Cold and Missing: Sarah Greenhalgh

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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.

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And I'm your co-host, Eli Sulkowski.

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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover cold cases and missing person cases.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to Cold and Missing.

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I'm your host, Ali.

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And I'm flying solo again this week, as Eli's tied up in some work projects currently.

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So it'll just be me bringing you this podcast.

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We're slowly creeping up on a year of Cold and Missing, which is kind of incredible just

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from a personal standpoint of starting something and sticking to it.

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I don't know if anybody else out there can relate, but I sometimes start projects and

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I don't necessarily always finish them or follow through with them.

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So I'll save this speech maybe for our official year.

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But it's really cool, the community that we're building through this podcast.

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So again, thank you for being here.

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Thank you for joining us.

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And let's just get into the case.

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We're covering a cold case this week.

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And today I have for you the cold case of Sarah Greenhalgh.

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And this takes place in July of 2012 in Upperville, Virginia.

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But first, a little bit about Sarah.

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Sarah is 48 years old in 2012.

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She was born March 21, 1964, and she would be 59 years old today.

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Sarah lived in Upperville, Virginia, which is about an hour outside of Washington, D.C.

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She rented a farm cottage on Dunvegan Drive, where she had lived for about a year by herself.

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Sarah worked as a reporter at the Winchester Star covering Frederick County government.

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Her managing editor, Maria Heilman, said she was a fair reporter.

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Quote, she really had a sort of effervescent personality.

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When she came into the room, you knew Sarah was in the room.

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She was very friendly and very lively.

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End quote.

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Sarah was a risk taker, an adventurer, and a fiercely loyal friend.

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She did not mince words and she would be very direct with you.

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She was also an accomplished horseback rider, and she would often write for equestrian magazines

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and photograph equine events.

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The editor of The Chronicle of the Horse, Beth Raisin, said, quote, she was a super,

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super nice, happy, upbeat, outgoing, friendly person.

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She had a lot of friends and she was a very loyal friend.

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I can't imagine anyone would have a bad word to say about her.

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End quote.

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Sarah had once posted a 25 Things About Herself to the Equierry, like the equine inquiry.

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And this was published on June 16, 2009, so this would be about three years before her

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murder.

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And on the list of 25 things, I won't read all of them to you, but these are the ones

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that popped out to me.

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Number three, as a child, I wanted to be a herpetologist, which is the study of reptiles

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and amphibians.

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Number five, I traveled unescorted to South Africa when I was 13 to visit a British childhood

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friend.

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Number nine, I have crossed the Atlantic many times on ocean liners, not cruise ships, and

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the North Atlantic is not fun.

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Number 18, I tend to date danger junkies.

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Number 21, I once jumped a three foot high, four foot wide concrete water trough on a

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horse bareback and at night and without a helmet.

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Number 22, I would rather travel alone than with family, friends, or boyfriends.

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And number 25, as a journalist, I have had to cover some amazing and tragic events and

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many haunt me to this day.

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And now the timeline of events.

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On Sunday, July 8, 2012, Sarah is in an upbeat mood in the morning while talking on the phone

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with her sister.

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Her sister, Kate Langton, said that Sarah was chatting away happily and didn't seem

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to worry about anything.

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In the evening hours, Sarah goes to visit her boyfriend, John Kearns, who lives in Gainesville,

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which is about 30 minutes away from her home in Upperville.

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At around 7.30 p.m., neighbors heard Sarah and John yelling and swearing at each other.

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According to John, Sarah and him were just platonic friends and he wanted Sarah to leave

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since his other girlfriend was going to come over and Sarah would get him into trouble.

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Sarah will leave and return home.

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When she gets home, she'll fire off an email to John at around 9.48 p.m.

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In it, she'll say that she'd always been there for him and listened to his problems.

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And based off of everything that John had told Sarah, she feared she could, quote, go

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away for 25 to life as an accessory, end quote, due to knowledge of John's wrongdoings.

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At around 11 p.m. that night, Sarah posted a Facebook update that said, quote, going

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to be sleeping with the windows wide open and an emoticon smiley face.

