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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Her parents had bought a home there and planned to move in one day, but that never happened. On the outside, the house looked like a charming Victorian. It was white with a wraparound porch and lots of big windows. But inside, it was clear why the family didn't move in. The Avon home was uninhabitable. Detective Nick Catalona visited the house as he was investigating Sarah's disappearance.
The house didn't have any power to it. It didn't look like anybody had been in there for quite a while. The cobwebs were all attacked in the areas of entry. The Stearns had owned a bookstore called Books Unlimited for decades. And Michael Stern told investigators the house was used to store what was left of the business. Like the Stearns' Neptune City house, it was cluttered.
It was pretty much packed capacity with odds and ends items and just storage. There was a detached garage in the back and that was literally packed from floor to ceiling, wall to wall. But based on what investigators say Sarah's aunt told police, when Sarah stopped by the house, she found something of value among all that storage.
Her aunt told police Sarah was looking through a box of photos of her mother, who had passed away when Sarah was just 15, and she discovered something else in the box. Cash. A lot of cash. According to what her aunt told police, Sarah counted $10,000, but believed there might have been twice as much.
There's a lot we're never going to know about this money, like where it all came from or why it was left in a random box in a house used for storage. My grandmother used to keep money in the freezer. Anytime she needed any money, she wouldn't go to the bank. She would go in her freezer and get money out of there. So people do things differently. Why she had a little stash of money, who knows?
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Chapter 2: What led to Sarah's disappearance?
Up until the day she went missing, there was regular activity on her debit card, but then pretty much stopped the day that she went missing. And hasn't been any activity since. But Sarah also had an account at a local branch, Kearney Bank in Bradley Beach. Reporter Jessica Easthope said Sarah had good relationships at the bank.
The manager, Raymond Blochus, was a family friend. The bank staff knew her and she had known Raymond since she was born. And so the bank was somewhere she was often found. She would even stop by when she wasn't interacting with her account at all, just to say hi.
As investigators searched for information that could break open this mystery, they received a tip. On the day of Sarah's disappearance, she went to the bank. Investigators learned that in September 2016, just months before she disappeared, Sarah opened a new account at Kearney Bank, a safety deposit box account.
According to investigators, a review of her bank records showed she accessed the box three times. Once in September, once in November, and once in December, on the last day she was seen. They got search warrants for her safety deposit box and for surveillance footage from the last time she went to the bank. And that's when they went to the bank to search Sarah's box.
the bank kept the safety deposit boxes in a big, shiny metal cabinet. Detective Catalona was there to execute the search warrant. The bank has, it's like a two-keyed system. So the bank maintains the key and the customer has a key. And the box can only be opened with both keys.
That small gold key that had been found in Sarah's car had the number 35 on it, and it was the matching key for the safety deposit box. They inserted their key, I inserted the key that we recovered from Sarah's car, and it unlocked the box. The long beige metal box was pulled from the cabinet and set down on a table. Detective Catalona opened it.
My first thought was, wow, this is a lot of money. This money wasn't in organized stacks of crisp, clean bills, like you see in the movies when someone pulls out a lot of cash. This is old, old currency. And it was in a very bad condition. It was, you know, brittle, some of it was falling apart. Most of them were stuck together. They had a lot of holes in them.
These are the old style, smaller portraits. Current currency has the larger portraits on them. It's like when you go to the store and they hand you an old bill, you're like, wow, that's, you know, I haven't seen this in a while. So it's just, it was old. It's not widely circulated at all. Police believe this was the money Sarah found in the Avon by the sea house, tucked away in a box of photos.
And there was far more than $10,000 of it. Double that, actually. $25,250 in 20s, 50s, and 100s. Catalona noticed that the money was split into a few rough piles. There was a yellow mesh bag that had some money in it. And the money seems to have been separated by amounts with index cards. Some of the index cards had the amount of money that was in it. Some of them didn't.
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Chapter 3: What did Sarah find in the Avon-by-the-Sea house?
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Chapter 4: How did investigators first respond to Sarah's case?
If she had told me that she was going to jump off the bridge, there would have been no way that I could have gone to work that night. Liam says he had a great night, a great work shift. I made a bunch of money. All my tables were good. I had a great time. It definitely... The investigators step outside for 10 minutes, and Liam sits in the room alone.
When they come back in, Detective Weisbrot will get to the thing that they really want to ask. What about the bank?
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Chapter 5: What theories emerged about Sarah's disappearance?
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The other detective doesn't react to this, doesn't confirm or deny that Liam ever mentioned the bank to him. But none of the detectives working on the case documented or even remembered Liam ever bringing up the bank in any of their multiple interviews with him. Did you go to the bank? I was with her. Okay. That's the way back from Taco Bell. And what did she do at the bank? No idea.
I didn't go in. Liam says he stayed in the car. Why did she stop at the bank? What did she tell you she was stopping at the bank for? Something to do with her money. I don't know. She had found money in that one house a few months ago. And she has a lockbox full of money in there. I don't know. She was taking money out, putting money in there. Liam tells detectives it was her mother's money.
And according to him, Sarah thought it could be up to $100,000 in cash. She wasn't sure how much money she found? Yeah. Now, does that make sense to you, that you wouldn't be sure how much money you found? Even as Weisbrot pushes Liam, Liam stays calm. And he doesn't clam up. He keeps responding to the detective's questions.
It seems like he's trying to be helpful, offering whatever information he can. Well, she told me the condition of the wanting was pretty bad. Like it was all stuck together. Well, it was old bills. So that could have been a reason for not knowing. Did you ever see it? No. After ticking through some more questions about the day of Sarah's disappearance, Detective Weisbrot returns to the bank.
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