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 6:20 pm
312 Thanks Sad.
Oh dear, Brian, what have you done to the McCanns credibility.
Now why doesnt this cause an eyebrow to twitch?
November 25th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Chateleine
Thanks for that info. The senseless arguments over the McCanns aside I did not realize that . Fair to say I do not know anyone living in France. I had French Pen friends in my schooldays which were not yesterday or the day before! Back to the BBC. They get all of the license money and independent companies rely on commercials etc., or so they complain. Listening to people it seems that they feel that the Panorama programme was censored. It would be wonderful if Madeleine could be found cared for.
She is the important one. In USA they had a laugh at the British when I told them we have to pay for watching TV!!!
As they say we can live long after we are laughed at! By the way, my local newsagent is at screaming pitch with the headlines in some papers. If they are front page he knows he will have a bad day!!!!
Dot
November 25th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Not sure if Patch is in here today but I have to draw attention to a post you made on Nov 23 and a comment which Judith C seized on and makes an incorrect inference:
“I admire Stevo considerably but his site has put Madeleine as autistic as a ‘fact’.”
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No I haven’t. I have put down a list of known attributes for Madeleine based on information published elsewhere. I have also named the sources. I have no more said that Madeleine’s height is any more or less accurate than the report by Strongwood (not me) that said Madeleine was autistic.
To make it 100% clear: I have never said Madeleine is autistic. All of Madeleine’s attributes are named on my Madeleine page. I make a detailed analysis on her height but that is based on her height as given by the PJ.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
315 Bishop
You forgot sedating the twins and Madeleine and cleaning up the blood, not to mention spilling it in the first place.
I bet they hate Tanner for doing the dirty on them and nailing the ‘end’ time!
November 25th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Stevo,
it is very interesting what you said about visits to your website. And this “no stone unturned” could be a consealed message. The Spring girl looks like BG also, if they rule her DNA out, I will become quite convinced that Bgmay be M.
Do you know anything specific about that Riley girl, whether she can match or not?
November 25th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
308 Stevo
I have told you before young man, you really shouldnt mention ‘DNA’.
Its not admissable in this case, for some reason McCann DNA isnt the same as normal DNA - it doesnt have any credibility.
Besides, after steam cleaning the car (especially the boot) the McCanns own testers (I think they were from Kwikfit) couldnt find any traces of Madeleine (or sedatives in Kates freshly boiled hair).
November 25th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
311
The Real Stig
Thats the one thank you.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
310 - Ian. Which means that our man has in 5 minutes flat:
- Emerged from under the bed / cupboard
- Whisked the girl out of her bed
- Vaulted out the window
- Legged it along the path the main entrance
- Pegged it down the street (presumably kicking himself for remembering a blanket but forgetting a get-away car!)
All carrying a sleeping kid.
It’s just SO likely!
November 25th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Matt,
I also recollect Ruth before, it does not mean she is not someone else, too.
Anyway, I do not know, I do not accuse, but guess, and it is my choice to not communicate with people who are compulsive multiposters, I am not blaming them though. My comments about s. are only written here because I want to warn other people not to rely on what he says blindly, as I used to - before some discoveries.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
300
Will
Ah, I thought C of E was the same as C in W (church in wales) where they hold a confessional for parishioners if requested but in a more relaxed way rather than the cubicle. The chap I spoke to stated that the C in W confessional (although not called that) is also bound by the ‘hypocritical’ oath (play on word). But I would imagine in a criminal ‘confession’, the rev/vicar would not be protected by his/her church the way RC’s are.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
305 Ian
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=496238&in_page_id=1770
(McCanns preparing their P.R. for when Metodo inevitably fail.)
November 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
293
annie123
“Within the first week or 2 of MM disappearing, I read that there had been an attempted burglary in one of the apartments. There was no mention of a child/baby sleeping in the apartment then.”
http://tinyurl.com/3d4ulf
November 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
304 Bishop
Urgent correction.
9:10 Gerry looked down on Maddies sleeping form and thought how lucky he was to be the PARENT (sic emphasis) of such beautiful children (I wonder what music played in his head during that endearing moment before he left her to her fate?).
At 915 Tanner saw the striding man carrying pink pj clad child (in sodium light - her eyes are interesting - maybe she’s a reptile or something).
Window of opportunity - 5 minutes max.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
carmen,
I understand what you are saying, and you are right, however, I hope that some people on this forum are willing to share any genuine info they can get, for the sake of truth and justice. Some of them might be connected to the case. Some may be angry or tired from lies. Who knows, maybe one day the person who killed the girl will tell about it - covering under some name like Hubbard…
November 25th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
303 The Real Stig
What a lot of people don’t realise when comparing the McCann case to the Chamberlain case is that forensic science has progressed beyond belief since then. DNA testing would have helped more than anything in the Chamberlain case because the blood was a key piece of evidence.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
303 The Real Stig
Just emailed the PJ to ask them to be on the look out for a pack of wild dingos.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
….and so that the neighbours don’t suspect that I’ve left 4 children unattended in an unlit house……erm…………erm……..think……….
