You ask why would they go to Portugal unless the help was what the family wanted. That makes it sound as if it is the McCanns running the investigation, and deciding which police would be involved. I think not!! Another poster made the point that the McCanns are NOT entitled to know about everything the PJ/British police are doing, or to know exactly what line of investigation they are following. There seems to be this misconception that the PJ or Brit police dare not do or say anything without first consulting the McCanns!!!

I haven’t been following the Von Aesch case and his connection to the missing Swiss girl Ylenia, or his possible connection to Madeleine. You will have more info on that than I do. I know that Ylenia, and all the other missing kids, are just as important as Madeleine, but it is just the Madeleine case that I have been following in the news and on the forums. I am confining myself to that, because trying to follow everything else would just take too much time!! Like everyone else on these forums I have become engrossed in all the twists and turns of the Madeleine case.

You asked about my hours - well I am self employed working from home, so I find myself popping in and out of the forums at all sorts of odd times! Have a very busy day today though, so probably won’t be on here again today. Will try to catch up over the weekend.

It does make sense that the McCann party wouldn’t mind taking lie detector tests, as someone posted earlier suggesting, to rule out the Portugal leaks?

Why is it that the Cracker team went to Portugal unless the help was what the family wanted? Why would so called anti thinkers figure the McCanns would want to bring in more police if they were in some way responsible?

Oh, is there anymore news about Mr. Von Aeush? What type of work did he do? I will try to search his name. So much of the information about the swiss girl is very strange too.

What are your hours?

It’s been reported that RM will likely be formally cleared, or “un-arguido’d” if you like, by a judge next week.

I think you were referring to the UK “Cracker” team? (nicknamed after one of our TV series). Don’t think they’ve left Portugal yet, and I think they will be there for some considerable time. I haven’t read much about them lately. I don’t think we will hear much about them, they are just doing their job in the background, and it is the PJ that are making the public statements (such as they are, lol)

You asked about Kate McCann saying they may leave Portugal.

She said “We know we will be going back and I guess one day we will wake up and it will be right.

“We never thought we would go before Madeleine came back. Now we just don’t know but we have our two-year-old twins to consider.

“I can’t imagine how we came out as a family of five and could be going back as a four.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=475699&in_page_id=1770

Yes Paul a lot of smearing and what could leave innocent uninvolved people feeling violated in one way or another, such as Mr. Gerrod possibly.

In the UK is the news about Madeleine mostly papers and television but not much live chat or forums, such as this?

Also, true there is little info about RM these days. I don’t know if that is because there is nothing new to tell or concern that he will sue.

Have the UK Chopper? team is that the correct name? left the Algarve?

If Madeleine did in fact die on that fateful night, then everybody should stop referring to her as a four year old. The poor little mite never reached her fourth birthday.

Nobody has mentioned RM for such a long time, and he will no doubt be very relieved by that! I always felt that he was the victim of sensation-seeking British tabloid journalists and that it would be proved that he had nothing to do with it. Of course, if the case is not solved and he is not completely cleared, he will have to live with the stigma and the pointing fingers and the press speculation for some time - I wouldn’t necessarily say for the rest of his life though. He is only 33, and after a time, maybe when he has moved on and started a new life, people will have forgotten about his alleged involvement. Life will have moved on. However, it is criminal that he has had his whole life turned upside down and has had to suffer the outrageous slurs on his character by the British press. If he is finally cleared, I hope he sues them and gets a lot of money. Then he can move on and start a new life. What a nightmare for him it has been.

So much speculation about this case, false leads, apparently false sightings, mis-reporting by the press, endless allegations, smearing of reputations - the McCanns, RM, the PJ, the McCann’s friends, and none of it helps solve anything.

All any of us really KNOW, is that we really KNOW nothing!!

Rosemary - I’m not sure about dogs being able to detect whether blood comes from a living or dead person, but are you aware of the British cadaver dog who has apparently picked up the scent of a corpse in the McCann’s apartment?

Cadaver dogs are very special sniffer dogs, who are trained to detect whether a corpse has been in a particular location. In order for the dogs to pick up the scent of a corpse, the person has to have been dead for at least two hours, because before that the scent of the dead person would be the same to the dog as the scent of a living person.

The British cadaver dog they have used in the apartment is a cocker spaniel named Eddie. He is reputed to be the best Cadaver dog there is - I read somewhere that he earns £500 a day. The other dog that has been used is also British and her function is to detect blood. It has been claimed that she can detect blood residues that have been in a location for up to 7 years, but that could be an exaggeration of course.

