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descriptions of crime scenes, adult dialogue, and strong language. Viewer discretion is advised. I know you just want
me to get to the story, but I'm gonna do my skincare. I never do my skincare on camera. But like four of you asked, so shout out to you four. This is for you. I normally just come prepped and ready. Okay. So today's story. It's early in the morning
on December 3rd, 2016. An Uber driver is going
down Route 35 bridge in Belmar, New Jersey. Now this Uber driver, he spots what seems to be an abandoned 1994 silver Oldsmobile on the side of the road. Now mind you, it's dark out. Okay, it's like late night, early morning. So the Uber driver's was
thinking, hm, you know, that's super weird. Like, what's that car doing out here? And it just gave them like
a really eerie feeling. So the driver ends up calling police to report this random car sitting
on the side of the bridge. My skincare is so easy. It's only three products. So officers come out to the area, right? And they check out the car and they find that the car doors were unlocked and that the keys were
still in the ignition. Now, nothing seemed to be
wrong with the car though. It just kinda seemed like
someone just left it there. Police ended up running
the plates on the car and they learn that this car belongs to a 96-year-old woman,
whose name was Lillian Stern. Now, Lillian Stern lived in
Neptune City, New Jersey. So the cops pull up her information. They get her address and they're able to easily track her down and they do so pretty quickly, right? So they go out to her house and they learn that Lillian
wasn't the one driving the car that night. It was actually her granddaughter, who was 19-year-old, Sarah Stern. She took the car that day. Okay, you know. So where's Sarah then? So nobody had any idea as
to where Sarah had been or where she was, I should say. But police head out to
where Sarah was living to make sure, you know,
everything's good, right? When they get to Sarah's
place, they find that her home, the door was unlocked
and it was also empty. The only thing that was
in the house was her dog. Her dog was there and
still locked in the crate. It's a little weird, right? Who was Sarah Stern? Sarah Stern was an only child. And it was said that she
was a beautiful brunette and she was super sweet. She was kind, she was hardworking. She was also a talented artist. She was studying art and
television production at the local community college. Her Twitter account was where she like proudly
displayed her artwork. And she also showed photos of her with like different social
media stars that she loved. She would attend different conventions like VidCon and Comic-Con. And online, she was also super friendly with like social media stars, like Jenna Marbles and Julien. So when Sarah had gone missing though, the well-known YouTubers, they actually posted
on their social media, asking if anyone had seen her. And they were also, on the reward flyer, they were mentioning that a $5,000 reward would go to anyone who was
able to provide information as to where she was. So with no leads as to where Sarah is, investigators, you know, are just trying to figure
out where she's at. They're reaching out
to her friends, family, trying to gather any
information they possibly can. Well, an old friend of the family who lived across the
street told investigators that they sent Sarah a text
message earlier that day on December 2nd. And Sarah was asking the family friend if she could bring some
of her mother's things over to her house. You see, Sarah's mother
had sadly passed away from cancer in 2013. And she still had like
a lot of her belongings and she just didn't
know what to do with it or where to store it and was wondering if she could leave it with them for a bit. And the neighbor was like, yeah, sure. Bring it over. No problem. So she came by. She dropped off the stuff. And it was said that she came with her friend, Liam McAtasney. The neighbor told
investigators that Sarah, she did seem like pretty down. Maybe depressed. But she couldn't say for sure
if she was suicidal or not. She did make a mention that Sarah said something along the lines of
losing respect for her father. Like she made a comment, but nothing more than that. At this time, I believe Sarah
was living with her father, but her father was out of town. I guess I'm jumping ahead. But I know I forgot to
mention that in the story and it's just now clicking. You know, she mentions that to the friend and then with this information,
police are like, okay, let's go talk to this Liam guy because he seemed to be with her last. So Liam was one of Sarah's best friends. And they had been friends
since they were little. Like little kids. And Liam was known to
