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 9:49 pm
436
annie123 Says:
November 25th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
429
Garth
…………..oh just remembered
I have a very narrow tunnel that you might like to buy?
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Soliciting is against the law in the UK
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lol
he don’t need mags he gets off arguing with Judith C
November 25th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
274 Ian
“Maria. Yes, I get it. Perfect description. Stig, maybe you arent as daft as you seem.”
Only in Judith C’s and your eyes. I have a high regard for Maria, she shows great courage under fire and a near unflappable politeness I could never hope to match.
November 25th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
439
Judith C Says:
November 25th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
(438) Garth! Goodness me! You have dentures at your age! Too many sweets and sucking your thumb!
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Its better than having your thumb stuck up your arse!
Isant this fun Judith tubamin?
November 25th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
437
Hey baby……..and its finger licking good. Wanna lick?
November 25th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
(438) Garth! Goodness me! You have dentures at your age! Too many sweets and sucking your thumb!
November 25th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
435
Better off with mags than dentures!
November 25th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Garth your issues stick to your fingers,allegedely.
November 25th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
429
Garth
…………..oh just remembered
I have a very narrow tunnel that you might like to buy?
……………………………………………………………..
Soliciting is against the law in the UK
November 25th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
428 November 25th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Garth Says: A compliment to my wittiness. Thank you Garth. Now don’t you worry about a thing, just lock your door and then you can get your mags out from under the bed, mummy won’t see!
November 25th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
395/watcher
Thanks for the reality check….we all needed that.
November 25th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
430 TB
…………and you dont? lol
November 25th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
(425) Garth
“There is a common expression in British law: “Justice delayed is justice denied” TB
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How true eh? So the quicker the PJ drop this case the quicker the real investigation can take place and justice for Madeleine be sought!”
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What’s “the real investigation” then and who’s going to do it? the BBC?
November 25th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
354
Cheryl
I can only agree. I think this case has hit an emotional nerve, and some people can not stand that there is no obvious culprit/s as in the case of poor Meredith in Italy, so they seize on the next best thing, people who might look a bit like culprits, if you screw up your eyes and squint hard.
November 25th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
420 Stickler says (November 25th, 2007 at 9:22 pm): “Someone has suggested that Garth is mentally sub-normal…”
REPLY: The modern, politically correct phrase that may well apply here is: “Garth has issues”
November 25th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
…………..oh just remembered
I have a very narrow tunnel that you might like to buy?
November 25th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
424
Judith C Says:
November 25th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
(420) Stickler: An explanation for ‘Garth’
Gotcha!
And
Raspberries
To
Her/Him!
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Very good. You’re very witty. mml………..not
Anyway tubamin………….did you sus it you thick granny?
November 25th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Hi mates,
Just one line to say you hello (and goodbye). I had a “Saturday night fever” yesterday: good friends at home, good dinner, VERY MUCH DRINK and so… Go to bed then. Yet, I would like to thank you all (well, not all but almost. Of course mindless pro-mccanners do not count) your interesting and smart posts.
Now I wander:
1) your girl is abducted
2) Stupid Portuguese police think otherwise, but they are stupid, 3rd world idiots, and have run out of cash to investigate. You keep on looking for your child, wh has been abducted for sure.
3) Eleven days after your child dissapearance, Police (stupid or not, they are police) find a suspicious man: Robert Murat.
4) You don’t know what happened to your little girl BUT, never speak about Robert Murat, when journalist ask about him, you say “No comment”, NEVER AGAIN you have mentioned him in interviews or TV programs…
That men, THE ONLY ARGUIDO APART FROM YOU BOTH is nothing. Simplys, HE DOESN’T EXIST…
Bizarre
November 25th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
315 Bishop Brennan says (November 25th, 2007 at 6:13 pm):
“Which means that our man has in 5 minutes flat:
1 - Emerged from under the bed / cupboard
2 - Whisked the girl out of her bed
3 - Vaulted out the window
4 - Legged it along the path the main entrance
5 - 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!
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REPLY:
Before Point 3 he (1) first opened the windows (2) then opened the shutters (3) remembered to put Cuddle Cat on a high shelf or ledge and (4) arranged the room in such away as to leave the McCanns with *no doubt whatsoever* that an abduction had taken place.
He may also have quickly sedated the twins so that they didn’t wake up.
