Madeleine McCann: Jane Tanner’s eFit, A Spanish Angel And Wearing Pink Pyjamas
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE – 70% DON’T BELIEVE McCANNS”
The McCanns are on the TV in Spain. The show is followed by a phone vote. The people vote, at least some of them do; how many, we are not told. One, two, three..? Gerry is a “cardiologist”
Pages 4 and 5: “Police: Parents are hampering probe.” Angel Galan, head of the Spanish National Police’s kidnap, extortion and murder squad says: “There is no real information to indicate that Madeleine could be in Spain although Mr and Mrs McCann might think so. I think the question is why couldn’t she be in France or in the UK? Why does it have to be Spain, Portugal or Morocco?”
“Drawing that could catch her abductor” – an artist’s impression of a man carrying a child in the vicinity of the McCanns holiday complex on May 3. The man is of average height, of average build, with dark hair and with his facial features not filled in. Do you know him?
The artist was commissioned by the McCanns in light of a person their friend Jane Tanner said she saw on the night Madeleine disappeared
THE SUN front page: “PICTURE SENSATION. He took Maddie – MAN SEEN BY McCANNS’ PAL ON FATEFUL NIGHT”
A drawing of a man. The caption: “Hunted…a drawing of man with child in his arms as seen by Jane Tanner”
Page 13: “MADDIE IN ARMS OF SNATCHER. Pyjamas ‘prove it is her’” – The man is 5ft 6. He is 5ft 10 in the Express. He is “slim”. The girl is wearing pink and white pyjamas. The man is in a maroon shirt, camel coloured trousers and black or brown shoes
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We hope this will go a long was to proving the independent eyewitness account that she was taken by someone and the police’s focus on Kate and Gerry as potential suspects is wrong”. See drawing of a man seen by McCanns’ friend
And: “We believe it does show Madeleine in his arms. The description of the pyjamas is accurate enough to believe that is the case.” The McCanns’ friend sees the girl wearing pyjamas like those worn by Madeleine, whom she knows
“GERRY BACK AT WORK” – Gerry McCann is a “cardiologist” – lest we ever forget
DAILY MIRROR front page: “This is the man who took our Madeleine. PARENTS RELEASE SKETCH”
Page 11: “’He was slim with untidy black hair, plastered back. He was hurrying with a child in pink pyjajmaas’” (No songs please)
“’KIDNAPPER’ SEEN BY KATE’S PAL”
Paul Routledge: “All I want to do is put my arms around her and say: ‘there, there’ while she sobs out her grief on my shoulder”
DAILY MAIL front page: “Friends’ fears for ‘increasingly fragile’ Kate”
Pages 8 and 9: “Is Kate at breaking point?” – If she cracks up will the papers like her better? “Friends fear for Maddie’s mother after TV ordeal”
“SPANISH EYES” – The McCanns have launched a private “proxy investigation” in Spain. Under Portuguese law it is illegal to use private detectives while an investigation is ongoing
The mystery man who may have taken her” – Mrs Tanner sees the man. She is later “racked with guilt”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE PARENTS ‘HIDING TRUTH’ – 70 per cent of TV viewers thinks McCanns are lying”
Pages 4 and 5: “BODY LANGUAGE SPECIALIST GIVES HIS VERDICT ON KATE – ‘MUM WOULD BE VERY GOOD POKER PLAYER’.” Robert Phipps watches the interview with Kate McCann on Spanish TV. She is frowning, and expert Phipps says this is indicative of “pain” and stress. Who knew? We do not know if he then voted in the subsequent poll
THE TIMES front page: “Madeleine ‘abductor’” – The white man is of “medium build”
Page 9: “’This is the man who took Madeleine away’” – The Times says the new picture bears “no resemblance to Robert Murat”. The picture has been handed to the McCanns’ detectives who are operating across Europe and North Africa
DAILY TELEGRAPH front page: “Madeleine ‘abductor’” – This is the man Jane Tanner says she saw at 9:15pm on May 3
THE INDEPENDENT and THE GUARDIAN: No Madeleine news today
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October 26th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Garth why not simply say what you mean rather than with your eye rolling no matter how beautiful a shade of green or blue they are. I asked a serious question. How was she abducted if there is not a paedo either singular or plural working in PdL? Or are you saying she was taken by a kindly but whacky couple who wanted a child of their own?
