More documents detailing the abuse and murder of 13-year-old Madeline Soto were released on Wednesday.The nearly 900-page document goes over the interviews with Soto’s mother and her mother’s boyfriend, Stephan Sterns, the man accused of raping and killing the little girl.Those documents go over many of the facts we already know about the case, but they paint a slightly greater picture of the level of abuse that Madeline was subjected to, where Stephan Stern was the day she disappeared, and how Madeline’s body was discovered.During the interview, detectives asked Sterns exactly where he went the day Madeline disappeared. What he told them was not consistent with where his car had been seen on surveillance footage and didn’t add up with his Google Drive locations on his phone.Stern had been saying that he dropped Madeline off at school around 8:30 a.m. the morning she went missing. But investigators had a video showing him discarding a tire and several items that they later found was Madeline’s in a trash compactor of his apartment at 7:30 in the morning.Detectives believe Madeline had already been murdered.In several videos, she was seen with “her head visible, tilted on her left shoulder, and her mouth open. She was belted into the seat.”Around 9:40 that morning, Stern’s car was seen on camera entering the parking garage of a business on South John Young Pkwy.The document said, “The male then walked to the front passenger-side of the vehicle, opened the door, then proceeded to carry what appeared to be a limp female body to the trunk of the vehicle.”Documents also revealed how Madeline’s body was found by detectives tucked behind a line of bamboo trees off Hickory Tree Road in St. Cloud. WESH 2 News contacted Kissimmee Police to ask if anyone else could potentially be arrested, but we haven’t heard back yet.RELATED: New video shows Madeline Soto’s mother, Stephan Sterns speaking with deputies after teen goes missingState seeking death penalty against Stephan Sterns in Madeline Soto casePolice: Madeline Soto’s mom said it was normal for teen to sleep in stepfather’s bed’The light of my life’: Family, community members gather in Osceola County to honor Madeline Soto at vigil
More documents detailing the abuse and murder of 13-year-old Madeline Soto were released on Wednesday.
The nearly 900-page document goes over the interviews with Soto’s mother and her mother’s boyfriend, Stephan Sterns, the man accused of raping and killing the little girl.
Those documents go over many of the facts we already know about the case, but they paint a slightly greater picture of the level of abuse that Madeline was subjected to, where Stephan Stern was the day she disappeared, and how Madeline’s body was discovered.
During the interview, detectives asked Sterns exactly where he went the day Madeline disappeared. What he told them was not consistent with where his car had been seen on surveillance footage and didn’t add up with his Google Drive locations on his phone.
Stern had been saying that he dropped Madeline off at school around 8:30 a.m. the morning she went missing.
But investigators had a video showing him discarding a tire and several items that they later found was Madeline’s in a trash compactor of his apartment at 7:30 in the morning.
Detectives believe Madeline had already been murdered.
In several videos, she was seen with “her head visible, tilted on her left shoulder, and her mouth open. She was belted into the seat.”
Around 9:40 that morning, Stern’s car was seen on camera entering the parking garage of a business on South John Young Pkwy.
The document said, “The male then walked to the front passenger-side of the vehicle, opened the door, then proceeded to carry what appeared to be a limp female body to the trunk of the vehicle.”
Documents also revealed how Madeline’s body was found by detectives tucked behind a line of bamboo trees off Hickory Tree Road in St. Cloud.
WESH 2 News contacted Kissimmee Police to ask if anyone else could potentially be arrested, but we haven’t heard back yet.
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