Madeleine McCann: Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro Says, Clarence Mitchell Responds And Michaela Walczuch
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE: More agony for parents as police chief insists she must be dead”
Page 9: “Why Madeleine is probably dead by top law officer” -
Kate and Gerry McCann “suffered fresh heartache” when Portugal’s Attorney General, Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro, said it would have been “natural” for any kidnapper to kill her. It is a “brutal assessment of the missing four-year-old’s chances of survival”
The Attorney General says: “There’s a greater possibility of the girl being dead than alive. If it is an abduction it would be normal for the abductor to have killed her. Would an abductor with all this publicity and with the whole world having Maddie’s photo still demand a ransom?”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We still firmly believe that Madeleine is alive. Making these comments is entirely unhelpful. From our point of view, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, the possibility that Madeleine is alive and being held somewhere is still valid. Our investigators are working on that basis. They, too, have stated that they are confident they will find her alive soon”
“’Murat lover was eyeing my niece’” – Tourist Graham Desuys says he saw Michaela Walczuch “staring” at “blonde-haired Zoe” and her younger brother Conner in Praia da Luz. It is one month before Madeleine vanished
Says the Briton: “She was just looking at my niece and nephew, it was very off-putting. When my partner and I walked past the woman in the street she seemed to get a bit scared and turned away as if to hide” – Were they staring at her to see if she was “staring” at them?
He goes on: “I have no doubt it as her [Walczuch] and it unnerving to think she could have been checking out my family”
If you see anyone looking/glancing/staring/peeping/smiling at your children, tell the police, and the Express…
DAILY MIRROR front page: “SHE’S DEAD. Shock Maddy claim by Portugal’s top law chief. Devastated McCanns insist search must go on”
A shock? To think Madeleine might be dead..?
Page 9: “IT WOULD BE NATURAL TO KILL MADDY”
Says Mr Monteiro: “All lines of inquiry are being pursued. There’s not one that excludes the others. At this moment in time, if you asked if we were going to discover anything I would have to say ‘I don’t know’”
Look out for other Mirror front-page headlines: “SHE’S ALIVE”, “SHE’S MISSING,” “SHE’S SOMEWHERE” etc.
DAILY STAR page 21: “’SHE’S DEAD’”
Mr Monteiro is talking with Portuguese magazine Visao
THE SUN page 23: “’MADDIE IS DEAD’ – Portugal’s top law chief delivers grim verdict”
Not a verdict – more of an opinion
This is “a blow to Kate and Gerry”
DAILY MAIL page 5: “Madeleine is dead’ – Abductor would have killed her because of publicity, says Portugal’s attorney-general”
Says Mr Monteiro on the Portuguese effort: “We have done everything. We have spent in resources, on the Madeleine case, what we have spent on others. In 40 years as a magistrate, I have never seen such a high-profile case as this one”
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 17: “Publicity made Madeleine McCann ‘a liability’”
“Portugal’s most senior law officer has said that the huge publicity surrounding the case of Madeleine McCann meant it was more likely she was dead than alive”
THE TIMES, THE GUARDIAN and THE INDEPENDENT: No Madeleine news
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:32 am
Sadly, the liability issue seems more likely.
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:36 am
Morning Wanderer.. School run, not stopping…
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:40 am
hello, thank god its Friday, and this is really sad for Maddie not the parents,
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:44 am
915
Canada Says:
November 22nd, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Here’s a new one from transfattyacid:
Perhaps Metodo 3 have Good Grounds for the Claim Madeliene is Alive
Here’s a tasty morsel.
The latest rumour doing the rounds is that Kate McCann’s cousin had her daughter abducted in Bali in 1999, but the child was rescued at the airport.
And that supposedly Madeleine is alive and well, and that the abduction is a hoax gone wrong.
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I just wanted to put this onto today’s thread. The connection with Bali is not clear from the link Trannyfatty provides on his site. There is a little more about here:
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=714425
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:55 am
@4 that is truley bizzarre, whatever next, if it is true of couse, will do some sleuthing and see if I can find anything
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:58 am
Surely most sentient people knew this 200 days ago
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:05 am
Has anyone talked about this?”…here [at the McCann's villa on Aug. 3] they also found Kate’s diary and, lastly, a manual on hiding corpses that they [the PJ inspectors] believe Gerry brought with him back from the US at the end of July.”
