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…
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November 11th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Whistling in the dark here
November 11th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I so hate not knowing
November 11th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Hi Doris, is it technical ora whooshed and how did you find out? Gotta know xx
November 11th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I think they are on to it
November 11th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
So where is everyone then? Does someone know something we don’t, I’ve been poking around trying to find today’s thread.
Mods you’ve got to tell us what happened, we are bereft.
November 11th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Phew thatpoorpriest. It’s not just me then.
November 11th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
I was just about to ask the same question.
I was reading it, to catch up, and got as far a 5pm, so I pressed the refresh page……
whoosh clunk,,,, it was GONE, it now shows this one as the latest one????!!!!!
November 11th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
What happened to today’s Madeleine article? I was reading it at lunchtime and it seems to have been whooshed now.
In fact, until I looked on Newsnow, I thought I’d dreamt it.
Am I just being thick? Could someone please point me in the right direction?
November 11th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
willo Says:
November 11th, 2008 at 2:45 am
agw…
Willo you are either drunk, chemically disadvantaged, simply thick, suicidal or sleep deprived.
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I wish I could nick that line for a play I’m writing…..
November 11th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Matt/Brandon,
A lot of activity from some posters and then this story comes out?
November 11th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Gleaned from….SOSMaddie…
The documentary now being made in Portugal will contain an interview with
an ex-M3 employee, who indicates that M3 benefited from, and were able to
anticipate areas of the PJ Investigation, due to having the aid of a mole within
the ranks of the Investigation. When the Documentary is broadcast the “moles”
name, and other details, will be revealed.
November 11th, 2008 at 7:50 am
brandon flours Says:
November 11th, 2008 at 7:27 am
“”All we asked was to gather as much information used to redirect the investigation
in Portugal to Morocco or Spain””
Redirect ??
Maddie or Maddie’s remains still in Portugal then ?
“”said that the Spanish agency would have brought British journalists in Morocco
in order to meet witnesses to pre-selected and paid: “the aim was to spread in the media and the Moroccan track and confirm that it was a kidnapping, that the Portuguese and British police would not believe”"
More redirection….and this crummy band of cowboys were not instructed to
“search” for the real Maddie, or her remains ??
“”“The couple never asked me not to lie about anything. Unfortunately, I can not
say the same about the agency or the couple’s entourage,” concludes the detective”"
They wouldn’t need to, as it would seem that Clarence and BK, et al, were doing
the dirty work for them. The redirections and the selective alleged “sighters”.
Odder and odder.
Curiouser and curiouser.
November 11th, 2008 at 7:27 am
before I go though……..
A detective from meteado 3 speaks out
http://sosmaddie.dhblogs.be/
“According to the same detective, he was never hired to find Madeleine McCann: “We no longer Maddie … me, anyway, I’ve never been hired to do. All we asked was to gather as much information used to redirect the investigation in Portugal to Morocco or Spain. ”
This former detective - who is no longer able to continue its activities - said that the Spanish agency would have brought British journalists in Morocco in order to meet witnesses to pre-selected and paid: “the aim was to spread in the media and the Moroccan track and confirm that it was a kidnapping, that the Portuguese and British police would not believe, “said Detective stressing that it is unable to say if the McCann were behind this operation.
“The couple never asked me not to lie about anything. Unfortunately, I can not say the same about the agency or the couple’s entourage,” concludes the detective.”
November 11th, 2008 at 7:19 am
That poor priest
My dad never talked about his time in the war unfortunately, I only know a couple of stories about his leave ( told to us by his relatives)
He got a a very bad tooth infection and was put in a hospital, his whole troop were killed.
he was at Monte cassino
When he came home one day during the blitz, he walked up his street and the pub next door to his house was bombed he helped pull people from the wreck, some people were dead standing up, still holding the darts they were playing all blackened.
Amazingly his families house is still standing!
Whenever I asked him about the war, he used to say.
” We fought for your freedom. Use it wisely, never take it for granted, and never forget it”
He was 52 when he had me and I only had 19 years to know him
must go, I’m in floods now, will be back later !
November 11th, 2008 at 4:31 am
Sorry, by “here” I meant in this forum. Here in town we think he was pretty swell.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:45 am
I didn’t know Anorak before the Madeleine affair, in someways I wish I had what with all the nostaligic comments of what a great satirical site. In total contrast I have noticed over the last year or so a gradual decline in content of posts, posters and it is obvious the administration with it’s new found bullying tactics is getting somewhat shaky too.
There are the few interesting posters still around but very thin on the ground. The content of most posts is crap and/or constantly regurgitated. The ‘pros’ on here just to disrupt are allowed to do so under the ‘free speech’ mantle (and under several names), all very convenient for a pro blog?
Administration seemed to have lost it’s way after the split in the ranks with the best mods (as in user friendly) taking off to pastures green.
A Shame really.
Now we have the inmates running the forum for long periods, we have admin running scared of a pink poof , you can’t fart or joke with out the mighty Artemis (contender for ‘White Coat Person of the Year’ award) playing god and real proper salt of the earth posters are leaving by the day.
