Hysterical. An entire town banding together to find a beloved teen. This is a huge search. 100s of people came. A lot of people. We had the Sheriffs Department, got divers. This is things you see on tv, not things that happen to you. And then, someone said he spotted her. I looked at her right in the face just like im looking at you right now. That girl is alive. But a secret recording could catch one of the towns own, revealing a sinister scheme. Saras whole deal was he explained he studied her movements. The plan was to take her money. Evil, pure evil. That is never going to be over. There was something there was something wrong on the bridge. It was 2 45 am, december 3rd, 2016. An old town on the jersey shore called neptune city. It was bitter cold. Dark. It was an uber driver who saw the car just sitting there halfway across the bridge. 911, wheres the emergency . Im actually on belmar bridge. Right after heading down in the middle of the bridge, there is a car thats abandoned. Its
we re in a private hill. they couldn t believe these two could ve done this. neither of them had a criminal record. preston taylor, sarah s junior prom date was a quiet 19 year old. his roommate and co-defender, liam mcatasney was also, told a liam with an identical twin brother. was easily recognizable around town. lots of neptune city residents knew him as a waiter at the local state house. they watch both defendants go up. he must of thought an awful lot about those boys. and what they were like when they were in your house when they hung around with sir. yeah, at birthday parties and pool parties and they seemed like they were normal kids. mike, of course, but also the others who had known liam most of his young life were having a very hard time. how to understand. we were struggling with why, if he was such a friend all these years, there has to be something evil about him that we re missing here. like you just don t have no criminal record and go to
school. her friend liam, his twin seamus, preston taylor, president took her to the junior prom, just friends. she also made a different kind of friend. one you wouldn t necessarily expect. after karla s death, mike found christine and fell in love. sarah could see christine was good for her dad and maybe her too. i know how sour felt, i had gone through the same thing she did. my mom passed away when i was young. it wasn t easy at first. no. and maybe that s why sarah so embraced what became a genuine passion. i think making artt made her mentally escape from that and be creative and could create any kind of happiness she wanted to. it was a whole other world for her. yeah. where sara picked up her talent we still don t know. it was a natural thing for her? it seemed natural. what she turned out was it s pretty good stuff. really neat stuff.
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. preston 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 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
just asked is sarah driving an oldsmobile and i said, yeah. going. just like that? yeah. after the call drop, mike called back and got a recount so panicked he phoned a nephew who happen to be a neptune first responder. he called about ten minutes later saying they found sarah s car up on the bridge. she wasn t in it. and then the terror set in. 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.