
Madeleine McCann: Maddie’s Daddy, Masses Of Hair, Paedos And Kate’s Tears
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY MAIL front page: “As ten files of evidence are handed to judges, a new claim: MADDIE’S HAIR IN CAR BOOT.”
And not just some hair, but the claim is for “substantial” quantities of the blonde stuff. And “sources insisted” bodily fluids also found in the boot of the hire car belonged to the missing child.
Pages 4: Senior non-singing Tory John Redwood says on his blog that the McCann’s have fallen victim to the “modern disease of fighting battles through the media instead of people getting on and doing their jobs diligently.” Redwood is an MP, not a journalist.
Page 5: “SINISTER OR INNOCENT? THE GREAT DNA DILEMMA” – Sam Greenhill tells us from Paria da Luz that “nobody knows exactly what samples have been found or, crucially, how important they might be.” Greenhill’s report may come as a shock to the Mail’s lead headline writer.
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE BODY WAS IN CAR BOOT.”
Page 4: “COPS: CHARGE PARENTS NOW” – Readers see a man tending to the Candle of Hope at Rothley war memorial.
Page 5: “Gerry ‘is not Maddie dad’”
Page 6: “GERRY HORROR AT ‘YOU’RE NOT HER DAD’ CLAIM” – DNA results have left medics “puzzled”, writes the paper. A source within Portugal’s National Institute of Legal Medicine says, “In normal circumstances Madeleine would have half the DNA of each parent…But we have to take into account that Madeleine was created by artificial insemination. Was it with Gerry’s sperm or that of another man?”
And so the net widens. Who is the father? Gerry McCann? Robert Murat? A swarthy man from Malta sat at a Belgian cafe?
The Star sees other “bizarre” claims in the Portuguese press, including the one that the McCanns are “swingers”.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADELEINE POLICE: WE MIGHT NOT HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE.”
Readers learn that police “may not” have enough evidence to charge Kate and Gerry McCann with killing their daughter. This may explain why the McCanns have not been arrested. Although lack of evidence does not always prevent British police securing a conviction.
Pages 4 and 5: “The anguish is unbearable but Kate and I are totally 100 per cent confident in each other’s innocence,” says Gerry McCann.
The picture is of Gerry McCann with his arm around his wife’s shoulder. He is defiant. Her eyes are half closed. Is she on the verge of tears or just tired? The Mirror has chosen this picture to publish. It wants her to cry. In crying Kate McCann will give the readers what they want.
Page 6: The Labour–supporting Mirror senses “Fury” as “Vulcan” John Redwood attacks. Redwood writes on his blog: “Maybe they should employ a private detective rather than a spin doctor.” The Mirror is appalled. It takes the quote from Redwood’s unread blog and puts it in a national newspaper. It shows it to Gerry’s sister Trish who says, “I wouldn’t be dignified if I made a response.” Redwood’s blog gets some much-needed exposure.
Page 7: “88%: Portuguese police chief admits car sample is not complete match with Madeleine’s DNA.” Clearly Alipio Ribeiro has not read today’s Daily Star.
THE SUN front page: “MADDIE: JUDGE GIVEN EVIDENCE. HER HAIR HOLDS THE KEY. Crucial test on samples from car.”
Pages 4 and 5: The Sun looks at the world’s press. Germany’s Bild Zeitung asks: “Was Madeleine taken by paedophiles? Murdered by her own parents? Must one feel sorrow for the parents? Should one despise them?”
Bild might like to asks the Mirror about paedos – it featured a yellow ribbon on its masthead and the order “PRAY FOR MADDY”.
Pages 6 and 7: “COPS TO DIG AT CHURCH.” The Sun says Madeleine’s body may have been hidden in roadworks and then exhumed. The paper produces a map and show the areas recently cobbled.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. MASS OF HAIR IN CAR BOOT. Parents could be charged in days, says prosecutor.”
