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Initially, Sarah Stern\u2019s disappearance looked like a suicide. Her car had been found abandoned on a bridge. On the day she went missing, she gave a box of keepsakes to a neighbor. Her best friend, Liam McAtasney, confirmed to police that Sarah had been depressed. She\u2019d told him she wanted to \u201cget away.\u201d But Sarah\u2019s family and other friends told a different story. For one, she would never have left her beloved dog unattended. Secondly, she wasn\u2019t depressed at all.\n
\n\nThen Kristin tells us about the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Junior. Barry Keenan was down on his luck. He was addicted to drugs and alcohol, and for the first time in his life, he was broke. He needed money, fast. So he hatched a plan to kidnap Bob Hope\u2019s son. But Bob Hope seemed so nice. He was always entertaining the troops! Kidnapping Bob Hope\u2019s son would be positively un-American. So Barry decided to kidnap Frank Sinatra\u2019s son, instead.\xa0\n
\n\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\n\u201cSnatching Sinatra\u201d by Peter Gilstrap for The New Times Los Angeles Magazine 1998\n\u201c\u2018Son of Sam\u2019 law upheld in Sinatra kidnapper\u2019s movie deal,\u201d Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press\n\u201cFrank Sinatra, Jr., kidnapping,\u201d FBI.gov
\n\u201cKidnapping ordeal tested family ties,\u201d by J. Randy Taraborrelli for Arizona Republic, Nov 26, 1997
\n\u201cCourt asked to overturn ban on felons selling stories,\u201d by Robert Jabion for the Associated Press, December 7, 2001
\n\u201cBoth Sinatras due to testify soon,\u201d by Ridgely Cummings for Civic Center News Agency, Feb 27 1964
\n\u201cPerjury enters Sinatra case as witness changes his story,\u201d UPI, Feb 25, 1964\n\u201cFrank Sinatra, Jr., denies kidnapping publicity stunt,\u201d Associated Press, Feb 29, 1964\n\u201cSinatra could go, defendant claims,\u201d Associated Press, March 3, 1964\n\u201cSinatra-abduction case goes to jury,\u201d Associated Press, March 7, 1964\n\u201cJury gets Sinatra kidnap case,\u201d Associated Press, March 7, 1964\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cSarah Stern\u201d chillingcrimes.com\n\n\u201cWith Friends Like These\u201d episode 20/20\n\u201cSarah Stern murder: Suspect said she wanted to run away, had suicidal past\u201d by Kathleen Hopkins, Asbury Park Press\n\u201cSarah Stern murder: No new trial for Liam McAtasney\u201d by Kathleen Hopkins, Asbury Park Press\n\u201cFriend Who Killed 19-Year-Old New Jersey Student Sarah Stern Gets Life Without Parole- Plus 10 Years\u201d by Brian Thompson, NBC New York News\n
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