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Now if that batshit crazy boy would just leave me alone, we'll get some much needed rest

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because tomorrow is Monday and I got a ton of work to do, end quote.

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Sarah's friends, family and coworkers all knew that batshit crazy boy was John Kearns,

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a nickname she used for him often.

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On Monday, July 9th, 2012, at around 8.08 a.m., an off-duty Fairfax firefighter sees smoke

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rising while driving down the John Mosey Highway.

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At 8.10, the call is dispatched, but Upperville only had a volunteer fire department and no

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one was on duty at the time.

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The first truck to respond is the Middleburg Volunteer Fire Department at 8.22 a.m., followed

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by the Marshall Fire Company at 8.34 a.m.

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Firefighters find smoke pouring from the home and one room set ablaze.

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They're able to extinguish the fire in about 20 minutes.

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Since the home was built out of cinder blocks, it was still standing after the fire was extinguished.

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Once the fires put out, they find a woman's body in the back bedroom.

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Her body had been covered with debris from the torso upwards, so her head was also covered.

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Police are called and the scene is quickly ruled a homicide.

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Investigators found 12 used bullet casings in the home, with at least one being found

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underneath Sarah.

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The handgun was also found next to her.

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Ultimately, Sarah was killed by a gunshot wound in the neck.

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She did not die because of the fire.

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Fire investigators will determine that a pore pattern was found, meaning someone poured

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something flammable to start or accelerate the fire.

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According to Sarah's landlord, Anne MacLand, investigators found Sarah's cell phone and

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her laptop in her car, almost as if she was getting ready to leave for work.

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So the next day, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, police announced to the public that they are conducting

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a homicide investigation and six detectives are assigned to the case.

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Police are also spending time going through articles that Sarah had recently published,

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as well as stories she was working on for the Winchester Star.

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Sarah also had been meeting men through an online dating site, specifically Match.com,

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so police also probed this area of her life for possible suspects.

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Police are also seen at her home, flagging down people driving by and asking if they

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had seen anything unusual in the area lately.

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The Fauquier County police will also ask for assistance from the state police and the FBI,

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both of whom will join the investigation that day.

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Police also obtain a search warrant for John Kearn's apartment, and from that, police sees

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a cell phone, shredder waist, and a t-shirt.

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John, after the fact, says that he also submitted a DNA sample and underwent gunshot residue

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tests and took three polygraph tests shortly after the killing.

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Police tell John that he failed the polygraph tests, but they never show him the results.

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On Thursday, July 19, 2012, so this is 10 days since Sarah's murder, police arrest

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John Kearns on a probation violation.

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John was serving probation at this time for getting into a fight with a motorcyclist.

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John had pulled the guy off of his bike and beat him up.

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Because of this, a term of his probation was to attend counseling appointments.

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John couldn't show proof that he had been attending, so they violated him and arrested

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him.

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The next day, Friday, July 20, so this is now 11 days since Sarah's murder, Sarah's

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memorial is held and over 300 people are in attendance.

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At her memorial service, Sarah's sister, Kate, asks that Sarah's fellow reporters

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keep on the case and keep it in the media.

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A lot of reporters in the room felt personally called to remain covering the case.

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Police at the time are talking to several persons of interest, one of whom we know is

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John and the other is John's other girlfriend, Joanne.

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Joanne was dating John at the same time that Sarah believed that she was also dating John.

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John's 2012 Jeep was actually in Joanne's name.

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She had bought it since he had terrible credit.

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To date, police have not ID'd any other person of interest in this case.

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Police are very specific though in that they are not calling John or Joanne a suspect and

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are waiting on more forensic results.

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Now this case really felt like it had a lot of steam in the beginning and they had six

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detectives assigned to it.

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The county police, the state police, the FBI, everybody was jumping in to work on this case,

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so it really felt like it had steam in the beginning and it was moving quickly, but then

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the case goes really cold.

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There's some newspaper reports covering it, but there's no new information released.

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So on December 12, 2014, that's just about two and a half years since Sarah's murder,

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police obtain a search warrant for John Kearns and in the search warrant he is named as a

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suspect.

