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 25th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
697
Naturally the cynics won’t!
September 25th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
If people apply, the Freedom of Information Act, to see how many have been investigated as a result of the disappearance of Madeleine, very ironic especially if she was never missing…
September 25th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
691 Edna
That is interesting. I’m in the US and trash collection varies depending on where you live. Would the McCanns be so stupid to make a statement that there was no trash collection at their rental home if there was? (oh, okay, we can leave that as a rhetorical question.)
September 25th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Whether the McCanns deny using PIs or not, I’d be interested to see the accounts of their Ltd Company when they’re filed. Surely they wouldn’t have paid that out of their own pockets when the public paid into that fund to FIND MADELEINE.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
WoW Stig. That really is putting your head above the parapet!
Naturally I agree with you….
September 25th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
I think if they’ve got suspicion but not enough proof then they were obviously too late to the party for evidence gathering. If I were them I would declare the McCanns innocent, wait a while and bug their asses to high heaven (including friends). It may prove fruitless but I for one have serious reservations about the McCann lifestyle which could provide clues to this crime down the road and irrespective of this, you wont gather evidence while their their guard is up.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
#678 Jolie,
But my first reaction to their publicized excuses was it’s just a story made up to fit with the dog’s reaction to the smells in their rental car.
This kind of response is exactly what makes me think the McCanns are guilty of a cover up. All about taking rotten meat to the dump sounds should sound like a lot of BS to anyone. Just as considering leaving three babies alone in a hotel room in a foreign country, a very public place, and going out to eat and drink is like being in your garden. The entire case has insulted the intelligence of many I am sure.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Going by the excitable comments attributed to the Portuguese authorities about the Doctors McCann having had the bare faced cheek to retain private investigators , I expect that the holding charge, is going to be a serious charge of trying to get Maddie back.
Even as I speak the SAS’s crack sign- writing team has gone into action at its Hereford HQ to add the following qualification to is motto - He who dares wins…….. err more often than not, but not everytime … past performace no guide to ..etc etc”
September 25th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
699
http://itn.co.uk/news/5dd41262b23abbdef6af886b08325e3a.html
I agree. The body is In Rome. And the PI will find it when the McCanics chose.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Well they tried to rubbish Eddie the Sniff but the plucky little chap has form and get results:
http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/mhcwcwidkfsn/
Good reason for them to be worried…
September 25th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
680
Jolie
I don’t know if it’s the same in Algarve, but everywhere else it is, garbage is picked up every night but Saturday. I posted this info before but that was some time ago. Surely even take-out food could sit for one day before being picked up if it were a Saturday.
People don’t take their trash to dumps here. The streets are even swept and cleaned daily. Since Algarve is the so-called posh place of the country, I’d be willing to bet the same is done there.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
131 puzzled
I am not opposed to contemplating that it was not an abduction. I have contemplated the idea but I do not see any way to reasonably argue for any of the alternatives that have been raised. Many of the alternative theories are at best, convoluted, and at worst, utterly preposterous. So applying Occam’s razor, that seems to leave abduction.
Occam’s razor is my logical reason, but being semi human, I have another illogical reason - an emotional reason. I don’t really like mentioning this one, though I have before, because it can all too easily be called into question and doubted because I am not in a position to point to any source material saying - ‘there it is.’
I have followed all this from the beginning. In the first few days, there were TV reports which showed Kate in grief. I am pretty cynical and not exactly the most emotionally demonstrative person you will likely meet. I am not exactly young either, but I tell you that in all my life I have never seen a greater expression of utter profound grief than I saw in Kate those first few days. The nanny saw it, Maria saw it and my wife saw it. I suspect Moderation may well have seen it also. It wasn’t an act or faked.
So to me, I have Kate’s grief, and to me it is evidence of an emotional state. So when I try and reason through some of the proposed scenarios, as logically as I might try, I can not put aside the illogical clue of the grief. For instance, If you take a scenario like sedation, death, coverup - the grief clue doesn’t fit. Sedation, discovery of accidental death, hide body, concoct story, return calmly to Tapas, carry on as if nothing happened, return later and explode into body wracking, paralysing, hysterical grief as witnessed and described by the nanny and others. I don’t think so, personally. You can’t turn it on and off like a tap that close in time to the trauma.
There are logical problems also. Kate trained as an anaesthetist. This might sound silly but I think an anaesthetist would be one of the least likely of people to ever sedate their child for the sake of convenience. Even if they were to, such a person is also LEAST likely to use a strong sedative or get the dosage that wrong. I have seen an expert opinion that it would be very difficult to persuade a child to consume enough oral sedative to constitute a lethal dose. If you want to get really loopy and start talking about intravenously administered sedatives - I would sooner believe in fairies at the bottom of my garden.