October 26th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
1042
where have you been thea “m” wasn’t abducted - the parents done it!!! er hello
October 26th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Garth 1038- are you Scottish?
1. Numpty
Scottish usage:
a) Someone who (sometimes unwittingly) by speech or action demonstrates a lack of knowledge or misconception of a particular subject or situation to the amusement of others.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
1044. Marc Bolan,
Are you still as cute as you were when singing Jeepster?
October 26th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
1044 - T-rex
We don’t want to get political!
October 26th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
933 Garth Says:
Edit….. You think because they left their tots on their own their guilty. End of.
+++++++++++++++++++++
This seems to be a popular area of ‘discussion’ with pro and anti McCann camps?
I doubt anyone in here who doesn’t have some inside track to either those involved in whatever crime(s) may have been committed, or the police doing the investigation, has any real proof of whether Madeleine was abducted or not. Lots of us have opinions/positions on the matter, just no proof either way.
Assume for the moment that Madeleine was abducted. That being the case, then I believe her parents are complicit in that outcome since they helped create the circumstances that made the abduction possible. From what has been posted here and elsewhere, it seems unlikely that they would be considered criminally negligent for their choice of baby listening service. Some of us might like to jump up and down and insist that they ought to be held criminally negligent but we can’t write the law on the hoof.
Whatever their regular babysitting practices may have been, it does not naturally follow that they are therefore capable of dastardly crimes against their young daughter nor offer any insight into any irregular practices that they may or may not have been involved in. Other evidence needs to be produced to prove any claims of crime in these respects.
And if Madeleine wasn’t abducted by a stranger(s), then the whole debate about their rubbish baby listening service is irrelevant because it’s just a complex fabrication designed to focus the investigation into a time window when in all probability no crime(s) were committed – in relation to Madeleine that is!
Views about how “wacko” some/many of us may feel the McCann’s are, are irrelevant in a court of law. There are plenty of ‘wackos’ wandering the earth, so far as I can discern this is not generally considered a crime in ‘civilised’ society.
So, their alleged baby listening service is an appalling parenting choice, in my opinion. It proves nothing about other crimes that may or may not have been committed.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Bollox and bastards.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
1042
LOL - Thea are you serioius?
October 26th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Garth, I don’t know where you get your information but Portugal has very low crime rate and very few missing children.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
1038 now now garthy. Chill out and re read, its brian your old mate
October 26th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
When are you all going to wake up,there will be no justice in this life,just ask Dr.Kelly or the young Brazilian shot on the tube,Britain is a fascist police state.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
But Julie…………keep an open mind.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
1034. Well Stig I know terrible things happen in all parts of the world but are saying the paedo wasn’t in PdL? If not then how did he/she abduct M?
October 26th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Julie 1036
How many times have we heard that the PJ under Amaral haven’t followed leads? Someone new is on the case. Its moving forward. Go with it!
October 26th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Pat Brown 1033 and all on Anorak- do long posts mess with Anorak. I tried numerous times to post about”crack or you are innocent”, Lesley Molseed case, my comment 1031 with loads of hassle?
October 26th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Thank you Pat Brown for an excellent post.
For me this was a major turnaround moment when I heard Gerry say:
Gerry McCann commented in one interview: “In about the middle of June things, about five or six weeks, things were going really very, very quiet and I was actually quite glad of that and I thought we would start to get back to a more normal existence and a quieter form of campaigning, using the Internet and raising and broadening the political issues which have been highlighted to us and I saw that as a long term focus.”
