The Betrayal of Sarah Stern

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🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The discovery of a nineteen-year-old’s car abandoned on a bridge in New Jersey turns into a missing person case that evolves into a months-long homicide investigation. As the case tears apart a Jersey Shore town, police discover a plot involving money, close friends and a fatal betrayal. Keith Morrison reports on the investigation and the extraordinary undercover video that helped solve the crimes. Originally aired on NBC on May 17, 2019.

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0:00.0	I'm Lester Holt and this is Date Line.
0:04.0	I heard my mom crying.
0:05.0	She said that they found Sarah's car on the bridge.
0:08.0	Nobody could find her and her phone was off.
0:11.0	You have to start working. Where's Case scenario?
0:13.0	Did she jump off the bridge?
0:15.0	I was just sure in hysterical.
0:18.0	An entire town banding together to find a beloved teen.
0:22.0	This is a huge search. Hundreds of people can't.
0:24.0	A lot of people.
0:25.0	We had state police, we had the sheriff's department,
0:27.0	we had divers...
0:28.0	This is things you see on TV, not things that happen to you.
0:33.0	And then someone said, he spotted her.
0:36.0	I looked at her,
0:37.0	right in the face, just like I'm looking at you right now.
0:40.0	That girl's alive.
0:41.0	But a secret recording would catch one of the town's own,
0:45.0	revealing a sinister scheme.
0:47.0	Sarah's Holt deal is my thing.
0:49.0	He explained that he had studied her movements.
0:52.0	The plan was to take her money.
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