Madeleine McCann: The FBI, Maddy’s New Look And The Maddie Movie
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine eight months on: FBI expert shows how missing 4-year-old may look now”
No, it is not that ghoulish. This is how she would look were she alive…
“A haunting picture of Madeleine McCann as she might look today should be used in the hunt to find the four-year-old, a former police chief said yesterday.” It’s celebrity copper John Stalker, who now advertises burglar alarms on the telly, when he’s not talking to the papers
“State-of-the-art ‘age advancement’ digital techniques were used by an FBI expert to create the image, which shows how Madeleine might have changed over the eight months since she disappeared”
You can create the same computer wizardry on your home PC by taking a picture of Madeleine and using “guesswork” and “speculation” look at her haircut, build and clothes. Squinting at it the image will help…
Says Stalker: “My first thought when I saw the image was ‘Who is this little stranger?’ It was only after looking closer that I realised it was her - and that is why this image is needed so badly because many people could have walked straight past her”
Madeleine McCann is no stranger. That’s her with the auburn hair and red sweater; the black hair and blue top; the blonde hair and swimsuit; the Moroccan family…
“New York Police Department forensic artist Stephen Mancusi”, who produced the picture, says: “This tragic ordeal would have taken her brightness away”
Well, maybe…
Says Stalker: “What makes it so realistic and tragic is that you can almost see the sorrow in the face - the pain of being away from her Mum and Dad for over eight months. We are looking for a new Madeleine”
“MADELEINE: McCanns fear police are ‘deliberately stalling in the hope that they get lucky’” - A friend of the McCanns says: “It seems like every week there’s another change in Portuguese law that hampers the investigation and delays the case further. The red tape is unbelievable. It’s not fair that police can take as long as they want. They obviously think they will get lucky and some evidence will fall in their laps”
DAILY MIRROR: “Cops told to drag out McCann inquiry”
A “close friend” says: “The police obviously think they will get lucky and some evidence will fall in their laps. Gerry and Kate know that won’t happen, because they know they’re innocent, but it’s not fair that police keep moving the goalpost”
The McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell says: “We hope the bureaucracy can be dealt with as swiftly and efficiently as possible, it is unfair to keep Gerry and Kate in absolute darkness like this”
THE SUN: “HELL OF LOOKALIKE’S MUM - MY NICOLE’S A DOUBLE OF MADDIE TOO”
Louise A’Hern’s daughter is blonde. Some people think she looks like Madeleine McCann. This is her “hell”. Nicole could be a Madeleine lookalike. Says mum: “I’d let my daughter do the job for nothing. If it help’s Maddie’s parents I’d be delighted”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “McCanns eager for police re-interview”
Says McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “Gerry and Kate, more than anyone, are anxious that the police complete their inquiries and eliminate them as soon as possible. If that means the police coming to Britain in the near future to re-interview Gerry and Kate and their friends, they are very keen for that to happen”
They are keen to speak with the Portuguese police…
Notes the paper: “He said that there was nothing to prevent the McCanns returning to Portugal, but there were no plans to do so in the immediate future”
But not that keen…
METRO: “McCanns ask for police interview” - See above
THE INDEPENDENT: “Conor Dignam On Broadcasting: The so-called ‘Maddie movie‘ could make compelling television”. Maddie? Maddy? Or Madeleine?
“The way this story was presented as a plan for a ‘Maddie movie’ says much about how the public and media perception of the McCanns has moved in the last six months. Both among the public and some sections of the media they are viewed with suspicion and hostility, despite the fact that no evidence has been put forward to support this perception…But the idea of a feature-length TV documentary about Madeleine McCann’s disappearance should be welcomed by anyone interested in trying to get to the truth of a compelling and terrible story.
“The fact that the McCanns are interested in the idea of such a project should be taken as further evidence that they have nothing to hide and simply want to do everything they can to get their daughter back. Who can blame them for that?”
Madeleine McCann: No news is still news
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January 15th, 2008 at 9:23 am
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DuncanR
Goodness! That’s exactly how I picture AGW! I will surely have nightmares!
January 15th, 2008 at 8:18 am
SteveT Says:
January 15th, 2008 at 8:06 am
New thread.
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Is this: not in Marocco nor Malta? ….but Spain?
January 15th, 2008 at 8:14 am
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SteveT Says:
January 15th, 2008 at 8:06 am
New thread.
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I havnt seen it….
January 15th, 2008 at 8:06 am
New thread.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Good morning all!
No news, good news?
January 15th, 2008 at 7:13 am
1183 brandon flours Says: January 15th, 2008 at 12:47 am
oh peter O
you should write on the backs of books!!!!!!
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But won’t my local Librarian get a tad upset if I did that?
January 15th, 2008 at 6:09 am
no problem duncan - have to go to work now as well - have a day off tomorrow and am planning an anorak fest!
have a good day
January 15th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Morning, Noseycow!
Mind if I leave you and Kris to talk to each other?
Have to go have a shower now and get ready for work.
Cheers!
January 15th, 2008 at 6:02 am
morning duncan
January 15th, 2008 at 5:44 am
No Answer.
Oh well.
Might as well take the dogs to the park then ….
January 15th, 2008 at 5:30 am
1203 - Kris
++++++++++++++
Did I hear a noise?
A voice crying out in the wilderness?
Or am I cracking up?
January 15th, 2008 at 5:21 am
But I do miss Maria!
Good evening. Anyone around?
January 15th, 2008 at 5:19 am
To All
Ever wondered what Admin/Mods look like?
Ever wanted to place a face to a name?
Well, wonder no more -
AGW
June
Carmen
Duncanr
P.S. Gets a bit boring on night shift here at Anorak Towers!