I agree very much with everything you have said especially:
For a parent to have any interest in political issues so soon after his child has gone missing when the one and only concern should be finding their loved one, is extremely bizarre. That Gerry should see his long term focus at this point in time as a political one is also very concerning. This statement would be less concerning if a few years had passed and the McCanns, accepting they were likely never to find their daughter, wanted to do something to help others not suffer as they had and to do something in their daughter’s name. But, to think this way so early on indicates Gerry believes or knows his daughter is dead and indicates more self-interest than interest in his daughter’s welfare.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
1037 -Ian/Ade or whoever
Go and do yourself and us a favour and bog off. Ya numpty!
October 26th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
garthy and stiggy.
when are you both going to wake up?
are you both just narrow minded , or are you just THICK?
October 26th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
1025 Garth …. independent witnesses ……. pop up six months after the fact ….. yes, fairly unbelievable! As is the latest “sketch” ….. six months after the fact …… why not sooner if it’s so important?
October 26th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Thea
Very unlikley. And anyway Thea - there’s always a first. And if this person gets away with it…………..you could be right….there might just be another. Although I seriously doubt from the same town. And who’s to say this person hasn’t done it before? Somewhere else in Portugal. A lot of children seem to go missing. This maybe the start to an end!
October 26th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
1027 thea
Who said the pedo has to be in Portugal? It is quite unreal, some of the things that go on:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2002184.ece
October 26th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
MY PRESENT TAKE ON THE MCCANN CASE
One of the problems with trying to understand what has happened in a crime is being on the outside of the police investigation and not knowing the whole truth of what is going on. My speculation, as is true with all of us outside the investigation, professionals included, is based on limited information. Having said that, sometimes the police have the same problem. They may have limited information due to lack of evidence, lying witnesses, incorrect scientific conclusions, altered crime scenes (staged or accidentally altered), etc. So they actually are in the same boat, only a better constructed and less leaky one.
So, in a sense, it is a struggle to solve a crime, from the inside or outside. We theorize, search for evidence, theorize some more, search for evidence, and so on, until, hopefully, we have evidence conclusive enough to affect an arrest and conviction. Sometimes the evidence never reaches that state and, even if the police are pretty darn sure who is guilty, they still cannot arrest them or they know they cannot get a conviction.
As to the professionalism of the PJ’s investigation, I cannot comment on that. They may have failed in some respects and done well in some respects. I don’t have enough information. Generally speaking, most police departments will claim they do an excellent job following procedure, but in reality, sometimes it is less than perfect because police officers are human and vary in skill and competence. I have worked with some police departments that have done awesome work and others that make me cringe. Sometimes it is a lack of finances; sometimes it is departmental inefficiency; sometimes you just have a sad bunch of not to bright blokes. Every profession suffers these problems. Every profession tries to do their best with what they have and most police departments want to be a credit to their profession and work to be so.
To the McCann case; I don’t have a clue as to the physical evidence or timeline because of police silence and all the rumors. Therefore it is really hard to actually analyze how the crime went down. But, I will go ahead with what I generally think on the matter.
POSSIBILITIES IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MADLEINE MCCANN
• Maddie is unlikely to have wandered off and drowned.
• Maddie was unlikely to have been kidnapped by a pedophile ring.
• Maddie is unlikely to have wandered off and been abducted though that COULD have happened (if there is no physical evidence of harm or death coming to Maddie in the apartment). If this is true, she is very likely dead.
• Maddie could have been abducted by a child predator that lived nearby. If this is true, she is likely dead.
• Maddie could have been medicated and died accidentally while her parents were at the restaurant. If this were true, the body of Maddie would have had to be moved from the flat and hidden or hidden within the flat prior to Kate’s cry that Maddie was missing. If this is true, Maddie is dead.
• Maddie could have died accidentally prior to the McCann’s going to dinner, giving them more time to move or hide Maddie’s body. The time at the restaurant and the checks on the kids would establish an alibi and move the time of “disappearance” further from any possible witness sightings of earlier suspicious activities of the McCanns. If this is true, Maddie is dead.