Why any of that complicated nonsense when in reality, anyone wanting to ensure sleep would most likely administer a very mild sedative - an antihistamine of some sort such as contained in cough mixture. Even if that were the case, death by overdose becomes away with the fairies again. A surgeon/anaesthetist doesn’t know the difference between one and ten, twenty, thirty spoonfulls? - yea right! Try to get just one spoonfull down a small child!
Allergic reaction? - No, you can’t have your cake and eat it too. If you suspect nightly sedation while the adults do the Tapas, you can’t turn around and claim Madeleine had an allergic reaction after several nights of sedation, a profound allergy sufficient to cause death would have shown up the first time.
None of the other hypothesised accident,coverup scenarios work for me either, but I am not going to go through them all.
I think that about leaves the pathological monster scenarios. For any of those to work you have to have a cold blooded pathological monster, which as we all know, must be Gerry. Have you heard the expression ‘if you want me to believe an extraordinary claim, you must first show me an extraordinary proof’? I have seen articles where Gerry has been described as a hands on loving and devoted father, I have seen pictures of him playing and cavorting with his children to back that up and so on. Circumstantially I have inferred that if your colleagues willingly choose to go with you on holiday, not just once, but at least twice, they must like you just a little. That’s it. Nothing put positive anecdotes, visual evidence and inferences. There is just absolutely nothing to indicate he isn’t a loving husband, devoted father and likeable in the eyes of his colleagues. There is not an iota of anything that comes within a light year of the extraordinary proof you would need to reasonably consider he was the monster any of the other scenarios require.
So, however I try and assemble the pieces, the only theory I can get a sandwich out of is the abduction hypothesis. But there is no evidence for this. That is not the same as ‘there WAS no evidence’. I have seen criticisms and suggestions that the herd of people to pass through the McCann apartment that night were as a result of a deliberate attempt to eliminate or conceal forensic evidence. I do not think that is the case. Everyone was utterly frantic, Kate was inconsolable and from the nanny’s depiction and other witnesses, I doubt she was capable of thinking about the niceties of forensics. There are accounts that similarly suggest Gerry was frantic also, rushing around in the dark shouting for Madeleine. I don’t think anyone was thinking too clearly in those first few minutes, and why would they? If they had been cool, calm and collected, I would have found that suspicious.
Another reason why there might not be any evidence of abduction is that the PJ stuffed up almost everything it was conceivably possible to stuff up, procedurally and forensically. Can someone please explain to me how it is the McCanns fault that their apartment was allowed to be thoroughly cleaned and put back into use after they left it to move into the premises they later leased? It has become almost politically incorrect to insinuate the PJ are anything other than highly professional with unquestionable motives and integrity. Well I don’t pray to the idol of PC so I beg to differ about the PJ.
There is another reason why there might be little or no evidence of an abduction - I think it perfectly possible there was little or none in the first place. I have tried to think through what an abductor might have done, and what trail of evidence you might expect them to leave in doing it. I did this before in a previous post which you can find in a previous thread so I am not going to repeat it. If you do want to look at it, please bear in mind it is not a hypothesis for what did happen, it is a hypothetical ‘modus operandi’ - a method of carrying out the abduction that would leave virtually no trace. The scenario was not meant to explain facts, timelines or any of that, just what a perpetrator might have physically done and the traces of that which would have been left on the real world for people to find later.
http://www.anorak.co.uk/madeleine-mccann/176493.html post 441
We live in a world where innumerable crime based TV fodder like CSI (Crime Scene Investigation), Waking the Dead and more mainstream police and detective shows have swamped us with the automatic expectation that every crime scene contains a subtle but rich trail of faint and convoluted clues for acute forensic senses to follow. These shows have created a popular mythology that every crime scene must have a magical essence of clues to follow, but this isn’t the reality. There are innumerable cases of missing persons and other crimes for which insufficient clues can be found to allow them to be solved.
Please don’t even begin to try and persuade me that Gerry is really other than how I have infered him to be, based onhow you think he is because of your negative since this started, because to me it, is utterly invalid.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
ade, you are really insensitive, don’t you know that phill mitchel is grieving cause he really has had a death in the family, although i never really liked stella
September 25th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
An Englishwoman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman went into a bar….
Sounds like the start of a joke doesn’t it?