be a bit of a jokester. He did have a twin brother named Seamus and they met Sarah when
they were like six years old during Sunday school class. And then when they first met, it was said that there
was an instant connection and they were just best friends. BFFFFFF forever. They even had a nickname
for their friend group. They called themselves the squad. And then they would
always hang out together on the weekends. They all grew up together in Neptune City, which was like a tight-knit town. Everyone seemed to know everyone. Like a good place to
raise your kids, I guess. So investigators, they
go out to Liam's house and they ask if he knew where Sarah was. Liam told investigators that he and Sarah had spent
the afternoon together, that they just ran some errands. And then they stopped
at Taco Bell for lunch. I know. Crunchwrap. Chemical cheese, love it. And then he ended up,
Liam, headed to work. Liam ended up telling police
during a later interview at the station that Sarah
seemed super depressed and that she mentioned
being suicidal in the past. And then he did mention
that Sarah told him that she had been having
problems with her dad and that the problems
were so bad she was hoping to escape and move to Canada. One of Sarah's neighbors gave the police their surveillance footage that showed Sarah dropping the bin off at her neighbor's house before leaving with Liam in her car. Now this footage and
the surveillance footage from Taco Bell confirmed that both Sarah and Liam did
indeed do what Liam had said. But there was another security camera at the local bank that caught
Sarah making a stop there. At the bank, and she goes like inside. Which was interesting because like, nobody seemed to mention that, but okay. And after that, they headed back to her
house, Sarah's house, and a camera showed Liam leaving her house and then heading to his job
at the local steakhouse. So all this footage like
lined up with Liam's timeline that he shared with the
police, minus the bank thing. But, for the most part,
like it was proving that he wasn't lying. Well then, at 11:45 PM, the neighbor's camera showed Sarah's car leaving her driveway again. But in the footage, you
couldn't really clearly make out like if Sarah was the one
who was driving the car. And it just kind of seemed a little off. Police, they go out to the bank and they get information
that Sarah had gone there. She'd gone to the bank and she accessed her safety deposit box. And she had taken out some of her money. Many friends, family,
neighbors, et cetera, believed that maybe
Sarah had just run away. But when police, they asked to get access to Sarah's
safety deposit box, they found that there
was $25,000 still inside. So we both know here that
if you are running away, you would take the 25,000, would you not? I mean, come on. Suspish. Police also noted something that may not seem important here, okay? But it ends up being important.
So just remember this. Got it? Okay. That the money in the box,
it was super old money. Like it was falling apart in your hand. So it was just really old money. A lot of friends felt like, okay, if Sarah was
really going to run away, there was no fricking way, no fricking way, that she would leave without her dog. They were attached at the hip. There's no way she would
have left him behind. I mean, that's probably true, but I'm over here thinking, who the heck would run away
and leave $25,000 behind? That's the real question, really. The whole her running away
thing isn't really adding up. So police go back out to Sarah's house and they end up searching her room. And while searching her room, they find her passport,
her social security card. There was like some Canadian currency. Once again, just proving that she most likely didn't run away. Now the location where
Sarah's car was found, there was a camera like right by there. And it was recording, or it's supposed to record, all the ins and outs, you know? But of course the day
of whatever happened, this camera, it wasn't working. And I guess it actually
hadn't worked in years. So what was the point you ask? Who knows. Why do they always do this? Always. Like, this is a side note, but I don't get it. We have all these phones that have incredible
cameras on them, right? How come they can't seem to get surveillance cameras up to speed? They always look like a random, like Sasquatch spotting or something. You can't make a **** thing out. Or they just like don't work. So it's like, what's the point? Anyways. So with that being said, police are now thinking
maybe it was a suicide. And then they deploy
helicopters, search parties, and then also the Belmar
Water Rescue Team. And they went out there
to search the Shark River, is what it's called. So they're out there searching for a body. But, after 11 hours of searching
