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Defendant Liam McAtasney looks to the tribune where his family is sitting on Tuesday, February 5, 2019, during his trial for murder at the courthouse. Monmouth County to Freehold, NJ McAtasney is charged with the murder of Sarah Stern in December 2016. (Patti Sapone / NJ Advance Media via AP, Pool)
FREEHOLD, NJ – A man accused of strangling an old high school classmate explained how it had taken him half an hour to die and that he had timed it on his telephone.
The jurors watched on Thursday the secret registration. video of the conversation between Liam McAtasney and the witness recorded before McAtasney and an accomplice are accused of having killed Sarah Stern, 19, during a $ 10,000 robbery in 2016.
McAtasney says in the video that he "hanged her" and then put a shirt in her throat and put her finger on her nose.
He says the biggest problem was the Stern's dog, who "stayed there and observed that I had killed her."
McAtasney then described having thrown Stern's body on a bridge, his body was never found.
The defense states that there is no material evidence to support the charges.
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