28-year-old mom of one body found dismembered in car trunk. Did freaky neighbor stalk and kill Sara Zghoul?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The body of a 28-year-old mother is found in two suitcases in the trunk of a BMW. Ultimately a neighbor is arrested. Suspect Jeremiah Johnston kills and dismembers beautiful aspiring model Sara Zghoul. He then uses her cellphone and poses as her to throw police off, according to authorities. Joining Nancy Grace today:Troy Slaten - Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles CaliforniaCloyd Steiger - 36 years Seattle Police Department, 22 years Homicide detective, Author "Seattle's Forgotten Serial Killer-Gary Gene Grant" www.cloydsteiger.comJoe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author of "Blood Beneath My Feet"Caryn Stark NYC Psychologist Levi Page - Investigative reporter CrimeOnline

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0:42.6	Remains of a young mom stuffed in suitcases. It sounds like a horrible movie or some thriller or a work
1:04.7	of fiction, but in fact it is a horror story dreamed up in the mind of a killer. What happened to
1:13.5	28-year-old Sarah Zagul? Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
1:33.0	How does a young mom just disappear into thin air? She's at home one moment with her little boy.
1:40.9	They're in the family home and then suddenly she's gone. What does that do to a child for the rest
1:50.7	of their life? I mean, I know that after my fiance was murdered. Shortly before our wedding,
2:00.4	every day I think my husband or my children could just disappear. I know that's not really going to
2:08.2	happen, but you live with that thought that not only can it happen, it has happened to you.
2:16.4	What does that do to a little boy that was playing at home? Mommy was there and then suddenly she's
2:21.6	gone and he never sees her again. I can also remember September 11, of course, living in New York,
2:31.5	working at court TV and that day and the smell in the air. It's kind of an electrical burning smell.
2:41.8	And for the longest time, no flights could fly over the city of Manhattan, New York City.
2:49.4	So I had a habit of sneaking into the workout room at the top of our apartment building at night
2:57.6	and would exercise in the light of just some security lights. And I remember the first time I saw
3:07.2	a plane go overhead and I was on the truck running on the treadmill and looked up and I immediately
3:14.9	jumped down and took off because it didn't all register. It's something that you live with the
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