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The After Show: The Vanishing of Nancy Woodrum

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

4.08.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Deborah Roberts spoke with Whit Johnson about his rare access inside the home where Nancy Woodrum was murdered and additional police investigation interviews with Woodrum’s family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

9-1-1, 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.

0:09.9

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

0:14.8

Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide?

0:17.5

At this point, nobody knows.

0:19.5

Old friendships, buried cash,

0:22.6

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

0:26.5

plays out in real life.

0:28.9

I'm Jiu Chang from 2020 and ABC Audio.

0:33.4

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

0:44.3

Music Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts. Hi there, everybody, and welcome to 2020 The After Show. I'm Deborah Roberts. And as always,

0:49.3

I'm so glad you're joining us today. We are going to take you inside a mystery. And if you watched our 2020

0:55.5

program last week, you know this one was one that is pretty unforgettable. And if you didn't,

1:01.0

you're going to hear some details. And for those of you who may have seen it, there are details

1:04.8

you may not have heard. The story was called The Vanishing of Nancy Woodrum. And it centers

1:09.9

around basically a head-spinning disappearance

1:12.9

of a woman who's a mom and a grandmother who went missing in the middle of the night from her home

1:19.3

in Paso-Robles, California on May 5, 2018. And what really got us about this story and made it feel

1:26.5

so resonant is that this is a 62-year-old

1:29.3

woman, Nancy, who could have been somebody that any of us knew. Those who knew her described her

1:35.4

as kind, as well-liked in her community. She lived in this scenic, beautiful community, owned a

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