Sarah Yarborough Part 1 of 2

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Episode 150 Sarah Yarborough Part 1 of 2

There are some case that really grip the community, that undercut the sense of safety and security, and that make people lose their faith in humanity. The murder of Sarah Yarborough was such a case. Sarah was just 16 years old when she was sexually assaulted and murdered in one of the places she should have felt the safest – the grounds of her high school. Not only that, but the crime happened in broad daylight, and there were witnesses who saw her killer. It was impossible that he was not apprehended – but he wasn’t. Despite the groundbreaking use of YDNA to identify the killer’s possible surname, the case remained unsolved for years. When IGG finally provided answers, revealing at long last the name of the man who killed Sarah Yarborough, the Yarborough family and the community of Federal Way, WA breathed a sigh of relief.

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0:00.0	You're listening to DNAID.
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0:05.3	Be sure to check out some of the other great true crime podcasts from this network, including
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0:40.3	The The
0:57.0	The It was 1991.
1:24.1	On Saturday, December 14th, two boys named Adam and Drew, age 12 and 13, were skateboarding
1:30.7	on the grounds of Federal Way High School in the town of Federal Way near Seattle, Washington.
1:36.6	It was a frigid morning, but boys don't feel the cold, and Adam and Drew were carrying their
1:41.5	boards and cutting through the school grounds around 920 a.m.
1:45.1	Heading to the Albertson's parking lot to board. Along the way, they jumped in some frozen
1:49.6	puddles, smashing the ice and laughing, you know, boy stuff. As they moved along the concrete
1:54.6	path leading between the tennis courts and the bush-covered hillside that led up to the outdoor
1:59.6	track and practice field.
2:05.6	A man surprised them when he popped up out of the bushes and started rapidly walking down the hillside ahead of them. There was no path there. The hillside was overgrown and a fence
2:10.6	sat atop the hillside. The man looked back at the boys, and even to the tweens, he looked suspicious.
2:17.4	They thought he was probably
2:18.5	smoking weed in the bushes. The man continued moving at a rapid pace away from them,
2:23.2	toward the student parking lot 300 feet away. Curious, the boys looked toward the place where the man
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