How Law Enforcement found Madeline Soto's body and a connection made.
Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Let me play this year. |
| 0:02.0 | Following for months, new documents shed light on how law enforcement was able to find the body of 13-year-old Madeline Soto. |
| 0:09.1 | Soto went missing in February, found five days later in a wooded area of Osceola County. |
| 0:14.6 | West's Haley Crumble Home went through 900 pages of newly released documents detailing how law enforcement found her, Haley. |
| 0:21.7 | So with camera footage and eagle-eyed witnesses, it helped law enforcement narrow in on certain |
| 0:27.1 | areas. I spoke with a witness who talked to police about spotting the car belonging to the man |
| 0:33.5 | accused of killing Madeline Soto in Osceola County. That man didn't want to speak on camera with |
| 0:38.6 | me. He just said he wants to see justice for Madeline. We to discover what appears to be a body. |
| 0:45.6 | Back in March, the body of 13-year-old Madeline Soto was found in a wooded area near Hickory Tree Road |
| 0:51.7 | in St. Cloud, five days after she was reported missing. |
| 0:56.2 | Okay. Did she ever go to school? No, we called school. |
| 0:59.5 | Newly released documents shed some light on how law enforcement zeroed in on the area. |
| 1:04.4 | The documents include a report from a crime analyst supervisor tasked with identifying areas of |
| 1:09.4 | interest to search based on tips received and video footage gathered. |
| 1:13.6 | It says they were contacted by a man on March 1st who saw news conference and wanted to report a possible |
| 1:19.6 | sighting of the car belonging to Stefan Stearns, the man now accused of killing Madeline. |
| 1:25.6 | The man said he saw the car on February 26, the day Madeline was |
| 1:32.3 | reported missing, pulled off of Hickory Tree Road around 1.30. He told law enforcement he saw a person |
| 1:38.1 | with a tire iron in his hand outside of the car. The day the witness talked to law enforcement, |
| 1:43.5 | he had actually taken photos of the spot where he saw the car. The day the witness talked to law enforcement, he had actually taken photos of |
| 1:45.8 | the spot where he saw the car. He also showed them the same spot on a map. Law enforcement was able |
| 1:52.0 | to get video from a street near Hickory Tree Road and found a possible match to Stern's car |
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