The Brutal Killing of Sarah Yarborough

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime
podcast where I tell stories of real crimes

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with real victims, whose cases are
so shocking that many are left wondering how

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is this even real? I use
my experiences in law enforcement, corrections,

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and combined with my years as a
criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex

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cases of evil acts, some so
evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning.

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Unspeakable as intended for mature audiences.
If you are easily offended, then

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I'm not your girl. Listening discretion
is advised. Hey y'all, it's kJ

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here, back for another episode of
Unspeakable. I've got some shout outs I

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want to get to because I'm telling
y'all, we have got some from all

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over the world. And this tickled
me to no end. Because I'm going

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to start out, I had to
google it. I'm not gonna lie with

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South Africa. Yes, South Africa, oh my god. And Pola Kwani

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or Pola Kwani yeah, Pola qwany
Limpopo. Did I say that right?

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I hope I did, because sonya
milan girl, I know somebody in South

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Africa. Y'all. What hey girl? Thank you so much for joining my

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crime family. I'm so stoked to
have you. And then I got a

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bunch of local people too. I've
got right here in Denham Springs, Louisiana,

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Nicole Harris, Hi Nicole. I've
got Kaylee Elizabeth and if I'm not

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mistaken, she's one of my former
students. Hey, Kaylee girl, how

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are you? She got married recently. I've got Hannah Herring from Zachary,

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Louisiana, which, by the way, I went to elementary school with Hannah.

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Hey girl, all good to have
you here. It's so special when

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people you know support you, so
it means so much to me. I've

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got Dina Mendoza from Homa, Louisiana, which I'm familiar with Homa. We

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used to have a camp out that
way. We love to fish in my

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family. And then we've got let's
see from Sterling Heights, Michigan, Miss

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Amber Jackson. Hi Amber, I've
never been to Michigan. I've spoken about

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Michigan though. If you've listened to
some of my recent episodes. We have

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a guy that likes to kill his
his ex wife's you know your boyfriend.

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If you haven't listened to that one, go check it out. And then

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I've got Hanover Township, Pennsylvania.
Miss Stephanie Howard, Hi, Stephanie,

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thank you so very much. Let's
see Lynnwood, Washington. Lynnwood, Washington,

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I've never been there before. This
is Miss Andrea McCollum. Or Andrea,

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which one is it? You tell
me, girl, Andrea McCollum.

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I'm so incredibly thankful to have each
and every one of y'all supporting me.

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If I haven't given you your shout
out yet, it's coming, I promise.

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Hanging there, there's just so many
of y'all, I've got to go

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just bit by bit, but hang
in there. Thank you from the bottom

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of my heart for supporting me.
I couldn't do it without you. I

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literally could not do it without you. You're the reason, and so I

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just cannot thank you enough. This
episode is going to start out in Washington

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as well. So this is going
to be in Federal Way, Washington.

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And this is a city in King
County and it's part of the Seattle metropolitan

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area. So if you're not from
there, I wanted to give you a

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little bit of I guess location.
And it's going to be the home of

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sixteen year old Sarah Yarborough. Now
she is a talented young girl. She's

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creative and kind, she's smiley and
happy, and she's got this fiery red

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curly hair. And looking at her, I don't know why, but she

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kind of reminded me of the book
I read when I was younger, Sarah,

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plain and tall. She's not full
of makeup. She's not older looking

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like a lot of the girls of
our current generation strive to look. She's

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just a natural looking girl. She's
got a sweet charm about her, these

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light blue eyes. She's fair skinned
and freckled. And the thing about her

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girl is this girl was feisty,
very imaginative, and creative. Her friend

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said that she was always the last
one to wait for someone if they were

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going somewhere. She would wait if
someone was kind of struggling behind or straggling

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behind, and she would wait for
them to catch up. She helped people

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with homework, ultimate kindness. That
is what you hear from her girlfriends when

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they describe her. Now, another
thing I thought this was kind of sweet

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was her friend said that she sounded
just like her mother. And so when

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my daughter sometimes when my mom will
call my daughter or she'll go Kelly,

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and she'll say, no, it's
not Kelly, it's me. And so

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to sound like your mother, I
don't know. I found that to be

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kind of sweet and a compliment.
But she sounded like her mama. But

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she wanted to follow in her father's
footsteps. She kind of liked that engineering

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path, so she didn't want to
go to a state college either. This

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girl wanted to travel. She loved
to travel. She wanted to go as

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far away as she could. I
actually have a student right now. She's

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making me think of a former student'spen
years. But she's traveling all over the

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world with her mama. Miss Nissum, if you're listening to me, I'm

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talking about y'all. But this young
Sarah, she wanted to be a museum

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curator or an engineer. Like I
said, she kind of wanted to be

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in the arts, but she liked
to build and tinker as well. An

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honor student, howlujah, her parents
were proud, right, an honor student

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and a proud member of the drill
team at Federal Way High School. The

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Eagles, right go Eagles, and
that was their school mascot. Now.

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I looked up the school because I
was curious, what kind of school is

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it? And it looked great.
Just the website today. Obviously they didn't

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have one when this was going on, because this is going to be a

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while. This happened years ago,
but it took up until recently to get

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it to get it solved. But
at this school, forty two languages are

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spoken between all the almost said inmate, y'all, it's not inmates. At

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students. Forty two languages were spoken
amongst the students. There ninety percent graduation

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rate and the average teacher has thirteen
years experience, So it seems like it's

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a pretty solid school with a good
culture to work at. And Sarah came

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from a great family who loved her
immensely. Her parents were Laura and Tom

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Yarborough, and they were very involved
in their children's lives because there was three

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of them. Now there was Sarah
and then she had two other brothers.

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So something we all worry about as
parents is the safety of our kids,

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especially when we have to be somewhere
for one child and there's other responsibilities.

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You're still responsible for other children and
you're, you know, kind of being

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split in different directions. But since
Sarah was the oldest, she was allowed

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to stay home alone, even though
it did leave her mother quite anxious.

