The man accused of the murder of Florida Teen Madeline Soto speaks, but not with the authorities.
Instead, Stephan Sterns, 38, called from prison to home. Those calls are included, and Wesh 2 got access To the audio.
“Understand that everything I did was not done while I was in my rational spirit,” Sterns told his parents. “I had broken at the time. I just got it … I wish I had done the right thing to start with. You know, I wish I had come down and she was shaken and 911 called and so.”
“I wish you had done that too,” replied the mother of Sterns. “Maybe she could have been saved.”
Madeline, 13, was missing for the first time on 26 February 2024, after Staff members realized at her middle school in Orlando that she never arrived before class.
Her body was found four days later in the forest in the forest of Osceola County with clothing she had before she disappeared.
Sterns is accused of strangling her death and It was confirmed that he was the last person to see the teenager before she disappeared.
The police suspect that Sterns, who finished with Madeline’s mother, has sexually abused the young girl for years.
In another phone call, the mother of Sterns interviewed him about sexual images of the murdered teenage agents who were recovered from his phone. He said that the girl’s mother was aware of an alleged crush that Madeline had on him.
‘Well, why would that do [the mother] Send her there to sleep with you? “The mother asked.
The couple regularly shared a bed with the teenager, According to Fox 35.
“She always jokes about it,” Sterns was on the call. “You know, call it an electrical complex. Broken to make jokes and say, you know,” you shouldn’t leave me behind for my daughter when she’s older. ” Things like that. “
Jennifer Soto, Madeline’s mother, is not accused of crimes.
Sterns never admits that he killed Madeline, in the hours of the Audio received, but it says he found her body after she had already died.
“Well, I discovered her in the state that she was after everything was said and done,” Sterns said. ‘So I mean, of course I can’t get into details, but I didn’t know she had died. As you know, I am up and down all night and I was not in the room all the time. “
Sterns also told them by telephone that he accepted that he could be put to death if he is convicted.
“Are you accepting this? Are you going to be the autumn man for this? Is that the deal?” Asked the father of Sterns.
Sterns said it is or spend the rest of his natural life in a place where nobody will care.
“I think the person involved must have justice,” the father replied. “I do not mean, if you don’t, if you are not a part of this, you know, let’s clean it up. I mean, if not for you, for the families.”
Sterns replied: “I am pretty positive that this was all an accident. I am not sure if anyone, maybe no one is to blame or everyone is a bit fault.”
He will be on trial for the murder in May.
