Teenager Sarah Stern disappears after coming into an inheritance #FatalFraud | Forensic Files

Every fraud begins with a promise. >> They had planned this and plotted it and practiced it to to how they were going
to do it and what they were going to do, what they were going to say. >> That's safe.
>> A quick fortune, easy money, or a life torn apart. When he saw Sarah and he heard that she had received this large
inheritance, he thought, "Here's the solution to all of my problems." But behind these illusions lie calculated
deceptions carefully hidden in plain sight. >> Every word that came out of his mouth
was to make the police look somewhere else besides him. From that point on, we watched and we were like, lie, lie, lie,
lie, lie. Sometimes these criminals are backed into a corner and feel their only
way out is to kill. But for the inheritance, she would probably not be the target of this financial crime.
>> The 24 years that I was a prosecutor, I have never ever experienced something
that was so cold-hearted and made for a TV movie. It was almost unbelievable.

A missing teen. A mysterious inheritance. One shocking twist investigators never expected in this haunting New Jersey case. New episodes of Fatal Fraud on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!

Brief Summary

The episode discusses financial fraud, deception, and a chilling inheritance scheme involving calculated criminal behavior.

Key points

The Cold-Hearted Crime. A prosecutor reflects on a chilling case that felt like a TV movie.

Episode quotes

Every fraud begins with a promise.

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