Madeleine McCann: Praia da Luz Calls, Maddy Shunned And Portugal On The Edge
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY MAIL page 36: “Madeleine: Portuguese detectives trawl thousands of phone records”
Police are looking through phone records of Praia da Luz’a 27,000 residents at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance. They are looking for unusual call patterns. Bugging calls
A local resident of Praia da Luz says the police questioned her, saying: “We are investigating all calls made within Praia da Luz from 9.30pm onwards on May 3″
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “Any information could prove vital”
THE SUN page 15: “Maddie cops seize local phone bills”
“They are using a method of triangulation which pinpoints a person’s location via their mobile and are also checking land-line calls”
Can it work? Says the Sun: “Mobile phone evidence exposed holes in the alibi of Soham murderer Ian Huntley”. And that is similar to this case because..?
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADDY – Blitz to fined phone clues”
Page 10: “COPS CHECK EVERY CALL ON DAY MADDY VANISHED”
Well, not every call. Just calls made in the area of Praia da Luz by those 1,000 persons on a police list
DAILY EXPRESS page 19: “Now Madeleine police seize all phone records”
The papers says the search is in light of talk of a “massive conspiracy”. The Express is belived to be fond of a conspiracy
Says Clarence Mitchell: “Kate and Gerry are encouraged by this police work because it shows the investigation is now active and thorough…Crucially they also hope it may lead to them being reunited with Madeleine”
DAILY STAR: “PARENTS SHY AWAY FROM NAME ‘MADDY’”
Or Madeleine, for that is her name
The name Madeleine is “now lower than at any time in the past five years”. It is now the 80th most popular name. Says a child psychologist called Ruth: “The majority of people who hear the name Madeleine automatically associate it with her”
What the top girl’s name is readers are not told, nor where Kate features. The Telegraph says it is “Grace”, as in Baby Grace
NEW YORK TIMES: “Portugal Polishes Its Image as the ‘West Coast of Europe’”
Portugal wants to reposition itself. Portugal is exciting, shiny, new and historical.
But: “The unsolved case remains a big story for the British tabloids, and there have been reports of declines in tourism from Britain, an important market for Portugal.
“Over all, though, tourism remains strong, Manuel Pinho, Portugal’s minister for the economy and innovation said. ‘This is a tragic case, of course, but it has not affected the numbers,’ he said. ‘It’s a very peaceful country, a very safe country’”
The demonising of Portugal and the case of Madeleine McCann
Posted: 20th, December 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (547) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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December 20th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
238
Ferdinand
I find it strange on the video where the interviewer asks if they gave Madeleine Calpol. Gerry as usual doesn’t answer the question but replies that they never gave sedatives.
This is interesting because to my knowledge “Calpol” (Tylenol for our American readers) is not a sedative. It’s a pain killer. Why then didn’t Gerry answer with a simple “no” or even say that Calpol isn’t a sedative?
Later when he was interviewed again in Portugal he stormed out (well mildly stormed), when asked a similar question. He wasn’t arguido in both interviews so why did he want to answer the Calpol question but not the question posed by the Portuguese male interviewer?
December 20th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
241 brandon flours
I remember reading this but is it known who is supposed to have seen her hiding in the bushes for ? half an hour? Was it perhaps Mrs Fenn or a member of resort staff?
December 20th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Apart from the quotes from the Tapas waiter does anyone else know if there is there any other evidence that one of the Tapas stayed behind when the others rushed out?
December 20th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
242 Stevo Says:
Did you get my reply the other night about James Teague - the guy injured at the Kennedy Assassination?
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Yes, thanks.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
239
veritablequandary Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Does someone remember the story about dinner out with M and the twins? The report was that Madeleine was a little fussy but the detail was also reported about how she helped get the highchairs for the twins. What night was this? What was the name of the restaurant?
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There is some restaurant called The Millenium. The Tapas bar may technically be a part of it. But the first night, a waiter said they served the McCs there, but the parents changed routines because they wanted to leave their children in the apartment. But they wanted to be nearby, as well. But we all know, that their idea of nearby is about half a block away.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
241 brandon flours
Wasn’t that on the 2nd? I think it was said to be the night before she was “abducted”.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
234 Tinsel
Not all graphics packages change the file format parameters unless you do “Save As”.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
204
Meejician Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
This is what the Spanish (or Portuguese) TV channel Antena 3 revealed re Chaplins and other stories. According to them Chaplin’s was on May 2nd. I have a feeling that the programme is on YouTube:
“Spanish TV channel Antena 3 did a special on Madeleine last night that was the best and most complete of the ones so far. Clarence Mitchell was interviewed for the programme but, needless to say, he had nothing new to say.
