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The Interrogation Tapes - Episode 1: With Friends Like These

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

19-year-old aspiring artist Sarah Stern is first reported missing when her car was discovered abandoned on a bridge. Investigators begin to focus on Stern’s childhood friend as a suspect after they cue in on troubling statements and omissions made during his police interviews. However, an up-and-coming filmmaker is willing to go undercover to help the case, which leads to the capturing of a chilling confession. The Interrogation Tapes was produced by ABC News Studios in partnership with 20/20. The series is now streaming on Hulu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. This is David Muir, co-anchor of 2020. Over the next six weeks here

0:06.7

we're going to bring you a special limited run series called The Interrogation Tapes produced

0:11.0

by ABC News Studios in partnership with 2020.

0:14.0

You'll hear some of the most compelling criminal cases in recent history

0:17.5

through recordings made in the interrogation room,

0:20.0

unveiling the tricks of the trade detectives use to find out what really happened.

0:24.4

Here's episode one with friends like these. 9-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1.

0:37.0

Not an emergency, actually on the Belmar bridge, there's a car that's abandoned, abandoned is off the side of the road.

0:46.0

Is Sarah here by chance? No. The resident is Mike Stern.

0:50.0

Anybody home? It wasn't home and they said we want to tell you something. You have no idea.

0:56.0

It's a sense of hopelessness. Sarah is my only child and you just wonder what happened to her.

1:03.0

Our top story this half hour,

1:05.0

the mystery of a missing 19-year-old from Mammoth County,

1:08.0

Sarah Stern was last seen late Friday night.

1:11.0

But searches for her attempt to turn up empty.

1:14.0

Now her family and authorities, a upper reward will help lead to clues.

1:18.0

Let's do this.

1:20.0

To start a day on Friday.

1:21.0

Okay.

1:22.0

The whole time do you hook up with the sir?

1:23.2

I went over, she had asked me to help her go through her attic.

1:26.3

That's when he found that safe.

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