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Liam McAtasney, who was once a childhood friend of Sarah Stern, was found guilty of strangling New Jersey's 19-year-old girl to death to steal money from the estate and then throwing her body to try to make it look like a suicide. The Monmouth County Court declared McAtasney, 21, guilty of murder, robbery, desecration of human remains, conspiracy to desecrate human remains, falsification of evidence, and obstruction of property. 39, apprehension, reports NJ.com. McAtasney strangled Stern for more than half an hour on December 2, 2016, then put his body in the passenger seat of his own car before throwing it on a nearby deck. People. A secret video recording shows McAtasney telling a friend how he had to put the body back in the car as three cars passed, before bringing him back again. He faces life behind bars.
Former Stern promonist, Preston Taylor, testified that he had helped McAtasney throw his bridge body. Taylor then brought McAtasney home, leaving Stern's car as alleged evidence of suicide. McAtasney said in the video that he was planning the murder and robbery for months, knowing that she had money from the estate of her mother's death in a safe to which she had accessed the day of his murder, as well as in a safe in his room that Taylor and McAtasney were buried; Taylor brought detectives there. McAtasney said in the video that he saw Stern die, after programming a timer to choke him. The trio was once inseparable, according to a former classmate, and Stern's family and friends could not understand how the two men turned against her. After the robbery, McAtasney quit his job as a waiter and joined Stern's body search on the Jersey Shore. Stern's body has never been found; an expert said that he could have drifted a distance of seven miles in 24 hours. (Read more stories from sarah stern.)
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