What was very interesting was that they actually interviewed the waiters from the Tapas restaurant. The result is what we have said so many times in this forum but have not got official back-up so far:
- NO they did not regularly check on the children
- YES Russel O´Brien was missing almost the whole dinner
- YES they dismissed a paid childminder only a couple of hours before dinner
- YES they drank 14 bottles of wine
- YES they left the children alone every night
- YES the previous night they had dined at Chaplin´s which is at 5-6 minutes walking distance
According to the investigation of the highly reputed journalists involved, there are 3 hours which have not been accounted for properly by any of the Tapas 9, a pact of silence and lots of contradictions. The police has suspected of the McCanns from day one, and their behaviour is NOT what you would expect from parents in their circumnstances.”
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Thanks for posting this Meejician.
I’m glad there are still journalists pointing out the irregularities of this group of people who have something binding them together involving their children.
Why else would the group taken such a defensive posture by acting as one, rather than as individuals with separate legal representation, which would be normal.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
239
veritablequandary
Did you get my reply the other night about James Teague - the guy injured at the Kennedy Assassination?
December 20th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
and what night did she run out of the apartment and hide?
December 20th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
234 Tinsel
I beg to differ.
If you copy a photo from camera to PC the two photos are 100% identical. The only difference is the file parameters. The parameters can be tweaked with a debug tool so they are 100% the same exact file.
Copying a file doesn’t modify the picture info in any way. Where did you get that from?
December 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Does someone remember the story about dinner out with M and the twins? The report was that Madeleine was a little fussy but the detail was also reported about how she helped get the highchairs for the twins. What night was this? What was the name of the restaurant?
December 20th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
228 Logic Says:
Anyway, I think doctors can always legally justify a (mild) sedation such as with “Calpol night” for example, they can always say that the child felt unwell, had light fever, a toothache etc. That’s not enough to justify a cover-up two days later. I would buy the “immediately cover up in a state of panic”, and then it’s too late to step back. But not after you slept over it one night.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
192Hideki Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
She knew enough to stay away from the apartments that night. That’s also why she alone stayed at the table. She knew what was happening anyway.
Gerry is the loudest of the group, and Dianne is the quietest.
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Maybe Ms. Webster didn’t like Gerry after hearing his foul language on the bus.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
dcb 214 and Julie 223
I have thought the same. It is conspicuous that she is the one who has been kept right out of the limelight and the PJ have not seemed interested in her (from what we know). Maybe it is deliberate that she has been sidelined as a “minor” member of the group. No-one seems to have suggested (?re)interviewing her, have they?
December 20th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
231
Hideki
Yep - but very strange - “when Kate shouts, you stay here and we’ll all go”
December 20th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
221
Hideki Says:
Do I understand you correctly that there is no way to distinguish an original file from a copied file? I’m sure I do, but how about distinguishing an unaltered file from an altered one? Is this also impossible? (using only analysis of the file data — not by analysis of photo content such as shadows, etc)
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Just to add to the digital file discussion. Yes, you can tell the original digital file from the camera from one that is altered on your computer. Your computer software saves the subsequent file in a different format than the camera. It classes the colors differently, for one thing.
The camera has specific file format that your software can read, but when you open it in a photo-manipulation program, then go to save any modifications, you must select another format from a list including formats such as JPG, TIF—different compression, indexing, etc. from the camera’s file formats.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
230
Stevo Says:
“And wouldn’t you want to treasure a “last photo” of all your kids together? Where is that “last photo”? Where is the last photo of Madeleine, Sean and Amelie? Where was it taken and on what date?”
Why isn’t anyone else asking the McCanns to produce this photo?
I’d also like to see the FIRST photo at the Mark Warner resort.
Then, how about one photo for each day.
