Episode 360
7/21/202659 min
13-year-old Madeline Soto vanishes on what should have been an ordinary school morning in Kissimmee, Florida. She’s dropped off just a block away, and nothing about it feels unusual. She walks off, heading toward school… and disappears. By the afternoon, panic sets in. Calls to 911 reveal a family scrambling for answers: rechecking routes, calling friends, waiting for help that isn’t coming fast enough. She never made it to class. No one saw her arrive. Beneath the family’s lies, it’s a race against the clock to find Maddie.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Speaker 20:08
And when you guys showed me the picture of her, I believed the sexual stuff, but I didn't want to believe that he had done anything equal to her. I'm like, "No, what if she, what if he did this stuff behind?"
Mike Boudet· Host0:23
Some of the stories we tell here on Sword and Scale will make you sick. They'll tug at your heartstrings. They'll change your whole perspective on humanity. They're the ones you can't get over, the ones you can't really shake, and they stay with you for a long time. The story we're about to tell you is one of them. This is part one of a two-part series. Let's go.