Madeleine McCann: Adopted by Angelina Jolie, And The Changeling
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY MAIL: “A mother leaves her child while she goes out - and returns to an empty house. No, not the McCann case but the true story behind a gripping new film”
Fact. Fiction. Can you spot the difference?
She was a devoted mother, hard-working, determined and tough. Then, one spring morning, Christine Collins kissed her little child goodbye (leaving him under the eye of neighbours), before returning in the evening to an empty house. Her beloved son had vanished without a trace.
A continent-wide hunt was launched and a shocked nation was kept agog by a string of leads - only for their hopes to be cruelly dashed as each clue led to a dead end.
The child was never seen again, the mother was heartbroken and the community was left divided by suspicion and mistrust.
Terrible. Just terrible. Does it work out in the end?
It could be the tragic story of Kate and Gerry McCann and their three-year-old daughter, Madeleine, who was abducted last year while on holiday in Portugal, and who remains missing to this day.
It could be, albeit with better lighting, a decent cast and a 15 certificate… Gone, Baby, Gone…
But, in fact, it is the plot of Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Changeling, which opens in Britain later this month.
But it’s all false, right? Angelina Jolie is only acting, right? Unless she adopted Madeleine?
It is all the more powerful because it is based on a horrific true story. The so-called ‘Wineville chicken coop murders’ took place on the outskirts of Los Angeles in 1928.
And while they happened 80 years before Maddie McCann disappeared, there are startling parallels between the two.
The McCanns’ grim experience in Praia de Luz - and how they were made suspects by bungling local police - was widely reported.
But Christine Collins suffered even worse treatment at the hands of the LA Police Department. As the investigation into her missing child failed to yield results, she was even locked up in a mental asylum.
It’s enough to drive you maaaaad. Maaaaad, I tell yer…
As in the McCann case, rumour followed rumour.
Each one recorded for posterity…
Posted: 8th, November 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (853) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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November 9th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Good evening, Coco :-*
November 9th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Gandy
did you go to the same boarding school as Raspy…toasted crumpets and all that..
whats on page 11698..cmon then arsehole
November 9th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Bonsoir Montaillou and Chatelaine! X
November 9th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
The Real Stig Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
[...] No one has or can answer my question of why was a reconstruction not done when they were all still in PDL?
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It is my understanding that “ALL were still in PDL” only a short while immediately after the disappearance and that with crisis management and communication experts dashing in forthwith, political and diplomatic interest being high level also from Day 1 on, there was a tendency to treat the case with velvet gloves … Something, as I understand it, Dr. Amaral has regretted .
November 9th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
GANDOLF THE ENLARGED GONAD SAYS:
….. Errrrrr ……. bugger all - as usual!
November 9th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Which part do you fail to understand clueless, apart from all of it.
bOn page 3418-a YVONE MARTIN was questioned, who offered some information, which, despite its pertinence, did not show any relevance /b
Thats funny I’m sure it says page 3418-a………………..but there again you don’t have the DVD clueless, must dash see the selective censors are about……TTFN…..
November 9th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
The Stinky Stigmatism that is Stigged says: ”A reconstruction could not possibly lead to her being found - you don’t honestly believe that it could, do you?”
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I make no apology to any poster on here for what I am about to say about this Knob-Head.
The whole point of this particular reconstruction is to make sense of the ridiculous time-lines that the Tapastwats gave to the investigators.
In the event that it would not and could not make sense - this would have given the investigating team much more credibility in the eyes of the public and the law!
So YES - Of course this would have been useful. It may even have brought us closer to discovering the body of MM instead of continuing with this farce.
Fuck-Wit!
November 9th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Twiglet you don’t think that an unseemly and hasty departure had anything to do with it do you?
November 9th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Bonsoir Montaillou. Good to be back, be it for a short while.
Are you sure you want to be associated with a pea brain…?
November 9th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Châtelaine
Yes you do have a reason not to, in fact lots of them, starting with investigators who you know, through their words and deeds, are trying to make a case against you, even though they have not the slightest bit of of evidence.
If I were in their position, having had my character undermined by a near endless stream of lies fed to the Portuguese press from the heart of the investigation, I wouldn’t waste my time on a pointless reconstruction either.
No one has or can answer my question of why was a reconstruction not done when they were all still in PDL?
November 9th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Hi Chatelaine, bon soir, good to see you.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Garth
whats your opinion on David Payne? do you think hes …well….you know..erm ..pause..you know..well..your right erm your right..hes been watching us…you know
November 9th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
The fact is, Tiggy-winkle that reconstructions are undertaken regularly, often far from the media circus, in order to clarify the story about what did happen around the circumstance being investigated, and, yes to GET the TIMELINE RIGHT. In this particular case the timeline has never been established and without that it is impossible to tell when the alleged abductor made his strike, and therefore whether any credence can be given to a certain notorious adbductor sighting. Of course that might have proved equally impossible once the timeline had been clarified, but hey that was never going to happen. As PM said their lawyers were never going to let any of them go back and it had to be the t9 who refused becaue the lovely duo could have been required by the PJ to attend.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I saw it Watcher, I saw it. And you were right. Amazing how fast they can whip something off sometimes, isn’t it?
November 9th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Garth
at least its my brain..in your case its…well something else
November 9th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Châtelaine Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Good evening
Yes, there is, of course, a reason not to.
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Hello pea brain!
November 9th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Châtelaine
good evening….
November 9th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
clouseau Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
A reconstruction could not possibly lead to her being found - you don’t honestly believe that it could, do you?
you would try anything no reason not …are perhaps there is
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You have a good point there clueless, to anyone with the brain size of a pea.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Good evening
Yes, there is, of course, a reason not to.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
A reconstruction could not possibly lead to her being found - you don’t honestly believe that it could, do you?
you would try anything no reason not …are perhaps there is
November 9th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Ah clock-watcher life is so unfair isn’t it? lol
November 9th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Mangy Tail Said:
“Well Stig-let if I had a child missing I’d do anything however inconvenient to find her or to promote finding out whudunnit.”
Perhaps so, but would you do something that absolutely, positively, beyond any doubt whatsoever, with 100% certainty, could not possibly lead to finding her?
A reconstruction could not possibly lead to her being found - you don’t honestly believe that it could, do you?
What are you expecting - “oh look, THERE she is, hiding under the sofa all this time, we didn’t think to look there!” ?
November 9th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Montaillou Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Now then Gaffy, Gandy’s already had a go at stalking me today, don’t you start, you aren’t old or wise enough.
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Its Garth luv. Get the bleedin name right for a start.
And wise? You? Don’t make me laugh. But old you may be.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
On page 3418-a YVONE MARTIN was questioned, who offered some information, which, despite its pertinence, did not show any relevance
astound everbody and post it…you cant because that page DOES NOT REFER TO YVONNE MARTIN so shut the F*** up…
November 9th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Nah just another *** Garth, you can spot them with their lips stuck to the ***.
November 9th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Now then Gaffy, Gandy’s already had a go at stalking me today, don’t you start, you aren’t old or wise enough.
November 9th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Gullible is probably more apt!
November 9th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Montaillou Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Hi Clouseau - Yes and Yes and I’d do it all pronto when asked the first time and I’d do my best to persuade my ‘friends’ to do the same.xxx
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Hmm, I’ve no doubt. You appear to be easy……..
November 9th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Clock-watcher the silence from mods on PM’s post says it all.
Mods and Admin
Its a given that we do not moderate non stop, that is why there was a silence
November 9th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Hi Clouseau - Yes and Yes and I’d do it all pronto when asked the first time and I’d do my best to persuade my ‘friends’ to do the same.xxx