Pages 2 and 3: “New roads to be dug up in hunt.” The paper sees the search for Madeline move underground.
A police source looks into the boot of the McCanns’ hire car and offers: “There was so much hair it could not be from DNA transference but from the body being in the boot.”
Perhaps.
Pages 4 and 5: “Gerry McCann is in an “unending nightmare”. The “heart specialist” speaks of the “pain and turmoil” he and his family are going through. He and his wife are innocent.
“Could there be a fair trail?” asks the WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER. There may be no trail. Although the paper says that “silencing the whispering against them may prove difficult.” And the boos and the jeers, as reported by the Express.
Page 5: “Madeleine and an amazing triple coincidence” – Gone Baby Gone, a film about a missing child, directed by non-missing Ben Affleck, stars Madeleine O’Brien who – shock of shocks – is blonde like our Madeleine.
THE TIMES front page: “Madeleine’s hair. 10 boxes of evidence sent to judges.” No, not 10 boxes of hair. Ten boxes of assorted hair and other evidence.
Pages 6 and 7: The Times produces a picture of a strand of healthy hair and places it alongside a shot of a strand of hair taken from a dead body. Note the differences.
Readers can expect more insight, including how a severed head looks less healthy than one that sits atop a still live body.
“What can scientific evidence prove?” asks the Times. That the world is round, that greenhouses gases are warming the planet, that Elton John is 23% less productive than he was in 1976…
DAILY TELEGRAPH front page: “MADELEINE POLICE ‘CONFIDENT’ OF CHARGING PARENTS SOON.”
Pages 10 and 11: “McCanns may use £1m fund to pay for lawyers.” The six directors controlling Madeleine’s fund will decide if the parent can use the money to save themselves.
THE GUARDIAN page 3: “McCann papers go to judge amid claims and confusion over DNA.”
THE INDEPENDENT page 3: “Judge given evidence in McCann case as prosecutor raises stakes.”
Director of Portugal’s Judicial Police, Alipio Ribrio, denies “that a 99 per cent accurate DNA march for Madeleine has been found in a hire car used by her parents”. He fails to shed light on claims of a 99.9% match…
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April 12th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
i say if it isn’t solved in a week time i say bring in the snifer dogs or a lie test. just solve the problem i am into and interested in missing children solutions. I am so scared of this one though. is it time for a lie test or sniffer dogs out? millie says ‘Yes’
April 6th, 2008 at 3:57 am
The one thing that sticks in my mind with Kate is the way she appeared shortly after the disappearance of her lovely daughter, and every day since, she is immaculately dressed, every hair precisesly in place, always wears jewelrey??? If this was my daughter I would have swollen eyes with crying and lack of sleep, I would not have the energy or thought to wear any sort of earings, this is very strange, something that I cannot understand. She seems to have a complete controlled persona as does Jerry, almost acted out, rather than a destraught couple who have not seen or heard about their daughter in such a long time. Their whole persona is questionable, or they are the most controlled unfeeling couple of parents in history. They both have the same controlled almost robot like look on their faces, I cannot take their complete controlled personalities as being genuine.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
i hope u get her back it is so sad
love ya xxx
October 17th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Kate McCann is so OBVIOUSLY hiding something. When you going to just confess Kate? Also, what do Kate and Gerry do all day? They’re not working. Do they just self medicate, drink and wonder when the hammer’s coming down?
October 7th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
I SEE THE PARENTS AND HAVE MY GUT FEELINGS…..
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED….JUST EVERY TIME I SEE
MOM….CAN’T SAY JUST FEELS WEIRDNESS….”MAD” IS A TAURUS
AND WANTED MAJOR CONTROL OF “MOM” SO THINGS COULD OF
BEEN A POWER PLAY!!!!! TWINS GOT IN HE WAY…. ONE DAY WE
WILL KNOW…..SOON!
