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Speaker 1: It's a special Will and Woody podcast mini the feel

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Speaker 1: good Story of the Day. I'll let w a police

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Speaker 1: commission Chris Dawson announce the news for you guys.

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Speaker 2: In the early hours of this morning, the Western Australian

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Speaker 2: Police Force rescued Cleo Smith. Cleo is alive and well.

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Speaker 2: A police team broke their way into a lockedhouse in

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Speaker 2: Canarvon at about one am. They found little Cleo in

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Speaker 2: one of those rooms. One of the officers picked her

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Speaker 2: up into his arms and asked her, what's your name?

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Speaker 2: She said, my name is Cleo.

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Speaker 1: Tremendous stuff, really beautiful stuff. She's been missing for sixteen

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Speaker 1: days gets found today. All money was on the fact

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Speaker 1: that she was gone and it is really just warmed

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Speaker 1: everyone's hearts. People strangers crying in the street, hugging over

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Speaker 1: this thing. It is just such good news. And Lucy

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Speaker 1: McLeod joins us from Shell nine over in Perth. Lucy,

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Speaker 1: welcome extraordinary day today. And wood and I were saying,

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Speaker 1: we lived in Perth for four years. This sort of

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Speaker 1: news reverberates around Australia, but that town would be positively

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Speaker 1: bouncing to the mind.

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Speaker 3: And it's such a small town too. That they all

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Speaker 3: just be ecstatic, absolutely getting around that family. But what

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Speaker 3: is scary is they also probably know the guy who

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Speaker 3: took her just found seven minutes away from the home

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Speaker 3: that you've grown up in. It's croky. So what we

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Speaker 3: know about the buy is in the sentry Now any

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Speaker 3: think questions. Police won't elaborate further on who he is.

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Speaker 3: It might be some charges, possibly later this afternoon, so

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Speaker 3: we'll have to keep you updated with that one. But yes,

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Speaker 3: it does sound like he is known to police, but

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Speaker 3: he isn't known to the family. So there's just a

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Speaker 3: real opportunitisty situation. And for her to be away for

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Speaker 3: eighteen days and to be found alives is incredible. So

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Speaker 3: what we've heard in that presage before was one of

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Speaker 3: the cops, Cameron Blaine, he's in the homicide squad, and

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Speaker 3: he was there. He was one of four cops theres

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Speaker 3: when they charged into this house, lost town founder in

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Speaker 3: a lost bedroom by herself, and they approached her and

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Speaker 3: they asked her three times what her name was, and

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Speaker 3: she finally said, my name is Cleo. And what we

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Speaker 3: did they scooped her up with this startanet just thrilled

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Speaker 3: to see this little body and this little space and

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Speaker 3: they chucked her in the back of the car and

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Speaker 3: they called her month and I say, we have someone

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Speaker 3: on the phone who would like to speak to imagine

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Speaker 3: that call call. It made me cry this morning on

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Speaker 3: air because it's just an incredible, incredible amount of police

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Speaker 3: work that's gone into this. As you guys know, I mean, well,

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Speaker 3: Rod Wild he's the head of homicide at the moment.

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Speaker 3: He used to be part of cold Cake and he

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Speaker 3: crashed the Clemont serial killing case.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And if you guys are the McMartin shooting at the

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Speaker 3: Motor Complex, fack that. He's a brilliant man. And he

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Speaker 3: was backed by hundred police officers in this task force

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Speaker 3: as well as army. And we also had private aeroplane

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Speaker 3: pilots canceling all their private tours just to help the

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Speaker 3: eyes in the sky. A massive amount of resources. They

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Speaker 3: used satellite imagery to try and track any movements. They

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Speaker 3: phone towers, they just drove to track everything. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it was brilliant policing.

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Speaker 1: That is extraordinary. I suppose those planes aren't going anywhere

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Speaker 1: else giving there n w A at the moment, So

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Speaker 1: do words? Can I ask you Lucy I heard that

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Speaker 1: a nappy purchase was a big factor in finding clear.

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Speaker 2: Is that true.

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Speaker 3: No, that's not true. Not true. Police confirmed today that

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Speaker 3: they didn't even know about that, so, I mean, there's

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Speaker 3: a lot of rooms around. It wasn't an accidental It

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Speaker 3: wasn't an accidental sighting or suspicious event that was reported

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Speaker 3: that led police to this. They won't reveal exactly what

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Speaker 3: clues they put together and the picture that they put together,

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Speaker 3: and how this man did this and what led them

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Speaker 3: to him, but they just said it was incredible policing

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Speaker 3: and the fact that they used all these resources, pulled

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Speaker 3: all these resources together to create this picture. I mean,

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Speaker 3: think about it. You guys know, you guys know w

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Speaker 3: They were relying on phone calls and sightings. And that

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Speaker 3: sighting is a car traveling south. That was a huge

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Speaker 3: part of it. That that car traveling sounds at three

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Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning, a huge part of the timeline

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's amazing. I did not think that

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody did. Have we heard from the

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Speaker 1: family at all. Lucy obviously since.

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Speaker 3: Has been in hospital. And there's the cutest you need

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Speaker 3: you need to find police release that she's holding, and

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Speaker 3: I see Paul smiling and waving at the camera. So

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Speaker 3: and they've yeah, they've described her as being sort of

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Speaker 3: and I probably would say I won't speak until police

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Speaker 3: have got a statement from those little little kleo. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's all sort of over, but ye know, we might

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Speaker 3: be expecting some charges later on this afternoon. But she

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Speaker 3: whiz or I think to see what happened? Who the

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Speaker 3: skuy was?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, It's funny though, Like I mean,

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Speaker 1: I do hope that the story stays with the hope

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Speaker 1: and the joy around finding her before it turns into

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Speaker 1: the witch hunt the grim side, yeah, which is obviously

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Speaker 1: has to transpire. But it's just such a feel good

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Speaker 1: story at the moment. I can't think of anyone who

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Speaker 1: hasn't been smiling and talking about it at some stage today. Lucy,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's.

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Speaker 3: Put the biggest craption, I'm for sure, absolutely, and that's

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Speaker 3: the homicide squad.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I deserve it, They absolutely deserve it. Yeah, probably

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Speaker 1: probably down on my list of people that I'd like

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Speaker 1: to have a beer with, the old homicide squad might

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Speaker 1: be a bit grim. I'm just not sure. I'm just

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Speaker 1: not sure I'd have a good yarn for them that

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Speaker 1: would match up to anything they would have. All my

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Speaker 1: stories would be c grade. Ah. Wow, it sounds like

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Speaker 1: a hell of a time over there, Lucy, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. That was red hot, mate.

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Speaker 1: It really painted a picture for us and everybody else.

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Speaker 1: Lucy McLeod there from Channel nine, their crime reporter over there.

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Speaker 1: That was elite stuff. What a fascinating story, What a

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Speaker 1: feel good story, What a wonderful thing to have happened,

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Speaker 1: even if it just makes everyone feel good. Little Cleo Smith,

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Speaker 1: four year old girl found sixteen days she's been missing.

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Speaker 1: That's great stuff. Traud me hear more of the boys

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