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Nov 15, 20211 min

Complicity

On April 8th 2009, Victoria Stafford known as Tori to friends and family, had been in great spirits that morning. The little girl had happily raided her mothers bedroom to borrow a headband and some butterfly earrings to wear to school at Oliver Stephens Public School in Woodstock, Canada, when Tori didn't arrive home after school the Oxford community police received a report for the missing eight year old girl.

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