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 26th, 2007 at 1:00 am
Sadly, BG being identified does not give any closure to the Madeleine case. Contrary to the Smart Alecs in here saying I have to modify 75% of my site, the mods were simple and mainly consisted of updating the news and offering condolences to the family of Riley Sawyers. Perhaps the Smart Alecs could do the same?
At least I have my own website to offer some sympathy and can do so in a civilised manner. Remember that Madeleine is still missing and most likely dead according to statistics of a case like this.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:57 am
Totje
Just saw your post.
Gosh…yes! It DOES explain the “little princess” remark. Everything fits.
I’ll look out for a buyer for your little niece. SHhhhhhhh!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:56 am
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veritablequandary Says to Ian:
Talk about twisted logic, I don’t even know where to begin.
Let me try again:
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But weren’t the children fine when left alone, as it turned out? There was no abductor after all, was there?
Comment: they were most assuredly not fine.
Can’t have it both ways. Either she was taken but it serves them right because they left her, or she was fine when left alone, thank you, but killed, accidentally or on purpose, by one or both of her parents, or one or more of the tapas friends. Leaving her alone seems to have been the safest thing they could have done!
Comment: only two ways, huh? How about staying with M or providing qualified childminder?
November 26th, 2007 at 12:53 am
name change at team mc cann
go and pay some other dope to see her in peru or something
at least day shift is funny
November 26th, 2007 at 12:52 am
558 Stig
On that hilarious note I’ll retire…..before Mother Superior shouts at me. She thinks I’m safely saying my rosary at this very moment.
Anyway, have to be up at 4,30 am for matins you know.
Good night! Thanks for the best laugh of the day…….rivalled only by Ian’s post!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:52 am
(614) Yampster:
Are you Garth? That explains it! I don’t think my toyboy would like it if I asked another man whether I can go to bed. So why don’t you get your dummy out. It makes a change from sucking your thumb and looking at those naughty mags.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:52 am
590 Maria Says to Ian:
Talk about twisted logic, I don’t even know where to begin.
But weren’t the children fine when left alone, as it turned out? There was no abductor after all, was there?
Kate or Gerry murdered her, didn’t they? Or one of them lost her/his temper and killed her by accident and then, together, they plotted (quickly) to dispose of her body (temporarily) so that she wouldn’t be found (by police they couldn’t know at the time would be so incompetent) and to move it 25 days later in a hire car so that it could be buried on the way, as it happened, to Huelva (knowing that John Corner, godfather to the twins and husband of Kate’s oldest friend, would turn a blind eye to that sort of thing) and, in the meantime, and equally quickly, they confessed their crime to a very accommodating priest (or two or three) who, despite never having met them before, agreed “just like that”, as Tommy Cooper might have said, to give them absolution and allow them to use his church whenever they wanted, even, if necessary, for moving the body from the freezer to his crypt. Any priest would have done as much for a tourist with a problem. Hospitable like that, these mediterranean types!
I wonder at what point they decided to cash in as well on that fatal accident by setting up the fund? Or did they plan all this even before they left home?
“Let’s kill her, fool everyone (with a daft story) that she was taken and then set up a fund. People all over the world are bound to fall for it. It’ll be worth it for an even better house.”
Or was it more,
“Well, she’s dead now. We’ve nothing much to do for a few weeks (apart from desperately trying to get people looking for her all over the world) till we manage to bury the body somewhere so we may as well cash in and get some money out of it as well. No point wasting time. We’ll have an even better house. Yeah!”
Actually Ian, I agree on the mortgage issue. Somehow it would have been different if they’d used it to pay the rent on the villa to enable them to stay in Portugal till the lease ran out. As it was, they used their savings for that which led to the two mortgage payments being made from the fund. Most unwise. However, remember that, reportedly, GM wanted to come back much earlier. Kate couldn’t bring herself to leave. Understandable perhaps. Maybe that was one of the reasons why he wanted to come back sooner, as well as trying to move on. Well, they are back now and he’s working, so it shouldn’t happen again.
Can’t have it both ways. Either she was taken but it serves them right because they left her, or she was fine when left alone, thank you, but killed, accidentally or on purpose, by one or both of her parents, or one or more of the tapas friends. Leaving her alone seems to have been the safest thing they could have done!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:51 am
Well, I’m off. Walking in the dark.can’t see puppy..sleepy
Night all
November 26th, 2007 at 12:50 am
judith c
frasier said ” sherry niles?” ( his brother )
when others deemed less ……….er herm ……. to their way ….of …um……..thinking……!:-)
November 26th, 2007 at 12:47 am
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Judith C
So what?
