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When six-year-old Teresa Cormack didn’t return home that afternoon, it quickly became clear that something was wrong.

Her mother, Kelly Pigott, soon discovered that Teresa hadn’t been at school that day at all. Panic set in.

Kelly went out searching immediately, walking the route to the school, checking the streets, calling her name—hoping she would find her daughter nearby. But there was no sign of her.

As the hours passed, police were called, and what began as a missing child search quickly escalated. Officers and more than 600 volunteers combed through Napier, searching streets, alleyways, and open land, desperately hoping Teresa would be found safe.

But she wasn’t. Not that day. Not the next.

It would be eight days later when a woman walking her dogs made a devastating discovery—Teresa’s small body, half-buried at the bottom of a bank beneath a tree on Whirinaki Beach…

…what had happened to Teresa, who had committed such a horrific act against a defenceless child, and how long it would take before justice was finally served.

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Abducted On Her Way To School: The Murder Of Teresa Cormack