American Homicide - S1: E13 – BFFs: The Disappearance of Sarah Stern, Part 2

Episode Date: January 16, 2025

When Sarah Stern’s friend shares his idea for a movie, it sounds eerily similar to what happened to Sarah. But without any sign of Sarah or her body, the police must sort out fact from fiction and decide who is telling the truth.   Reach out to the American Homicide team by emailing us: [e-mail]. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To have a murder as gruesome as Jade Beasley's doesn't happen very often down here. In Marion, Illinois, an 11-year-old girl brutally stabbed to death. Her father's longtime live-in girlfriend maintaining innocence but charged with her murder. I am confident that Julie Begley is guilty. They've never found a weapon. Never made sense. Still doesn't make sense. She found out she was pregnant in jail. The person who did it is still out there. Listen to Murder on Songbird Road on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

He was a Boy Scout leader, a husband, a father, but he was leading a double life. He was a monster, hiding in plain sight journey inside the mind of one of history's most notorious killers BTK through the voices of the people who know him best listen to monster BTK on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. John Stewart is back in the host chair at The Daily Show,

which means he's also back in our ears on The Daily Show Ears Edition Podcast. Join late night legend John Stewart and the best news team for today's biggest headlines, exclusive extended interviews, and more. Now this is a second term we can all get behind. Listen to The Daily Show Ears Edition on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As we start 2025, I wanna take a moment to express gratitude

to all of our listeners who have tuned into the show. Over the next few months, we will be traveling through New Jersey, Louisiana, and Alaska to tell you more stories across America. New episodes will continue to launch every Thursday, and I also want to tell you about an exciting thing we did this week with my former colleague

and journalist, Brian Enton. Brian joined the show as we reviewed three cases that we think will own the headlines in 2025. We will be releasing more bonus episodes onto the feed as the season goes on. So again, thank you for your continued listenership. Seven weeks of searching for a missing New Jersey teenager turned up nothing. Sarah was nowhere to be found. 19-year-old Sarah Stern was last seen emptying out

her bank account. She took out $7,000. What would a 19-year-old be doing with this money? No one knew what to believe, especially when one of her former high school classmates came forward with an unimaginable story. I did something really dumb, and I planned it out for half a year. It was a chilling account with no remorse, no emotion.

We threw off the bridge, and the body never showed up. Today, we're in Neptune City, New Jersey, for the conclusion of BFF's The Sarah Stern Story. My name is Sloane Glass, and this is American Homicide, a warning that this episode contains some graphic content. Please take care while listening. Neptune is the Roman god of the sea. It's where Neptune City, New Jersey, got its name.

Neptune City is a small town, about 5,000 people. Michael Stern lived there with his family. It's just a stone's throw from Asbury Park and Belmar, which is about halfway between Atlantic City, New Jersey and New York City. Neptune City is a short distance from the 140 miles of oceanfront property in New Jersey. They're just beach after beach in small towns that were set up hundreds of years ago. And they each have their own little unique personalities. The area is a place popular with tourists during the warmer months. Basically, all the short towns kind of share the same common theme, which is the beach

and some of the nightlife and restaurants. And John Bon Jovi used to hang around the beaches here. Michael raised his daughter, Sarah, in Neptune City. She loved the beach and she loved being down by the beach. Yes, being outdoors, especially in the summer, was something Sarah loved about the area. We had a swimming pool and a trampoline in the backyard, so it was always a magnet for the kids to come over and just hang out. And they would be there from the morning until night.

The kids liked it, the older kids, younger kids, so she got along with everybody. As Sarah grew up, she got involved in photography and the arts but she also had no problem getting her hands dirty. I'm in construction and sometimes I would just need an extra hand for a short period of time and she would always be there she liked to get her her work boots on and her jeans and a flannel shirt and come out with me and, you know, work a little, get a little dirty. And so it was, that was kind of a fun thing with her too. According to Michael, the two relied on one another, especially after Sarah's mother

passed away from cancer. She struggled at times. It's a tough, very tough thing to deal with that, you know, just one day they're gone. And in early December 2016, Michael was the one struggling after Sarah mysteriously disappeared. They found Sarah's car up on the bridge. At the time, there were different theories as to what happened. One was Sarah was in a very bad place mentally and took her own life. The other was she quietly left town to start a new life.

