Cleo Smith disappearance: Parents keep vigil at Carnarvon campsite where she ...

Cleo Smith disappearance: Parents keep vigil at Carnarvon campsite where she ...
Cleo Smith disappearance: Parents keep vigil at Carnarvon campsite where she ...

Little Cleo Smith's parents are keeping a lone gut-wrenching vigil at the campsite where the four-year-old was likely abducted six days ago. 

Cleo vanished from the Blowholes campsite in Carnarvon, on Western Australia's north-west coast, last Saturday - with detectives now convinced she was abducted by a brazen child predator.

Her mother Ellie Smith and step father Jake Gliddon remain at the isolated coastal camping ground six days later in the desperate hope she may yet turn up.

Police have blocked public access to the tourist attraction, which has been declared a crime scene, meaning only Cleo's parents and search workers are still left behind at the campsite. 

A criminal psychologist on Thursday told Daily Mail Australia an otherwise unassuming and 'ordinary' child abductor could have snatched Cleo from her family tent.  

Cleo Smith was last seen by her parents (pictured with her mum Ellie and partner Jake Gliddon) about 1.30am on Saturday. The couple are still on site at the Blowholes campsite where the youngster went missing, joined only by search workers

Cleo Smith was last seen by her parents (pictured with her mum Ellie and partner Jake Gliddon) about 1.30am on Saturday. The couple are still on site at the Blowholes campsite where the youngster went missing, joined only by search workers

Police have conceded Cleo was likely snatched from the tent, given the tent's zipper was too high for her to open by herself.

A 20sq/km search in every direction from the campsite for Cleo and the red and grey sleeping bag she disappeared with has so far been fruitless.

Criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro, who has spent the past four decades analysing the minds of some of the worst criminals of our times: terrorists, mass murderers, sex offenders and torturers of children, said the real danger about these people is how easily they blend in.

'The problem with a person like this is it could be anyone,' he said.

'It's someone who can blend into a suburban lifestyle, he could be a father, he could be involved in community or sporting clubs.

'If you met the offender he may appear very normal.

'This is the danger about these people - their ordinariness. They can blend in very easily and generally they are well presented.'

Ellie Smith and her partner, Jake Gliddon (pictured) fronted the media for the first time on Tuesday after four-year-old Cleo (middle) went missing near the Blowholes campsite north of Carnarvon in Western Australia five days ago

Ellie Smith and her partner, Jake Gliddon (pictured) fronted the media for the first time on Tuesday after four-year-old Cleo (middle) went missing near the Blowholes campsite north of Carnarvon in Western Australia five days ago

Cleo had been inside a tent with her mother and stepdad but was gone in the morning with the zipper almost completely open

Cleo had been inside a tent with her mother and stepdad but was gone in the morning with the zipper almost completely open

The depraved monster who likely snatched little Cleo Smith (pictured) from her family tent in the dead of night is someone who appears 'very normal' and can 'blend in' easily, a renowned criminal psychologist has told Daily Mail Australia

The depraved monster who likely snatched little Cleo Smith (pictured) from her family tent in the dead of night is someone who appears 'very normal' and can 'blend in' easily, a renowned criminal psychologist has told Daily Mail Australia

Criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro (pictured) has spent the past four decades analysing the minds of some of the worst criminals of our times: terrorists, mass murderers, sex offenders and torturers of children

Criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro (pictured) has spent the past four decades analysing the minds of some of the worst criminals of our times: terrorists, mass murderers, sex offenders and torturers of children

Dr Watson-Munro said the kidnapper is most likely to be a 'calculated' man and a textbook psychopath driven by a sickening desire for 'power and control'.

'We are talking about someone who is bad but not mad,' he said.

'To do something like that without any anxiety suggests they are psychopathic in their disposition because psychopaths have a very high threshold for anxiety.

'Things that would make a normal person's blood turn cold doesn't bother them.'

Friends of Cleo's family said the smart four-year-old (pictured) 'wouldn't just wander' away from the tent

Friends of Cleo's family said the smart four-year-old (pictured) 'wouldn't just wander' away from the tent

A map showing the possible roads Cleo Smith was taken on in the time between when she went missing and when police

A map showing the possible roads Cleo Smith was taken on in the time between when she went missing and when police

Someone who could sneak into a tent and abduct a child in her sleeping bag as her parents lay next to her 'is not somebody who is prone to nervousness'.

Police now believe an abduction took place because the zipper of the tent was found undone in the morning, even though Cleo is too short to reach it.

It can be the case that child predators and sex offenders are dishevelled, affected by drugs and alcohol or have below average intelligence, but in this case Dr Watson-Munro says 'it's very unlikely'.

'In order to plan a crime like this you have to be at least average intelligence to get away with it. We are not looking at some bumbling imbecile,' he said.

'They are capable of forward planning both in terms of abducting the child and allowing themselves plenty of opportunity to get far away.'

So far police have no 'concrete suspects' in the baffling case and on Thursday afternoon announced a $1million reward for anyone who has any information that could lead police to the culprit.

Ellie Smith made a harrowing statement online at 6am on Thursday morning - exactly six days after she discovered her eldest daughter was missing

Ellie Smith made a harrowing statement online at 6am on Thursday morning -

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