Officers waded through 50 cubic metres of rubbish recovered from bins from Minilya to Geraldton, but the sleeping bag was not found.
The sleeping bag Cleo Smith was dreaming in before she was allegedly abducted from her family's tent almost one month ago has still not been found. Close sources to the investigation have confirmed to The West Australian that despite a massive search for the red and grey sleeping bag, it is still missing.
Terence Darrell Kelly, 37, the man who abducted four-year-old Cleo Smith from her family's tent at a remote Western Australian campsite, has been sentenced to 13 years and six months in jail.
At 11.24pm on 3 November 2021, nearly three weeks after Kelly's car was heard screeching away from the Blowholes, police found their man. Less than two hours later, detectives would storm Kelly's home to rescue Cleo, finding her alone and locked in a room, playing with a toy car.
In an interview after Cleo's disappearance, Ellie said the girl had gone to bed in the family's tent at around 8 p.m., woke up early the next morning at 1:30 a.m. asking for water, and had returned to sleep after being given water.
Cleo's biological father 'overjoyed'
“We are all absolutely overjoyed at the good news this morning, and so happy that Cleo has been reunited with her mum and dad,” he said. “Thank you to everyone who helped look for her and bring her home, particularly the WA Police, SES and the Carnarvon community.
Smith said Kelly's motives for stealing Cleo were “disgusting” – a psychologist report had said Kelly felt euphoria for fulfilling his idealised fantasy of having a little girl he could dress up, play and be with.
Terence Kelly, 37, who pleaded guilty, abducted a sleeping Cleo Smith from a remote campsite in the early hours of Oct. 16, 2021, and then drove her about 50 miles to his house, where he kept her locked in a bedroom, the court transcript showed. Cleo was rescued on Nov.
A man has been jailed for 13 years and six months for abducting a four-year-old girl from a remote Western Australia (WA) campsite. Terence Kelly, 37, pleaded guilty last year to taking Cleo Smith from her family's tent in October 2021.
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Cleo Smith's mother has broken her silence after her daughter's kidnapper was jailed, saying: “The anger always will be there.” Terrence Kelly was jailed for 13½ years on Wednesday for abducting the then four-year-old from her family's tent at the Blowholes Campground in the middle of the night in October 2021.
It is understood their role in making sense of huge amounts of data, and information gathered online and from mobile phone towers, played a crucial role in identifying Terence Darrell Kelly as a suspect. Posting to social media later that day Ellie Smith said, "Our family is whole again."
WA Police have disclosed that at about 1.30am, the young girl's last interaction was far from unusual, or suspicious. A police source told the Daily Mail that “it was just a word” - implying that Cleo had simply “asked for a sip of water”.
Ellie Smith said while her family was trying to move on, speaking about Terence Kelly – who snatched Cleo from the family's tent at a remote campsite on Western Australia's Gascoyne coast on October 16, 2021 – was difficult.
Terrence Kelly was jailed last month for 13 years and six months for kidnapping the little girl in a case that made worldwide headlines. On Tuesday it was revealed his lawyers have lodged an appeal against that sentence in the Court of Appeal.
Cleo Smith was kidnapped for 18 days during 2021. During the ordeal, doll collector Kelly kept Cleo locked in a room in his Carnavon house, the door to which had been modified so it could only be locked from the hallway side.
Terence Darrell Kelly has appealed his sentence for kidnapping four-year-old Cleo Smith from her family's tent at a remote Western Australian campsite, arguing the sentencing judge failed to give due weight to his turbulent upbringing.
Kelly pleaded guilty to one count of child stealing after four-year-old Cleo was found inside his Carnarvon home in Western Australia's Gascoyne region - 18 days after she vanished on October 16.
Her parents, Ellie Smith and Jake Gliddon, have revealed Cleo suffers weekly nightmares and has lost some of her independence as a result of the 18 days she was separated from her family. “She still has her sad nights, her nightmare nights.
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There was one silver lining to Cleo's otherwise tragic journey into Ken's mind: He informed her that she's now a fury, a natural transformation that apparently occurs when an oracle interferes in their visions and changes the future.
Cleo then stands before everyone in the house, and, to Rikki and Emma's surprise, sings with the most beautiful voice imaginable. Lewis realises that the full moon has turned Cleo into a siren - a mythological mermaid that used its mesmerising voice to lure sailors to their deaths.
Terence Kelly was sentenced to 13 years and six months in jail in WA's District Court on Wednesday over a charge of stealing a child that he pleaded guilty to in January last year. He will be eligible for parole after serving 11 and a half years, backdated to his arrest on November 3, 2021.
At 10:40 p.m., Kelly called Young to tell him he was idling outside in his dad's white Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. Kelly was still in the car when someone holding a . 22-caliber Marlin rifle approached. The shooter fired four times, striking Kelly in the head and chest.