in the near freezing water, mind you, they came up with nothing. Not a **** thing. So over the next couple of days, hundreds of people were coming out to help search for Sarah or any signs in the surrounding area. And unfortunately, nothing came up. The bridge where Sarah's car was found. Underneath that is the river, you know? And the river, it meets the ocean. And due to like the strong currents, it was believed that if Sarah did jump off and commit suicide, then her body would most
likely be carried out into the Atlantic Ocean. Well, two months end up going by. And there's still no case, no leads, nothing as to what happened to Sarah. But then they get a lead. Oh yes, they get a lead. Some kid named Anthony Curry, he goes to investigators
and he's like, hey, I might have some information
as to what happened to Sarah. Anthony was a good friend of Liam's and they were both super
interested in horror films, not *****, horror films. And they wanted to make their own movies. So they would just talk about horror films and like, oh my God, like
blood and guts and stuff. And you know, they just liked it. So Anthony tells investigators
that him and Liam were hanging out on Thanksgiving day 2016, which was eight days
before Sarah went missing. So they're hanging out, they're talking, you know, eating turkey, whatever. And Liam tells Anthony, hey, I've got a good idea for a movie. Now, this wasn't weird because they would pitch movie ideas to each other all the time. But this one left Anthony
feeling a little off because Liam tells him he wants it to be about killing a
girl by strangling her and then throwing her over the bridge with the help of a friend. So the cops are like, where were you a couple months ago? You know, what took you so long? And Anthony was like, well, you know, at the time I didn't really
think too much of it. He pitched me horror
film ideas all the time. But then a week later, Anthony said he was reading
about Sarah's disappearance on social media. And at first he wasn't
putting two and two together. So he didn't, again,
think really much of it. It wasn't until Liam reached
out to Anthony on Snapchat asking if the cops had
talked to him at all. Now, this gave Anthony that weird feeling and he wrote back to him
and he's like, no...why? And Liam's response was that
he needed to talk to Anthony. Anthony said at that
moment, that's when he knew like he had to tell police because alarm bells are just going off. So luckily Anthony had taken
screenshots of the conversation on Snapchat and then he shows police them. At this point, the police
had already questioned Liam a handful of times. And he had also been out there like on the front lines
helping search for Sarah. So, for the most part, he wasn't like top of their priority list, you know, suspect list. But with this new information, they're putting some pieces
together and they're thinking back to his interviews
because in the third interview they had with Liam, Liam asked police, if you jump off the bridge, what are the odds that, you
know, she's not somewhere, all the way in the ocean by now? That's what Liam asked police. And at the time, I guess police didn't
really think anything of it. That was so weird. (Bailey screams) I kid you not, I just
saw the door handle move, but I'm home alone. The power of Christ compels you. I saw it on a movie once so it must work. So at the time when
Liam made that comment, they didn't think anything of it. But then looking back, they're like, hm, that was kind of like
a weird thing to say. So now this seemed to be going
from a missing persons case to a homicide investigation. Police are thinking, okay, you know, this Anthony kid
clearly has Liam's trust. So they do something a little risky. And they asked him if he would participate in a sting operation in
hopes to get some answers or maybe a confession out of Liam, because he seems to know something. Like something isn't right. So the plan was for
Anthony to call up Liam and ask to borrow some money because his story was gonna
be that he had broken a camera that he was using during
one of his shoots. This kinda sounds weird. But the thought process was that, if Liam like did something to Sarah, maybe killed her or something, he may have some extra cash to
lend that he took from Sarah when they went to the bank. So they're thinking like, okay, if Anthony calls him up. Bling, bling, bling, hello. And he's like, hey, can you spot me some cash
from that girl's money. That's what he asks him. And I guess he said, well,
according to the tapes, it went silent for a little bit. And then Liam responds with maybe. And then, not long after on the phone, Liam says that he doesn't
really wanna talk about this more over the phone and that they should meet up and talk because that's probably safer, which is a weird thing to say, if you're not trying to