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So this wasn't a common thing.
Okay, Sarah wasn't always home alone or

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anything, but in this situation,
her brother had a soccer team game,

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and so this would have caused their
parents to have to go out of town

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for this game. So the situation
was simple. Sarah was gonna stay home,

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have a friend over so she wasn't
by herself, and then her parents

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were going to be back the next
day. Now this is almost foreshadowing at

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its finest, but on Friday,
December thirteenth, that's right, Friday the

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thirteenth, and this is in nineteen
ninety one, Sarah's younger brother Andrew had

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that soccer game. So her mama, Laura was genuinely fretting and nervous about

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Oh my god, I don't want
to leave you here. It kind of

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makes me nervous. And Sarah was
like, Mama, don't worry. Okay,

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you're you're being overly protective. Okay, I'm gonna be fine. She

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kind of teased her mom a little
bit like, look, Mama, I

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can handle it. I'm not gonna
get killed. I mean, calm down

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right, I'm gonna be careful.
I'll lock the doors I'm sixteen years old.

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My friend's gonna be here with me. It's not like I'm all by

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myself. I'm gonna use the family's
car. And school is just a couple

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of blocks from the house, like
I think it was two blocks from the

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house, So it's not like I'm
traveling the country. Calm down, mom.

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So Laura believed that her daughter was
responsible and she was sensible, and

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so there was no problem. You're
right, I need to you know,

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let you spread your wings. You're
sixteen. Just check in with us.

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I love you. Please be careful. There's food in the fridge, and

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if you need anything, you know, you can contact you know, our

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friends and family. This is before
cell phones. And then her brother Andrew,

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and both of her parents headed out
for Ocean shores to go handle up

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on some soccer. And everything was
fine, just like Sarah said it would

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be. There were no problems.
Her friend Shannon came over, they went

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to a basketball game. Then they
did like most teens do. They ran

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by the store, they got some
junk food, and then they went home

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and they settled in for the night. No risky behaviors, nothing that would

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be considered dangerous or out of the
norm. The night came and went.

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Everything was good. Saturday morning,
though, Sarah awoke in a pan an

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absolute panic, but not because of
an intruder or something. No one was

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breaking in the house, but because
she was late for her drill team practice,

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so she rushed to get dressed.
She even left her hot rollers in

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her ponytail that were still in her
ponytail when she left the house. She

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had thrown on her drill team uniform. It was a blue and white early

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nineties cheerleading looking uniform, but it
had her name monogrammed right there on the

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bib. And she poured herself a
large cup of orange juice for the road,

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and she jumped in the car and
she headed out to the school for

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practice. But much to her surprise, when she got there, she was

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like, oh my god, I'm
late. But it turns out she got

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there a little after eight am,
but she was actually really early because they

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weren't scheduled to meet for about another
hour. So hey, happy accident,

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right, So that was no problem. I'm early, Thank goodness. I

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can relax, I can drink my
juice, and I can finish getting ready

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in the car, getting my hot
curlers out and do whatever it is I

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want to do. About the same
time that Sarah was sitting in her car,

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thirteen year old Drew Miller and a
friend of his who had spent the

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night, had just finished watching cartoons
and eating their cereal, and so they

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got all bundled up because it was
freezing, remember it was really cold at

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this time of the year, and
they went outside to play with each other

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do whatever thirteen year old boys do. That included cutting through the school property

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like they always did to get from
point A to point B. And so,

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being typical thirteen year old boys,
they noticed that the puddles along the

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way were frozen, and so they
decided they wanted to smash the ice.

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It was fun to watch it shatter
and break. Why not break some shit,

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you know, I'm remember being young, it's fun. Let's make it

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shatter. Now today, if you
look at the school, there's a baseball

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field in the area that I'm talking
about. But in nineteen ninety one,

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there were really tall bushes near where
the boys were smashing the ice. So

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while they're laughing and they're entertaining themselves
and they're walking about and having fun,

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they look up and they stop.
While they see a man come out of

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those bushes, and it just seemed
odd that he came out of that area

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where there wasn't like anything, it
just bushes. So they stopped and they

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just kind of looked at the guy, like, who are you? So

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they stopped dead in their tracks,
and it just wasn't a normal interaction,

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you know, like if you accidentally
spook somebody and you walk out, you

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kind of like do the nod ooh, hey, how are you? You

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know, trying to ease their I
guess surprise, But that's not what happened

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here. The boys said, it
was freaking scary. The look he gave

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them was just everything within their natural
being said, this is not good.

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So the man walked out finished walking
out of the bushes very calmly. So

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the boys waited a little bit before
they continued on behind the man. They

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just kind of let him, you
know, walk up ahead of them.

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Fricking weirdo, that's what they were
thinking to each other, and it was

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like, h we don't wan anything
to do with this. So a few

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minutes later, the boys are still
kind of hanging around when they walk near

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those bushes where the man was standing, and they were stunned that they saw

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a body lay right where that man
had just walked out of Clearly there had

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been a fight. Just looking at
her, they could see that there were

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injuries to her face, her legs
were all scratched up and dirty, as

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if she'd been kicking and clawing and
screaming trying to get away from this man.

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But she had not won the fight. And the boys were in shock.

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They're thirteen. They didn't know what
to do. They were scared out

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of their minds. So they took
off running, and they ran all the

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way back to the house, and
they got a hold of their parents and

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then called the police, realizing that
the man that they believed was likely responsible

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for that girl's death was the one
that came out and was staring at them

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before he turned and he walked off. So the police arrived and they taped

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off the scene. You know,
who is this body? So they're looking

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her over, and she was obviously
a teen girl, and they believed her

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to be named Sarah because that was
the name monogrammed right there on her uniform.

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The police immediately to tell that she
had been strangled to death right there

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on the campus of Federal Way High
school. The motive seemed pretty obvious too,

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because she was partially dressed. Her
own nylon stockings were around her neck

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tied as a ligature. Her body
was only three hundred feet away from the

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car, her car that was parked
right there in the school parking lot.

