Ellie Smith,mother of missing four-year-old girl Cleo,has posted a moving tribute to her daughter after a car was spotted near the campsite the morning she went missing.
A twist in the search for four-year-old Cleo Smith has led forensic police to shift their attention to her family home.
The Quobba Blowholes campsite was a place of serene safety for the residents of nearby Carnarvon until a four-year-old girl went missing,presumed abducted.
Police have revealed they believe there may have been people around the campsite where Cleo Smith was last seen that didn’t check in. They said the chances of finding her alive were fading.
With few leads,no signs of where she went and no suspects — in the case of an abduction — it is like the four-year-old was spirited away from her family’s camping trip to Point Quobba,less than an hour’s drive north from their home.
The position of the zipper on the tent Cleo disappeared from was too high for the young girl to reach,leading police to hold “grave concerns” for her safety.
As the search for missing four-year-old girl Cleo Smith enters its fifth day,investigators are methodically painting a picture of who was in the area the weekend the young girl was feared to be snatched from her family’s tent while camping north of Carnarvon.
Carnarvon mum Ellie Smith has opened up on her family’s horrific nightmare waiting for news on the whereabouts of her four-year-old daughter who went missing from a remote beach camp in Western Australia.
The ground search on day four of the investigation into the disappearance of four-year-old Cleo Smith has restarted after efforts were hampered by blustery conditions on Tuesday morning.
Carnarvon is in shock after four-year-old Cleo Smith disappeared in the middle of the night while camping at Quobba Blowholes,a popular weekend spot 75 kilometres north of the township.
The young girl was last seen inside her family’s tent at the Quobba blow holes campsite at 1.30am on Saturday morning. When her mother woke at 6am,Cleo and her sleeping bag were gone.