Speaker 1: It was a charity bike gride on Long Island, New
Speaker 1: York for young breast cancer survivors. Everyone's patting each on
Speaker 1: their backs, saying you got this. This is incredible. People
Speaker 1: are singing and cheering. Liz Hickock's was volunteering at a
Speaker 1: rest stop. Someone asked if she would take a picture
Speaker 1: of one of the riders. She was told that the
Speaker 1: woman was towards the back of the pack. She said,
Speaker 1: she has a pink sock and she has a green
Speaker 1: sock on. When I saw her, she had flown past
Speaker 1: me and gone into the rest stop, and I said,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you must be Sarah, Sarah Delashman. She
Speaker 1: texted Sarah the photo and that might have been the
Speaker 1: end of it, But later Liz started noticing Sarah on
Speaker 1: the Young Survivor's Facebook group. She would post pictures of
Speaker 1: herself sitting in what looked like a hospital bid getting
Speaker 1: the juice today, looking for prayers and support, getting radiation,
Speaker 1: Pictures of herself in what kind of a halo? A
Speaker 1: medical halo that you would use you were having brain surgery.
Speaker 1: One day, Sarah wrote to Liz saying that she was
Speaker 1: going to be near her town. I'm going to take
Speaker 1: a chance here and I'm going to drive up and
Speaker 1: I'm going to see you For a weekend, Liz and
Speaker 1: her husband hung out with Sarah. Sarah sat in the
Speaker 1: hammock and she said, this is now my happy place.
Speaker 1: We wanted her to have almost like adult fun camp
Speaker 1: weekend because honestly, we didn't know if we were going
Speaker 1: to see her again. That wasn't something they needed to
Speaker 1: worry about. We got a text from her saying, guess what, guys,
Speaker 1: my flight was canceled. She came back again the next weekend,
Speaker 1: and it turned around and I saw Sarah and it
Speaker 1: was like I saw a ghost. And the next she
Speaker 1: crashed our family reunion in every way until the day
Speaker 1: everything fell apart. You see, Sarah was never who she
Speaker 1: pretended to be. I looked right into her eyes and
Speaker 1: didn't see Sarah. It was this different person and her
Speaker 1: eyes were absolutely black. Turns out there were a lot
Speaker 1: of Sarah's. She found these communities where she knew she
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be questioned, and she would try to
Speaker 1: find easy targets. I couldn't quite understand how she got
Speaker 1: away with will this for so long. It was just unbelievable.
Speaker 1: She was very obsessed with babies and very obsessed with pregnancies. Finally,
Speaker 1: she told one lie too many. She found people who
Speaker 1: show a tremendous amount of empathy, and she exploited that
Speaker 1: her victims know exactly what Sarah did to them, but
Speaker 1: they were faced with a problem. How do you find
Speaker 1: justice when no law has been broken but you are.
Speaker 1: It was just unbelievable that somebody could be so cold
Speaker 1: and just heart like, just heartless. I'm Laura Beale. Listened
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Speaker 1: she does not know how to stop. Listen and subscribe
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