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Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update, breaking crime news.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm Jackie Howard. Disturbing information being revealed in the

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Speaker 2: Matti Sodo burder case as police release interviews with mom,

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Speaker 2: Jennifer Soto and Mattie's cause of death.

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Speaker 3: During autopsy of Madeleine Soto, medical examiner expresses concern over

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Speaker 3: Madeline's hyoid bone in her neck. The doctor states the

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Speaker 3: right portion of the bone was not intact, which could

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Speaker 3: possibly be related to her being strangled. The autopsy determined

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Speaker 3: that Madelein Soto died by strangulation and her death is

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Speaker 3: ruled a homicide.

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Speaker 4: Investigators find shocking searches on the computer used by Stephan Stearns.

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Speaker 4: One of the Google searches is for sevofluorine. It's a

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Speaker 4: volatile anesthetic that provides hypnosis, amnesia, analgesia, akenesia, and autonomic

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Speaker 4: blockade during surgical and procedural interventions.

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Speaker 2: Another detail released is that the socks Mattie was wearing

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Speaker 2: were clean, meaning her feet never touched the ground in them.

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Speaker 2: This after Mattie's body was found in a wooded air

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Speaker 2: behind a locked fence. Police say Madeleine's body would have

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Speaker 2: had to have been dropped over the bombed wire fence

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Speaker 2: or where the gate is. Then her body moved to

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Speaker 2: the location where it was found. Here's crime on Lines

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Speaker 2: Drew Nelson.

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Speaker 4: When Madeleine's body was removed from underneath the dry grass

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Speaker 4: and hay, detectives were able to immediately identify her by

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Speaker 4: a mole she has on her cheek. Her body shows

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Speaker 4: signs of decomposition to one side of her face and

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Speaker 4: her hands. Madeleine is wearing a green hoodie with the

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Speaker 4: hoodie covering the top of her head, blue jeans, and

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Speaker 4: white socks. The police report notes that Madeleine's socks were clean,

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Speaker 4: indicating she did not walk anywhere or the socks would

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Speaker 4: have dirt on the bottom. Someone carried Madeline to the

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Speaker 4: place she was found.

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Speaker 2: Stephan Stearns, Jennifer Sodo's living boyfriend, is that some one.

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Speaker 2: Jennifer Soto told police that she often sent her daughter

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Speaker 2: to sleep in the same bed as Stearn's so that

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Speaker 2: mom could get a good night's sleep, including the night

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Speaker 2: that Maddie died.

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Speaker 5: We were all going to sleep together in the bed,

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Speaker 5: but I needed some good sleep and I got a

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Speaker 5: new job recently. I haven't been were arrested I needed

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Speaker 5: some sleep, so I asked, Hey, can you guys go

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Speaker 5: to the guest bedroom upstairs. I knew he was going

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Speaker 5: to get her ready, Inkedy.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, okay, so.

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Speaker 5: You needed some good seven o'clock. Yeah, I sent them

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Speaker 5: upstairs and I went to bed.

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Speaker 4: In an interview with police while her thirteen year old

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Speaker 4: daughter is missing, Jennifer Soto is confronted with inconsistencies in

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Speaker 4: the version of events she is giving versus what her boyfriend,

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Speaker 4: Stephan Sterens is saying. Telling police, she is giving Sterns

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Speaker 4: the benefit of the doubt that he dropped Maddie off

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Speaker 4: at school like he says, but qualifies the statement by

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Speaker 4: adding Stephan is a master liar and a master manipulator.

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Speaker 2: Investigators press Jennifer Soto during her interview with detectives and

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Speaker 2: show her evidence photos they have of Stephen Stearns and

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Speaker 2: Madeline engaging in sexual activity. After seeing the photos, Soto

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Speaker 2: says she realizes he is guilty. The detective asks what

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Speaker 2: she thinks he is guilty of. Jennifer Soto says, he's

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Speaker 2: been grooming and abusing my child. The detective asks if

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Speaker 2: she thinks Stephan killed Madeline and now Soto says at

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Speaker 2: this point, I do for more on Madeleine Soto's death

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Speaker 2: and the charges against Stephan Stearns. Tune into Crime Stories

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Speaker 2: with Nancy Grace on Doctor Field's Merritt Street Media, or

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Speaker 1: After this, Aaron Johnson gets in an argument with his

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Speaker 1: wife and decides to find another place to spend the night.

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Speaker 1: He drives thirty minutes southeast from Birchwood, Wisconsin to a campground.

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Speaker 1: He sets up a tpe and settles in. He's never

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Speaker 1: heard from again. His cell phone goes straight to voicemail.

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Speaker 1: It's not even pinging. It takes cops nearly two months

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Speaker 1: to find his truck. They also find clothing, including gloves, boots,

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Speaker 1: and pants, wallet still inside. Cops get a tip somebody

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Speaker 1: spotted a man wearing only a tank top in boxers

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Speaker 1: the day after Aaron leaves birch Wood. The tipster asked

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Speaker 1: Erin if he needed help. Aaron said no and kept walking.

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Speaker 1: Cops believe Erin may have been suffering from hypothermia. Aaron

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Speaker 1: Johnson thirty four five six, two hundred pounds shaved head

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Speaker 1: and arm sleeve tattoos now missing four years. If you

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Speaker 1: have info, call Russ County, Wisconsin Sheriffs seven one, five,

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Speaker 1: five three two twenty two one hundred.

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