Madeleine McCann: Michaela Walczuch At The Door, JonBenet Ramsey And Metodo 3 ‘A Pup’
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY MIRROR: “Did they want my girl?”
Karen Sixsmith is in conversation with the Mirror. It is an “EXCLUSIVE”. She is in an apartment at the Ocean Club, Praia da Luz. It is a month before Madeleine McCann went missing
A woman knocks at her door. She claims to be a Jehovah’s Witness. “German-born” Michaela Walczuch is a Jehovah’s Witness, or has been. The “mysterious woman” at the door is with a man.
Says Sixsmith: “It was a blonde woman, 35 to 40 years old, English-speaking. She had a pamphlet and I knew straight away that she was a Jehovah’s Witness. She asked if she could come into the apartment to talk about her faith. I took the pamphlet from her and closed the door. I now think it may have been Murat and his girlfriend”
Michaela Walczuch is 34
Karen has a daughter called Kate – “Kate is strikingly similar to Madeleine…Kate would have stood out a mile with her blonde hair and blue eyes - just like Madeleine”
Says the Mirror: “Her testimony - given to the Sunday Mirror so we could pass it on to the McCanns’ private investigators Metodo 3 in Barcelona”
NEWS OF THE WORLD: “Snatch bid last year at Maddie flat”
“A man tried to kidnap a child at the same apartment Madeleine McCann vanished from SIX MONTHS before she went missing,” says a British nanny who “caught the pervert trying to climb in through the ground floor window while a baby slept inside”
DAILY EXPRESS: “BABYSITTER SAW WINDOW MAN”
A source says “A babysitter has given detectives a statement in which she claims she caught a man trying to climb in through a window of apartment 5A – the apartment later occupied by the McCanns”
THE PEOPLE: “SICKENING SMEAR CAMPAIGN - FAMILY’S EMOTIONAL PLEA FOR MISSING DAUGHTER’S RETURN”
“Cops spent days investigating a theory the couple did it because they were desperate for cash”
It is a “sickening smear” making headlines in Portuguese paper 24 Horas
“NO QUIZ FOR MURAT LOVE” - Tuck Price, “a pal of German born Walczuch”, reveala: “I know for sure she’s been going to her Jehovah’s meetings and I know for sure the police haven’t contacted her. If this was true I’m sure the police would have been on to her”
“Find Maddie and give us a miracle for Christmas..” - “Maddie’s grandfather Brian Healy revealed how the family are convinced that she is alive and how they are now hoping for the ultimate Christmas miracle.” Says he: “We will all buy her a Christmas present and they will be under the tree waiting for her when she comes home”
GLASGOW SUNDAY MAIL: “Fury Over ‘Maddie Sold’ Slur”
An “outrageous slur”
A source says: “For several days the judicial police team investigated the possibility that the child had been sold by her own parents because of financial difficulties”
DAILY STAR: “MADDIE: 10 NEW SUSPECTS”
“Spanish investigators hunting for Madeleine McCann have narrowed their search to a hit list of ten paedophiles, we can reveal. Detectives working for the Metodo 3 agency are blitzing locations in Europe and Africa to find the known sex offenders”
Why this ten? Why ten?
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We have every confidence in Metodo 3. They can get to places faster and work quicker than anyone else and have the capacity to work worldwide”
BURNLEY EXPRESS: “Girls’ symbolic silence for Madeleine McCann”
Chelsea Gallagher and Gemma Lee, both 13, raised £450 for the Madeleine McCann Fund with a sponsored cuff-and-silence.
“For an entire school day, Chelsea and Gemma, 13, were handcuffed together and remained silent.” Says Chelsea: “The handcuffs symbolised the people who will be caught, and the silence because we haven’t heard anything about Madeleine”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCann: is there no hope left?”
“Bristling with bravado before the television cameras last week, Francisco Marco, the portly boss of the Spanish-based detective agency Metodo 3, sneeringly dismissed the Portuguese police investigation into the disappearance of the couple’s daughter, Madeleine, as ”bumbling”, and boasted: ‘’We know who the kidnappers are and we are very, very close to catching them.’ Off camera, he admitted: ‘No, I can’t disclose any more yet. But I will be proved right.’”