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So Detective Scott Strathei of the King
County Sheriff's Office was the first one on

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the scene, and he even said
that this was a tough scene even for

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an experienced investigator. She was so
innocent, looking in her uniform, a

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school uniform, and he was looking
at her laying there. She still had

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the hot curlers in her hair.
She never even got the chance to take

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those out. And from the start
detective. The detective looked at her and

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said, this has got to be
a sexually motivated crime. I don't can't

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see it any other way. Her
jacket, her un to wear, and

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her brawl had all been removed and
were in a pile next to her where

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she lay. So they identified the
car as Sarah's and they saw it there

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just about three hundred feet away from
where her body was. And when they

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were looking through the car, there
was no struggle in the car and they

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believed this because even her cup of
orange juice was still sitting undisturbed right there

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in the center of the car.
It when, like, you know,

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they fought and thrashed back and forth. So the police had this working theory

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at that time that this young girl
had somehow been coaxed away from the car

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to follow him, But they weren't
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her follow this guy, you know, Is it because she was sweet and

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kind and helpful and maybe he needed
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in her demise or what exactly could
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then. This was their working theory. While Sarah lay dead at the school,

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officers swarming her naked body looking for
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were completely unaware and enjoying Andrew's soccer
game. Mid cheer right, They're like,

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yeah, go Andrew, mid cheer. They noticed a police officer walking

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around on the sidelines talking to people
asking for someone named Yarborough, and so

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they announced, that's us, that's
us. What do you need Can we

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help you with something? And all
the officer would say to them was you

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need to call home. And this
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they had to go get one.
They have knots in their stomach and Tom,

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her dad, finally got a hold
of his mother in law, Carol

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Homequist, who said to them,
you've got to come home, and you've

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got to come home now. What
is going on? Can you tell us

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what's going on? And then the
scariest words were then said, Yes,

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Sarah's missing. We can't find her. She never showed up to practice.

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Her friends called, they're worried about
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her parents did, like all of
us would do. They jumped in their

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car and they drove as fast as
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get home, which I'm sure felt
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The whole time, they're wondering where
could Sarah be. Oh my god,

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what if she's hurt? Is she
scared? Please God, please let her

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be okay. So when they got
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to a friend's house to avoid the
media, who had already gotten wind of

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the breaking case, and they were
surprised that when they went inside there was

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already a police detective waiting there for
them, and her mom's gut instincts were

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telling her this was more than just
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their faces, and she kept asking, where is my Sarah? Where is

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she? What's the last thing you
know about her? And then the words

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no one ever wants to hear came
out of his mouth and he said,

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I'm sorry, Sarah is not missing. Sarah is dead. So the wind

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was kicked out of their lungs,
and as the parents collapsed into each other

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hearing what just couldn't be true,
the detective says, Listen, I know

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this is a lot. I know
you're taking on a lot right now,

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and I'm so sorry, but I
really think you need to call her brother

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Andrew. And you know he's still
with his soccer team out in Ocean shores

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playing. You need to call him. And you know, while this is

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excruciating in this moment, I think
it's best that he hear it from you

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and not from television, because this
is about to make the media. Sarah's

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other brother, Micah, he was
only fourteen at the time he heard,

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and he just went outside to absorb
the shock alone. He was so overwhelmed

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by what had happened, and Sarah's
mom unable to stand, she remained seated

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on the couch, and all she
kept screaming was not Sarah, not Sarah,

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not my Sarah. It can't be
Sarah. And that guilt immediately was

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filling her because she's like, oh
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I should have never left her alone. I knew I shouldn't have done it.

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And the detective said something to her
that I thought was so kind and

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so almost perfect in that moment,
and she remembered it. He told her,

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don't you dare blame yourself for what
has happened to your daughter. You

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did nothing wrong. The person who
took her life from her did everything wrong.

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This is not your fault. And
I'm sure that, as her mother,

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you're still feeling so much remorse.
But he was right. Sarah was

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doing what she was supposed to do. Y'all were being good parents and doing

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what you were supposed to be doing. A bad person took the life from

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your daughter. So as friends and
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the police got back to the task
of Look, we've got to find

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this killer. He's dangerous and obviously
he's willing to kill. One great thing,

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at least scientifically speaking, was that
male DNA was found under Sarah's fingernails.

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It was like a reminder of how
hard this girl fought for her life.

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She did not go down without a
fight, and before she died by

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being strangled to death, she was
unable to breathe no matter how hard she

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fought. But the girl fought.
So there was a full genetic DNA profile

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detected from her under her fingernails.
The problem was that it was just not

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the technology was not there in this
early nineties. This was not going to

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give the you know, today we'd
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it than they were in the early
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that Sarah had not been raped,
which blew my mind. I really would

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have thought this would have been a
full on rape. This didn't mean that

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the killer didn't just kill her,
you know. This doesn't mean the killer

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didn't kill her just for the fun
of it though, because semen was found

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it was in her underwear and it
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So this was definitely a sexually motivated
event that went down. So the

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boys that originally found her body were
contacted and they were like, look,

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guys, can y'all give us anything? Any description of the guy that you

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saw. And these kids ended up
being excellent eyewitnesses. Remember it freaked him

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out. They stare this guy and
they knew and their gut something was wrong.

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That gut instinct we all have is
amazing. So they said sure.

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He was a white man. He
was about six feet tall. He had

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a medium build. His hair was
a little bit longer, it was almost

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in like a mullet cut, and
he had bangs, kind of like a

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hippie looking guy. I guess.
I don't know if y'all are on TikTok

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like I am, but there's this
guy that's kind of blown up and he's

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older and he like dances and he
looks at the camera all seductively. He's

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real skinny, and he's like dancing
and like, you know, trying to,

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like, I don't know, do
a thirst trap or something. The

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sketch of this guy reminds me so
much of thirst trap. TikTok guy.

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I'm gonna have to post this.
I'm gonna make a note. I'm gonna

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post this on Facebook for y'all,
so if you want to know what I'm

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talking about, I'm gonna nail it. I'm gonna show you because it's kind

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of interesting. But these kids worked
really hard with the police to create this

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drawing, and then the drawing was
then turned over and made into a much

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more elaborate sketch, which I also
will post so that you can see that

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elaborate sketch. But it is bang. I mean, it's great. It

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doesn't look like these sometimes these random
generic looking sketches. This looks like a

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person that was very clearly seen and
there was so much evidence, it seemed

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like at this scene. But you
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it was kind of like a nameless
face of a monster that had been

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shared with community, and they had
the DNA profile that science couldn't really do

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much with at the time, and
so time just kept passing. About a

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year and a half later, in
June of nineteen ninety three, her murder

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still wasn't solved. They didn't even
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was honored at her school. They
unveiled a bench in her honor and in

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her memory. It has carp a
DM right sees the day inscribed on it,

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and it also had some other things
that meant so much to Sarah Ballet

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shoes, there was a replica of
her dog on there, there were books

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and it's all in bronze on the
bench. And later on I found out

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that that dog, her beloved dog, would outlive her by seven years.

