Almost five years have passed since 4-year-old Cleo Smith vanished from her family’s tent at a remote campsite in Western Australia and was found alive 18 days later inside a locked house in her own hometown.
Her disappearance became one of Australia’s most notorious missing-child cases. For more than two weeks, police searched by land, air, and sea while her family insisted the little girl had not wandered away on her own.
Then, in the early hours of November 3, 2021, officers smashed their way into a house in Carnarvon and found her alone in one room.
