More graphic testimony at the Michael Rafferty murder trial.
Identification officer Gary Scoyne took the jury through photos of the crime scene near Mount Forest, where the body of 8 year old Tori Stafford was found in April of 2009.
One photo showed the body of a girl wrapped in garbage bags that were found under a pile of rocks.
Scoyne testified the rocks — some weighing as much as 100 pounds — were checked for fingerprints, but none were found.
An autopsy determined the body was Tori Stafford and she died from blunt force trauma to the head.
The police officer who found Stafford’s body says he wasn’t searching for her that day — but came across a scene that looked very familiar.
Terri-Lynne McClintic — who pleaded guilty to first degree murder in Tori’s death — had drawn sketches of the crime scene to try to help police find the girl’s remains.
OPP Detective Staff Sergeant Jim Smyth says while driving in the Mount Forest area on July 19th, 2009, — he saw a house that was nearly identical to one McClintic had described.
Smyth says he drove down a laneway across from the house, saw a rock pile as McClintic had described, and smelled the odour of decomposition.
Police learned two days earlier that Rafferty’s cellphone had pinged off a tower near Mount Forest on April 8th, 2009 — the day Tori was killed.
Rafferty has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, sexual assault causing bodily harm and kidnapping.
The trial will resume on Monday.