We spent a lot of time looking everywhere, especially around the Marina area and all through the inlets, every day hoping that something would turn up and we'd find a piece of something that belonged to Sarah or God forbid that her body would show up. But we just, we didn't know. Now, keep in mind, these searches were happening right around Christmas in 2016. Holidays came and went and we still didn't have any answers.

And it was a tough time for everybody. Then the investigation took a turn in January 2017. Anthony Curry, a friend of Sarah's from high school, met with detectives. He agreed to let them wire his car for audio and video and secretly recorded a chilling story from one of Sarah's very best friends and confidants, Liam McAteasnie. I pretty much hung her. I just, I picked her up and had her just like dangling

off the ground. She just pissed herself and then that was it. You just heard Liam, Sarah's friend since the first grade, talking about how he strangled and then threw Sarah's dead body into Shark River. That's not even the worst part. The worst part of it is I thought I was walking out 50 grand, 100 grand in my pocket, and she only had 10 grand. Edward Kirshenbaum worked for the Neptune City PD.

Liam McIntasy was the mastermind of this entire crime. Police were tipped off by Liam's friend Anthony Curry. Anthony was an aspiring movie producer who dreamed of making horror films. A few weeks earlier, Liam shared his idea for a movie with Anthony. And it had chilling details that mirrored what police thought might have happened to Sarah Stern. He was one of the only few people that knew what happened to Sarah and wanted to talk to law enforcement to let them know exactly what he knew. In their secretly recorded conversation, Liam admitted to purposefully feeding false leads to detectives.

Like that was the whole part of my plan to make me look not guilty. He tried to portray himself as a concerned friend and continued to try to paint a picture of deception that it was more or less a suicide or a poor relationship with her father that led her to possibly jump off the bridge that night. All along hiding the fact that he was one that was responsible for her murder. And in these recordings, Liam said he didn't act alone. He recruited his roommate, Preston Taylor, to help dispose of Sarah's body.

Preston Taylor was involved early on in the planning of what was going to happen to Sarah Stern. And get this, Preston didn't just know Sarah. He was actually her date to the junior prom. Preston Taylor was the one person that could have saved Sarah Stern's life, but he chose not to.

He chose to follow Liam McIntassey. So if this is actually true, and this is a real confession, then it's just really hard to wrap my head around what these so-called friends of Sarah's were thinking. That's what's so baffling. There's no indication of any type of problem other than pure greed and evil.

Sarah had inherited money from her mother. For months, Liam had his eyes on this money. The afternoon she withdrew funds from her bank, Liam went into action. Liam McAtaassey called Preston Taylor when they were at the bank. Liam McAtaassey told Preston Taylor when they were at the bank. Liam McAtaassey told Preston Taylor that this was the day it was going to happen.

On February 1, 2017, detectives pulled Preston in for questioning. We know what happened to Sarah. We know what your involvement in it was. Right? We want to know why it happened. We want to know why Liam did what he did." I know it's really hard to hear Preston in this interrogation audio, but let me tell you, Preston folded like a chair.

Like within a minute. He participated. Not the actual murder, but the steps taken to cover up the murder. Preston said Liam believes Sarah had upwards of $100,000 and killed her for that money, a portion of which Preston was supposed to get for helping to move Sarah's body. Preston Taylor goes over, takes Sarah's body, and puts it over by a hedgerow, covers it with leaves. Once Liam McIntazzie gets off of work, they pull down the street behind Sarah's yard. They take Sarah, they throw her over the fence. They put her in the passenger seat of her car.

See, I keep going back to this idea that this is their friend, and they're treating her body like it's a thing. They buckled Sarah into the passenger seat of her car, and then Liam drove, sitting next to the dead body, while Preston followed in another car. Liam McTazzy would study Sarah, the way she would back out of her driveway in her car. So his plan was to pull out the same way after he murders her. A neighbor's surveillance camera caught the car pulling out. But it was too dark for detectives to see anyone in the grainy footage.

