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GOOD EVENING I m Antony Robart, this is Crime Beat. PREVIOUSLY ON CRIME BEAT:
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She was just feisty. There was no ignoring Victoria Stafford.
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Concern is growing tonight as police in Woodstock, Ontario search for a missing eight year old girl
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My nerves are shot and I can t handle much more.
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You can actually see she's skipping along with the person almost as if she knows them.
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One of my friends called and said, that s Terri-Lynne McClintic in that video.
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I called the police station right after I got off the phone with him and I told them.
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Back off. Everybody back off this van right now!
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Terri-Lynne s full of s***. I didn t do anything. Oh that s not entirely true.
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That is entirely true. I didn t do anything.
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This is the girl you killed. She s not missing anymore. She s dead.
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8-YEAR-OLD VICTORIA STAFFORD, KIDNAPPED ON
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HER WAY HOME FROM SCHOOL.. RAPED... THEN MURDERED. HER BODY DISCOVERED WEEKS LATER BURIED IN A FARMER
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S FIELD UNDER A PILE OF ROCKS. MICHAEL RAFFERTY, AND HIS GIRLFRIEND TERRI-LYNNE MCCLINTIC,
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BOTH FOUND GUILTY. Woooo!
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Not right now, I just want to enjoy this.
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BUT THIS WAS NOT THE LAST TIME THAT TORI STAFFORD S FAMILY WOULD SEE,
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OR HEAR FROM, TORI S KILLERS. Growing outrage tonight surrounding one
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of Tori Stafford s killers The injustice of Terri-Lynne
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being sent to a healing lodge. Send her back, send her back!
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There was phone calls saying his mother needed to provide money for protection
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inside there s probably the equivalent of 20-, $25,000, $30,000 worth of money.
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His last day in court and he said, If you want the missing pieces,
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then you can talk to me about it. This fight for justice will never end.
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AND NOW HERE S MARK CARCASOLE WITH TORI STAFFORD: NEVER FORGET
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Unable to physically see his daughter. To talk to her. To wrap his arms around her. Trips to
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the Oxford Memorial Cemetery are how Rodney Stafford has found solace since the guilty
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verdicts.
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Ah yeah, sucks. Like, it s the only way we can communicate with her.
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Mark: How often do you come out here to see her? Rodney: I like to come out as much, as often
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as I can anyways. I think the longest stretch is maybe 4 months.
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Her birthdays are spent here. All holidays are here.
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It s not like her friends that are, y know, able to continue moving on in their life,
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growing up, going to school. And that was stolen from her and all of us.
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We ve had notes left out here from people, from out of town, who literally only came here just to
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see Tori s headstone and be a part of things, and offer their support.
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Woodstock, Ontario seemed to lose its innocence in 2009. Like Tori Stafford s
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family, many in the town, who helped in the search, who attended the vigils, held out
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hope for her safe return to the very end. Lucille Chapman: This is a small town and
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not much happens here. I remember, I couldn t believe she was dead. It just made me sick.
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Vince Cosby: It s pretty sad what happened to her. I lived a couple of doors away from Tori
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and one day she came over to my house and said, Hey Vince, there's a snake out there. I seen a
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snake. So she gets a stick. And then all of a sudden I hear her calling me going, Vince,
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Vince . And she had this snake by the head in a hole. And yeah, it was pretty awesome.
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I got her name tattooed on my hand, on my knuckles because I knew her and I knew the,
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I knew her mother. And I just I felt really bad for what happened. And I just
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wanted to get a tattoo of her name. Mark: He lifts up his fist and shows me
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he's got Tori tattooed on his knuckles. And it's a guy named Vince who I guess was your neighbour?
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Tara: Yeah. Mark: And so he told,
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told us a story about Tori one time, like finding a snake in the grass and calling him to...
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Tara: Help her out... Mark: Yeah.
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Years ago, Tara McDonald got her OWN
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tattoo to memorialize her young daughter Tara: That is incredible the blue is perfect
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They say you have to forgive and forget and you have to try to heal for yourself. The anger will
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eat you inside out, and it does. But you can't do, like I can't do anything about it.
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By the end of May, 2012, Terri-Lynne McLintic and Michael Rafferty had both been convicted
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of first degree murder. Rafferty was also convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault.
