Aug. 1, 2025
"CRAIG GUILTY, DELGADO'S 50 YEARS & THE MADELINE SOTO HORROR: Justice for the Protein Shake Killer"
Reid Carter breaks down James Craig's life sentence for poisoning his wife Angela with protein shakes while planning a new life with his Texas mistress - justice for the dentist who thought medical knowledge made him untouchable. Plus, Billy Delgado gets 50 years for shooting his ex-wife five times, rejecting a 40-year plea deal that would have saved him a decade. Then, the case you may have missed: Stephan Sterns' 21 life sentences for raping and murdering 13-year-old Madeline Soto, whose four-year nightmare of abuse ended in strangulation and a wooded grave. From calculated poisoners to rage-filled shooters to predatory killers, justice shows that evil comes in many forms but always pays the same price. Justice isn't always swift, but it's absolutely riveting.
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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Read Carter, and welcome
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to Celebrity Trials on this Friday, August first. Today, we're
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bringing you major verdicts in two cases we've been following closely,
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plus a deep dive into one of the most disturbing
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child murder cases you may have missed this year. James Craig,
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the Colorado dentist who systematically poisoned his wife with protein shakes,
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has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Billy Delgado,
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who shot his ex wife five times in Texas, got
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fifty years after rejecting a plea deal that would have
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saved him a decade. And we're taking you inside the
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horrific case of Stephen Stearns, who received twenty one life
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sentences for raping and murdering thirteen year old Madeline Soto
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after years of sexual abuse. These cases show us different
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faces of evil, the calculated killer who uses his medical
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knowledge to commit murder, the rage filled domestic abuser who
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can't accept rejection, and the predatory monster who destroys innocence
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before taking life itself. Each case ended with justice, but
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the paths to those verdicts reveal how criminals think they
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can outsmart the system. Let's start with yesterday's verdict in Colorado,
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where James Craig discovered that all his medical knowledge, manipulation attempts,
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and jailhouse murder plots couldn't save him from life in prison.
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After deliberating for more than eight hours over two days,
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and a Rapahoe County jury found James Craig guilty of
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first degree murder, solicitation to commit murder in the first degree,
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solicitation to commit perjury, and solicitation to commit evidence tampering.
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Judge Shay Whittaker sentenced the father of six to life
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in prison with no possibility of parole for his crimes.
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The evidence, the crime, the verdict, and the sentence all
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speak for themselves, Judge Whittaker said while handing down the
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life sentence. Doctor Craig unleashed a path of destruction as
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wide as a tornado, and just as devastating damage to
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his children, damage to Angela's family, damage to his own family.
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This case was always about more than just murder. It
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was about the systematic destruction of trust, family, and love
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by a man who convinced himself he was smart enough
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to commit the perfect crime. Craig didn't just kill his wife, Angela.
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He tried to frame her for her own death, manipulate
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his own children into covering for him, and hire hitmen
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from jail to kill the investigators who exposed his lies.
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The prosecution called forty eight witnesses over two weeks to
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prove that Craig poisoned his wife's protein shakes, gave her
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prescription capsules he had emptied and refilled with cyanide, and
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injected her with a poisonous substance using a syringe while
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she lay dying in the hospital. The evidence was overwhelming
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and absolutely devastating. Craig used his dental practice computer to
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search for is there such thing as an undetectable poison?
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And how long does it take to die from arsenic poisoning?
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He ordered potassium cyanide on Amazon and had it delivered
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to his office. Surveillance video from his home captured him
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preparing the fatal protein shakes in their kitchen. Text messages
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showed his affair with Texas dentist Karen Kin, whom he
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met at a Las Vegas conference and promised a new
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life with. Perhaps most damning were the testimonies from Craig's
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own daughters, who described how their father asked them to
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help fabricate evidence that their mother was suicidal. Two of
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Craig's children took the stand and testified against their father,
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showing just how completely he had destroyed his own family.
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But Craig's arrogance didn't stop with murder. While awaiting trial,
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he tried to orchestrate a murder for higher scheme, targeting
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the lead detective investigating his wife's death. He wrote letters
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trying to convince fellow inmates to kill investigators for twenty
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thousand dollars each. He asked his daughter to destroy computer
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evidence he plotted to create deep fake videos of his
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dead wife confessing to suicide. Even after all this evidence,
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Craig's defense tried to argue that Angela had killed herself.