January 15th, 2008 at 5:11 am
FIRST!
don’t mind me - spent most of the day passed out. i could swear i felt a fever coming on, but i’m sure it was nothing more than last night’s high excitement. blah…
January 15th, 2008 at 4:06 am
1199
an observer Says:
January 15th, 2008 at 2:15 am
1198
Tinsel Says:
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jt and ro’b?
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Abso-tively! One of the rumors going around is that the blue bag belonged to JT. It’s got me wondering if they are drug dealers–the clumsy attempts to back up the abduction story.
January 15th, 2008 at 2:15 am
1198
Tinsel Says:
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jt and ro’b?
January 15th, 2008 at 2:09 am
1190
Tony Bennett Says:
….With the bureaucratic aspects for a new questioning of the Tapas Group finished, Police admits that two more formal suspects could be named, “if the questioning takes place as we expect.”
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Hmmmm, sounds promising. Here we have been thinking this will be an important step in pressuring the Tapas to admit where Madeleine was taken, which most easily can be done if they are named arguidos.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:42 am
grande finale
you woke my droopy lids
I bloody do
shit!!!
January 15th, 2008 at 1:42 am
From the previous posted article.
“Her twin brother and sister, Sean and Amelie, two, lay in cots either side of her.”
Amazing to think that Oldfield saw the twins but could’nt see Maddies bed.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:39 am
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brandon flours Says:
January 15th, 2008 at 1:35 am
As I recall a few news items mentioned this at the time, but I found this extremely difficult to google !
Do you remember a story about Mr Mccann fetching Kate from the haidressers because one of the kids was crying and he was playing tennis ?
“It sticks in my mind because the person said it was not in a nice way”
Now You would think I dreamed it !
January 15th, 2008 at 1:35 am
grande finale
thanks
That was one of my turning point reads !!
considering none of the locals knew what we do now, it’s quite damning
January 15th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Good night, Brandon, sleep tight.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:31 am
1190
Tony Bennett
Very interesting.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:27 am
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brandon flours Says:
January 15th, 2008 at 12:32 am
“Does ANYBODY remember the report from locals saying Madeleine ran away and hid in a bush in the nights before and everyone was looking for her?”
“In a further twist, locals now claim that Madeleine did not always settle well. One evening they allege she ran away into the paths between the apartments, hiding for half an hour when it was time for bed.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=474656&in_page_id=1770
January 15th, 2008 at 1:10 am
ALEX WOOLFALL AND HIS PR TEAM ON 3 MAY:
“GET A SUITE READY FOR US. IMMEDIATELY”
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[see highlighted paragraph below]
http://www.gazetadidital.blogspot.com
“If it wasn’t the diplomatic intervention, the McCann wouldn’t be authorized to leave Portugal and would have been charged and arrested on September”, a source from Polícia Judiciária said. With the bureaucratic aspects for a new questioning of the Tapas Group finished, Police admits that two more formal suspects could be named, “if the questioning takes place as we expect.”
For the Portuguese police, the main problem, now, “is not the willingness to cooperate from the Leicester police,” but if they will be authorized “to go forward with the new steps of the inquiry like in any other police investigation”, according to the same source.
Clear intention
“The campaign set up in the Media, since the beginning, was planned and had a specific intention: to take the case out from Praia da Luz,” the PJ source said. This intention was already clear months ago, on July last year, when detectives in charge of the investigation told the Portuguese Press that “all clues related to foreign countries have been investigated and dismissed”. At the time, it was also clear to PJ that “the key to solve the case was at Praia da Luz.”
Portuguese police has been working in close cooperation with Spanish and British police forces. As a result, “PJ was able to clarify some details and doubts that still existed”, the source said. “The only victim, in this case, is Madeleine McCann, and we have that in mind, in our work. If the parents were really interested in helping with the inquiry, they would be still in Portugal,” the PJ detective said. “Private investigators, Spanish or British, can’t replace police. Those private detectives have been working for the McCann, not to find the truth or Madeleine.”
Early calls
****The first contacts from Mark Warner to bring to Praia da Luz a special team of PR experts headed by Alex Woolfall were made on the night of May 3rd. That same night, Ocean Club management was asked to prepare a space for the team, due to be at Praia da Luz in less than 48 hours****.
The expert in crisis management from Bell Pottinger describe, later, the initial hours with the McCann and how they prepared the first statement to the Media, appealing for the kidnappers to give Madeleine back, on a interview with the Times, on October 6th.
But Mr. Woolfall said, in that same interview, that Madeleine’s parents, in private, made no suggestion of a kidnapping, in the early days. These remarks have been carefully analysed by PJ, as both Kate and Gerry always referred the case as a kidnap, in their initial appeals and interviews to the Media.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:08 am
sleepy
night logic!
January 15th, 2008 at 1:04 am
blimey paul burrel Dianas butler speaks out
January 15th, 2008 at 1:02 am
logic
I think you need both hands and it’s very tricky , but not impossible , but for a tiny 3 year old?
January 15th, 2008 at 12:58 am
1185 Brandon
Don’t you agree that the sliding ones can be hard to open? It would be really interesting to know exactly the state of those doors. They may have glided smoothly but otherwise they wouldn’t have been very quiet on opening.
January 15th, 2008 at 12:52 am
logic
They were sliding doors in the documentaries I have seen
not sure about the front one
I have always wondered why the reports dismissed this exit, as it fits most
January 15th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Firestar 1163
I agree that it is likely that a 4 year old could pull a chair over and open a door etc. However, I think the patio doors were sliding doors and they are sometimes tricky and need a good bit of strength. Do you remember if they were said to be sliding doors or not? I thought I read they were.
Also, do you know if the front door was openable with one of those computerised cards like in a hotel? If so, I would have thought that it could have been opened manually quite easily from the inside by a child of her age (on a chair).