8 Year Old Victoria “Tori” Stafford Missing Since 4/8/09 in Ontario, Canada

[Sieko]

Tori's relative say composite sketch looks familiar - girl's mother to speak live at 1 p.m.
Tue, April 21, 2009

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/2009/04/21/9196746.html

[can]

Sketch released in Victoria Stafford case

http://southwesternontario.ctv.ca/news.php?id=4446

Thanks Sieko.

[Sieko]

Thanks Sieko.

You're welcome. 

Just starting to set up for the press conference with Tara McDonald.  Scroll down a bit for live feed.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/2009/04/21/9196746.html

[can]

Thanks Sieko.

You're welcome. 

Just starting to set up for the press conference with Tara McDonald.  Scroll down a bit for live feed.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/2009/04/21/9196746.html

Thanks again Sieko.  I got an error message when I clicked on live feed.
I'll try again and also check the t.v. to see if it will be carried.

[Sieko]

Thanks Sieko.

You're welcome. 

Just starting to set up for the press conference with Tara McDonald.  Scroll down a bit for live feed.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/2009/04/21/9196746.html

Thanks again Sieko.  I got an error message when I clicked on live feed.
I'll try again and also check the t.v. to see if it will be carried.

You shouldn't need to click on anything.  Scroll down the page a bit and it should automatically start.  It takes a few seconds.

[can]

Sieko, Guess I wasn't patient enough. 

I saw the press conf. on local t.v. 
Seems the Mother does not recognise the individual in the video.
Woodstock's population is 39,000 . . . if the composite is a good likeness of perp, hopefully there will be some that will recognise her and come forward.

[Sieko]

Sieko, Guess I wasn't patient enough. 

I saw the press conf. on local t.v. 
Seems the Mother does not recognise the individual in the video.
Woodstock's population is 39,000 . . . if the composite is a good likeness of perp, hopefully there will be some that will recognise her and come forward.

Mother doesn't recognize the woman in the sketch, but the Father and the Aunt think they do.

"  Apr 22, 2009 01:18 PM
Raveena Aulakh
Staff Reporter

WOODSTOCK – Victoria Stafford's aunt said today that she has "strong beliefs" about the identity of the person in a composite sketch who police say is a prime suspect in the abduction of the 8-year-old everybody knows as Tori."
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/622365

[Sieko]

Also from the above link:

""We all have our own theories, but obviously we don't want to say what we believe because if the theory is wrong it is quite insulting to the individual," said the aunt, Rebecca Stafford, who spoke to the media outside her house.

She said she wasn't completely taken aback by the sketch, "but at the same time, I didn't know the individual well enough."

She said the family had shared their suspicions with the police and had renewed hope Tori would return home soon with the release of the sketch.

But there's more anger, too, she said.

"There's that anger that is building and now that I have an idea who I can direct that anger to, it is something I have never felt before.""


Am I the only one here who's suspicion is turning towards the mother?

[can]

Sieko I'm not sure I know enough yet to direct suspicion to the Mother.  But, unsure of Mother's associates.

Why do you have suspicion toward the Mother? 

[Sieko]

To me, that composite sketch almost looks to be a portrait of the mother.  The height of the woman doesn't seem to add up though.  Tara looks much taller than 5'1".  There is something about her demeanor also.  I don't know, just thinkin' 

[can]

To me, that composite sketch almost looks to be a portrait of the mother.  The height of the woman doesn't seem to add up though.  Tara looks much taller than 5'1".  There is something about her demeanor also.  I don't know, just thinkin' 

Thanks...and fair enough. Gut feelings shouldn't be ignored.  If the Mother picked Victoria up from school, it will come out.
I thought the shape of the eyes and nose of the composite sketch looked similar to Tori's...but didn't think about the Mother.

One thing re the conf. today I noticed is that the Mother said she had to be strong for her son.  She said that yesterday also. 
I waited to hear her say, she had to be strong for Tori.

[Edward]

WOODSTOCK – Victoria Stafford's aunt said today that she has "strong beliefs" about the identity of the person in a composite sketch who police say is a prime suspect in the abduction of the 8-year-old everybody knows as Tori."
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/622365


I sure hope she verbalized this to investigators.. 

Why is it everyone in this case seems kinda kicked back and not to worried about Tori ?

Even the mom saying she has to be strong for her son ?  Is her son missing ?

Who is worried about Tori ?

The Aunt should be screaming the name and half the army should be looking for this person NOW !

Anyways.. That is just the way I feel..

[Sieko]

WOODSTOCK – Victoria Stafford's aunt said today that she has "strong beliefs" about the identity of the person in a composite sketch who police say is a prime suspect in the abduction of the 8-year-old everybody knows as Tori."
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/622365


I sure hope she verbalized this to investigators.. 

