Cleo Smith abduction: how solitary ping to mobile phone tower was key to finding child

WA police minister discloses fresh details in the capture of Terence Kelly, while Cleo’s parents reveal the lingering effects on the family

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Fresh details have emerged about how close Terence Darrell Kelly, the abductor of Cleo Smith, came to slipping through the net.

A single ping to a phone tower, that was only built in 2018, led detectives to him 18 days after the four-year-old was snatched from the family tent at the Quobba Blowholes campsite on Western Australia’s midwest coast, in October 2021.

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