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 5:11 am
Say Yes- Do you mean to tell me that Judith C, our respected resident published author, wrote a book about tape recording the voices of the dead??
Why do you suppose she hasn’t tried to contact Madeleine and tape record Madeleine’s version of what happened the night of May 3???
November 26th, 2007 at 5:07 am
652- the watcher
It has never been confirmed that any kind of “cadaver fluid” was found in the car. In other words, the cops found some kind of goop and thought “hmm, could be cadaver fluid” and in fact it might have been: Amelie’s poop.
I’ve got two preschoolers. I know about yucky goopy unidentifiable crap in the trunk of the car. Could have been anything. I’ve got this kind of thing quite regularly. And guess what? I have dumpsters near my house, too! Yet, somehow, mysteriously, I always have dirty diapers in the car. Pretty suspicious, isn’t it??!
November 26th, 2007 at 5:02 am
one thing that struck me watching the recent McCanorama propaganda
when the body fluids were found in the car boot the McCanns explained that it was from soiled nappies they had taken with them because of the lack of rubbish disposal. in recent footage i have seen huge industrial size bins outside the apartments.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:50 am
we may never get closure on this case. remember that the JonBenet Ramsey case is still unsolved despite a body and dna evidence
November 26th, 2007 at 3:44 am
Kris- I think you’re being unfair. Stevo is a nice enough chap and should be allowed to promote his views all he wants
I think Stevo and Judith C should get married and live happily ever after. They can go tape record the ghost of Baby Grace and discover she really was Madeleine, afterall.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:34 am
And as for those (Julie, et al) who want to defend Stevo and say that people are so weeeeirdly angry about the Baby Grace issue– I mean by golly it’s not like he’s hurting anyone by suggesting Baby Grace could have been Madeleine … what’s wrong with them, are they HIDING something because it’s so weeeeird for them to be so angry at Stevo for promoting this viewpoint…..
The problem with Stevo’s approach (and a lot of the anti-McCann approach, although Stevo is the most eregious example), and the reason that it makes us angry, is that it’s completely nonsensical, and it’s representative of the attitude in general. You’re so busy proving what could have happened that you can’t see what most likely happened. People can’t see the forest for the trees anymore, they are so busy dreaming up crazy (and frankly stupid) schemes about how, well, yes, Gerry could have gone to America, bought clothes at Target/Walmart, brought them back to Portugal where the daughter was frozen in a borrowed freezer, transported Madeleine under the glare of Portugese press to Huelva, asked some shipmate to toss her body to sea after keeping her in a freezer on a ship for another month, …. I mean, really, it’s f-ing wacked! It’s the same thing as trying to insinuate the McCanns have paid the waiter, the journalists, the nannies, the entire Tapas 9 crew, Gordon Brown, the Pope, and God knows who else, out of the Find Madeleine fund, to keep things quiet. Duh.
Any numbskull can sit here and dream up stupid conspiracy theories and tell us what “could” have happened in a theoretical world. But it takes real intelligence and insight to sit here and discern through the madness what probably did happen. There are only a few people on here who are able to do that. (Stevo: You’re not one of them!). (And I”m not saying I am. I”m just saying I know an idiot when I see one).
November 26th, 2007 at 3:24 am
Stevo, it’s increasingly obvious to me that you’re a true blue, verifiable nutjob. Jesus Christ, we have an actual confirmation here from police that Baby Grace is for sure not Madeleine, they have actual ID on the girl, and you’re still trying to say it’s suspicious? Are you really that crazy?? It has absolutely nothing to do with being a smartass, and everything to do with having a brain in my head… I mean, OK, I can look at the night sky right now and see a weird blipping light traveling across it, and I can say, “Gosh, that light is an odd color, and I can’t tell you for sure what it is, so you know it might be ALIENS FROM ANOTHER PLANET — it’s entirely possible, you know!”
And, sure, it’s possible. It’s possible the lights in the sky are alien spaceships. Sure. And yet, realistically, it’s probably a Boeing airplane on its way to Boston. GO figure.
November 26th, 2007 at 2:25 am
646 your facts are about as good as your instinct,did you ever have any.