Replace with: Kate, Gerry and O’Brien and you’re right…it is a joke.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Even if the McC’s decided to cook at their villa and even if they had to haul off their own garbage - I’m sure the dogs are trained to distinguish the difference between rotting hamburger and a corpse. They are grasping at straws.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
673 - ty Seymour - and for your uncanny insight in answering what my obvious rebutter would have been.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
765
Chloe Says:
September 25th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
(666) I agree. We may be seeing some developments soon
OOh I don’t like that post (666) could lead to more sinister goings on. What do you reckon?
September 25th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
My guess is everyone burnt as a result of the McCanns and the case will have learned a lesson, hopefully. I am highly aware of much that I didn’t consider or take action before and I am all the way over here just observing. Wow. There will actually be one big change in my life as a result. For that reason I assume other people will be affected in a way that brings about change, if nothing more but in thought.
If the McCanns know more than what they are willing to admit, they are fortunate to have so many people willing to help them, not to mention raise money from the public who are thanked by spin.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
672 Puzzled
Too true. The McCanns attitude from the start to finish should have been one of apology for their grave mistake made and gratitude for all the help given.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
My guess is everyone burnt as a result of the McCanns and the case will have learned a lesson, hopefully. I am highly aware of much that I didn’t consider or take action before and I am all the way over here just observing. Wow. There will actually be one big change in my life as a result. For that reason I assume other people will be affected in a way that brings about change, if nothing more but in thought.
If the McCanns know more than what they are willing to admit, they are fortunate to have so many people willing to help them, not to mention raise money from the public who are thanked by spin.
Ironically, I have managed to meet only one mystery friend at Anorak named Winky Dink and I haven’t been accused of anything. Life is stranger than I suspected. ???? Any thoughts?
September 25th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Auntie Philly is also Phill Mitchell from the Queen Vic
HAs anyone ever seen them in a room at the same time?
September 25th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Whether or not the McCanns are found guilty in the end (sometime during the next decade…perhaps), I wouldn’t like to be in their shoes for the sneers etc.
On the other hand, the book & movie deals and a charity music CD might paper over those fake emotional cracks with plenty of dosh.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
672 - Puzzled
Of course. If this wasn’t so serious and involving a missing child, they’d lock the McCanns up for time wasting.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
658 Carmen
Yes, that seems likely there would not be much food preparation going on, but couldn’t they be disposing of take-out food brought to their villa in their trash. Remember, too, this wasn’t during the official holiday before Madeleine went missing, but afterward, almost a month later. Take-out and restaurant food can become quite boring after awhile and home cooked meals can become a relief.
I still don’t see the McCann couple taking trash to the dump themselves (unless they were hiding something suspicious in the trash) but having some hired hand (or a willing volunteer/friend) do it for them (and in another vehicle, not their rental vehicle).
But my first reaction to their publicized excuses was it’s just a story made up to fit with the dog’s reaction to the smells in their rental car.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
garth you nearly got the saying correct, the correct phrase is if it eats like a pig, looks like a pig, walks like a pig, squeals likes a pig, then by eck its a aunti phill!
September 25th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
671 stevo
Bloody hell - have they been cloning Auntie Philly as well?
Coat or no coat, I’m outa here…
September 25th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
I always check Google’s Portuguese News section and today there wasn’t one mention of the MC’s. When I put the name in search I got results. More people should read these sites and use the translate button. The translations can be quite odd and it can get pretty funny at times, but the gist and meat of the story are there.
I found this quite interesting and since my Portuguese basically sucks and I can’t trust every word, like I always thought depressa meant depressed, when it actually means “hurry”, I’m going to paste the translation.
“The Interpol (international policy) is investigating the photograph of a child taken off for a couple of Spanish tourists who visited Morocco and that she suspected that could be the British Madeleine McCann, the girl of four years disappeared since day 3 of May in the south of Portugal.
Official sources had confirmed this information, published in this tuesday (25) for a local periodical, and had indicated that the couple sent the photograph of the girl to the Spanish policy.
The photograph, in which she appears a blond girl folloied by aspect adults North African, already was sent to the Interpol.”
http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=mozclient&u=http%3A//g1.globo.com/Noticias/Mundo/0%2C%2CMUL109920-5602%2C00.html
Has anyone read that anywhere else?
September 25th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
(666) I agree. We may be seeing some developments soon.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Are any of the Notorious Nine Bisexual?
September 25th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
641 - Not entirely sure - I think it is one count of (alleged) negligence for leaving all three - not one per child - it is the same conduct/omission that makes out the offence no matter how many children are left alone.
Whereas leaving one child for 3 nights running would be three separate counts - unless you did not come back at all during the intervening period - in which case it would be one serious count.
The thinking seems to be that it is not a per capita offence per se what what- but what about leaving conjoined twins I hear you say. Tempted to say that the indictment would need to severed, but I do not want to cause (unnecessary) offence.