Stephan Sterns Jail House Calls – Call 11: Final Reflections on Madeline Soto’s Death – A Family Broken
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This final call is intimate, painful, and emotionally overwhelming. Stephan reflects on what he’s lost — including Madeline Soto — though even now, he stops short of accountability.
His mother expresses her unwavering love. His father sounds exhausted. This is a family at the end of its rope, trying to hold on to something human in the aftermath of something inhuman.
The Madeline Soto murder case ends in silence. Not with answers — but with echoes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.1 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome back as we continue to break down the jailhouse phone calls between Stefan Stearns and his parents. |
| 0:12.8 | Stefan charged in the murder of Baddalen Soto and child exploitation. |
| 0:17.3 | In case you're just joining us, this is actually Call 11 in the series that we've been breaking down, our last one for this series of calls. |
| 0:27.4 | In this final call, it's deep, it's winding, it goes from nostalgia to theology to discussions about dreams to agonizing reflections on what might have been. |
| 0:42.5 | Stefan's parents, especially his mom, start to mourn Maddie in earnest. |
| 0:46.7 | And for a moment, Stefan seems to express mourning too. |
| 0:51.5 | Whether it's guilt or grief isn't entirely clear. |
| 0:56.2 | And then just like that, it's back or grief isn't entirely clear. And then just like that, |
| 1:03.1 | it's back to logistics, commissary, watchless, candy. It's the emotional equivalent of CPR, |
| 1:10.5 | trying to keep the relationship breathing, even when the body's gone cold. Tell me your reactions in the comments. |
| 1:12.5 | Let's take a listen. |
| 1:13.8 | Hi. |
| 1:14.4 | Talk to you. |
| 1:15.4 | Hi. |
| 1:16.0 | Hello again. |
| 1:17.8 | Hello. |
| 1:19.5 | Hello, ma'am. |
| 1:21.1 | I was just thinking it's amazing how many of Crapp's books have been turned into movies. |
| 1:27.1 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:28.5 | Yeah. |
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