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SUNDAY MIRROR: “Did they want my girl?”
Karen Sixsmith is in conversation with the Mirror. It is an “EXCLUSIVE”. She is in an apartment at the Ocean Club, Praia da Luz. It is a month before Madeleine McCann went missing
A woman knocks at her door. She claims to be a Jehovah’s Witness. “German-born” Michaela Walczuch is a Jehovah’s Witness, or has been. The “mysterious woman” at the door is with a man.
Says Sixsmith: “It was a blonde woman, 35 to 40 years old, English-speaking. She had a pamphlet and I knew straight away that she was a Jehovah’s Witness. She asked if she could come into the apartment to talk about her faith. I took the pamphlet from her and closed the door. I now think it may have been Murat and his girlfriend”
Michaela Walczuch is 34
Karen has a daughter called Kate – “Kate is strikingly similar to Madeleine…Kate would have stood out a mile with her blonde hair and blue eyes - just like Madeleine”
Says the Mirror: “Her testimony - given to the Sunday Mirror so we could pass it on to the McCanns’ private investigators Metodo 3 in Barcelona”
NEWS OF THE WORLD: “Snatch bid last year at Maddie flat”
“A man tried to kidnap a child at the same apartment Madeleine McCann vanished from SIX MONTHS before she went missing,” says a British nanny who “caught the pervert trying to climb in through the ground floor window while a baby slept inside”
DAILY EXPRESS: “BABYSITTER SAW WINDOW MAN”
A source says “A babysitter has given detectives a statement in which she claims she caught a man trying to climb in through a window of apartment 5A – the apartment later occupied by the McCanns”
THE PEOPLE: “SICKENING SMEAR CAMPAIGN - FAMILY’S EMOTIONAL PLEA FOR MISSING DAUGHTER’S RETURN”
“Cops spent days investigating a theory the couple did it because they were desperate for cash”
It is a “sickening smear” making headlines in Portuguese paper 24 Horas
“NO QUIZ FOR MURAT LOVE” - Tuck Price, “a pal of German born Walczuch”, reveala: “I know for sure she’s been going to her Jehovah’s meetings and I know for sure the police haven’t contacted her. If this was true I’m sure the police would have been on to her”
“Find Maddie and give us a miracle for Christmas..” - “Maddie’s grandfather Brian Healy revealed how the family are convinced that she is alive and how they are now hoping for the ultimate Christmas miracle.” Says he: “We will all buy her a Christmas present and they will be under the tree waiting for her when she comes home”
GLASGOW SUNDAY MAIL: “Fury Over ‘Maddie Sold’ Slur”
An “outrageous slur”
A source says: “For several days the judicial police team investigated the possibility that the child had been sold by her own parents because of financial difficulties”
DAILY STAR: “MADDIE: 10 NEW SUSPECTS”
“Spanish investigators hunting for Madeleine McCann have narrowed their search to a hit list of ten paedophiles, we can reveal. Detectives working for the Metodo 3 agency are blitzing locations in Europe and Africa to find the known sex offenders”
Why this ten? Why ten?
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We have every confidence in Metodo 3. They can get to places faster and work quicker than anyone else and have the capacity to work worldwide”
BURNLEY EXPRESS: “Girls’ symbolic silence for Madeleine McCann”
Chelsea Gallagher and Gemma Lee, both 13, raised £450 for the Madeleine McCann Fund with a sponsored cuff-and-silence.
“For an entire school day, Chelsea and Gemma, 13, were handcuffed together and remained silent.” Says Chelsea: “The handcuffs symbolised the people who will be caught, and the silence because we haven’t heard anything about Madeleine”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCann: is there no hope left?”
“Bristling with bravado before the television cameras last week, Francisco Marco, the portly boss of the Spanish-based detective agency Metodo 3, sneeringly dismissed the Portuguese police investigation into the disappearance of the couple’s daughter, Madeleine, as ”bumbling”, and boasted: ‘’We know who the kidnappers are and we are very, very close to catching them.’ Off camera, he admitted: ‘No, I can’t disclose any more yet. But I will be proved right.’”
