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8-Year-Old Abducted From School | The Kidnapping of Tori Stafford

5/19/20261 hr 15 min

April 8th, 2009 started out like any other school day for 8 year old Tori Stafford. She left class excited for a movie night with friends, wearing butterfly earrings she had secretly borrowed from her mom, and began the short two block walk home. But Tori never made it back. Within hours, a quiet town in Ontario was thrown into panic. Then came the surveillance footage. Grainy video showing Tori calmly walking beside an unidentified figure in a white jacket. No screaming. No struggle. Just a little girl disappearing in broad daylight. As the search intensified, suspicion turned toward Tori’s ow...

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First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 10:00

    [suspenseful music] Victoria Stafford was a larger than life, bubbly eight-year-old girl. Tori was abducted while walking home from school in Woodstock on April 8th, 2009.

  2. Terri-Lynne McClintic· Soundbite0:13

    Justice for Tori. Justice for Tori.

  3. Rodney Stafford· Soundbite0:20

    Like, everything, once it, it passes the justice system, is a joke.

  4. Tara McDonald· Soundbite0:26

    Now, where were you for the last nine years?

  5. Rodney Stafford· Soundbite0:29

    I have told them, I have told them everything from the beginning. Now walk away like usual, Tara.

  6. Tara McDonald· Soundbite0:33

    Imagine, I don't know if you have kids or if anybody here has kids, but imagine having to sit back and watch your child be missing on America's Most Wanted.

  7. Speaker 5· Soundbite0:42

    We've obtained a video surveillance tape that may possibly, uh, show, um, Victoria Stafford on the tape.

  8. Speaker 6· Soundbite0:50

    An OPP officer and investigator assigned to the Stafford investigation discovered human remains here just east of Mount Forest.

  9. Tara McDonald· Soundbite0:59

    I just need you to be strong, baby, and have faith that we are coming for you.

  10. Annie Elise· Host1:02

    Hello, and welcome back to an all-new episode of 10 to Life with me, Annie Elise. I hope you are having a good day today, whatever time it is that you're watching this. Although, I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm probably about to ruin it with this case, because this case is incredibly difficult to hear, but it also is one that is very important to share. But wanna just give you that warning. But it's one that, I don't know, there's

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