220: Missing: Cleo Smith

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week, we needed a little bit of hope so while this story does involve someone who went missing, there is a resolution. Four-year-old Cleo Smith was camping with her family for the weekend. Her mother woke up one morning to find that Cleo was not in the tent, nor was she outside. At first, the hope was that she had simply wandered off, but the tent zipper being left unzipped way higher than Cleo could have reached cast doubt onto that.

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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abduction_of_Cleo_Smith

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-60107053

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZANGTKgBbw

https://www.newspapers.com/image/780211728/?terms=cleo%20smith%20missing&match=1

https://7news.com.au/news/wa/cleo-smiths-parents-share-chilling-new-details-of-abduction-in-tv-special-c-5592692

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/cleo-smith-s-alleged-abductor-had-room-full-of-dolls-20211103-p595ny.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.1	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.5	Welcome back to Corpus Delicti, the podcast, where we are diving deep into missing people.
0:32.7	So in this series, we explore people who went missing and have not been found but this week we have a very
0:40.0	inspiring episode where normally we just honor our victims or we remember them but this one
0:47.6	we get to celebrate with her and i i need this i need one with something positive i told j Jen earlier today, I texted her and I said, yeah, it's about podcast break time because yesterday I was writing scripts for TikTok so that I could update some of our TikTok stuff. And I was working on one for Basil and Jamal Abdul Farouk, the two brothers, and, you know, one was murdered and the other one's missing.
1:15.5	And I ended up having nightmares last night about my kids going missing.
1:20.4	It was absolutely horrifying.
1:22.2	And in the dream that I was having, you know, in that story, their mother laid down to take a nap, you know.
1:28.0	And as I was sleeping in my dream, it was like this weird mix of reality in a dream because my
1:34.6	body was saying, wake up, your kids are missing. Your kids are missing. Wake up,
1:38.3	wake up. But it wasn't really happening. It was just this, it was very odd. It was just
1:42.9	not enjoyable at all.
1:44.4	So I am glad that we have this one tonight. So we will go ahead and jump in.
1:50.0	So Ellie Smith and her husband, Jake Glidden, took their two little girls camping. This weekend
1:56.2	trip to the Blowholes Campside and McLeodden. It is a spectacular site on the coast of Australia where underwater caves and tunnels
2:05.3	push the water through the coast into watershoots when the waves crash.
2:12.1	So when this wave crash in, you have this spectacularly high water spicket that comes out and it's just one of those
2:19.9	amazing things to watch. The family lived in Carnivon and now that's in Western Australia and
2:27.0	it's approximately 50 miles from the campsite. Ellie and Jake grew up near the blowholes and they
2:32.9	wanted to share the experience with their
2:35.1	young daughters. So Cleo was just four years old and they had their baby with them as well.
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