Marco will get his man. A PI always does. Sign the contract. Pay the fee…
A source “close to” the McCanns says: ”The harsh fact is that they were pinning their remaining hopes on Marco’s outfit when they hired them on a six-month contract in September. But, in the past few weeks, they have conceded that they might have been sold a pup. There’s no doubt they’ve worked round the clock, but they don’t have a lot of experience with this type of investigation”
But there are for months left on the contract…
THE GUARDIAN: “Panorama walk-out over McCann film”
“Why did TV journalist David Mills, the producer of a Panorama film on the McCann affair, quit the project before it was transmitted last week? The Observer’s David Rose reveals the inside story of the latest row to hit the BBC’s flagship show”
Sensationalism? Tabloid journalism? Crime as entertainment?
Mills wrote a script. It was not used. “His original film would have compared Madeleine to the JonBenet Ramsey case in Colorado, about which Mills has made three previous documentaries. After the body of JonBenet, a child beauty pageant winner aged six, was found in her parents’ Boulder home, they were vilified by the police and media, despite their continued insistence that they had nothing to do with her death. They claimed she had been killed by an intruder…Years later DNA evidence proved beyond doubt that JonBenet had been killed by an intruder. John Ramsey told Panorama: ‘It’s a life-time damage. No question about it.’”
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November 29th, 2007 at 3:40 am
BTW
beam me up scottie/680
As usual you are thoughtful and give good counter arguments.
November 28th, 2007 at 6:11 am
681/cheryl
If you google Mark Warner Resorts you can then research their stance on Madeleine McCann.
It was very odd that they (McCann’s) declined the baby sitting services.
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I also have a hard time understanding the latest so called news. That an abducter panicked killed Madeleine and fled with her body?? If he panicked why not flee. Why take the time to kill her and then take her body??? This is hard to conceive ???
This is not a McCann lynching..This is a so called investigator lynching.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
680
bean me up scotty Says:
November 27th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
REPLY: I know On2U said they were told that but I did not have time to ask her where she read that? I hadn’t heard it before this, you two.
It is not a pro McCann rant, Scotty Says, those examples of children being taken with someone in close proximity are reality and NOT all that rare.
My ‘thing’ is you condemning them for not only leaving their child(ren) unattended but also the majority are insinuating and others deliberately attempting to convince the lynch mob they killed their child. What I’m saying is they are guilty, wrong or whatever you want to call it for leaving their child(ren) alone in the room; yet what laws did they break doing that? From what I could gather from some on here - no real laws exist on what age a child can be or not be left alone? They were too young to be left alone in my eyes, I wouldn’t have done that but then I never had a reason on vacation with the kids to have to make that choice…and maybe make a stupid one without thinking - I didn’t so…
This lynch mob ready to drag them to the Tower of London for killing their daughter; thus, far they have not been charged with their child’s disappearance or possible death. I gave you those just a FEW examples of many abductions over here with parent or someone in close proximity to show you that hey it can happen as you stand there watching your child, sleeping in the same house. Yes, they made it easier for someone to abduct her….but whoever would have gotten to her.
November 27th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
I followed your argument ,Cheryl with interest, until i realised it was just a pro-Mccan rant. I got the impression you were trying to say that these things happened even with family present. Well that’s as maybe but those stories are a rarity , millions of children go on holiday each year, but their parents stay with them and they stay safe. The whole consensus of opinion is , that if it was an abduction, it was only possible because the so called abductors knew the children were left alone every night. As my old friend On2u states they knew it wasn’t safe to leave them because the management told them so . That kind of destroys their statement that they thought that the children would be safe.
