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 12:12 pm
70…Fair
Well, Mr Wilkins seems to be quite sure where he was at that time.
Maybe that is why Tanner’s position (physically) tends to change. And, Tanner,
is after all, an Independent Witness according to Dr G P McCann.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
70 Fair - Did you mean was he in the street or alleyway? rather than street or path?
November 25th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
16
Christoph Says:
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”
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No, sorry, TB hasn’t stated what in your opinion is a “bunch of horse crap”! Guilt, conscience, memories can haunt a person and directly affect their physical well-being for the worse. Have you never heard of psychsomatic illness? This stems from the mind and affects the body. The mind is profoundly powerful and, in any case, what goes around, comes around. And that saying has a metaphysical implication, not one that’s in your face.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Patch - Did you hear back from your MP?, I havent heard a thing from mine
November 25th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
70
Fair Says:
November 25th, 2007 at 12:08 pm”Clearly Gerry & Tanner are saying the road so why would Wilkins say the path?”
—
Because he WAS on the path?
November 25th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
David Rose
The Observer Sunday November 25 2007
n the credits at the end of last week’s Panorama special on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, one name was conspicuous by its absence - that of David Mills, the programme’s original producer. His name had disappeared from the end credits despite the fact that it was his company, Mills Productions, that had done all the research and was responsible for bringing the exclusive footage at the film’s heart to the BBC.
Two weeks before transmission last Tuesday, Mills - one of Britain’s most respected documentary-makers, who in his 40-year career has made 120 investigative films for broadcasters including the BBC, Granada, Thames and America’s CBS - walked out of the programme after a furious row with Panorama’s editor, Sandy Smith, over the programme’s approach and argument.
He then wrote a stinging email to the BBC attacking Panorama for losing its journalistic passion. It has created a stir in the media world, mixing as it does the controversial issues of the McCanns and how their story is covered, journalistic balance and television current affairs.
‘I had written a draft script and had already been told it was compelling,’ Mills said. ‘Sandy turned up with a completely different version and basically imposed it on me. I told him, “I cannot edit the film to this: it’s a completely different show, and I’m not going to do it.” To have this happening is very depressing.’
The incident - one of several controversies Panorama has faced this year - suggests, Mills said, that ‘the BBC is no longer interested in serious current affairs’. BBC sources confirmed last night that the decisions about the programme’s shape had been taken ‘close to the top’ of the BBC management hierarchy - which has already conducted a series of internal meetings over how the corporation should approach McCann case coverage in general.
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. At that stage - as Mills’s draft script makes plain - his intention was to make an analytical, investigative programme that would have been very critical of the Portuguese police, not only for the errors in their investigation, but for their apparent campaign of disinformation designed to put pressure on Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann. It would also have criticised both the local and British press over allegations that they recycled unfounded rumours with little sign of fact-checking or detachment.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
68
Matt
The media influence in this story is to keep selling, selling, selling….they don’t care either way…Diana, Mills MacCartney, the poor silly Britney…bottom line…. the Maddie story sells…
November 25th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
41 Logic
I am not a vindictive person and have become thoroughly disturbed about this whole case. If it was a ’spur of the moment’ loss of temper then, yes, I could understand it. However, they left these kiddies on a regular basis and they were heard crying and calling out. That goes beyond neglect imo. But it is the behaviour since May 3rd that has angered me. The constant lies and corruption. Anyone, ANYONE, would answer every single question asked if their child was missing, even if it meant jail. I would do anything to convince the police to look for an abductor. I can no longer debate the ‘abduction’ theory. It’s rubbish. They had a money making system up and running with indecent haste. They have behave despicably. I am sorry to say this but, even if M was found tomorrow, I would certainly question the McCanns suitability to care for her.
That doesn’t come easily to me at all. It disturbs me greatly. However, I can put my real name and address to letters, petitions etc because I deplore the actions of the McCanns since May 3rd. I think their behaviour is unforgiveable. I believe they killed M but it is their exploitatation of this poor child that drives me to fury. I am also disgusted that the government shields them.
I am going to help current Mr P cut back the bamboo in the garden but shall return, though I just watch now, rather than join in.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
70 Fair - Wherever Wilkins was, I dont think he was expected to be there.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
There’s one thing that keeps bothering me that I don’t remember really being addressed.
Wilkins (the man walking his 8 month old son) states that he would have seen Tanner as *it was a very narrow path*. Yet the Panorama reconstruction clearly shows them meeting up in the road. Which was it the path or the road? Clearly Gerry & Tanner are saying the road so why would Wilkins say the path?
