Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up, SCS Nation, and welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor, the podcast that promises to bring you the very best guests in all of true crime.

And it is no exception today, although one of our three best guests is running a few minutes late.

And that person will bounce on in just a moment.

It is a Monday.

And I'm not a big fan of Mondays for those who follow the show, but we will get

through it together and I was joking with Jessica. Just a joke in Dr. Leslie, who I'm about to

introduce, could be the last Monday before the Civil War. So buckle up, buckle in, and get ready.

It's a sad story today.

Obviously, most of them are sad, but this is next level sad.

Madeline Soto, the young 13-year-old, Orlando area girl.

She went missing on February 26th.

She was tragically found dead four days later.

Initially, her mother's boyfriend, Stefan Stearns, was charged with some assault charges, essay charges.

That turned into murder charges.

And Jen Soto has been questioned repeatedly by police.

And now people are asking, you know, could she potentially be the next person indicted?

Or does she just walk away Scott Free here as though, you know, she had nothing to do with it, which is what

she's claiming to this point. So we'll dive into all that. First, let me introduce Jessica

Mishali. She is a criminal defense attorney based in Boka. She recently defended a woman

named Marcia Thompson on a battered spouse syndrome case. She might have been able to help Sarah Boone, where I was for two weeks.

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