Walk Softly Children

By Jessica Fritz-AguiarNews True Crime

Walk Softly Children episodes

November 17, 2021 E2 EP 7 Fireworks Wars
Join Jessica Fritz Aguiar as she chronologically tracks the life of Mark Hunter Vincent, Doreen’s father and the prime suspect in her June 1988 disappearance from Whirlwind Hill Road in Wallingford, Connecticut in a special three-part episode. Hear from Mark’s family members as well as his acquaintances from over the years and learn new details about Mark before, during, and after Doreen vanished. Chapter One will be released on November 17, 2021, with Chapters Two and Three available on November 24 and December 1. To listen to all three immediately, please become a Patreon at Sticky Beak is creating True crime podcast | Patreon.
39 min
September 09, 2021 Wood Frog: Part 2
In trying to understand why the Wallingford Police Department is ignoring the history and signs of sexual abuse in missing girl and homicide victim Doreen Vincent, Jessica Fritz Aguiar dives deep into the evidence of what Doreen experienced in her short life, speaking to Doreen’s aunts Debbie Pereira and Carol Murad, her uncle Joe Murad, her grandmother Jane Murad, and her cousin Mary Knapp - all the while trying to focus on Doreen the girl, not just the victim.
51 min
August 30, 2021 Wood Frog: Part 1
In trying to understand why the Wallingford Police Department is ignoring the history and signs of sexual abuse in missing girl and homicide victim Doreen Vincent, Jessica Fritz Aguiar dives deep into the evidence of what Doreen experienced in her short life, speaking to Doreen’s aunts Debbie Pereira and Carol Murad, her uncle Joe Murad, her grandmother Jane Murad, and her cousin Mary Knapp - all the while trying to focus on Doreen the girl, not just the victim.
48 min
July 27, 2021 Little Alice
Join Jessica Fritz Aguiar as she attempts to build a truce with the Wallingford Police Department, examining the impact of the department’s recent change in leadership on the investigation as well as its apparent unwillingness to examine the relevance of sexual abuse to Doreen’s case.
1 hr
June 30, 2021 Don't Go Missing Forever
Follow Jessica Fritz Aguiar as she examines the possibilities of finding Doreen Vincent at a number of locations across Connecticut, including 1316 Whirlwind Hill and Huntington State Park. Joining her for the conversation are no-body expert Tad DiBiase and long-lost Huntington ranger Paul O’Connell, who saw Mark’s 1977 Chevy pickup in the park in the summer following Doreen’s disappearance.
1 hr 8 min
June 22, 2021 A KEY THAT COULD USE A LITTLE TURNING
We may think we know what happened to Doreen Vincent, but as in so many other cold cases involving so-called endangered runaways - like Alissa Turney and Aundria Bowman - we can’t know the truth unless and until the person responsible for her disappearance speaks. Listen as Jessica Fritz Aguiar unpacks the mystery of what really happened that night in June 1988 in Wallingford, Connecticut with the help of a private investigator hired by Doreen’s family, psychic Vanessa, and nationally renowned “no-body” expert and prosecutor Tad DiBiase.
1 hr 2 min
June 15, 2021 Barn Sale
On June 15, 1988, Doreen Jane Vincent disappeared from the Connecticut farmhouse her career criminal father had rented the week before. At twelve, she had already lived 1,000 lifetimes. When her mother discovered her missing three days later, Mark Vincent told the cops she’d run away. Sounds simple, right? But that’s just the beginning of a long, twisted story – that maybe, in the end, holds answers and redemption. Join Jessica Fritz Aguiar as she dives deep into a thirty-three year old cold case, calling out long dead witnesses, a Christian addiction group, the Wallingford PD, and Doreen’s family itself. Because Jessica’s like any good Sticky Beak – a pushy broad who doesn’t take no for an answer.
54 min
April 06, 2021 Season 2 Trailer
Get ready for an all new season of Sticky Beak, as Jessica Fritz Aguiar continues her quest to get justice for Doreen Vincent, who has been missing since 1988, and whose case has recently been changed to a homicide. Doreen's father, Mark Vincent, is the prime suspect in the disappearance of his daughter, who was just 12 years old when he claimed they had a fight and she ran away... never to be seen again. The walls are closing in, and experts are lining up to solve this case.
2 min
October 09, 2020 The Chatroom Episode 4: Jessica Fritz Aguiar (Sticky Beak Podcast)
On this episode of the Chatroom, Connor's guest is Jessica Fritz Aguiar, host of the #CMGPodcast Sticky Beak. Jess talks to Connor about working as a researcher on Faded Out, her job as a lawyer, being a mom of 4 kids, and what inspired her about Doreen Vincent's case to dedicate the past two years to trying to solve this 32 year old cold case.
23 min
May 03, 2020 Cooking Eggs
The following episode, as well as In the Cards, draw from the following articles:

