This is Deborah Roberts here with another weekly episode of our latest true crime series from 2020 and ABC audio, Bridge of Lies.

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At 4.50 a.m. on December 3rd, 2016, Franny Hines got a call. It was the Belmar Police.

...that they were requesting our water rescue team and our water assets to search for someone who possibly had gone off the Highway 35 bridge.

Franny ran the Belmar First Aid Squad.

By daybreak, he and his crew scrambled boats and divers to search the water under the bridge where

Sarah Stern's Oldsmobile had been found the night before. Other members of his team began to

search along the shore. So by the time the sun came up, we had a full search of all this area here,

basically under the bridge and under all the docks.

And on the outside, we searched all the way out to the Ocean Avenue bridge as well.

So it was a pretty big operation.

Franny spoke to ABC News to give us a sense of the operation.

He took our team out on a small motorboat,

marked rescue in big yellow letters above the windshield.

It was quiet on the river.

Many of the fishing boats were still parked in their dogs.

See that yellow sign is where we think she went over.

Up on the top. From the water, Franny pointed up to a yellow hazard sign right in the middle of the bridge,

before guiding the boat underneath.

So we searched all the way out to the ocean inlet and all the way into the back bay here.

We searched all of it.

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