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Each was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years,
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though McClintic has an opportunity to apply for it after 15 years with the faint
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hope clause -- a provision intended to promote prisoners rehabilitation
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and encourage good behaviour behind bars ...It s no longer an option for newer convicts,
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but still exists for McClintic because she pleaded guilty a year before it was abolished.
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Almost immediately after his conviction, Rafferty started the process of appealing
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it. Claiming the judge made an error in his instructions to the jury.
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Tara: You're just putting everything back together and you never know when it's
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coming. There's never any sort of warning, right? And it just pops up and it's like
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old wounds being reopened every single time. Rodney: We ve got no choice but to relive
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it until this is done. Tori s family had to endure a three year
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wait for it to go to court And when it did Crowd: Justice for Tori! Wooo!...
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It was over in half a day. Rodney: We can move forward and
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continue working on ourselves, better. And yeah, he can go back and rot.
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But any sense of closure they achieved in the years that followed,
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was again shattered in late 2018. Alan Carter: Growing outrage tonight
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surrounding one of Tori Stafford s killers. Crystal Goomansingh: Terri-Lynne McClintic
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has been moved from a maximum security prison to an Indigenous healing lodge.
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COMING UP: TORI S FAMILY MEMBERS AREN T THE ONLY ONES QUESTIONING THE MOVE.
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TORI S FAMILY IS SHOCKED WHEN NEWS BREAKS THAT TERRI-LYNNE MCCLINTIC HAS BEEN MOVED
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TO AN INDIGENOUS HEALING LODGE, JUST 8 YEARS INTO HER SENTENCE. WE NOW RETURN TO MARK CARCASOLE
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WITH TORI STAFFORD: NEVER FORGET. Dawna: Abigail, is there a perception
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McClintic will have it easier in this healing lodge than a conventional prison?
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Abigail: Well Dawna, healing lodges don't have traditional bars, the one in question
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in Saskatchewan is described as an open campus facility. They're designed to allow Indigenous
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offenders to practice their culture and any offender can self-identify as Indigenous.
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No proof is needed. Terri-Lynne McClintic, like anyone convicted of murder, she began
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as a maximum security prisoner. But in 2014, she was reclassified as medium security...
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Tori s father, Rodney, struggled with not just why Terri-Lynne McClintic was moved,
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but also how...Given that during Michael Rafferty s trial, the public learned that McClintic
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hadn t exactly been an ideal inmate in prison...Viciously
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assaulting another prisoner Later pleading guilty to it.
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This healing lodge, located in Saskatchewan, was a lower-security facility. Healing lodges
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are designed for Indigenous offenders, offering Elder services and ceremonies. And according
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to Corrections Canada, the main goal is to address the factors that led to incarceration
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and prepare them for reintegration into society. Rodney: Nobody knew that she was coming there.
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And it was they just, they put the whole town, in my opinion, they put the whole town
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at risk with a child killer being there. Lisa Raitt: This is a terrible decision,
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it s despicable. Why is the government, and this Prime Minister not acting?
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Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister: On this side of the house we choose to anchor our decisions in
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fact, in the rule of law, and in due process. Dave MaKenzie: When Tori's body was found,
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it was naked from the waist down. The autopsy revealed that she had suffered beatings that
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caused lacerations to her liver, broken ribs, and her death was as a result of repeated blows to the
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head with a claw hammer. Her killer, Terri-lynne McClintic, has been moved to a healing lodge.
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The Prime Minister has the power to reverse this decision today.
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Will he stand with the family and ensure that this child murderer stays behind bars?
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Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister: Please do not continue to increase the level of graphic detail
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read into the official record here. Andrew Scheer: "If the details of
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this horrific case are so awful that the prime minister can't stand hearing them,
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then he should do the right thing and make sure that the killer is behind bars."
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Mark: Even the Chief of the Saskatchewan First Nation where
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the lodge is located, has spoken out. Sask. Chief: Well, it is quite shocking
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because of the crime It s a move even McClintic
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s adoptive brother questioned. McClintic s Adoptive Brother: She s no more
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Indigenous than I am green from the planet Mars. But two of the highest-ranking officials
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overseeing Canada s healing lodges would tell Global News,
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that McClintic s move fit the rules. Marty Maltby: We have a requirement to
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meet the spiritual and cultural beliefs of our, of our inmates and those individuals
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who are non-Indigenous, who have decided that this is a sincere belief we would actually be
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violating their Charter Rights. Crowd: Justice for Tori!
