Investigators in charge of the extensive search for Victoria Stafford on Monday released new video footage they hope may lead them closer to finding the missing eight-year-old Ontario girl.
The footage shows what appears to be a dark coloured station wagon being driven on the same street where Victoria Stafford was last seen walking with a woman. Investigators are hoping to speak with the driver of the vehicle, saying they believe the person may be a valuable witness to the case.
The release of the video – which was taken shortly after the girl was last seen – was delayed while officials attempted to enhance its quality, but the exact model of the vehicle is still not known.
Tori, as she liked to be called by friends, has been missing since April 8, when she failed to return home from school.
She was abducted in Woodstock, about 150 kilometres southwest of Toronto.
Oxford Community Police continue to search for the missing girl through door-to-door canvassing, while the Ontario Provincial Police Emergency Response Team is scouring a landfill site east of nearby Salford, Ont.
Someone identifying himself as the girl’s father wrote a message late Sunday on a popular social-networking website, lashing out at the abductors.
"If by chance the persons responsible for the disappearance of Victoria are reading this I hope you are scared, nervous or whatever your sick minds are feeling right now," said a posting, apparently by Rodney Stafford, on Facebook.
"But know this . . . Daddy and the world are coming for Victoria."
Stafford again appealed for his daughter’s captors to release her.
"Drop her at an open store, a mall in front of someone’s house, anything," said the posting.
"Drop her and run, I don’t care, just have a heart and let my baby be happy again."
Police have released a composite sketch of the woman seen in a surveillance video with the girl shortly after she went missing.
The sketch is of an unidentified white female, believed to be 19 to 25 years old with long, straight, black hair past her shoulders, worn in a ponytail.
A $50,000 reward has been offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the girl’s disappearance
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