Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann Sobs, Gerry McCann Points And 14 Questions
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MIRROR front page: “KATE’S TORMENT – ‘I think she is being held by someone in their house..as Madeleine’s mummy I feel in my heart she’s out there’”
“Distraught” Kate McCann is on Spanish TV. She is being interviewed. Says she: “I don’t know how anyone could harm anyone as beautiful as Madeleine”
Pages 4 and 5: “TEARS OF KATE – After six months of holding her heartbreak in check..Madeleine’s mum breaks down on TV”
Three pictures of Kate McCann:
“SO EMPTY: Kate tries to explain her loss on TV”
“TOO MUCH: She can’t hold back the tears”
“SOBBING: Kate and Gerry on TV”
“14 questions Portuguese police are flying to Britain to out to the McCanns and friends” – So reports Portuguese newspaper 24 Horas. Why would the police publish the questions and allow the McCanns and their friends to prepare answers? Why only – or as many as - 14 questions? Unless these are questions made up by the media, questions the police are “expected” to ask…
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE – POLICE WANT ANSWERS TO 14 QUESTIONS. What detectives demand to know”
Pages 4 and 5: “Kate breaks down during TV grilling.” Kate and Gerry McCann are on the telly. Says Kate: “I feel sad and I feel lonely and our life is not as happy without Madeleine…we want people to try to reunite us with your beautiful girl”
And: “We know the truth. We know we are totally innocent. That is why we are calm. We know each other”
Says a “British detective”: “The detectives could be giving the suspects enough rope to hang themselves. It is a common tactic in police investigations to let those under suspicion speak on television in case they trip themselves up”
THE SUN front page: “KATE WEEPS FOR MADDIE – I feel in my heart she is out there”
“Distraught” Kate on the telly. Kate and Gerry are publicising a telephone hotline. No, not 999, their own number
Pages 4 and 5: “MADDIE NEEDS US – So lonely without our lovely girl, sobs Kate”
Three pictures of “Precious..the happy Maddie her mum longs to see”
Three pictures of the McCanns:
“Anguish…Gerry faces TV quiz”
“Ordeal…Kate fights back tears”
“Brave…but the McCanns struggle with their emotions as they relive the night Maddie vanished”
The hotline. Says Kate McCann: “We want to appeal to the people of Spain, Portugal and North Africa to help us and to tell them we have a new central phone number for them to call”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE MUM FINALLY CRACKS – Suspect Kate sobs on TV as she is quizzed”
Pages 8 and 9: “MADDIE’S MUM TV BREAKDOWN – Torment as Kate’s sobs halt interview four times”. Spanish TV journalist Roberto Arce sees Kate “prostrate with pain”
The McCanns hotline number is 00 34 902 300 213
DAILY MAIL pages 8 and 9: “I’M SAD AND LONELY…LIFE IS NOT HAPPY”
Says Mrs McCann: “Somebody knows something. It is not about us. It is about Madeleine.” Is it? We are watching the parents
Gerry McCanns is a “consultant cardiologist”. He says: “We have not been charged with anything”
“Will they find her in Spain?” – Gerry McCann tells El Mundo newspaper (Spain): “The possibility that Madeleine is alive and in Spain is real…If someone had a car, it is clear they could cross into Spain. There is no border guard and no one closed the border the night Madeleine disappeared.” And we look again at the police
THE TIMES page 3: “Sobbing Kate McCann insists that Madeleine is alive and being held”
“Days of hope and despair” – The Times looks at some key dates: June 21 (Madeleine in Malta); August 3 (Madeleine in Belgium); August 23 (Madeleine in Morocco)
DAILY TELEGRAPH front page: “’I’M SO SAD AND LONELY’ – KATE McCANN WEEPS FOR MADELEINE ON SPANISH TV”
Page 5: “’Sad, lonely’ Kate weeps for Madeleine in TV interview” – Kate McCann wept “uncontrollably”. Says he:” I feel anxious she is not with us”
THE GUARDIAN page 12: “McCanns set up phone line to seek Madeleine”
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October 25th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
782 brandon flours
Clinton was here the other week…his entourage and the state governor came into the bar I was drinking at.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
792 - yes i have seen maury too but only a couple of times. i used to like gerry springer for the entertainment value till i found out it was all staged.