And Cheryl like all the pro-mccann’s misses the point when she thinks we shouldn’t blame the parents till we know they are directly involved. They were directly involved. parents leave children unprotected, one vanished and is dead, or worse . would they be directly involved if the story was parent hits child and child is dead or worse. same thing to me and to Maddy i would think.
November 27th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
678/cheryl
I am familiar w/all the cases you mention…and I am sure most of these families had no reason to think it would happen to them….. . Although in at least two of the cases you mentioned it was a registered offender who lived in the community.The neighbor’s had not been notified of his presence.
Also the McCann’s were made aware by mgt. @resort that it would not be a good idea to leave the children alone. They were told about the safety factor due to robberies in the complex and should use baby sitting service. The McCann’s declined. It might be said that in the US we are overprotective. I do think when visiting a foreign country it should not be likened to your own backyard.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:53 am
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Tony Bennett Says:
November 25th, 2007 at 11:37 am
JONBENET RAMSEY AND THE RANSOM NOTE
Extract from Wikipedia
REPLY: How did you manage to leave off the below? Oversight on your part, Mr. Bennett?
“But there were elements that didn’t fit the theory that the Ramseys did it - the discovery of DNA in JonBenét’s underpants that did not match any samples taken from her family, friends or any known suspects. And a footprint found near the basement window didn’t match any shoes in the house.”
You were a lawyer, correct? You know the Rules of Discovery! If the ‘Prosecutor’ has information/evidence that could help the Defense they must produce it! Guess the above information also written was overlooked by you!
Do you know how many innocent people have gone to prison for years and even sat on death row because police and prosecutors hide evidence, manipulated evidence, destroyed evidence, gave false testimony because they wanted someone found guilty they personally thought were guilty and swayed the jury who then reached the wrong verdict?
The emotional fury over there and I’m not saying it is wrong to be so outraged leaving a child alone is based on the fact that child was left alone - although checked on. However, from the very beginning it has had all the ear marks of the work of a paedophile! If a paedophile focuses on a child they will get that child even if the parents are nearby or in the same house.
A year and a half ago, grandparents in FL put their granddaughter to bed, age around 9, then went to bed. In the morning they and the father got up the child was gone! A man from nearby came in through a window during the night, took the child to where he was staying, sexually abused her for around 2 days, then put her in two garbage bags ALIVE and buried her. Police didn’t find him in time and when they did and then went to where he had buried her alive she was dead.
Three years ago a little girl was playing with her playmates in a yard with a fence around it, her mother was in house looking out window, a car stopped and man jumped out, grabbed the little girl over the fence, took off and the police found her sexually abused body hours later.
Years ago in California, young girls were having a slumber party for the night and the one girl’s parents were home and in bed. A man came in through the front door, grabbed the one young girl and ran out and the police found her sexually abused body!
There was a young 5 year old girl taken from a neighborhood Christmas Party for parents and their children about 15 years and everyone was around in the room, she was surrounded by people including her mother there, all of a sudden she wasn’t in the room! A man had gotten her standing by the door and quickly, it turned out, got her out the door. They found her dead.
A couple 10 miles away had two teenage girls around 12 and 13, both old enough under the law to go home alone after school. They came home the girls were gone. The police found their sexually abused bodies days later laying side by side in the shallow part of the river.
We have too many cases of paedophiles taking children to list them all. But we have put in place over here what we call the “Amber Alert”, named after one girl who was a victim of a paedophile. When a child is missing or seen taken highway signs flash the warning and if possible the description of the car or person seen with the child. Radio and TVs also give the warning.
For those self-righteous people who feel they have the right to judge the McCanns for leaving the children alone then judge them on that. But until it is ever proven they were actually directly involved in the disappearance of their daughter it is not your right to judge them on that.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:04 am
AXJ of Spain are carrying out their own investigation in Southern Spain and Portugal…
A lot of questions to be answered yet…
Who were “they”?