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Thought that was kind of kind of
sad. But the drawing of the suspect's

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face all over town was a constant
reminder, not only to the parents but

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to her brothers of the heartbreak that
they were enduring. The rest of us

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who didn't know her, it's just, oh, yeah, that was a

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pretty serious case. I remember that. But to the family that had to

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see this over and over again and
know that a killer was walking amongst them,

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it's a lot. You know,
you can't forget that there's still survivors

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of this crime that are having to
deal with a daily And the parents said,

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looking back, you know, they
were probably struggling at parenting at that

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point, and they didn't realize that
they weren't doing a good job as far

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as helping their sons through the greeting
process. But they were like, hell,

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we were grieving. We didn't know
what to do. It's hard for

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all of us. We don't know
what to say. And Sarah's mom didn't

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even like going to the store because
she said that workers would recognize her name

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and they'd be like, man,
I can't play, said I know your

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name from somewhere, and then she'd
feel compelled to have to explain to them,

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oh, you know, that was
my daughter that was killed and they

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haven't solved it. And then she
said, then I'd feel overwhelmed by the

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feeling that I was making people sad
wherever I went. It wasn't on purpose,

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but it was just this never ending
sadness. And even Sarah's brother Micah,

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had a similar experience, saying that
he went to go rent a movie.

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Remember back in the gap when he
would go to Blockbuster and run a

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movie, But he said, you
know, I went to go rent a

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movie and when the clerk saw his
name, she said, ugh, I

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hate that name. And Micah was
kind of drawn back and looked at her

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and said why and she said it
was that girl's name and it creeps me

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out. And Michael looked at her
and said, well, that girl was

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my sister. And the clerk of
course apologized, but it just didn't go

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away, and even more sadness followed. Shannon, her best friend that had

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stayed with her the night before.
She was suffering with survivor's guilt, saying,

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oh my god, if I just
would have went with her, or

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if I had done something different,
maybe she'd be here today. But time

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continued on, and eventually, what
would have been Sarah's graduation from high school,

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which was on June twelfth, nineteen
ninety three, it came and it

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went, and ironically that also would
have been her birthday. Sarah would have

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graduated on her birthday, and the
testament of a strong mother. I wanted

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to tell y' all this, the
testament of a strong mother. Sarah's mom

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went to that graduation to help support
Sarah's friends, to let those girls know,

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Hey, I support you, and
while my daughter should be here and

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she's not, I still want my
presence known. We're dealing with that locally.

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Actually, right now, we have
a young girl that went to a

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local high school and was killed by
a two time drunk driver, and they

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honored her, you know, with
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school. And you can't overlook it, you know, you just can't overlook

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it. She was a top student, this girl, and she should have

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been having the time of her life. Instead, she's dead. Same with

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Sarah, and life went on.
Her family though, was still stuck.

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They didn't move on, They just
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So, during the years of investigation
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detectives sent DNA samples of over one
hundred men to this State Patrol crime lab

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to be tested against that unknown male
DNA, but they never got a match.

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Every single sample they sent was eliminated
as a possible suspect. This means

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this is really sad. But this
murder of this young teenage girl who is

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just now starting to spread her wings, this would go unsolved for twenty eight

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years. Can you imagine twenty eight
years of not knowing who did this to

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your daughter or your sister. Well, in the early two thousands, at

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this point there were over three thousand
leads that they had followed up on,

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and cotis right. Our DNA database
was now a thing, and they kept

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hoping for a match when they put
the DNA in there, but there was

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nothing. But no one in law
enforcement believed that this was a one and

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done killer. Nobody nobody is a
one and done. If anything, they

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escalate so maybe he's locked up,
maybe he's dead. We don't know,

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but there's no way that this is
a one and done but time and advancements

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in technology eventually paid off. This
is where we're going to insert a woman

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by the name of Colleen Fitzpatrick.
She does genetic genealogy, which in the

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early two thousands was in its infancy. Although it's a lot better known now,

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but back then in two thousand,
it was kind of a newer thing.

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So what is genetic genealogy? By
the way, if you've never looked

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this up, I wanted to kind
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it. Genetic genealogy basically creates a
family history profile and they look at biological

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relationships between individules. So if we
have a DNA sequence like in Sarah's murder,

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maybe we can find relatives through this
genetic genealogy and then we can find

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the guy we're looking for biologically.
So whenever Colleen came about, she came

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to the police and said, look, I will do this for free.

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I'm offering my services for absolutely for
free, And the police were actually really

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excited to use it. While a
lot of people scoffed at the idea.

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I mean, damn, over twenty
years had passed. We got to do

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something. We've got to try to
do whatever we can. And soon,

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guess what, they had a suspect
based off of what Colleen told them.

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Now, this suspect's name was Robert
Fuller. Robert Fuller's family. She could

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trace it all the way back to
the Mayflower. Okay, this shit is

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legit. I believe in this.
I've been to conferences with this, and

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I believe in the magic of genetic
genealogy. Well, whenever the Colleen said

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Robert Fuller, that name rang a
bell because guess what, Robert Fuller was

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a very close family friend of Sarah's
and so he even if you look at

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video of them when they were given
the bench or dedicating the bench in her

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honor, he's actually the one that
pulls the sheet off the bench. And

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it's like, whoa right, and
I know what we're all doing. Now,

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Well there's the killer. No,
Hilaria, we're only a few minutes

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into this, you know that ain't
the killer. Hold On, he was

408
00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:30.160
forty eight years old at the time
of her murder, which would have been

409
00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:34.000
much older than what the guy was
that those kids at id'd. They were

410
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:37.880
like, no, he's in his
twenties. This was a much younger guy.

411
00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:42.039
Well, Robert Fuller completely cooperated,
said, here take my DNA.