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:07 am
Why in the world would anyone believe what the Portugese police say in this case anymore? They have proven themselves to be inadequate to deal with a case like this and have botched everything about it. They, in short, don’t know squat about Madeleine’s missing. So, no that note, they don’t have any idea if she’s alive or dead. They certainly don’t know where she is, so they don’t know that she is dead either. For them to say this now, after the mess they have made shows me, for one, that they are really silly police, sad and silly police. One would think that after they made such a mess of things, they’d finally just keep their mouths shut about Madeleine, pack up and let others take over. Why they keep saying things when they know absolutely nothing, guessing, trying to sound competent when they aren’t is beyond me. Hope she is alive and they find her very soon. Show everyone that the Portugese Police are complete idiots. It’s their fault, they screw up, and keep screwing up. Like they like looking like fools. This little girl needs to be found, alive or not, soon. And, whoever keeps trying to snatch little kids in the Algarve needs to be caught. Clue: if someone is taking pictures of your little kids, don’t just sit there and let them, find out who they are and turn them into the police. No one needs to be taking pictures of little kids unless they know them or have been hired to do so by the children’s parents.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:09 am
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PeterMac: I think some people cling to some hope with the recent cases of a couple of other children being found after an extended period of time. Of course, while one case did see a lot of publicity, it was never really on this scale. (in my opinion)
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Leslie, I don’t believe it was a manual, but a book. And not exactly a ‘hiding bodies for dummies’ type book. (if the book was really found, I haven’t paid too much attention to that piece of the story) Some people here have the name of it, perhaps they’ll share if you are interested in looking it up yourself.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:10 am
“She was just looking at my niece and nephew, it was very off-putting.”
Wow. Incriminating indeed! Does Michaela have a glass eye like her boyfriend? ‘Cuz that would be the final nail in her coffin, wouldn’t it? Such people shouldn’t be allowed to exist!
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:10 am
most normal sentient ppl yes but the mccans are for from normal
and my name just came up as SA had to change it, whats going on
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:14 am
8 Allison
Yes, the Portuguese police are foreign, aren’t they? I believe most Portuguese are. So it goes without saying that they are of low intelligence, and don’t wash very often. Not like us decent folk.
Who was taking pictures of Madeleine? Do you have any new news?
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:15 am
8…Allison
Am surprised that you didn’t “sardine munching dagos” somewhere
in your stupid tirade.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:16 am
Perhaps it is going to end up like the Smart case in the US. Ed Smarts daughter Elizabeth disappeared for months then reappeared alive and well after being transported around different locations. But then again probably not due to the DNA evidence. Still think more could be done to freeze the Fund though. As is always the case, the well connected seem to get away with not being scrutinised. Off to work now,will catch up later .
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:17 am
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Matt. Says:
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:15 am
8…Allison
Typo correction….to
Am surprised that you didn’t include “sardine munching dagos” somewhere
in your stupid tirade.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:17 am
Wanderer-
“No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World’s Premier Forensic Investigators” written by Steve Jackson
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:18 am
Clarence swallowed a corkscrew, Anorak?
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:19 am
Relax folks…..just another silly McCann inspired attempt to implicate
RM etc.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:19 am
Good morning, June. !!
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:22 am
Leslie 7 “a manual on hiding corpses” That sounds like the police journal, just ordinary reading for some folks it appears ! Going now……
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:23 am
re:“No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World’s Premier Forensic Investigators” written by Steve Jackson
From Publishers Weekly:
Founded in 1991 as a nonprofit forensic investigative team, NecroSearch International specializes in homicide cases shelved because of “corpus indelecti” that is, a body cannot be produced as evidence that a murder has taken place. Coming from a wide range of backgrounds geophysicists to “cadaver dog” specialists to chemists and rank-and-file cops the members of NecroSearch combine their skills to produce the most proficient (and most exciting) detective work since Sherlock Holmes. They take the coldest cases and comb for hidden graves on rural hillsides, in suburban backyards and at the bottom of mud-choked riverbeds, searching for remains that have been buried anywhere from two to 20 years. (Or 70, as in the notorious Romanov family case.) Having sharpened his true crime teeth on Monster, Jackson competes here with two other books on forensic science to appear this season: Michael Baden and Marion Roach’s Dead Reckoning and Corpse by Jessica Snyder Sachs. But while those books concentrate on the establishment of forensic methods as formidable weapons in the fight for criminal justice, this book combines the burden of scientific proof with rousing tales of police work out in the field or the quarry, the Rocky Mountains or someone’s backyard. The book covers the group’s quirky beginnings and digs into its most important cases suspensefully; Jackson’s sharp eye misses nothing in the painstakingly rendered details. A must-have for true crime fans, it should also be of great interest to anyone fascinated with the practical applications of science. 32 pages of photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:28 am
GERRY’S MANUAL ON HIDING CORPSES.
