Walk Softly Children

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.

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June 7, 2025 14 mins

At long last, welcome to Season Four of Walk Softly Children. Since we first heard
Doreen Vincent’s name six and a half years ago working on Sarah Dimeo’s Faded Out, the Wallingford police have been holding back reams of documents as well as hours of audio and video footage. But now, thanks to FOIA, we have it all. And month after month, scores of sources have continued to call me – to speak about Doreen, her father
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Thirty-six years after Doreen Vincent went missing, Jessica Fritz Aguiar is back with new and shocking information on both her disappearance and the investigation into it. Pages and pages of new information from the Wallingford Police Department inform a fresh, renewed look at what happened to Doreen and what’s happening with the main suspect - her father, Mark. 

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Jessica Fritz Aguiar was a guest on WICC 600am Radio in Bridgeport/Milford CT. The host of the show is also the producer of Walk Softly Children, Joe Aguiar. Jess gives a synopsis of the case of Doreen Vincent, and an update on the status of her father, and the prime suspect in her disappearance 34 years ago, who was just released from a halfway house on a gun charge. 

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Host Jessica Fritz Aguiar was invited onto the Vinnie Penn Project to discuss the Doreen Vincent case as part of National Missing Children Week. Vinnie had not heard of the case and questions how an obvious crime could have gone so cold. 

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Executive producer Joe Aguiar joins host Jessica Fritz Aguiar to update you on the case of Doreen Vincent. Her father, Mark Vincent, has been released to a halfway house in Bridgeport, CT. Mark will be greeted each day with a billboard about Doreen's case just outside of his window. We are doing a GoFundMe to produce the $8700 dollars needed for two billboards in CT. Jess and Joe also discuss the status of their FOIA reque...

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BONUS EPISODE: Listen to Jess and Joe discuss Mark Vincent’s parole hearing on April 26, 2023, and hear Jess’s plans for new episodes and new moves to find justice for Doreen and the alums of Milford Christian Academy, including new material being uploaded to Patreon.   

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March 22, 2023 64 mins

At Milford Christian Church, Pastor Jim Loomer likes to portray himself as “All Things to All Men,” as putting aside his own desires, comfort, and pride so that he can bring people to Jesus as envisioned in First Corinthians.  In doing so, Jim portrays himself as an average Joe, a man of the people, a happy go lucky man of God.  But underneath that mask lies a craven soul marked by a penchant for twisting God’s words to se...

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January 27, 2023 62 mins
The children of Milford Christian never had it easy. But after everything else – after isolation from the outside world and the insistence on conformity, after the humiliation, the beatings, the terror – the strict, draconian rules on appearance, relationships and sex took the largest toll. Learn about a different kind of abuse to which they were subjected, and the shame and scars it caused.
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January 25, 2023 3 mins
Surprised by what just popped up in your feed where Sticky Beak should be? Listen to a special announcement from Jessica Fritz Aguiar about a whole new phase to finding Justice for Doreen Vincent and the escapees of Milford Christian. Make sure you subscribe to my Patreon and leave a review wherever you find your podcasts! https://www.patreon.com/stickybeak
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November 23, 2022 51 mins
While Connecticut banned corporal punishment in public schools in 1989, it’s alive and well at Milford Christian Academy. Under Pastor Jim Loomer and headmistress Susan Martin – who has her own personalized paddle – the school sought to impose paideia, or nurture from strike or sting, on its students to keep them in line, just like when Mark Vincent paddled Doreen on the day she disappeared. Get the latest update on Mark...
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October 9, 2022 61 mins
Learn more about not only Susan Martin’s culture of fear and cruelty at Milford Christian Academy, but also the shocking secrets of what makes the woman herself tick. Hear how parents and teachers felt powerless to stand up in the face of Susan’s methods – especially with Pastor Jim Loomer in her corner. Learn a bit about what Mark Vincent has been up to all these years, and how Milford Christian escapees bear the scars ...
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October 1, 2022 47 mins
Dividing Milford Christian children from their parents was only the first part of Susan Martin’s plan. Next came a personality that ruled with fear, didn’t take no for an answer, was not afraid to lie to your face with a sweet smile. Come deep into the dark culture of Berean Academy and Church, a place where Jim Loomer felt free to not only allow, but foster, a man like Mark Vincent in his lair. Learn about a culture that ...
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Continue your journey into the dark heart of Susan Martin, Pastor James Loomer’s right hand woman. Learn how, as Milford Christian Academy’s headmaster and head disciplinarian, Susan used spying, emotional humiliation, and the power of Matthew 18:15 – a Bible verse meant to help Christians lead their brothers away from sin – to weaponize children against each other.
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Mark Vincent isn’t the only friend of Pastor James Loomer’s who’s got a questionable past. Get to know Milford Christian Academy’s headmaster and head disciplinarian, Mrs. Susan Martin. Listen to audio from students who survived Berean on how Mrs. Martin cultivated and perpetuated her power over the children with the fear of hell.
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Learn the history of Milford Christian Church, formerly known as Berean Assembly of God, its Pastor, James Loomer, and their connections to Mark Vincent. Explore the academics offered by Milford Christian Academy, or Berean Academy, as offered by Pastor Loomer and his team of teachers, including his right-hand woman Susan Martin, according to the Principle Approach. Hear the voices of former Berean students and begin to ...
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July 25, 2022 26 mins
Join Jessica Fritz Aguiar and Joe Aguiar for an update session on the status of Mark Vincent’s gun charge, including news from his last hearing and what we can expect from the next, information on his attorney Michael Boynton, news on how Mark’s wife Kathy feels about recent events, and some good old-fashioned letters from Brad Vincent to his brother. Plus some spoilers for upcoming new episodes, dropping soon. ...
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May 4, 2022 56 mins
Follow Jessica Fritz Aguiar as she details Mark Vincent’s February 16, 2022 arrest at Milford Christian Church, the events surrounding it, and its potential implications for Doreen Vincent’s case.
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In her quest to find justice for Doreen Jane Vincent, Jessica Fritz Aguiar has talked to and interviewed experts in all fields related to this case. When it comes to True Crime, Josh Mankiewicz of Dateline NBC is one of the best known voices. Jessica and Mank discuss the case and the possibility of being featured on Dateline should Mark Vincent for be arrested for murder.
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April 24, 2022 70 mins
Join Jessica Fritz Aguiar on a brand new season of Sticky Beak, as she uncovers more stories of Mark Vincent’s criminal past and explores his life at Teen Challenge’s campuses in New Haven, Connecticut and Johnson, Vermont, as well as his history with Pastor Rick Welch, all leading up to his recent arrest on gun charges in Milford, Connecticut, on February 16, 2022.
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Police Officers went to Milford Christian Church on Feb. 16th, 2022, to investigate a "suspicious incident." They found that Mark Vincent, who was recently asked to leave Teen Challenge Vermont, was in possession of a stolen firearm. Mark was arrested and charged with two counts of criminal possession of a firearm and one count of stealing a firearm, and his bail was set at $250,000.
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