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In response, Rodney Stafford and his family organized a protest on Parliament Hill,
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and meetings with the Commissioner of the Correctional Service and the
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Prime Minister himself. Rodney: The injustice of
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Terri-Lynne being sent to a healing lodge. Crowd: Send her back.. What do we want,
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justice! ABIGAIL:
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The killer's brother tells Global News he wished he could stand alongside these protesters.
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Brother: For Mr. Stafford. and busloads of people. I really, really hope that
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they can they can make an impact. Rodney: To me, he would be one of the
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best people to know who she is. And I couldn't be any more grateful.
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Less than a week later, the government acted. Ralph Goodale: They will follow the rules,
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apply the policy. If that results in changes, then they will inform the family.
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Rodney: I got a call from Correctional Service Canada
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stating that Terri-Lynne had been transferred from the healing lodge to, back to a penitentiary.
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The federal government not only reversed course, but added several factors to the
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transfers of female inmates, including their sentence length, behavior, and consultations
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with local Indigenous communities. Rodney: You can t heal. We have the
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memory of the day she was taken, the memory of when Terri-Lynne was arrested, the day Michael
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Rafferty was taken to court, Terri Lynne was in court. The appeal, the the injustice of her being
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moved to the healing lodge. Each one of those who have their own day. That sticks with you.
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Everyone has different ways of coping with grief. Rodney Stafford s has been to fight back,
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spinning his first rally in Ottawa into an online movement under the banner Justice For Tori,
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Protest For Change. Rodney: I've been basically
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advocating for victims of crime and other families,
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joining other families together and trying to create one main support for all of us,
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where we can all express our concerns regarding the correctional system, the parole board,
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all the way down to provincial jails. Like, the whole judicial system needs change. Anybody who's
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convicted of taking another person's life -- you spend the rest of your life behind bars.
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Rodney would soon find out that Rafferty had also been moved, to a medium security facility
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in Quebec. The government's rationale was that it specializes in dealing with sex offenders.
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The office of then Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale provided a statement assuring that the
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correctional facility is suitable for Rafferty s incarceration.
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Quote: The number one priority of the correctional system is public safety.
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[...] buildings are fully surrounded by a guarded double fence with advanced security systems,
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both physical and electronic. Mark: People will say, Terri-Lynne McClintic,
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Michael Rafferty, they may be in, they may not be in maximum security, but they're never going
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to get out. What about rehabilitation? Why not make them better people? Why not educate them
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while they're behind bars? Rodney: Some people can be
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rehabilitated. But when it comes to child killers and the deviant and really heinous nature of the
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crime that they committed, there's no reason for these two to be walking on the streets again.
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If we haven't done that protest November 2nd in 2018, Terri-Lynne could be on her way out the door
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right now. There's, there's nothing saying that the healing lodge wouldn't say Yeah you know, for
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the last two, three years, she's maintained this kind of lifestyle. So the parole board says, OK,
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let's work her into day passes. It, it happens. Mark: Do you think Michael Rafferty will
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ever be a free man? Dirk: I think that people in the position of Mr.
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Rafferty start off from a real disadvantage. The National Parole Board average for people who are
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convicted of first degree murder is that they get out on mean at 32 years, not at 25.
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And that only goes up and down based on what kind of offense it is. I do know that at every parole
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application, all sorts of people, including families of the victim, are invited to come
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and, and bring it forward. It's not like it's something that happens in the dark.
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Mark: Fighting that fight, but trying to live a life. Has it impacted
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your your life away from that, even just in terms of work, personal relationships?
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Rodney: Tremendously, tremendously. I can't keep my head focused. It takes one thing
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and it'll set you back weeks, months, years, whatever. It'll set you back.
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And trying to find the balance, it's it's hard, but we're getting through the day-to-day,
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barely. But we're getting by. And no matter what, this fight for justice will never end.
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WHAT THE JURY DID NOT HEAR ABOUT MICHAEL RAFFERTY S DISTURBING PAST.
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AND A RELATIVE OF RAFFERTY S COMES FORWARD WITH UNSETTLING ALLEGATIONS. THAT S AFTER THE BREAK.
