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do you solemnly swear charged in connection with sarah s murder, two years earlier, preston now took the stand for the process prosecution. the state had given him a deal that dropped the felony murder charge and in exchange president pleaded guilty for six other charges and agreed to testify against his good friend liam. christopher mitchell knew was a prosecutor. sometimes you have to get dirty. sometimes you have to get in the mud and you have to deal with but people who played a major role in committing a crime in order to be able to prove that crime against other. do you know what that cooperation really requires to do? complete honesty. complete honesty, is that what you said? yes. is that what he said? absolutely. and now, in exchange for a reduced sentence, he was about to tell the world what he and liam did to sara stern. president delivered his horrifying story in a cool steady voice. did you know her? i did. were you friends with her? yes, we
Talkies. president testified that the two originally planned to kill sara in november. but while liam was at her house suboptimal to her, he learned her money wasn t there. it was in that safety deposit box, at the bank. the one that detectives later discovered had $25,000 in. you discussed ways around that problem? yeah, liam had conversations with sir. she had been to canada several times. she had been talking about taking troops out there again. liam saw that as an opportunity to convince her to take the money out of the bank. and so, on december 2nd, with mike and christine on vacation in florida, sarah did go to the bank to get some of that money. while she was there, preston testified, he got a message
And been her friend since first grade. he had no criminal record. and preston taylor, also a college student, economics in political science, a friend of sarah since high school. he worked part-time around his class schedule. with the suspects in custody, what a christian bomb and the detectives had to do now, was very difficult. it was at that time that myself, detective westfield, decked of mahoney, met with mike stern at his house and we had to inform him that we now had information of what happened to sara. and there is no easy way to do that. no. but he listened, this man now sentenced to prominence or as they told him his sarah, his only child, had died at the hands of two of her friends. i didn t know what to say. i just remember staring at the table and not knowing what to think. mike stern was heartsick. these protests are driven around, you know they re carpooled carpooled, church, fire department, events. things at the school. suddenly they weren t innocent a
Of the shark river. we had the sheriff s department, there we had divers in the water. plus an aviation unit from state police. we had a call at around 5 am to do a search for someone they believed went off the bridge. we had no idea who it was, the general conception was that someone had jumped. fred hines was an ms and rescue director. we were in there a couple of hours and somebody walked up to me and just said, we re looking for her. i don t know who are looking for and they said sarah stern. which just put a lump in my throat. understandable that because i sarah lived two houses away from the family. her father, michael, is a good friend of mine. and all i could think about was how is he going to feel now? while the water search was underway, cups in ten we re talking to anyone who might know anything. is that they caught a few of.