MURDERED: Sarah Boehm

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For more than 30 years, the Boehm family has been denied justice for the brutal murder of their 14-year-old daughter, Sarah.

She was a painfully shy girl. A cheerleader. And a member of the school band. One warm summer night in July, she told her 17-year-old brother, Mason, that she was walking to a friend’s house for a sleepover. She never showed up. Days and weeks passed, and there was still no sign of Sarah.

A few months later, hunters found her body in a secluded wooded area of the Berlin Reservoir in an Ohio state park, two hours away from her Pennsylvania home. The remains were so badly decomposed that police were unable to identify them at the time and kept them at the coroner’s office in Ohio. It took nine years before authorities were able to positively identify Sarah’s remains through DNA testing. The delay was due in part to a backlog of testing after September 11th.

The coroner ruled her death a violent homicide, but the cause of death has never been determined. More than three decades later, her killer has never been found. Her family has never received the justice or the closure that they so desperately want.