Medium depicted Tori's fate to cops
By RITA DeMONTIS (
rita.demontis@sunmedia.ca )
QMI Agency
May 16, 2010
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Allison Dubois, the inspiration for the award-winning Medium TV series — came face to face with the image of
Tori Stafford, the Woodstock girl who had gone missing and was at the centre of an intense police search.
Everyone in the southwestern Ontario town was hoping the eight-year-old who disappeared three weeks earlier on April 8, 2009 was still alive.
But Tori communicated another story for the medium, that she was dead, the victim of a sex crime, DuBois told QMI Agency.
Her body was eventually discovered almost three months later in a field, just as DuBois told the police on a late spring day.
It was a bizarre case of life imitating art.
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But astonishingly, it all took place during
DuBois’ first visit to Canada last year, to give a lecture in London, Ont. — and an accidental meeting with one of the police officers involved in the case on the flight to Ontario.
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Dubois recalled she described the terrain where they would find the girl’s body and that two people were involved, including a woman who had been used as the lure.
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“I told him there was no chance of saving her any longer, but the work was now to find who had done this to her.”
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At first DuBois politely declined, but within moments of arriving in London, everywhere she turned the little face of Tori Stafford looked down at her.
Woodstock wasn’t too far from London, DeBois discovered, so with friends in tow, they drove her out to the last place Tori had been seen, walking away, hand in hand, with a woman.
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DuBois wrote up her notes and gave them to the police. Today, she has has no idea how the case is going or about the publication ban on details before the courts.
She intends on following up with it, and including it in her next book.
On Monday, DuBois is coming back to Canada for a second visit for her “Family Connections” two-hour event designed to help participants obtain a better understanding of life after death. ...
