It was Thanksgiving weekend of 1992 when Sara Tokars was returning home to Marietta, Georgia, from Bradenton, Florida, with her two young sons. When she entered the darkened home, she saw a man standing in the kitchen armed with a shotgun. Initially, Sara believed that the man was there to rob them. However, the man then forced the family back into their SUV parked on the driveway.
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Audio Sources:
Forensic Files – The Murder of Sara Tokars
Fred Tokars, Lawyer & Convicted Wife Killer, Dies In Prison | Court TV
Mother’s Brutal Thanksgiving Murder Witnessed By Her Two Boys | Homicide for the Holidays | Oxygen
Sources:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 30 November, 1992 – “Lawyer’s Wife Slain Near Cobb Home”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1 December, 1992 – “Killing in Cobb County”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1 December, 1992 – “Burglars Rarely Kill, Police Say”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1 December, 1992 – “Upbeat Mom Volunteered Her Time at School”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2 December, 1992 – “Some Lawyers Fear Cobb Slaying Was Vendetta”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3 December, 1992 – “Tokars Slaying”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 4 December, 1992 – “Tokars and Sons to be Questioned”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 5 December, 1992 – “Slain Woman Had Hired Private Eye”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 6 December, 1992 – “A Frederic Tokars Rented Apartment”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 9 December, 1992 – “Police Release Drawing of Suspect”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 14 December, 1992 – “Slaying Victim Sara Tokars is Remembered by her Sisters”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 20 December, 1992 – “Tokars Life Insured up to $2 Million”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 22 December, 1992 – “Tokars Frustrates Detectives”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 24 December, 1992 – “2 Arrested in Tokars Slaying”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 25 December 1992 – “So Many Twists in Tokars Slaying”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 26 December, 1992 – “Mental State of Tokars to be Tested”
The Bradenton Herald, 27 December, 1992 – “Husband Suspected in Slaying”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 27 December, 1992 – “Suspect Says He Killed Sara Tokars”
The Bradenton Herald, 30 December, 1992 – “Slaying Suspects Not Linked”
The Bradenton Herald, 1 January, 1993 – “Murder Suspect Blasts Media for Attention”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 6 January, 1993 – “Detective Details Confession”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3 February, 1993 – “Suspect Named Tokars to Police”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 9 February, 1993 – “Witness’s Jailing in Tolkars Case Questioned”
The Bradenton Herald, 26 February, 1993 – “Two Indicted in Slaying of Former Official’s Kin”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 25 May, 1993 – “The Tokars Investigation”
The Miami Herald, 23 June, 1993 – “Man Sues to Claim Policies on Slain Wife”
The Palm Beach Post, 13 August, 1993 – “Family Sues to Block Insurance Claim”
The Bradenton Herald, 16 August, 1993 – “Suspect in Slaying of Wife Arrested on Federal Charges”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 26 August, 1993 – “Cobb Indicts Tokars for Murder”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 27 August, 1993 – “The Tokars Case”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 27 August, 1993 – “The Tokars Arrest”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 28 November, 1993 – “Tokars Boys Relive Mom’s Slaying”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 5 March, 1994 – “The Tokars Trial”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 11 March, 1994 – “Tokars Cries as Family Photo Shows”
Birmingham News, 18 March, 1994 – “Tokars Defense Fiercely Grills Major Prosecution Witness”
Birmingham News, 19 March, 1994 – “Tokars Worried He’d Be Implicated in Slaying”
The Anniston Star, 22 March, 1994 – “Sara Tokars’ Kin Tells of Her Fear”
The Bradenton Herald, 29 March, 1994 – “Tokars Says His Life Has Been Ruined”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 29 March, 1994 – “Jury Hears a Sobbing Tokars Read Suicide Note”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1 April, 1994 – “Prosecutor Says Tokars Snuffed Out His Wife’s Life”
The Miami Herald, 9 April, 1994 – “Atlanta Lawyers Convicted of Arranging Wife’s Murder”
The Augusta Chronicle, 28 February, 1995 – “Murder Victim’s Son Testifies”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3 March, 1995 – “Struggle Not Ruled Out”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 25 February, 1997 – “Tokars Asked him to Kill Partner”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 24 April, 1997 – “Rower Gets Life in Tokars Killing”
ABC – 2 WSB, 23 May, 2020 – “He Was Evil”