hide anything, right? Just arrest him. That's my thought process. That's enough information. So then on January 31st, 2017, Anthony is waiting in his
car in a local parking lot. And he's waiting for Liam. Liam pulls up and then he parks his car and then he gets into Anthony's
car and then they chat. Now, what Liam doesn't know is that the police are actually listening in to the whole interaction by using little cameras hidden outside and inside of Anthony's car. And thank God, they went with the mini cameras because guess what Liam does? Well, the first thing he does when he gets into Anthony's car is he asks Anthony like, hey man, can I feel you up for a wire? Oh, I would be sweating balls. Like, oh ****. So Anthony's like, yeah. And then Liam reaches over and
he starts feeling Anthony up for a wire. Luckily he like finds no wire 'cause there isn't one on him. And he's like, hey man, you know, you just can't be too careful. The FBI's on my ***. So Anthony and Liam are sitting in the car and Anthony asked if he's
got the money, right? And then Liam starts complaining that he didn't get as much
money as he thought he would. And that it really wasn't
even usable what he did get. Liam went on to say the worst part of it is
I thought I was going to walk out with 50 grand
to 100 grand in my pocket. She only had one safe
and she took money out and it was only 10 grand. Something along those lines. That's what he says. You're like, all right. Well, Liam goes on to tell Anthony that he had been planning Sarah's murder for about six months. And the reason that he was
planning her murder was because he knew that Sarah
had gotten a bunch of money when her mother died. And before her mother died, Sarah had found some hidden boxes that had been stored away and
hidden inside of the house. And it was filled with money,
but it was really old money. It was apparently money
that her mom left her, but it was super old and it
was just in terrible condition. Liam then went on to
complain that the bills, they looked so old and they just looked like
they had been burned. He told Anthony that he was afraid to spend the money because, you know, it might look sketchy
having all this old money. So he was trying to lay low for a while before doing something with it. So when Sarah first found this money, she was super excited and
she tells Liam right away, because that's her best friend. And she's like, oh my God, I just found all this
money in my mom's house. You know, it's perfect. I can use this money to
help me move to Canada. But when Liam heard about
her having all this money, instead of being happy for
her, like a friend should, his selfish *** was like,
hm, free money, you say? I could use some free money. And the only thing between him and this free money was Sarah. Well, Liam was like, you know, I gotta get rid of her. And he knew he couldn't do it alone. So he actually asked his
roommate, whose name was Preston. Preston was like a friend of Sarah's. He was actually her junior
high school prom date too. So he asked him like, hey, here's my plan. I wanna kill this girl. We're gonna get some money. Will you help me? And I guess Preston agreed. Their original plan
was to get Sarah drunk. They were gonna strangle her and then they were gonna steal the money. But then they had thought
it out a little bit more. And they're like, okay, wait a minute. If we strangle her, then
there's gonna be a body, so, hm. One option was for them to like bury her at a campsite Liam's father owned. And I guess they were like, no, that's not a good idea. And then another option was to
leave her body at the house. But they were like, no,
that's not a good idea either. So they decided to go with
making it look like a suicide. That was gonna be their best bet. Great fricking friends, huh? Liam also mentioned to Anthony that he was actually smart
enough to plan out the aftermath. So he had planned ahead like the answers he was gonna say when police came by to question him. You know, who he was hanging
out with, what he did. Just the whole plan. He also made sure that he was seen at the search party efforts. He just had to like, make
sure everyone saw him as a good friend who was super concerned as to where Sarah could be that nobody would
question him any further. So he's like bragging about this. He's like, yeah, I even thought ahead. Wow, Liam, wow. Now, the part that Liam didn't plan was that Sarah's body
wasn't gonna show up. So Liam's plan was for Sarah's body to be found in the
river, which would prove, in his mind at least, that Sarah did indeed commit suicide. Now, remember Liam is sitting in the car with his friend, Anthony,
telling him all of this. I have no idea about
how Anthony, the friend, remained cool and calm
