9-1-1, 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 now to

Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts.

Step into the 2020 True Crime Vault where each story is unforgettable.

The first body came out after midnight, but it was only the first.

When the murder started, for the most part, they were just another murder. Sonna Hawk. Eddie Jean Balcom, Deborah Slaughter, each one seen individually. Here's

another homicide. Two murders in two days. Who is African American. Caroline Love, Michelle Stinson.

Another victim to roll out. A lot of women I'm in fear. I just talked to her and now she's dead.

The patterns of women being killed didn't really add up.

Randy Henderson and nine others.

Seast 10 murders.

The murder count possibly totaling 13.

Why didn't police see it sooner?

All victims of an unknown suspect.

Whoever did this was a ghost.

Danger disguised as a friend and his victims never saw him coming. Why did it take so long to see a pattern? We feel bad that we did not know that soon. But it wasn't just police. It was those of us in the media and I think the community. Man, it was right there. This young mother was killed in the same manner. All had been strangled. He looked at me and he said, we think we have a serial killer. You know,

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