What to Know
- Closing arguments have begun in the murder trial of a man accused of strangling a former high school classmate
- Monmouth County prosecutors say Liam McAtasney thought he was going to get $100,000 from the robbery but only got about $8,000
- They showed jurors a secretly recorded conversation in which McAtasney discussed how he killed 19-year-old Stern in December 2016
Closing arguments have begun in the murder trial of a man accused of strangling a former high school classmate during a robbery and throwing her body off a New Jersey bridge.
Monmouth County prosecutors say Liam McAtasney thought he was going to get $100,000 from the robbery but only got about $8,000. They also showed jurors a secretly recorded conversation in which he discussed how he killed 19-year-old Sarah Stern in December 2016.
Another former classmate testified that he and McAtasney threw Stern's body off the bridge, leaving her car there to make it look like she killed herself.
The defense claims there's no physical evidence to support the accusations against McAtasney, who chose not testify on his own behalf.
It's not clear if closing arguments will be completed Friday.