I’m good at this lying lark……….
I know……..I’ll daub on the boarded up windows………. pretend there’s a hurricane coming………..
Phat Phil, I’m ready for you!!!!
Perfect, I don’t know why I’ve never done it before.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
301 Sad Git (and all!)
Has someing come to light about the McCanns detectives which I missed? Surely not discreditted yet? I was looking forward to the changing story as the clock ticked ever closer to 6 monthscontract ending!
This isntsomething to do with Brioan Kennedy being a JW and the PI’s making an issue of Murats girl friends JW leanings?
November 25th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
293 - annie: I think we can all imagine how the PJ ’suggested the idea’ to Gerry:
PJ: “You do realise that with the time-lines that you lot have come up with, you have boxed yourself into a corner”?
GM: “No - I don’t agree”
PJ: “If you see the girl at 9.00, and Tanner sees her being carried away at 9.15, then he only has 15 minutes. He can’t get in the front as it’s locked, and he can’t get it at the side - as you are chatting away with Wilkins. So Gerry, how did he get in?”…
GM: “Shit, em, er, I dunno.”
PJ: “Are you seriously going to try and claim that in a tiny 2-bed flat, that this ‘abductor’ was hiding under the bed? Or in the bath? or perhaps in a cupboard?”
GM: “Yes - that’s it! Thank you Mr PJ. I had a feeling there was someone there. Didn’t do anything about it of course, but at least it gets me out of the hole!”
November 25th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
238
Cheryl
Very good points you raise. I actually think there are closer simmilarities with the case of Lindy Chamberlain in Australia. If you ar not aware of the case, you might find it of interest.
http://www.lindychamberlain.com
November 25th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
287 Matt
Interesting on Panorama as well how Justine McGuiness came across as being tightly woven into the McCanns lives. That contrasts with the story of Gerry fuming and/or hitting the roof at her 20,000 pounds of overtime payments.
Also it makes me so angry when you hear those stories that the McCanns cried backstage. Why are all the emotions “backstage” or “off-set”? That’s so well worn now it’s annoying to keep hearing it.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
291 Matt
I’ve been convinced for ages that Metodo is some kind of P.R. company, not a detective agency at all. I can’t believe anybody has ever taken them seriously.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
239 annie
CoE vicars do not take confessional in its strictest sense. they may allow or even encourage parishoners (or other worshippers) to open up to them. They are not bound by any oath similar to RC Priests, moreover it is a matter of the individual clergy’s conscience. CoE clergy are not protected in law in the same way as RC priests.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
295…Bishop Brennan
Yep…
….and they put such a lot of effort into their M3 Report too. 
November 25th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
….but the dog……she could go crazy, okay, tie the dog up with a big bone to gnaw…….that’s okay………and the windows…….. I don’t have shutters………..board the windows up too!
I’ll get that trip to the pub, no one can stop me now!!!!
November 25th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
290 Stevo - talking about that, the ‘click’ noise she uses to describe the ‘window of opportunity’ interests me - I was wondering if the PJ chap said that sometimes a ‘click’ would solve the case might be talking about that 5 minute window.
Did he say that before or after the Kate interview (in which she also saiod ‘They know’….and paused….you could almost see the cogs turning. What was it she was going to say and why did she correct it? Have a watch of that bit - see what i mean? She changed tense, anything relevant do you think - or me looking too hard?!
November 25th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Time for me to eat….until later sleuths !!!
November 25th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
291 Matt: Let’s hope so. What is beyond doubt however is the folly of the BBC giving them such uncritical prominence on their panorama program. The team at the BBC must feel like a prize bunch of morons now!
November 25th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
289 Julie
Thanks and yes, I know it’s rattled some cages. This week I’m going to ramp up the site and target specific organisations for a response.
Plus, we all should know the outcome of the BG situation. I only hope it proves to be Madeleine for one good reason - it closes both cases. If it isn’t her then it probably means two dead toddlers instead of one. Gut feel tells me that Madeleine is sadly not with us anymore. If the PJ’s hunch that the parents are responsible for the death is correct, it puts the McCanns in the same league as Hindley and Brady in my opinion. If that is the case, no amount of punishment is enough for them.
November 25th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I found the bit I thought I heard’
‘The alternative view, which Gerry McCann says was put to him by the police, is that the abductor was already in the flat hiding when Gerry McCann did his checks.
’suggestive’.
With regards the ‘confessional’ re; catholics. The C of E also is available to take ‘confessionals’ but in a face to face situation rather than in the cubicle. I believe the reverand/vicar is also bound by the oath.
Within the first week or 2 of MM disappearing, I read that there had been an attempted burglary in one of the apartments. There was no mention of a child/baby sleeping in the apartment then.
Metodo 3 are rakning over old ground and newspaper reports. Their latest findings are based on old news. Murats girlfriend was interviewed in the early days so why is M3 bringing that up now?
mmmm hundreds of kids ‘look’ like Maddie. I think Murats girlfriend looks like one of the T9, can’t remember her name, the blonde with glasses. JMO