Why is it everyone in this case seems kinda kicked back and not to worried about Tori ?

Even the mom saying she has to be strong for her son ?  Is her son missing ?

Who is worried about Tori ?

The Aunt should be screaming the name and half the army should be looking for this person NOW !

Anyways.. That is just the way I feel..

Maybe the name was asked to not be released by LE.  If they think they know who this person is, I'm sure LE is already looking for her.  If they can't find her, then the name should be released.

[Edward]

Thank You Sieko for bringing the currant info forward.. Hope they find her alive and well soon.

[Blonde]

Gallery: Victoria (Tori) Stafford
Missing 8-year-old Woodstock girl

http://www.lfpress.ca/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?x=galleries&s=gallery&p=2975&pg=37

[can]

Thanks for the pics Blonde.

[cookie]

wouldn't it seem that Tori and this woman must have known each other for Tori to leave with her and for the woman to be there at the school to get her? that is ballsy isn't it?
that is a pretty good sketch..someone should be able to recognize her from that sketch...did they get that sketch from the video tape?

[Sieko]

These are from the facebook group.

[Edward]

Put her in dirty blonde and red hair too.
mo.

[Blonde]

Missing girl: Family divided over mystery abductor
Wed, April 22, 2009    



WOODSTOCK — Some relatives of Victoria ‘Tori’ Stafford believe they recognize the suspected abductor of the eight-year-old in a newly-released police composite sketch.
But they insist the mysterious woman isn’t a family member.
“I can't see it being any member of Tori's family,” Tori’s aunt, Rebecca Stafford, said Wednesday, the 14th day since the girl vanished with a mysterious woman after school.
Tori’s mother, meanwhile, told reporters she has no idea who the woman is.
“I’ve been staring at it all night and I don't have a clue at all. I don't even recognize the facial features," Tara McDonald said during a news conference outside her home.
McDonald also said she’s not involved in her daughter’s disappearance, but hasn’t got back results of a police lie detector test she took.
“I know that at the end of the day, I have had nothing to do with this,” she said.
The sketch of the woman — she was seen walking with Tori after school April 8, in images from a nearby high school security video — was based on a witness’s memory, police said.
Who that woman is has baffled police and the public, and until the sketch was released late Tuesday had no face.
"There are individuals in the family that have beliefs about the woman in the sketch. Our beliefs have been shared with the police," Rebecca Stafford said.
"For me, personally, I can't say that I was completely taken aback by the picture. But at the same time I don't know the individual well enough."
Another family member said the woman looked a lot like a high school friend of Tori’s father, Rodney Stafford.
Rodney Stafford was at a vigil in Brantford for Tori Wednesday night and couldn’t be reached for comment. Earlier, he was quoted in one news report saying he thought the woman looked like a former high school classmate.
Tori, in Grade 3 at Oliver Stephens public school, was last seen walking with the woman north on Fyfe Avenue.
The OPP, leading the investigation but working with local police, released the composite.
McDonald said she was frustrated the sketch was released two weeks after Tori vanished.
“I am a little disappointed by the timeline of the way things have gone. I guess that is the way it goes, but that is a little frustrating at times."
Police said little about the sketch Wednesday, except that it was created with the help of an “independent witness.”
They described the woman as white, 19 to 25, about 5'1" to 5'2" and 120 to 125 pounds.
She has long straight black hair past her shoulders, worn in a ponytail and was wearing a white puffy winter jacket and tight black jeans.
“We’re very hopeful that somebody may recognize the composite and give us a call," said lead investigator OPP Det. Insp. Bill Renton.
With a population of about 36,000, Woodstock should be able to help solve the mystery of the woman in the after- school video, he suggested.
"Realistically, it is 3:23 in the afternoon on a week day," he said. "There are a lot of people out and about. I am hoping somebody in the community has seen her and maybe this composite will jog their memory. "
Asked for an explanation of the length of time it took to prepare and release the sketch, Renton would only say, “It has been done in a timely manner. We felt this was a time to release this."
He declined to comment on the accuracy of the sketch, reliability of the witness's memory or when and where the witness saw the woman.
Police had received about 1,200 tips as of early Wednesday.
By day's end, that number had reached about 1,300, said Oxford Community Police Const. Laurie -Anne Maitland.
The sketch gave Tori's family a small measure of hope.

"I have stared directly into the yes of that for hours and (felt) a lot of animosity, a lot of anger and a lot of questions, why would they do this to my family?" McDonald said.
"Now I can put a face to the person that has caused so much hurt to the family," Stafford said. "There is anger building and now I have an idea of who I can direct that anger to."



Randy Richmond is a Free Press reporter.

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