Madeleine McCann: A House Of Love, Find the Body & What Kate McCann Screamed
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. ‘FIND BODY OR McCANNS WILL ESCAPE’ – Prosecutors ultimatum to Portuguese police.”
The case against Kate and Gerry McCanns is “hanging by a thread”.
A police sources says: “There is a determination within the force to bring this investigation to a satisfactory conclusion but there is a growing fear that without a body, that goal will be impossible.”
Pages 4 and 5: “Our reputation is tarnished forever” – Each day the McCanns prepare themselves for the “worst case scenario”. No, not that they will be wrongly convicted, rather they will learn of Madeleine’s death.
Clarence Mitchell says: “In the middle of this people forget this is still a family who are potentially facing bereavement but are still in that awful limbo position of not knowing what has happened to their daughter.” Thankfully Mr Mitchell is on hand to remind people of this every day.
“Doubts on the McCanns by a lie detector expert” – THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER asks John Ryan, of International Truth Verification Technologies Institute, to listen to Kate McCann’s voice. Says she: “However I think there is some sort of deception when I hear the lady speaking, either over the event or in avoiding showing her true feelings”.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADELEINE – find a body or there is no case.”
Page 5: “Gerry and Kate have often talked about the possibility of Madeleine being found dead. That would be the worst news but it would at least give them some..CLOSURE”. So says a “source close to the legal team”.
Antonio Cluny, President of the Public Prosecution Service, says: “Without the little girl’s body, everything is complicated… In the Maddy case, there is no confession and, according to what has been made public, the evidence gathered up until now keeps all leads open – from abduction to homicide or at least to a simple accident”.
DAILY MAIL front page: “EXCLUSIVE: Eyewitness reveals Maddie’s mother DID shout: ‘They’ve taken her’ after four-year-old vanished. WHAT KATE DID SCREAM.”
Nanny Charlotte Pennington is in Praia da Luz. She hears Kate McCann scream: “They’ve taken her, they’ve taken her!” The McCanns say Kate screamed “Madeleine’s gone”.
Sensation. Front-page news.
Page 4: “Nanny Pennington, who worked at the Ocean Club, is pictured. She’s wearing a brown beret and a pink coat. Her tights are black. Her legs are crossed.
“I was in the apartment less than five minutes after they found that Madeleine had gone. When we were coming out we saw Kate and she was screaming: ‘They’ve taken her, they’ve taken her’… It might not have been the first thing she said. But she definitely said it.”
So…
“She also repeated Madeleine’s name and said: ‘She’s gone, she’s gone.’”
Anyone hear anything else?
THE SUN page 24: “MADDIE LAW CHIEF: NO BODY, NO CASE.” Antonio Clunes says: “There have been cases in which it was possible to obtain a conviction without a victim – but there were confessions.”
But the McCanns are innocent, says a source. And they are not confessing. They are talking through their spokesperson.
DAILY STAR front page: “COPS CLOSE IN ON MADDIE. Final pieces of tragic jigsaw falling into place.”
Pages 4 and 5: “FIND THE BODY OR THEY WALK. Law bosses tell Portuguese cops to step up hunt.”
“TWINS’ HOUSE OF LOVE” – Clarence Mitchell says the McCanns have built a “house of love” for their family. Mr Mitchell says the McCanns are living “every parent’s worst nightmare times ten”. Mr Mitchell used to work for the tabloid press.
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 13: “Case against McCanns ‘rests on finding body’.”
Clarence Mitchell says: “They did not harm, let alone kill her.”
THE TIMES page 11: “No body, no conviction says McCann police.”
THE GUARDIAN & THE INDEPENDENT: No Madeleine news.
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September 26th, 2007 at 9:20 am
1244. Michael. I have suggested several times that it’s a possibility that a use of some medicine or alcohol may have altered the suspects’ behavior and reactions.
I think naivety is not helpful anymore in this case, I for one have been chased away from the garden of innocence during the past weeks.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:09 am
theres a new forum BTW
September 26th, 2007 at 9:08 am
matty - I cant seem to get the day 144, the last one showing is day 136. but im sure (If anyone can confirm this please do) there was one added on 23rd September, which was quite a long blog and didnt seem to me that it had been written by Gerry.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:06 am
Sorry, I mean 19 and 25 Sept.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Just_me (1248)
I reckon it’s his latest 2 blogs that have been deleted. The most recent one now is from 16 Sept. and I am fairly sure that the others were dated 19 and 26 Sept.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Days 136 and 144 are there, was there a blog inbetween? I have posted before about the fund not changing, ie where is the interest going ? Someone on Anorak answered that with a business it is not as easy as just putting it in a bank account and collect interest at the going rate but surely it must be wisely invested somewhere. Interest on that type of sum must be substantial
September 26th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Bettina, the portuguese govt has not lost money with this case. Tourism figures in the Algarve are up 2.75%.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:49 am
can anyone tell me why Gerry’s latest blog has been deleted and why the fund is at a standstill, not a single penny added for ages now.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Hope it’s positive
September 26th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Morning All., I have just loaded the Morocco photo of ‘Maddie’ into photoshop.
