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Man: Police say it's a criminal investigation,
Foul play a distinct possibility.
Searching ponds, riverbanks and fields,
There is no sign of 8-year-old victoria stafford.
Late last night, police released
This surveillance video tape from
A high school next to victoria's school,
Which shows her walking away with an unknown woman.
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Man: There's a thing inside of me, it's like...
The appetite.
It's like a wolf that's...
Filling...The hunger.
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Mcdonald: If she could get to a phone,
If she can just get away,
She's a strong, strong little girl, you know,
Just get away from whoever it is and wherever you are
And just run.
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We've been looking out for anything that could possibly
Help us find the identity of this, uh, person.
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Okay.
I'm not sure what to make of his distress,
Because at times, it just sounds --
It sounds like he's trying to sound emotionally distressed.
It's a weird modulation of his voice.
Katsavdakis: Other than him leaning forward
In the beginning, there's no panting.
There's nothing like that that he's kind of
In any anxiety or panic mode.
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He is thwarting every approach
They try and use to get him to own
Even a little bit of something that happened.
I think they may have underestimated the level of
Callousness and unemotionality and psychopathy
Present in their suspect.
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He's most likely referring to his own internal world
And fantasy life that he's been engaged in
For a very long time.
He's been doing it all in his mind
And thinking about the kidnapping
And abducting people.
And then we find out they have
This collection of child pornography.
He's engaging in sexually deviant behavior.
He's choking women.
He's having women spend their entire salaries on him.
But he's been adept enough
Of avoiding law enforcement apprehension.
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Man: They fanned out into the fields looking
For any sign of the little girl.
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So she's trying to portray herself
As someone essentially carrying out an act
Really under the control,
Perhaps, of mr. Rafferty.
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Morgan: She has a history where she was raised in
A highly physically and sexually abusive environment
For a very long time.
The consequences of that is very often
People then crave other kinds of abusive relationships.
In other words, they're unsure about their own self worth,
And they tend to attach to people who will belittle them,
Abuse them -- she was recruited by him.
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Many victims of sexual assault abuse will describe
That they become paralyzed when confronted with
The sexual assault.
At a really deep level, she is like the little girl.
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[ sobs ]
[ music climbing ]
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To try to trigger someone to have an emotional response,
And if they -- if they have that response,
Maybe the dam will break, and the rivers will start flooding.
You're not gonna do that with someone like this.
Someone who is psychopathic,
You're not likely going to get that response.
There's -- there's no sympathy.
It's really all self focused.
His life's over.
Um, he's going to jail.
But there's no real expression of the damage
That he's done to all these other lives,
Um, at all.
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He doesn't even look at her.
She is not a person to him.
I think she felt that she was
A person to him based on some of her statements,
But he doesn't even acknowledge really
Her presence when she comes in.
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[ clock ticking ]
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Man: Back there under the rocks,
Detective staff sergeant jim smith found
The body of tori stafford in a garbage bag.
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Michael rafferty has pleaded not guilty to the charges
Of sexual assault, abduction, and murder.
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Woman: Mcclintic now says that while he raped tori,
She was the one who killed the 8-year-old.
I don't -- I don't believe her at all.
I think he did.
Some people call it like the stockholm syndrome,
People who get attached to their kidnappers.
I think she's someone who actually
Is capable of attaching to another person.
I think she attached to him.
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Every time I see a butterfly or a purple ribbon,
We will forever be reminded of our little princess.
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