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, STDS Nation, and welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor, the

podcast that promises to bring you the very best guess in all of true crime and today we are going to circle back on a disturbing story but one that we've covered extensively here and of course that is Madeline Soto.

Just to let you know, this is now the second show that we've done of the day because we had a press

conference about these mothers in Kansas, murdered in a custody dispute.

One was essentially, I hate to say this collateral damage in the wrong place

at the wrong time.

So that is another horrific story but we've got more information and we're doing a full episode on that coming up at seven.

So it is a very busy Monday here but glad that you can join us and just to recap a little bit about Madeline Soto

in February the 13 year old disappeared it prompted a statewide missing child alert.

Officials confirmed just a few days later that her body was found in rural

Osceola County. That as I said was just days after she was reported missing. Now

Stephen Stearns who was her mother's boyfriend still might be we don't

really know is now considered the prime suspect in Madeline's

disappearance and murder and he's accused of moving her body in the

morning hours of Monday, February 26.

Of course, that was a school day,

and the day prior was her 13th birthday,

which a lot of people think could have been a trigger for all this.

He is believed to have murdered her in Kissimmee. That is according

the Orange County Sheriff's Office. Now everyone's been waiting on the

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