Tori Stafford trial: How Terri-Lynne McClintic became a killer

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LONDON, ONT.—The tension was high well before Terri-Lynne McClintic took the stand on March 13.

But she made it explode. What she left behind was a shocked and numbed audience — and even more disturbing questions about how this young woman became a killer.

As the crown’s star witness in its case against her ex-lover, Michael Rafferty, McClintic unravelled a horrific tale of Tori Stafford’s last moments. How she, McClintic, put a garbage bag on the little girl’s head and kicked her. She kicked, she stomped, she bludgeoned Tori’s head with a hammer.

“I savagely murdered that little girl,” said McClintic.

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