Re: “Legged it”. Please, Bishop Brennan, have some respect for Jane Tanner’s observations, would you. ‘Walked purposefully’ if you don’t mind.
Finally after seeing Jane Tanner, of course, he made himself invisible
November 25th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
422
Tony Bennett Says:
November 25th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
There is a common expression in British law: “Justice delayed is justice denied”
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How true eh? So the quicker the PJ drop this case the quicker the real investigation can take place and justice for Madeleine be sought!
November 25th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
(420) Stickler: An explanation for ‘Garth’
Gotcha!
And
Raspberries
To
Her/Him!
November 25th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
420
Where the fuck did you pop up from? LOL
November 25th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
353 Bishop Brennan says (November 25th, 2007 at 7:03 pm):
“Brace yourselves for the long haul team! This from 24Horas this morning: Questions go at snail speed
The rogatory letter that contains over one hundred questions for the McCanns, their friends and relatives, will have to go through diplomatic channels…Twisting and turning, the rogatory letter that contains over one hundred questions that the Policia Judiciaria wants to be asked to the McCann couple, their relatives and their friends who were in Praia da Luz, Lagos, Algarve, in May, is going to go through a series of bureaucratic acts that could stretch over more than six months. According to judicial sources, this type of diligence [should be translated 'enquiry' - T.B.] is started with a request from the authorities…the prosecutor has to deliver the letter to the judge, who then sends it to the Republic’s General Attorney. The latter sends the document to the Ministey of Justice, which then sends it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…The letter is sent to the English Foreign Office, which then sends it to the British Ministery of Justice, which makes the letter arrive to the Lord Chancellor - the local General Attorney. From there, the document flies into the hands of the Birmingham Court, who will have to nominate a Judge and a Procurator…”
REPLY: I think we can tell from the last sentence that this report is not entirely accurate, certainly on the British side.
But the real point here is - this process *could* be speeded up if people *want* it speeded up.
Then the question is - who will be keen to speed it up; who will be keen to slow it down?
There is a common expression in British law: “Justice delayed is justice denied”
November 25th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
413
snakeplissken
Why the Menai Straits? The nuclear power station is at Wylfa, north of Anglesey. It has been said there has been an increase in cancer/leukemia in the Trawsfynydd area which has been linked to the chernobyl fallout.
Just a side issue
November 25th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Someone has suggested that Garth is mentally sub-normal. I suspect “Garth” is actually the collective name for a house of University of Basildon media studies undergrads. There is a difference, although perhaps not a very big one.
November 25th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
that should be 273
November 25th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Judith C
Do you know this one? Tubamin?
November 25th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
400
The Real Stig Says:
November 25th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
239
chenier
“Bear in mind that there are huge question marks over whether this woman even exists.”
True, but do recall you gave me flak when I suggested the sighting in Medjugorje was in my eyes lent credibility by the witness having recorded the license plate number, a detail a hoaxer was unlikely to insert as it could be checked? Careful history doesn’t repeat itself.
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I do indeed; who could forget the miracle at Medjugorje in which an Irish pilgrim heard a little girl who can’t speak English, speaking in English, crying out ‘I want my Daddy’ to a man who turned out to be, rather surprisingly in view of the claimed remark, her Daddy?
And who could forget the fact that Clarence promptly issued a press release claiming that the irish pilgrim was 99.9% certain that the little girl was Madeleine and helpfully giving the car license plate number just so that the Press could go for a lifetime double and kill off a small girl in a car chase as well as a somewhat older princess?
If this is your notion of moral behaviour then it reflects poorly on those you purport to support. I suppose that they didn’t see anything wrong with it either…
November 25th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
73
carmen
“It is no secret that I live in France, but emigrated? No, no, no, you don’t know enough about me to make that assumption Sir.”
Well my apologies then. You live in France but it’s only a temporary thing, my mistake.
November 25th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
I had a friend I went for coffee with now and then - he had a girlfriend she was rather heavy and small- and jealous of any female friends he had-he sent her a text message saying : “Hi gorgeous, lol.” He thought it meant lots of love. He got it in the neck for that one.
November 25th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
(409) Thanks Pat for the translation of lol. I never thought of “laugh out loud”. I’ll have to review all the posts that had that acronym. They may have a different complexion now! No, on second thoughts, I haven’t got enough life left to do it!