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 12th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Chatelaine I agree
:lol:
November 12th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Yes
November 12th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
montaillou, we’ll see.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Does your screen have awide grey band down the right hand side then when you scroll down to this bit?
November 12th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
:-* Montaillou
And let’s hope Mr. Anorak realises he’s been spending time and apparently money on emperor’s new clothes …
November 12th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
yes,
good night chatelaine 
November 12th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
montaillou i’ve looked at the page on vista too, it looks the same. i don’t know anything about flash players unfortunately.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Good night Chatelaine xx
November 12th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Yes I know Sam, and indeed that’s how I usually come in but I was confused tonight becasue I initially thought there would be a new thread since the layout had changed, so I went to the home page and couldn’t find my way around, I thought it would be under forums (Or fora for Pam’s sake) but it wasn’t.
Not to worry, now I know that we’re still here it’s fine but I hopw the appearance changes afor the better over the next day or so.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Well, Sam, we obviously did find out how to get here …
It wasn’t easy, though. And it’s not comfortable to work neither.
For which reason [and the advanced time] I will be off and do bid you all good night
November 12th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
montaillou, you don’t need to log in to post on the comments ? this thread, the maddiet hread is under the media heading but to find it that way you’d have to scroll down and go to older entries until you find it. haven’t tried the search function yet but that might work. but surely if you click on the down arrow of your url bar, it shows all the past urls you have visited ? you can delete part of the url to read
http://www.anorak.co.uk/madeleine-mccann
which is what i did.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
I wonder if maybe I’m getting a bad layout becasue I am running Vista, which is incompatible with quite a few things. I quite often can’t get videos because it tells me I need flash player even though I’ve installed and reinstalled and updated ad nauseam.
It’s not helped by Waspy buzzing inconsequential nonsense inthe background.
Mods and Admin
try clicking on the moving headlines /names.
I was having problems with Vista earlier too, but it stopped doing what it was doing??????
November 12th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Rasputin Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
****
Didn’t you mention in the abducted thread that you would not be posting anymore?!
November 12th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
clouseau Says:
“lets get one thing straight….human remains where found…blood was found..”
Sorry, no blood either:
“There was no blood in the cellar, and a bath said to have had blood in had not been used since 1920.”
November 12th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
I wonder why we can click on each others date and time of posting … and it’s not getting us anywhere …
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The Flash box is sometimes empty, sometimes blurred text … no added value.
The advertisement must have been sold on the basis of posters being predominantly female [yet not necessarily the same age group
November 12th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
In the same perspective that motivated the appending of the registries of users of the vehicle that was rented by the couple, the appending of the register of occupants of apartment G5A was carried out, page 3417-a.
The wife of the Anglican Priest, SUSAN HUBARD, was questioned, as she had a relationship of some proximity to the McCANN couple, during their stay in Portugal. Once again, nothing that can be reputed as important was collected.
On page 3418-a YVONE MARTIN was questioned, who offered some information, which, despite its pertinence, did not show any relevance, pages 3421-a and following.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
chatelaine,
November 12th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Thanks Sam, I thought I’d got lost. On my screen the layout looks as if it’s a poor first draft of a design, just a wide grey band down the right-hand side and if you come in by the home page you can’t see any navigation to this thread at all. I can’t log in and I keep getting told I’ve submitted a duplicate post. Ah well, perhaps by tomorrrow it will be better.
And thanks to Matt for the tip on smilies, it’s so clever, I never knew that at all
With Chatelaine’s list last night and this today Doris and I will be able to catch up with the rest of you.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Hello, everyone. Not too sure about this new layout - it was perfectly OK as it was - so why change it ?.. I must admit I prefer the old layout - this new one reminds me of the minutes of Council meetings - and I gave up years ago, but this brought it all back!!
Anyone seen the Shannon matthews reports on the TV?
November 12th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Sam, they’ll have to hang me with you then. This is a perfect example of something “new” not necessarily being an “improvement” …
November 12th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooof woooooooooooooooooooooooooof ??
November 12th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
correction, the flash box thingy is each section’s main page too, just not on the pages with the comments.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Grand Finale said”
“Human remains were found!”
Yes, but not thanks to Eddie and Keelas indications! a large scale archaeological dig costing 4.2m pounds is what found them
“Most of the 170 pieces of bone found in the search came from animals. Three were human and two of these dated from between 1470-1670 and 1650-1950 respectively. .”
If you do enough digging in a place that has had human habitation for centuries, you are likely to find some remains.
They dug up a 20cm thick concrete floor and found a shard of coconut shell, and nothing else - all on the dogs say-so.
Cadaver dogs cannot detect 300+ year old remains.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
montaillou, doesn’t matter re your missed post, there aren’t as far as i know any new madeleine threads. i miss the recent comments box, you’ve no idea who’s talking about what/what is interesting now. chatelaine the flash box thing is on the front page not here, i don’t think it’s very good as it looks confusingly clutterd. hope i don’t get hanged now.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Raspy
monty has ot correct…thought you had spit your dummy out
November 12th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Jersey police chief suspended as claims of child murders ‘ripped up’
Jersey’s police chief has been suspended after the high-profile investigation into possible child murders at the Haut de la Garenne care home was “ripped up” and dismissed as a shambles by his own officers.
By Nigel Bunyan in Jersey and Gordon Rayner
Last Updated: 5:59PM GMT 12 Nov 2008
Chief Officer Graham Power was relieved of his duties by the island’s prime minister after a new investigation team rubbished suggestions that children could have been murdered or tortured.
In an astonishing U-turn, police revealed that “human remains” found at the former home were almost all animal bones, and that only three were “possibly human”, which dated from between 1470 and 1670.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Montaillou: and I don’t like the silly advertising “what women really want” … brrr
I’m afraid this IS the NEW site and we have to do with it. So please keep posting in this thread to make it worthwhile
November 12th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Waspy, you promised you were going to go away never to return and here you are again - how did you escape from the M8 rush hour traffic to turn up in this benighted thread?
November 12th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Chatelaine, it’s ‘orrible, do you think it’s only the Maddie thread that looks like thisl do you think they are trying to make it so uncomfortable that we go away?
November 12th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
None are as fallible as those who claim infallibility.