November 26th, 2007 at 2:18 am
Maria and Totje, you may not be too far off base on the remark she was sold! However, not by the McCanns but by whoever abducted her, to use that scenario . When the case first broke I followed it very carefully and something just didn’t seem ‘right’ to me…I’m referring to the attitude of the first police assigned. In fact, I made the remark on the forum there was a ’smell’ about the police’s attitude and seemingly lack of good police investigative procedures and was castigated by some for making such an outrageous statement about those fine upstanding professional Portugese police investigators (who first handled the case).
I decided to follow up on my instincts that something wasn’t quite right and researched Portugal (knowing exactly what I was looking for and found). Portugal has been known for its corruption in government officials and other areas in the not too distant past. Newspapers are and or were in bed with the officials there … quite an eyeful to read but not surprising. However, what I also did find in my research was the mention of high trafficking in children and paedophilia over there. I’ve been trying to find one article again that I found in my searches that ‘hit’ me right between the eyes, it was a statement made around 2004 or 2005 by a woman who worked with the International Group for the Missing and Exploited Children over there in the various European countries. The remarks were along the lines they gave up trying to setup a office in Portugal as the people refused to recognize how bad the paedophila was there.
Thus, ‘child traffiking, paedophilia’…you know, those words stay in your mind when you read them re a country, even though written about 2 or 3 years ago…move to the present, a young, lovely blond haired little girl is missing…
Do a google on “Global Integrity - 2004 Report” - then select Portugal. It has good reports written on it; however, note Corruption Timeline and Corruption Notebook Columns. Frankly,you may wish to read the whole report to be fair - some interesting information about the country.
November 26th, 2007 at 2:13 am
second try…
stevo /272
you ceratinly have a phobia re catholics…..to go back in history to prove your case is a cheap shot…get over it….move on….
149?/tony bennet
I doubt the McCann’s would confess to anything that would possibly implicate them. They are far to sophisticated for that (unless you were in the confessional.)
To malign a young catholic priest as you did. Leads me to believe you have some deep seeded issues that need to be resolved…
November 26th, 2007 at 2:08 am
Sad git, are you around?
November 26th, 2007 at 1:56 am
641
on2u Says:
November 26th, 2007 at 1:53 am
my postings are removed………hmmmmm
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which ones? how many? what content?
November 26th, 2007 at 1:53 am
my postings are removed………hmmmmm
November 26th, 2007 at 1:50 am
623
brandon flours
Yes, glad you pointed that out. May the McCanns are part of a global ma and pa pedaphilia group after all and little Maddie has died as a result. They have got to hide the evidence have’t they. Just imagine their coming out with the truth, this would dob a lot of people in!
November 26th, 2007 at 1:39 am
395 watcher
I wouldn’t want to have listened to that tape as you described and I wouldn’t want to diminish the evil and depravity of H&B. (I don’t even want to type their names). In my eyes, any child killer (especially a toddler) is evil however you choose to look at it. Although, I do concede that H&B were probably as bad as is possible.
There’s a case of torture on a 20 yr old woman out here in the US at the moment. That case is about as bad as you can get and is very graphic with 6 perpetrators. When you descend into the level of evil people, it’s really difficult to start saying who is worse/better etc. That was my main point.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:25 am
630 Judith C
You asked me one time last week how I knew Madeleine was 90cm tall. I replied that if you had read my site you’d know. It’s hardly being megalomaniac to point out things that are bloody obvious.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:18 am
625 chenier
611 Totje
599 Maria
edit…
Admittedly I’m peeved that neither of you responded to my post on this very topic, but after a pause for reflection it may dawn upon both of you that this could equally be a prelude to a far more innocuous confession.
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Sorry, I did’t respond to post, I’ve read this weeks ago. To me it seemed as “old news” e.q. rumours, so I neglected it. Can’t find it in my Explorer history, so sorry no link.
Of course the police investigate all options. But surely this one without any results or finding real motives, otherwise we would have heard more about it. MUCH more.
Now I’m really off, my eyes are aching. I’ll be back (tomorrow?)
November 26th, 2007 at 1:16 am
And it’s goodnight from me, too…
November 26th, 2007 at 1:14 am
The girl in Texas is still not formally identified via DNA….dated 26/11/07. To the smart arses…why two stories? Why are there two versions of this story?