• Kate killed Maddie, purposefully, or in a rage, and Gerry came back from tennis and found Maddie dead. He helped cover up the crime. If this is so, Kate would likely suffer from Munchausen’s syndrome by Proxy (if she killed Maddie on purpose – MSP is the label for a female psychopath who harms or kills her children; husbands of MSP women tend to be detached and very oblivious or accepting of their wive’s behaviors) or another serious psychiatric disorder (if she killed Maddie accidentally). They could have removed or hidden Maddie’s body before going to dinner or the body could have been dealt with by Gerry during his checks on the children. If this is true, Maddie is dead.
• Gerry came back and killed Maddie in a rage. If this is so, Gerry would be likely rate high on a psychopathy checklist and be very controlling). Maddie’s body would have been dealt with before or during the evening. If this is true, Maddie is dead.
• Kate killed Maddie, purposefully, or in a rage, and moved or hid her body without Gerry’s knowledge. She would have had to manipulate Gerry into not noticing his daughter in bed (“Maddie’s already asleep, let’s go) before going to the restaurant. She would then possibly have hoped Gerry would do the checks and find Maddie missing, distancing herself from the crime. Maybe, if Gerry actually didn’t do visual checks, Kate finally got fed up and went and did the check herself. If this is so, Kate would likely suffer from Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy or another serious psychiatric disorder. If this is true, Maddie is dead.
These are all the possibilities I can think of based on very limited information,
I believe only two basic scenarios are worth spending much time on;
Maddie was taken by a child predator.
Maddie died in the apartment and the parents are covering up a crime.
In both cases, Maddie is likely dead.
THE SUSPECTS
Robert Murat is a good suspect. He should be kept on the suspect list (even if not officially) until there is evidence that contradicts his involvement in the disappearance of Maddie or until another person is arrested.
Police should continue investigating for the possibility of another child predator who could have been responsible for the disappearance of Maddie.
The McCanns are good suspects. They were the last people to have been known to see Maddie alive and their behaviors are very concerning. They should stay on the suspect list (even if not officially) until there is evidence that contradicts their involvement in the disappearance of Maddie or until another person is arrested.
Because of the following behaviors, I tend to lean toward the McCannd been involved with the disappearance, and therefore, death of their daughter, Maddie.
THE MCCANNS
They left three very young children unattended while they pursued pleasure for themselves. This is a sign of narcissism and a lack of attachment to one’s children.
Both Kate and Gerry speak about Madeleine in a very impersonal and flat manner. Gerry writes nothing personal about Maddie on his blog. Maddie seems more like an abstraction than a real child. This is a sign of lack of normal attachment.
Kate states that the last words of Maddie before she went missing were “Today has been the best day of my life.” Maddie’s last words are unusual for a three-year-old girl. Kids that young don’t usually have a concept of their “life.” “I am having the best time,” and “I am having fun” are more normal statements for that age. Next, Kate says Maddie was “very pleased with her life,” also an odd comment for an adult to say of her child. Both statements lead me to believe Kate knows Maddie is dead because of her emphasis on the inclusion of the word “life,” as though there were a set of parentheses around the first day of her life and the last. Kate may want to convince herself that she gave Maddie a good life, right up until her last day, the best day of her life. Also, it is quite common for people involved in the death of a relative to exaggerate the perfection of their relationship or the last moments to insinuate that nothing negative was going on between the parties and, therefore, nothing untoward could have occurred.
The McCanns have never personally offered the reward on television or posted the reward at the web site. Almost all parents of missing children do this.
If Kate really believes Maddie is alive and being cared for in someone’s home, she would make continual direct pleas to the captor for Maddie’s return (“Please just drop her off any public location…”). Almost all parents of missing children who believe they are alive will do this.
