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, guys, since I've been covering this Madeline Soto case, if there's any silver lining to a horrific case like this, is that many people that have been following this cases, this case, excuse me, have had situations similar to Madeline Sotos in their life or knew someone that was in a situation like that.

And it's heartwarming to me, and I believe to many people that watch this show, that people in the chat, the true crime, the real crime community,

want to share their experiences so that they can help others.

Because to talk about a very painful experience that happened in one's youth

is not an easy thing for anyone and for folks

to surrender that type of information in order to help their friends is an admiral trait.

And I really appreciate that.

And it's something that's heartwarming.

And in a case like this, that there's nothing good about this case at all.

At least we have the support of each other.

And as I said, I really appreciate that.

In this case, we all know that Stefan Stearns, if we read the arrest affidavit, the probable cause affidavit, it's horrific.

And I'm not going to play that on my channel.

All right. Again, not going to play that on my channel. All right.

Again, people want to play that. And I've seen live many shocking things in my police career.

And I don't think it's something that I want to put out there, you know, to build audience from it. I certainly don't.

And I think that others should have a little bit more responsibility than to show something like that. It's not good for the true crime community. It's not good for anyone. And how about young people, you know, young people that are friends and children in Madeline Soto's school?

How do you think they're weathering this?

How do you think that they're processing this in their young 13-year-old brains?

Not very easy, right?

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