New twist on the investigation into the kidnapping of little Cleo Smith, the 4-year-old Australian girl found safe and sound on the night of November 3, after being kidnapped on October 16 from the campsite where she was on holiday with her family.
The Australian police are in fact investigating the hypothesis that another person, perhaps a woman, may have been involved in the kidnapping of the little girl, found at the home of Terence Darrell Kelly in Carnarvon, the hometown of Cleo and her family.
The 36-year-old was locked up in a high-security prison in Perth, but police returned to the coastal town to "ascertain if anyone else was involved."
According to the Daily Mail Australia newspaper, a woman may have helped Kelly take care of little Cleo by dressing and combing her every day. And of the same opinion those who knew the kidnapper well. “I said right away, alone he would never have been able to look after a little girl. He didn't do everything by himself, someone helped him ”, commented Terry Kelly's neighbor on TV yesterday.
Then there is the statement of little Cleo, who when questioned by experts told how in the days of the kidnapping to take care of her, in that house filled with Bratz dolls that the 36-year-old collected almost obsessively, there was "also a woman".
"He used to come home, dress me, brush my hair," Cleo would tell the psychologists.
Meanwhile, no one has cashed in the Aussie million dollar bounty promised to anyone who would help find Cleo. Yet, it seems it was a man, with a phone call, who put the agents on the right track, that of Terry Kelly's house in Tonkin Crescent.
(Unioneonline / vl)