9-1-1, where is the emergency?

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

Someone reports an abandoned car on a bridge.

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

Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide?

At this point, nobody knows.

Old friendships, buried cash,

and a sinister plot that was once pitched as a movie,

plays out in real life.

I'm Jiu Chang from 2020 and ABC Audio.

Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts.

Music Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, everybody. Welcome to 2020, The After Show. I'm Deborah Roberts. And as always, I am so

delighted that you're spending some time with us as As we pull back the curtain on the stories

that we're doing here at 2020

and let you get an idea of how we put these things together.

Now today we're gonna take a look

at one of our most talked about episodes.

It was called Stranger in the House.

And I reported on this story.

I went to Minnesota to talk about it

and the details have just stuck with me.

This one centers on the really sad and tragic death of Heidi Furcus, a 25-year-old woman from St. Paul, Minnesota.

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