Maddie, if you see this, please come home. Please be safe.

I love you very much.

If you have my Maddie, please just let her come home.

We just want her home.

What happened the night Madeline Soto never came home?

How did an ordinary sleepover on a typical teenage school day

turn into an unspeakable tragedy that left an entire community in trauma.

The gruesome details will leave you in shock.

It was supposed to be just another school day.

But by the morning, 13-year-old Madeline Soto was begun forever. What twisted truth lay beneath the surface?

Who was the person behind the unimaginable crime? How did the dots connect back to someone

Madeline trusted blindly? Stefan Stern was your everyday Joe

He was dating Jennifer Soto

A single mother who saw him as a dependable partner

And a caring figure for her 13-year-old daughter Madeline

But Stefan was hiding a sinister secret

Stefan Stearns.

To everyone around him,

Stefan Stern seemed like an ordinary man.

Quiet, helpful, he blended in almost too well.

To Madeline's mother, Jennifer,

he was more than just a boyfriend.

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