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TORI S FATHER WANTS HIS DAUGHTER S KILLERS TO SERVE THEIR FULL SENTENCES,
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IN MAXIMUM SECURITY FACILITIES. AND HE S ABOUT TO GAIN A NEW ALLY. HERE S MARK CARCASOLE
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WITH TORI STAFFORD: NEVER FORGET When the jury was sent out to deliberate his fate,
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the public learned more about Michael Rafferty. Court documents ruled inadmissible for the trial
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revealed he had torture sex fantasies; and searched for and downloaded child porn
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and snuff videos on his laptop Women he dated said he was a serial cheater.
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One ex even testified that he convinced her to become an escort and lived off her earnings.
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Relative: if you've known Michael, this is sort of the personality that he's had his whole life.
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Manipulative, knows how to sort of sway people's opinions pretty easy.
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Years later,Tori s father, Rodney, was joined by an unexpected ally in his call for Rafferty
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to stay in a maximum security prison. Relative: They said in order to be moved
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into medium, there would be some criteria to meet. One of them was admitting your guilt.
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But yet somehow he was moved into medium. Mark: So he still to this day denies that he had
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anything to do with Tori Stafford s death? Relative: Absolutely.
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Speaking exclusively to Global News on condition of anonymity, a relative
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of Michael Rafferty s has come forward. Relative: Yeah, like I have been in contact
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with him from when he's, when he's gone in, just sort of relaying information from the family
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back and forth. The conversations were that you can't keep using your mother,
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you've made your bed. You need to man up, own up and take care of your own responsibilities.
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Rafferty s mother, Deborah Murphy, showed up only once during his trial,
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staunchly defending her son. Deborah Murphy: First of all,
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my son s innocent. And this could happen to any man that s walking around right now.
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Terri-Lynne McClintic has wrecked our lives,
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and I just hope that justice is served and that he s freed.
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The relative we spoke to alleges that after he was convicted,
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Rafferty abused his mother s loyalty for years from behind bars. Starting in maximum security.
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Relative: There was phone calls saying that he had been in the infirmary,
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his mother needed to provide money for protection inside the maximum, sort of facility.
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He says the manipulative behavior continued once in medium security, as of 2018.
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Relative: When Michael was moved to Medium, I guess he had been reaching out to his mother
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on a regular basis and sort of, you know, getting money sent to him and sent to what
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seems to be inmates' spouses, claiming that he was fearful of his life, that he had owed people.
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You have to be on good behavior medium. So you really shouldn't need much protection
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inside a medium security facility like you might need in a maximum.
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Going through Rafferty s mother s records, her family found stacks of receipts
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and written documentation for cheques and money orders sent out to dozens
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of people dating back several years. Relative: We've got boxes and boxes of them,
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but there's probably the equivalent of, twenty twenty five thousand dollars, thirty thousand
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dollars worth of money and is sent through to other people out there.
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Mark: Just here? So this isn't even it? Relative: That s not even all of it, no.
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Mark: These documents that you've given me, there's names here, addresses,
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money orders that were sent out by Michael Rafferty's mother. Who are these people?
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Relative: I honestly don't know who they are. They're all Montreal and Quebec addresses,
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which is where the facility is that Michael is being detained in. She didn't know anyone
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outside of her apartment building where she lived. So they're not friends.
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We reached out to Rafferty to see how he would respond to the allegations, but he declined our
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interview request. We also contacted several of the individuals named in the documents, but
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nobody would corroborate this relative s story. Relative: This is just him looking to get money
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to better his life and manipulate his mother even after everything that's happened.
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It s this relative s belief that Rafferty WAS legitimately threatened, AT TIMES,
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in maximum security, but that he is SAFER in medium security. And at both levels,
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was largely taking advantage of his mother. Relative: In our opinion, we were sort of
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looking at it thinking that he's pretty much extorted money from his mother. It
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wasn't for protection. It wasn't for the security of his wellbeing. It was for
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the well-being of his lavish lifestyle. A lavish lifestyle allegedly centered around
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small perks and treats from the prison canteen. Relative: If you could buy a block of cheese
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inside and you didn't have the money in your canteen, someone would get you a block cheese.
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You owe them two blocks of cheese when it comes time to pay them back
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or three if it's not paid on time. Mark: So these people are essentially,
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he's paying them for favors? Relative: Correct.
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Mark: So really they're not threatening to beat him up. They're doing favors for him
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and he's paying them back? Relative: That's correct.
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Deborah Murphy died of a heart attack in August of 2018. At the age of 60.