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His attorney claimed investigators had tunnel vision and suggested Angela
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was emotionally broken by Craig's affairs and took her own life. But,
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as prosecutor Ryan Brackley argued in rebuttal, the only evidence
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of Angela Craig's suicidal ideation comes from James Craig, and
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he is not trustworthy. The jury saw through Craig's lies
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and manipulation. Angela Craig was a forty three year old
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mother of six who was making plans for the future
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when her husband decided to kill her rather than face
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the inconvenience of divorce. She texted Craig during her first hospitalization,
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saying she felt drugged after drinking only her protein shake,
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and Craig's response was chilling. Just for the record, I
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didn't drug you. Following the verdict, Angela Craig's family members
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offered victim impact statements that captured the true cost of
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Craig's crimes. Angela's eldest daughter, tears streaming down her face,
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said life and the world will truly never be the
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same without her mom. She told her father he had
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betrayed her trust in the most fundamental way possible. I
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want my mom. I want more than anything to go
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home at the end of the day and just give
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her a hug and call her and tell her about
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the crazy stuff that's happened, she said. While Craig sobbed
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at the defense table, Angela's brother, Ricky Pray, spoke through tears.
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I've always been impressed by Angie's obvious love and support
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for her children. She always found ways to draw in
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and include our extended family. Because because of his selfishness, lust, dishonesty,
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and narcissism, our Angie is gone. Assistant District Attorney Ryan
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Brackley said the evidence was absolutely stunning and never stopped
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getting worse. The case revealed not just a murder, but
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a web of deception, manipulation, and attempted cover ups that
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showed Craig's complete lack of remorse or human decency. Craig
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will appeal, but his conviction sends a clear message. Medical
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knowledge and professional status don't make you above the law.
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All the poison in the world can't kill the truth,
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and all the manipulation in the world can't escape justice
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back in a moment. Our second verdict comes from Texas,
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where Billy Delgado learned that rejecting a plea deal and
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betting on a jury's sympathy was a costly mistake that
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will keep him in prison for an extra decade. A
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jury sentenced Billy Delgado to fifty years in prison Wednesday
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for shooting his ex wife, Erica Torres, five times during
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a custody exchange in twenty twenty four. The punishment comes
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one day after jurors found Delgado guilty of aggravated assault
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with a deadly weapon in the shooting that left Torres
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hospitalized for nearly a year. Delgado had been offered a
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forty year plea deal, but declined, choosing instead to face
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a jury trial. That decision cost him ten additional years
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behind bars and put his victim through the trauma of
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reliving her near death experience in open court. The incident
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happened June first, twenty twenty four, outside a Laredo home
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where Torres had gone to pick up their daughter. Delgado
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allegedly shot at Torres more than a dozen times, hitting
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her five times in the abdomen as she sat in
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her car. Despite being critically wounded, Torres managed to drive
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toward a hospital before losing consciousness and crashing her vehicle.
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Torres testified about the horrific attack, saying, I realized I
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got shot because I felt like I couldn't breathe. I
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felt like something was tying around my waist so tight.
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She was hospitalized for three hundred sixty three days and
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underwent more than twenty surgeries. I was in excruciating pain.
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I kept passing out I just did not want to die,
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she told the jury. But Delgado's defense collapsed when investigators
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found no evidence to support his claims that he shot
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Torres because their daughter had been abused by Torres's brother.
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Sergeant Vaka, a twenty six year veteran of the Laredo
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Police Department, testified that a forensic investigation found no evidence
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supporting Delgado's allegations, so Delgado's entire defense was based on
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fabricated child abuse claims. He invented a story about protecting
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his daughter to justify attempted murder, showing the same pattern
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of manipulation and lies we saw with James Craig. During
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the punishment phase, Torres took the stand once again, telling
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jurors she and her daughters now live in constant fear.
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You didn't just hurt me, you hurt them. You both
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are families, the people who trusted you, who believed in you,
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and carried a different kind of wound. Despite everything, I
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forgive you, Billy Torres said, But her forgiveness came with
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a clear message about consequences. You didn't just try to
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take away. You changed everything. You changed our daughter's lives
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forever as well. They are victims too. They carry the
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trauma of what you did, even if they didn't see
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it with their own eyes. They feel the pain in
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ways you may never understand. The jury deliberated for only
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thirty minutes before assessing the fifty year sentence, showing they
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saw through Delgado's lies and fake remorse. Like Craig Delgado
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thought he could manipulate the system with fabricated stories and
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jailhouse claims of regret, both men learned that juries can
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distinguish between genuine remorse and calculated manipulation. Now we turn
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to a case that many of you may have missed
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this year, but one that represents perhaps the most disturbing
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intersection of child abuse and murder we've seen. The case
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of Madeleine Soto shows us how predators operate within families
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and how the justice system handles the most heinous crimes
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against children. On Monday, July twenty first, Stephen Stearns was
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sentenced to twenty one life sentences without the possibility of
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parole after pleading no contest to the murder of thirteen
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year old Madeleine Soto and guilty to twenty counts of
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sexual abuse. The plea deal spared him from the death penalty,
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but ensures he will never walk free again. This case
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began as a missing child report, but quickly revealed years
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of systematic sexual abuse that ended in murder. Madeleine Soto
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was reported missing on February twenty sixth, twenty twenty four,
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when she didn't show up to Hunter's Creek Middle School
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in Orange County, Florida. Her body was found five days
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late in the woods along Hickory Tree Road near Saint Cloud.
