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degree she's wanted since high school >> i am definitely thinking of going back to school for journalism. like it takes me - my major was communications. i can communicate quite well >> however, she had one more big hurdle to get over, anothe surgery. her 23rd. an operatio that'll take hours with recovery period of months. brittani could opt not to go through such torment. but fo her, there is no choice. the surgery is to get her smil back >> i had the biggest smile you could dream of. that's something -- that's what i wan back. i'm going to go for it
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>> her name was sarah, a sweet single mom, the baby in big-hearted family >> tried to protect her any wa that we could. a family turned army when she vanished >> this is how many people w have right now >> we just started searching >> they just wanted to fin her. >> that kind of emotion really drives you >> where was she >> was someone following her did someone attack her >> under scrutiny, the ex-boyfriend >> people are pointing fingers at him >> and three others sh encountered that night >> scared. >> how many times did they com talk to you? >> 30 plus >> two tantalizing clues, hand a print >> the subject had blood o their hand. and a trail on twitter. >> incredibly powerful. you ca almost see this happening in realtime >> could she help solve her ow mystery? >> she's fighting him off. >> it was so emotional. wanted to jump out of my seat. never in a million years would you expect something like that on long island, the fancy cars and the elites of the hamptons
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is a blue collar beach tow some call the poor man's paradise. but life was rich fo these brothers and sisters i mastic, new york, filled wit the love of a large tight-knit family. all that was taken awa one warm evening when evil rolled in with the summer tide their youngest sister wa missing. >> we just want you to com home safely. >> and for better or worse this family would go t extraordinary lengths to fin her. >> we're going to scour thos woods right now. >> we were our own investigators.
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>> here's me and five of the biggest guys you could probabl imagine, knocking on your door we're wanting answers. >> if you do not have a group, one right here >> you ever seen so many peopl so involved in a case before non-law enforcement? >> gratefully, no. missing person cases, especially missing girls, they always get everybody's emotion becaus it's just so horrible. >> i always tell her i'm sorry that it happened to her. >> 21-year old sarah goode was the little one with the bi personality. her older sisters samantha, lizzy, tabitha, an jennifer, say even though sara could take care of herself they still saw themselves as her protectors >> was everyone kinda lookin out for her, her being the baby? >> always. yeah. >> how many children in your family >> well there's nine of us >> nine siblings >> nine siblings >> 20 grandchildren. >> 20? >> yes >> oh, my goodness. how does your mom keep up
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>> i don't think any of us kee up. every day there's somebody asking, "how many of us ar there again? " >> seven sisters and two brothers. jennifer, who was 12 when sarah was born, fondl recalls that day >> i just remember going to th hospital after she was born. and mom let me change her firs poopie diaper. >> so she was, like, you little baby, too, it sound like >> she was. i would wake u with her in the middle of th night and feed her >> that is a sign of a big family when big sister i feeding the baby in the middle of the night >> yeah. and she screamed unti you stuffed the bottle in he mouth. >> as sarah grew older and her siblings started to marry, her sisters'husbands also looked out for her. her brother-in-law, nick giannetto, appointe himself chief protector. he me sarah when she was jus 3-years-old. >> she was very outgoing and talkative and very fun to be around. whenever i cooke something, she was right nex to me and wanting to learn how
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to do it, or -- or taste it. >> you two really bonded >> oh, yeah, absolutely. i was always there for her, and if someone bothered sarah, sara would definitely come to me an -- and let me know >> i heard a little story abou you. >> about >> big, strong nick would pain sarah's -- >> oh, sarah's nails - >> fingernails >> yes, yes, yes >> where does that come from - >> it was just you know some o the sisters would always b painting their nails. and, you know, me owning a hardwood floor business, being very particular in how i laid m finish out and how nice an neat everything had to be, i said, you know what, how har could it be to paint a fingernail, you know >> it was just another way nic took care of sarah. but even under watchful eyes, the unexpected can happen. and i did. after a long romance with her high school sweetheart, at 17, sarah got pregnant >> was she excited to be a mom >> yeah, she was. a little nervous, but everybody's nervous the first time they're a mom. but she had so much
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experience. you know, he sisters and brothers having so many kids. she was alway babysitter number one. >> allaura cicero and sara grew up in the sam neighborhood and quickly becam best friends. allaura says she was especially happy to hear sarah was having a girl. >> i was like, "oh, you're going to have a little sarah like, she's going to be just like you. and turns out that's what happened. she always pu jocelyn first. everything wa always about jocelyn, as i should be. >> jocelyn's dad couldn't be there when she was born. he ha joined the army and wa deployed overseas. when he returned home, it became clear his relationship with sara wouldn't survive the challenge of grown up life >> i'm not really sure wha happened there. i guess they grew apart >> sarah was now a single mo
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raising a baby girl on her own with the help of her family of course >> she was like a natura mother. you know, she knew wha to do and how to take care o her and love her up ever second. and that's what sh did. >> it had to be easier for her too, with all of you >> oh, yeah. >> uh-huh. >> and then all this family -- >> she had built-i babysitters. >> sarah didn't le teenage-motherhood stop he from following her dreams. >> she graduated from high school. and then she went to college and graduated from there. >> she landed a job as a medical technician and still managed to be a hands on mom t her now 4-year-old daughter. happy birthday dear jocely >> describe sarah when she would see jocelyn. >> her eyes would light up even for not seeing her for an hour, like when she, like, hel jocelyn and kissed her on th cheek and stuff, you felt it i
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your own heart. it was amazing >> sarah was a great mother. you know, she really stepped u to the plate for jocelyn >> so did nick, who wa jocelyn's godfather. he wa there for her first halloween. >> look at big uncle nick, you know, carrying jocelyn to he first house, you know, getting candy. >> and he helped in other ways like when sarah decided sh needed to buy a car. >> okay. what kind of car yo want? i want a bmw. i want a bmw. >> it just so happened, one of his friends was selling a 1999 bmw. >> we go over there and look a it. you know, she loves th car. and i'm like, you know, let -- let's just sit back, yo know, a day or two. think abou it, you know. because they break down. it's expensive t fix. >> no. i don't see her sitting around, thinking about it. >> no, not at that age. sh comes over, like, two days later she's like, "you'r coming with me to get this car right now. i want that car." >> and so she got it >> did she post her brand-ne bmw -- >> oh my god - >> all over social media >> all over social media >> was that how you could tell sarah was happy? by looking at her instagram, twitter, or facebook
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>> yes. besides that, she wa just so happy all the time. yo know, to get her to be mad was very hard. >> and on the night of friday, june 6, 2014, nick says sara was happy. she had recentl broken up with a boy she'd bee dating for two years and was looking forward to a night out with friends. nick had agree to babysit jocelyn and nothing seemed out of the ordinary whe sarah came by his house to dro off her daughter >> i had came home from work and she's like, "paint m nails." and i was like, "ah, leave me alone. i'm -- i'm tired. i'm going in the shower she was like, "no, i want yo to paint them now." so i was like, "all right, come on." we laughed and we talked and, you know, she was going out for th first time in a long time. >> before she left, sara posted on instagram a smilin selfie showing off her freshly painted nails. >> did she have any partin words when she left the house? >> i'll see you guys tomorrow. i love you. kiss, kiss, kiss jocelyn, kiss. and very happy. got in the car and left. >> but nick didn't see sarah the next day. no one did. sh was supposed to pick up he daughter at a family birthda party, but she never showed. and all calls and texts to her phone went unanswered. that'
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got to be an awful feeling >> yes. in your mind and i your heart your soul you'r saying to yourself, this is no normal, you know, this is no sarah. coming up >> the first clues to th mystery, her car near the wood and her messages on social media. >> was someone following her did someone attack her >> very creepy what she posted >> yes, very creepy. >> when dateline continues. >> was someone following her? did someone attack her >> very creepy what she posted >> yes, very creepy. >> when dateline continues just leaving you a voicemail. my number is 618-437-7425. okay. can anyone tell me what julie did wrong there? you got to repeat the number. i mean, no one's ever gonna get it the first time. -nope. -didn't leave her last name. no, the -- the phone tells you who called. she didn't mention a good time to call her back.
