Walk Softly Children

About Walk Softly Children

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 filed a FOIA request against the Wallingford CT police, to get to the bottom of this 32 year old missing persons case.

Publisher

Jessica Fritz-Aguiar

Category

news · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

10 Feb 2020

Latest episode

10 May 2026

Latest episodes

7 of 49 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   S4 E4 With Friends Like These

   Jessica investigates Mark's fugitive years, interviewing Sharon and Kathryn Andrusko about his network of enablers and the enduring mystery of Doreen's disappearance.

2. 

   16 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Food For A Monster

   On July 11, 1989, Rozanne Pelloni called the Wallingford Police Department to report that she’d been told Mark Vincent had “offed” his daughter Doreen. In a conversation lasting more than two hours, Rozanne struggled to get through to Sergeant Steve Davis. Despite her disturbing allegations about Mark and her obvious fear for her own safety, Sergeant Davis responded like a product of his time – a stereotypical 80s cop who placed little stock in anything she had to say. Providing historic and recent case studies of violence against women Tracey Thurman, Jennifer Magnano, Jennifer Dulos, and Karizmah Johnson, Jessica examines the struggles and lessons learned when it comes to Connecticut’s role in combating violence against women. And she wonders: if law enforcement had cared more about what the many women in Doreen’s story had to say, would we be any closer to finding her?

3. 

   1 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   A Trip to Vermont: A Conversation with Jess & Joe

   Jess & Joe discuss clips from the WPD’s January 2022 trip to Teen Challenge Vermont, about a month before Mark Vincent fled back to Connecticut and was arrested in the parking lot of Milford Christian Church.  Listen as the detectives, Mark, and his son Paul discuss the status of the revived investigation, what the police were hoping to get out of father and son, and their thoughts on the podcast as well as Jess & Joe themselves.

Inside a recent episode

S4 E4 With Friends Like These

Published 10 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That was especially true when it came to Doreen, who Mark forbid to watch TV and beat with something he called a paddle stick. But he also allowed her to wear a ton of makeup in violation of Faith Christian's strict rules and lavished her with praise, bragging about her beauty. Mark was always talking, Bob said, about how he feared for Doreen's welfare, even saying he was possessed by demons and was afraid he was going to kill her. At the time, Bob hadn't brought these concerns to anyone, the police or the church. It was only in the weeks before Mark's arrest in July 1991 that he'd spoken to Faith Christian's pastor, Nick Champlin, and the two men tried in vain to get Mark more involved in the church. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

180 ratings

Spotify

4.2 / 5

155 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

36

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

67