I think if i were in their circumstances as you mentioned, i wouldnt want it broadcast on tv lol
October 25th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
i’m reading Portia’s post 791 above, and i’d appreciate it if someone can tell me if they’ve seen any reference anywhere to the scent of death having been detected in or near Murat’s house. where does his house lie in relation to the supermarket where the scent was detected?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Stevo,
The Third Way arguement isn’t complicated … it’s just pure logic …
October 25th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
783 Third Way
Most of all, why don’t we hear about people who have known Madeleine or(parents of) friends of her, the nanny (not the pennington one - I have heard enough of her), or the people of the creche who has been looking after her before they left for Portugal.There is in fact very little known of Madeleine.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
791 Portia
I think Madeleine may have gone to Murat’s house. The McCanns may very well know him and have been to his mother’s villa. I think there’s probably two stories here running in parallel. I think that perhaps the 2nd story is something they don’t want revealing and the main story is an unwanted irritation to revealing things they don’t want exposed but have nothing to do with Madeleine. If that makes sense…?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
787 just_me
Have you seen the Maury Show? It’s incredible how you can get women in there who have had sex with 20 men and come on the show to establish paternity because they don’t know which of the guys is the father. They sometimes do have some decent people on there who have found their biological parents and want proof of it but those low-life serial daters are incredible when they lie about who they’ve been with.
One guy’s excuse for having a used condom in his pocket was “because my buddy gave it to me as a joke”. Some very sick people…
October 25th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
783. The Portuguese Police have reported that the McCann’s statement that they did not know Murat is untrue. Before I read this, I did not think Murat was in any way involved. But the fact that the McCann’s needed to lie about their relationship with him changed my view on Murat. The police have also reported finding Maddie’s DNA in his home.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
777 Matt
Very funny in typical Connolly style but I think I’ll still keep using my lion-shit method because I don’t want to scare anyone like Billy Connolly!
October 25th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
725 just-me
g says to K “don’t say anything until they take the microphone off”
I saw it on Spanish TV, but when I watched it on sky news it had been edited
October 25th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
783 The Third Way
The trouble is…you’re doing our heads in because you don’t describe what the “way” is.
95% of us in here believe she died in the apartment or on May 3. How does that differ from what you’re saying?
If you told us what the “way” was, you’d have more supporters.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
784 - but the lie detector is only 98% proof, and they all claim they are in the other 2%, amazingly lol…seen it on jeremy kyle over here
October 25th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Free poster with every good quality wristband. . .eh?
http://store.findmadeleine.com/
October 25th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
howdy Uta,batman,Pray for,Portuguese police batman and i don’t blame them,ask yourself the question,why would i hire the best extradition lawyer available,and yes Uta i know murat is a red herring,as for pat brown she doesn’t seem to want to answer any direct questions,lots of print but saying nothing that hasn’t been said on here for months,makes me wonder at any rate.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
776 Remigius
Every weekday morning here in the US at 9am is the “Maury Show”. Basically this guy - Maury Povitch, does DNA testing on paternity and “other” issues. It’s trashy TV like a different flavour to Jerry Springer’s show.
Yesterday for instance, he had a girl who had her boyfriend’s boxer shorts in a bag with a “mystery stain” on them. They took the shorts and had them forensically analysed. The drama in the show is where they listen to the people involved and then Maury reveals the results of DNA testing for paternity or in this case - infidelity.
It’s funny more than anything but what is so astounding is hearing these people lie before the tests come out.
Gerry and Kate McCann would be awesome on this show.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Boys and Girls, I’ve seen a few contributions trying to discredit the Third Way. Weak attempts I have to say. As we all know it is not possible to discredit the Third Way because the Third Way is the only way.
Madeleine died on the 3rd of May. Her body was removed from the room and hidden by someone who knew the McCanns and was party to whichever unconventional relationships they keep with their “friends”. Not because this someone was backward, not because this someone was greedy or because this someone was a friend. Simply because this someone is implicated in exactly the same unconventional behaviour of the McCanns and very possibly responsible for Madeleine’s death.
If someone is reading and thinks the Third Way is fiction created by a lunatic, find me other friends of the McCanns (who were not in the Algarve) and ask them to come forward with a statement saying - they are a normal balanced couple, they are not involved in unconventional relationships, and we strongly believe that they had nothing to do with Madeleine’s disappearance.
The Third Way knows its way- and knows that the only way is the Third Way.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
776
“I did not have sex with that woman”
October 25th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Batman,
I understand that the Antena3 programme was filmed at Brian Kennedy’s (double glazing, not avuncular retired head) home and assumed (perhaps wrongly) that it had been arranged by Clarence Mitchell.
They probably have PR representation in Portugal as well, and I totally agree with you - there seem to be a lot of hired hands of the PR/Legal variety. I laughed out loud when I first heard they’d engaged the bloke who dealt with Pinochet’s extradition rap.
I don’t wish the McCanns any harm personally, but the PR crap is demeaning to them and, more importantly to their little girl. I just want to see some love and compassion for her, because wherever she is, she really needs it.
Going now, because if I don’t get some work done, I’m going to be in trouble.
.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
776
I did not have sex with that woman
October 25th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
murat quite possibly had connections with other members of the group ie O’brian and his partner Tanner
October 25th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
768 Uta Hagen
Yep…I agree. There’s always people on the fringes of an investigation and they tend to cloud the real “meat” of an investigation. I think Murat is like that.
Plus, his mother lives there. It’s not like he is a transient visitor to PDL. A local there is bound to be seen around more than a holidaymaker.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
755..Stevo
Billy Connelly (Scottish Comedian) told a story of
how to get rid of JW’s.