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sister lizzy says she knew something was terribly wrong when sarah didn't respond to messages that her daughter was asking for her >> jocelyn's like, "oh, i miss my mom." i said, "oh we'll cal her." and we called her and it went to voice mail. that's whe i -- i just thought somethin was not right because she woul always answer, especially if you mentioned jocelyn. >> it's heartbreaking when you think that a little girl wants to talk to her mom and you can't find her >> uh-huh. >> when sarah still hadn't appeared by sunday afternoon lizzy went to the police station to report her missing. >> i said, "i need to report her now. >> that report set things in motion. prosecutor janet albertson, since retired, wa brought on to this missing person's case from the beginning, learned that on the day sarah was a no-show at the party, a woman had spotted a blue bmw abandoned next to a wooded lot >> a police officer ha responded to that location thinking that maybe this is
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stolen car, the plates were -- were bent. >> albertson says the bmw wa found less than a mile fro sarah's mother's house where sarah and jocelyn also lived >> when the officer ran th plate number, it came back t sarah goode with an address. and after that, he went to sarah's home and there was nobody there because as we would later learn, they were a the birthday party >> around the same time lizz was at the police station, tha officer noticed the abandone car was still in the same spot >> the officer radios it i again. and at this point now sarah's family had reported he missing. >> so things were really clicking now >> exactly. and once it came back as a missing person, well now they've got a reason t really pay attention >> and her beloved car was the biggest clue. detectives neede the spare key, so they heade over to sarah's house. her sister jennifer was there an she desperately wanted to know "where was the car? >> i just remember overhearing one detective tell the other detective that the car is in eagle estates. and then i wa
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on the phone with nick. an that's when i told him like -- >> he said the eagle estates >> then we all followed them >> you went straight there t where the car was? >> right >> they told us not to g follow them and i said "i don' care if you have to arrest me. i'm following you. >> eagle estates was a place they knew well because it wa so close by. a large entourage of sarah's family headed ove there and tried to approach he bmw, but police wouldn't let them get too close >> what was that like, seein her car there? what did that tell you >> it was scary. >> it was hard and scary. they wouldn't let us go to it >> they would not let us nea it >> the police had a job to do, so things got heated. sarah' sisters say they shouted a detectives and detective shouted back >> we were yelling at them. was like, "open the trunk. >> yeah, we were yelling - >> they were like, "we're no touching it. >> "is she in there? " >> "we're not doing anything until you leave. >> they were yelling at us "you guys have to leave. >> but did you say, "no, i'm
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not leaving? " or did you leave? >> yeah. >> we did, but then they threatened they would arrest us. so obviously we don't want to be arrested. so we -- we di leave. and - >> we kind of left >> kind of - >> because we kept on circling around in our cars instead o our feet. but i wasn't going t leave her if she was in there. >> later that night, the famil finally got some answers detectives told them, sarah wa not in the car >> were you trying to hold ont hope >> yeah. >> trying to, yeah >> hope turned to action, an the family got organized in big way. >> everybody came to my house. and then we -- we just started searching, just anywhere w thought to even just go, w just went. >> how many search volunteer are we talking about >> there was at least 200 th first day. >> pretty humbling because you can see how many people that she touched and -- >> cared about her >> yeah. >> we just put it together i
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an hour on, you know, social media and this is how many, ho many people we have right now. but there's more people on the way and there's already people searching. >> beyond searching, this larg family started its own investigation, making calls an combing through social media >> checking facebook, making sure she didn't update anything >> the professional detectives were also looking at sarah's online life, piecing togethe clues from the friday night sh went missing. they started wit that picture she posted on instagram of her freshly painted nails. they learned sh was at nick's house around 6 00pm. and from the picture they could see what she wa wearing. >> she had on tank tops an this very unique tank top over it with an owl face and he little headband. >> police then confirmed tha after sarah kissed her daughte goodbye and left her brother-in-law's house, sh drove to a friend's place. >> she hooked up with a -- a friend of hers, a childhoo friend by the name of jaso flores >> a timeline was coming together. she picked up jaso in her bmw >> she and jason had referre to each other as cousins because they had been neighbor growing up when they wer
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younger, but they had drifte apart. she had really just kin of connected with jason abou two weeks before >> at 6:51 pm, a second selfie >> jason took a selfie of th two of them where you can se sarah driving. and she's s happy. i mean, she was jus beaming, you know. she jus looked like a happy kid, like, for her first night out in a while. >> they picked up brandon allen, a good friend of jason's and a new friend of sarah's an headed over to a small gathering, a dozen or so young people hanging out in this front yard. investigator estimate they stayed there about 40 minutes. before the left, they took this group sho at 10:18 pm. that's sarah in the pink sweatshirt next t jason. >> where does she go? does she go home? >> no. at that point, she an jason are going to go back t brandon's house. and he live on -- only around the corner so, sarah drove jason an brandon back to brandon's house, where they watched "the hobbit " a movie. >> around 1:00 in the morning, jason, sarah's childhood friend, wanted to leave. sarah agree to drive him home. after she
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dropped him off, he sent her a text at 1:17 am. >> basically saying, "are -- are you home okay? " and she responds, "yes." and we know that's on jason's phone, jason's phone, because the police have taken his phone to -- to download the information >> all this seemed routine then something ominous. on sarah's twitter feed, he brother-in-law nick learne that days before sarah wen missing she had tweeted, "so you know i live on a dead end. i see you creepin.'" and a second one, "getting threatene for days now. is that the ne thing to do? " >> the dead end part really wa the one that got to me. like was someone following her? did she get to the house and someone attack her? it's a dark, dead end, very dark where sh parks. >> they're very creepy, what she posted -
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>> very creepy, yes. ver creepy >> no one had any idea who o what she was referring to. there were so many questions and sarah's brother-in-law wanted answers. with the hel of some large friends, nic went looking for anyone who wa with sarah the night she vanished. he sounded more like a detective than a floor refinisher >> who was she talking to, who'd you see her talking to who'd you see her last leave with at the party, who she - who she was socializing with >> i mean, you're big, stron nick. did you want to be like, "you know what? i want to pu this to use and go find ou some information here? " >> i did. we're wanting answers, you know, and here's me an five of the biggest guys you could probably imagine knocking on your door. >> was anybody getting you really hot under the collar? >> no, no. i wasn't gettin nothing from anybody >> so that's got to be frustrating in itself. >> yes >> that nobody's standing out. >> nobody's standing out everybody was really, sincerel telling the truth. >> but there was someone i particular nick wanted t question, sarah's ex-boyfriend
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their two-year relationship ha just ended, and sarah's family was getting suspicious >> no one can say what was really going on between them why they split. but we thought we knew him well enough to - you know, we thought he was great guy, and she loved him >> you don't know everybody. you don't know exactly wha someone is capable of doing. >> you don't. it's not easy to just trust people that way >> and he didn't show up t work the day after >> yeah. >> she went missing? >> uhh, hmmm. coming up. new questions about the ex >> there were a whole bunch of rumors going around about dj and his family >> when dateline continues
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i have to fine the wishing star. sniff him out. -all i can smell, is cats. oooh. good night. [ cheering ] you're still here? ok, one more number. puss in boots. only in theater, rated pg. >> three days after single mom sarah goode disappeared from her home on the south shore of long island, scores of searchers continued to comb th woods, post signs and follow leads hoping to locate her >> your baby girl can't wait t give you that great big hu when you come home >> so far detectives wer revealing only one clue to the public >> the fact that her car was found unoccupied, she love this car, something is suspicious here and we want to find this girl >> nicole allegrezza, reporter for "the advance, " a local long island newspaper wa assigned to the story. >> it was the biggest stor that i had gotten yet. and i also hit home because she wa about the same age as me, little bit younger. what was going on social media, wha
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were people saying >> well, there were hashtags created almost immediately #sarahgoode. #findsarahgoode >> and on instagram her friend were getting worried >> and nicole says during th searches, the gossip mill wa buzzing with rumors abou sarah's recent breakup with he long-term boyfriend. his nam was dj >> there were a whole bunch of rumors going around about dj and his family. and that thing were not going well in their relationship and that they had just broken up, i think, ten days they said before she went missing. >> so nicole was a bit taken aback when she spotted the ex-boyfriend while she was out covering the story. she saw hi in a crowd of searchers. >> as a reporter, i felt like had to talk to him once i knew who he was. but i also was a
