Walk Softly Children

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S4 E4 With Friends Like These May 10, 2026

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After Doreen’s disappearance, Mark forced her stepmother, Sharon, to buy a gun which he knew he couldn’t lawfully possess as a felon. After he was arrested and convicted for that crime, he went on the run, working steadily through a ragtag group of friends and acquaintances from whom he begged, borrowed, and stole. One of them was Kathryn Andrusko, who would soon become his new wife and the keeper of his secrets for the next thirty years. Another was an old friend-turned-enemy who may have held the key to what happened to Doreen since the beginning. Join Jessica as she combs meticulously through brand new evidence on the search for Mark, introducing a motley list of characters who worked to shield him from the consequences of his actions, and those who might still have something to say.

Food For A Monster Jan 16, 2026

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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?

A Trip to Vermont: A Conversation with Jess & Joe Aug 01, 2025

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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.

THE FUNHOUSE AND THE TORNADO Jul 28, 2025

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In the months after Doreen disappeared, Mark Vincent told everyone he spent every waking moment looking for her. Instead he was perfecting the art of the hobosexual – pursuing relationships with women like Rozanne Pelloni just to have a place to live. When these relationships eventually imploded, secrets about what Mark had really been up to would spill out. So what would the Wallingford Police do with this new information, and would it get them any closer to an answer?

Free As a Bird Jun 15, 2025

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Since we first heard Doreen Vincent’s name six and a half years ago working on Sarah Dimeo’s Faded Out,
the Wallingford Police Department 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 afternmonth, scores of sources have continued to call me – to speak about Doreen, her father
Mark, and Mark’s latest sanctuary, Pastor James Loomer’s Milford Christian Church,
formerly known as Berean.
Come along on a deep dive of this story as you thought you knew it, illuminated now by
countless new details from police reports, investigator Richard Novia’s notes, interviews
with Doreen’s friends as well as Donna, Sharon, and Mark, and writings by Doreen
herself. Episode One, Free Bird, is a sharper look into Mark’s past sins, and the lengths he would
go to to hide them.

At long Last: Welcome to Season 4 of Walk Softly Children Jun 07, 2025

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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
Mark, and Mark’s latest sanctuary, Pastor James Loomer’s Milford Christian Church, formerly known as Berean.

Come along on a deep dive of this story as you thought you knew it, illuminated now by countless new details from police reports, investigator Richard Novia’s notes, interviews
with Doreen’s friends as well as Donna, Sharon, and Mark, and writings by Doreen herself. Episode One, dropping June 15th, is a sharper look into Mark’s past sins, and the lengths he would
go to to hide them.

A Rabbit’s Foot and A Drawer Full of Snakes Jun 18, 2024

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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.

Jessica Fritz Aguiar Radio Interview on WICC 600am Bridgeport, CT with Joe Aguiar Jun 04, 2023

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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.

Jessica Fritz Aguiar Radio Interview on 960am WELI with Vinnie Penn Jun 04, 2023

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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.

Update on Mark's Release from Prison/FOIA Request/Billboards Jun 04, 2023

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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 request, and the illegal way the Wallingford PD responded to it. Is another hearing coming soon?

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