Madeleine McCann: When The Sniffer Dogs Barked And Casey Anthony
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE SUN (front page): “BARKING – The moment Maddie cops say dog made McCanns ‘suspects’
No, not the tabloid dog pack. There’s a picture of a spaniel crawling on a sofa. To its rear is a man. There is a pair of blue drapes, open.
And another picture of a dog, which may be same dog. The caption:
Howl … pooch alerts handler to ‘evidence’ found in the parents’ rented motor
Pages 4 and 5: “HOUNDING OF THE McCANNS”
THESE were the scenes as two police sniffer dogs investigated the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann — and left her shell-shocked parents wrongly in the frame.
You can never trust a dog, much less a Portuguese dog…
The 2½-hour film, shot on a police camcorder, chronicles the work of two specially-trained British sniffer dogs.
It was the British all along, friendly fire, blue on blue disaster…
It details the moments when the springer spaniels apparently detected:
Barking … the moment Maddie cops say dog made McCanns ’suspects’
The scent of a dead body in the McCanns’ rented Renault Scenic, hired 25 days after Maddie vanished shortly before her fourth birthday in May 2007
An aroma of blood in a bedroom cupboard in the family’s Praia da Luz holiday apartment, and
A smell of death on Kate’s clothes.
Good of the Sun to repeat all the apparent speculation again. And tell us that – hold that apology to the Portuguese, the dog handler was one of them, a Portuguese…
Eddie is first to be taken into the two-bed apartment and spends nearly 30 minutes sniffing around. He barks twice — once in a bedroom and once at a spot behind a sofa underneath a living room window.
Woof! Woof!
Martin says: “As soon as I came in the dog is very excited. From his body language it would appear he has picked up a scent that he recognises. There is enough scent there for him to give me a bark indication.”
Woof!
After Eddie leaves the apartment, Martin takes in Keela. She can be seen freezing — a sign she has found something — underneath the window where Eddie had earlier barked.
And..?
Martin says on camera: “The crime scene dog has given me a positive indication. That indicates to me there is some human blood there. She will detect blood that is very old and find anybody’s blood.”
Not a blood hound – a spaniel…
While Portuguese cops carried out DNA tests on “fluids” found in the flat, it has never been revealed if any blood was found.
And the British at the forensic lab in Birmingham, don’t forget them…
Detectives also asked Martin to use his dogs on the McCanns’ hire car.
Oh, yes, the Renault Scenic…
Eddie is seen barking at the driver’s door before standing still in the boot, then scrabbling in one corner. Martin says: “We had a reaction from the dog. The scent is coming out of the sealed door.”
RINGSIDE REPORT (US): “More Charges For Caylee’s mom”
An online boxing magazine delivers the news with punch. Ding! Ding!
Every time a child disappears, it must be taken seriously. For months, we have been awaiting for good news of British girl Madeleine McCann, the four year old princess who disappeared in Portugal. Now, it turns out, the United States has an even worse case at hand, that of Caylee Anthony, a 3 year old angel who mysteriously disappeared from Florida and whom police investigations point out to be a likely murder victim.
Seconds out!
Number one, if Casey Anthony is involved in her daughter’s disappearance, all she deserves is 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis, after having people completely tie her up to a corner. Number two, we are all praying at RSR so that the first thing the grandmother said becomes a reality, and Caylee is found alive, as well as Madeleine McCann.
Lennox beats up women, Lennox beats up women, la-la-la-la…
Posted: 5th, September 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (691) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 5th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Garth - dainty doris - garth, you do have a way with words - you and coco, too
September 5th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Certainly not missing your inputs dainty doris.
September 5th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
You are missing a lot !
September 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
randon flours Says:
September 5th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Talk about take out the bits you want
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i caught the end. What did i miss?
September 5th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Should answer your question ref the blood Cheryl.
So not only are the cadaver dogs questionable it would appear that the blood is also.
But we knew that anyway didn’t we peeps.
September 5th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Talk about take out the bits you want
September 5th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
coco Says:
September 5th, 2008 at 9:29 am
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Hey, Coco, how have you been? Those fine British Gentlemen on here are still getting to you, I note! Take one of my tactics I use at times over here - kill them with kindness! Takes the wind out of their sails and brings them to their knees.
September 5th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Nuff said!
Sorry to disappoint peeps eh?
September 5th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
ITV news at 1 today
I didn’t quite catch all the news but it was basically saying that the PJ were warned by the forensic scientists that the body fluids (blood) results were delivered to the PJ with the guidance that the DNA may not be that of the missing girl. However the PJ relying on the dogs findings and the DNA decided to make the McCanns arguidos.