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Relative: She lost the house in that regard and ended up going, spiraling backwards. Having
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to rent after credit was no longer any good. She'd hide it and she would borrow money from
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family members in order to send money to Michael because she didn't have it. And, and she was
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trying to find a way to cut him off. But the stories got deeper and they got more animated
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from him, that she just couldn't. The stress of the constant phone calls and
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the struggle financially to try and keep supporting him in prison was just
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too much for her. When she passed away his grandmother, her mother, passed away
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shortly thereafter. Once his mother was unable to facilitate finances to him, he
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started approaching his grandmother to do that. Mark: Do you see Michael's mother ,and in essence,
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I guess his grandmother after all this, as his second and third victims in a way?
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Relative: Absolutely I, our family, one hundred percent hold him accountable for
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both their deaths. Emails show Rafferty s
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relative corresponded with CSC, the Correctional Service of Canada, for most of 2019... and he
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was told the Service would get back to him. Relative: We started writing the government,
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asking them for an opportunity to explain what we found that was going on. Why Michael should
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probably be in a maximum security facility as opposed to a medium security. And that was based
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on the fact that he clearly wasn't abiding by the rules, whether they knew it or not. But we had
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enough information that we could provide to them. And then we did provide to them over the period of
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time that you would think we would warrant moving him back, to at least help bring some closure for
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the Stafford family, that they knew that their perpetrators were in the, in the appropriate
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facilities. And the conversation went back and forth for a period of about a year and a half,
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ultimately with no outcome. And we have yet to hear anything further from that.
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We reached out to Corrections Canada. In a statement, a spokesperson tells us quote,
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we do take action in reviewing information about inmates brought to their attention from both
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victims and families. But, citing the Privacy Act, CSC says it s quote, unable to comment on
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the specifics of an offender s case. Rodney: It s crazy to be honest. It s
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very disheartening. And to know that his family is willing to make those steps as well, to
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do what s right in this case, it s I couldn t, I couldn t appreciate it any more.
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Mark: Does it surprise you at all? Tara: No, like I think that he's just a person
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who has his own agenda, and that he's out from Number One, and that's it. He's a sociopath.
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COMING UP: TARA GOES TO MEET MICHAEL RAFFERTY. FACE-TO-FACE.
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AS TORI S FAMILY TRIES TO HEAL, HER MOTHER FACES AN UPHILL BATTLE. WE RETURN TO MARK CARCASOLE WITH
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TORI STAFFORD: NEVER FORGET. Tara: This is her watching the cookies
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in the stove. For some reason I think she thought that if she looked at them, they d cook faster
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Over a decade later, the effects of all the news coverage still follow
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Tori s mother, Tara. Tara: I don't want people
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to place that stigma on me. Mark: And that's something
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you're still dealing with today? Tara: Oh, yeah. Like all the time.
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And even in a small community, like, I'm in a tiny town and people still look at me and like
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whisper and, Woodstock is even worse. I can't even go to Walmart there. Like
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it's constantly, you feel like everybody s staring at you, everybody's scrutinizing you.
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Today, Tara lives in another town Taking comfort in her
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new puppy, Capone. Tara: Oh, Capone!
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...who s been sitting at her feet chewing on his toys the entire time we ve been talking.
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But comfort has been hard to come by.
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During the search for Tori Stafford, her mother Tara s front lawn became the site of
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daily news conferences Intensifying the media coverage, keeping the story front and centre.
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Even earning a segment on American s Most Wanted. Tara: There were days where, like, I would have to
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have pep talks. Like my aunt would be like, you ve got to do this, Tara. You've got to keep her face
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front and on the papers. You need to keep it fresh and keep it in everybody's minds. If they see her,
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then they recognize her. You've got to do this for her. And then me and Rodney were getting into it,
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and the tension was getting high. Rodney: you are showing a total
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lack of support for your daughter, Tara: You want to talk about a lack of support.
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Where the hell were you for the last nine years?! Tara: And it wasn't done on purpose. But I mean,
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it kept the media involved. Tara : Woodstock is full of rumours, stories
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crap, quite frankly James: "GET YOUR SHIT OFF THE YARD, now.
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The media attention fueled speculation. Much of which insisted, wrongly, that Tara was
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involved in her own daughter s kidnapping. Mark: Having people build their idea of who
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you are as a person just generated on what they see and hear and read in the news. Does that
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going forward now make it hard to trust people? Tara: Oh, definitely.