Ive zoomed in on the image and sharpened it and IMO its not Maddie. I am no expert and dont claim to be, but on close up view, the eyes on the girl in the photo are a different shape. Just a shame I cannot get it any clearer to see the shape of the iris. I think this photo will be discredited by the experts very soon.
This is of course just my opinion.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:37 am
1235 Johnd- thanks for the link to the photo.Looked this morning and couldn’t find one. Wonder what comes of this? Anything?
September 26th, 2007 at 7:48 am
There are a lot of posts about the parent’s mood here, and that they drugged Maddy. We don’t know how true or relevant these are. I have seen nothing on the very likely case that the McCann(s) were taking sedatives after the abduction, which would necessarily alter the mood, and maybe lead to a misinterpretation by us of their apparent behaviour.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:48 am
I think that photo of Madeleine in Morocco is doctored. It’s very easy to do for any photographer with basic skills. I feel bad for the PJ, they are getting the run around from every which way. They are earnestly trying to solve this case and jumping thru hoops, down wild goose chases, just being jerked around left and right. It sucks to be them.
But, they can’t quit now, they’re too deeply entrenched. But they will never find her and they’ll be spinning their wheels on this case for a very long time to come. It’s truly a damned if you do, damned if you don’t case. I wonder how much money they’ve lost in this investigation. For a tiny country, it could bankrupt them eventually if this continues. I mean, who’s funding the police investigation? The Portuguese Gov’t has already lost money on tourism from this case, and now they’ve got to pay for all these add’l services and add’l hours for the police investigation. This case is going to have such long term financial ramifications for Portugal. In the end, they’ll have to quit, they’ll be running out of moo-lach.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:37 am
890:
890: Stevo – you can see the archive of Gerry’s blogs (the archive is limited at the moment though and contains pages from May 16th till July 13th only)
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Just type findmadeleine.com in the search field. The archive pages might take a while to load.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:22 am
BACK in business! Woo-hoo. Thought I was going to go thru withdrawal there for a moment. Bandwidth problems again. Guess everyone’s still asleep….
I just realized something, while I had some down time last night. Some one said a few days ago that Americans don’t understand the MW Resort thing. That it’s all a pay one price vacation at a resort with all activities and meals included. But that’s not true. Americans used to go to Club Meds all the time. Some still do but it’s not as popular as years ago. Club Med has many if not most locations catering to families today. So I would say that the MW Resort vacations are probably similar to Club Med Vacations. That would make sense…
September 26th, 2007 at 3:57 am
If the Mccanns are still searching for Maddie, it would be a great idea to offer a huge amount of money of the Madeleine fund to the person who would point the place where she is resting now.Or to whom would give true informations about what happened.Using the money for green, yellow balloons, pictures in China or Argentina would not help.They never searched for her in Portugal and she is probably there, not very far from the resort.At the beginning they looked well. Very soon after, Kate started to lose weight but Gerry kept his own figure.
Three weeks ago, after they heard the police would quizz them again, Gerry lost a lot of weight.Only after he felt he was in danger, not before.I don’t believe Kate will hold it for a very long time.She looks bad.I’ve watched programs on tv, with militairs who came back from Bosnia,Irak, Lebanon and Afghanistan. If they killed others, even on self defense, they became ill and many of them committed suicide.Feeling guilty about a death must be terrible.If it is your own child, it must be hell.Nightmares, waking up screaming, in the middle of the night, living night and day with the picture of a dying daughter, getting rid of her body.Even a psychiater can not help them because they don’t dare to tell the truth.A treatment would not help her(them). They could better tell the truth, for sake of their own health and for sake of the twins.Sick parents, without the perspective of getting better, is not much of a help.They will lose every strength to continue bringing them up.It is only nearly 5 months ago.What about one ,three, five years ahead? Even if the police don’t solve this case, they will distroy themselves.Maybe confessing the truth wil help them to have a good treatment and it will relieve them somehow.The worst happened already: Maddie is gone.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:44 am
The detailed description of apartment 5A is most interesting: http://www.bookmyvillas.com/villadetails.asp?villaid=10002
Guests are asked to bring their own extra sheets and handle their own laundry in the machines provided, as those amenities of the Mark Warner’s resort for this apartment are not available for this apartment (due to high cost to apartment owner).
Would the same be true for the O’Brien/Tanner apartment? (re. sheets needing to be changed after their child vomited)
September 26th, 2007 at 3:38 am
sorry forgot to add the http://www.cope.es is the link is to the alleged photo of a madeleine look alike in Morroco
September 26th, 2007 at 3:34 am
1231 Murder
Thanks for the link. I looked at the photo of the kitchen. The freezer (above the refrigerator) does look like it would be large enough for a small child, if it had a removable shelf. This topic has been brought up in the past as to how the McCanns might have stored a body for 25 days without it decomposing too much to transport.