412
00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:47.160
I didn't hurt her. I loved
her. And guess what, he was

413
00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:49.240
right, it was not a match. That DNA was not a match.

414
00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:55.440
But what that genetic genealogist knew was
that for certain this killer was in his

415
00:28:55.559 --> 00:29:02.039
family tree somewhere they were related some
more years past. And I know y'all

416
00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:06.599
are familiar with this. The Golden
State Killer was idd through this method,

417
00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:08.640
right through this genetic genealogy. And
so those that were trying to say it's

418
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:14.960
a junk science kind of losing that
battle because it's working or able to id

419
00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:22.480
these people. So Edward and Patrick
Nicholas were identified as distant cousins of Bill

420
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:29.720
Fuller, and they started to be
looked at very closely because Edward Nicholas was

421
00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:34.240
none other than a sex offender.
Hmm. So they got his DNA,

422
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:41.440
but guess what, it was not
a match. So what was Edward about?

423
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:42.480
Though? I wanted to tell you
because I was like, well,

424
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:47.039
what did he do? Right?
So I did look up his history in

425
00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:51.160
a nutshell'm to give it to you. In January of nineteen eighty one,

426
00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:53.799
there was a woman, a victim
just identified as Miss S. Miss S

427
00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:59.759
was awakened by an intruder in her
house and she only saw him briefly.

428
00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:03.119
It it was nighttime and he was
wearing a sweatshirt with a hood over his

429
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:04.960
head, but it was really dark, so she never got to see his

430
00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:11.160
face, and he proceeded to have
forcible intercourse with her. He raped her

431
00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:15.119
viciously, and at one point during
the rape she almost thought it was him.

432
00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:18.799
She did say the words is it
Peter, which she was referring to

433
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:23.559
him, but called in Peter,
who lived nearby and had done yard work

434
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:29.799
for her the previous summer. Well, the rapist never responded to her question,

435
00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:32.839
but he did jump up and flee
from the scene. So she called

436
00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:36.680
the police and reported the rape,
and they did an investigation, but they

437
00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:41.279
did not develop any suspects. Then
are you ready to have your mind blown?

438
00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:47.559
In June of nineteen eighty one,
so that rape was January of nineteen

439
00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:53.000
eighty one. In June of nineteen
eighty one, Miss S was again raped

440
00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:57.519
by an intruder in her home in
the middle of the night. Oh my

441
00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:02.160
god, So she tried to push
him away. She was scratching at his

442
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:04.000
hands, I mean, with her
hands at his face and his chest.

443
00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:07.759
And again he fled, but she
got a much better look at him this

444
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:11.799
time, and she said he is
slender but muscular. He's got this short,

445
00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.799
kind of curly, wavy hair,
and she said he smelled like a

446
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:21.000
mix of sweat and cologne. He
was wearing two layers of clothing. She

447
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:23.160
said, it was like a T
shirt with a shirt over it or a

448
00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:26.799
jacket over it. And she said, I don't know why, but I

449
00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.160
feel like the same guy who broke
in and raped me in January is the

450
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:34.039
same guy that did this just now. So they called in a knine.

451
00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:38.240
This dog's name is k C,
which I like just because shout out to

452
00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:42.599
my friend canine officer KC. His
name is Case's Q's a black lab.

453
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:48.400
But KC, who's a police dog, was able to pick up a scent

454
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:52.960
of the intruder on some bushes,
but then he lost it in an intersection.

455
00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:56.599
Then he picked it up again across
the way. And so the officer,

456
00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:02.119
now his name is Kummerfeldt. That's
the officer. He ran down the

457
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:08.599
street following the dog into a school
yard, a school yard where they found

458
00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:15.240
Nicholas hiding. Now I have the
maturity of a ten year old boy right

459
00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:22.960
now when I say that. Cummerfeldt
described Nicholas as extremely sweaty, red faced,

460
00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:29.200
and was standing there with a big
old erection. He never lost his

461
00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:36.279
erection. So whenever I'm sorry,
you just rape somebody and then you run

462
00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:37.880
off and you get busted by the
police and you get taken down by a

463
00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:44.079
dog and you have a big old
boner, I would think you would lose

464
00:32:44.119 --> 00:32:46.839
interest at some point when you're running
for your freedom, but not this fella.

465
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:52.200
So Officer Hambley is the one who
took him into custody, and he

466
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:54.400
said, yup. He was sweating
really bad, and he had a big

467
00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:59.240
old erection the whole time. He
also had some fresh scratches on his face

468
00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:01.160
that looked like finger your nails had
scratched him. He had dirty tennis shoes

469
00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:06.079
and the baggy shirt just like miss
s had said. He had no socks

470
00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:13.119
on, and he didn't have any
drawls. So Nicholas had an explanation for

471
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:14.880
this though. He said, no, no, no, you've got this

472
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:19.000
all wrong. I got these scratches
earlier in the day because I was painting

473
00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:22.200
a house and I fell off of
a ladder, and then I went drinking

474
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:24.119
at a bar, and then I
walked to my friend's house and my friend

475
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:29.519
wasn't home, so then I came
walking back to my house and I stopped

476
00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:34.039
to pee, and that's when the
dog ran up on me. And they're

477
00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:36.440
like, okay, then why are
you so sweaty and why you got a

478
00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:38.839
heart on and he goes, oh, yeah, well I was randomly running

479
00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:43.799
too. Okay, that's what we
call bullshit, right, And so he

480
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:46.440
was charged with one count of first
degree rape and one count of first degree

481
00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:50.839
burglary, but in both of those
cases because they believed he was the same

482
00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:54.559
guy. He went to court in
January. He was found guilty of the

483
00:33:54.680 --> 00:34:00.519
January rape, but the June rape
he was found not guilty. Figure that

484
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:05.319
one out. So while he sounded
like a great lead, he just didn't

485
00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:10.119
match the DNA from Sarah's clothing.
But somebody very close to him in that

486
00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:15.039
family tree had done this to Sarah, and that's when they looked at his

487
00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:22.760
brother. His brother's name was Patrick
Nicholas. So Patrick was a divorced loaner.