So they didn't know who was driving. However, the timestamp matched up with Preston's story. She was thrown into the Shark River on an outgoing tide. And they then left and continued on with their lives. Preston cooperated with detectives and led them on a play-by-play reenactment of the crime, including where he and Liam buried two safes filled with nearly $10,000 in cash.

It was just a pure act of betrayal. Nobody saw it coming. Liam McIntosh, he wasn't on the police department's radar at all. Yet here they were, Sarah's one-time prom date, along with her best friend, who she met in Sunday school, both arrested for her murder. Preston Taylor was charged with desecration of human remains

and hindering apprehension. And Liam was charged with murder, felony murder, robbery, hindering apprehension, the creation of human remains. The emotional roller coaster was about to take another dive as detectives had to share the news with Sarah's father, Michael. How do you tell a father who has hope his daughter's gonna come home

that she's not coming home, that she has been murdered? And in fact, murdered by her friends. Whenever you have a missing persons case, there is always hope that the person you're searching for will come home. That hope extends from the family to the reporters covering the story and law enforcement trying to find them.

When that hope extinguishes, there is nothing harder. I sat down at the kitchen table and he told me, and I just, I don't know, I was just in kind of shock after that. I just remember staring at the table in disbelief that they knew what happened. They had the confession. The worst day of my life. It hurts. She was such a good person.

Just finding out that one of her friends killed her was just a horrible thing. To have a murder as gruesome as Jade Beasley's doesn't happen very often down here. In Marion, Illinois, an 11-year-old girl brutally stabbed to death. Her father's longtime live-in girlfriend maintaining innocence but charged with her murder. I am confident that Julie Begley is guilty. This case, the more I learned about it, the more I'm scratching my head. Something's not right. I'm Lauren Bright-Pacheco. Murder on Songbird Road dives into the conviction of a mother of four

who remains behind bars and the investigation that put her there. I have not seen this level of corruption anywhere. It's sickening. If you stab somebody that many times, you have blood splatter. Where's the change of clothes? He was a boy scout leader, a church deacon, on Songbird Road, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. He was a Boy Scout leader, a church deacon, a husband, a father. He went to a local church. He was going to the grocery store with us. He was the guy next door. But he was leading a double life. He was certainly a peeping Tom, looking through the windows, looking at people, fantasizing about what he could do. He then began entering the houses.

He could get into their home, take something and get out and not be caught. He felt very powerful. He was a monster, hiding in plain sight. Someone killed four members of a family. It just didn't happen here. Journey inside the mind of one of history's most notorious killers, BTK, through the voices of the people who know him best. Listen to Monster BTK on the iHeart radio app,

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. After the arrest of Liam McAteasney and Preston Taylor for the murder of their longtime friend Sarah Stern, law enforcement held a press conference. Our efforts to recover Sarah's remains do continue. That's right. Even with the two behind bars, the police continued to search for Sarah's body. We're not going to give up that search, and that's one of the most important things we hope we can do, is bring some closure by recovering Sarah from Mr. Stern and those that loved her. Still, Sarah's body never turned up, which wasn't good for prosecutors' arguments.

The lack of a body is always a hurdle with any type of homicide investigation. Edward Kirschenbaum worked for the Neptune City Police Department, and he knew without a body, it would be tough to secure convictions. So the prosecutor's office felt it necessary to offer a deal to Preston Taylor for his cooperation at trial. Part of Preston's plea deal, he pled guilty to a series of charges and in exchange agreed to testify against Liam. He was crucial because he was there.

When Liam went on trial in 2019, it was the county's first attempt to convict someone of murder without a victim's body since 1975. And to prove their case, prosecutors relied heavily on that testimony Preston was going to give against Liam. That's Preston Taylor. that he killed Sarah and ultimately told me he needed me to go over to Sarah's house to ignore Sarah's body. That's Preston Taylor. He testified that Liam McAteasney believed

Sarah had upwards of $100,000, an amount he said somebody would kill for. It started off as plans to either burglarize her house or to rob her personally. And over time, the conversations progressed to killing her. Now Liam's defense attorney was listening to this, but they were about to take a different route and suggested that Sarah Stern was still alive. She wanted to go to California or Canada, anywhere but here. Liam's defense was nobody found the body.

