The Hunt for Sarah Yarborough’s Killer
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With a 48 hours plus subscription on Apple Podcasts, you can enjoy uninterrupted, ad-free episodes of all your favorite 48 hours podcasts for just $2.99 a month. Subscribe today. [MUSIC PLAYING] 16-year-old Sarah Yarbrough is being remembered as talented, creative, and kind. Sarah was an A student at the high school. Whenever you saw Sarah, she always had a smile. This case is about a 16-year-old girl who had the right to grow up. This case is about Sarah and everything that she should have been allowed to become. [MUSIC PLAYING] It was Friday the 13th of December of 1991. Her parents were out of town for her brother's soccer game. She stayed home. [MUSIC PLAYING] I was reluctant to leave Sarah. She didn't want to come, of course, because she had her whole weekend planned out. So she had a friend come over and stay with her that weekend. [MUSIC PLAYING] We went to a basketball game, went and got junk food at the grocery store, a little bit of fast food. We're 16. We were carefree. There was absolutely nothing that would make any of us think that the next morning, everything would change. [MUSIC PLAYING] So Saturday morning, Sarah woke up kind of in a panic. She woke up and said, I'm late for practice. She put on her drill team uniform and ran out the door. She went to the school and discovered that she was early. So she parked in her car and waited for the rest of her team to show up. [MUSIC PLAYING] Shortly after the phone call started, where Sarah, do you know where she is? [MUSIC PLAYING] Sarah was found within an hour. Where was her body discovered? So her car was still in the parking lot. Her body was approximately 100 yards away, still on the school property. Part of her clothing was removed. She had nylon stockings tied in a ligature around her neck. I just remember just saying, not Sarah, not Sarah, not Sarah, over and over again. The suspect is a white male six feet tall with a medium building. They had DNA evidence. They had everything. They had witnesses. In that first week or so, it sounded like they had so much evidence. For at least a short while, it felt like, of course, they're going to catch it. And then when they didn't and they didn't, your expectations change. You don't know if it's an extra neighbor. You don't know if it's some random stranger. There was that constant fear of, is this going to happen again?
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A high school student on her way to drill team practice is found murdered on campus. What it took to close the case after 30 years. "48 Hours" contributor Natalie Morales reports.