488
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:24.880
He was working at an auto parts
store. He didn't have any friends

489
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:29.480
in the area, he didn't have
any children. He also didn't have a

490
00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:31.800
car, and that was kind of
important to the cops because he didn't have

491
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:36.360
a car, which meant he got
around by riding a bus. Well,

492
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:39.880
very interesting to police was the fact
that the bus route he used went right

493
00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:44.800
past Federal Way High School, so
he would have been in the area if

494
00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:49.079
he was riding the bus. Also
interesting is that at the time of Sarah's

495
00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:52.719
murder, Patrick would have only been
twenty six years old, so he's kind

496
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:58.599
of fitting the profile there. But
even more interesting is that if you put

497
00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:02.320
his face to that sketch that was
made off of the boys that ide'd that

498
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.840
guy walking off, it's a dead
freaking ringer. It looks just like him.

499
00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:12.239
This is either a coincidence of the
century or those thirteen year old boys

500
00:35:12.280 --> 00:35:16.599
had that face emblazoned into their minds. So in September of twenty nineteen,

501
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:22.639
police decided to assign a surveillance team
to him and they were going to try

502
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:27.719
to get his DNA without his knowledge, right, So that's totally legal.

503
00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:30.079
If you you know, throw your
trash out or throw something on the ground,

504
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:32.559
the police can collect it and get
the DNA off of it. There's

505
00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:37.679
nothing illegal there. So they ended
up following him to a laundromat and he

506
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:42.320
smoked some cigarettes and he threw those
cigarette butts on the ground as he turned

507
00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:45.679
to walk off. He also dropped
a napkin out of his pocket, so

508
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:50.320
hashtag don't litter either if you're a
bad guy. So the police collected those

509
00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:52.360
items, they sent it to the
lab, and wouldn't you know, it

510
00:35:52.480 --> 00:36:00.039
was a perfect match. The man
at the laundromat was the man that the

511
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:04.599
boys had seen twenty six years prior, right there at the scene where Sarah

512
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:12.239
had been strangled and sexually assaulted.
He had never been named a suspect before.

513
00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:15.679
In all of the twenty plus years
of this investigation, he was nowhere

514
00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:22.400
on the radar. The genetic genealogy
was the key to kickstart all of this.

515
00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:25.480
So when the information was broken to
the family, they were in shock

516
00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:30.639
and relief. Right the police had
told them twenty something years ago, technology

517
00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:35.480
will eventually solve this case. I
know that doesn't sound good now, but

518
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:38.960
we're gonna get him. We just
aren't there yet technology wise, So the

519
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:44.840
young boy who is now a grown
man that found Sarah. You know.

520
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:47.559
He said that face was seared into
his mind. And the police brought a

521
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:52.599
photo of Patrick Nicholas and showed it
to him, and he had a literal,

522
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:57.440
visceral reaction whenever he saw his face. He said, that's him.

523
00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:01.239
He may have aged, he may
have got older, but those evil eyes

524
00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:07.480
haven't changed. This is the guy
I saw. Oh my god. So

525
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:15.400
the police brought Patrick in for questioning, and when they directly asked him about

526
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:20.559
his possible involvement in a young girl's
death, do you know what his first

527
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:24.440
question to them was. It wasn't
what are you talking about? It wasn't

528
00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:28.960
do you have the wrong person?
Do you know who I am? This

529
00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:31.920
wasn't me, Oh my god.
No, His first question was what year?

530
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:40.199
Excuse me? What year? How
many victims are there? How many

531
00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:45.039
people have you how many girls have
you killed? What do you mean what

532
00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:49.480
year? So his criminal record,
when they looked into it, though,

533
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:52.360
it's, said a whole lot about
him, including the fact that he was

534
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:58.920
actually on parole at the time of
Sarah's murder. Yes, he had been

535
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:04.960
paroled from prison and just before she
was murdered, so what about that case

536
00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:07.320
that he was paroled? Form from
inquiring minds? Want to know? Because

537
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.480
I wanted to know, so I'll
dug into it. So here it is.

538
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:15.400
So back in June of nineteen eighty
three, a twenty one year old

539
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:21.280
woman named Anne Crony was sitting in
her car at a local hotspot for skiing.

540
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:24.320
And I want you to note this
is a whole eight years before Sarah

541
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:29.599
was murdered. Okay. A man
approached her and asked her, Hey,

542
00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:31.719
have you been out today? Have
you been skiing? Because it's popular where

543
00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:34.840
she's at And she said, no, I haven't been. Have you been?

544
00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:37.559
It's nice out and he said no, I can't swim, I don't

545
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.400
ski. She was like, oh, okay. So they did some small

546
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:45.320
talk, they smoked some cigarettes,
but then Anne said something came over her

547
00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:49.199
and she started to feel really uncomfortable
with his presence, again, that gut

548
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:52.679
instinct that I always tell people to
listen to, she said. His voice

549
00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:58.320
started to become really shaky, and
so she decided to distance herself and she

550
00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:00.639
got into the car. She went
to close the door. As soon as

551
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:04.800
she went to close the door,
he put a knife up to her throat.

552
00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:10.039
He forced her to get undressed,
he took her own underwear stuffed it

553
00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:15.719
in her throat. He then forced
her out of the car, walked her

554
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:22.039
down the river bank. And she's
a hero to herself because that's when she

555
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:24.760
looked at the river and said,
fuck this guy. He said he can't

556
00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:29.719
swim, and she took off running
and she just headfirst dove into this river.

557
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:32.639
Well it was true, y'all.
He couldn't swim, and she swam

558
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.320
for her life to get away from
him. She ended up making it,

559
00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:39.000
I'm gonna say, across the river, but you know, across the way,

560
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:45.079
and some passers by found her near
a dock and they immediately called police.

561
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.199
That's when he was nineteen at the
time. Nineteen year old Patrick Nicholas

562
00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:53.119
was arrested a few days later.
And I'd like to mention here also that

563
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:59.559
as a juvenile, so before he
made adult age, he had also raped

564
00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:06.079
two women and attempted a third.
How many times do you get to do

565
00:40:06.119 --> 00:40:13.280
this shit to people? It makes
you wonder. So in Anne's attempted rape

566
00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:15.400
case, he did plead guilty,
and he did address the court. I

567
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:21.639
thought i'd read to you what he
said direct quote, I realize I do

568
00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:24.800
have a problem raping girls. I
was gonna force the girl to have sex

569
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:29.000
with me that day in the park, and then I realized it's not right.