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:44 am
Let’s:”focus on wrong doing…”
Two professional (medical) people leave ‘3′ very young children alone and unattended for lengthy periods of time (30 mins to an hour). That’s child neglect and if comitted by a nanny, would land them in jail!
EVEN if there were no abduction/murder those poor children were left alone to their own devices: what if they had simply had an accident; fell or drowned in the bath/shower, while their parents ‘had a drink’!? Or drank/eaten medicines?
Oh and to task… Is it true that these to ‘doctors’ DRUGED their children on a regular basis to have ‘free time’? If so then they should have the other 2 children taken off them, get struck-off and be charged with poisoning!
Rather than being turned into media celebs!
I read that they left the doors open, sat a lengthy distance from the room (out of ear-shot (it is usually very noisey in a resturant!) and are now failing to assist the police. Why, when they said they would never leave without Maddy, have they suddenly returned to UK?
Also, I have never seen either of them show the slightest drop of a tear! What more evidence do you need. I read that she (Kate) did cry ‘a few weeks later’; but is that simply due to the strain she is under? Rather than the tears of a compassionate mother for her missing daugther?
Oh, and of course, she cried when meeting the pope! I bet those were tears of joy at fulfilling a life-long ambition!
A lot of good ‘god’ can/is/will do! The usual rhetoric of ‘faithers’.
What’s next: a book? The film…
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September 16th, 2007 at 4:31 am
1381 Nikki
Where have you been living this past four months ? I suggest you start at the top and work down !!
September 15th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Hi, I’m new to this chat about Madeline Maccann. However, I’m very interested on the mystery of the missing child. Therefore, can someone please update me on the details of this chat room.
Thank You
September 15th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Yet another ad campaign ?? I think we all KNOW she is still missing and I think people will now react with even more cynicism, in fact I have already heard it said that this is just to divert attention away from the speculation that Kate did it and Maddie is in some water somewhere, not the sea I think. Oh well…if it keeps them happy……
September 15th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
A Campaign Manager.
Fund Managers.
£80,000 ad campaign.
£1.5 million reward from The Sun.
£1.3 in donations to the Find Madeleine Campaign.
A Portuguese holiday villa for three months.
Internet ambulance chasing web site with junk souvenirs: http://www.store.findmadeleine.com.
A terrible price to pay for a lost and lovable, little blond moppet.
The mean and uncaring marketing machine moves on.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
I think what needs to be focused on is realities of “known wrongdoings”.
The first reality in that category is that the McCann’s left their kids 50m front their place of dining. Nevertheless, checked on them from time to time. Hardly a hang-able offence and not overly negligent.
The very big reality is the utter cock-up by the cops. Their’s was big-time negligence and totally off the wall. Any evidence they “got” is hardly credible for the reasons of contamination (serious contamination).
The reality of the 25 day gap of “evidence” - in the rental car, well, I am sorry, I just can’t accept it as reality. It’s just too unbelievable - especially in light of earlier contamination of evidence. I feel sure it’s a set-up or another cock-up. 99%. It’s not fair to load the 1% on the McCann’s - professionals who would not have gone about things this way.
The reality of the cops cocking things up is never going away - regardless of whether Madeleine is ever found - that could go either way. But the erroneous activity by the cops is the only thing we can go by - their cred is blown to bits no matter what they come up with here-on out.
Give me another reality and I’ll start listening.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Think of the facts the police have a wild imagination of how she died SUPPOSELY AND YET THE ONLY EVIDENCE THEY HAVE IS 88% DNA SAMPLE THAT CAN BE EASILY POINT ELSEWHERE. WE HAVEN’T HEARD ANYTHING ELSE BUT STUPID PAPERS BELIEVING THE PORTUGUSE TABLOIDS AND RUNNING WITH STORIES THAT ARE HALF BAKED…THIS IS RIDICULOUS AND SO OUR MOST OF THEORY OF DEATH WHEN THEY HAVE NO EVIDENCE TO CONCRETE SAY THAT..THE SOONER THEY CAN GET THIS OVER THEY FELT THEY (pJ)THOUGHT THEY GET RID OF MCCANNS.. THEY ARE SO FOOLISH TO SPEAK AND GO RUNNING WITH THIS DNA BEFORE EVERYTHING WAS CONCLUSIVE WHICH MIGHT TAKE YEARS THIS COULD BE A CASE THAT NEVER GETS RESOLVED UNFORTUNATLY BUT THAT OBVIOUSLY WANTED TO BRING THE MCCANN DOWN.
