pm. i ve placed an electronic recording device on anthony curry. anthony had been cast as the lead actor in an elaborate sting. a dangerous ruse grafted to get a mutual friends of his and cyrus turns to implicate himself in her disappearance. hey, how you doing? how are you doing? the detective scripted of phone call to get the friend talking. the teenage filmmaker would pretend he needed money to replace a broken camera. if his body had gone through with his plan to rob sarah, he should be. flush police recorded the call. my camera broke, dog. how that happened? i dropped it on the shoot. it fell into a bucket of blood. damn. yeah, dude. i have no [bleep] cash to pay for anything.
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 much at night. by the next morning, the mama county prosecutor s office was running the missing persons investigation. brian weiss what was the leading detective. we were speaking to friends, family members, there was a house across the street from sarah s has that a video security camera that facing her home. do you see anything on the video? we did. we were able to see her vehicle leave multiple times throughout the day. from those surveillance videos, and their interviews, investigators started to piece together sarah s day. she had carried a bin and a box across the street to her
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
sarah s friends, preston,, shauna liam on a port. we just want to make sure she s okay. body cams picked up their questions. did sarah just take off? are her post covering for her? no one s getting in any trouble here, trust me. we just gotta make sure sarah s all right and if you have any other information, you can throw data so we can go a little further. sara s friend liam confirmed for that she had left a bin at the draper house and that he and i went for lunch together. meanwhile, back at the end, let 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 p
at sarah s house. you should ve left it in your [bleep] pocket. what were you doing? strangling someone. i couldn t find it, dude. still, he bragged to his friends about how clean the. was he not only planned and carried out stairs murder. he also casted himself as a helpful witness in the investigation. i had planned sarah s situation for me to be interrogated by the cops. like, that was the whole part of my plan to make me look not guilty. the point of that whole scheme, he, said was about that money he had taken from sara s house. but there was jackpot prize. the worst part of it i thought that i was 50, ground 100 grand in my pocket. but i didn t even get a quarter of it. so you only got like what seven grand?