Sarah was not murdered. In addition, Liam's lawyer tried to suppress the recorded conversation between Liam and Anthony Curry, where he confessed to the murder. But he was unsuccessful. Then he pivoted and explained to the jury that the tape was nothing more than a movie audition. -"It was fantasy that it was an audition. Liam McAteese made it up for Anthony Curry,

the Harvard film director." -"What?" -"Well, I think Anthony Curry gave me the answer as to why. Man, this is like a movie. If you remember, Anthony Curry kept repeating, man, this is like a movie, throughout that talk with Liam. And Liam's attorney said Liam had simply made up the story about strangling a friend to impress Anthony and that Anthony had pointed the finger at Liam in an attempt to further

his career. The hard-film guy who says by the way they're recording you should move out to LA with me and you should be my Leonardo DiCaprio to my Martin Scorsese. So imagine your juror hearing this tape of Liam for the first time. What do you think he was acting? I pretty much hung her, like, I just, I picked her up and had her just, like, dangling off the ground. She just pissed herself and said my name, and then that was it.

I thought I was gonna be able to choke her out and have her out in like a couple minutes. — Journalist Tom Davis was in the courtroom throughout the trial and struggled to make sense of what he heard. — For somebody to almost walk into a car and right after hello, just basically start talking about what he did and how he murdered her.

I mean you just almost like wondered if he's still acting here, what is he doing here? He and the others who listened were surprised by how nonchalant Liam sounded. They were so monotone about it. I expected actually somebody to be much more anxious. I expected to be somebody to even show some remorse, because I believe that's how humans react. So if indeed Liam was auditioning for a role in a movie, then what happened to Sarah Stern? Well, the defense claimed she left town.

They even called a witness who claimed he saw her the morning after she went missing. There was a girl walking down the street. I said to my son, I said, that is an awfully good-looking girl to be walking on the street at 5 o'clock in the morning. This witness testified that he saw someone who looked just like Sarah Stern 2 1⁄2 hours after police discovered her abandoned car on the bridge,

or about five hours after Preston Taylor said he helped Liam McIntasney throw Sarah's body into the river. I got a good look right in her face, stared right into her eyes the way I'm looking at you right now. And she turned her head and ducked down an alleyway. And looked like she was well-dressed. That's why I said it was just so unusual to see somebody well-dressed. That's why I said it was just so unusual to see somebody well-dressed in that early in the morning. And just before the top of

the bridge, there was a car broken down on the side of the road. It was the same bridge where Sarah Stern's car was found, but there was a problem. According to the police, Sarah's car had already been towed away by then. His testimony didn't seem to jive with the timeline and everything. It just felt like there was just no way Liam was going to get out of this. And then Liam and his defense caught a huge break. One of the jurors had actually posted something on Facebook that was a bit of a wise-ass thing to say about the trial. The judge learned that juror number 13 posted a comment to Facebook in response

to an article about the trial. She wrote, quote, sitting on the jury laughing my ass off. Well, the judge was furious and stopped the trial. And actually there was some fear at the time that maybe this actual whole thing could be retried or something, even declare a mistrial. And that's exactly what Liam's attorney asked the judge to do, call a mistrial.

Something Sarah's father, Michael Stern, could not fathom. Father was very upset about it and he was talking about how he just didn't want to have to go through this again. Juror number 13 explained to the judge that she couldn't have posted the comment to Facebook because it happened while the court was still in session. She blamed her 15-year-old sister, who she said logged into her account and posted the

comment. The judge then stopped the trial while he decided how to proceed. So it was really everything was really kind of in a limbo, you know. To have a murder as gruesome as Jade Beasley's doesn't happen very often down here. In Marion, Illinois, an 11-year-old girl brutally stabbed to death, her father's longtime live-in girlfriend maintaining innocence, but charged with her murder. I am confident that Julie Begley is guilty.

This case, the more I learned about it, the more I'm scratching my head something's not right. I'm Lauren Bright-Pacheco. Murder on Songbird Road dives into the conviction of a mother of four who remains behind bars and the investigation that put her there. I have not seen this level of corruption anywhere. It's sickening.

