Hello, everyone and welcome to police off the cuff, real crime stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD sergeant, Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

You know, with this Madeline Soto case and, of course, the characters who we've all been

talking about for months and months since February 26th, it gets more and more, as more documents come out,

it gets more and more intriguing as what the hell was going on in this little girl's life,

Madeline Soto's life. And on the screen I have the thumbnail Stefan

Stearns a message to Madeline always did he write the poem and we're going to dissect the poem that

apparently Stefan Stearns wrote to Madeline. And neither myself nor Professor Mike Gehry, retired in my PD,

Sergeant Mike Gehry, are psychologists, but you don't have to be. And even the layperson out in

the true crime community that reads this poem.

This poem screams certain things to you.

It screams of a repentant, sick individual, repentant over murdering a 13 year old girl repentant over losing this little girl

because he's feeling more sorry for himself than he actually is for this little girl whose life

he snuffed out and when we look into this case

deeper and deeper and in the words of this poem which we will read line by line stanza by

stanza and we will talk about it.

With all the information we have, the interviews, the interviews of Stefan Stearns, the interviews

of Madeline Soto, excuse me, of Jennifer Soto, the mom, and the interviews of Deborah

and Chris Stearns, the parents of Stefan Stearns.

We get a picture of this 37-year-old loser, L-O-S-E-R, an absolute loser, you know,

didn't work.

Needed more drugs to get him through the day for his anxiety.

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