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
but turning on his best friend for the sake of some good publicity from the national media? what kind of sense does that make? crazier things have happened. but, as damning as anthony curry s testimony on the stand might sound, it was all only and the prosecution s most devastating witness of all. liam mcatasney, himself. i planned this thing out for like six months. a hushed courtroom, urged the courting with liam talking to anthony in the car parked by the beach. i choke her out, drag her. the word, disturbing doesn t begin to describe. so you just count up just without working? she was like screaming in? here, in anthony s car, liam told the whole sickening story of what he did to sara on december 2nd. they were alone in her house, that afternoon when liam crept up from behind then grabbed her. i pretty much hung her, like
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 from liam. he was with sara. they were at the bank and this is the chance he knew exactly what that meant. he had somehow convinced her to take the money out of the safety deposit box and the plan would move forward that night. okay. did you say anything back? i said to wait until it got daca. preston was strangely emotionalism on the stand as he described the murder of his friend. it happened late that afternoon, he said. liam strangled sir. prosecutors showed the surveillance video of liam leaving the house with a backpack which he said contained some of serious money. and, another video of him arriving at work at that steak house not long afterwards. but liam didn t stay long, a few minutes later, he left. president told the jurors, he was leaving for liam at the house they shared. liam comes to the door and
he s frantic. he said that he had killed sarah that he lost his phone and ultimately told me he needed me. to go over to sara s house to look for his phone and to move serves body. meanwhile, he said, liam went right back to work as if it was in the other day. while he, preston, headed over to sara s house, lined the fence in the backyard, open the back door, he looked for liam s phone but couldn t find it. prosecutors played a tape of president walking detectives through the murder scene. recounting how he moved sarah s body. i opened the door on the right, and find sarah, dead, laying in that back there. what did you do? i picked up by the shoulders and drugged her outback. took her to the bush s along the side fence. pulled her in, there and covered up with some leaves in
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