Is that too much to ask? How about it, Gerry? You’re reading my posts, I know…
December 20th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
221 Hideki Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Recently there was a paedophile case where a photoshop swirl was “unswirled” to reveal the face of the paedophile. This of course does not involve analysis of file data, but rather just a reverse manipulation of the photo. But analogously, suppose it is not a swirling but rather, say, a color change. Could that be detected and reversed?
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Actually that pervert in Vegas encrypted his image. Stories like that are the kind of myths I was talking about. There’s no magic “undo” button and Hollywood makes movies with all kinds of things we professionals would like our software to be capable of but it isn’t possible.
Basically, you can’t recreate data that isn’t there in the first place. If someone were to change a red pole into a green one, how can any software know what colour it was to start with? It can’t. What can be determined is very limited in scope but prediction is impossible without other clues.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
206
dcb Says:
“After hearing Kate shout (whatever it was) about Madeleine, why would one member of the group stay in Tapas and not rush out with the others?”
She had not been given instructions to do anything else.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
brandon flours
And wouldn’t you want to treasure a “last photo” of all your kids together? Where is that “last photo”?
Where is the last photo of Madeleine, Sean and Amelie? Where was it taken and on what date?
December 20th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
224 Postman Pat
Maybe that’s why he’s gone lukewarm on the case. Having said that, his site contains tons of material. Some of it like the playground image are very valuable because it doesn’t exist anywhere else. He might be a crank but his site is a goldmine of useful “junk”.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
217 Ferdinand
They just might have continued with sedation for a couple of reasons:
1. There was no reason when the abduction “occurred” to associate it with sedation of any form.
2. Possibly the twins couldn’t have been relied upon to stay asleep if they had not been sedated, and that could have seriously hampered the abduction plan. If they had refused to go to sleep, K and G might not have been able to go to the Tapas bar that night, scuppering their plan altogether and leaving them with M. As they were due to return home very shortly, it would have been imperative that the “abduction” took place uneventfully. If the twins had been heard crying or had been awake when M was “found” missing, the PJ might have wanted to question them as well. In any case, it would have been very difficult for K and G to have the twins watching all the preparations as they could have innocently relayed clues to the police.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
stevo
agreed and you would take 10
December 20th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
221 Hideki
Due to the nature of the way a JPG image is created and stored, it is feasible to compare the original JPG with the alleged fake and see if it is indeed fake or not.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
221
Hideki
It is possible to copy a file from A to B and when you look at B, it is indistinguishable from A. After the file gets copied to B, the “created by” date will be different from the “created by” date/time on A. But after using an editing program designed to modify the parameters embedded in the filing system, it’s impossible to tell the difference.
That’s why circumstantial aspects of a photo are more important than the file itself. This is why I keep on saying the 1:29pm/2:29pm story is poppycock. Why mention something unless you need it for an alibi? Everyone knows how easy it is to forget to change a clock soon after daylight saving time. And everyone knows you don’t go to a pool specifically to take a snapshot, only to go to the creche exactly one minute later. If you were adamant about taking such a memorable photo then why is the photo so bad? Madeleine isn’t looking at the camera, Amelie is looking down and Sean isn’t on it.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
http://briansprediction.com/MISSING/private/5441page16.htm Stevo be my guest.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
214
dcb Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
not only agreed - but she is the one the police should be questioning.
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Perhaps she is the most “protected” of the lot of them??? i.e who was possibly her partner on the holiday …. the elusive “other” Tapas member? Perhaps her questioning by the police was limited to the “basics”????
December 20th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
220 Postman Pat
It sounds like him. Where did that come from?
He obviously should have dreamt about Scotland Yard first!
December 20th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
200
Stevo Says:
188
Hideki
“Unfortunately, there are too many myths propagated by “know-alls” who are at best computer enthusiasts.”
Do I understand you correctly that there is no way to distinguish an original file from a copied file? I’m sure I do, but how about distinguishing an unaltered file from an altered one? Is this also impossible? (using only analysis of the file data — not by analysis of photo content such as shadows, etc)
I would assume that the use of a software to alter a photo would leave some kind of “signature” in the file data. Is this an incorrect naive assumption?
Recently there was a paedophile case where a photoshop swirl was “unswirled” to reveal the face of the paedophile. This of course does not involve analysis of file data, but rather just a reverse manipulation of the photo. But analogously, suppose it is not a swirling but rather, say, a color change. Could that be detected and reversed?