Walk Softly Children

For more than three decades, Sharon Rockwell Vincent and the choices she made, forever shaping the way the Wallingford Police Department and the media have approached the Doreen Jane Vincent cold case, have remained a mystery. Suddenly, the dam broke, with Sharon’s relatives getting in touch with Jessica Fritz Aguiar to reveal new information about Sharon’s family history, beginning with her fathe...

For more than three decades, Sharon Rockwell Vincent and the choices she made, forever shaping the way the Wallingford Police Department and the media have approached the Doreen Jane Vincent cold case, have remained a mystery. Suddenly, the dam broke, with Sharon’s relatives getting in touch with Jessica Fritz Aguiar to reveal new information about Sharon’s family history, beginning with her fathe...

For more than three decades, Sharon Rockwell Vincent and the choices she made, forever shaping the way the Wallingford Police Department and the media have approached the Doreen Jane Vincent cold case, have remained a mystery. Suddenly, the dam broke, with Sharon’s relatives getting in touch with Jessica Fritz Aguiar to reveal new information about Sharon’s family history, beginning with her fathe...

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....

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....

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....

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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 answe...

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 see...

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.

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 Col...

RECAP: Follow Jessica Fritz Aguiar through the history of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act and her fight for records on Doreen Vincent’s cold case against the Wallingford Police Department. Learn about cold case units around Connecticut and hear what interest they might have in solving Doreen’s.

Jessica Fritz Aguiar examines Doreen Vincent's many signs of sexual abuse and the history of it as suffered by her aunts, Debbie and Carol, with the help of licensed clinical social worker Karen Calcaterra.

Listener questions: v   Jamie – How did Mark get to California?   Mimi – I want to know more about Brad.  Did the police write him back?  Has Mark responded to his letter?  Kate – Has the mayor ever been asked his thoughts on a crime committed against a child in his town that has gone unsolved for so long? Margaret – Have any members of Doreen’s family submitted DNA to ancestry sites?  I don’t exp...

When it comes to Doreen Vincent, it's always been women's work. Since she became a cold case, billed as a runaway in 1988, and for a while it seemed like only the women in her life were there to pick up the pieces. They were there to pick up the pieces for Mark, too.

The Wallingford Police gave Jessica some information about a 2003 plan for Mark to meet with detectives to offer information on Doreen's disappearance, but the State's Attorney wouldn't offer full immunity. What did the WPD miss, what happened at 1316 Whirlwind Hill Rd, what was going on with Doreen's "underwear model career" and more silly little stones that will blow this case wide open!

Sharon Vincent took a walk after Doreen was gone, to think and try out the neighborhood raspberries. Some might think she’s a victim; others a villain. Only Raspberry Season will tell.

Doreen was gone, and people were looking for her. Maybe not always the right people. But others would be there to watch them to challenge them and to call out for answers. And maybe a little justice, just like the Lady in White.

When you listen to a story, you want to trust the narrator. Well, you're not going to find that here. Come listen to the retelling of the night Doreen went missing. Make sure you take notes.

EPISODE: LOVE, DOREEN Doreen Jane Vincent was twelve years old when she vanished from her father’s rented farmhouse in Wallingford, Connecticut in June of 1988.  At almost that exact moment, in Wallingford’s neighboring town of Meriden, I was turning ten.  I first heard Doreen’s name in December 2018, more than thirty years later, when Sarah Dimeo and Joe Aguiar, host and producer of the podcast F...