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20/20

Murder at the U

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

4.08.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

When a college football player destined for the NFL is murdered, his mother questions whether police have done enough to solve the case. 20/20 and ESPN investigate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

911, where is the emergency?

0:02.7

It's the middle of the night in a small town on the Jersey shore.

0:06.7

Someone reports an abandoned car on a bridge.

0:10.0

A search gets underway for the missing driver, 19-year-old Sarah Stern.

0:14.9

Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide?

0:17.6

At this point, nobody knows.

0:19.6

Old friendships, buried cash, and a sinister plot that was once

0:24.9

pitched as a movie, plays out in real life. I'm Jiu Chang. From 2020 and ABC Audio, listen to

0:34.2

Bridge of Lies. Coming March 10th, wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:42.8

The shooting happened right down Southwest 77th Avenue here in the parking lot of Pada's apartment building,

0:53.7

and tonight, Miami-Dade police are searching

0:56.0

for his killer.

1:01.0

Yeah, Brian Paddo was a defensive star in the Miami Hurricanes.

1:04.0

He was going to be in the NFL in just a few months.

1:09.0

I said, what do you mean they killed him?

1:11.6

Like, why? Why would somebody do this?

1:14.6

I was just coming home.

1:18.6

I had just gotten home from work.

1:20.6

And as I answered the phone, it was my mom.

1:23.6

And my mom shared with me, you haven't heard, Sidney is dead.

1:33.3

I just paused and started screaming.

1:53.0

When Brian Potter's mother got to the scene and she was told that her son had been killed, I mean it was devastating it. It looked like one of those scenes you'd see in a movie of a mother just wailing and it was heartbreak.

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