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little cautious to go near him because i was, like, "what i he actually had an involvement in this? " >> investigators, who were working around the clock i hopes of finding sarah alive heard about the ex-boyfriend >> did he need to be looked at >> i think everybody should be looked at. because when yo don't know what happened, yo can't exclude anybody. >> there was an anonymous call on the crime stoppers tipline. detectives learned a strange and disturbing story about the ex-boyfriend, dj, and hi mother. apparently, the brea up with sarah had gotten ugly. >> dj had left a threatening a voicemail. >> uh-huh, yes. the messag that dj left in the voicemai wasn't physically threatenin bodily harm to sarah. it was more, "take that post down bitch. >> that post, albertson says was a message sarah put on her facebook page insulting dj and a member of his family. sh says the message upset dj' mother so much that the mother called sarah and threatened to
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kill her. so sarah called 911. >> what is her complaint in th call? or what is her concern >> i think her concern in th call was just to make a report and really, the report she was looking to make was that the mother had threatened her abou this post. >> the prosecutor thought this might explain one of sarah's strange tweets. the one sh posted just four days before she went missing. "getting threatened for days now. i that the new thing to do? >> the tweet was clearly associated with the phone call from the ex-boyfriend about, "take the post down, " and the mother being upset that she ha put the post up. >> but she wasn't sure what to make of the other one. "sooo you know i live on a dead end. i see you creepin.'" >> obviously her and dj ha broken up. i don't really know
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what the tweet was about >> detectives questioned the ex-boyfriend dj and took his prints. and continued thei investigation. >> all right. let's go >> sarah's family also kep digging. at first, her brother-in-law nick didn't think dj had anything to d with sarah's disappearance after all he was one of th first people to volunteer in the search >> he was there from day one when sarah went missing. i mean, immediately came to my house. was getting a bunch of friends together and we were going t go ow looking for sarah. >> that was until nick heard about dj's angry words o sarah's voicemail. >> once we found out, he kinda stood away. the detectives really didn't want us talkin to him >> so were you thinking abou him as you're learning thi information? >> at that point i reall couldn't rule out dj. th detective did say to me, nick, you really can't trust nobod at this point right now. s maybe you want to just leave him alone. >> what did you think when h said that to you >> you know, a lot of things you know? a lot of bad things, i guess you could say. you know, hurting him-wise >> but he followed the
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detective's request and stayed away from the ex-boyfriend, fo the time being. nick and the rest of sarah's family had others to question. anyone who was with sarah the night she disappeared was on their radar >> they threw me up against th car and started screaming at m and all that >> really? >> yeah. they were blaming anybody who was there that night. >> coming up - >> tears were rolling down m eyes. i says, if i find th person who hurt her, i wil bring him to you >> pain and rage, a family hellbent on getting answers. >> they knew i was reall serious. when dateline continues. hello, i'm dara eww, the toilet sneeze. every flush spews harmful bacteria onto surfaces. that when touched, can quickly spread throughout your home. help stop the spread with microban24. with it's long lasting shield, it's the only leading brand proven to keep killing
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layton and here's what's happenin right now. dangerously cold temperature are continuing to phrase muc of the country as blizzards, and then arcti
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blast target the northeast and the midwest. multiple people have died, and hundreds of thousands more hav been left without powe tonight. police say that five peopl have been arrested in th shooting death of a 19 year ol man at the mall of america, on friday night authorities still trying t figure out a motive here but as you can imagine, that shooting said people scramblin for cover. as they finished up thei holidashy opping and now back to dateline ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sarah goode had now bee missing for four days and he family was doing everythin possible to find her and the some >> we just stayed up all night going over the same things ove and over again. talking amongs ourselves. >> like, what can we d tomorrow >> you guys are all in the dark, right, about this investigation? >> that's why we had to do
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everything ourselves >> that's why you decided to start investigating? >> right. yeah >> and as for sarah' brother-in-law nick, polic were worried he might be takin things too far >> i get called back into th precinct. they tell me, you go to calm down. you're going t hurt somebody. >> but nick wasn't ready t back down. >> as tears were rolling dow my eyes, i said, you know, if find the person that hurt he or harmed her in any which way i will bring him to you. >> almost like nick the bounty hunter >> yeah. yes, yes. and the knew i wasn't playing. the knew i was really serious at that point >> think you could've brough that person in alive >> i don't. at that time? no >> he was determined to ge answers. his mission was t find anyone who might know where to find sarah. tha included sarah's childhood friend jason flores and her ne friend, brandon allen. all three of them had been a brandon's house watching a movie the night sh disappeared. luckily for brandon, the police got to him first. detectives called him i the middle of the night. >> he came down to the polic
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station voluntarily, i think o that sunday night. brandon was questioned by the police for hours. >> any red flags with him? >> i don't think so, reall early on. i mean, he -- he didn't have that much contac with sarah. he didn't have tha deeper relationship with her >> brandon shared his stor with us. he says all he wanted to do was help find sarah. >> at that point i'm thinking, all right. there's something wrong here. we got to go and help as much as we can jus figure out where she is. >> what kinda questions were they asking you? >> when's the last time yo seen sarah? when's the las time you talked to her? basi questions like that. >> and what were you telling them >> whatever they wanted to know >> what's their tone >> aggressive. >> did you start to get little worried? like do they think i know where she is? >> yeah. at some point i did feel like i had to convinc them >> detectives also asked him t give a dna sample and somethin else he didn't understand at the time, handprints. he agree to both. >> did you have anything to do with sarah's disappearance >> no. >> brandon says he had only me sarah a few weeks earlier. h did know her ex-boyfriend dj
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though, and had heard about th breakup. he and dj had gone to high school together >> were you friends? >> we were acquaintances. would see him around school an outside of school and stuff. h was all right. >> was he, kind of known aroun the school because of -- >> yeah -- >> his athletics >> yeah. i would say so. >> did sarah ever talk about him? >> no. she didn't really mention him because i'm pretty sure when she started hangin out with us that's when they first broke up >> and brandon says sara didn't seem worried about he ex-boyfriend or anyone els that night. instead she looked happy and carefree as she left his house around 1:00 a.m. >> she goes on home. and that' it >> that was the last time i've ever seen her. >> the police let brandon go but told him to stay in th area. he left the precinct, he says, and joined the search fo sarah. >> why did you feel the need t be there >> just because i felt like had an obligation. >> he had no idea his presence would cause such a stir with some members of sarah's family who were also out looking fo her. >> you know, they threw me u against the car and starte screaming at me and all that they didn't know who to blame. so they were blaming anybody who was there that night >> they knew that you had been with sarah that night. >> yeah. >> what did you say to them? >> at that point i was just, like, begging for my life. like, i'm sorry. like, i -- please don't hurt me. i don't kno where she is. you know? like
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let me go. >> did you really think they were going to hurt you >> yeah. they were telling m if i didn't tell them where sh was they were gonna kill me. >> wow >> and there were witnesse there who i was with who can back that up >> were you really afraid? >> uh-huh. i was really scared traumatized. >> but while brandon was sayin he had nothing to do wit sarah's disappearance, polic received puzzling informatio on the crimestoppers tipline they heard about brandon's brother posting this picture o social media. and the brothe also mentioned in another post that sarah had been at their house the night she went missing. >> so brandon's brother ha
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posted his bloody knuckles o facebook and said that sarah had been there >> well -- >> is that odd >> there were -- there were tw different posts on two different days >> the posts, she says, were not related. the picture of th knuckles had nothing to do wit sarah. >> he was not there the nigh that this occurred. he's not a the party with these kids. and he wasn't at the house wit them watching "the hobbit. >> detectives chased down more tips and questioned more people. but so far nothing was bringing them closer to findin sarah. so they pressed on. along with her ex-boyfriend an her new friend brandon detectives were looking at someone else. they asked him t come to the station. >> he goes from mr. nice guy t "we know you know where sh is." smacking me, choking me spitting on me >> coming up -- the last known person with sarah that night in jail. >> i was crying myself t sleep. >> did you feel like you wer
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then three, four and five -- still no sign of sarah. for he family, the not knowing wa unbearable >> i think deep down, you hope like, if you found her, like