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September 15th, 2007 at 10:28 am
If this was an accident, then the McCanns knowingly robbed the general public in setting up the ‘Find Madeleine’ fund.
But they have no criminal record and no hint of any controversy had surrounded them until now.
While it would be untrue to say that no one who has never committed a crime could *never* commit one, human beings don’t suddenly step out of character like that. There would have to be a cause. They would have to be under strong pressure or there would have to be some other powerful motivating factor before they ever did that.
But in this case there was none. They had no reason to rob the general public simply to cover up an accident. They could have simply stood by and allowed others to set up the fund, but they spearheaded that whole campaign, supposedly making themselves fully culpable and guilty of a serious crime for no credible reason.
If this is so, they were then consciously stealing from you and I. Actually that was almost literally true in my case, as my wife and I contemplated giving to that fund. If the accident theory is true, then the McCanns would by default have been guilty of robbing my wife and I had we donated anything. Do I believe they would have gone that far? Absolutely not.
The notion then that two law-abiding citizens with no former criminal record suddenly morphed into Bonnie and Clyde “just to cover up an accident” is too fantastic to be true.
No one and nothing was pushing the McCanns to do that. It wasn’t necessary merely to cover up death by misadventure. It was a folly. It would only have compounded the mess they were supposedly already in had they been caught. They would have had their backs to the wall only insofar as they had to cover up the accident itself, but that didn’t call for the establishment of a fund that robbed all those who donated to it.
So if the DNA proves that they did this (and it doesn’t according to the police themselves), something has to be very wrong. The strongest evidence that they didn’t do it is staring us in the face in the form of the Find Madeleine campaign.
September 15th, 2007 at 9:25 am
I read and saw a picture today of the resort and it was like, where they were sitting was like a big back yard , so was not that far, the media of course say its this and that and a 5 min walk but not true
September 15th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Author: matty
Comment:
First night of holiday Saturday 28th April all adults and children dined together at Millennium Reastaurant and terrace 10mins from apartment reportedly. For the remaining nights they had a table booked for 8.30 every night leaving the children alone thus setting up a pattern for anyone untoward . Also found this, May 3rd the friends reportedly arrived late due to taking part in a tennis event, first I had heard of this, anyone else heard this. Mcs first to arrive 8.40pm. They were all to take part in a quiz reportedly organised by Ocean Club aerobics teacher Najova Chekaya. Quiz, check children,choose food and wine, more quiz questions, up and down from the table checking children, eat, drink, check children again . Strange night out
FIRST UP….IF THE RESTAURANT WAS REPORTEDLY 10 MINS FROM THE APARTMENT, AT AN AVERAGE WALKING SPEED OF 2.5 TO 3 MPH, BEARING IN MIND THERE ARE TODDLERS IN TOW IN THE FIRST INSTANCE, THIS MEANS THE APARTMENT WAS ABOUT HALF A MILE FROM THE RESTAURANT …DOES THAT SOUND ABOUT RIGHT ? TIME COULD BE SPEEDED UP A BIT IF THERE WAS ONLY AN ADULT DOING THE DISTANCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF “CHECKING” ON THE KIDS, BUT IT COULD STILL TAKE ABOUT SEVEN MINUTES I WOULD THINK
September 15th, 2007 at 7:22 am
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296421,00.html
This is a rush transcript from “On the Record ,” September 10, 2007. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
VAN SUSTEREN: According to the British media, Portuguese police say Kate McCann failed to prevent her daughter Madeleine’s death, and they now claim proof. This proof, according to reports, includes forensic evidence found at the Portuguese apartment where the McCanns were staying with Madeleine. It also includes the car the family rented nearly a month after they reported the toddler missing.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden joins us.
