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…
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September 5th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
By the way…..anything thing new in terms of LOOKING for Madeleine?No announcement over the employement of new detectives?
No more sightings? :shock
Are they thinking of how to get out of their Merdic Pitch?
September 5th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1359
A dogs remarkable find.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Yeah, Jo, that’s it–any second now.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
jo
Before you choke any further on your foot, I suggest you read my post above about The dogs latest remarkable finds.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
: )
Ah, but here in the capital-S South that’s one of our favorites. Only we stretch it into two words and an extra half syllable: try drawling “piss ain’t.”
September 5th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Persitance in defending the mccannIVF has been classified a health hazard
Just saw a quick sarcastic mention of the Suns vid on spanish tv……from the commentator.He said :.”….even though everything is pointing out to their involment,they are still not charged…err…not yet”
Is the “mystery” thinning out?
woof wooooof wooofff
September 5th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Pam
I would never call you a pissant!
September 5th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Give a dog a bone, then try and take it away.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Stig,
Surely there’s a word that begins with “P” and means “scoundrel”? How lazy of you!
September 5th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Pam
…yeah sure youve missed out…they found bananas peels coconut shells and some dead calcified sardines
September 5th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
wtf Says:
“just watched the video on mccanfiles, sent a shiver up my spine, these dogs dont lie, why else would the police use them to sniff out drug smugglers in airports etc? Would be interesting to find out how many times they were wrong in these cases”
They are wrong about 75% of the time.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
And, once more with gusto, drug-sniffing dogs are trained and handled completely differently, and are held to a completely different standard of evidence, at least that’s true in this country.
I would have thought the distinction would be pretty obvious, but apparently not:
you go to the airport and walk past the dogs, or you behave suspiciously and the dogs are brought to you. If they signal, you and/ or your bags are searched. If they merely liked the scent of your bits or lunch or whatever, no harm done. The handler apologizes for the delay and off you go. If you turn out to have a couple of kilos of something Columbian duct-taped to your chest, the dog gets a biscuit and a nice belly rub, and so do you.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
wtf
Pam, you spoil sport! You beat me to it by 1 minute you scoundrel
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His murder inquiry began when Eddie, an “enhanced victim recovery dog”, began barking in the cellar of Haut de la Garenne – the sign, according to its handler, that he had detected the scent of human remains.
By coincidence, the dog, from South Yorkshire Police, is the same animal that supposedly picked up “the scent of death” in the apartment where Madeleine McCann was last seen in Praia de Luz in Portugal.
According to Mr Harper, Eddie smelled the decades-old skull fragment through “several inches” of concrete, which police then smashed through. Eddie had the same reaction at another six locations at Haut de la Garenne but nothing was ever found.
“I don’t believe a dog can pick up such a scent through a layer of concrete,” said Mike Swindells, a former Lancashire officer who wrote the standard sniffer dog training manual.
“It’s really very unlikely.”
In his early media briefings, Mr Harper did not make clear that the first “human remains” consisted only of a single fragment the size of a 50p piece. Doubts were cast over the evidence when it first arrived at the Oxford lab early in March.
The first step in dating remains is to treat the bone with chemicals that separate its soft collagen protein from the harder mineral content. Only the collagen can be dated reliably.
However, the pre-treatment did not produce any collagen. The conclusion was unavoidable: the fragment was not bone.
At the time, a police Press statement admitted scientists had been unable to date the fragment because its collagen content was low. But Mr Harper said this was because it had been found in a “lime-rich environment”, to which Ms Coupland added:
“The experts who tested it said that was why the collagen had degraded.”
In fact, the Oxford scientists and Dr Jacobi say the opposite is true. “If it had been kept in a temperate, lime-rich environment and was actually bone, it would have been well preserved,” Dr Jacobi said.
“It would very clearly be bone, which this is not.
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September 5th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I’m sorry, did I miss something? I thought that the “remains” Eddie found at Haut de la Garenne turned out to be wood or coconut shell or something? I know they found many milk teeth and some bone fragments when they were sifting in a field to which a HUMAN witness had directed them, but last I heard they were unable to determine if they were from 17th century burials or from the 1960’s. I don’t remember any mention of dogs actually finding anything other than the two mistaken “hits” at the stairwell and the courtyard. Can someone direct me to a link after July, when the first was admitted to have been a mistake?
September 5th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Penelope, Puuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Dastardly, Fuc*wit
Muttley, Very astute post Dastardly.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Reading posters comments would be much easier if Garth were merely ignored, then one could scroll happily onwards to those posters’ comments that are worth reading.
M and A
Lola, really how can you say that? Garth is our six foot leather clad sex bomb……
September 5th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
“Funnily” enough the vid is released today and so is the mccshite interview over Amarals book……
Diversion again…how boring they are those 2…..
September 5th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
babyjane
every picture tells a story, as my nana used to say, really really sad, and its hit home
September 5th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
just watched the video on mccanfiles, sent a shiver up my spine, these dogs dont lie, why else would the police use them to sniff out drug smugglers in airports etc? Would be interesting to find out how many times they were wrong in these cases
September 5th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
The picture with the dog on Anorak’s article above is rather tragic, isn’t it? An innocent dog searching something that proves that an innocent child might be dead. Very sad world.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Thank Brandon
XXXXXX
September 5th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
correction
* they were especially NOT biaised…in Jersey
September 5th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Jo
Yes thanks just on for a sec to see my bid end on ebay
Catch you later ! I hope you didnt mind me answering for you, but I thought it might save you and get in trouble
nite x
September 5th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Pam
2 mistakes (spelling) the spanish word “contundente”…..
It means forceful.In this case a forceful NO… then you know the meaning of fuck off and bottom less pitch ….thats where they stand right now
September 5th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Garth
YOU are the dreamer dreaming of an abduction because its almost romantic….of course,she would be well treated…like a little princess
What a lot of fucking bollocks,really really….DONT kid yourself
Hi Brandon
hows you?kids back to school yet?
September 5th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
So, then, when Sr. Cortes said, “Only now I understand what Madeleine McCann’s parents are suffering,”–as recounted here–, or when he followed up with his expressions of gratitude for the McCann’s offers of help, that was all some top, top secret Spanish code for “No and FUCK off!” Wow. I should have taken one more class.
I’m somewhat better at English, but what the hell is “contundant”? “Bottom less pitch” I understand, as I’m a soccer mom.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Intersting read on Joanas blog
Are the files trying to wake up…….?
15 days to mgo for an eventual re opening
September 5th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
With the true scale of paedophilia in Britain impossible to quantify, Jim Warnock, head of operations at the CEOP, said hundreds of online paedophile networks had yet to be uncovered and that such was the size of the problem that as many as one in six children - 1.9 million - might be a victim of abuse. Detectives describe the 30,000 Britons currently on the sex offenders register as the tip of the iceberg.
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well well well
see!
September 5th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Jo
Just a little advice……… if you make claims that you know a little more than anyone else then back it up. If you dont then shutup.
Because you only end up making yourself look a fool.
Bye and good dreaming!
September 5th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Garth
When the time comes you and many others will know
So far,I am bound to just shut up