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LOL! Well done. Garth would be proud of you. What a sparkling response. You must be tired. Ask Stevo if you can go to bed now
November 26th, 2007 at 12:47 am
603 sarah/Kris
he tried harder than team mc cann!
his comments are as valid as anyones
why are you so adamant we all desperately thought the same?
November 26th, 2007 at 12:47 am
trs/601 thats ok i always knew Riley Ann Sawyers wasn’t Madeleine McCann toy boxs dont float have way round the world keeping the contents dry and safe,god bless both of them and the answer is yes mans inhumanity knows no bounds.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:46 am
599 Maria
They SOLD Madeleine!
Perfect. Or can anyone see any flaws in my theory?
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Seems believable. Just as good as any other theory. I’m right behind you Maria. It even explains why she’s “treated as a princess”.
P.S. do you know how much they paid them? I’ve got a nice little niece to sell. Don’t tell the parents, they’ll think she’s abducted.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:46 am
goonight
stevo’s not here so give up your griping- if he was am sure he will be pleased BG has been identified and can have the justice she deserves
November 26th, 2007 at 12:45 am
(607) brandon flours
No, I don’t have a TV. But I still don’t see what ’sherry niles’ means.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Night all.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:43 am
602
judith c
sorry you dont watch frasier then
( was a nice thing)
November 26th, 2007 at 12:42 am
(604) Yampster
So what?
November 26th, 2007 at 12:42 am
597
What evidence were police looking for?
Detectives are searching for any evidence that proves Madeleine is dead or contradicts the accounts of Mr and Mrs McCann and other witnesses.
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well they have ample
dont they!!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:41 am
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Judith C
I am not trying to attack you. You should know that the worst aspect of watching a ship sink is the attempt by drowning people to save themselves by clambering onthe shoulders of others
November 26th, 2007 at 12:41 am
591 brandon flours
Admired his work? The waste of many weeks trying to prove how clever he is. If there was a body found frozen in ice in Greenland, he would waste yet more time proving it’s all possible. Orbiting the earth? Stevo’s your man! This is search for Madeleine McCann, not for Stevo’s brilliant analytical brain. Better brains a plenty on this site but they get ostracised at his whim
Nighty night. Your orders await!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:41 am
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brandon flours Says:
November 26th, 2007 at 12:39 am
judith c
sherry niles?
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I don’t know what this means.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:39 am
572
soothsayer
“God bless Baby Grace,does mans inhumanity know no bounds.”
I think it would be more decent to use her probable real name - Riley Ann Sawyers.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:39 am
judith c
sherry niles?
November 26th, 2007 at 12:38 am
They SOLD Madeleine!
Of course! It’s obvious!
Done and dusted.
That could explain the “They’ve taken her”!!!!
She had been SOLD but they didn’t expect her to be taken just then. I know….they’d PRETENDED to sell her, accepted a large sum of money for her but thought they could get home before the buyers came to claim her.
Perfect. Or can anyone see any flaws in my theory?
November 26th, 2007 at 12:37 am
588 Sarah
579 totje
And I bet he’s deciding which one of you poor suckers is in for a verbal beating? Thea fought back and got sent to Coventry by you cowards. Wonder which one of you will upset the great man next? Remember……..dog……….bone.
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I love doggies and my puppy loves bones
(just asking “you cowards” means I’m included? No offence ment or token).
November 26th, 2007 at 12:37 am
If anyone wants a really good summary of all the issues this is it from the Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2422967.ece
November 26th, 2007 at 12:36 am
593
yampster Says:
November 26th, 2007 at 12:32 am
589
Judith C
Sorry, I should have rephrased that. You don’t ask Stevo what your opinion is. You just look to see which way Stevo’s wind is blowing and then you just float along”
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I think you’d be the one to float along as you are clearly an airhead. I’m one of the few on this forum who hasn’t gone along with Stevo’s ideas on BG, nor even clicked on his web-page. Ask him. And, by the way, before jumping on the anti-Stevo bandwagon rolling tonight and trying to attack me, check on my posts as well.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:35 am
the only thing wrong with that prognosis Maria is that you nor no one else except the mccanns knows how many children were left alone,either it was two or three,but there again maybe the PJ know.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:33 am
583
lyn Says:
November 26th, 2007 at 12:21 am
Now we hear a predator had been trying to get into the apartment, by climbing. Why didn’t he just open the door - go in quietly. Go up the back steps where no-one could see him. Jump through the window. Lot of hogwash this is. If there had been a predator the police would have been notified and the whole holiday complex would have been notified and management would have done something surely, with security, ie. CCTV cameras. Have they - holiday complex done anything about the latest “abduction”.
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It isn’t a complex. The whole case has been bedevilled by people assuming that PDL is a Mark Warner resort; ie the usual gated compound miles from anywhere in which people can get a tan untroubled by anyone who actually lives in that country…