DR. MICHAEL BADEN, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: Hi, Greta.
VAN SUSTEREN: Good evening, Dr. Baden. Dr. Baden, I must admit I find the reports perplexing in this story, and I’m not sure what to believe and what not to believe and how to be fair to the McCanns and fair to Madeleine and everybody else involved.
BADEN: Well, I think what’s happening is we may be going down the road of three recent notorious cases. The worst of them, Jon Benet Ramsey. They call up (ph) a kidnapping. The police come, and they don’t protect the scene. They muck up the scene. They never solve it properly. This was — this — the Portuguese police should have sealed and protected the scene. They didn’t.
Natalee Holloway, where the concern was more, in my opinion, tourism than finding the possibility that a local could have killed a tourist. And many people in Aruba still think that Natalie Holloway ran away and is alive or that the family had something to do.
And the Duke players, where the prosecution claimed they had more evidence than they really had.
And I think — remember, 25 days, the body is severely decomposing. Where do they keep a decomposing body that has a terrible odor within a few days? Have they put it in the back of a car? If there was DNA from the body in the back of the car, it would have soaked into the rug. They couldn’t get rid of it. Instead, apparently, the McCanns had hired the car to take away a lot of their clothing elsewhere, including the baby’s, Madeleine’s, clothing and toys, which have DNA on it.
VAN SUSTEREN: So you’d have a transference, which (INAUDIBLE)
BADEN: A transference of hair, of skin cells into the back of the car. I don’t believe they could have blood, red blood still in a 25-day-old body.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Let me ask two questions because, I mean, I find this whole DNA transference thing as the most likely thing, but I don’t know. It’s early in the investigation.
BADEN: Right.
VAN SUSTEREN: In the event that they found her blood this late, could they tell whether or not there was any drug in the blood? If you find some dried-up blood, you know, three months or four months later…
BADEN: It’s possible. It’s amazing what they can do now. Toxicology has advanced tremendously. And even with drops of blood — you know, large drops of blood — they can find whether or not there are drugs in that blood. It’s unlikely because after 25 days, the blood would have all turned greenish and wouldn’t be recognized as blood.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. One other sort of unusual situation here. These are in vitro babies…
BADEN: That’s right.
VAN SUSTEREN: … the two babies that they — and I guess that we don’t know if they truly are both the biological parents of these — of Madeleine. So any blood that was found, would that have a DNA twist to it in terms of trying to determine…
BADEN: That would. When they say it matches Madeleine, how do they know what Madeleine’s DNA is? They haven’t found Madeleine. They don’t know what her DNA is. And the parents would know whether or not it was his sperm and her egg, but…
VAN SUSTEREN: So there’s another whole ‘nother twist to it…
BADEN: That’s another…
VAN SUSTEREN: … that needs to be investigated.
BADEN: Another issue, yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Well, we just got to stick to the facts and see what we can figure out. Thank you, Dr. Baden.
BADEN: Thank you, Greta.
September 14th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
HH.
Good points. One or two points of issue though…
“once the whole campaign ball started rolling it snowballed and she was stuck in the thing coz Gerry was running the show innocently………”
That would be asking for two model citizens to have become overnight more brazen than Bonnie and Clyde in robbing the general public all over the world of money they devotedly set aside to find Madeleine. But this is the stuff of pulp fiction.
They didn’t go about it in a half-hearted way. They set up the “Find Madeleine” fund with vim and vigour, both of them equally motivated. It wasn’t the case that Kate McCann simplay tagged along behind. It’s fantastic to suppose they would had the heart to fleece people of their money like that if they were guilty of death by misadveture and intent merely to cover it up.
