Victoria Elizabeth Marie "Tori" Stafford (July 15, 2000 – April 8, 2009) was a Canadian girl who was abducted, raped, and murdered by Michael Rafferty and Terri-Lynne McClintic. Her body was found three months later in a wooded area in rural Ontario. The subsequent investigation and search were the subject of massive media coverage across Canada. The police response to the situation as it developed, as well as their failure to announce an AMBER alert was criticized by the public, and has been the focus of a review of the AMBER alert system in Canada. The circumstances of her death were unknown to the public until a publication ban was lifted in December 2010. Abduction, murder, and investigation At around 3:30 p.m. on April 8, 2009, Stafford left Oliver Stephens Public School to go home, and was captured on security camera at 3:32 p.m. being led down Fyfe Avenue, Woodstock, by a woman. When she failed to return home, she was reported missing by her grandmother at 6:04 p.m. Suspicion initially rested on Stafford's mother, Tara McDonald, as she had waited two hours to report her daughter missing, even though her walk home from school was only a few blocks. Additionally, McDonald was unemployed, addicted to drugs, and hadn't gone out to search for her daughter, leaving it to the girl's grandmother to search for her, and later file a missing persons report. McDonald was suspected of being the woman in the security footage, which McClintic later confessed to. In an interrogation, McClintic told investigators she lured Stafford to a vehicle with promises of showing her a puppy. Five days after Stafford's disappearance, police called off the ground search, and her classmates returned to school the next day. The case was featured in the April 25, 2009, episode of America's Most Wanted. The initial investigation was led by the local police, and was later turned into a joint investigation with the Ontario Provincial Police, switching from a missing person investigation to an abduction case. On May 20, 2009, police charged Michael Thomas Christopher Stephen Rafferty, 28, with first-degree murder and Terri-Lynne McClintic, 18, with being an accessory to murder (in addition to lesser charges) in the abduction and suspected murder of Stafford. Ontario Provincial Police indicated that Stafford's mother was familiar with McClintic. McClintic assisted the police search for the remains of Stafford after her arrest, and her lawyer stated