Australia CLEO SMITH: Missing from Blowholes Campground, Carnarvon, WA - 16 Oct 2021 - Age 4 *Found Alive**GUILTY PLEA* (1 Viewer)

Search continues for missing girl in WA

The disappearance of a four-year-old girl from a WA campsite is "extremely concerning" and police say a search...

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Search continues for missing girl in WA​

The disappearance of a four-year-old girl from a WA campsite is "extremely concerning" and police say a search has yet to turn up any answers.

Cleo Smith was last seen about 1.30am on Saturday at the Blowholes campsite on the coast at Macleod, north of Carnarvon.

An air, land and sea search resumed on Sunday morning with help from the SES and community volunteers.

The girl was wearing a pink one-piece sleepsuit with a blue and yellow pattern when she was last seen.


Earlier, Ms Smith posted that she had woken at 6am on Saturday to find her daughter wasn't in their shared tent.

She described Cleo's disappearance as "very very unusual".

WA police Inspector Jon Munday said the family arrived in the area late on Friday afternoon.

Insp Munday said he was "fairly confident" police were able to get the identities of all the people who were in the campsite at the time she disappeared, as well as gathering intelligence from dashcams and CCTV cameras in the vicinity to "paint a picture of who was around here".

"We are greatly concerned for the safety of Cleo and we aren't leaving anything to chance or ruling anything out," Insp Munday said early on Sunday afternoon.

"We are going as hard as we can for as long as we can."

Insp Munday said detectives from Perth and Geraldton had arrived at the search area and despite the harsh environment, the weather was so far "conducive to someone surviving exposure to the elements", but there were still no answers or major breakthroughs in the search.


MEDIA - CLEO SMITH: Missing from Blowholes Campground, Carnarvon, WA since 16 Oct 2021 - Age 4

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

 

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The inconspicuous camera that confirmed Cleo at camp

Audio of Cleo Smith was recorded on a single CCTV camera at a beach shack, just 20m from where she was staying, the day before she vanished.

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Cleo Smith search: Inconspicuous shack security camera ‘recorded Cleo’s voice’​

Audio of Cleo Smith was recorded on a single CCTV camera at a beach shack, situated just 20m from where she was staying, the day before she vanished.

The motion-sensitive camera faces the front of the shack, capturing a wide shot of anyone who enters or exits the beach home. It also records audio.

Cleo, just four years of age, was heard on the camera, police have confirmed.

The camera is in a protective box with a glass front, making it inconspicuous to those staying in the area.

Police took copies of the footage and scoured through it, saying Sunday it had helped confirm Cleo was at the camp grounds prior to her disappearance.

 

[RoundPeg]

That part of Western Australia is pretty remote and desolate.

 

[Kimster]

At least we know for sure that Cleo was there.

 

[RoundPeg]

I know a lot of people posting here are from the US. Just so we can envision this, "shacks" are like what we would encounter in a one room vacation cabin. Probably no running water.

Just in case anyone didn't realize that.

 

[GrandmaBear]

At least we know for sure that Cleo was there.

It appears so although I still wonder how they can be so sure it's her.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I know a lot of people posting here are from the US. Just so we can envision this, "shacks" are like what we would encounter in a one room vacation cabin. Probably no running water.

Just in case anyone didn't realize that.

I looked up the campground yesterday and if I remember right, I didn't look long, there is NO water and no electricity, etc... You have to bring everything, fuel and more. This still seems like an odd place to me to camp with children and especially a baby. I really don't see the appeal in doing that with children that age.

 

[Guess Who]

It appears so although I still wonder how they can be so sure it's her.

probably have her parents on film and have captured them in conversation. I would be more concerned about the tone of the conversation.

 

[Guess Who]

I looked up the campground yesterday and if I remember right, I didn't look long, there is NO water and no electricity, etc... You have to bring everything, fuel and more. This still seems like an odd place to me to camp with children and especially a baby. I really don't see the appeal in doing that with children that age.

we've done it many times at the lake or float trips. They just did it at the ocean.

 

[Kimster]

I looked up the campground yesterday and if I remember right, I didn't look long, there is NO water and no electricity, etc... You have to bring everything, fuel and more. This still seems like an odd place to me to camp with children and especially a baby. I really don't see the appeal in doing that with children that age.

My son and DIL would do that. They are seasoned campers/hikers and are well prepared out on the trail.

 

[RoundPeg]

I looked up the campground yesterday and if I remember right, I didn't look long, there is NO water and no electricity, etc... You have to bring everything, fuel and more. This still seems like an odd place to me to camp with children and especially a baby. I really don't see the appeal in doing that with children that age.

My daughter does it. Well. There is a shower house.

 

[Guess Who]

My daughter does it. Well. There is a shower house.

a few of the places we have gone, all there was was pit toilets. We all survived very well, too, and my kids loved it. Youngest wasn't a fan of the pit toilets, though

 

[GrandmaBear]

we've done it many times at the lake or float trips. They just did it at the ocean.

I only tried it ever once with an infant and 4 year old along, in a tent, without electric, etc. at a place with likely a little bit more to do than this place had. In the first day, I ended up taking my baby daughter to grandma's and we continued camping with my 4 year old and even that was not all that easy nor did I see much reason to do it again. We didn't do it much after that.

