Welcome to Canadian True Crime Episode 12, The Murder of Torrey Stafford Part 1.

This is Christy.

This podcast contains coarse language, adult themes and content of a violent and disturbing nature.

And I wanted to add an additional warning for this episode and the next, as they're about the

sexual assault and murder of a young child. Many tears were shed during the research and writing

of this episode. By now, you'll probably know that I don't like to go into graphic detail

unless absolutely necessary, but if this subject matter is a trigger for you, I'll completely

understand if you need to walk away now. Also, you probably notice that this episode took a little

longer to release than usual, and I just wanted to thank you for your patience.

Woodstock is a city of about 40,000 people, situated in the province of Ontario,

about an hour and a half's drive southwest from Toronto. It's one of the few cities in the province of Ontario, about an hour and a half's drive southwest from Toronto.

It's one of the few cities in the province to still have all of its original administration buildings,

so as something of a historic location. It's known as the dairy capital of Canada,

and has been at the centre of a farm belt, an industry that helped Woodstock prosper

in the 20th century.

However, while similar southwestern Ontario cities like Waterloo, Guelieu, Guelph and London made

gains in academia and population growth thanks to their local university campuses, Woodstock

was without one and seemed to just stick to what it knows,

farming and associated industries. Even the former mayor of Woodstock Michael Harding said,

quote, we've always done good with our hands. As a result of stable blue-collar industry,

the population has also stayed stable.

But demographics show the Woodstock population has been less inclined to further their education beyond high school.

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