Here’s the photo link: http://www.bookmyvillas.com/viewphoto.asp?piccaption=Kitchen%20from%20lounge&picture=/photos/10002_6.jpg
September 26th, 2007 at 3:28 am
1228 - Murder said:
“Oh, BTW…. lot of talk here today about jogging immediately following the ‘disappearance’. On the one hand this is the bible-style ‘getting back to normal’ - but it’s also a very good way to have a conversation without being monitored, knowing that parents are bound to be the main initial suspects in any child disappearnace. Sort of thing spies do when there’s a risk they’re being monitored.”
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I thought of that, too. It would be a way to have privacy to sort things out.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:22 am
http://www.cope.es
September 26th, 2007 at 2:59 am
“The Ocean Club offers a unique ‘dine out’ service. Simply get your little ones ready for bed and drop them off at our kids club. We’ll watch over them whilst you go out and enjoy yourselves and you can pick them up on your way home.”
Explains why you would expect to see parents walking around the complex at night, carrying half-asleep girls in pyjamas and/or blankets. Not odd at all.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:40 am
“You would expect in nearly all families that a 3-year-old child would be calling out ‘Mummy’. Or at least ‘Daddy’ and ‘Mummy’.”
Nope. Absolutely wrong. Anyone who expects that has little knowledge of the diversity of children.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:32 am
Way past bedtime. Goodnight.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:30 am
Oh… and I think the O’Briens were in the neighbouring apartment (5b) to the McCann’s ‘end of terrace’ 5a.
For 5a:
http://www.bookmyvillas.com/villadetails.asp?villaid=10002
It’s actually privtely-owned, but strangely, not available for rent at the moment.
I wonder what the owners will do with it.
I guess they could sell it for a vastly inflated price to turn into a museum, or maybe rent it for huge anounts to very sick people.
I think ‘crimescenerentals.com’ is still available.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:26 am
TonyB 1229:
Yes… the ‘Daddy’ thing really struck me when I first heard it. No child I know would cry for Daddy at that age.
Another interesting thing about the original Fenn scenario - which seemed pretty well attested at the time - was that if a sdative that caused an allergic reaction was administered on the following night - May 2 - it might have worked fine, but sensitized Madeleine to the drug, causing a possibly fatal allergic reaction on the second administration the SECOND night, May 3.
If O’Brien was responsible for the drug (seems a likely enough scenario, and gives him a strong motivation to get involved in the cover-up), he might have spent some time trying to intervene to save Madeline’s life, perhaps resulting in the blood (the PJ apparently asked quite a lot about damage to Madeleine’s neck, though nobody has explained where that line of questioning came from).
An allergic reaction to an orally administered O’Brien patent sedative might have obstructed Madeleine’s breathing, and an emergency tracheotomy would have been the obvious course of action for trained doctors.
Or perhaps O’Brien was trying some new cocktail on both Madeleine and his own daughter. When this went wrong he might have induced vomiting in his own daughter, and the same emegency treatment might not have worked with Madeleine, but caused damage to her throat or bleeding as they tried to empty her stomach.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:11 am
1200 Murder
Yes, fascinating post, strongly along lines I have been thinking too.
Madeleine would presumably be much more stimulated and active on holiday:
1) New scene
2) Kid’s club - meeting new friends, lots of things to do.
I just wonder if Mrs Fenn’s original account of poor Madeleine crying ‘Daddy, Daddy’ for an hour and three quarters is true - horrific if it is. But some reports say she has denied making that statement. I also wonder if she reported her concerns to anyone on May 2?
I also noted that it was claimed that she shouted out for ‘Daddy’ all the time. You would expect in nearly all families that a 3-year-old child would be calling out ‘Mummy’. Or at least ‘Daddy’ and ‘Mummy’.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:10 am
Simon - this has been much discussed, and the obvious motive would be ‘a dud IVF product’, returned to whence it came.
The crumpled bible passage with the ’scent of death’ describes how someone punished for their sin by their child developing illness, then dying. IVF is deemed a sin by the Catholic Church, and especially by the current Pope. Of course there may be other sins we don’t know about, and accidental death probably fits the bible passage better.
Interestingly another key thing about the crumpled passage is that David surprises everyone, after grieving so much for the sickly child, by stopping grieving when the child finally dies ‘because now there’s nothing he can do about it’.
Oh, BTW…. lot of talk here today about jogging immediately following the ‘disappearance’. On the one hand this is the bible-style ‘getting back to normal’ - but it’s also a very good way to have a conversation without being monitored, knowing that parents are bound to be the main initial suspects in any child disappearnace. Sort of thing spies do when there’s a risk they’re being monitored.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:02 am
1213 simon
At the salem witch trials, the burning of Joan of Arc, and innumerable other events for putting witches to the flames. There was always one small group of people selflessly dedicated to meeting the needs of society - and they are warmly remembered and celebrated in the annals where you find the events of history recorded. They were those that stood at the periphery selling bundles of twigs, firewood and of course matches.
Tony Bennett is our modern day equivalent and shall henceforth be remembered with equal admiration.
Nighty night
September 26th, 2007 at 2:01 am
sorry just to remind myself while i ponder
G and ob could have convinced k all her fault
and they are helping her
shes all doped from depression anyway
and lets them save her