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 11:27 pm
John Smith
Worrying init?
September 5th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
sam Says:
September 5th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
saul, i don’t know how you could think of sausages at this time of night.
——————
A day without a Sausage sandwich is a day wasted.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Saul
I appreciate that the freedom of speech thing is important here, but surely ’sausages’ is outright cruelty to those persons unable to acquire them?
Actually, now I come to think of it, sausages are on the menu for tomorrow…
September 5th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Saul Says:
September 5th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
I like this Carmen absence………..Sausages Sausages Sausages, with chips and eggs, tomato ketchup and brown sauce.
****
Oooooh you’re getting mean, Saul….!
Though, do realize I could be PUNISHED with sausages, chips, eggs, tomatoes and whatever at breakfast. Do try and think of something more civilized, like toast and confiture, fresh fruits, yoghurt and green tea. Get the meaning …?
Good night again
September 5th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Six dead bodies before she even went on holiday ? Serial killer, she must be.
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M&A
Artemis
OK, I know that’s a joke, but, since the six dead bodies thing was just another piece of tabloid nonsense, it seems a bit unkind to lumber her with it forever…
September 5th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Thanks June, will try Duncan again. Please feel free to block Carmen, I like Sausages!
September 5th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
PAM
What has Franco got to do with the dogs who found out blood and smell of blood in the mccSHITE apt?
Answer
September 5th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
jo, i am glad to hear it, that you are on the mend, it sounds nasty, poor you.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Yes Pam, you keep banging on about 17 teeny weeny cells that an incompetent lab told us there was and what is your reasoning for all the other indicators around the flat that the dogs picked up?
You expect us to forget these are doctors and the first year of their training is making sure things are sterile and clean.
There wasn’t going to be much evidence after the thorough cleaning the apartment had, and then after letting uncle tom cobbly and all trapse through the apartment for forty minutes before calling the police (even though K ‘knew’ she had been abducted right from the start)!
September 5th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Saul
Thanks but I really dont need the mccanns in my life anymore as if I ever did
September 5th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
“these were English dogs”
Chenier and Châtelaine
accepted my deeper discord.
I suspected that one of them is portuguese dog because he barks as the portuguese dogs.
Sorry.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
saul, i don’t know how you could think of sausages at this time of night.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Jo get well soon, we need you.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Saul, Chatelaine
Neither Carmen nor Duncan are blocked, and as far as I know Duncan still has the Anorak email addy
September 5th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Sam
heavy stuff
It was an earache which got more and more complicated
I may sue the mccgits coz my docs said it was because of all their lies piling up in my eustachian tube
I have been swept off my chinese feet for over a month now ,drip and all and everytime I get better whack….something else turns up.But I do feel better.I am on the mend
Thanks for asking xxx
September 5th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
I like this Carmen absence………..Sausages Sausages Sausages, with chips and eggs, tomato ketchup and brown sauce.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
chatelaine, like if we all get really boring ? freddy mercury’s still on.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Châtelaine Says:
“yes. :-)”
Jersey.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
sam Says:
September 5th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
chatelaine, if you are off to bed, sleep well. [...]
****
Thank you Sam. But, somehow, around the continental midnight hour it’s getting a bit more interesting here, thus difficult to “switch off”… I’ll make a real effort, though, if you all can be quiet or, say 15 minutes
September 5th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
pam, without the dogs those 17 bits of wotsits would not have been found, analysed and then, most unfortunately, ‘lost’.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Pam
what are you aiming at??what has franco got to do with “it”?
September 5th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
chenier Says:
September 5th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
[...] Given that these were English dogs, with an English handler, I would have thought that the Clever Hans effect would have operated, if it were going to operate at all, in Robert Murat’s home, and Robert Murat’s car.
Or is that too boringly obvious?
****
yes.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
c——–r, it seems remarkably easy to get rid of Garth, you just need to be in the know.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
chatelaine, if you are off to bed, sleep well.
jo, are you better now ? earache is really not good.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Who wants to buy the rothley slum?
Good price,my friend,very good price
September 5th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
And how very like us to completely bypass the, “Wow, seventeen teeny little, microscopic bits of something maybe’s! How difficult that must have been to try and work with!” step and move straight to the invocation of a long-dead Chilean strongman step.
Have we used Franco yet? His long-dead body was at least a wee bit nearer the scene of the crime.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
saul, sad that both are not here. i do not think they are blocked though.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Well, as ever, I bow to Saul’s wisdom on the post-market exhaust front, but there seems to be a remarkable degree of anxiety generated by what, after all, are simply dogs doing what they are trained to do.
Given that these were English dogs, with an English handler, I would have thought that the Clever Hans effect would have operated, if it were going to operate at all, in Robert Murat’s home, and Robert Murat’s car.
Or is that too boringly obvious?
September 5th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
That’s it! I can’t resist no more…
Please don’t mention the Sausages, I haven’t had them for years. The real ones.
Worst van de Hema…
It should have been blocked by the spam filter…
September 5th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Saul
I have not “seen” him since before I fell ill…..end of july.Long time now
May be JJ will answer you…?