FIRST RULE: DO NOT LEAVE THE CORPSE UNDER A STONE, FOR THEY WILL LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED.
“There’s a greater possibility of the girl being dead than alive. If it is an abduction it would be normal for the abductor to have killed her. Would an abductor with all this publicity and with the whole world having Maddie’s photo still demand a ransom?”
He might not demand a ransom, but he might keep her locked up and “treat her like a princess” whenever he got the chance. Who knows, maybe when she is much older, he will let her out in the garden to stroll around, and perhaps even marry her someday.
The McCanns may become grandparents and their son-in-law would be a paedophile. Would that be a “happy ending” for Gerry and Kate?
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leslie Says:
“they also found… a manual on hiding corpses that they [the PJ inspectors] believe Gerry brought with him back from the US at the end of July.”
Oh, well. I guess the happy ending story was just a pleasant fantasy. Had Gerry highlighted passages from the book?
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:37 am
Has the Express already pulled the story quoted (featuring the unusually-named Graham Desuys) from its website; or not put it on there yet?
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:37 am
Sadly the fate of Madeliene has been sealed 6 months ago, she was a hot potatoe after all the pubicity. And this new person saying we saw Murats girlfriend eyeing our niece/nephew , why has he just come to light,did he crawled out from NO STONE UNTURNED.Clarrie and team McCann have been busy.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:37 am
You’ve got to be kidding… I was kidding about the “under the stone” thing, and then I see that is in the title of the book?! Good God almighty, they named the “Find Madeleine” crussade after this book on corpse disposal ?? !! ??
WTF ?? That is just beyond bizarre. The McCann Monsters are truly impossible to fathom.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:45 am
this woman may have just picked up the local custom of staring. i know i was very mad when people would ¨stare¨ at me. at times i would even ask WHAT? i know some british guys that got into fights with locals for ¨staring¨ at them. also this lady could have just been spacing out and when she realised this was embarrassed. especially if she knows she is under scrutany anyways. i think some people are just paranoid.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:48 am
Alright, I recovered from my shock a little bit.
Now, then, do the McCanns (or Murats) know a property owner in Portugal (Murat was associated with real estate, no?) whose property contains a very large boulder? Did this property owner employ some type of crane service during that time?
Uh huh. The body is under a large boulder. The Search Madeleine Fund name was a HINT to find the body.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:57 am
27 Hideki
Maybe it’s under the Northern Rock.
Which brings me to Beardie’s involvement. First he backs the McCanns, then he says he might be interested in taking over Northern Rock. Is he serious about the latter? Or is he just doing the govt. a favour by trying to make it look as if NR is something worth having. Judging by today’s Guardian, it’s about as desirable as it appears in this cartoon:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,,2213981,00.html
Didn’t Tony Blair slum it at Beardie’s on one of his holidays?
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:05 am
The Attorney General says: “There’s a greater possibility of the girl being dead than alive. If it is an abduction it would be normal for the abductor to have killed her. Would an abductor with all this publicity and with the whole world having Maddie’s photo still demand a ransom. It is obvious to the trained and sentient person that this hombre is sending a message to the McCanns and the world.We know there was no abduction,we know that you know it and we are on to you big time.
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:11 am
29…Magnum
Don’t worry…Clarence will soon kick that ludicrous, unhelpful, baseless
and uninformed report into touch.
PS…England will soon be needing another “kicker”…Clarence could fit the bill.