Spring of 2009 in a small Ontario town, Victoria Stafford, a beautiful and vibrant little girl, just shy of her 9th birthday looked forward to another day at school. Tragically, she would never make it home.

The senseless murder of a child, a shaken country, questions regarding the decisions of law enforcement. This case made national headlines, sparked one of the largest manhunts in Ontario’s history, and sent locals spiraling as the loss of one of their own forced a once quiet town into an epicenter of media turmoil.

Join your host Taylor Rae as she dives into the harrowing case of Tori Stafford.

Time Stamp to skip details of murder: 21:40 - 22:23

Link to Tori's memorial page: https://www.brockandvisser.com/obituaries/victoria-stafford

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Links to sources:

https://canadianmedialawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/R_v_Rafferty_2010_ONSC_6980.pdf

https://canadianmedialawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/R._v._McClintic.pdf

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tori-stafford-christie-blatchford

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/lfp-archives-in-memory-of-tori-stafford-10-years-later

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Special Thanks to my husband for being my sound engineer, couldn't do this without your endless patience.

Episode 6: The Murder of Tori Stafford