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More details on the details of Smyth scouting the area.
But by July that year, though Det.-Sgt. Smyth had been seconded to the Tori task force for three months, he was involved in another investigation when he learned that as a result of a search warrant executed on Mr. Raffertys cellphone, records appeared to show the phone had been used near Mt. Forest on the very day Tori vanished.
The town was just a little north of the vast area of southwestern Ontario that police had already searched; McClintic had run out of landmarks she recognized, and that was where the northern boundary of the search was established.
Det.-Sgt. Smyth got the call on July 17.
On July 18, he was working in the Woodstock office, and drove back up to Orillia and OPP headquarters.
He was on his way back to Woodstock on the Sunday, July 19, when on an impulse, he decided to get off the 400 Highway at Highway 89, and drive across to Mt. Forest.
There was to be a task force meeting early that week but he wasnt going to be able to make it, and he figured hed take a tour of the area, get a sense of the landscape, so he could give his colleagues his assessment on What is our best bet here to start the new search.
He drove up a couple of roads, scoping out the area, then crossed over Highway 6 and north onto the Concession 6 side road.
Ms. McClintic was very sure the location was off a big concession road, he said.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com...ch-led-jim-smyth-to-find-tori-staffords-body/