By Olivia Day for Daily Mail Australia
Friday, October 15
Cleo arrives at Blowholes campsite with her mother Ellie Smith, Jake Gliddon, and Isla Mae.
They arrived at sunset after a quiet night.
Saturday, October 16
1:30am: Cleo, four years old, asks for water after her parents last sighting.
6.23 am: Ellie calls 000 to report her eldest child missing while she continues to search camp grounds.
6.30 a.m.: The Carnarvon station police station dispatches the first two officers. They will travel to Blowholes in order of priority, with sirens or lights.
6.41 AM: Blowholes receives a second police vehicle with two officers, along with lights and sirens.
7.10 am: The first police vehicle arrives. The second one arrives in just minutes.
7.26am: Police arrive on the scene and create a protected forensic area that is taped to the public around the tent where Cleo was last spotted.
7.33 AM: A drone operator is needed to search the skies.
7.44 am: A third officer car is dispatched for the Blowholes
8:45am: Cleo’s relatives and friends start to arrive to assist in the ground search.
Another team of detectives searches Cleo’s house briefly to make sure she isn’t there.
They then travel to Blowholes, where they stop cars entering and leaving the area.
8.09am: A helicopter belonging to a local company arrived on the scene. It began searching for Blowholes. Police requested an SES team to attend the search.
8.24am: Volunteer marine searchers, police air-wing, and the police helicopter are called in for assistance.
8.34am: Police set up roadblocks at Blowholes to collect names, addresses, and registration details of all those who are coming and going. Police search cars.
9.25 am: Nine SES personnel arrive in Blowholes to assist in the search.
Cleo, a missing four-year old girl, was the target of bounty hunters, investigators, and officers from Australia’s Federal Police.
9.30am: Ellie is distressed and detectives are there to help her.
11am: Major Crime Division Homicide Detectives are called and start travelling from Perth to assist in the search.
1pm: More Perth homicide detectives and search specialists are flown in.
3:00pm: Carnarvon officers and search experts arrive to offer their expertise.
Sunday, October 17
Ms Smith uses social media to appeal for help in finding her missing daughter.
A Facebook post dated Sunday, January 45th, stated that it had been more than 24 hours and I have not seen the sparkle in my little girl’s eyes since then.
“Please help me find her!”
“If you hear or see any of these things, please call 911!”
Police suspect that Cleo was abducted.
Monday, October 18, 2008
Police release an image of the missing red and grey sleeping bag from Cleo’s tent.
Cleo’s biological father, Mandurah police, is interviewed and asked for a statement.
The WA Police, assisted by SES members, volunteers, and aircraft, continue the hunt for Cleo. Officers search nearby shacks, vehicles, and other locations.
Tuesday, October 19
Cleo’s mother Ellie Smith and Jake Gliddon are fronting the media for the first-time and describe the moment that they realized their little girl was missing.
Ms Smith claims that her four-year old would not have left the tent on her own.
Police release new photos of Cleo, and the pink-and-blue one-piece she wore the night she disappeared to assist with the investigation.
Investigators ask anyone who was present at the campsite or nearby on October 15 to contact police.
Wednesday, October 20
Police revealed that Cleo couldn’t reach the zip of her family tent because it was too high.
Officers state that they have not ruled out reports from campers who heard screeching tires in the early hours Saturday morning.
Daryl Gaunt (Deputy Police Commissioner) confirmed that officers are looking into the whereabouts and activities of 20 registered sex offenders within the Carnarvon vicinity.
Thursday, October 21,
Cleo’s location was announced by WA Premier Mark McGowan. The WA Government offers a $1million reward.
McGowan said that all Western Australians were thinking of Cleo and her family during this time of unimaginable difficulty.
“We are all praying for a positive result.”
The speed at which the reward was distributed – within days after her disappearance – was remarkable.
Pictured: Police examine rubbish left near the Blowholes campsite.
Monday, October 25,
WA Police confirm Cleo was at camp site – CCTV footage from a camera mounted inside a beach house just 20 meters from the tent she vanished from shows.
Tuesday, 26 October
Detectives and forensic officers spent Tuesday at her Carnarvon house, 900km north-east of Perth. On Tuesday, they left with two bags full of evidence.
Although investigators had been to this home before, it was the first time that they conducted a thorough search inside with a forensics team.
Col Blanch, Acting WA Police Commissioner, stated that the search of the family home was a’standard practice’ which did not indicate that they were suspects in Cleo’s disappearance.
Wednesday, October 27
WA Police forensics officers return from Blowholes campground to collect soil samples from several campfires close to shacks in this area.
The Australian Federal Police officers were drafted by the federal government to assist in intelligence and forensic investigations.
Friday, October 29
Police return to Blowholes camp in order to analyze the area using drones.
As the search for Cleo approaches the two-week mark of its second week, Detective Superintendent Rod Wilde returns from Blowholes campsite.
He confirmed that Cleo is being sought by both international and national agencies.
Sunday, October 31
Cleo’s hometown was 5km from the North West Coastal Highway, so detectives went door-to-door.
Monday, November 1
Detectives dig through piles of rubbish found hundreds of kilometres from the campsite where she disappeared.
The material was taken to Perth, where forensic and police officers and recruits searched through hundreds of bags for any items that could have been used to find Cleo.
Officers appeal for CCTV and dash cam footage within 1000 km of the area where the missing four-year-old disappeared.
Police renew their appeal to Carnarvon businesses to provide footage and to go door-to-door in an industrial area near the town.
Ellie, her mother, is pictured with Cleo, her younger daughter and partner. Ellie broke her silence when Cleo was discovered, and shared a series love heart emojis via Instagram
Wednesday, November 3
Cleo Smith is alive and well after two-and a half weeks of diligent searching. She was discovered in the early hours on November 3.
Col Blanch, WA Police Deputy Commissioner, confirmed that Cleo was alive and well just before 7am AEST and that she had been reunited to her parents.
“One of the officers took her into his arms and asked her her name. He said. “She said, “My name is Cleo.”
Ellie Smith posted on social media: “Our family is whole again.”
Detectives are currently questioning a Carnarvon man.
Ellie Smith (pictured), with Jake Gliddon, fronted the media on October 19th and asked the public for any information ‘big nor small’ to be reported.