Who took the 2nd trip to Madeline Soto's body and why?

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Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

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🗓️ 27 July 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Who drove the White Nissan to Madeline Soto's crime scene @ 0335? OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — New evidence shows two cars drove to the place where the body of 13-year-old Madeline Soto was dumped in Osceola County. Both of those cars came from the apartment complex where the teen lived with her mom and the man accused of killing her. A memorial now sits on the side of Hickory Street Road in St. Cloud, marking the place where Madeline's body was found nearly a week after she disappeared. We already knew that police believe her accused killer — Stephan Sterns — brought Madeline's body there on the day she went missing, but now, we're learning that a second car connected to the man came to the same spot early the next morning. Related: Medical Examiner's Office says they cannot release 13-year-old Madeline Soto's cause of death The newly released report is part of hundreds of pages of evidence against Sterns, set to be used when he goes on trial for his first-degree murder charge. According to the report, an officer used license plate readers and traffic cameras to track Sterns' car from the Kissimmee apartment complex where he lives with Madeline's mom, who is also his girlfriend, to the remote road in Osceola County. The report now shows that a second car, a Nissan, made the same trip from the apartments to the Hickory Tree Road area after 3 a.m. the day after Madeline was first reported missing.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone and welcome to police off the cuff, real crime stories.
0:15.0	I'm your host, Tied NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.
0:20.9	You know, folks, the more we learn about Stefan Stearns,
0:26.2	and the more we understand this case, and there's actually two cases, of course,
0:32.7	than the one is the trial for the essay, the 80 or more charges of SA he has,
0:44.0	that could put him in prison for the rest of his life.
0:48.2	And then we find out, you know, more reporting on it about his emails
0:53.3	from jail to his parents on how he's trying to
0:56.9	implicate Jennifer Soto, which may, she may very well be involved in this. In fact, I believe
1:04.3	she is involved in this and why she has not yet been taken to task, why she has not yet
1:10.5	been arrested.
1:12.2	The only thing I can think of is that perhaps they think she would be more valuable
1:17.6	as a witness against Stefan Stearns than she would to charge her.
1:24.5	And that's a decision by the prosecutor. But another big question that comes up.
1:31.3	On the night of Madeline's murder, where Stefan Stearns was seen driving in the car that you see on the screen,
1:39.3	the Lincoln, at 1004, and he's caught on all kinds of surveillance devices.
1:47.0	And the biggest surveillance devices we know about these days are license plate readers.
1:53.0	They're all over the place.
1:55.0	So there's very little privacy anywhere in this world, and his car is caught on these license plate readers going the route
2:04.1	that he tells the police about how he dropped her off at school and except guess what she never
2:12.5	showed up at school and every almost every word out of this guy's mouth is an absolute 100% lie. And he's
2:23.3	such a despicable, despicable human being. And I hate to even call him a human being.
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