we had learned what was actually inside. which was? what $25,250 u.s. cash. they were still there when you got? they re correct. and the money was in poor condition. the money was very brittle. and when you would handle the bills, a lot of times they would just deteriorate in your hand. $25,000. a kid who would have that kind. money it s a lot of money. where did this money come from? sara s mother had saved this money for sara. bit by bit, swirled it away? perhaps. and that siren was at the house looking through some of their belongings. and had come across this money. but all of this, a possible decision about leaving quite soon for canada, the found money, all of this was news to mike s turn. did you know about that at all? no. but as he thought about, it said mike, it s hard to make sense. that his late wife would ve
long abandoned army base. it was a chilling tale. mike and christine sat in court and heard every word. that cannot be easy to listen to. no. it s kind of like driving a stake through your heart. it hurt. very deeply, my daughter, my only child, she was my world. and things were not going to get any easier for mike because the defense was about to present an eyewitness with a remarkable claim. there was a girl walking down the street. but not a word of president story could ve been true. coming up i said to my son, i thought that is an awfully good-looking girl. to be walking on the street at 5:00 in the morning. did someone see sir the day after she disappeared?
mike and christine jumped in their car and began the 16 hour drive home. god, i can t imagine what the drive back was like. it was a lot of crying and thinking and talking you don t know? we were getting calls in from the police department asking questions and i said, i don t know. christine drove and mike frantically texted, sarah, what is going on? why is your phone off? call me when you get this message. things happen faster in the small town then a big city. police department, hello! anyone? home and yourself, please. officers go through the stern home. it was empty except for sara s beloved dog, buddy. in his cradle. michael called me that night, 2:30, 3:00 in the morning to tell me that the car was on a bridge. i my thoughts were not good.
the search of the frigid shark river was turning up nothing. as the sunset, it became too cold and dangerous to continue operations and the search was called off for the day. i didn t want to go home. i didn t want to try to pass mike s house. i did not have some kind of closure for him. but mike and christine were still making their way home from florida. we gotta left at 3:30 in the morning we got home at seven on saturday night. christine and mike arrive to a pac house. we just started putting ideas and things that could ve happened. how was he doing at that point? i think he was in shock. yeah. mike headed for the bridge. what did you first find here? we didn t know. yeah? all unknown. by the time we were back, the dive crews and everybody had already left. so it was night, you can t do