it is early morning and CMI Florida and homicide detectives have been grilling Jennifer Soo for over an hour should he be charged with murder yes please does your role in her life lead this to happen I'll be honest yes two days earlier Jennifer's ex-boyfriend Stephan Sterns was arrested for possessing over 1,700 homemade pornographic images of her missing daughter meline the material was found on a Cloud Drive linked to his phone sheriffs also believe he is responsible for 13-year-old mine's murder her cause of death strangulation believe she's still alive she's out there everyone already knows that's
not possible 911 what's the location of your emergency I'm reporting a missing child just days earlier police police received a call from Jennifer herself saying her daughter was missing but before long they learned meline had been sharing a bed unsupervised with Sterns in her own mother's home for years that's the day you found out he was a predator yeah but when investigators share graphic evidence with Jen in the hopes that she will turn on Sterns she unexpectedly calls Stern's father and tells him to hire Steph and a lawyer and after you found out he was
a predator did you not say he needed a lawyer and Sheriff's Wonder are they talking to a grieving mother or an accessory in the rape and murder of a 13-year-old child they showed you a picture of it and you still protected him so how am I supposed to not think that the thought process in your mind is until she found Stephan can't be charged with murder I knew that that was true right that's evidence that's for real that's happening but I kept thinking no he didn't kill not that he didn't kill her but she's still
missing she's still out there she was taken I was in shock no it's not Shock that is your natural instinct to protect Stephan it's not the first time detectives witnessed Jen going into what she calls shock when confronted with the possible truth about Sterns and her daughter when first shown evidence of Stefan allegedly sexually assaulting Maddie sex crimes detectives note that Jen didn't recognize anything in the picture as if she was in denial and then there is this odd statement she gave detectives I was very Vigilant of for the first few years of how he
would interact with her and what he would do and I would question if anything was weird but nothing ever was truly weird I've never seen any signs I tried watching her like a hawk I thought I was doing a good job but I wasn't I was oblivious to every 4 years minimum it that's just how far back the cloud goes after two hours of questioning Jennifer sto eventually comes around helping police zero in on the region where Sterns likely left mine's body the teen was found on the side of a road in a remote region
of St Cloud Florida Jennifer then admits I don't care about him I want him to go to jail I want the worst possible to happen to him in jail I know what happens to predators in jail like I'm ready for that like please I don't give about him I'm not protecting him he treated her like like he treats you detectives have not filed criminal charges against Jen sto Sterns faces the death penalty for homicide in a trial slated to begin next month
