Deciphering Deceit, The Maddie Soto Case-2024 Year in Review
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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This is not your average news recap. With the sharp investigative lens of Tony and his guests, the show uncovers layers beneath the headlines, offering a comprehensive perspective that traditional news can often miss. From high-profile criminal trials to in-depth examinations of ongoing investigations, this podcast takes listeners on a fascinating journey through the world of true crime and current events.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to 24 in review. |
| 0:03.4 | A look back at some of the most compelling conversations and stories of the year. |
| 0:08.2 | From True Crime Today and The Hidden Killers podcast. |
| 0:12.2 | This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:15.5 | Featuring trial consultant and body language expert, Susan Constantine. |
| 0:19.9 | The Soto family, Jen Soto, Madeline Soto, and then you have Stephen Stearns, the de facto |
| 0:27.6 | stepfather, not really married, but has been in the home of the Sotos for quite some time. |
| 0:33.6 | Now he's facing 60 charges against him in relation to child abuse material, sexual |
| 0:41.0 | abuse material. Still, as of our recording, no one officially charged with the murder of Maddie Soto, |
| 0:46.8 | but there is oh so much to look at and investigate. Joining me to discuss Susan Constantine, |
| 0:57.8 | body language expert, Stacey Cole, also with us. |
| 1:06.8 | We're going to break down some of these interviews that a lot of us have been seeing clips of over the last several weeks as we've been diving into this. |
| 1:13.9 | Susan, before we begin reviewing these and going through them, what has been your, you know, |
| 1:20.5 | gut feeling on this case now that we're more than a week into it and all of the pieces that have continued to be coming together on it? |
| 1:23.1 | It hasn't changed since the first video that I saw. |
| 1:27.4 | You know, I was the person who they reached out to Fox 35. |
| 1:31.3 | It's right here in my area. |
| 1:32.7 | So I analyze that initial video from straight on. |
| 1:35.7 | And based on that video, I said to the sheriff's office on air, you need to be looking at this boyfriend because he is showing some deceptive |
| 1:47.4 | behavior. He should be considered a suspect in the disappearance of Madeline. So anyway, that was, |
| 1:54.3 | of course, that was before she was found murdered. And so anyway, overall, my opinion hasn't changed. You know, I could walk through and share with you what my findings were. But clearly she was deceptive. There were massive deceptive indicators. We'll talk about what those were that I talked that I saw. And also watching the boyfriend in the background a lot of people |
| 2:18.4 | kind of they noticed he was there but they didn't notice some nuances that were very telling for me and |
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