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maybe she was still alive. and she was breathing, you might b able to help her >> each night, sarah's sisters brothers, cousins, her entir extended family piled into one house, comforted by th closeness. >> we all stayed at my mom's house every single night on th floor, couches, kitchen, rooms we were -- everybody was there >> we didn't even sleep. you heard the helicopters. we went back out to search >> oh, yeah, we were out. we were out all hours of th night. if we heard a helicopter, we all jumped in our car t follow it. or if we heard police car, we were going. w were going to find it. >> they were relentless. using the hashtag #findsarahgoode, they organized a massive searc effort covering miles an miles. >> how grueling was the search >> it was horrible >> it was bad. it was raining. some days it was steaming hot. >> even it was hot, you were still in layers because yo were in woods and you didn't want the ticks all over you. >> and every day, no answers >> no sarah. >> family and friends searched places like the smith poin county park sarah loved. and the tick infested woods near where her car had been found for three of her six sisters - jennifer, tabitha, and samanth
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-- the search was especially difficult. >> all three of you were pregnant during the search that must have just added to how hard it was? >> it was hard >> probably worse because know by the end of the day m feet were so swollen, i didn't even want to move off of the couch but i knew i had t because i wanted to find her you feel sick to your stomach, but you couldn't tell if it wa sickness from pregnancy or sickness because you're afraid you're going to find her and she's going to be dead >> in what seemed like paralle investigations, everyone detectives talked to, th family tried to talk to as well. one person her sisters hadn't been able to reach wa sarah's childhood friend, jaso flores. he was the one sarah dropped off before going hom
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that night. since he was the last person known to be with her before she vanished, the called his cell phone. >> we tried to, but no one eve answered >> did anyone worry that h could've been involved or know something? >> yeah. >> we don't know how or why bu we just thought he was there with her. we just speculated that he had to have somethin to do with it. >> not about to sit around and wait for jason's call, sarah's brother-in-law nick and hi large posse went out looking for him. >> you couldn't find him >> no. >> do you think that was o purpose, on jason's part >> i think at that point, th word was out that, you know, w were out looking and we were going to do whatever it had to take to get answers. so whoeve got the word were hiding prett good >> do you think jason wa nervous, worried that you were out looking for him? >> i would -- yes, yes absolutely >> because he wasn't makin himself readily available, did that say anything to you >> you have to say to yourself does he know something obviously she was with him he's got to know something >> what nick didn't know was
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the real reason jason was mia. he was behind bars. detectives had brought him in for questioning and discovered h had an unrelated harassmen warrant, so they were able t detain him >> two days jason was with investigators? >> yes. he spent a significant amount of time with 6t precinct detectives. >> did they feel, like, "hey if you know -- we have to find sarah -- >> uh-huh. >> "if you know something, tel us." >> oh, absolutely. he's th last person that she drops off so, you know, at this point, you have to look at thes people very seriously. and you have to make sure that they're telling you the truth. >> prosecutor albertson says jason's story was consistent and he was adamant that he had no idea where sarah was. >> did they take his dna a well >> they did. he consented. and he gave them his handprints. >> again handprints, not you typical police request in
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missing person's case. the reason police were collectin them would soon become clear jason also agreed to turn over the clothes he was wearing the night sarah went missing. hi encounter with police al seemed very cooperative. >> everything is not what it seems. >> but when jason flores sat down to speak to us, he says his visit with detectives at the 6th precinct was like scene out of a bad cop film. >> the detectives call me. and i willingly went there obviously. because why would i not go? you know what i mean >> to the police department? >> yeah. so we get there, this and that. he goes from -- mr nice guy to "we know you kno where she is." smacking me choking me. spitting on me >> wow >> and, i was scared. i wa scared. even though i knew i didn't do anything, they still had me, like thinking in m head, like, what the (bleep) i going on right now? i didn't get no phone call, no one read me my rights >> what were they asking you what kind of questions >> it went from how do you kno sarah to where the (bleep) i
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she? you (bleep) little (bleep). we know you know where she is. yeah, you were in eagle estates? where the (bleep) were las night? like just ripping m mind apart >> and he says it didn't get easier when he was left alon in the jail cell >> make me go crazy and cry in the cell all night >> you actually were crying? >> yeah. i was crying myself t sleep. on a roll of toilet paper that was my pillow >> what were you thinking about, as far as sarah? >> i was worried. i wa concerned. because she had a lot to lose. beautiful baby, beautiful family. nice job good career going for herself. >> did you have anything to do with sarah's disappearance >> not one bit >> after two days they let him go but warned him to sta close. >> did you feel like when yo were walking out of that polic department that they weren't done with you? that they still felt like -- >> oh, i knew. i knew they
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weren't. >> how many times did they com and talk to you -- >> 30 plus >> the police declined t comment on jason's claims of how he was treated b detectives. as for sarah's family, they had their own suspicions >> her family was convinced it was me >> they were >> yeah. >> how did you know that >> the cops made it seem lik that >> did you feel like you wer enemy number one >> most definitely. i felt s targeted. and it wasn't a good feeling. >> sarah's family and friend were becoming more and mor desperate. they didn't know wh was behind her disappearance so they kept digging and finally hit a solid lead >> coming up - >> it was so many unanswered questions. i just had to fin stuff out. >> a best friend's hunch and a eagle eyed neighbor. >> i was wondering what is h doing? >> helped put someone new on the radar. when dateline continues. sarah's family ha made it clear they weren't going to be spectators in th search for their sister. >> that's where her car wa found and that's -
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clear they weren't going to be spectators in the search for their sister >> that's where her car wa found and that's - >> they were activel investigating he disappearance. and so were her friends. >> you decided to play detective a little bit >> yeah, i guess >> sarah had left a trail of cyber clues. and her bes friend allaura cicero wa determined to follow them. >> what was it that made you decide i need to do somethin more here than just search >> there were so man unanswered questions. like, felt like i just had to find stuff out. >> and she had an idea of wher to start. turns out sarah wa on allaura's family cell phone plan. that meant allaura had access to sarah's phon records. so she pulled them up on her cell. >> what did you find? anything that jumped out at you >> just random numbers tha i've never seen before the sam numbers over and over again. like, back and forth >> did you start calling any o the numbers? >> i did >> and? what kind of respons
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were you getting when you woul call >> "last we seen her was at th party." that's about it. nobod knew anything. >> as allaura scrolled through sarah's call log, there was on number that caught her attention. >> it was a number that kept reoccurring. so we wanted to figure out who it was, you know. so we called and then -- >> who answered? >> dante. just the sam response as everyone else. i don't know where she is. haven't seen her >> dante taylor was a friend o jason flores'and was part of the group sarah was hanging ou with that friday night. hi name wasn't familiar to her, but alluara's boyfriend ha heard of him >> my boyfriend was like, "oh, i think that's the kid up th block." so that's when w realized that that was the neighbor >> did your boyfriend's family want to keep an eye on dante >> i guess we were looking out for him. looking out for everyone, you know. it's jus like, when you're in a situation like that, every little thing that happens, you're paying extra attentio to at this point >> her boyfriend's mother, dehlia mckernan, heard about sarah's connection to dante, s
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she decided to pay extra attention to him. he lived wit his mom, a few houses away >> what kind of things were yo seeing? anything suspicious? >> you know, at the time, wouldn't know if it wa suspicious >> like when she says sh thought she saw dante cleaning out his car. >> yeah, on two differen occasions i noticed that he ha all of the -- he had the car doors open, the trunk open. he was in and out of the vehicl -- just unusual behavior. yo know just wondering, i was wondering what is he doing >> did you feel like, i should tell sarah's family what i'm seeing >> oh, well, i was always in contact with them. >> not content to sit back and just watch delia became dante' part-time shadow >> you actually followed him >> i actually -- >> on occasion >> i did. i actually did because, honestly, i really, really thought he would lead u
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to sarah >> weren't you nervous? i mean if he really did have somethin to do with her disappearance then that would make him ver dangerous. >> ah, yes. and you know sometimes you think with you heart. and you really hope for the best. and you think that this -- if this could lead you to sarah, then yeah. >> you're following him where, then? so what kind of places are you ending up? >> he went to an auto part store on one occasion. h stopped at a hero shop. he stopped in the parking lot of shopping center. i just kept thinking, okay. sooner or later, he's going to make his way bac to sarah >> did you feel at all lik kind of an amateur private detective? >> i felt like a mom. and it was extremely personal because of the connection and th history that we have wit sarah's family >> delia had known sarah since she was a little girl.
