When a seasoned crime reporter's home goes up in flames, first responders find her inside the blaze, deceased, but not from the fire.

Northern Virginia authorities investigate the murder of a woman who dedicated her career to keeping the public informed on matters of law and justice in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive.

I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day, and true crime storyteller by night.

And as always, I'm your co-host, Scott.

Not really, as always, as most of the time now.

Yes, I guess it is as most of the time.

I'm your co-host, Scott.

Right.

Sarah Greenhall was last seen alive on July 9, 2012.

She was 48 years old at the time and had spent the past couple of decades developing her career as a journalist.

She had two areas of reporting expertise, crime and equestrian sports.

That's two totally different worlds. Pretty interesting.

Well, Sarah had perhaps been destined to have passion both for the pursuit of justice and for horses,

because her father was a criminal lawyer and law professor at Georgetown University

and her mother was an equestrian and member of the Potomac Hunt Club. And for anyone who's not

familiar with the term, a hunt club in this context is a horseback riding club. Okay. Thank you for

clarifying that. Well, Sarah grew up riding horses at her family's horse farm, which was called Fourth Amendment

farms.

Her father had come up with the name as a sort of tribute to his passion for constitutional law.

I'm not surprised he came up with that name.

For anyone outside of the U.S. or who just forgot what the Fourth Amendment says, the Fourth Amendment is a part of

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