By Olivia Day for Day by day Mail Australia
Friday, October 15
Cleo alongside along with her mom Ellie Smith, her associate Jake Gliddon and her little sister Isla Mae arrive on the Blowholes campsite round 6:30pm.
That they had a ‘quiet’ evening and arrived at sundown.
Saturday, October 16
1:30am: Dad and mom’ final sighting of Cleo within the tent she shared along with her dad and mom and child sister when the four-year-old asks for some water.
6.23am: Ellie calls 000 to report her eldest daughter lacking as she continues to look the camp floor.
6.30am: The primary two officers are dispatched from Carnarvon police station. They journey to Blowholes as a matter of precedence, with sirens and lights.
6.41am: A second police automotive with one other two officers is distributed to Blowholes, additionally with lights and sirens.
7.10am: The primary police automotive arrives. The second is barely minutes behind.
7.26am: Police on the scene set up a protected forensic space which is taped off to the general public, surrounding the household tent the place Cleo was final seen.
7.33am: A drone operator is known as upon to look from the skies.
7.44am: A 3rd police automotive is dispatched to the Blowholes.
8am: Household and mates of Cleo’s dad and mom start to reach to assist with the bottom search.
One other group of detectives briefly searches Cleo’s dwelling to ensure she’s not there.
They then head to Blowholes and start stopping vehicles coming into and leaving the realm.
8.09am: A helicopter from an area firm arrived on the scene and began looking out as police request an SES workforce attend the Blowholes search.
8.24am: Police air-wing and volunteer marine searchers are referred to as in to help with the search.
8.34am: Roadblocks are arrange on the entrance of Blowholes as detectives collect the names, registration particulars and addresses of individuals coming and going. Police search vehicles.
9.25am: 9 SES personel arrive on the Blowholes to help with the search.
Investigators, bounty hunters and officers from the Australian Federal Police have spent two-and-a-half weeks trying to find lacking four-year-old Cleo (pictured)
9.30am: Detectives sit down with a distressed Ellie and stay by her facet for the remainder of the day whereas different search crews hunt for Cleo.
11am: Murder detectives from the Main Crime Division are referred to as and start travelling from Perth to help with the search.
1pm: Extra murder detectives and search specialists are flown in from Perth.
3pm: Officers and search specialists arrive in Carnarvon to supply their experience.
Sunday, October 17
Ms Smith takes to social media to plead for assist discovering her lacking daughter.
A Fb put up uploaded at 1:45am on Sunday which mentioned: ‘It has been over 24 hours since I final seen the glint in my little woman’s eyes.
‘Please assist me discover her!
‘If you happen to hear or see something in any respect please name the police!’
Police counsel Cleo might have been kidnapped.
Monday, October 18
Police launch a picture of the purple and gray sleeping bag lacking from Cleo’s tent.
Cleo’s organic father is interviewed by police in Mandurah and is requested to supply an announcement, which he does so willingly.
WA Police with the assistance of SES members, volunteers and plane proceed the land hunt for Cleo, with officers looking out close by shacks and autos within the space.
Tuesday, October 19
Cleo’s mom Ellie Smith and her associate Jake Gliddon entrance the media for the primary time and describe the terrifying second they realised the little woman was lacking.
Ms Smith says her four-year-old would by no means have left the tent by herself.
Police launch new photos of Cleo and the pink and blue one-piece she was carrying the evening she went lacking to assist the investigation.
Investigators urge anybody who was on the campsite or within the neighborhood on October 15 to get involved with police.
Wednesday, October 20
Police reveal the zip of the household tent, which was discovered hanging large open by her mom at 6am on Saturday morning, was too excessive for Cleo to succeed in.
Officers say they ‘have not dominated out’ stories from campers who heard the sound of screeching tyres within the early hours of Saturday morning.
Deputy Police Commissioner Daryl Gaunt confirms officers are investigating the whereabouts of 20 registered intercourse offenders within the Carnarvon space.
Thursday, October 21
The WA Authorities provides a $1million reward for info that results in Cleo’s location introduced by WA Premier Mark McGowan.
‘All Western Australians’ ideas are with Cleo’s household throughout what’s an unimaginably troublesome time,’ Mr McGowan mentioned.
‘We’re all praying for a constructive final result.’
The velocity of the reward being issued – inside days of her disappearance – was unprecedented.
Pictured: Police are seen inspecting garbage left close to the Blowholes campsite in distant WA
Monday, October 25
WA Police verify Cleo was undoubtedly on the camp website – on CCTV footage on a digital camera put in inside a seashore shack simply 20 metres from the household tent she disappeared from.
Tuesday, October 26
Forensic officers and detectives spent a lot of the day at her dwelling in Carnarvon, 900km north of Perth, on Tuesday and left with two luggage of proof.
Though investigators had been to the house earlier than, this was the primary time they completely searched inside with a forensics workforce.
Appearing WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch mentioned the search of the household dwelling was ‘normal follow’ and didn’t point out they had been suspects in Cleo’s disappearance.
Wednesday, October 27
WA Police forensics officers return to the Blowholes campground and are seen amassing soil samples from quite a lot of campfires close to shacks within the space.
The federal authorities announce Australian Federal Law enforcement officials had been drafted in to help forensic and intelligence efforts.
Friday, October 29
Police return to the Blowholes camp to analyse the realm with drones.
Detective Superintendent Rod Wilde returns to the Blowholes campsite to hitch the seek for Cleo because the search hit the two-week mark.
He confirms nationwide and worldwide businesses are engaged within the seek for Cleo.
Sunday, October 31
Detectives go door-knocking at quite a lot of properties alongside the North West Coastal Freeway within the North Plantations, 5km from Cleo’s hometown on Sunday.
Monday, November 1
Detectives kind by mounds of garbage from roadside bins positioned lots of of kilometres away from the campsite she vanished from.
The fabric was transported to Perth, the place forensic officers and recruits sorted by lots of of luggage searching for objects which will have helped them discover Cleo.
Officers problem a plea for sprint cam and CCTV footage from inside a 1000km radius of the place the four-year-old disappeared.
Police renew an enchantment for extra companies in Carnarvon to supply footage and go door to door in an industrial space on the outskirts of the city.
Her elated mom, Ellie, (pictured, with Cleo, her associate and youthful daughter) broke her silence the morning Cleo was discovered, sharing a sequence of affection coronary heart emojis on Instagram
Wednesday, November 3
After two-and-a-half weeks of looking out Cleo Smith is discovered alive and properly within the early hours of November 3.
WA Police Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch confirmed simply earlier than 7am AEST that little Cleo is alive and properly and had been reunited along with her relieved dad and mom.
‘One of many officers picked her up into his arms and requested her ‘what’s your identify?’ he mentioned. ‘She mentioned: ‘My identify is Cleo’.’
Ellie Smith posted to social media: ‘Our household is complete once more’.
A Carnarvon man is at present in custody and being questioned by detectives.
On October 19, Ellie Smith (pictured) and her associate Jake Gliddon fronted the media for the primary time and begged the general public to report any info ‘large or small’