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This must be the first time in recorded tabloid history that a policeman allegedly beating up a suspected paedophile is regarded as anything other than a hero. Could we have some sort of award?
Cheniew

i’ve asked myself for some time now, “just what kind of world do gerry and kate live in?” after reading their statements and listening to them in interviews i’ve found myself sad and confused. thankfully the sun has finally answered my perplexing question. now if they could please explain what worlds amy winehouse and paris hilton reside on i will be able to free my mind from such heavy questions and live life fully once again.

not a ludicrous in sight

I watched Mitchell on GMTV this morning. He was wearing a yellow ribbon….I think he has a crush on KM. He comes across as a lovesick protector.

But really, he did look ridiculous and insincere. I can’t believe he had a top job in media. Then again, was it in the BBC?

I think this case is going to get really interesting. There’s definitely seems to be something afoot re forensics otherwise we’d have all the results by now. Can’t wait to hear what the “innocent explanations” will be. Especially if it’s of a type described by Interloper on the Paulo Reiss thread - type that could only come from a corpse.

Another thing I’ve been thinking (-: is if there is a genetic marker for Maddie’s eye condition, or anyother related condition that we are not aware of.

Someone has probably already covered that.

is mitchell really only 48 yrs old? i ask because i notice how people age drastically when their job is to create subterfuge and spin.

I did not know comical clarrie was a world reknowned DNA specialist. I wonder why Dr Kate McCann suddenly wants to answer all the questions and can have a perfectly innocent explanation for all of this. These guys are getting more laughable by the minute.

In reply to brandonflours. Sorry can not read the number of the comment.

The one question which nobody seems able to answer properly is if the McCanns did kill Maddie, what on earth did they do with the body for all that time before they alledgedly moved her in their hire car? Silly theories such as stuffing her in a fridge just don’t make any sense but if you assume that the PJ are correct in their assumption that G and K killed their daughter, surely they have to come up with a reasonable account for the 25 days between the killing and the disposal.
If the nearby supermarket had reported the McCanns suddenly buying box loads of bin bags or air freshener, then we would have reason to be suspicious, but as far as I know, there were no such suspicious movements.
Even after all this time, I still can’t make up my mind what has happened to the poor girl, apart from that she was dreadfully neglected by her parents at the start of this whole sorry episode.

Situations Vacant

PR professional to act as spokesman for loving professional family. Good salary. (Please note that no overtime of allowances come with this post).
Passport will be required. Ideal candidates must speak Portuguese, although probably will never be required.
Position will be available later this week.

Monday, October 8, 2007
Criminal Profiling Topic of the Day: Another “Ludicrous” Theory in the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

A short time ago, I made a suggestion that the British police might investigate the McCann’s residence (and the residences of friends and family of the McCanns) for the possibility that the body of Madeleine McCann might have been transported into England. Some folk immediately labeled the theory ridiculous, or ludicrous, as the McCanns would say. How, they asked, could the McCanns carry a putrefying and decaying body in a suitcase and get it on and off of an airplane? I understand that this sounds mighty foolish to many who don’t work in the field of criminal investigation and profiling and they think Pat Brown is a nutcase par excellence!

Let me clear up a few misconceptions: first of all, it is a theory, not a fact. Secondly, a theory is useful to stimulate investigative avenues not yet thought of that might lead to evidence that would otherwise have been overlooked. Third, offering one theory does not mean it is the only theory or even the best theory. It is far more likely that Madeleine’s body is somewhere underground in Portugal or Spain or in the ocean. These are simpler places to bury a body. It may be that the body has just not yet been discovered. This is very often the case; while rumors and theories abound about white slavery and porn rings and sightings are made of the victim all over the world, the body of the poor thing has simply been lying in a ravine for the past few months! Sometimes bodies fall into strange and difficult places or are well-buried for years. Then, one day a jogger trips over the body or a farmer turns over some soil to plant his corn, and, voila! The victim has been found.

Maddy McCann will likely be found in a similar way (unless someone did one heck of a job of hiding her). Whether a child predator took Maddy or the parents did her in, she will probably one day just be found. However, there is nothing wrong with being proactive and trying to find her sooner than later. Therefore, the police should follow all leads and theories. IF they find her sooner, than not all the evidence with the body or within the body will have been destroyed by time and nature.

So, search in Portugal and Spain and any other place one can think of. And, yes, search in England: Maddy just might be there.

Would it really be possible for one of the McCanns to cart the body of their daughter back to England? Yes, absolutely. Because of the climate in Portugal, it is possible that should they have buried Maddy in a shallow grave in a sandy substrate, her body would have mummified. Mummification is a desiccation of the corpse where the fluids drain into the ground and the rest of the body dries up. There is relatively little odor associated with a mummified body.