Marco will get his man. A PI always does. Sign the contract. Pay the fee…
A source “close to” the McCanns says: ”The harsh fact is that they were pinning their remaining hopes on Marco’s outfit when they hired them on a six-month contract in September. But, in the past few weeks, they have conceded that they might have been sold a pup. There’s no doubt they’ve worked round the clock, but they don’t have a lot of experience with this type of investigation”
But there are for months left on the contract…
THE GUARDIAN: “Panorama walk-out over McCann film”
“Why did TV journalist David Mills, the producer of a Panorama film on the McCann affair, quit the project before it was transmitted last week? The Observer’s David Rose reveals the inside story of the latest row to hit the BBC’s flagship show”
Sensationalism? Tabloid journalism? Crime as entertainment?
Mills wrote a script. It was not used. “His original film would have compared Madeleine to the JonBenet Ramsey case in Colorado, about which Mills has made three previous documentaries. After the body of JonBenet, a child beauty pageant winner aged six, was found in her parents’ Boulder home, they were vilified by the police and media, despite their continued insistence that they had nothing to do with her death. They claimed she had been killed by an intruder…Years later DNA evidence proved beyond doubt that JonBenet had been killed by an intruder. John Ramsey told Panorama: ‘It’s a life-time damage. No question about it.’”
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November 25th, 2007 at 11:04 am
First they have to discredit them. Mind you that has happened already!
November 25th, 2007 at 11:03 am
17…pat
Well….if they sack them….we will soon know.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:01 am
I wonder if the metado 3 are uncovering more than the mcc’s want them to know?
November 25th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Tony Bennett, what a bunch of horse crap. I think they’re guilty as sin, but medical science and controlled studies have proved this psychological cause of illness, at least in the case of cancer, and death is a bunch of rubbish. You’re going on New Age “science” not the real variety. Leave medical pronouncements to the professionals — the doctors — like Kate and Gerry McCann
November 25th, 2007 at 10:57 am
“”"David Mills “”" re Panorama Prog in his letter to “Sandy”
“”"”The real question must be how, without any meaningful evidence, the
Portuguese police and the media in Portugal and Britain have been able to
convince most people that the couple were involved.”"”"”"
It certaintly wouldn’t have been anything to do with you, Davey me lad.
David Mills….Staunch supporter of Dr G P McCann and Dr K McCann…under
his pretence of being an Investigative TV Journalist.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Jehovah’s Witnesses are predatory wolves in sheep’s clothing religious hypocrites.
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Mods and Admin
Mary, that is a little strong, could you lessen you condemnation, or all other faiths shall feel left out.
But if you are meaning the possible paedophile connection , then that can be indulged in by all beliefs, allegedly.
It can appear that different religions do harbour criminal activity, but as can be the case, criminals can hide behind a pillar of establishment in order to gain respectability and have contact with their intended victims WITHOUT arousing suspicion
November 25th, 2007 at 10:55 am
10 Patch wrote: “The mother of JonBenet could not cope with what she had done…”
REPLY: Yes, I think she gradually disintegrated internally - psychologically and physically. Sometimes this process takes a long time - but if the parents are involved in Madeleine’s death and ‘disappearance’, and either of them have any vestige of a conscience left, it will play on their minds - and it will work itself out into the open somehow in their bodies and in their minds
November 25th, 2007 at 10:52 am
9 ned Says: November 25th, 2007 at 10:39 am
6, Besides, I don’t think that paying a license fee gives the right to DEMAND whatever from the broadcasters, apart from impartial news and current affair [as well as good programmes, films and documentaries BEFORE midnight
TOSH so if you went to a supermarket and the manager started to fill your trolly with things you dont want,you are saying you would be happy to pay for them?????