It's different once one has a camper and depending on where they camp, facilities, electric, etc.

This place looks remote and like there's the ocean and that's about it.

 

[Guess Who]

I only tried it ever once with an infant and 4 year old along, in a tent, without electric, etc. at a place with likely a little bit more to do than this place had. In the first day, I ended up taking my baby daughter to grandma's and we continued camping with my 4 year old and even that was not all that easy nor did I see much reason to do it again. We didn't do it much after that.

It's different once one has a camper and depending on where they camp, facilities, electric, etc.

This place looks remote and like there's the ocean and that's about it.

we've taken our kids camping in those conditions all their lives, including as infants. You just have to prepare for it a bit more. They still claim that one of their favorite places we went was where it was all primitive camping. No water, no electric and pit toilets, but some of the best scenery around.

 

[GrandmaBear]

we've taken our kids camping in those conditions all their lives, including as infants. You just have to prepare for it a bit more. They still claim that one of their favorite places we went was where it was all primitive camping. No water, no electric and pit toilets, but some of the best scenery around.

I doubt the infant remembered it as a favorite place but I get ya lol. And I get it when they are a bit older or even somewhat with Cleo. And I get the baby goes with as you have a baby I guess. Just doesn't sound all that appealing changing diapers and more in such circumstances and the sheer amount of water and things you would have to pack, particularly with an infant along.

 

[kdg411]

What a doll!

Helicopter pilot's haunting realisation in search for Cleo Smith

A chopper pilot who was searching for the four-year-old within hours of her disappearance said he knew very quickly that something wasn't right.

au.news.yahoo.com

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I looked up the campground yesterday and if I remember right, I didn't look long, there is NO water and no electricity, etc... You have to bring everything, fuel and more. This still seems like an odd place to me to camp with children and especially a baby. I really don't see the appeal in doing that with children that age.

Guess it just depends on your upbringing. I camped at places with no water/electricity since I was a young child. And now I know people who backpack with very young children, including babies. Not just camping with no water/electricity, but literally carrying your food and shelter on your back for miles as well.
This family hiked the entire Appalachian Trail, 2100 miles, with their 4 year old (who turned 5 on the trail).

5-year-old Harvey Sutton finishes Appalachian Trail just in time to start kindergarten

Harvey Sutton is one of the youngest people to hike the full Appalachian Trail between Georgia and Maine.

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'How did someone come into that tent?': Cleo Smith's family beg for help over campsite mystery

In the family's second TV interview since Cleo Smith's disappearance, the missing four-year-old girl's mother is asked the question no parent should have to answer.

www.abc.net.au

Cleo Smith's family issue fresh TV plea for return of missing girl, begging 'we want her home'​

The mother of missing four-year-old girl Cleo Smith was asked the question no parent should have to answer in a second interview since her daughter's disappearance last night.

Ellie Smith and her partner Jake Gliddon featured on Channel 7's Flashpoint program, urging the public to call in any information that could help police find their little girl.

It came on the eve of the search for Cleo entering its 11th day after she disappeared from her family's tent in the state's Gascoyne region on October 16.

The couple was asked if they knew anything they had not told police.

"No way. We love our daughter, and we want her home," Ms Smith said.

 

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Cleo Smith investigation returns to missing girl's family home as police search inside for clues

WA Police Minister Paul Papalia says every resource is being utilised in the search to find four-year-old Cleo Smith, who has been missing for 12 days.

www.abc.net.au

Missing girl Cleo Smith's family home visited by forensic police again as search enters 12th day​

Western Australian forensic police have returned to the home of a missing four-year-old child, as the massive search for her suspected abductor enters its 12th day.


On Saturday, one week after her disappearance, forensic police swept the family home for prints.

Forensics officers returned to the home on Tuesday.

There is no suggestion her family were involved with her disappearance.

Detective leading the investigation, Superintendent Rod Wilde, said searching the house was just part of the process with a major investigation like this one.

Seven-hour search: Police take bags from Cleo's home

Investigators spotted leaving Cleo Smith's home with two evidence bags.

www.nzherald.co.nz

Police take bags from Cleo Smith's home after mammoth seven-hour search​

Detectives spent more than seven hours searching Cleo Smith's family home on Tuesday, leaving with two evidence bags, and what is believed to be a large duffel bag.

It remains unclear as to what was in the bags.

The missing four-year-old's stepfather Jake Gliddon led forensic officers and detectives into the home yesterday afternoon, before leaving a short time later.

Perth Now reports officers packed up their forensic van and left just before 10pm local time, having spent the majority of the night at the suburban home after arriving at 2.30pm. The flashes of their cameras were seen through the windows from the dark street outside.

It is understood to be the first time the inside of the home had been forensically examined for evidence.

Investigators were also seen examining the outside of the home on Saturday, specifically the fence line and windows, believed to be scouring for evidence of a stalker.


Police also do not consider Cleo's parents in any way involved in the four-year-old's vanishing. There is no suggestion from news.com.au that her family were involved with her disappearance.

Cleo's mother, Ellie Smith, told Channel 7's Flashpoint this week they had not returned to their home since they lost their daughter.

Smith said she held on to hope police would find something to help at the house.

 

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