during this interaction. But he sure did. Bravo. I don't know if that's a
good thing or a bad thing. Well, it's not a bad thing because thankfully he's getting
this confession, Bailey. But what I meant was like, I don't know. How do you not freak out? I'd be like, what the ****? Get the **** outta my car. Anthony asked Liam all
like super casually, like, hey, so what was
it frozen in the river? And Liam says, nah, it probably got sucked all
the way out to the ocean. Meaning like the body. Not really sure where to go from there. That's when Anthony makes some
kind of like offhand comment about like, whoa, that's crazy. It's just like in the movies. And you can kind of tell, 'cause you can listen to the recordings, but you could tell in his voice, he just sounds like a little
nervous at this point. At least that's from what I could tell, but I don't know what I'm talking about. So he's just kind of making
these little comments in hopes that, you know,
Liam will just keep talking. Which murderers love to talk, don't they? So of course he keeps talking. Liam goes on to tell
Anthony that he hung out with Sarah that day and
convinced her to go to the bank and take out some of her money. He also made sure that he
was caught on security, like different security cameras so it would help backup his story later. He also had everything timed out. So he would be seen at work and he was gonna use that as his alibi. Because he's at work, you know? So Liam tells Anthony
that there was so much he didn't account for. Like he didn't realize
things could go wrong. And he tried to like time everything out, but like just things took
longer than he expected. For example, I guess I
should give an example. He admitted that he hadn't accounted for like how long it would
take to strangle someone. Yeah. This is where, in the conversation, Liam gets pretty fricking
graphic describing Sarah's death. And honestly, I'm not going to
get into the graphic details because it's just brutal,
disturbing, and really sad. But he tells Anthony like
everything in great detail about how it all went down and that he timed it on his phone to see how long it would take to kill her. He's timing it. For what? The world record or something? I don't know. What a loser. I hate him. Anyways, he went on to say
like once he killed her, he left her body in the bathroom because he had to head
out and like go to work. But in all of the drama
of murdering someone, Liam, he somehow lost his
cell phone in the mix. Right? Which, uh-oh. Uh-oh! That's not good. He can't find it, but he has to go. He's on a schedule. So when he leaves, this was like the cue for Preston. Remember the guy who came with to help? Well, he came with. He was waiting outside,
like being the lookout. So when Liam walks out, that's when Preston goes
through the back door of Sarah's place. He drags her body outside
and then leaves it in the bushes near the fence. This part, I could not quite
understand what that was about. Like why did they do that? But that's what he did, okay? So anyways, when Liam's
shift was over at work, that's when he headed
back to Sarah's house where he and Preston would steal the safe that held her money. So they take that and
then they load her body into the passenger's seat of her own car. They even went as far as
buckling her in to the seat so it looked like she was like asleep in the passenger's seat. Kind of. I know. Like who thinks of this? People are disturbing. Liam said that he watched
Sarah drive earlier that day and he was like paying
really close attention to how she drives because
he was trying make a point of like backing her car down the driveway like she would have done it. So it looked like Sarah
was driving the car when the security camera
like caught her leaving. So that's what he did. He reversed out of there like Sarah would. And then Liam said that he was relieved because that's when he ends
up finding his cell phone. Like it was in the driveway of her house. And he's like, oh thank God, because that would have been awful. I'm laughing because I just hate this guy. He's so... I hate him because of how
cocky he is in all of this. In the interview, he's
such a cocky little dick. Like bragging about how you
murdered your best friend since elementary school. (Bailey sighs) Breathe. It's fine. Liam drives her car out to Route 35, the bridge, and he has
Preston driving behind them. Like following in his car. The plan was for Liam to throw
Sarah's body over the bridge. And then Preston would like drive past and like pull a U-turn Liam would then jump into Preston's car and then they'd both drive off and live happily ever after, I guess. That was the plan. Both Liam and Preston, they were communicating with one another through walkie talkies. This is my walkie. Walkie-talkies. That way, they didn't have