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Police get the warrant to get another copy of John's fingerprints.

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He had already been fingerprinted prior, but this specifically was asking for the tip of

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his fingerprints.

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John claims his innocence at this time.

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And then again, no real big updates from police, no arrests are made, the next big update comes

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from June 29 of 2017.

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John continues to claim his innocence.

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He says he met Sarah in the summer of 2011 on Match.com.

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John says quote, right from the first week or two we knew it was just going to be a friendship.

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We had goofy fun times.

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We just had fun.

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End quote.

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John tells the Winchester Star, that's the newspaper that Sarah had worked for at the

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time of her murder.

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He tells the newspaper his side of events from June 8 until June 9.

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John says that he told Sarah to not come to his apartment because Joanne was supposed to

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stop by and Sarah's presence would get him into trouble.

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Joanne never actually ends up coming by that evening according to John.

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John says that Sarah called him an asshole and left, that there was never a fight and

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the neighbors blew it out of proportion.

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John claims he stayed inside the rest of the evening.

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He wasn't friendly with any of his neighbors so none of them could vouch for him.

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He says quote, I kept to myself.

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Nobody really knew me and I didn't know anybody else.

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So nobody knew whether I was there or whether I really wasn't.

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End quote.

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The next morning John says he arrived at work at 8.02.

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He remembered it because he looked at the dash and thought he was two minutes late to

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work.

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He also claims that he was on the phone with Joanne the whole time he was driving to work.

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And he says his cell phone should be able to vouch for this.

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John's work was about 30 miles away from Sarah's home.

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Police at this time wouldn't comment on John's claim that he was driving to work when the

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cottage was set ablaze.

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However, speaking hypothetically, police said it was possible for someone to have driven

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from Gainesville to Upperville, commit the murder, set the fire, and drive to Leesburg,

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where John worked, by 8 a.m.

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They noted Sarah's cinderblock cottage, which was still standing after the fire, took a

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long time to burn.

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The Fauquier County Sheriff's spokesperson, Sergeant James Hartman, says quote, it could

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have started several hours before.

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And then that's really the last big update we get with new information, this kind of

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interview from John.

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Everything else year over year just recaps the information that I just laid out.

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To date, police have never made an arrest in Sarah's case.

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Again, spokesman Sergeant James Hartman says quote, the last thing anybody here wants to

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do is put an innocent person in jail.

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We're here to investigate a homicide, not save or ruin people's reputations.

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End quote.

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So with that, if you know anything about the murder of Sarah Greenhall in July of 2012,

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please call the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office at 504-422-8650.

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And the sources for the timeline today come from the Winchester Star, again, that's the

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newspaper that Sarah worked for and they have covered the story very extensively, the Richmond

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Times-Dispatch, the Daily Press, the Daily News Leader, WJLA, Piedmont Media, Inside Nova,

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Fauquier Times, London Times, Northern Virginia Daily, The Washington Post, The Equierry, and

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Prince William Times.

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So that is the cold case of Sarah Greenhalgh.

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And when I first saw this case and saw that she was a reporter, I'll admit that my first

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thought was, well, was she working on something?

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Almost like the Hollywood plot line of it all of, was she working on something?

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Did she uncover something?

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You know, some big corruption story in the government.

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But according to police and according to her editors, from everything that I could find,

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there wasn't anything that she had recently published or that she was working on to support

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that theory at all.

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And police did come and speak to her coworkers, they went through her desk at the newspaper.

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So I think that road of investigation has been thoroughly investigated and it is not

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tied to her work as a reporter.

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But it's sad when you're researching her because you find so many articles by her.

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I mean, they just pop up as you're searching newspaper archives because she was a reporter.

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So it's very haunting in a way whenever you research this case.

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I also think it's very easy to look at John in this case.

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And you know, there is a lot of evidence against him, you know, that the police lay out in

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their search warrant of, you know, why they wanted to go into his home originally.

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Just the email correspondences, the neighbors saying they were fighting, like, totally,

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that's a place that they absolutely should look.

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But my question is now is, well, if it isn't John, why hasn't he been publicly cleared

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or why hasn't he been arrested?