September 5th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Did you watch it on sun
September 5th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
September 5th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
The video is over 2 hours long..
September 5th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
As 100% of people die eventually there must be all sorts of ways in which the dead can leave their scent to be detected - almost any old house will have contained a body at some point. Hospitals, care homes, funeral parlours and all who work in them must reek of “cadaverine” much of the time.
The man who lived in my house before me died on the sofa and was discovered after a couple of days - the sofa was fine and I sat on it for many years before replacing it with a similar one - I never smelt a thing but I wonder what the dogs would have made of it.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
BF dont worry !
September 5th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
FFS
September 5th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Garth Says:
September 5th, 2008 at 9:33 am
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Garth - if I’m not mistaken was it not announced the blood found in the apartment and sent for DNA analysis was found to belong to an unknown man? Great, those dogs ‘reacted’ on blood - someone elses! Further, the supposed bodily fluids found in the car were not proven either to belong to Madeleine or even a corpse, were they?
Those dogs were trained and owned by the handler. Any dog well trained even ‘pet’ dogs react to their masters (owners) signals. Also, think about it, Garth, if there were dirty nappies or clothes unwashed in the trunk of the car, those dogs, as any dog, would react to ‘garbage’ so to speak. Dogs love to roll in anything smelly.
Example, the rottie I owned was trained by a professional trainer who specialized in protection dogs and she’d drop a dime on command from me. However, when we would walk in the evenings when trash was put out for pick up in the area for early next mornings, she bee lined for every garbage can we walked by. Those were dogs, albeit well trained, but they were just dogs with ordinary dog instincts also.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
o connor only disputed the blood findings I see, he didnt mention eddie
September 5th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
on itv news now
September 5th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
They should have been princesses already , enough of a princess not to be left alone
by evil so called parents
September 5th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
No disrespect to missing kids whoever they may be but why are they always “princesses” or “angels” from the moment they vanish - are’nt they ever just ordinary kids made extraordinary by going missing?
September 5th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
it’s a dog’s life…
Eddie: Bad day at the crime scene, dear?
Keela: Don’t ask -but yeah, that & the bloody handler of mine -again!
Eddie: Thought you got him sorted?
Keela:Yeah, so did I! Like it was supposed to be an in-n-out, straight forward jobbie. I indicated like we’d practised before but the bugger just wouldn’t co-operate! All I’ve got is a loada useless subliminal responses so the whole 2 hr video will have to be edited with back-footage. What a bloody ‘mare!
Eddie: Unbelievable! So I suppose you didn’t get that extra kilo of salmon I asked for either?
Keela: No chance! In anycase, he says it’s all “prawns” from HQ from now on. It’s all such a disgrace I’m seriously thinking of ringing the RSPCA…!
Eddie:Calm down, dear! BTW,I’ve seen an interesting opening for drug-sniffing in Oz in this month’s Horse & Hounds. No worries about those false positive numbers AND it’ll give us more time for surfing. I’ve always wanted to have a go at kite-boarding meself, what d’you think?
Keela:Yeah, maybe…got any sardines for tea?
September 5th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Garth
Are mccanIVF going to speak now they are not arguidos anymore?
Why dont they defend themselves from rumours etc……?
September 5th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Garth
Do Pigs fly?
September 5th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Anyhow,the whole case smells so bad that I am off before it cuts my precarious appetite
See you later may be…..
September 5th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Julie
Where is Clue Man? did you vanish him?
September 5th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
September 5th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
WoOf wOof
anyone in?
September 5th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
What happened to the “clue?
September 5th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Garth
I am not saying you know but you insist so much in saying it was a paedo …..AND generally this kind of “persons” KNOWS their victim,they are close to them ……acquainted to them ( by blood or not)
What I was asking is : do you suspect anyone close to Madeleine?
September 5th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Garth, unless I’m mistaken (could be - I’m familiar enough with medical/scientific writing to know I’m not all that knowledgeable!) specificity is the capability not to give false positive results, in other words, to return a negative result in the absence of the ivnestigated item
In the case of a diagnostic test, it would be to have negative results in patients without the disease for which they are being tested, in this case, it would be not to indicate the carpet squares that have not been contaminted. Therefore it signifies that the dogs were presented with let’s say 100 uncontaminated squares (rather, not contaminated with corpse scent) versus 100 contaminated squares. Specificity would mean in this article that the dogs wrongly indicated death scent 9 cases out of 100.
Anybody who knows better, feel free to correct me!
ciao