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>> who was the sarah you kne as a child? and beyond >> feisty. independent. loving she had a beautiful smile. she was very family-oriented. sh loved, adored her daughter >> when nick, who was runnin out of patience, heard about dante's number showing up on sarah's call log, he started following him. nick had hear the police wanted to talk to dante, so when he spotted hi outside his house, nick called 911. >> this is about the sarah case, the girl that's been missing >> okay. >> and that kid dante is on th corner, sitting in his car >> but nick didn't wait fo police to arrive. he was about to take matters into his own hands. coming up, a dramatic turn in the case >> you felt helpless. it's a big pill to swallow.
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two months after we arrived, my three-year-old came to visit, and claire lit up. she was quiet before. and i thought it was just because cancer's hard, but she was really missing her siblings, and i didn't realize how much. all right, young lady. we're going to see how much you weigh, and how tall you are real quick. ♪♪ mama. hey, claire. [ laughter ] ♪♪ [ male announcer ] families never receive a bill from st. jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food, so they can focus on helping their child live. when you call or go online with your credit or debit card right now, we'll send you this st. jude t-shirt you can wear to show your support to help st. jude save the lives of these children. i experienced life at st. jude.
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nyquil severe. >> continuing our story, sarah goode, a young, single mom, wa missing. >> in your mind, in your heart in your soul, you wanted answers. >> her ex-boyfriend and thre others that night were under scrutiny >> did you feel like you wer enemy number one >> definitely. >> where was she? a break in the case was coming. >> you can't ask for bette evidence than the bad guy' print and blood. >> i just wanted to rip hi heart out of him >> sarah goode disappeared after a night out with friends and her brother-in-law, nick learned more than what the were telling. he soon learne that a party-goer called sarah's phone that evening and
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police wanted to talk to him so did nick. >> ultimately, nick finds hi and tails him like in th movies. nick called 911. >> nick went right up to daunt and confronted him. i was like get against the car, you - every curse word -- and seemed pretty confident like. >> you must have wanted so badly to get this man to tel you where she was. >> yes >> but the police show up? >> and there was nothing i could do >> as the detectives approache daunte, nick continued yelling >> i'm just cursing at him and you know, vocally being nast to him. he wasn't saying nothing bad to me. >> the police respond. mor family down and it got chaotic >> the police worried about hi
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safety >> mr. taylor was ultimately transported to the local precinct and subsequently he was interviewed by detectives. >> was daunte taylor givin them anything? was he helping? sfle provided the police wit his palm prints, his fingerprints, he gave a consen to search his phone. >> and when detectives confronted daunte with phone records showing he had bee talking to sarah the night she had been missing, he had a explanation. >> he was calling not to speak to sarah, but to speak to jaso and sarah picked up. >> and they confirmed daunte was telling the truth. sarah's
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childhood friend, jason, had been used sarah's phone that night to communicate wit daunte because his own phone didn't have cell service >> mr. taylor was released and he was free to go home while the investigation continues. >> did that say something when he was willingly giving his yo he fingerprints and samples? >> sure. >> it was a real who done it >> six days and no sign of sarah goode. her brother-in-law, nick, ran out of people to question. so he did what other do when they start to lose hope. he went to church. >> i get on my hands and knees and i say, you know what, lord you could not give me anything else in this lifetime. let m bring her home. you know? want to find her >> later that day, nick met up
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with a search party. by now he and the rest of the family had exhausted every possible lead. so they decided to retrace their steps and went back to the woods not far from where sarah's car had been found >> i park. i get about a half-a-block over. i get a phone call. they think they se a body in the woods. so we all start running and now there' -- i couldn't tell you. mayb 15, 20, 30 people at the end o the woods. and the smell was really bad. then you knew it was a body >> nick and sarah's brothe frankie took a closer look >> you know, everybody's screaming and yelling an crying on the floor. >> was something telling you i was her? >> the sweater, it was a total indication. so me and franki look at each other and say "we're going to tell them it's not her. >> why >> we still wanted hope that she was alive. >> nick and frankie left the woods. and later ran into on of sarah's sisters >> and i just remember screaming at him like, like, you have to tell me if it's he or not. and i just remember my brother was like, "it's no her." and he just kept walking
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like, they just didn't want to talk about it." and he jus kept walking. like, they jus didn't want to talk about it >> did you believe him >> i didn't believe him. i kno it was her >> sarah's family and friend had never stopped looking. their tireless efforts had finally paid off. they had found sarah's body. any last bits of hope were gone. one of the searchers called 911. when sarah's sister tabitha heard the sirens it became all too real >> there was like a white noise, like, you just felt go through your body, that you knew something -- whether it wa sarah or something of sarah's, it was found >> how do you get that officia confirmation that it really wa her? >> they made us all go back to my mom's house because it wa around the block. he just stoo us all in a circle and jus said that they believe it wa sarah. >> but they couldn't confirm i yet. >> yeah. >> they wouldn't say it really was her. >> as chief of the homicid unit for the suffolk count d.a.'s office, janet albertson headed straight to the scene
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>> unfortunately, you know her body had decomposed significant amount in that short six-day period. it's jus sad. you know, you're just standing over this -- what was clearly six days before, a beautiful, young girl. and wha you had left was a horror. >> albertson says she didn't need to wait for test results. she knew it was sarah. she recognized her clothes fro these pictures >> did the shirt match the photos >> yeah. and when the medica examiner removed the garment and she laid them out on the gurney to be photographed, you could visualize each of th tank tops including the ow shirt and the pink sweatshirt. >> the same crowds of family and friends who had searched for sarah had now come to sa farewell. nick was back at church. this time for sarah' funeral. >> how is everyone handling th news that this part of everything has now ver tragically and sadly come to a end?
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>> it just really -- you know, a punch in the face. it's just -- you're mad almost. you're mad at yourself almost, yo know? because you couldn't d -- like, you felt helpless >> and you've always bee sarah's protector. >> yes. that's how i felt. lik i failed >> and you were the last membe of her family to say goodbye >> yes. it's a big pill to swallow. >> you helped her get ready. >> for her night out. and painted her nails. yes >> you never could have known. >> you never know. you shoul always tell your loved ones yo love them. you really don' know >> his deep sorrow was clouded by anger and suspicion. no that the search for sarah wa over, it was time to find he killer. so far detectives ha made no arrests, but nick ha
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his eye on someone >> he was the only one. that i just wanted to rip his heart out of him. coming up -- >> that's a big deal >> tremendous deal >> a telltale piece of evidence >> it's almost like it was the killer's calling card. >> it was his signature. sarah goode's family detectives ha made no arrests, but nick ha his eye on someone >> he was the only one. that i just wanted to rip his heart out of him. coming up -- >> that's a big deal >> tremendous deal >> a telltale piece of evidence >> it's almost like it was the killer's calling card. >> it was his signature.