Missing Girls’ Cold Cases Turn 50, 45, Respectively, This Week, Chris Dehnel, July 24, 2018

Cold Case Squad Investigating 40 Year Old Missing Girl Cases Has Leads, David Owens, April 14, 2016, Hartford Courant http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-tolland-missing-girls-0415-20160414-story.html

Defrosting Cold Cases – The Vernon Tolland Three, Alice De Sturler, June 25, 2018 (website) https://defrostingcoldcases.com/?s=vernon+tolland

Remembering Lisa White 40 Years After Disappearance, Tara Joyce, NBC Connecticut October 31, 2014 https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/remembering-lisa-white-40-years-after-disappearance/58229/

A Close Look Inside Connecticut’s Cold Case Unit, June 28, 2015, Jonathan Shugarts, Waterbury Republican American https://www.thehour.com/news/article/A-close-look-inside-Connecticut-s-cold-case-unit-8044034.php

Connecticut cold case murders pule up for small group of investigators, Lisa Backus, March 31, 2019 https://www.ctinsider.com/local/article/CT-cold-case-murders-pile-up-for-small-group-of-13720172.php

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2015/06/10/they-keep-finding-bodies-by-my-grandparents-house, They Keep Finding Bodies by My Grandparents’ House, Sara Morrison, June 10, 2015, Boston.com

Until They All Come Home, Heidi Voight, NBC Connecticut, November 21, 2019

How a Sacramento County investigator solved a 40 year-old cold case, Walter Makaula, April 25, 2020 https://www.kcra.com/article/how-sacramento-county-investigator-solved-40-year-old-cold-case/32275016

Cold Cases, Open Wounds, The Yale News, Kyung Min Lee, January 21, 2019 http://features.yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/01/21/cold-case-open-wounds/

The Brass File, A Punch in the Face. Blog by John Murray, dated December 9, 2007. http://waterburyobserver.blogspot.com/2007/12/punch-in-face.html

The Search: Billy Smolinski Was Murdered Six Years Ago. Where is His Body?, John Murray, Waterbury Observer, August 1, 2010 http://www.waterburyobserver.org/wod7/node/4334

Sex, Violence, and Politics, aka The Smolinski Case, Andy Thibeaut, CT News Junkie, March 26, 2007 https://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/sex_violence_and_politics_aka_the_smolinski_case/

Earlier FOIA investigation for Van De Velde: https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2001/10/11/jovin-file-faces-new-foi-act-review/ - members voted unanimously to review Suzanne’s file 2011

Witness, detective paint different pictures of cold case, The Associated Press, Norwich Bulletin, February 21, 2020 https://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/20200221/witness-detective-paint-different-pictures-of-cold-case

New Suspect Charged in 1980s Teen Slayings, NBC Connecticut, December 5, 2008 https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/local/sex-offender-charged-in-1980s-teen-slayings/1845007/

‘One of the worst cases that I’ve heard.’ 24 years after gruesome dragging death, detectives continue to investigate the murder of Leah Ulbrich, Zach Murdock, The Hartford Courant, October 29, 2019 http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-leah-ulbrich-cold-case-20191029-hnryyeizx5bipglvtodbjfwy6a-story.html

Police release select records of ‘dead leads’ in Wallingford homicide cold case, Lauren Takores, Record Journal, February 21, 2020 https://www.myrecordjournal.com/News/Wallingford/Wallingford-News/Police-release-select-records-of-dead-leads-in-Wallingford-homicide-cold-case.html

Billy Smolinski, Gone Since 2004, Is Part of a ‘Mass Silent Disaster’ https://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/15/billy-smolinski-gone-2004-part-silent-mass-disaster-263142.html

Filmmaker fighting for release of records in Madison cold case slaying, Meghan Friedmann, January 12, 2020, New Haven Register https://www.ctinsider.com/news/nhregister/article/Filmmaker-fighting-for-release-of-records-in-14969151.php

Cold Case Chronicles: 1996 murders of mother, son still remain unsolved, Kara O’Connor, The Hour, April 28, 2012 https://www.thehour.com/stamford/article/Cold-Case-Chronicles-1996-murders-of-mother-son-8140367.php

Ruling Favors Police Disclosure, Paul Zielbauer, New York Times, February 15, 2002

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/nyregion/metro-briefing-connecticut-hartford-ruling-favors-police-disclosure.html?searchResultPosition=2

Man Convicted in Slayings of 2 Teens in 1980s Dies in Prison, NBC Connecticut, October 19, 2018

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/man-convicted-in-slayings-of-2-teens-in-1980s-d...
1 hr

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Attorney Jessica Fritz-Aguiar continues the investigation of the Doreen Vincent case featured on Season 2 of the podcast Faded Out. Fritz-Aguiar was the lead investigator on that podcast, and has…