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Interrogating Stephan Sterns Expert Tips and Strategies

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime

4.6809 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Interrogating Stephan Sterns: Expert Tips and Strategies #stephansterns #madelinesoto #stephansternsinterrogation The detectives from the OCSO missed a golden opportunity to get Stephan Sterns to confess. The interrogation should have included them confronting him with several truths. Sterns riding around in a car with Maddie's dead body, video of him throwing away her laptop and her back pack, and he transferring her dead body from the front seat to the trunk.

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0:00.0

Really strange.

0:01.0

It is.

0:03.0

Kylie K. Cosmos, I love your name, by the way.

0:06.8

Sarge, I'm not going to lie.

0:08.1

I'm jealous you've got to do this.

0:09.6

I'm also very grateful that it was you and not me.

0:12.6

It's all very confusing.

0:13.7

It looks like an extreme sport, maybe skydiving.

0:17.2

You know, Kylie, I had the A team in the Manhattan North Homicide Squad,

0:22.2

and my detectors were fantastic. And some of them were better interviewers than others.

0:29.0

There was a couple of them that were just superb, just superb interviewers.

0:35.3

And what a boss in Homicide has to know to do also is watch the interview.

0:42.0

You can watch it through the two-way glass outside and people don't know you're watching.

0:48.9

And if it looks like the detectives hit a wall or if it looks like the detectives may benefit by taking a

0:57.3

break, you can interrupt it. And it's not a good thing to interrupt it per se, because that can

1:03.9

ruin the flow of a detective that's doing an outstanding interview. But I think in this case, there should have been a meeting before they went in with him.

1:15.2

Because I think they really didn't focus on the right thing.

1:19.4

They should have focused on the murder and where Maddie's body was not on the images on his phone.

1:26.9

Because they didn't need him to, as I said, I'm sounding beating

1:30.7

a dead horse here. They didn't need him to confess to that. They got him with that. I skipped

1:37.5

ahead because I don't want to go through this whole interview, so we'll go back to it, but I skipped

1:42.2

ahead quite a bit.

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