Forgive me if I am telling you something you already know, but I wasn’t quite sure exactly what you meant with your comment about dogs being able to detect whether blood comes from a dead person or not.

Here’s a link to an article which explains all about Cadaver dogs.

http://dogs.about.com/cs/searchandrescue/a/cadaver_dogs.htm

Returning to the von Aesch story and the disappearance of Ylenia (in my mind there is no proof he kidnapped her, even if his DNA was on her belongings, (he could have been put in contact with her things by another), just as there is no proof he shot himself just because a gun was lying beside him in the forest), it is interesting that his wife returned to Benimantell after only a few days with him in Switzerland because her neighbours couldn’t look after her chickens any longer. Blick, the Swiss newspaper, suggests that would have given plenty of time to wipe incriminating information from his computer (currently being examined by police).
Benimantell is close to a reservoir, and the Algarve coast where Madeleine went missing is dotted with caves. In the 1980s two Swiss girls went missing and were eventually found in caves (disappearances now being linked to von Aesch - all reported earlier in the press). All deeply troubling.
“Was ist auf von Aeschs Computern?” (What is on von Aesch’s computer?) terrible translation, but my German’s useless:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/artikel69102&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DWas%2Bhat%2Bvon%2Baesch%2Bauf%2Bseinen%2Bcomputern%2Bversteckt%253F%2BBlick%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den

On DNA, I don’t think it is conclusive evidence of a crime, it can be stolen and transferred from one site to another. I don’t believe, either, that sniffer dogs can tell whether blood comes from a dead person or not. Perhaps one of our better-informed readers can explain how this is possible.

My arguement is if person walks in and sees a door open and leaves, two people see more light but overlook… that the same people able to ignore such as that will not have an understanding of people who would go into a higher alert state? The people who didn’t pick up or act on any vibes, for lack of better words, the night Madeleine went missing, although what they noticed made enough of an impression to remember later, are just as peculiar as anything people like Brian or others might be doing?

So right ,whoever made an earlier post at some point indicating too bad Brian or someone didn’t tell them something was up before it happened. After the fact the lesson learned here is the best help is to send money, look around, and don’t comment.

I’ll be back at least once because there is one missing piece in all of this. If someone wouldn’t have felt right with the nightly routine, would acted on the notice or the door open and more light, or later discuss and try figure what the deal is are anti something but I don’t know what?

All I can personally say is I wouldn’t want to change places with the McCanns but I seriously doubt they wanted something to happen to their child. Maybe agree to disagree and hope in the end the truth is known. For now I just weep like Stephanie at the thought of it all.

Just like Diana’s son said, he and his brother don’t know what happened. I believe him. Whether or not in the future more is known I don’t know.

Does anyone want to hear the dream I had last night? I am serious!

I just hope the police searches of all suspected properties are really thorough. In the Marc Dutroux paedophile case I’ve read the police did not find the dungeons, built below the cellars, where the children were kept, for a long time, even though police thought they heard voices and had searched the cellars. Unbelievable. Another notorious paedophile he constructed dungeons with vertical vents to carry the scents away from dogs. Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper in Utah broke into her bedroom and led her four miles up a mountain path behind her home where he kept her without food for a week in a makeshift campsite - no scent picked up by dogs, even though the trail was fresh and they went on foot. Blunders are not uncommon, it seems

If you look at Brian’s drawings they do seem to represent factual events or things but without these facts you would never guess what they are.

To remain objective, there are of course people who are extremely skilled at predicting probabilities, for example think of an odd number with 2 digits between 1 and 50.

We can read a lot of things into a very vague drawing if our minds want to, a bit like reading your stars the week after, they were true but in quite a mundane way, not as you would have possibly imagined before the week had started.

We will all generally meet someone new, have some kind of issue at work which needs resolving, might find something we thought was lost etc. Try reading all the starsigns the week after and they will all be true to you in some way.

Probabilities says that most people choose 37 by the way.

Just now I looked at Brian’s site. Only making this comment without having viewed the entire site, too tired, but once I read that Mr. McCann’s sister said there is no interest in that type of help… Help people if they want the help and if helping seems the thing to do.

Listen, think, talk are whatever is okay, which is being encouraged by a media campaign to begin with, so not much to complain about that. Brian’s site and experiences are interesting and there is a lot of traffic so a lot of information to share, etc. I will vist again after sleep. For Brian’s own purpose and other people who appreciate it is a good thing.

Information obtained from people help the police, including all kinds of various information I guess. I don’t really have a clue how often out of the ordinary helps.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3500126.stm

There is another link on the UK Psychics website.