Neither Kate of Gerry have taken or indicate they will take a polygraph. Parents of missing children do this to clear themselves so the police will not waste time focusing on them.
Kate and Gerry appearances show little fluctuation in emotion (except when they feel they are being accused of drugging Maddie). Neither breaks down and cries or blurts out anything with emotion (“Maddie! We love you, honey! Don’t give up! We will find you!” Or “Please give us our Maddie back! Oh my God, please!”) Usually in a set of parents, we will see emotions bounce around, one of them falling apart, one becoming angry; with the McCanns their answers are carefully constructed and evenly relayed. Their appearances feel more like performances than parents desperately trying to reach out to their child, the kidnapper or the public. Yes, they are British, but even a stiff-upper lip tends not to look like this under these circumstances.
There are muted flashes of anger, frustration, and annoyance directed from one of the McCanns to the other during their interviews which is very unusual for parents of a missing child. There is a strong feeling of control rather than support between the couple.
Gerry McCann commented in one interview: “In about the middle of June things, about five or six weeks, things were going really very, very quiet and I was actually quite glad of that and I thought we would start to get back to a more normal existence and a quieter form of campaigning, using the Internet and raising and broadening the political issues which have been highlighted to us and I saw that as a long term focus.”
For a parent to have any interest in political issues so soon after his child has gone missing when the one and only concern should be finding their loved one, is extremely bizarre. That Gerry should see his long term focus at this point in time as a political one is also very concerning. This statement would be less concerning if a few years had passed and the McCanns, accepting they were likely never to find their daughter, wanted to do something to help others not suffer as they had and to do something in their daughter’s name. But, to think this way so early on indicates Gerry believes or knows his daughter is dead and indicates more self-interest than interest in his daughter’s welfare.
Gerry’s blog focuses very little on Madeleine and more on his and Kate’s activities. The cheery quality of the blog and self-centeredness of the content is a sign of disconnect between Gerry and Madeleine and a sign of having moved on as if Gerry knows Maddie is already dead.
Kate states she had trouble sleeping during the first five days after Maddie went missing but has been sleeping fine since. Very few parents of abducted children can sleep very well knowing their child might be in pain, crying, and scared. Kate’s ability to sleep infers she is not worrying about Maddie because Maddie is dead already (or has an inability to feel empathy for others).
The quick return to normal activities is unusual for parents of abducted children; most obsess continually and can’t think of anything else and have trouble going through the simplest routines of life.
Kate and Gerry left their twins in Portugal while they went to see the Pope. Most parents of abducted children would be paranoid to be away from their other children for fear something would happen to them. Furthermore, to leave your children in the exact location where your other child was taken, whether one had a relative with them or not, is odd for parents who believe the abductor of their missing child is in the very same vicinity.
The McCanns left Portugal as soon as they became Aguidos. If the only reason they were made suspects was a legal one so the police could ask them important questions to help them clear themselves, they should have stayed to continue to help the police put the matter straight and get the focus off of them.
Much of the PR campaign at this point appears to be responding to public opinion and trying to answer their suspicions about the innocence of the McCanns, not finding Madeleine. Even in the latest move, the television appearance of the McCanns did not make a plea to the abductor or send a message to Maddie. It appeared to be a show to prove Kate has emotions. Following the show, an artist’s rendition of a supposed suspect was released many months after he was said to have been seen by one of their friends. The release of the picture will be counterproductive to actually finding Maddie, as not only is it based on a very questionable witness sighting, but may have nothing to do with Maddie. Such a picture will only elicit droves of worthless tips and waste police time. This is an unwise choice of strategy unless the purpose is to distract the police from focusing on the McCanns.
It is possible that the McCanns suffer from certain psychiatric designations that causes them behave in a manner which makes then look guilty of involvement in the disappearance of Maddie when in actuality, they had no part in it. For this reason, I can only say, they are good suspects; I cannot label them guilty.