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friends walked the beach i mastic, new york, to say their final goodbyes at a place that had always brought her suc joy. but as they tossed flower into the ocean they felt n peace. weeks had gone by wit no word on who killed sarah.
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>> you're trying to grieve the loss of your sister and there' the realization that there's a killer on the loose? >> we weren't told anything, basically. we were just told that they were looking int people, and they have people i mind >> yeah, i think we called almost every day to see if the found somebody or if they were questioning more people and we just got the runaround >> that's got to put the whole community on edge. >> uh-huh. >> what the family didn't know was police were getting closer to finding her killer. and now sarah's body gave investigator more clues. they could tell it was a brutal murder. she had been stabbed more than 4 times. >> this young lady has six sharp force injuries to he forehead, a broken nose, a sta wound that went through an through the front to the bac of her shoulder. she's a got a stab wound into the clavicle she's got two stab wounds to her lower leg. >> the prosecutor had a theory as to what started this viciou attack >> the killer wanted something from her she didn't want t give up and he was pulling her towards him. >> albertson believes sarah ha
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resisted a sexual advance, s her attacker raped her befor stabbing her to death. >> it's very clear when yo looked at it that he landed on her from behind, pinned he down, and inflicted thos injuries because she had bruising on her legs, front an back, inside the right and lef thigh that were inflicted whil she was alive. >> semen was found in sarah' body and leaves and twigs ha been stuffed between her leg in an attempt, the prosecuto surmised, to cover up dna. >> this is brute force. this i an animal. >> and when they looked at the forensic evidence, the prosecutor says it was clear the struggle began insid sarah's bmw. >> there was a significant amount of blood and a larg clump of her hair in the doo jam. >> it's a frightening discovery, finding hair and blood >> it is. and the amount o hair that was out -- hanging out of that door jam was significant. >> sarah's bmw had been towe to the police department's impound yard where forensi experts went to work >> they spent quite a long
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amount of time going over that car. >> besides blood and hair, something else caught thei attention. >> they noticed almost immediately on the hood of her bmw was red-brown staining >> karen oswald, a fingerprint expert, worked the case. she says once investigator visually inspected the stainin on the hood, they dusted it fo prints >> there were a few handprints that were developed on the hood >> and were you able to ge prints off of them? was it usable handprint >> they weren't usable the way they were with just the whit fingerprint powder. ther weren't enough characteristics to compare it to somebody else >> then they did a second test using a chemical called amid black. and this time, there wa enough detail. one of th handprints was useable for comparison. and the test tol them something else. >> so if there's blood on this palm print it's going to now show up with this chemical >> hopefully, yes. >> and what happened when yo put the chemical on it >> it did develop. >> so the palm print turne
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blue >> yes. blue >> which means that there wa very likely blood in that palm print. >> correct >> and that's a big deal >> it's a tremendous deal. >> while oswald and her team examined the prints, other investigators tested the blood to see who it belonged to. >> the blood came back to sara goode. >> oswald believed the kille had attacked sarah, got he blood on his hands and the carelessly left his prints. so that's why detectives had been gathering handprints from ever potential suspect. the prosecutor says they knew if they could find a match, the could likely solve this crime. >> it's almost like it was the killer's calling card. >> it was his signature. >> the print specialist wa able to compare that blood signature with those o potential suspects detective sent her way >> you don't always know homicide's level of interest i somebody. you're going t compare these prints to anybod they ask >> and one by one she checke for possible matches helping police cross names off their list, like sarah's ex-boyfriend, dj. his prints did not match neither did brandon allen's. i
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was his house sarah had been a that night. he says once he wa cleared, detectives starte treating him differently >> they just wanted to kno what we knew >> you could feel that >> yeah. >> they're not really lookin at me. they just want me t help >> uh-huh. >> and someone police had kept in jail for two days, the last known person to see sarah alive, jason flores was also cleare by his palm print. >> and they come to my house and tell me. >> who came? the detectives? >> yeah, because they know how much i went through and this wasn't easy for anyone to go through. especially someon you're accusing of it. i jus thinking, like, wow, i jus really feel sarah, like, wit me right now >> as oswald cross-checked pal prints, delia mckernan had bee keeping a close eye on her neighbor dante taylor. remember, he'd been with the group sarah was hanging out with tha fateful night and his cell number showed up on sarah'
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phone records. >> were you glued to you window >> absolutely. as crazy as tha might sound, yes >> even though dante had bee questioned by detectives and let go, delia continued to watch him. using her high-powered binoculars, she kept an eye on his house. an then one night coming home fro dinner, delia said the stree was blocked off. a polic flatbed was towing dante's car >> we were unable to access th street because the tow truck was blocking it and th officers not allowing anyone
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even if you lived here not allowing anyone down the street. we thought, okay, this is really serious. this coul be it. >> weeks passed and nothin happened. police didn't arrest anyone. meanwhile, from th time sarah had gone missing, dante had been hanging out wit brandon and jason. they ha been friends for years >> what kind of guy was he >> he was definitely a ladie man. he was very jealous. he was a jealous type of man. >> did the ladies like him >> yeah. i guess it was hi eyes. that's what i always heard, was that they liked his eyes >> and did he like the attention from women >> yeah. he liked to be th center of attention all th time. anywhere we were he woul try to be on the spotlight >> and brandon says dante wa trying to make something of hi life >> why did he want to go int the marines? >> i don't know. probably just like anybody else though. serv their country. >> but dante dropped out not
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long after basic training an had recently returned home. an while sarah was missing, brandon says dante seemed off. >> it's hard to explain. you know, you would have to see fo yourself. you know? like, bein around him and getting vibes it just wasn't right. somethin wasn't right >> talk about those vibes. >> creepy. like, like, he'll just stand there and just star at you >> did that make you uncomfortable? >> i would just look away. >> but yet, you all kept hanging out with him >> yeah. >> and jason thought maybe dante's short stint in the marines had changed him. >> we were actually good friends at one point and the he went away. came back an then he was just weird >> jason remembers a weird incident one day when they wer at a barbecue not long after sarah went missing. dante go into an argument with anothe one of their friends and pulle out a shotgun. >> so dante popped his trunk and started pointing the gun a him. and then brandon ran up t dante and pushed him back with the gun. and dante put the gun back in his trunk and that was
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that like. >> what did you think when h pulled out a gun >> i was just on the roof, like, i'm staying over here. i'm not going near that gun. i don't like guns. >> he had just bought it >> yes >> to his friends, dante's behavior seemed erratic, but there was something else t consider. just as jason, brandon and the ex-boyfriend had done, dante willingly gave his handprints. if his print had matched wouldn't polic have arrested him? there was more to this story, so muc more. coming up -- >> if you follow it, it' amazing. >> a deep dive into sarah' cell phone records reveals a secret, early-mornin rendezvous >> you see sarah is home and all hell broke loose fro there. >> when dateline continues eww, the toilet sneeze. every flush spews harmful bacteria onto surfaces. that when touched, can quickly spread throughout your home.