November 25th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Good Morning to All,
I personally would like to see a tv programme broadcast which is totally anti McCann, which tackles everything, all the discrepancies in statements, the time line, the lies, etc etc, then afterwards have an opinion poll. Its ok having so called ‘balanced’ interviews, but nobody seems to tackle all the issues head on. Even when difficult questions are put to the McCanns and CM, they get to answer but are never pressed hard on the issues. Im not wanting to try to discredit anyone, I am just interested to see what the public would think just seeing it all from one side.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
63…Eric Voglin
“”"”Polls on public opinion mean nothing’
I agree. They change according to influence of the media.”"”"
Strange….public opinion seems to be changing despite all the efforts
of the Media and against their influence.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Eric where does one start from,it appears also that no one is certain or knows who was the last person to see Maddy alive.I would have thought that is where to begin and not at the tapas bar.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
64…Stevie
Good heavens…how many priests does PDL have ?
Ok…but how far from the Catholic Church is the Church House. ?
November 25th, 2007 at 11:59 am
61…Bishop Brennan
or Mr Kennedy’s fortune whittled away to nothing…now… wouldn’t that be
nice.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Matt in the church house with other priests,now lives with his parents outside of Lagos I think.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Rationalist:
Eric
‘Polls on public opinion mean nothing’
I agree. They change according to influence of the media.
SPOT ON FRIEND.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Stevie: agreed.
The evidence of all the Tapas 9 is soley dependent on each other. There seems to be no one who can corroberate or dismiss any of it, apart from themselves.
I’ve never understood why people’s thinking has not been to dismiss all of it and start from there.
It’s a whole new ball game then as far as time lines are concerned.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:56 am
I hope the PJ case does not get closed, for it if does we can all look forward to years of different ’sightings’ and detailed investigations across the globe; all until the fund money has been wasted away.
If they had any decency… (I know, I know…), they would allocate all of the fund over to a proper kids charity where it can do some good, rather than waste good people’s money on what they (and most of the world) now know to be a complete and utter waste of time.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Till later
I’m going to search Father Pacheco
November 25th, 2007 at 11:54 am
57…Can’t say No
Many thanks !!
I am quite happy to patiently await the result of your investigation into that query.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:52 am
32
Eric
‘Polls on public opinion mean nothing’
I agree. They change according to influence of the media.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:52 am
54
Matt
I’ve to make some search ,to reply that question.
I’m in Lisbon ,i’m not from Algarve
November 25th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Tony. Please don’t be churlish. You know as well as I do that public opinion has no relevance to factual information which is what we were discussing, Politicians and marketing firms spend millions on it because it helps them formulate future decisions, not decide whether something is right or wrong. Hold a poll on the re-introduction of the death penalty in this country and I bet you public opinion would be in favour. In light of the recent cases where innocent men have been jailed, I think you would agree that to court public opinion would have been the wrong decision!
November 25th, 2007 at 11:50 am
The Top Portuguese Lawyer,is going to be dismissed in is Public Job ,here in Portugal
Hahaha
November 25th, 2007 at 11:50 am
50…Can’t say No
Thank you.
Can you tell me where Father Pacheco actually lived…in relation to the Catholic
Church in PDL. ?
November 25th, 2007 at 11:49 am
16 Christoph
With great respect, Christoph, I don’t agree with you. I think there is quite a lot of evidence that emotional trauma is involved in the aetiology of cancer and lots of other illnesses. There are probably studies that say this is not true. But there are loads that indicate that it is! SO I must agree with Tony Bennett - unless the McCanns have no conscience at all, which seems unlikely, if they did hurt Madeleine, it will affect them very deeply.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:49 am
42 - Matt: “Their claim that Madeleine was 100% certain to be alive…and that they would
find her within 6 months, surely must have made someone in Team McCann
raise an eyebrow.”
REPLY: Clearly no eyebrows raised in the BBC Panorama team, who like sheep, gave it full air-time. That BBC team must now feel like the utter fools they look!
November 25th, 2007 at 11:48 am
At the end of the day Madeliene is missing, that could have been due to her parent’s neglect. 1 being they did not check the kid’s from 8.30 till 10.00,but could have later due to someone nearby not hearing any shouting till 10.30. 2 Some thing happened to Madeliene and they covered it up with she has been abducted.IMO the second could be what happened(remember the dog’s) these dog’s are reknowned all over the uk,and other country’s have them,they are used to find bodie’s after earth quakes and used after 9/11.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:48 am
45
Matt
Wha ?