SUMMARY
So, to recap, Madeleine McCann is 99% likely to be dead. My top suspects at this point, based on behavior and what information can be validated, are the McCanns. If I were a criminal profiler working with the police on the case, I would be focusing heavily on them as my investigative focus. However, I would not rule out the possibility of a child predator and, therefore, I would spend a portion of time pursuing leads and information that might prove this possibility to be true, and I would make sure I did not force fit any evidence to match my theories nor ignore any evidence that might point me away from those theories. As new evidence surfaced, I would take this into account, reanalyze the information, and adjust my conclusions accordingly.
I hope we will see progress soon in the investigation of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, so the whole matter can be put the rest and justice will be seen for this little girl and those who love her.
Criminal Profiler Pat Brown
October 26th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
1022
Wendy, that was my thinking at first as well. Something new will come along, the case will be tied up and people will move on. But if they do in fact choose to sue people, etc. I think we’ll keep hearing about this, if we don’t, their press surely will. So I think a rift will continue (not everlasting, but longer than I ever expected).
October 26th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Ferdinand 865- “if they don’t crack(the Mcs) then they are innocent.” Not sure if it was your direct quote.
Lots of criminals don’t crack and live a relatively normal life.
Lesley Molseed , age 11, murdered 1975 is the latest. Advances in DNA technology have determined Stefan Kiszko was innocent after 16years in jail.
Ronald Castree, has recently been arrested for her murder due to advances in DNA technology. He had been arrested for assault and gross indecency on a 9yr old girl previously and the police at the time had said they would get him for Lesleys murder. On his recent arrest he said he had been waiting for this ie his arrest in connection with Lesleys murder. He did not crack, he was married and carrie don with his life. Truth will out!. I hope for Madeleines sake we are not on Anorak 30+ years later waiting for advances in technology to crack this case.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
“Sighting of a blond woman outside the apartment who was looking in through the window.”
Stig, both Fiona Payne and Kate McCann are very blonde.
Just curious: Why is it important to mention the nationality of Smith?
October 26th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
1005
Garth Says:
October 26th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
977 Julie
Lets get off the subject of who’s to blame. Put it to the back of your little narrow mind. And lets talk about new developents shall we? Because if we don’t look at every ‘angle’ (as dippo puts it) then we may never know the truth. So lets just hope it may just lead to something. Hmm?
Firstly, Garthy, my mind is far from little or narrow! Why would you possibly want to wander off the subject of who’s to blame? The point at the top of my list is that if the parents of this missing child were more responsible (in more ways than one), Madeleine McCann would NOT be listed on Interpol as a missing child! I have tried to look at every angle of this case, but experience dictates here I’m afraid. NOTHING, but NOTHING supports the abduction theory! There are too many answers to each question which normally only requires ONE answer!
Abductors/paedophiles are very, very clever people and can normally fool practically everyone around them, but I’m afraid to say that with all the publicity that this case has received, there would have been a lead to Madeleine (dead or alive) by now!
And WHO is dippo?
October 26th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
972 susannah
“It has been said that Gordon Brown is blocking the lab results from being released.
It is assumed this is to protect the McCanns.
Perhaps it is to protect someone else whose DNA will have been found mixed with Madeleines.
Kate and Gerry get out now, you are going to take the fall.
Who was the 10th person at the table.”
You could only get that sort of high level cover-up for a naughty deed by a member of the royal family.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Garth and others who believe the abductor theory:
If there is a paedo in PdL wouldn;t more children be missing? Even just two including M?
October 26th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
1004 TRS
The Irish couple reported to have just left Kelly’s Bar on Rua de Calheta - this means that the man and child were moving south towards the church and beach. It also means that the man would have had to pass the reception area of the complex below the apartment block. To go towards Murat’s villa would have meant going in a completely different direction east along R Dr A da Silva while the Kelly’s would have seen the man on R Direita or Primiero do Maio going south.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Julie
Re Stigs post 1019
INDEPENDENT witnesses. Is it now so unbelievable?