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Stephan Stearns, who was dating Madeleine's mother and lived with
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them in their Kissimee apartment, was supposed to have dropped
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her off at school that morning, but investigators quickly discovered
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that Madeleine never made it to school, and Sterne's story
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began to fall apart under scrutiny. What investigators uncovered was
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a nightmare that had been hidden in plain sight for years.
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While searching for Madeline, detectives found disturbing images on Stearns's
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phone and Google Drive that showed him sexually abusing the teenager.
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Despite Stearne's factory resetting his phone on the day Madeleine
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went missing, claiming he was trying to update it. Investigators
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recovered extensive evidence of ongoing abuse. The evidence showed that
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Stearns had been sexually abusing Madeline since she was just
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eight years old, beginning in twenty nineteen. Court documents filed
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by the state Attorney's office revealed a pattern of systematic
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abuse that escalated over four years until Sterns decided to
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silence his victim permanently. Surveillance footage captured Sterns throwing items
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into a dumpster at a Kissimee apartment complex the morning
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Madeleine disappeared. Her backpack and school issued laptop were later
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found in that same dumpster, proving that Sterns was disposing
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of evidence rather than taking her to school. Investigators believe
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Madeleine was sexually molested, strangled, and dumped in the wooded
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area by Sterns. The medical examiner determined that she died
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from strangulation, ending four years of abuse at the hands
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of the man who was supposed to protect her. Sterns
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originally faced sixty charges related to sexual abuse, plus first
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degree murder charges that carried the possibility of the death penalty.
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Prosecutors had announced their intention to seek capital punishment, but
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the plea deal was reached in close consultation with Madeleine's
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family to spare them the trauma of lengthy trials. During
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Monday's plea hearing, family members spoke about the vibrant, talented
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girl they had lost. They described Madeleine as someone who
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enjoyed art, was a talented singer with a trademark laugh,
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and loved sour gummy candies. She was learning Spanish and
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had just turned thirteen before she was killed. Because of
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the actions of this depraved man, I will never meet
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the woman she was becoming, Madeleine's father, Tyler Wallace, told
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the court, and I can't I can't grasp it. Madeleine's aunt,
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Letitia Nunez, spoke about the void left by her death,
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a world that feels less vibrant, less colorful than it
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did before. Even Stearns seemed to understand the magnitude of
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his crimes, saying in court, I agree that it is
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not fair that Madeleine is not here anymore. It's been
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a hard time contemplating a world where she's not around,
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a world that feels less vibrant, less colorful than it
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did before. I've prayed to God countless times to trade
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places with her and to take me instead. Unfortunately, that
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just not how he works. But Stern's expressions of remorse
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ring hollow when we consider the calculated nature of his crimes.
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He spent four years systematically abusing a child, then murdered
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her when she became inconvenient. He disposed of her belongings
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before she was even reported missing, showing premeditation and planning.
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State attorney Monique Warrel emphasized that the plea deal was
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designed to provide finality for the family. The individual responsible
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has been sentenced to twenty one concurrent life sentences and
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will never walk free again. He has also waived all
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of his rights to appeal, ensuring finality and sparing the
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family from reliving this trauma in courtrooms for years to come.
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The Madeleine Sodo case highlights several disturbing patterns we see
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in child abuse cases. First, the predator was in a
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position of trust. Stearns was dating Madeleine's mother and living
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in their home. Second, the abuse use escalated over years,
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showing how predators groom their victims and normalize horrific behavior. Third,
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when Sterns felt threatened by discovery, he chose murder rather
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than face consequences. Most disturbing is how Sterns used his
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relationship with Madeleine's mother as cover for his crimes. Jennifer Soto,
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who was not charged with any crime, became an online
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target despite there being no evidence she knew about the abuse.
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This shows how predators manipulate entire families and communities to
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hide their crimes. The case also shows the importance of
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digital evidence in modern prosecutions. Despite Sterens's attempts to destroy
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