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Like, I have huge issues. That s why I live in a controlled-entry building. our privacy was so
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stripped. The pressure
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led Tara back to old demons. OxyContin. Tara: And I started using again at that time
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because it was the only way that I could function. I couldn't even imagine trying to get clean at the
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time. I'm like off the wagon because that's the only thing that kept me going, was doing pills
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and getting through to the next day. It was like one minute after another and that's it.
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Reporter: Quiet' and 'unassuming' are just some of the words that residents here used to describe
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their city. That was -- up until recently. It s starting to turn into a scary city."
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Becoming the focus of a nationwide nightmare gave the city exposure it never had before.
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Warts and all. Rod Freeman: This is not a
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bad place. This is a fine city. It's a hardworking city, a resilient city, full of good individuals
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and good families who cared very much about our investigation and supported our investigation.
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And yes, there is a drug situation, a drug problem here in Woodstock and our Oxford County. But it's
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the same problem that every county and every city across this province in this country is facing.
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Tori s mother had been to Terri-Lynne s McClintic s home twice while her partner
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bought pills from McClintic s mom. McClintic was an addict. So too was Michael Rafferty.
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Officer: Are you comfortable telling me how long you've been on Oxys?
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Rafferty: Been taking painkillers for years. Rod Freeman: No question in my mind,
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drugs were a thread that ran through this investigation because Rafferty and McClintic
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were drug users. But the two people and the two people alone who are responsible
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for this horrific crime that was inflicted on Victoria are Rafferty and McClintic.
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Looking back, it s a case Rod Freeman, personally, will always feel connected to.
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The day Tori s body was discovered always marks a bittersweet anniversary. By sheer coincidence,
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it s the same day he was promoted to Chief of the local police force.
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Rod Freeman: I was presented with a framed photocopy of the verdict sheet from the Rafferty
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trial. And it just serves as a reminder for me of that investigation, and uh, the fact that we were
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successful in acquiring a conviction. I ve also during the trial I was given a couple of ribbons,
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Tori ribbons, by Victoria s grandmother, Doreen. And I keep one of those ribbons in my home office
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downstairs. Again, just as a reminder of a challenging, difficult investigation.
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Because my kid is the same age, one month difference from Victoria, you know,
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it's a daily reminder that she should have enjoyed life like he has and like he will in the future.
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Michael Rafferty never took the stand in his own defence.
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But on May 15th of 2012, the day he was sentenced to life in prison for killing Tori Stafford,
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he was offered a chance to make a statement to the court. And spoke only briefly, to one person.
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Tara: He looked at me, his last day in court and he said, if you want the missing pieces,
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then you can talk to me about it. Mark: I remember when he stood
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up in court and said that to you. Tara: It was haunting. And so for three years,
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waiting for his appeal to be over like I would dream of what he was saying. And he was in the
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courtroom. He was telling me the straight, honest-to-God truth of what happened. And he
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his mouth is moving and I can't hear what he's saying. And I would wake up, agitated and I'd
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have like my nails would be embedded into my hands. And I just want to, like, freak right out.
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Restorative Justice allows victims and their families to speak to their victimizers and
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personally address the harm done. Tara: And that's what I found,
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a bit of peace when I did the restorative justice because
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I was able to ask him about her, her final hours that weren't brought up in the courtroom,
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things that are my own that I don't have to share with anybody ever. And I never have since I did
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the restorative justice program. But Tara was willing to
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share some details with us. Tara: And I mean, I didn t want to know her
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demise, that s not what I wanted to know. I wanted to know from the time she was picked
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up from school until the time they went to that field. What was Victoria doing at that point,
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and in those times? And so that was something that was shared with me.
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There was actually one story that made me laugh, like he gave her an iPod to put on because they
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were going to discuss something and they didn't want her to hear. So they gave her an iPod. And
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it was when Terri-Lynne was in the Home Depot. And he goes, do you know how to use the iPod Victoria?
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And she's like, Uh yeah, like an eight. and I was like, that's perfect. And so when he told me that
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story. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's all Victoria. And maybe it's denial. Maybe it's running away
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from it. But it's the only way that a mom can function with what we've had to hear.
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And I'm grateful to him for sharing those with me, but at the same time... those shouldn't
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have been my daughter's last memories. He reiterated that he's not as involved as
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everybody was expecting. And I don't know whether or not to believe that or not.
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The police, he said he's a sociopath. At the same time that I was doing it with him,
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she applied to do restorative justice with me as well. And I denied her.