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It feels like at this point, one of those two things should have happened.

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You know, they did that second search warrant in 2014 where they were looking specifically

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at the tips of his fingerprints, which I don't think it's far off to assume that that means

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that they have fingerprint evidence at the scene, specifically the tips of somebody's

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fingerprints.

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It was a fire scene, so a lot of physical evidence can get destroyed in that, but not

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all of it.

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So the fact that they do seem to have a fingerprint or at least a partial print is really promising.

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And I just wonder, was John a match at all?

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Could he, was it one of those things where it's like they couldn't 100% say that this

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is his fingerprint, but they also couldn't rule him out and say that there's no way this

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is his fingerprint?

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Like, is it that kind of situation?

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You know, just like if I, if I was able to sit down with the police today and just ask

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them anything I wanted, I think that's like where I would start is like, what are you

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missing if you can't arrest him?

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Like what's the piece that you need to be able to like bring charges forward or to let

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this man go free?

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Because you know, it's a long time to have your name be tied to a murder case.

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And you know, just reading in the 2017 article, John talked about, you know, how this has

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ruined his name and a lot of his relationships in his life and how he's just trying to get

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his life on track and just have a normal life.

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And I think the quote by the police at the end is actually like really honorable.

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It's like they don't want to put an innocent person in jail.

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So if John didn't do this, then I do think the police need to come out and say that because

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it's really hard not to just focus on him whenever you look at the evidence, because

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that's all that's really been presented is, you know, this boyfriend, ex boyfriend, platonic

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friends like that relationships really seems to be murky on both ends.

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I'm saying it's platonic, but Sarah felt like it was more.

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So it's very easy to, you know, kind of like tunnel vision right down there.

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Another thing if I was able to like sit down with police and just ask them any questions

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I would want is I would be really curious to know the time of death.

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Like when do they think that the actual act took place?

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Because we know that she's alive at around 11pm.

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You know, she posts to her Facebook and by all accounts, everyone seems to believe that

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that is her posting.

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You know, it's her writing.

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It sounds like her.

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There's no whispering about could she have posted, could she have not like from everything

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I've seen.

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Everyone is very certain that she did post that at 11pm.

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So we know that's when she's lost alive.

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But then the landlord says that her laptop and her cell phone were found in her car almost

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as if she was leaving for work.

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And I'm thinking 2012.

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Most people at that point probably just have a laptop.

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I mean, maybe they have a home computer and a laptop, but I would think that she made

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that post from her laptop that was found in the car.

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But maybe that's a question I would ask police.

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Was there another computer where she could have posted or was that her only computer?

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Because if that's the case, I don't see why she would post something at 11pm, go put her

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laptop and her cell phone in the car and then come back in and go to sleep.

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That doesn't make sense.

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To me, it makes sense that she was getting ready for work, took her things out, somebody

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interrupts it.

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I would just be really curious as to what the police theory of how everything happened.

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What was she caught in the middle?

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Was she asleep when this possibly could?

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You know, what what do they think happened?

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Sarah just seems like such a wonderful person.

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And I, you know, it just she just sounded like somebody that I would really want to

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be friends with.

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I love horses.

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I love horseback riding.

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I love learning about it.

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I don't know much about equestrian sports or equine.

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I know some basics, but you know, I always love learning more about that.

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And you know, she was a reporter, a photographer.

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Somebody said, you know, not only could she give you a great story, she'd give you great

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pictures with it.

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So it seems like she was just so talented at telling stories about telling people stories,

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her community stories.

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This breaks my heart that so many of her colleagues whom you know, she loved and who loved her

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had to really dig into this and cover this.

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But again, I know for a lot of them, they felt like it was a personal call.

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And you know, they felt a responsibility to her as a fellow reporter to keep her name

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out there to keep it in the media.

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And I will say there has been a lot of media coverage on this case.

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I don't always see that happen in all of the cases we cover.

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But with Sarah's her local media really rallied around her, which I think is really beautiful.

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But again, if you know anything about the murder of Sarah Greenhalgh in July of 2012,

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please call the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office at 504-422-8650.

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