He would go to the door and without opening it would ask
..”Are you J W’s??
Muttering outside but no reply.
He asked again, (more loudly this time).
Pause….”Er…yes we are”
Then Billy would say “Am telling you now…Am standing
this door NAKED and I Have a FULL ERECTION and in ten
seconds am opening the door”
“ONE, TWO…”
Sounds of footsteps hurridly running away.
Much funnier hearing him tell it…I know..
October 25th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
536 Brandon flours
559 Stevo
72 Steve T
115 Andrew
and All
RE: THOSE TALKING HEAD MCCANNS!
Many thanks to Elmer Quigley Gooseburger for posting the interview.
My message to all Anorakers is, watch the McCanns’ HEADS carefully while they jabber.
Gerry says his last thought was how lucky he was to be “the father” of three children, but then shakes his head “NO” several times while saying this.
Kate says, “We are totally innocent” but then shakes her head “NO” again and again. She might be saying “NO” mentally to the word “totally.”
It’s coming down, pathetically for them, to a battle of semantics. “We know we are innocent. We know she was taken.”
Since they don’t shake their heads “NO” when they say this, these statement appear to be true. But HOW true are they?
The McCanns say they’re “innocent,” but of WHAT? Of murdering Madeleine? Maybe so–murder requires a very explicit form of intent. But there are lesser forms of homicide the PJ may rightly suspect them of.
Was Madeleine “taken?” Well, taken WHERE? And was she “taken” ALIVE? Or was she DEAD” when she was “taken?”
Kate says, “Please help us, please help us as a family, please help Madeleine…please bring Madeleine home.”
Well, don’t the McCanns want to bring her home…ALIVE? If so, why don’t they SAY that?
And note the descending order of the requests–Kate and Gerry come first, then the “family,” and then the missing child, and then a kind of open-ended one, implying subconsciously, maybe there is an actual body out there.
Maybe physical traces of Madeleine CAN still be found, albeit so decomposed that cause of death will be hard to determine, and DNA so degraded that the investigation will be impeded so that no charges can be brought. Is this why Gerry says, so confidently on television, “They’re [the PJ's DNA tests] not going to show anything to implicate us?”
You know, the oddest thing about the JonBenet Ramsey killing is how the police, first believing that the crime was kidnapping, searched the house for the child and did not find her body (because the house was very large and rambling), but THEN John Ramsey, the father, ran down to the basement and quite quickly found the child’s body hidden in a very obscure place. How did Ramsey know EXACTLY where to look in the crowded lower basement room?
By the way, the vid shows that Gerry’s had quite a HAIRCUT recently! It looks like he may even have done it himself!
As for Criminal Profiler Pat Brown’s theory that a deranged woman took Madeleine, I have to ask: Why would such a deranged woman (presumably wanting a child) take Madeleine, when the twins–younger, almost babies–were right there next to Madeleine? A deranged woman would likely take one of the younger children.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
773 spooky lol
October 25th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
770 Pat Brown
Here’s the 2nd paragraph:
What is the point of releasing tons of old images of Madeleine when a more contemporary one is more important? We know they had a digital camera and who would only take one photo on May 3 and even go to the lengths to document the timing of that last photo and say “Madeleine had her photo taken then went to the creche”? It makes no sense. I think the last photo may be a forgery and if it is, it was incredibly easy to create. Here is my analysis of it after removing Madeleine from the picture:
http://tinyurl.com/3cxcvf
October 25th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
just_me
It worked just then when I did it in post 770. How weird is that?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
406 Maria
Sorry, but they did NOT answer the interviewer’s questions. When he asks k,was she the last to see Madeleine alive, she evades the question, looks away, shakes her head…and then the man himself steps in and says..”I saw her, I saw her and thought how beautiful she was…” The question wasn’t answered as to who saw her last. The interviewer himself has said they answered no questions really…and that he was warned before the show not to ask questions. I can tell you there’s a lot more that reporter wanted to ask, but he had the PR team breathing down his neck…had he pushed just a little more, they would have stopped him. I’ve said before the interview was almost called off because the PR team warned “no questions about the night, just talk about the new phone line implemented”
It’s only because the interviewer would not comply that in the end the show went ahead, but almost entirely under their own rules and because in the end the PR relised it would look bad if they pulled out at the last minute, not wanting questions put to them.
What a farce!!
October 25th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
767 Stevo
You must be using some naughty words that are being SPAMMED. Try it a paragraph at a time?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
673 Criminal Profiler Pat Brown
Thanks. Your “cardboard cutout” scenario sounds just the ticket. I also find it incredible that the only two published photos since May 3 were released to the media on May 24 - 21 days after the disappearance. There’s the poolside “last photo” and another one of Gerry playing with all 3 kids by the plastic castle at Ocean Club.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
767 -ahh ok