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Well…. If I didn’t have to pay at the checkout for whatever had been put in my trolley, I might be prepared to put up with the contents…
November 25th, 2007 at 10:51 am
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ned Says:
November 25th, 2007 at 10:39 am
“TOSH so if you went to a supermarket and the manager started to fill your trolly with things you dont want,you are saying you would be happy to pay for them?????”
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Strange comparison. And after all, I did mention impartial news & good programmes, no? So, if you we stay with your example: in a supermarket there are all kinds of different things and brands on offer. You chose what you want to have. On television there are all kinds of different programmes on offer. You chose which ones you want to see. There’s more than one supermarket for you to chose from. There is more than one channel for you to chose from. You may decide not to go to the supermarket. You may decide to use the on/off switch on your t.v. set.
I propose to abandon this subject now, as it bears no relation to the actual discussion. Sorry, I reacted in the first place. Professional deformation, I guess
November 25th, 2007 at 10:46 am
I am fervently opposed to either of the despicable duo using the death and then disappearance of their child into a career opportunity. Kate in child welfare? Stomach churning. Gerry in politics? I suppose that field is full of liars and the corrupt but I pray that he remains arguido and, as such, is unable to gain further celebrity from a crime. I hope their lives are made so unbearable that they crack. The mother of JonBenet could not cope with what she had done. Let’s see if the McCanns and their partners in crime manage to live with their deeds.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:39 am
6, Besides, I don’t think that paying a license fee gives the right to DEMAND whatever from the broadcasters, apart from impartial news and current affair [as well as good programmes, films and documentaries BEFORE midnight
TOSH so if you went to a supermarket and the manager started to fill your trolly with things you dont want,you are saying you would be happy to pay for them?????
November 25th, 2007 at 10:35 am
From previous thread.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/25/wmaddy125.xml
”The harsh fact is that they were pinning their remaining hopes on Marco’s outfit when they hired them on a six-month contract in September. But, in the past few weeks, they have conceded that they might have been sold a pup. There’s no doubt they’ve worked round the clock, but they don’t have a lot of experience with this type of investigation.”
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More evidence of McCanns getting ready to get rid of Metodo 3?
November 25th, 2007 at 10:35 am
More farcical headlines based on what? Ridiculous fairy tales. I dread looking at the headlines. I am going to concentrate on letter writing this week, rather than endless speculation and wasting my time arguing with mindless pro McCanns.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Dot Says:
November 25th, 2007 at 10:09 am
“I think UK is the only country in the world where owners of TV sets have to buy a license.”
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Not really. I think, at least in Western Europe, one does pay a yearly license for having t.v.-set[s]. Sometimes it’s included in other taxes, sometimes it’s specified on these taxes or charged separately. E.g. here in France it is specified on the “taxe d’habitat”. Fortunately only one charge per household; it used to be PER t.v. set, which could be very costly having more than one [as we "all" have nowadays] …
Besides, I don’t think that paying a license fee gives the right to DEMAND whatever from the broadcasters, apart from impartial news and current affair [as well as good programmes, films and documentaries BEFORE midnight
November 25th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Baby Grace news.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5325283.html
Family hopes DNA not linked to Baby Grace
November 25th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Unlike the JonBenet case, there are 9 involved in the story here, not just the 2 parents.
Assuming the Porto police cannot prove it yet, there’s no way 9 will be able to keep on message for ever.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:12 am
2…Dot
I would have felt much, much more “cheated” if Mr Mill’s idea of the type of
Programme “suitable” had been the one which was aired.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:09 am
I have just read the Guardian Account, including the David Mills letter to Sandy Smith, and feel that the MCCANNS have been CHEATED by the BBC. Disgaceful!!! `They get the licence money paid by UK residents including the McCann family. I think UK is the only country in the world where owners of TV sets have to buy a license.
Dot
November 25th, 2007 at 10:06 am
From Anorak’s daily summary (above): “Years later DNA evidence proved beyond doubt that JonBenet had been killed by an intruder…”
REPLY: I don’t think so. The best-researched book on the subject, published recently, is very clear that JonBenet Ramsey was done to death by a furious mother in an uncontrollable rage. The parents then hid the body in the basement and only a very thorough police search found it