Juju Chang

He reaches for the tissue box in front of him, removes his glasses, and wipes his eyes.

Doyle asks Michael about Liam.

If he ever reached out when Sarah was missing.

Did he ever call or check in?

Did he ever ask what he could do to help find his daughter?

Michael says no.

It's the first and only time Michael addresses Liam.

He points directly at him over the stand, and Liam just stares down at the defendant's table.

When he's dismissed, Michael doesn't return to his seat in the audience.

He heads straight to the door and leaves the courtroom as people in the audience wipe their eyes.

The story of what might have happened to Sarah Stern is coming together for the jury.

But both sides have yet to present their star witnesses.

For the prosecution, Liam's former friend Anthony Curry, who went undercover to record him talking about Sarah's death.

And the defense?

An eyewitness who says he saw Sarah alive the morning after she was reported missing.

A couple of days after Michael Stern gives his testimony, the prosecution calls Anthony Curry to the stand.

Filmmaker, Jersey Shore native, and Liam's old friend, the one who got him to talk about murdering Sarah Stern on tape.

In a lot of trials, Preston, the accomplice, would be the star witness, the main attraction.

But in this case, he's sharing the spotlight.

Because not only will prosecutors have Anthony tell the court what Liam did, his testimony will allow them to play a recording of Liam describing in his own words what he did to Sarah.