If you stab somebody that many times you have blood splatter. Where's the change clothes? She found out she was pregnant in jail. She wasn't treated like she was an innocent human being at all. Which is just horrific. Nobody has gotten justice yet. And that's what I wish people would understand. Listen to Murder on Songbird Road on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

He was a Boy Scout leader, a church deacon, a husband, a father. He went to a local church. He was going to the grocery store with us. He was the guy next door. But he was leading a double life. He was certainly a peeping Tom, looking through the windows, looking at people, fantasizing about what he could do. He then began entering the houses. He could get into their home, take something, and get out and not be caught. He then began entering the houses. He could get into their home, take something and get out and not be caught. He felt very powerful. He was a monster hiding in

plain sight. Someone killed four members of a family. It just didn't happen here. Journey inside the mind of one of history's most notorious killers, B T K through the voices of the people who know him best. Listen to monster B T K on the I heart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Catch John Stewart back in action on the daily show and in your ears with the daily show years edition podcast from his hilarious satirical takes on today's politics and entertainment to the unique voices of correspondents and contributors, it's your perfect companion to stay on top of what's happening now.

Plus, you'll get special content just for podcast listeners, like in-depth interviews and a roundup of the week's top headlines. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Leah McAtasney's murder trial came to a screeching halt when one of the jurors allegedly posted about the case to Facebook. After considering a mistrial,

the judge opted to simply dismiss the juror and then allowed the trial to go on. It was a fairly long trial. Sometimes it felt daunting and exhausting hearing these horrible details of what had happened to Sarah. Journalist Alex Nipolliello was in the courtroom. On one side of the room, you had Liam's family, and on. On one side of the room you had Liam's family, and on the other side of the room you had Sarah's family.

And this is a family that knew each other, and all of a sudden they're on opposite ends of each other, and there's a lot of animosity towards each other. So there was a lot of tension in the courtroom. That tension only intensified after prosecutors played that tape confession of Liam McAteasney. To see Liam McAteasney talk about what he did to his friend in such detail and to talk about it so casually, I had never seen anything like that as a reporter covering crime for many years. But the defense called the tape nothing more than an audition

by Liam McAteasny. You could hear a pin drop in that courtroom while that tape was playing. In fact, that was the only time the jury heard from Liam, because he did not take the witness stand. Instead, his lawyer told the jurors that without a body,

there's reason to believe that Sarah Stern was still alive. That in and of itself is enough to create the reasonable doubt that Chris might have. But prosecutors fought back and said Liam McAteasney was not an actor. He was a murderer. This is not a movie. It's not a story. This defendant didn't frame himself for murder. He committed murder. The fact that her body wasn't recovered is not reasonable doubt. Sarah Stern is dead.

The case went to the jury, and very quickly, they asked to see the video of Liam McAtaasny confessing to Anthony Curry. Meanwhile, Liam's mother went on ABC's 20-20 to defend her son. In every bone of my body, I do not believe Liam is capable of killing Sarah Stern, who he loved and adored. I do not believe Liam is capable of killing anybody. Liam's mother also addressed the fact that Sarah Stern has never been found. This has seriously affected our entire family, and poor Mike Stern doesn't know where his daughter is. I mean, everybody is affected by this.

This is a horrible, horrible, horrible situation. Liam's mother may have thought her son was innocent, but ultimately, it would come down to what the jury thought. And with nobody and Sarah's mysterious behavior leading up to her abandoned car being found, it was anyone's guess. And then, after just one day of deliberations,

the jury returned with a verdict. — How do you find us to count one of the indictments as to whether the defendant, Liam McAteasny, committed the crime of murder by purposely or knowingly causing the death of Sarah Stern, or purposely or knowingly causing serious bodily injury to Sarah Stern, which resulted in her death? — Guilty. They found Liam McAteasney guilty of six felonies, including first-degree murder. Liam McAteasney was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Journalist Alex Napoliello was in the courtroom. I remember almost falling off my chair.

Her two closest friends, one being her junior prom date, are charged with her death. I mean, I was speechless. Liam McAteasnie was also speechless. He didn't react to his conviction and continued to stare straight ahead while Sarah's father lowered his head and breathed a huge sigh of relief. I can't imagine what Michael has gone through over these years. From the moment his daughter was reported missing till Liam was convicted, that was years. And just my heart goes out to him that he had to suffer because of this.