570
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:35.280
I want help with my problem,
do you though, No, no,

571
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:37.719
you weren't. That girl saved her
own life. You just couldn't swim.

572
00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:40.639
You had no intentions of leaving her
alive. I don't believe that as

573
00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:45.480
far as I can freaking throw you. So the judge threw the book at

574
00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:47.199
him, but at the time she
gave him the maximum sentence. But guess

575
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:52.960
what, it was only ten years. Ten years. This guy's got two

576
00:40:52.079 --> 00:41:00.559
rapes and attempted rape and now another
another assault on another woman. That's four

577
00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:06.960
people in ten years. Wow.
However, and this is where I start

578
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:12.599
getting really irritated. He only served
three and a half years of that ten

579
00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:16.559
year sentence. He got released,
he was paroled, And and the victim

580
00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:22.400
in all of this, who should
have every ounce of information for her safety,

581
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:24.960
she put him behind well I'm sorry, he put himself behind bars,

582
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:29.000
but she stood her ground and made
sure he went behind bars. She wasn't

583
00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:36.679
even notified of his release. Unacceptable. So how could this be? How

584
00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:38.480
could he be released after only three
and a half years. He's clearly a

585
00:41:38.519 --> 00:41:43.679
predator. He's very dangerous. Well, according to prison records, he didn't

586
00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:46.840
have any quote, major infractions while
he was in prison, and they said,

587
00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:51.119
oh, well, he didn't have
a drug or alcohol problem. So

588
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:53.400
in one of the evaluations that was
done on him, it was written that

589
00:41:53.440 --> 00:42:00.199
he quote would be safe to be
at large given an ongoing therapeutic relationship and

590
00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:05.920
parole supervision. I'm sorry the people
who wrote that. I hope they're going

591
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:08.159
to let him go move in with
their daughter. If you feel like he's

592
00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:13.760
that safe, then let him move
in with you. Ridiculous. So in

593
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.360
nineteen eighty seven, that's when Nicholas
was released from prison early, with the

594
00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:22.039
understanding that he was going to go
to an outpatient sex offender treatment program.

595
00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:23.840
But guess what, no one knows
if he even went to it. There's

596
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:28.039
no record of whether he even went
to it, so that supervision was on

597
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:31.800
point, right, Yeah, Okay, So police obtained a search warrant for

598
00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:36.639
his home and that's when they found
some interesting stuff in his house. First

599
00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:39.800
of all, it was like a
dungeon, like a like a slothslayer.

600
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:47.079
It was hort esque it was gross
and dirty, tons of pornography, including

601
00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:54.880
animals that were drawn with human genitalia. There was a newspaper about Sarah's death,

602
00:42:55.880 --> 00:43:00.599
and in the kitchen drawer he had
a torn magazine page had a photo

603
00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:05.159
of a young girl in a cheerleading
outfit. Okay, it wasn't Sarah,

604
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:12.239
but you get the point. If
he had served the whole sentence from the

605
00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:15.920
ann case, he would have never
been out. He would have still been

606
00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:20.760
behind bars that on the day that
Sarah was killed, and this wouldn't have

607
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:24.679
even been a consideration to be dealing
with right now. But it was the

608
00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:30.079
fact that it was him, it
was his DNA. He should have been

609
00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:35.599
in prison. The system failed.
That's what you hear people say, the

610
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.480
system failed. But I'm gonna tell
y'all something, No, it didn't.

611
00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:45.639
There's no system in place. System
is a catchphrase. There's no thing that

612
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:50.239
is a system. That's an idea. We are the system. We the

613
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:54.400
people are the system. We need
to make sure the people that are parolling

614
00:43:54.440 --> 00:44:00.199
these people have a good solid understanding
of the people that they're dealing with with.

615
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:05.800
I don't think that they did.
I don't think that they understood the

616
00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:12.559
gravity of the type of man they
were releasing early. Let a drug addict

617
00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:16.679
go before a rapist. At least
a drug addicts kind of happy hurting themselves

618
00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:22.239
leave. They're not raping people.
I mean they can. I'm just saying,

619
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:27.159
but there was a there was a
very obvious motive with this guy.

620
00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:30.400
All of the women were approached in
their cars, all of them. He

621
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:35.960
made them walk, undressed them,
and then raped or attempted to rape them

622
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:38.360
at knife point. It's kind of
laying out the story for sweet Sarah and

623
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:43.280
what probably happened to her. Aren't
you seeing it now? She didn't go

624
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:47.480
with him because she wanted to.
She was scared, and she was doing

625
00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:53.519
the only thing she could think to
keep herself safe. Three years after Sarah's

626
00:44:53.599 --> 00:45:01.000
murder, he sexually assaulted a minor
that was a nineteen ninety four Here's the

627
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:07.360
kicker to all of this. None
of those cases, because of where they

628
00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:15.960
lived, required a DNA submission.
Clearly he is a predator, but they

629
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:22.880
didn't require his DNA to be submitted. He was arrested for Sarah's murder and

630
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:27.760
it would head to trial. Even
better, though, is when I tell

631
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.440
you this, and it really does
it infuriates me. I don't care that

632
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:32.400
this has been a murder a long
time ago. It doesn't go away.

633
00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:37.840
Sarah's still dead. We all understand
that, right, It's not over.

634
00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:44.599
Patrick was convicted in nineteen eighty three
of attempted first degree rape in Benton County,

635
00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:47.119
Washington. This was before COTIS was
ever launched, because that was in

636
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:52.119
the nineties. In nineteen ninety three, he was arrested again for first degree

637
00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:59.880
child molestation. So although his DNA
profile should have been entered into COTIS,

638
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:04.159
and this is where plea deals get
on my nerves, he was allowed to

639
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:09.519
plead down to a misdemeanor, which
meant his DNA again would not be submitted

640
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:17.800
into COTIS. So basically, he
escaped detection twice when we should have already

641
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:22.000
had his DNA on file. After
his arrest, it was discovered that his

642
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:27.760
brother, Edward had already been entered
into COTIS for his rape case because he

643
00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:35.360
was the registered sex offender. But
Washington didn't allow familial searching familial DNA searching,

644
00:46:35.719 --> 00:46:38.920
so Patrick had escaped detection a third
time. And the argument here was

645
00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:45.199
that it was invasion of privacy type
thing like a healthcare argument. Really because

646
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:51.679
the DNA on Sarah's body was an
invasion of her privacy, just saying and

647
00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:53.960
just like in the David Cam case, hopefully you're up to date right now.

