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

Hi, everybody, and welcome to 2020 The After Show. I'm Deborah Roberts, and I'm so glad you're with us.

Today we are taking, as we always do, a closer

look at one of our 2020 episodes, the most recent one. And if you saw it, who you remember it.

And if you didn't, we're going to give you all the details right now. It's called Murder at the

you. And it's the heartbreaking story of a young man who really was the epitome of the American dream.

Brian Pata was the son of a single mom from Haiti. He had eight siblings. I know what that's

like to be from a large family. In fact, it's kind of interesting. This one grabbed my eye

because I'm from a family of nine kids. Brian was the kind of kid that many had described as

kind and humble, a young man, a strong

young man with a really soft heart. He was also a shining star, a football player at the University

of Miami, and he appeared to be on his way to a pro career, a top tier prospect for the 2007

NFL draft. And just months before that could happen, his life was

tragically cut short on November 7, 2006. Brian was found shot to death next to his parked car.

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