At a press conference after the trial, Michael Stern unloaded on Sarah's former best friend. Makes me sick, absolutely sick that somebody would do something like that. And you heard testimony that it was all a setup. It was never Sarah's friend. And apparently, you know, his evil thoughts and his motives are just beyond anything, any realm of anything that I could imagine being so evil. There were no reports that Liam and Sarah were at odds with each other, that there was

any strife between them. They were close and they remained close up until the day she disappeared. And he was grateful the case was blown open thanks to 19-year-old Anthony Curry. On behalf of our family, to the Curry family, I really appreciate what they did. It took a lot of courage for him to come forward. I know it was hard for him, but he knew he had to do it. Anthony Curry was a game changer for this investigation. Without Anthony Curry, police don't have the investigation and the case that they had.

Anthony Curry graduated from aspiring movie producer to actual movie producer when his first film premiered in 2022. The movie was about the violent street kids he grew up with and was in the works years before Sarah Stern's murder. With Liam McAteasney and Preston Taylor in prison, the community tried to move forward, but it hasn't been easy. It's a tragedy. What happened to Michael Stern and his family should happen to no one.

Edward Kirshenbaum worked with the Neptune City Police Department. True justice would be to have his daughter back. That would be true justice. But that'll never happen. Sarah's still not coming home. So that's a sad part of this whole scenario. In 2013, Michael Stern lost his wife to cancer. And three years later, he lost his only child to murder by her

friend Liam McItasney. How do you wrap your mind around so-called friends, childhood friends, that they're the ones responsible for the murder of your daughter? How do you, I don't know if you ever wrap your head around that. Michael is a unique man. He carries this with him every single minute, hour, day, week, month, and year. It's just something that never goes away. Despite countless searches, Sarah Stern's body has still never turned up. It's something that continues to keep her father up at night.

I don't sleep very well. I have nightmares, which is a horrible thing. Waking up at two o'clock in the morning and thinking that Sarah's still alive and she's calling for me, I just can't get over that. It becomes harder as every day and month goes by and every year goes by. Doesn't get any easier. I just can't get over the loss of my beautiful daughter.

The only thing that comforts Michael is the scholarship fund he set up in Sarah's name at her high school and the college she attended. So we want to keep Sarah's name out there as an artist. Now my mission for Sarah is to promote the arts, fine arts, media for other students who wish to pursue that career. Seeing it blossom in Sarah, I'd like to see it blossom with other people that may be able to use the scholarship

to continue their careers. I love my daughter, I miss her, and I just hope she's at peace somewhere in heaven. Preston Taylor, who was Sarah's date to the junior prom, was also charged in connection with Sarah's death. As part of his plea deal with investigators, Preston received 18 years in prison. He will be eligible for parole in 2032, when he is 35 years old. Meanwhile, Preston's roommate Liam Akitazny continues to maintain his innocence.

There's such a big part of this case that I feel like is unsolved. Journalist Tom Davis remains completely baffled by Liam's motive. Why would anybody ever go through that effort and to kill somebody for what appeared to be about $7,000? And the fact that the person is not even a stranger, is a friend of theirs, they're best friends, you know, they were like their own little clique.

You would think that maybe something would have stopped them before he even got to the house. That maybe something inside him would have actually, some sort of moral compass would have just stopped this, you know. In cases like this, we always want more answers in the hope they'll help us understand why these things happen. But we'll never know. We need to actually go back at this and actually find out what happened there. What drove them? Was there something that happened to them when they were smaller, when they were kids, when they were teenagers? I mean, we saw this happen with Timothy McVeigh

when he bombed Oklahoma City. It was another thing where there was a little history there where we didn't actually fully expect it to be what it was. When he eventually got to jail and he got to prison, he then eventually gave up what his motives were. We need that moment, you know, to find out what happened. You know? Next time on American Homicide, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Her father's longtime live-in girlfriend maintaining innocence, but charged with her murder. I am confident that Julie Begley is guilty. They've never found a weapon. Never made sense. Still doesn't make sense. She found out she was pregnant in jail. The person who did it is still out there. Listen to Murder on Songbird Road on the iHeartRadio app,

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