November 27th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Night all.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:15 am
672 on2u
I think you may find the UK is far worse than Portugal and many other countries. The UK has very lax laws regarding children (for example, the use of ‘reasonable chastisement’ which really is quite medieval). The UK has not signed up completely to the UN Charter for Children and there are plenty of parents who think its fine to leave the kids alone or to bung them into creches and with nannies at any opportunity.
The ruling classes are basically corrupt in many ways.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:11 am
665 Peter O.
I too have a memory of a scouse woman, my first erotic encounter! Better not think about that!
November 27th, 2007 at 12:07 am
671 Dot
I dont actually get a ‘news’ paper, but from what I have seen, the media have not reflected the public view that the McCanns have something to hide and the that the (at least) ill judged (though some would say criminal) act which resulted in Madeleine being known to us was perpetrated by the parents (they left the kids over a period of 6 nights with insufficient protection and supervision).
The majority of those in the media seem to think its the parents who need to be protected, presumably they think madeleine is beyond help, or they believe that children are not as important as adults.
November 26th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
667/totje
There is corruption in all Countries/Gov’ts. Some is more widespread than others. If you look @ the statistics (if they are accurate)you will find there are certain countries have more pedophile activity than others. I believe Portugual is one of them. Although they will deny that. In Morocco they have an affinity towards young blondes(that too will be denied.) If their is a market out there you certainly will have crooks, degenerates eager to supply that market. If the Gov’t is laxed (corrupt)that will make it easier.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Ian
What do I think? I think that the parents have been the subject of a campaign of smears and persecution to such an extent that their minds must be in a turmoil. It is a campaign of mental cruelty on the part of some people with nothing better to do.
Dot
November 26th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
669/correction
The word is hired not highered.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
666/watcher
“no closer to the truth than when we started”
Could that be due to people in high places who do not want the truth. The McCann’s have been busy highering a top lawyer who’s claim to fame is fighting extradition. They have highered publicists to give them a positive image and finally a PI who only says what the McCann’s want us to hear…This whole case hase been manipulated from day one. You are correct in saying that we may never find the truth.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:55 am
666 the watcher
100%!!!!
November 26th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Cheryl 646
Thank you for that link. I’ve read about a scandal with orphanages, politicians and policemen. If I remember correctly Mr Rebelo (who’s in charge of the Madeleine investigation now) played a big part in solving that.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2628711.ece
On the other hand, we have to stay fair (unlike some other people) and not accuse or even suggest we accuse/suspect anyone without solid ground. One rotten apple does infect the rest in the basket, but seeing one rotten apple doesn’t mean they’re all rotten. If I knew one nasty American (I don’t know a nasty one, only nice onces) it doesn’t mean the whole lot of them are nasty, isn’t it?
Everywhere in each country there are cops who are “corrupt” by the drugs mafia, the weapon mafia and I guess also the paedophile mafia. It’s got nothing to do with the country, it’s got all to do with their rotten mind, infiltration and even more often money too.
So I put my hopes on mr Rebelo solving this terrible tragedy. The sooner the better.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:13 am
we can not trust the media. we have been lied to all along - every day another stupid story made up overnight and i watch you all spend hours debating what in reality is nothing more than fantasy written by morons.
and the debate is at such a low level that it has become not about a missing child but about how you all identify with each character
some think kate is beautiful others see her as the ice queen - tanner got a lot of bad posts due to a rather unflattering photo that was standard at the time.so if someone is ugly they have to be evil ?
we really have not moved on from the witch trials have we?
i have folowed this case from the beginning and we are right now no closer to the truth than when we started .
fact
November 26th, 2007 at 10:51 am
522 Ian Says: November 25th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
499 Peter - I always suspected Gerry didnt know anything was wrong until that fateful moment he was made suspect - the first time I’d seen him shocked. The only time he seemed genuinly upset was wehn he spoke after landing back in the UK.
Edit..
Kate seems manipoulative - hard and cold, not because she doesnt cry on camera, theres something else there - though it might be the hard scouse bitches I have known!!
Edit..
