Detectives on Friday alerted searchers for a possible key piece of evidence: a bottle of Budweiser or Bud Lite that had allegedly been taken from the girl’s home by a registered sex offender around the time she disappeared.

Searches were told to keep an eye out for empty bottles of those brands of beer…. David Onstott, a sex offender who once dated Sarah’s mother, grabbed a half-empty bottle of beer off her family’s kitchen table before leaving during an unexpected predawn appearance at the home Sunday, the girl’s 17-year-old brother, Andrew, said.

Well, if nothing else, they’ve uncovered a great way to clean up Florida highways.

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