MURDERED MADDIE SOTO, 13, MOM GETS IMMUNITY!
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The man accused of molesting and killing Madeline Soto shortly after her 13th birthday will go to trial next fall. Stephan Sterns, the boyfriend of Madeline’s mother,
Jennifer Soto, faces charges of first-degree murder and 60 other offenses, including sexual battery, molestation, and possession of child pornography.
Hundreds of evidence photos offer a detailed view of the Kissimmee condo where Madeline lived with her mother and several roommates. The townhome, located in the gated Venetian Bay Villages community, belongs to Jennifer Soto’s father. Soto and Madeline occupied the first floor, while two roommates lived in upstairs bedrooms. At one point, Stephan Sterns rented the third upstairs bedroom, which was otherwise unoccupied.
As the investigation continues, a newly released interview shows that law enforcement has provided Jennifer Soto with “derivative immunity,” a legal protection ensuring her statements cannot be used against her in future prosecution.
Soto gave the interview under an investigative subpoena and provided new details about her on-and-off relationship with Stephan Sterns and the hours leading up to her realization that Madeline was missing
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Ray Guidice - Defense Attorney, Host: "Your Day in Court"
- Dr. Marlena Ryba - Forensic Psychologist and Research Consultant at Dr. Long and Associates; LINKEDIN: marlenamryba;
- Alli Neal – Co-Founder, Executive Director, Revved Up Kids (fighting to protect kids from sexual abuse and exploitation); Twitter: @RevvedUpKids
- Tom Smith - Former NYPD Detective, Co-Host of the GOLD SHIELDS Podcast,;FB & Instagram: @thegoldshieldshow
- Dr. Todd Barr – Board-Certified Anatomic/Clinical/Forensic Pathologist (Ohio); Featured in, “Thin Places: Essays From In Between,” by Jordan Kisner
- Shannon Butler - Investigative Reporter WFTV-9
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:06.6 | Murdered Maddie Soto. Just 13 years old. |
| 0:12.3 | Mommy gets immunity? I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:19.2 | I sent them to sleep upstairs in the vest from the guest bedroom so that I could get a good |
| 0:23.4 | night's sleep. I think we need to get you a lawyer. But that was me assuming that you guys |
| 0:28.5 | had the wrong guy, not that he had done all this shit to her. I don't know why I wasn't |
| 0:32.4 | thinking him. I believed the sexual stuff, but I didn't want to believe that he had done anything evil to her. |
| 0:37.9 | What you just said is the sex stuff is fine. |
| 0:41.0 | It's not fine. |
| 0:41.8 | I look back and now, I'm just like, he was blind. |
| 0:44.2 | He was faking. |
| 0:45.6 | You can go even worse. |
| 0:47.0 | She's pregnant. |
| 0:48.2 | Have you ever found a pregnancy test at home? |
| 0:50.0 | I have two underneath the kitchen, the bathroom's safe, but I haven't seen if they're still there or not. |
| 0:55.9 | Joining us and an all-star panel to make sense of what we are learning now, not only do we learn that Maddie Soto's mother, Jen Soto, has gotten a form of immunity. |
| 1:07.4 | What was so important that they needed, the state needed from Jen Soto that she's |
| 1:13.2 | getting almost a free pass. First, to Shannon Butler joining us, investigative reporter from |
| 1:21.4 | WFTV 9. Shannon, thank you for being with us. What do you believe it is the state can get from mom, |
| 1:29.9 | Jen Soto, that's so valuable they would give her immunity from prosecution? Well, they didn't |
| 1:35.2 | tell us that they had any valuable information. What they said is they couldn't find anything |
| 1:41.0 | that would connect her to any crime. So I think what they're doing is trying to use her to |
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