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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Killers Amongst Us: 19-year-old artistic beauty disappears after car found abandoned on bridge. What happened to Sarah Stern? (Part 5)

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

19-year-old Sarah Stern, a New Jersey woman disappears. Police find her abandoned car on a bridge with the keys inside. Did she jump off the bridge, committing suicide? Was she kidnapped? Surveillance video has police honing in on a suspect, but then a phone call turns into a smoking gun.

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0:00.0

Hi guys, Nancy Grace here. Welcome back to Killers Among Us, a production of I Heart Media

0:09.8

and Crime Online.

0:12.8

Sarah Stern, her car, found abandoned late at night on a remote bridge in New Jersey.

0:19.6

What you'll hear in this episode is shocking.

0:25.1

Undercover video comes to light.

0:29.0

With us again, Sarah's dad, Michael Stern, who has fought so much pain to get through

0:37.4

this investigation.

0:39.3

Also with me, local reporter on the story from the get-go-Alex and pully-ello.

0:44.8

With me also, Lee Detective on the case Brian Weissbrot, Mama County prosecutor, Christopher

0:50.7

Grimicioni.

0:52.7

Also with us, renowned LA Psychoanalyst Dr. Bethany Marshall.

0:58.2

Right now police working under the theory Sarah did not commit suicide or just run off.

1:04.1

That will quickly become apparent as police get a call from a local teen who offers up

1:11.2

a suspect on a silver platter.

1:14.4

But is it real?

1:15.4

Let's pick up the story right now.

1:19.4

Let's extend a new relationship.

1:22.4

I'm sorry, pretty close friends.

1:26.4

Will she ever be your girlfriend now?

1:32.4

Sarah's friends and family portray her as this happy, go-lucky girl that never had any

1:41.1

reason to say she would hurt herself or hurt someone else.

1:46.3

But Liam Portray is a different picture.

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