48 Hours

Sarah Yarborough, a student at Federal Way High School, was on her way to a practice session when she disappeared. Her body was later immediately discovered on the school grounds, roughly a hundred yards from the car she had parked.

The episode titled The Hunt for Sarah Yarborough’s Killer is a programme that falls under the episode genre. It presents a single‑installment narrative centred on a real‑life homicide, and its format follows the conventions of a true‑crime investigation. The story centres on Sarah Yarborough, a student who was on her way to a practice session at Federal Way High School. While making her way across the school grounds, she was discovered dead, her body located roughly a hundred yards from where she had parked her car. The incident unfolded on the campus itself, turning a routine school routine into a tragic crime scene. The location of the murder is confined to the Federal Way High School premises, with the distance between her vehicle and the body explicitly noted as about one hundred yards. This proximity underscores how close the violence occurred to a place where she would have felt safe, and it provides a clear geographical marker for the investigation that follows. The episode’s focus, as suggested by its title, is the pursuit of the individual responsible for Sarah’s death. It tracks the efforts to identify and apprehend the killer, keeping the viewer’s attention on the steps taken to solve the case that began just a short walk from her car.