648
00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:58.320
But just like in the David Cam
case, you're gonna love this.

649
00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:04.559
Some of the information about him wasn't
even allowed in the trial, to the

650
00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:07.719
tune of his prior rape cases were
not allowed because the courts argued it was

651
00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:15.199
too prejudicial. That's interesting to me. I know that there's laws to it,

652
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:17.000
and I know there's strategy to this, and they don't want to you

653
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:20.199
know, they don't want to have
the same outcome, which is why David

654
00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:24.840
Cam walks free today is because of
all of that. But David Cam walks

655
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:30.199
free today in my opinion, because
they didn't introduce his history. This guy

656
00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:36.760
was too prejudicial. Wow, so
now he's fifty nine years old, but

657
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.400
he's going on trial for that murder
all those years ago. And also there

658
00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:44.760
was a girl power moment if ever
we needed one. The Honorable Josephine Wiggs

659
00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:46.840
was on the stand and just to
give you kind of an idea of this,

660
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:52.320
Mam, she is a black female
judge. She's got her braids,

661
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:55.760
she's up on the stand and she
is ready to handle business, okay,

662
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:02.239
and DNA became the main focus of
this case. The public defender that he

663
00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:06.320
had was named David Montes, I
believe how you would say Montes, and

664
00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:09.000
he was claiming the whole time that
the genetic genealogy was whack and that it's

665
00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:15.800
unproven. But it wasn't check this
out. They struggled in that genealogy when

666
00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:21.960
they were trying to develop it to
find the suspect. They were struggling because

667
00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:30.000
it was discovered later on that Patrick's
paternal grandfather had been adopted by the Nicholas

668
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:36.239
family, so that surname Nicholas was
not what the initial genetic analysis had predicted.

669
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:39.519
Not because it's whack, but it's
because the adoption was unknown. It

670
00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:43.519
was actually, if anything, making
an even stronger case for these genetics.

671
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:46.400
You know what I'm saying. I
thought that was awesome. They were no,

672
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:51.559
it's even stronger case. We were
struggling because what we had was right

673
00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:55.960
and it wasn't making sense because of
an adoption. All the while, Patrick

674
00:48:57.039 --> 00:49:00.480
Nicholas during this trial is seated at
the bench looking much different than that sketch

675
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:07.519
that you would you be shown his
blue sweater vests and his white collared shirt.

676
00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:09.599
He has a trimmed goatee, and
his hair is geled back, and

677
00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:14.239
he's got on glasses, really looking
the part of the I don't know what

678
00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:17.920
you're talking about, what year,
But it was a moot point. The

679
00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:23.440
argument about genetics was moot because the
DNA did match. The odds, by

680
00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:28.599
the way, were one in one
hundred and twenty quadrillion that it would be

681
00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:36.239
somebody else. That's that's incredible.
The sweater, her jacket, her nylon

682
00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:40.760
stocking stockings, all over thirty years
old were pulled out as evidence before the

683
00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:46.360
jury, and they had nine days
of testimony, but it took over just

684
00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:54.800
a day to get the verdict.
Not guilty of first degree premeditated murder.

685
00:49:57.159 --> 00:50:01.199
But don't be too dismayed because he
was found guilty of murder in the first

686
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:09.679
degree and second degree with a sexual
motivation. Patrick Leon Nicholas had a sentencing

687
00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:15.280
hearing just a few weeks later,
and while Anne Crony was not allowed to

688
00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:20.840
testify during the trial because remember that
would have been too prejudicial, she did

689
00:50:20.880 --> 00:50:23.480
speak at the sentencing. Now,
miss Anne, and I mean this with

690
00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:25.719
all the love in my heart,
just to kind of give you description.

691
00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:30.960
She's kind of a butch female,
absolutely lovely, and she stood her ground

692
00:50:31.159 --> 00:50:36.159
once again against this man. And
she looked at the courts and she looked

693
00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:39.119
at the judge and she said,
Sarah went through basically what I went through,

694
00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:45.199
but I survived. Please don't make
this same mistake again. God bless

695
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:49.679
miss Anne Crony for doing that.
She's standing up for Sarah when Sarah couldn't

696
00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:52.320
stand up for herself. Sarah's mama
even said about her little girl, she

697
00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:58.320
was the delight of my life.
She was smart and creative. She planted

698
00:50:58.360 --> 00:51:02.000
flowers every spring. She helped her
younger brothers with homework. She was excited

699
00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:07.199
to attend an out of state college. She enjoyed museums and the ballet.

700
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:10.400
And she told her mother that she
felt alive when she got to dance.

701
00:51:13.199 --> 00:51:19.039
That's who was taken from this world. And Judge Wiggs said, I think

702
00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:22.280
about this poor child and what she
experienced fighting for her life. And she

703
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:27.039
banged her hands on her desk and
she said, this was a child.

704
00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:30.960
You did this to a child.
How many more victims are out there?

705
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:40.199
Who knows what year the familial DNA
matched it matched unknown DNA to known DNA

706
00:51:40.239 --> 00:51:45.559
of the family, but the State
of Washington didn't allow it, and Patrick

707
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:49.320
ran under the radar the whole time. Remember, his brother was already in

708
00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:52.159
the system. If they would have
just allowed it, Sayah could still be

709
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:58.440
alive today. Patrick Leon Nicholas was
sentenced to almost forty six years in prison

710
00:51:58.880 --> 00:52:02.639
and is now known as in Mate
two seven nine five seven six. And

711
00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:07.880
good riddance, my man, see
you later. No one's gonna miss you.

712
00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:13.519
You left your DNA and it caught
up with you, and min I

713
00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:15.760
suggest putting on a condo, my
darling, because if you're gonna act like

714
00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:28.960
a dick, you might as well
dress like one.