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.
i remember the things that she had, on she had this leather bomber jacket and like a fluffy collar and she had high heel shoes on. and i looked at her, right in the face, just like i m looking at you right now. i caught her eye and she caught my eye and all of a sudden she turned away, turned her head down. a construction contractor who lived there for 35 years kept driving. and then we re going over top of the short river bridge on route 35 and there s a car on the side of the road. and i said that is a bad place to get stuck. a few days later, he said he was at a 7/11 and made a startling connection. he saw a poster for a missing woman. it was her. the same woman he had seen walking down the street, sarah stern.
some late that, night president told the jury he and liam propped up sara s body in the passenger seat of her own car and liam drove that car to the returnee five bridge, and he followed that car and then he threw body over the ruling. and they left her car there with the key in the ignition. and and drove home. what did you do when you got to all the story? get, there we both light up a cigarette. we started counting the money. sara s money. the total wasn t $100, 000, not 50, 000, no. the hall for ending syria s young life was less than $10,000. of course, after they arrested preston, the detectives asked what happened to it. did you tell them where the money was? yeah, i told him that it was buried. president testified that he and liam buried the money they stole from sara into small saves. one in the woods in a nearby park. the, other 20 miles away on a
and there s a car on the side of the road. and i, said that is a bad place to get stuck. a few days later, he, said he was at a 7:11 and made a startling connection. he saw a poster for a missing woman. it was her. the same woman he had seen walking down the street, sarah stern. this is what you saw? is this the individual that you saw on december 3rd in the morning? i would ve identified that person asked that person. yes. he told us that seeing sarah s picture, in court, during his testimony gave him a chill. it was eerie when they put that picture up i, said that, it and i couldn t look at it anymore. it was her. he was absolutely certain that who he saw, sometime a little after 5:00 in the morning, hours and hours and hours after the state alleged sir stern was murdered that he