If this occurred, the body would be easier to transport; it would be lighter and drier and lacking the horrible smell of a corpse. Such a body could easily be placed in a sealed bag and placed in a suitcase. Screening of stowed luggage is not likely to uncover a body inside of a suitcase and when the traveler reaches the other end and goes through customs, they enter the “Have nothing to declare line,” and just walk through (unless they exhibit concerning behavior that raises a red flag and launches a search of the luggage). As to the McCanns, I seriously doubt they were searched upon arrival, not with all the press surrounding them and the mass of curious onlookers, reporters, and VIPS lurking about.
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IF the McCanns were involved and IF Maddy’s body was brought home, when this would have happened is another question. Unfortunately, only those inside the organization would (we hope) know the truth about the McCann’s movements. For example, Gerry McCann returned to England on June 19, just four days after an exhaustive search for Madeleine was called off. This search was in an arid, desolate area (the kind of climate which might encourage the mummification of a body) near a town called Odiaxere. A letter from an unknown sender had stated she could be found there in a shallow grave. Four days later, Gerry is on a plane home. I don’t know if he took any luggage with him, anything more than a rucksack (which I don’t know the size of). He only stayed for the day, purportedly to attend some meetings. He claims he had his wallet stolen while getting money from an ATM and later that evening, the wallet was mailed back to him. A rather peculiar story that I wonder might not be a cover for the reason he was late to his meetings; he ostensibly spent the time calling credit card companies to cancel his credit cards.

If I were the police investigator, I would follow up this lead. I would want to know what luggage Gerry took with him to England. I would try to see if there was any proof to the wallet theft story. I would find out if he had any “alone” time on the trip. I would find out if he made those phone calls to the credit card companies and if he really got money from an ATM. I would find out exactly where he was that day through any evidence of his movements (phone call tracking, receipts, witnesses, etc.). I would want to know if anyone met him, especially anyone who he could have transferred a package from one suitcase to another.

I would check all the McCann trips and look for possibly ways for them to transport a body away from Portugal. And, again, I would look for all possible places within Portugal or neighboring countries as possible places to hide or bury a body. I would check the possibility of a burial at sea.

If I were the Portuguese police, I would be following all leads, even those that lead away from the McCanns. It never hurts to be thorough. The point is to recover Madeleine, dead or alive, and bring justice to those that hurt her. In the end, it doesn’t matter which theory is correct (except as an educational tool for future investigations). It only matters that the case is solved.

Criminal Profiler Pat Brown

Thanks Carmen (-:

Ithea

It’s from the Yankee Interloper. I won’t print all of it because part of it was telling everyone of for “making fun of their names” and the songs. These are the interesting bits:

Yankee Interloper Says:
October 9th, 2007 at 8:30 am

“I’ve been lurking on this site for weeks, fascinated by the British reaction to this case, and here are some observations I feel compelled to share:

….Moving on to science, which for some reason we in the US had been led to believe Brits were good at:

-”Sniffer dogs” are considered in the United States to be police officers equivalent to human ones. This is because they are incredibly reliable and don’t know how to lie. It is naive to think that just because your pet gets excited at lots of smells, a trained canine officer is similarly easy to distract. If the sniffer dogs say they smelled cadaverine or blood, their indicating they have found these scents is evidence by itself, as any officer’s observation would be.

-There are some bodily fluids that don’t get outside the body unless serious bodily harm has occurred, such as cerebrospinal fluid. If you find cerebrospinal fluid, and the person it came from is not in a hospital, you can be pretty sure they are dead.

-Please take this to heart and apply it to all future situations: WHENEVER you come across someone who has built a miraculous machine of their own devise, which is based on “secret” scientific principles that they are not willing to explain to you, go ahead and assume they are lying to you. You do not need to waste any further effort trying to collect anecdotal reports of their success or failure in the past, or imagining what incredible breakthrough the “secret” scientific principles will be revealed to be. It’s a trick. Get an axe.

-DNA testing can be done two ways, a quick way, where they test only a portion of the points of information in the DNA, and a long way, where they examine all the points of information in the DNA that they can. Apparently, the original DNA tests were quick tests on samples so degraded that they could only get 80 percent accuracy, and your forensic science service is now conducting the longer type of test, which will be much more accurate even with the degradation. This is taking a long time because they are doing a lot more work. Please be patient, nobody is trying to stall anybody, this is just how science works.

….As for the case itself, the thing that makes it so fascinating is that all explanations are equally implausible. Given the facts as they are presented to us, the McCanns simply did not have the time or the materials to hide and then preserve the body (no, “clingfilm” would NOT work, please just trust me on this and do not try it at home with small dead animals, that’s digusting), yet also the chances of a stranger abduction in a luxury resort are astronomically low. It is a mystery! Clearly, some crucial facts are missing.

However, luckily we live in an age where DNA testing will allow us to rule some things out. If Madeleine’s DNA is in that hire car, there is absolutely no question the parents are guilty of disposing of her body, and thus probably of killing her, accidentally or not. If the DNA is not present, then we’ll probably never know for sure just what happened, and the likeliest explanation may be that she wandered down to the sea and drowned or fell in a construction hole and was covered by falling debris.

oh i misunderstood your post. i thought you said yankee’s comment was on gazeta digital blog. my error.

how would one bypass airport security with a child’s body in their luggage? i am seriously curious and realise jokes abound about airport security but still.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1287593,00.html?f=vg

“Frankly, some of the headlines this morning are a complete disgrace.”

Frankly, the headlines since the whole saga began have been a complete disgrace.

Seriously though. Attacking the UK press after they’ve appeared to swallow pretty much everything the McCanns mouthpieces have said could be a wrong move and may come back to haunt Mr Mitchell.

Still a word in the ear of some editors from someone on high should soon have them all toeing the “party” line and back bashing the PJ soon.

Oh, it’s already begun again. Well I never.

(no, “clingfilm” would NOT work, please just trust me on this and do not try it at home with small dead animals, that’s digusting)

oh well, that rules that out then.

of course we trust you, we read it on the internet.