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here's what's happening righ now. thousands of more flights have been canceled or delays on christmas eve. as a monster storm continues wreaking havoc across much o the u.s. flights through atlanta, chicago, and denver were jus some of those affected and thousands of visitors have descended on the biblical town of bethlehem to celebrat christmas. pardon me, thousands packed th biblical town to attend th midnight mass. and after two years of covid closures, locals are welcoming those huge crowds. now back to dateline >> on the night sarah goode wa murdered, detectives already knew she had dropped off her friend jason at around 1:0 a.m. and a few minutes later texted him that she had made i home safely. but it wasn't until they combed throug sarah's phone records an checked cell tower data that they started to figure out wha happened next. those cell phon
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records were really telling yo a story. >> it's incredibly powerful. i you follow it, it's amazing. you see sarah is home. >> lawrence opisso, an assistant district attorne with the suffolk county d.a.'s office, worked the case. >> and jason texts her, "are you home? are you home safe? " and she says, "yes." and all hell broke loose from there. >> he says after that text sarah got a call from someon else >> somebody is speaking to her and there's conversations goin back and forth >> when detectives tracked the cell phone movements, they could see whoever was talkin to sarah started off in mastic new york. then traveled abou ten miles north to where sarah was living near eagle estates. >> she's home. but we see this phone number, this cel instrument with this phone number move very deliberatel right up to sarah goode's home where the phones come together >> once the cell phone pinge near sarah's house all phone communication stopped. prosecutors believe that's whe sarah and her caller started communicating in person. >> she receives a call from young man and at 1:30 in the morning, you know, she went ou to meet him. >> albertson theorized sarah
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who was 21 and a single mom, wanted to make the most of thi rare night out. so when she go an offer to keep the party going, she took it >> i think her decision wa just kind of naive and foolish and unfortunately, you know, i turned out to be fatal >> so who was this person sara met up with on the night she was murdered? police traced th number >> it ultimately was identifie to dante taylor. >> 19-year-old dante taylor, the handsome marine corp drop-out. when police ha questioned him, back when sara was missing, he told them he and sarah never got together after the group split up tha night. >> he maintained that he asked her to hang out and that she said, "no, " she wasn't goin to hang out. and he wa confronted with phone record and cell tower information tha said otherwise. and, you know, he basically said those record must be wrong. so the record are not wrong. you know, peopl are liars. records aren't. >> and even though sarah and dante were part of the group hanging out together the night she went missing, their mutual friend jason flores says the two barely interacted. h didn't make any comment, "oh she's cute, " or any - >> he came up to her car, an we were sitting in her car >> he says the three of them had a short conversation
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>> and then he walked away. an that was the only thing. >> the family had also bee suspicious of dante. when they called him while looking for sarah -- >> we talked to him twice. onc at night, when we firs started. and then in the morning. i think he just switched that either he did or didn't see her. i don' remember >> he might not have gotten hi story straight >> yeah. >> police already had cell records linking dante to sarah so what about his palm print karen oswald remembers whe dante came in to give hi prints >> he was a regular guy. he wa polite, helpful. he was a nice guy. >> when someone acts like that do you think, "oh, it probably wasn't him"? >> i don't make a determinatio on whether i think it was them
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or not. i've seen enough peopl who have done really bad things, and to your face they're nice, they're polite, they'r respectful. but demeanor change >> oswald carefully compared the ridges from the bloody pal print to dante's. finally hit. >> it matched to dante taylor. >> how did that feel to make that match? that now you'v potentially caught the killer. >> in one instance it feel great because you always wan to be part of that team that gives the evidence that catche somebody who's done somethin this awful. but the reality is you never actually want to wor a case like this. you neve want to hear the story of what happened to sarah. you immediately think, you know, she met this guy at a party. that could have been me or any of my friends or my sister >> but even with the palm prin and the cell phone records all pointing to dante as sarah's killer police didn't arres him. there was a problem and a brand new lead. coming up -- >> we received information tha there might be another victi out there. >> another victim? >> he had a knife. he had it a
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>> because the detective believed they'd made it clea to him that he was not under arrest, that he was, in fact free to go >> but albertson knew there wa a strong possibility a judge might not see it that way an could suppress dante's pal print, meaning the most damnin piece of evidence linking hi to sarah's murder would be thrown out. because police never read him his rights, for now, dante walked free. hi neighbor delia continued to sp on him, and one day as a car drove past her, she sa something alarming >> he was hiding crouched down in the backseat, and so, i mad it a point to slow my vehicl as i passed, and i looked into the vehicle, and that's when i saw dante hiding in th backseat >> what did you think of that? >> i thought, wow, he's goin to get away. he's going to g on the run. he's going t leave. >> did you tell someon immediately? >> i did
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>> that's how albertson learne dante was leaving for florid on a one-way ticket. >> we were grateful for th observations that she made because that's what led us t the one-way ticket >> since detectives weren' ready to charge him with murder, they couldn't stop him fro leaving town. instead they kep working the case hoping for plan "b, " and then -- >> we received information tha there might be another victi out there. >> the information came from sarah's friend jason flores. during one of his many interviews with police, jaso told them about another girl who said dante had attacke her. >> this girl, she messaged me, like, a couple months after me and dante hung out with her. she was like, oh, how can yo let him do that to me? i was like, what are you talking about? she's like, he put knife to my throat and tried t rape me in the room. >> did you tell the police about that >> yeah, i showed them the messages. i printed them out for them >> the girl was nicole lukas >> he just kept saying i'l kill you. don't (bleep) with
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me >> the incident happened about two years earlier in dante's house. jason says she told him she was so afraid of dante, sh never reported it to police. now the police went looking fo her and what she told them sounded like an eerie echo o what they believed happened to sarah. >> he kept trying to touch m body, and he opened the zipper to my shorts, and then he had knife above his bed, and he ha it at my throat. he was like waving it around >> nicole shared her story o video with a reporter from "newsday, " a long islan newspaper. >> and he said that he would kill me, and he said, "are you scared, " and i said, "no" cause i was just trying to lik -- i didn't want to show him fear. and then he got -- h actually touched my throat wit the knife. >> nicole says they struggled, he punched her several times
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and then she panicked and hi him in the face. >> that was my chance to run cause he was like -- he wa like on his side. he was jus in shock that i smacked him. >> she escaped and for years tried to forget it eve happened >> i didn't want to talk about it. i just wanted it to be lef alone, but what happened t sarah goode, i wanted to hel them in a way. >> nicole was now willing to press charges and detectives hoped her case might give them a second shot at dante taylor. if they could get a warrant to arrest him for attempted rape, they would be able to take his palm prints again. thi palmprint could hold the key t this whole case. >> correct >> so detectives tracked dow people who corroborate nicole's story, and this, th prosecutor says, gave police what they needed >> was this kind of like a do-over? >> in a way yes. >> now they could arrest dante on the attempted rape charge and use his new palm prints in sarah's case >> it helped protect case. i helped protect the integrity o the evidence >> hey, dante. how you doing >> why did you do it, dante?
