“Nobody knew Tori was in that car”

Video added In a London courtoom today, Michael Rafferty’s former girlfriend testified that the accused killer stopped by her house to buy drugs an hour after eight-year-old Tori Stafford went missing from her Woodstock elementary school.

Barbara Armstrong, 44, told the court that when she came home from work at 4:30 in the afternoon, Rafferty was already in her Guelph driveway. She sold him a bag of Percocets, and saw a brown-haired woman in the passenger seat of his car. Court had already heard that at the time, Tori Stafford was hidden under a coat in the back.

Armstrong also said she saw Rafferty a few days later; that he looked haggard and told her he hadn’t been eating or sleeping, and even mentioned that a friend of a friend’s daughter had gone missing because the mother owed drug money.

Later, the court watched surveillance video from about 45 minutes later, when Terri-Lynne mcclintic allegedly bought the murder weapon and hammer at Home Depot.

Tori’s dad Rodney Stafford: “They were around so many different people in that parking lot and nobody had a clue as to what was going on.”

“Nobody knew Tori was in that car, no one knew their plans.”

“Even them pulling out of the parking lot there, there was a split second where it looked like there could’a been a car accident. That would have been enough to end what was going on.”

Rafferty’s trial continues tomorrow. Terri-Lynne McClintic has already pleaded guilty to first degree murder and is serving a life sentence.

Video: Evening News coverage