Well done.
It’s almost like Anorak has taken delivery of a brown paper bag. All unmarked notes.
Anorak has changed, you can go on about it being the libel laws but I think using them as a front to limit posts is as good as an excuse as anything you guiys could find. This forum has been gelded by the McCanns and Anorak is in good company for they have buckets of testicles from far more salubrious organisations than Anorak. In fact the UK police will patrol bowlegged for a long time, the Forensic guys will spend a while yet stopping the bleeding and who really knows who were left eunuchs in Portugal.
Amarals balls are proving a little tougher than others though.
The British justice system is not the bastion of truth anymore as stated by a very misguided Artemis. It is now (and perhaps always was) very obviously class distinctive and a laughing stock to anyone with a straight eye.
Fiction is fiction. Truth is truth. Remember that.
-agw … and I believe I can fly…
Willo you are either drunk, chemically disadvantaged, simply thick, suicidal or sleep deprived.
You often morph to a different personality.
Enough. Off to bed with you there’s a good little troll.
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November 11th, 2008 at 2:33 am
Clive,
Shhhhhhhhh! Werner von Braun is a most unpopular man here, so I assume Huntsville to be towna non grata.
I teach in Huntsville, directly across the highway from the Space and Rocket Center.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:04 am
A Belgium senator has been kicked out of the facist political party of Belgium, after his wife made public a video, in which Delacroix(the senator) is singing an antisemite song, about a jewish girl being burned alive on a nazi concentration camp.
Delacroix is divorcing his wife and she decided to show the world how evil he is.
This is my hope about Madeleine.Someday there will be serious trouble between couples of Tapas 9 or among them all, and one of them will tell what happened to the little girl.
November 11th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Gabon is in West Africa. This is how Anorak used to be, a shame it is no longer so.
-agw: Nostalgia, and simple pain in the arse in one sentence equals neuralgia, that’s the paradox.
Try the same technique elsewhere and see how long you last.
November 11th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Well I never. Amazing.
Everton and Liverpool donated signed shirts especially for the McCanns to auction.
After all the sadness the Bolger case caused the Liverpool area I wonder if the fans of these clubs agreed +++ EDIT++++
Or did the clubs blindly hand out the shirts without checking who was receiving them?
Tip of the Day : Maybe the McCanns should search Anfield. Keane found his goalscoring boots there last weekend and I remember fondly a certain lad called Thomas finding the net there in 1989.
-agw: Willo you are becoming dangerous and hard work. Take a little time out and judge what the end result will be.
November 11th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Port Gentil, the company didn’t want to pay harbour fees. They decided to put their Barge on the undeveloped side of the harbour. It was a nightmare. It was an Army surplus Bridge, and unknown at the time, parts were missing, however all the pontoons were there.
November 11th, 2008 at 1:32 am
sorry, where on earth IS Gabon?
we could bring this fascinating thread full circle by saying, is it the location of another sighting?
November 11th, 2008 at 1:26 am
I don’t think he would have inspected that one. LOL. where on earth on Gabon?
November 11th, 2008 at 1:21 am
I found myself in Gabon trying to put together a Bailey Bridge in 1980. Wish he had been there
November 11th, 2008 at 1:17 am
June says:
No he wasn’t in the film , but he was mentioned, and he was in the RE’s who always went ahead, to build bridges etc. But he died before the film was made.
But dad used to talk about Salerno a lot
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My grandad was a factory inspector of Bailey Bridges and the like. He would never pass them if they were even slightly outside the correct measurements. He made the company rebuild them, telling them that his son (my dad) was “over there” and his life might depend on that bridge. I mean, a fat lot of good if you tried to put it together and it didn’t fit. I wonder if your dad ever came across a bridge that my grandad inspected.
small world eh.
November 11th, 2008 at 12:44 am
The Real Stig
amazing how we all find common ground over the fundamentals of life!
Your dad did well to survive, very low odds. My dad volunteered for RAF but one eye was poor so he was turned down, he asked if he could at least be a navigator but was told he needed even better eyesight for that. Personally I’m glad he failed, as it’s so unlikely he would have survived.
I find the true life war stories so fascinating, a friend of mums was a glider pilot, went over to Pegasus Bridge, and because I recently asked if he was in the war, he started telling amazing stories that even his wife had never heard. Now he talks about his experiences whenever we see him. Imagine at just 18 being resposible for 30+ men in the belly of the glider over the Channel.
I suppose they didn’t talk about it before, because everyone’s dad/ uncle/ brother/ husband was in the war and it was not unusual, now there are so few left, they want to talk.
November 11th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Karen
So are you saying he is a long haired aging rock star?
November 11th, 2008 at 12:31 am
come to think of it, maybe one or more of your great grandads? LOL
if so, try and find out about them, they deserve your interest.
November 11th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Karen, but maybe your grandad was?
November 11th, 2008 at 12:29 am
My Dad was a CPO in the Royal Navy, he served on the Atlantic convoys and steered several landing crafts at Normandy.