to use their cell phones to call each other. 'Cause you know, it'll track it. So then Liam goes on to say that he didn't like realize
how much a dead body weighed and it was a lot heavier than he thought. So when he was dragging
her body towards the edge of the bridge, Liam said he spotted some
headlights coming in his direction and he just freaks out. With like this bump of adrenaline
pumping through his body, he's able to like pick up Sarah's body, throw her back into the car, and he's just like waits
until the car drives by. Once the car drove by, that's when he uses his
little walkie-talkie to ask Preston to help
him throw Sarah's body over the bridge into the icy
water of the Shark River. Liam said, in order to make
sure it definitely looked like a suicide, he left the
car keys in the ignition. And by doing that, his thought process was, that looks like a suicide, you know? And because the keys are in there, that's gonna throw the police off. The creepiest part is
after this whole story, Liam tells Anthony, I
don't feel any different. I don't think about it much. Like he just showed, he seemed to have no remorse,
compassion, sadness, emotion. It seemed to be missing. So again, I don't know
how the hell Anthony is keeping his **** together during all of this because, wow. But somehow he was able to keep his cool. And again, he makes some kind of like low key comment. Like, oh man. Wow. That's crazy. Wow. Crazy, man. Again, at that point he mentioned like, wow, it's like a movie. 'Cause it's like all you
can think about really. It's like, wow. Yeah, it's like a movie. And then Liam said, might
as well make it one. Why would you wanna
live a boring-ass life? That's what he tells him so... You sure didn't live a boring life, Liam. I guess you got that
right, you little ****. After this conversation, they say their goodbyes and
they go their separate ways. And with all of this
information they had gotten, Liam was arrested on February 2nd, 2017 with a whole laundry list of charges. He was being charged
with first-degree murder, first-degree felony murder,
first-degree robbery, second-degree desecration
of human remains, second-degree conspiracy
to desecrate human remains, and second-degree hindering apprehension. So a lot of ****. So with Liam finally in custody, the police, they go to Sarah's father, and they tell them everything,
right, what they know. And it was said that her father
was just in complete shock because this was the boy that his daughter had grown up with. Someone that she
considered her best friend who even like helped search
for her just weeks earlier. And now he was being
charged with her murder. Like he just couldn't
wrap his head around that. Because there was no body for the funeral, the community decided to
just hold like a celebration of her life in honor of Sarah. And they did that on July 15th, 2017. So they got together at
the local community center and they hung up all of Sarah's art and photos people contributed
of Sarah to add to the event. There were a number of different speakers. People who just like,
you know, went up there, shared memories, stories. And it was said that there
was over a thousand visitors who came through to like show their
respect, yeah, for Sara. So Liam is being charged
with murder, robbery, and desecration of remains. But remember Preston? Well, he also got arrested and he was charged with second-degree
desecration of human remains, second-degree conspiracy
to desecrate human remains, and second-degree hindering apprehension for helping Liam move and
dispose of Sarah's body in order to avoid being caught. The Superior Court judge said
that Preston folded faster than anybody he's ever seen. Preston, he ends up
testifying against Liam in exchange for a plea bargain. He stated that the plan
started off as a burglary. The conversation it switched like from burglary to killing her, okay? Preston also took investigators out to a different location
where the two of them had buried this money that was stolen. Yeah, I guess after they
committed the murder, they went and they buried the money until they felt like the coast was clear and then they were gonna go and get it. Preston said that he
thought he would be getting at least over $100,000. But instead they only
stole $10,000 from Sarah, which Preston ended up agreeing
to take a $3,000-dollar cut for his help. And then Liam would get to keep the rest. So, all of that for $3,000. Was it worth it? Hell ******* no. No money is worth it. No. God. This is such a stupid story. Like this poor, poor girl. For $10,000? Anyways, in court,
Preston, during his trial, said that he felt pressured to do it because him and Liam had
a super close friendship. And then after that he addressed, Preston, he addresses the court. He makes an apology and
