Overview

• Claire Bell was discovered alive by an Ontario Provincial Police drone near an on-ramp to Highway 417 in St. Albert, Ont., at about 3 p.m. on June 18.
• Roughly 150 provincial officers and search-and-rescue volunteers combed Quebec’s Montérégie region and adjacent Ontario areas over four days, using drones and public tips.
• Rachel-Ella Todd appeared by video in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield court on Tuesday and remains in custody with a bail hearing set for Friday.
• Investigators recovered the family’s chihuahua dead near the Coteau-du-Lac store and uncovered searches for children’s funeral urns on Todd’s phone.
• Police are seeking an English-French-speaking woman who met Todd on a farm Sunday to help reconstruct the timeline of events.