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Please expand this article. I can't do it. The twist and turns are too complicated for me to produce a good article. --Auric (talk) 13:57, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Potential move[edit]

Should this page be located at Victoria Stafford? I'm not sure how pages related to people work when it comes to the name they're known by vs. their full name. Lychosis ^T/C 16:06, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I'm just gonna be bold and move it. Lychosis ^T/C 16:07, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New section[edit]

How about a section on the efficacy of Police work thus far ? Taprobanus (talk) 21:21, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And what about all the weird stuff with the parents, the drugs, the mysterious Toronto benefactor, etc.… Synetech (talk) 17:09, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say relevant and sourced things can be added to the article. Could you please provide a source for these? Lychosis ^T/C 17:56, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That should be pretty easy. The London Free Press and the Woodstock Sentinel-Review covered all that extensively; London had a detailed timeline in the May 21 paper. (If you don't like those, I'm sure the bigger papers covered it too.) Adam Bishop (talk) 13:44, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Priority[edit]

Changed priority to high, as the article is currently in the news, and this page may be subject to higher viewing now.SriMesh | talk 20:56, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rodney Stafford[edit]

Something should be added about Tori's kidnapping and murder prompting her father to cycle from Woodstock ON to Edmonton ON to raise awareness and funding for Child Find Ontario as well as to promote the Eye-Zon technology— Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.41.192.218 (talk) 14:29, September 23, 2009‎

Trial - March 2012[edit]

Let it be known that Rafferty is on trial currently and has not yet been convicted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.237.53.72 (talk) 01:03, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Did Rafferty have a criminal record prior to these charges?65.95.84.21 (talk) 18:06, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Update (May 12, 2012)- Rafferty was found guilty on all counts. His defence team has the option to appeal, of course. PK T(alk) 17:13, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Huge portions of information missing[edit]

The article jumps immediately from the kidnapping to the trial. I can't find any information anywhere that explains how police identified and located the suspects?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.174.18.252 (talk) 02:40, October 16, 2017‎

More importantly, there is almost zero information on the crime itself. It's just "she was taken; she was found dead; they were arrested and convicted". But now that the trial has occurred and the publication ban has been lifted, there must be substantially more evidence than this. E.g., where she was taken from, the killers' motivations, etc. This is a pretty poor article. Bueller 007 (talk) 04:51, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here's some of the missing information. She was kidnapped by McClintic, who knew her mother and was known to her as a family friend. She was identified because she picked the girl up on her way from Oliver Stevens school. This was shown on a video camera from College Avenue Secondary School, which is just up the hill. Effectively she was taken right across the street from an old age home. The 'motivations' were partially a drug debt owed by her mother, in reality she was picked by McClintic for the assault to be used by Rafferty. McClintic was looking for girls to be sexually abused because that was her fantasy, and used Rafferty to act them out. From the trial records, she knowingly and aggressively let Rafferty rape her, consoled the bleeding girl, and then beat the girl to death with a hammer. She was caught mainly because she was buying odd items from the nearby Home Depot. McClintic was the one who folded first, and led them to the location of her body. The entire situation is very similar to the Bernardo/Homolka case, where the female is the one picking targets, soothing them, then having her fantasies acted out by her male partner. All that should help someone fillout the info, since it can be found in record now. For the 'record' I used to live down the street from Tori and her mother.

Who the Sam Hill writes these sorts of inclusions without ascription and without a signed-in name or even the obligatory IP address? One would think after all these years that the latter absence would be literally impossible. Who's running this show? After many years of seeing Wikipedia talk pages I must say it's broken the camel's proverbial back with me. JohndanR (talk) 05:07, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]