SOLVED, No Body: The Case Of Sarah Stern
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What happened to Sarah Stern?
Hey guys, my name is Rachel and welcome back to my channel. For today's video, I am going to be doing a solved case that was suggested to me a few weeks ago. Now, when this case was first suggested to me, I didn't actually realize just how ridiculous this situation was until I got pretty deep into my research. I physically could not believe what these awful and disgusting people did to this beautiful young woman for absolutely no reason at all. So, with that being said, let's just get right into today's case. Today, we are going to be discussing the case of Sarah Stern. Sarah Stern was only 19 years old when she was killed on December 2, 2016. She was from Neptune City, New Jersey, and she was the only child of her parents, Michael Stern, and her mother, whose name I didn't see mentioned, but had actually passed away from cancer just a few years before Sarah died. Sarah was described as being smart, artistic, loving, and kind.
Her friends said that Sarah would always encourage them to be unapologetically yourself and recklessly optimistic. She absolutely loved drawing and painting and was really good at it too. These are some of her drawings that embody her skill for being an artist. One of Sarah's friends recounted that every single year they would count down to July 11th because she always loved getting the free slurpees at 7-11. Her teacher said she was always pulling these little pranks in class and had such potential as an artist. She had always just had this very upbeat personality and was always able to lift up her friends and those around her. Now, in high school, Sarah was really close friends with two guys named Preston Taylor and Liam McAsney. In fact, they were all such good friends that if you saw one of them walking down the hallway, you saw the other two. They ate lunch together. They would put their stuff in each other's lockers and knew each other's locker combinations and knew each other's class schedules.
Who were Sarah's close friends?
Preston and Sarah even went to their senior prom together and Liam and Preston had been roommates for some time. Now, there was no romantic relationship between any of them. Preston and her just went to prom as friends and as far as I have seen, their wasn't any sort of jealousy going around or unreciprocated feelings or anything like that. Now, like I mentioned earlier, Sarah's mother unfortunately died of cancer four years before Sarah died. Well, her mother had actually left behind a shoebox filled with about $25,000 for Sarah, which had actually been stashed in their second home in Avon-by-the-Sea in New Jersey. But her father Michael did not actually know about this money that her mother had left behind.
When Sarah initially got this money, she had used it to take a few trips to Florida and to Canada and had paid for her dog to get surgery and then bought a new TV for her grandmother. However, her aunt convinced her to put $5,200 into her checking account and then stash the rest of the cash in a safe deposit box in Bradley Beach. Of course, Sarah had told her two closest friends in the whole world about this money that she had gotten. At first, after she told them, they seemed like very supportive friends. Sarah had always had this dream of moving to Canada and pursuing an art career there. And she actually did have plans set in to go through with it. Her family knew about her plans and so did all of her friends.
What was the plan to get Sarah's money?
At the time though, it was put on hold because of her grandmother who was 96 years old at the time and there was just sort of a lot going on with her family. But soon, Preston and Liam decided that they wanted to get their hands on this money. They had hashed this whole plan together that they were going to rob Sarah's house and take all of her money. They had gone over to her house one night with a pack of Mike's Hard Lemonade and tried to get her drunk enough so that they could just take her money, but it was at this point that she told them that most of the money was actually in that safe deposit box, so there was no way that they could have gotten their hands on the money at that time.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What happened to Sarah Stern?
0:00–2:15
2
Who were Sarah's close friends?
2:15–3:54
3
What was the plan to get Sarah's money?
3:54–5:58
4
What were the circumstances surrounding Sarah's disappearance?
5:58–12:18
5
What evidence pointed to Liam's involvement?
12:18–15:25
6
How did the police find out the truth?
15:25–15:31
7
What was Liam's confession about the crime?
15:31–37:04