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Canadian True Crime

The Murder of Tori Stafford [3]

Canadian True Crime

Kristi Lee

Canadian True Crime, History, Crime, Crime Case, Serial Killer, True Crime, Murder, Psychological, True-crime, Society & Culture

4.75K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

[Part 3 of 3] The shocking conclusion to the story of an 8-year-old girl who went missing from Woodstock, Ontario in 2009.


* Additional content warning: this episode includes coarse language, adult themes, violence, graphic information and the death of a child. Please take care when listening.


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0:00.0

Please note, this is part three of a three-part series. If you haven't listened to the previous two parts, I recommend you go back and listen to those first.

0:14.0

The jury was instructed by the judge that in light of these events, they couldn't rely on previous

0:22.7

testimonies from Terry Lynn and to only consider her latest testimony.

0:28.5

She went on to testify that after they left Torrey's body by the rock pile, they changed shoes,

0:34.6

drove to a car-washing Cambridge Ontario, and dumped the garbage bags with

0:39.1

the claw hammer. They each happened to have a spare set of clothes in the car, so they changed and

0:45.4

tossed their old clothes and shoes out the window once they were back on the highway 401.

0:50.7

The shoes would later be found by a passerby on the road, corroborating Terry Lynn's story.

0:57.5

Terry Lynn said there were two bloodstains on the back seat of his car that they couldn't get out,

1:02.7

so they cut the patches out of the seat, throwing the pieces out the window with the clothes.

1:09.1

In the days that followed, Michael arranged an alibi, which was essentially just an

1:14.5

unverified story they would tell about where they were. They would say they'd been window shopping

1:19.7

in Oakville, a town about two hours south of Woodstock. While they were there, they were

1:25.4

supposed to have dropped by a dance studio. Terry Lynn wrote

1:29.2

the story down in a journal so she wouldn't forget what Michael said, saying she didn't want to

1:34.3

mess up the alibi. He also instructed her to change her appearance and dye her hair blonde,

1:40.7

even going so far as to buy her some hair dye. When she was arrested, she had cut her hair, but the packet of hair dye was still on her bathroom counter.

1:51.5

Only three days after Tori's murder, Terry Lynn had been arrested on the parole violation

1:56.7

and was being held in the detention centre.

2:00.0

Michael Rafferty came to visit her there,

2:02.4

worried that she would say something to police that would implicate him.

2:06.5

But she told him she would take the fall for everything,

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