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 12th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Pamela Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I’m pretty sure that false responses are identified as such, not reported as, “Well, just because there’s no body here now, doesn’t mean there never was!”
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So if a body has laid in a certain spot and has been removed with no trace, the dog then indicates that a body has been there at some time.
You are saying that is a false response
November 12th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Pamela Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Haven’t you referred to Mr Amaral as a “Moron” ?
November 12th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
or smug
November 12th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
“You seem to be easily amazed.”
A.) Nice! I love a good pun.
B.) Yes, even at my advanced age, I remain constantly surprised at how stubbornly
illogical and jealously punitive people can be.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
G/F,
Perhaps you should check any dog handler’s statement about the conditions under which a cadaver dog can accurately scent decomposition.
I’m pretty sure that false responses are identified as such, not reported as, “Well, just because there’s no body here now, doesn’t mean there never was!”
November 12th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Just had a phone call
From a british Banker
He has your missing thread and wants $2,500,000 to return it!
(A guy in the background was talking about prudence ? or being prudent ?)
November 12th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Pamela Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
You seem to be easily amazed.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
You call it “Temaza-Pamela”; I call it English grammar. ToMAYto, toMAHto.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
I was here, I just posted much less frequently, which was probably a good thing for all concerned.
It was amazing to look at the names of the posters; it made me feel perhaps I should be doing something more productive as well, but I’ve temporarily convinced myself that all the same people are still here, only with different names.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Temaza-Pamela
November 12th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
matt
no doubt she was a coy reader
and not Kriss/ krissie
November 12th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Cadaver dogs indicate Cadaver odour, so this means that remains are not neccesarily there to be found. It just means that a body has been there at some time!
November 12th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
GF
Apparently it was temazapam and travel tablets
November 12th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Pamela Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I don’t remember a Pamela posting here at that time.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
brandon flours Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Does that mean she was drugged throughout or just when they took her to the flat?
What types of drugs could be available to her mother?
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Callpolnight ?
November 12th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
er why ?
November 12th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Sorry I misunderstood. It’s not 9:00 here yet, so I’m still highly caffeinated.
And I’ll admit I had just used the search box to the right to remind myself what some of the posters above had said about Shannon’s poor and sainted mom somewhat earlier, and I was feeling especially smug.
Sorry.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Jersey “graveyard”……..
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3483714.ece
November 12th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Jersey Timeline….
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5137298.ece
November 12th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Pamela Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Sorry Pamela.
I did not suggest that the dogs “found” the teeth.
They were found after digging out the cellars. As were the bones.
The “graveyard” was made for the TV series, several years before.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
The basement, I BELIEVE, was the same situation, no? Investigators, not the dog, found the teeth, no? I’ll have to look for more news when I have time; last I saw, it was only teeth and no bones there.
About the graveyard: no, I’m pretty sure there was a group of graves on the property and that the bones found there are those that have been dated as being much older.
I know it’s annoying. In terms of what was found, by whom, and what the possible implications might be, the earliest news reports are completely different from the last.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
clouseau Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
The Jersey Senator who brought it into the Public Arena won’t let it die easily
either.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
brandon flours Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I would think that he was out of the circle re the scam.
But I am only surmising.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Pam
blood was found…and the bloke that was clunked whooshed from his job says he stands by his claims…game on me thinks
November 12th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Matt
Did shannons biological dad have nowt to do with it ?
November 12th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Follow the money.
Watch the family.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
brandon flours Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I saw, on TV, one of the male relatives saying that he thought that he should be
the recipient of the reward, whilst indicating that he had tipped the police off.
That was just before the scam was rumbled.
Bad timing by he.
November 12th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Pamela Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
No Pamela.
The bones and teeth were found in the cellars.
The “graveyard” was not a real graveyard.
It was a man-made prop for the TV series Bergerac.
November 12th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
How were they going to get the reward money ?
November 12th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
“M and A
Matt, I saw something last night late - the bones are historic and older than the building, but at least it gives Eddie and Keela some over due kudos”
I know you will correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe bones were found, in what turns out to be the graveyard, by humans, before the cadaver dog was taken there. The famous “skull” in the stairway turned out to be either wood or a coconut shell. As for Keela, the “blood” dog, I haven’t found anything to suggest she found anything either.