then hopes for the best. Preston, he would end up
being sentenced to 18 years in prison and is up for parole in 2032. Bye-bye. So during Liam's trial, they tried to make Preston
just look like a liar. And they went on to say
that, without a body, there was no physical evidence proving that Liam committed this crime. The so-called confession in Anthony's car wasn't a confession at all. That was actually a film audition that Anthony was trying to
use as a publicity stunt to boost his own career. This is what they're saying. 'Cause that makes total sense. So the defense team also
brought in an eye witness. Now, this eye witness kinda
throws off the whole game because this guy's name
was Craig Hetzel Sr. Something like that. Craig. So this witness claimed that, while he was out with his
son at 5:00 AM driving, he saw Sarah walking down
the street from her car in a leather bomber jacket
with a fluffy collar and high heeled shoes on. It sounds like somebody else, but okay. And then he said a few days later, he saw a missing persons poster. And then he made the connection, insisting that there was
no way Sarah was dead because he saw her clear as day. This, again, kind of like
throws everything off because he's saying that he saw Sarah. And people are like, oh
my God, really? At 5:00? So that it just wouldn't, it doesn't line up, right? It throws everything off. But police testified that
the car was towed off of the bridge two hours
before Craig drove by the spot on the bridge at 5:15 AM. But Craig swears up and down he saw Sarah and he was positive it was her because he remembers how odd it was. Anyways, Liam's mother, she said that her son
loved and adored Sarah. And she believed the recording
of her son was a setup because it's nothing anyone
would have expected from Liam. She also questioned why
Sarah's body wasn't found. If her son really had dropped
Sarah's body in the river, she believed it would have washed up. She went on to say in court,
I grew up at that beach and when somebody goes in the
water, they wash up somewhere. And when Sarah had not washed
up onto any of the shores, it gave us hope that Sarah
had maybe just run away. End quote. I get moms in the courtroom,
moms who act like this, parents who act like this. I get it. It's hard to believe your
innocent little baby child could do something like this, but ma'am, sometimes
they do ****** up things and you know what? That sucks. And that's all I got for you. So, ma'am, sorry about that, but I don't think you
know your son very well 'cause he seemed a little ****** up. Anyway, so she was just doubting. She was doubting. There's no way my son did this. And she did not let up. She still, I think, stands by that. Many were doubting how Liam and Preston could have actually killed Sarah. According to friends and neighbors, both Liam and Preston came
from middle-class families. And they weren't like super wealthy, but they also weren't struggling either. They lived very comfortably,
so many wondered, like what was the motivation here? Okay, they couldn't have
been motivated by money because it just doesn't make sense. They don't need the money. It's like this community
could not seem to understand that this guy did it. Maybe he was super well liked, Liam. And I mean, he was known as a jokester and stuff, a funny guy. And I think people were just
really having a hard time understanding how he did this, but he obviously held like
this dark side of himself. But in the end, the jury wasn't totally sold on the idea that Liam was this perfect little angel. And after five weeks of trial, Liam was found guilty on all counts on June 21st, 2019. Liam was sentenced to life without parole plus an additional 10 years. Liam will be serving his sentence at the New Jersey State Prison, which houses like the most difficult and slash or dangerous offenders
in the inmate population. So, good luck. The saddest part of this whole story, Sarah Stern's body has never been found. Yeah. I'm sorry to end it on
that, but it's true. Her body has never been found. It's believed that it went
out to the Atlantic Ocean. I am so sorry. This is just an awful story, I know. And that, my friends, is the
tragic story about Sarah Stern and her fricking awful friends. That sucks. Could you imagine your best friend? No, you can't! Because who does that? ******* Liam and Preston! Well, I would love to hear
your guys' thoughts down below. Thank you so much for
hanging out with me today. A big thank you to you guys, because without you, I wouldn't be here and I
hit 5 million subscribers and that's just incredible. And I can't say thank you enough. I appreciate you. I really do. I hope you have a
wonderful rest of your day. Make good choices and I'll be seeing you guys later. Bye!
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