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Couple charged in case of missing child who may be `Baby Grace’
11/26/2007
By ANGELA K. BROWN / Associated Press
Galveston County authorities have arrested a couple in the case of a missing child who may be “Baby Grace,” the toddler whose body washed ashore in a storage bin in Galveston Bay last month.
Authorities are awaiting DNA test results but have tentatively identified the girl as 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers of Spring, said Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo of the Galveston County Sheriff’s Department.
The girl’s mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 19, and Royce Clyde Zeigler II, 24, reportedly told relatives that she was taken in July by someone claiming to be an Ohio social worker. But they never told police she was missing, Tuttoilmondo said.
After police searched their home, they were arrested early Saturday and charged with injury to a child and tampering with evidence, Tuttoilmondo said. The couple remain jailed on bonds of $350,000 each. It’s unclear if they are married, Tuttoilmondo said.
Tuttoilmondo declined to say what was found in the home, about 200 miles south of Dallas, or what the couple may have said about Riley’s disappearance.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:11 am
578 amccansupporter: “…As one of those interviewed by Mills and the programme’s reporter, Richard Bilton, I can attest to how different the programme shown was to what they told me less than a month ago that they were envisaging. Along with The Observer’s Ned Temko, who has covered the case for this newspaper, I ended up on the cutting-room floor. ..” etc etc.
Yes, as “yampster” argues : “nice cut-and-paste”.
Seems to be your forte.
And as mentioned before (on other plaigiarist posts) “what’s your point?”
November 26th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Goodnight!
November 26th, 2007 at 1:08 am
night all
November 26th, 2007 at 1:06 am
626
maria
“Of COURSE they should not have left the children out of earshot, even if eating nearby”
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so why are you still defending them and not worrying about the message this case sends out
to all the parents lacking in the mc canns education
in the future?
whether they did it? or not?
shes gone
and we should look into everything to find her
the last person to have seen her is always the best to investigate thoroughly
until it is done to perfection!
November 26th, 2007 at 1:04 am
(627) Careful Stevo, otherwise I’ll have to join those on here claiming you’re a megolomaniac. Is everyone compelled to read your information and click on your web-page? I think not.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:04 am
SANTA MARIA,like you i have a very OPEN mind to what might have happened,but unlike alot of people here never thought of plants from mccanns,youre replies are so well put if i could use this thing as well as you i would be over the moon,……now you dont whose side i am on ,or ,are there any sides…….like most of us here that either started posting, or ,just looking,i think we come here to find just a new snippet,somewhere to lead us to what could be the truth,not our normal daytime,nightime ,routine,but something STINKS,and a lot of NORMAL people have been pulled into this SAD ,SAD,case by the fact questions need to be answered………
November 26th, 2007 at 1:04 am
621
Veritable quandary said:
‘Comment: only two ways, huh? How about staying with M or providing qualified childminder?’
You really must stop expecting people to behave like civilised humn beings. Clearly there are lots of people for whom these possibilities come as a blinding surprise…
November 26th, 2007 at 1:02 am
596 Judith C
“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.”
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Thanks for telling me…now I realise I don’t need to respond to you because you admit you don’t read my information in the first place.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:01 am
621 veritable…
Oh please!
I simply meant that you can’t say she was taken by someone because the parents left her alone and, at the same time, say the parents killed her. They would have had to be WITH her to kill her, whether on purpose or by accident.
Of COURSE they should not have left the children out of earshot, even if eating nearby.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:00 am
611
Totje Says:
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.
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Um, may I suggest that you try for a little balance on this?
Admittedly I’m peeved that neither of you responded to my post on this very topic, but after a pause for reflection it may dawn upon both of you that this could equally be a prelude to a far more innocuous confession.
Ah yes, we may have left our children uncared for, but we didn’t sell our child to paedophiles.
Good spin, yes?
The fact that every police force in the world would have wondered whether the McCanns were not protesting too much on the subject of their child having been sold into slavery merely demonstrates the dangers of assuming that police officers think nice thoughts.
They don’t.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:00 am
“little princess” is one of the top phrases of child abusers