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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

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

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

How Law Enforcement found Madeline Soto's body and a connection made #stephansterns #madelinesoto #jennifersoto The Orange County Sheriff's Office has confirmed the body found belongs to Madeline Soto, the 13-year-old girl who had been missing since Monday. Search teams with the Osceola County Sheriff's Office found Soto's body in a wooded area around 4:30 p.m. Friday. Kissimmee police said Soto's body was found near Hickory Tree Road. "We had different agencies checking different areas for our missing person," Osceola County Sheriff Marco Lopez said in a news conference on Friday. "A tip led us to the area of Hickory Tree Road, about a mile and a half from here, where someone potentially said they saw some involvement in the case. " "What we did was send our units out here and we discovered what appears to be a body. The body has clothing very similar to what the victim was last seen wearing," Lopez said in a news conference. "We're waiting for the forensics units to do their investigation, to make sure that they secure this crime scene," Lopez said.

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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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