True Crime Vault: Wave of Deceit

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True Crime

4.0 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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An exclusive interview with Laura Day, nearly a decade after her first-degree capital murder conviction for her 6-year-old stepson’s death. 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.
0:10.0	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 once pitched as a movie, plays out in real life.
0:29.0	I'm Jiu Chang from 2020 and ABC Audio.
0:33.4	Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:41.3	Okay. Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts. Step into the 2020 True Crime Vault.
0:44.3	Listen to our most ripping stories.
0:49.0	How often do you think about that tragic day?
0:51.8	Every day.
0:52.8	Every day I even have nightmares about it.
0:55.0	What's your filming?
0:58.0	Laura?
0:59.0	Mm-hmm.
1:00.0	Me.
1:02.0	Day.
1:03.0	How Laura would come off to people was from the old sitcom Therese Company as Chrissy,
1:09.0	the bubbly, you know, bleach blonde.
1:13.6	She had told me for her it was love at first sight.
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