McClintic’s lawyer, Geoff Snow, said she had intended to plead not guilty and go to trial on the charge until the Crown disclosed that prison staff had intercepted a letter McClintic wrote to a friend on Jan. 30, the day of the assault. First, they have to convince a Superior Court Justice of the province in which they were convicted that such an application would succeed. McDonald met McClintic twice as she was buying OxyContin from McClintic's mother, though she said her boyfriend James Goris bought drugs from the McClintics more frequently.

While the band was under no illusion that inmates at the lodge have done some despicable things, McClintic is beyond the pale. McClintic was willing to do anything for a little bit of love, though it’s likely she was an even more willing participant to Tori’s killing than she let on, the Crown said. Rafferty appeared to scoff Wednesday when McClintic said that and stared up at the ceiling, muttering to himself. Rafferty, 31, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, sexual assault causing bodily harm and kidnapping in Tori’s death. His trial is winding down in London. Victoria Stafford Disappearance Featured On America's Most Wanted". CityNews. 2009-04-25 . Retrieved 2016-07-26.Stephen Williams, as the author of two books on the Bernardo-Homolka murders, has researched the rare breed of couples who kill together. Williams makes no comparisons between the “awful, terrible tragedy” of Tori’s death and the “unholy crime spree extravaganza” upon which Bernardo and Homolka embarked. McClintic spent days under the glare of the national media spotlight when she testified at her former boyfriend's murder trial. During those proceedings, the court heard about her troubled childhood, one where she was abandoned by her birth mother, who gave her to a fellow stripper named Carol McClintic. She says Rafferty came to visit her in the detention centre, worried that she would say something to police that would implicate him, but she told him she would take the fall for everything. When Rafferty's cellphone records showed a call from April 8, 2009, near Mount Forest, Ont., Smyth went for a drive in the area. Acting on a hunch based on what McClintic had described, he turned down a rural laneway; on July 19, he discovered Tori's remains. Jan. 16, 2012: Pre-trial motions start in Rafferty's case in London, Ont., and are heard over the next several weeks.

McClintic told the court that while she was waiting she saw "a bunch of kids getting out of school." It was against everything that I believe in, everything that I stand for,” she said about the events of April 8.

I remember touching his face and…he looked up and almost, like, laughed at me and said, ‘You’ll do anything for a little bit of love, eh?’” Terri-Lynne McClinticpleaded guilty for her role in the 2009 kidnapping and killing of eight-year-oldToriStafford.