She Was Just 4… Taken From Her Tent | The Cleo Smith Story

On the night of October 15th 2021, four-year-old Cleo Smith went to bed in her family's tent at a remote campsite on Western Australia's Gascoyne coast.At 2:30am she woke up asking for water. Her mum Ellie tucked her back in.By 6am Cleo and her sleeping bag were gone.The tent zip had been opened from the outside.What followed was 18 days that brought an entire nation to its knees. One of the largest search operations in Australian history. A million dollar reward. Hundreds of officers. And a mother making desperate public appeals while the man who had taken her daughter watched from the same social media platform.Terence Darrell Kelly had gone to the campsite that night to steal a handbag.Instead he took a child.For 18 days he kept Cleo locked in a room in his house just 4 kilometres from her family home. He tried to tie her up with sticky tape. He turned the radio up loud to drown out her cries.She heard her name on the radio and told him: "They're saying my name."And when police finally broke down his door at 12:46am on November 4th 2021 they found a four year old girl alone in a locked room playing with a toy car.She looked up at the officers and said four words that went around the world."My name is Cleo."This is the full story of Cleo Smith. The little girl who fought back. The nation that held its breath. And the ending nobody dared hope for.This is The Unknown Files.#cleosmith #missingchild #truecrime #theunknownfiles #australiatruecrime

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