I’m just gonna say goodbye to a friend, I’ll come right back,’ Sarah Butler, 20, said to her mum.
Lavern handed her daughter, a student, the keys to her minivan that day, November 22, 2016.
But Sarah had told a white lie. The truth was she was sneaking off to meet a man she’d been speaking to online.
And Lavern never saw her daughter alive again.
When Sarah didn’t come home, it sparked alarm.
‘I knew something was terribly wrong,’ her dad Victor said.
Notifying police, a search ensued but in desperation, Sarah’s