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>> so more than a month afte sarah had been brutall murdered, detectives flew down to florida armed with a warran and brought her suspecte killer back to new york wher he was charged with rape and first-degree murder. >> why'd you kill her? >> sarah's brother-in-law nick heard about the arrest fro police >> the detectives called a night, very late, and said tha they were bringing dante taylo back. he was the one who murdered sarah >> what was it like to hea that >> a lot of emotions. just wan to get a hold of him, really you know? just give him to me. don't even, you know, worr about anything else. >> the court of nick >> yeah. yeah. >> he wasn't surprised to hear who it was
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>> he was the only one -- th only person that when i got to him, face to face, like me and you, i felt something that i just wanted to rip his heart out of him. it was just real bad. >> sarah's sister lizzy will never forget hearing the news. >> the detective called me and said that, we arrested him, an then my body just -- i guess i went into shock, cause jus felt like the blood drained ou of my body. i don't know why i was freezing cold and then i was sweating, and i didn't kno what to do >> the family's rage against dante taylor would slowl simmer during the two year before his trial. and when the finally entered the courtroom, it would take all thei strength to keep their anger from boiling over. >> you had to hold yourself in the seat cause he was righ there. if you just picked up your hand -- >> every time he walked in, th
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through the timeline of th night of the murder. no detail was too small. they began with sarah's selfie showing off her red nails. >> it's amazing if you look at the social media in this cas and the instagram and th twitter, you can almost se this happening in realtime >> to further bolster th timeline, prosecutor lawrenc opisso also showed the jur sarah's cell phone records and cell tower data. the
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illustrated that not only wa dante taylor the last person t be with sarah, he had also returned to the scene of the crime. >> the records tell really a story of a killer who went fro his home to her home and returned there several times i the course of the next few day almost to see what was happening and how th investigation was developing >> their theory, after dante taylor lured sarah out of he house, he savagely beat her in the car, then dragged her into the woods, raped her and stabbed her more than 40 times the jury saw photos of the blood and hair found in sarah' bmw. and to support the theory of rape, a crime lab exper testified that dante's dna sample was a perfect match t the semen found in sarah's body >> this was about complete domination of that young lad because she ends up in the woods face down, the way the jury saw her, with her leg slightly splayed out. she' naked from the waist down. her
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upper garments are on bu pushed up. and her little blac sandals are zippered and strapped to her feet still >> the prosecution painted a portrait of a brutal killer wh had carelessly left his callin card. albertson showed the jur dante's handprint covered in sarah's blood. and there was something else investigators had discovered that albertso also believed was irrefutabl evidence. a drop of blood in dante's car. >> one small blood stain. that bloodstain came back to sara goode. >> a fact janet albertson ende with in her closing argument >> one bloodstain from a dea girl is one bloodstain too many >> coming up dante's defense team drops a bombshell. >> you think that the police made mistakes from the battery beginning? >> missed a is being generous. there was no mistake
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it was intentional >> what will the jury believe? >> the family is getting mor and more upset so it's really never hacking >> when dateline continues
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testimony. and there was something he found especiall hard to hear. he was the one who had lovingly painted sarah's nails right before she went out that night. >> when janet said to the jury we have no more of her fingers no more, but we have her fingernails that were painted. and i wanted to jump out of my seat and strangle him. >> but according to defens attorneys john lewis and debra buxbaum, nick's rage was misplaced. they claimed daunte taylor was innocent. >> there's no direct evidenc that links daunte taylor t this crime >> i felt like this really was a case of classic tunnel visio where from the get-go this seemed to be targeted at dante taylor. everybody thought it has to be dante taylor. and an information that they came across or that they uncovere during their investigation tha didn't point to dante taylor
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basically got swept aside or kept -- or got ignored >> his attorneys acknowledge to the jury that sarah and dante did meet. but they sai it was simply a sexual encounter between tw consenting adults and dant left her unharmed. they called a former medical examiner to the stand who testified ther was no physical evidence o sarah's body that proved she had been raped >> there is no evidence that that semen was placed there as part of a forcible compulsion. >> and then an explosive claim lewis told jurors not only had detectives botched the investigation, but he believed they were unethical. >> you think the police made mistakes from the very beginning. >> mistake is being generous it was no mistake. it wa intentional. >> you believe he was framed b detectives >> i believe that the evidence okay, is questionable. and that's the issue. the issue is i don't know what the truth is and if you don't know what the truth is, then that' problematic, don't you think >> the defense accused the police and prosecution o withholding information for year and a half about othe possible suspects. like th crimestoppers tip about sarah'
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ex-boyfriend's angry words >> why do you think they wer withholding all this information from you >> because that's the way they operate. >> as for the drop of sarah' blood found in dante's car lewis questioned how it go there in the first place >> i don't think that wa competent evidence to begi with based upon the fact tha four detectives searched tha car for over an hour befor releasing it back to dante taylor and never found any blood in it, sarah goode's o otherwise. >> the defense accused the police and prosecution o withholding information for year and a half about othe possible suspects. like th crimestoppers tip about sarah' ex-boyfriend's angry words >> why do you think they wer withholding all this information from you >> because that's the way they operate. >> as for the drop of sarah' blood found in dante's car lewis questioned how it go there in the first place >> i don't think that wa competent evidence to begi with based upon the fact tha four detectives searched tha car for over an hour befor releasing it back to dante
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taylor and never found any blood in it, sarah goode's o otherwise. >> he says it wasn't until day later, when police searched th car again that they found th blood. and that bloody pal print on sarah's car? th defense didn't deny it was dante's print. instead the disputed whether or not it was actually a bloody print. there were discrepancies in th testing. the first sample from the print came back positive for blood. the second, don more than a year later after the print had been chemicall processed, came back negative. >> but wasn't it red? or brown >> i don't believe that that's the case >> it's going to be hard for the viewers to understand, like, what else could it be? >> okay. so nobody -- nobody owns photoshop? none of your viewers know what photoshop is >> well -- but now you'r accusing the police of changin the color of the photo >> i'm saying from the ver
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beginning, you can't trust the police or the district attorne in this case >> there is no proof that they planted blood or photoshoppe pictures of the palm print. mean, these are just allegations by you >> i'm not saying they did o they didn't. i'm saying i'll never know whether they did or they didn't. and that's th scary part >> police and the prosecutio unequivocally deny photoshopping or plantin evidence. they say this was al part of the defense' smokescreen. and as fo withholding evidence, they say they turned over everything in plenty of time for trial >> the defense attorney just kept saying, "you can't trus the police. you can't trust th prosecutor"" and it's really the only argument he made. >> after more than four week of testimony, the case went to the jury >> there was not a seat in the courtroom for deliberation there were lines of people outside. the family's gettin more and more, you know, upset and anxiety ridden. so it' really nerve-wracking. >> three days went by before the jury reached a verdict dante taylor was found guilt of rape and first-degree murder
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>> i felt like sarah was jus right here, and i could see he and picture her saying, "we go this piece of (bleep). >> is this closure? i mean what's the emotion >> i wouldn't say closure. she's not coming back. >> it's never going to bring her back so -- >> but we got him. >> family and friends poured out of the courtroom and gathered outside to show juror their gratitude. then they visited sarah's grave as if to let her know justice had finally been served. >> the ways of truth and lov have always won. >> stand up. >> a month later, in front of packed courtroom, dante went before the judge to hear his sentence >> dante taylor, for you conviction for murder in the first degree on count one, you sentence is life imprisonmen without the possibility of parole. your punishment will b the maximum, the onl
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appropriate punishment for the evil man that did this. you ma make chalk marks on the cell block and your walls in th cage in which you will live, and they will have n significance. you may circle dates on the calendar but they will mean nothing because ther is no date for you to get out. >> the d.a.'s office decided t drop the attempted rape charge sarah's family said the judge' words were exactly what they wanted to hear >> it was nice to know tha he's on our side. he wasn't on his side >> and he was emotional, too you could -- when he started reading what he was going to say, he was trying to hold bac tears. you could tell. >> a little more than a year into serving his life sentence dante died by suicide in a upstate new york prison. his family is now suing severa prison staff members. in the lawsuit, dante's family claims shortly before killing himself he was brutally beaten b corrections officers and, they
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argue, medical staff neglected to monitor dante despite his history of suicide attempts. the new york department of corrections said it does not comment on pending litigation. for sarah's family, there is little comfort in dante' passing. they say her death ha left a giant hole in the fabri of this tight-knit family, one that can never be mended >> i would trade places with her in a heartbeat if it meant that she could come back >> we were supposed to be he protector. >> i always said that the olde ones were supposed to go first not the younger ones >> what you just said is something that a parent woul say. >> she was like our baby. sh was our baby sister. >> cause i was older than he you know, try to protect her anyway that we could. you know all, everybody. do it for each other. >> and now they've focused their attention on sarah's baby. her daughter jocelyn i being raised by their mother but like everything else, it's really a family affair >> we find comfort going t
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mom's house when jocelyn i there and, you know, her spiri is just like sarah's. so it' like sarah growing up all over again so -- i believe sarah, you know, left us this gift. she's our other little angel that was given to us from sara so her spirit can live on. >> give me a kiss. thank you can i have another kiss? ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales

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