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Mark: She, being Terri-Lynne? Tara: Yeah, because I don't know why I
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have such a hate-on more for her. For her to lie the way she did and say, for three years
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when she had her trial, like her one day in court, she said it was him. He killed her.
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And then she gets on the stand and we're depending on her because she's the only
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witness that there is, to stick with that story. And she changes her story and says, I did it.
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And I'm like, what?! Like, what do you believe? Because I've heard her side. I've heard his side.
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And the only person that can tell us the truth is Victoria.
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So, like, I don't even know even now, all these years later. I still don't have the answers that
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I thought I would get from a trial. Though she still finds herself
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tortured by the things she DID learn. Tara: I won't walk down the aisle where the
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hammers are. I can't use a hammer. I use shoes, like high-heeled shoes, because I just cannot even
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look at a hammer without feeling sick to my stomach. I can't use a certain color
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of garbage bag.
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Rodney Stafford and Tara don t talk anymore. And Tara s spent the years staying
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OUT of the spotlight that burned her so badly. Tara: I'm grateful to Rodney for fighting the
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battles that he has when it comes to Terri-Lynne in the healing lodge. And
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he went and met with Trudeau. And I'm proud of him for stepping up like that. But for me,
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I just can't do it. I feel like Rodney is fighting those battles so I don't have to.
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I don't find healing in it. I don't have the strength, like, I have to save what I got left.
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And she s needed a lot of it. She s sought treatment for her oxycontin addiction
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and her grief has taken her to some dark places in the years since
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including the passing of her ex-partner James,
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the man considered Tori s stepdad. Tara: He was the only person that understood
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at the level that I understand, of what happened and that can commiserate with me and that we can
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talk about what we went through. And there's nobody to do that with now.
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It's something like my therapist said, you're never ever going to stop blaming yourself.
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It's just going to be a constant ... Like a failure. You feel like you failed your child.
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There's so many long term repercussions of what happened that people don't understand
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either. Like once the trial's over, life doesn't go back to normal. It never goes back to normal.
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COMING UP: CHANGES TO THE AMBER ALERT SYSTEM, FOLLOWING A POLICE-LED REVIEW.
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TORI S FAMILY IS MORE DETERMINED THAN EVER TO KEEP HER LEGACY ALIVE. WE RETURN NOW TO
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MARK CARCASOLE... WITH THE CONCLUSION OF TORI STAFFORD: NEVER FORGET
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In the summer of 2008, Tori Stafford took what her family says was her favourite vacation,
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to visit some of her paternal relatives in Alberta... A trip
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that was supposed to be the first of many now holds some of their most cherished
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memories of her. Rebecca Nichols:
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We were just outside of Canmore and we stopped on I think it was Highway 1A. And there's this little
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spot where there was this stream coming// down the mountain. And I remember we were all trying
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to stick our toes in it. And Tori's walking around through there and just having a great time walking
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back and forth. And I m just thinking, how are you managing this kid?! Like I can t even stand
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that cold, it was so intense. Tori: Ah it s cold!!
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Rebecca: My father-in-law tells her to be careful because you don't know what animals are relieving
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themselves up the mountain into the stream. Grandad: Good stuff, huh?
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Excellent Tori: Hmmm,
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that s awesome. ...animals come down here
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Tori: No wonder animals come Rebecca: Just the memory of her dancing in
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the stream is just how I want to remember her. Doreen Graichen / Tori s Grandmother: The
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energy of an eight year old, it was insane with her wanting to climb,
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go to the top of the mountain. Rebecca: In her flip flops.
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Doreen: In her flip flops, no less. Yeah, that's my favourite picture of her. Because
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she's smiling and happy and I don't know, she's just a lovely, loving
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little girl. Rebecca: This is
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a teddy bear that my father-in-law bought for Victoria. My father-in-law's father's
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name was Fred. So they landed on naming the bear Freddy Bear. And so this is Tori hugging
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Freddy Bear shortly before we ended up at that mountain stream. And I actually have Freddy Bear
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in the house. He's upstairs, warm and safe. Doreen: She loved her mom. She loved her dad.
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She loved her brother more than anything in this world. She loved her brother.
