Oct 8, 2026 · 27 min · 18 segments
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[mysterious music] At 6:31 AM, the confusing 911 call came in asking someone to go to 629 Barrington Road.
Then just five minutes later, another call came in.
According to the caller, a car had slammed into a concrete pillar and burst into flames.
Firefighters rushed to the scene, but the driver was already dead, his entire body badly burned.
Both the car and the body were so damaged by the fire that identifying the driver was going to take time.
At that same moment, officers arrived at 629 Barrington Road.
It was a good-sized single family home, one of the nicer ones in the neighborhood.
They rang the doorbell over and over, but no one answered, so they decided to go in through the back.
There was a swing set in the yard for the kids, and through the windows you could see toys scattered all over the floor.
It looked like an ordinary family home, one with several children.
But when the officers stepped inside, they didn't hear the pitter-patter of tiny feet.
They were instead met with an eerie, heavy silence.
Tense, they began searching the house, and in a small toy room they found a little girl.
It was too late to save her.
She had been beaten to death.
They went to the bedrooms and found four more bodies.
Five people dead in a single house.
Their identities came out quickly.
They were 42-year-old Cheryl Soupal and her four adopted children, 10-year-old Ethan, eight-year-old Seth, five-year-old Mira, and three-year-old Eleanor.
All four kids had been adopted from South Korea, and every one of them showed signs of having been badly beaten with a blunt object.
Five out of six family members had been found here.
So where was the sixth? The children's father, 42-year-old Stephen Soupal.
He was nowhere to be found, and his car was gone.
He was the main suspect from the very start.
[mysterious music] At 6:31 AM, the confusing 911 call came in asking someone to go to 629 Barrington Road.
Then just five minutes later, another call came in.
According to the caller, a car had slammed into a concrete pillar and burst into flames.
Firefighters rushed to the scene, but the driver was already dead, his entire body badly burned.
Both the car and the body were so damaged by the fire that identifying the driver was going to take time.
At that same moment, officers arrived at 629 Barrington Road.
It was a good-sized single family home, one of the nicer ones in the neighborhood.
They rang the doorbell over and over, but no one answered, so they decided to go in through the back.
There was a swing set in the yard for the kids, and through the windows you could see toys scattered all over the floor.
It looked like an ordinary family home, one with several children.
But when the officers stepped inside, they didn't hear the pitter-patter of tiny feet.
They were instead met with an eerie, heavy silence.
Tense, they began searching the house, and in a small toy room they found a little girl.
It was too late to save her.
She had been beaten to death.
They went to the bedrooms and found four more bodies.
Five people dead in a single house.
Their identities came out quickly.
They were 42-year-old Cheryl Soupal and her four adopted children, 10-year-old Ethan, eight-year-old Seth, five-year-old Mira, and three-year-old Eleanor.
All four kids had been adopted from South Korea, and every one of them showed signs of having been badly beaten with a blunt object.
Five out of six family members had been found here.
So where was the sixth? The children's father, 42-year-old Stephen Soupal.
He was nowhere to be found, and his car was gone.
He was the main suspect from the very start.
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