These theories really ARE ludicrous.
September 14th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
If the Portuguese police have made an error, this may result in the McCanns
going free. Free to strike again?
September 14th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Sorry one little thing with all these comments about mcs murdering planning blah blah…… IF kate had murdered maddie earlier and her “COVER STORY” was to dine with friends would she not actually do the 15 minute check to make herself look slightly like a good mummie? rather than from the start have everyone against her because of the neglect aspect. She was not murdered. IF Kate went back and found her dead rather than missing she had to come up with the abducted plan and dispose of maddie’s body - and once the whole campaign ball started rolling it snowballed and she was stuck in the thing coz Gerry was running the show innocently……… personally at this stage think the Portugese have made a total mess of the entire investigation and this drip feeding of information shows how irresponsible and unprofessional they are.
September 14th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
I believe they are innocent based on the fact that if she was removed 25 days after death, not properly covered up by her parents(how else would the hair and fluids get into the car), then her parent must be incredibly sick, because a 25 days old corps cant be fun to move around.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:13 am
1367 Ann
Have you looked at the photos? Compare the one menioned in 1363 to the one of Madeline in her Everton t-shirt
I do take it seriously, and I am looking for a reason to believe she is alive
September 14th, 2007 at 9:26 am
1366 jt
Oh come on !! let’s not get wildly off track here, it’s not a funny subject and we are all losing sight of the real crux of the matter, i.e. ….where is Madeleine ?
September 14th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Seriously someone, tell me I am not going nuts
Maddie McCann looks like the identical twin sister of Maddie O’Brien star of Gone baby gone’ and they both look like Robert Murat’s daughter.
If they had wanted to make a film about this after the event (instead of before) they could have searched the world and not found a closer look-alike to the child who alreay plays the part.
McCann, O’Brien, Murat,
are they all linked by eggs /sperms
September 14th, 2007 at 8:16 am
1305 paulette
The money colleceted by the McCanns is not for their personal use, I believe it is protected in some way and they can’t even use any of it for their legal fees as it has been reported that they have asked if they can do so. Something to do with some sort of charitable status I think, and it would have to be given to charities or a “good cause” which certainly isn’t their fees. Perhaps they may have to sell their 600K house, or raise some money on it in some way in order to pay their way.
Currently I am interested in knowing why they (allegedly) went to see the Social Services about the twins welfare ? It is probably more that the SS asked to see THEM because THEY are worried about what will happen to the twins if the McCrims go to jail.
Still don’t think Gerry is man enough to be guilty, her - yes - him - no.
September 14th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Cowmilla. The extracts are splashed all over the pages of Newspaper Correio da Manha
September 14th, 2007 at 7:28 am
When I posted the last post I had just heard that on tv.
I have now looked it up on the internet imdb.com and seen the photo of the actress Madeline O’Brian.
Its incredibly she is so like Madeline, even the spaces between her teeth mentioned when people spoke of this being a sign that all was not normal.
One photo of this young actress in a yellow dress has her holding her hair back with one hand in a gesture just like missing Madeline in one of her photos. Even the actress who plays the part of the mother looks similar to Kate.
The name being Madeline and the O’Brian being the same someone in the group and her being so alike, its spooky.
September 14th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Did you see that the Ben Aflick film ‘gone baby gone’ has had its release dated delayed. It tells the story of a four year old who is abducted when the parents leave her alone. One reason is that the child looks very like missing Madeline. The child who plays the part in the film is named Madeline O’Brian.
September 14th, 2007 at 2:39 am
Good point Jeeves. I have not yet seen these ‘leaked’ extracts from Mrs Mccanns diary so cannot comment on content….only know they should not be available for us to see if the privacy laws are all they should be. Do you have a link at all dear Jeeves?
September 14th, 2007 at 2:22 am
THE AUGUIDO IS NOT GUILTY!!!
Which one thought?