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In a statement... Tori s older brother Daryn, 14 at the time of Rafferty s sentencing,
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said -- quote, "My sister was the only person I had to talk to, someone that felt what I felt,
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cried when I cried, laughed when I laughed, and now I feel alone, like the world is playing a sick
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trick on me. But it's not -- this is my reality." Daryn has stayed out of the public
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eye since his sister s death. Tara: He s doing amazing, like better than I could
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have ever expected. And he has taken his grief and his trauma, and he's not let it consume him.
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For all the heartbreak associated with her name in her hometown,
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Tori s story has helped create change far outside the boundaries of Woodstock,
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in multiple ways including a donation to build a well for a village in Southern India
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Rodney: Instead of having to walk five miles a day to get water, now they just walk to
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the edge of the village. Somehow or another, Victoria s story has touched that person s heart
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enough to wanna help others in their kind of way. And that s gonna help generations.
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An unfortunate lesson learned during the search for Tori has also led to
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improvements in Ontario s Amber Alert system -- despite the pleas of local police, Tori s
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disappearance didn t qualify for an alert. Rod Freeman: My inspector of operations did
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contact the OPP, twice, asked for an Amber Alert to be issued and was told, that no, that our
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investigation didn't meet the very narrow criteria of the Amber Alert program at that time.
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Less than 2 months after her disappearance, following criticism of the system,
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a police-led review was announced. Rod: I was invited to be part of those
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discussions up at OPP headquarters with their Civilian Board that oversees the
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Amber Alert program. And we talked about the difficulties of that narrow criteria, and and
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our circumstances with Victoria going missing. And that Board and the OPP
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listened and understood our circumstance. And they then broadened the criteria
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that now is being applied. Insp. Dave Ross / Ontario Provincial Police:
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Certainly the Stafford case drew some attention to the Amber Alert and was a catalyst
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for Commissioner Fantino calling for a review of the Amber Alert program.
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Wording for the guidelines was simplified and streamlined so it s more easily understood.
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David Shum / Reporter: Officers no longer need proof of an abduction to issue
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an alert that s broadcast on highway signs, over radio or TV. Now they only
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have to believe a child is in danger. Tara: And I try to think that if things changed
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like the Amber Alert and something positive comes from losing Victoria, it doesn't make
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me feel better. But it definitely doesn't make it as bad because something good came from it.
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The good things are what Tara tries to focus on as she charts a new path. She says she s
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now a doula... Helping bring new life into the world, while remembering the one she lost.
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Tara: My doulah mentor, she had mentioned that her mom does quilting. And I was like,
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oh, really? Because I had seen, like, memory blankets made before. I asked if she would
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ask her mom, if she would make one for me. And she did. And it is beautiful.
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She put like a little note. It was a great honour to be asked to make a memory quilt to
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represent the life of Tori Stafford. Tori's hat that she came home from the
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hospital in. It has the hideous christening gown in the middle. And then it was like the
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ugly Christmas dress. She even put a pictures of us on it it has like her, Bratz lunch pail.It
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has her Harley-Davidson overalls from when she was a baby. :ike all the good stuff,
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all sewn into a huge, beautiful quilt. Like when people say to me all the time,
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they're like, oh, you're so strong and you're the strongest person I know. And I'm like, well, what
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other option is there? Right. I guess I could cave and fold up and just not get out of bed every day,
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but like, where's that going to get anybody? Like, that's not going to be celebrating Tori's
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life and she wouldn't have wanted that. Mark: Today, she would be 20 years old
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Tara: Yeah Mark: What do you think she would be like now?
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Tara: Still feisty for sure. I think about when she was a teenager, how we would have butted heads
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because we were so much alike. Rodney:
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Who's to say she might not have been the one to cure cancer?
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The limit was endless at that point. She could have been anything she wanted to be.
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My daughter s life and mine and my whole family s life, our community,
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our friends, we ve all suffered because of it.
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It's hard. But, you know, it's the only way we get to... I get to remember her, is like this.
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TERRI-LYNNE MCCLINTIC CAN APPLY FOR PAROLE AS OF 2024
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after serving just 15 years, of her 25-year sentence.
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MICHAEL RAFFERTY CAN APPLY FOR DAY PAROLE AS OF 2031, AND FULL PAROLE IN 2034.
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THE FAMILY S WOUNDS ARE SURE TO BE RE-OPENED... BUT TODAY,
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THEY FOCUS ON REMEMBERING TORI -- THE FEISTY 8-YR-OLD, WITH AN UNFORGETTABLE PRESENCE.
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I m Antony Robart.
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