True Crime Vault: Dial M For Missing

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ABC News

True Crime

4.0 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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An international search for a California man suspected in his wife's murder takes a shocking twist. (OAD 10/21/22) 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.
0:14.9	Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide?
0:17.6	At this point, nobody knows.
0:19.6	Old friendships, buried cash, and a sinister plot that was
0:24.7	once pitched as a movie, plays out in real life. I'm Jiu Chang from 2020 and ABC Audio. Listen now
0:34.1	to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:46.0	Welcome to the 2020 True Crime Vault, where heart-stopping headlines come to life.
0:52.2	It's the picture of domestic bliss.
0:54.5	Beautiful house, Newport Coast.
0:58.3	Inside and upstairs, there's been violence.
0:59.7	This is now a crime scene.
1:01.0	Where are the Chadwick's?
1:02.9	They took her.
1:03.7	They took her.
1:04.4	Who's this?
1:06.2	The guy broke into my house.
1:07.9	It might be going to Mexico or somewhere.
1:09.4	Now we've got a mystery. They did the bad, bad thing.
1:11.6	I looked at that microphone up and down and thought, here we go.
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