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4OPP describe how largest search in force history fell just short of fi nding body.

APR. 2 3Jury, court o� cials, Ra� erty and media visit the remote fi eld where Tori’s body was found.

5Items found at Ra� erty’s house and car exhibited. Tori’s missing poster and photos of McClintic found.

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7 8Defence presents closing arguments, saying Ra� erty had no idea anything wrong until too late and was led by vio-lent liar, McClintic.

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26 Crown puts together clips of surveillance video to show Ra� erty’s route April 8, 2009. Crown calls 61 witnesses and introduces 186 exhibits.

9 10Justice Thomas Heeney charges the jury. Jury seques-tered to reach a verdict.

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7 Tara McDonald testifi es that she had bought drugs at Terri-Lynne McClintic’s house in past. Says Tori never met McClintic.

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5 6 Tori Sta� ord’s teacher takes the stand. Says Tori left school a little later on Apr. 8, ’09, because she went back to get a pair of butterfl y earrings.

Trial begins: Crown makes opening statement. Defence does not.

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14 McClintic tells jury she was pre-pared to take the fall for the abduction and murder.

12 13 McClintic takes the stand. “I savagely murdered that little girl,” she claims. Graphic details of Tori’s last moments revealed.

15 16 McClintic repeats her state-ment that she was the only one to wield the hammer that killed Tori, contrary to what she told police in 2009.

21Defence presents letters from McClintic describ-ing violent acts of murder.

19 20 22Defences suggests McClintic the “engine” that drove events of April 8, 2009.

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998 A Woodstock o� cer testifi es that Tori’s mother told police the woman seen in surveillance video could be McClintic.

27 30OPP Det Sta� Sgt. Jim Smyth tells jury how he found Tori’s body near Mount Forest July 19, 2009.

23 Defence paints Ra� erty as specta-tor who turned down McClintic’s o� ering of Tori as a sexual “gift” then helped clean up after the murder.

OPP Det. Staff Sgt. Jim Smyth located the body of Tori

Jurors see graphic autopsy photos and hear forensic evidence of how Tori died from hammer blows to the head after being kicked and stomped.

Ra� erty doesn't testify in his own defence. His lawyer calls one witness, a parent who says she seen what might have been McClintic.

Crown fi nishes two days of closing argu-ments. Says Ra� erty and McClintic are a “dangerous duo,” but Ra� erty the mastermind.