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Yeah, I have a slight ‘nag’ that Gerry either didn’t know at the time, or wasn’t aware of all the details in some way. Gradually information has come out and/or been discussed. And yes, I thought he looked visibly shocked just after he was made an arguido. While it’s always genuinely possible that this was something completely unexpected, I wonder if he had just learnt/understood something(s) for the first time?
It may also go some way to explaining why they’ve persisted with Jane Tanner’s statement(s) for so long? i.e. If Gerry didn’t know what had ‘actually’ happened until some time after the event(s)..
Scouse girls…. I grew up there, they aren’t all bad, far from it. You get over the bad ones, eventually… I still go weak at the knees whenever I hear the accent at the other end of a telephone!
November 26th, 2007 at 10:16 am
513 Judith C Says: November 25th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
(499) Peter O.
Your question about GM declaring his and Mrs. M’s innocence: he actually said “I believe 100% in Kate’s innocence, and she believes 100% in mine”. I think he might have said this on returning to the UK from Portugal, Edit…… I also came to the conclusion that their obtuse remarks - but Mr. M’s particularly - are omissions wrapped round the truth. They try to stick as close to the truth as possible because this makes for the best falsehood.
So, when he makes the remark about the 100% innocence of both of them what does he really mean? I think he really means that they’ve drawn a fine line between actuality and personal liability. In other words, they are ‘lOO% innocent’ of actually physically hurting/killing/disposing of the body of their little girl….but (unsaid) not innocent of allowing the circumstances to occur in which these things became necessary - imo.
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Thanks Judith for confirming my “memory” still works!
I think your interpretation of why Gerry in particular speaks in this way is probably correct.
Two things ‘nag’ at me however. The first is why they persist with Jane Tanner’s statement(s)? The second is that Gerry looked visually shocked after he left the police station having been made an arguido.. I just wonder if learnt, or maybe even only realised, something(s) during that interview sessions?
Nothing to support this, just one of those “feelings in my water” type of things.
November 26th, 2007 at 10:16 am
578 a McCannsupporter Nov 26 2007 12.16 a.m..
quoting from a letter by David Mills, a producer of Panorama, to Sandy Smith, after disassociating himself from the recent programme on Madeleine McCann:
… “But the most important reason for my decision is that because the programme is insufficiently analytical, it verges on the dishonest. Our lengthy investigation revealed that there is no meaningful evidence against the McCanns. Our CBS colleagues concluded that it was ‘ludicrous’ and ‘crazy’ to think them involved and that … ‘the child was abducted’.
” The real question must be how, without any meaningful evidence, the Portuguese police and the media in Portugal and Britain have been able to convince most people that the couple were involved. Yet while the programme drips innuendos against the McCanns, it does not put a single challenging question to anyone in the Portuguese police or to anyone in the media. This is truly astonishing.
David Mills ”
What is even more astonishing is that nobody in the Panorama programme questions why the cadaver dogs found the scent of death on Kate McCann’s clothes, Bible, car keys, cuddlecat. Unlikely, as she claimed, she was in contact with 6 dead bodies during her two day working week, and then wore the same clothes on holiday. No explanation for the blood found in the Apt nor any credible reason for the bodily fluids found in the hire car. No reason given for the unbelievable delay in getting DNA evidence from Birmingham.
As you must be aware, there are numerous questions unanswered by the McCanns, probably many in excess of the 40 outstanding with the Portuguese Police.
This outburst by ‘a McCannsupporter’ is just one more example of people with influence attempting to manipulate the opinions of what they hope is a gulible public. Fortunately they are wrong, and many people are intent on seeing justice for Madeleine and an explanation as to why so much money has been accumulated by the McCanns, some of which has then been used for two mortgage repayments on their property. Why, with the funds they have at their disposal, would they engage a second rate PI firm, who have no experience in dealing with private investigations, and whose sole purpose seems to be to keep alive the theory that Madeleine has been abducted, by offering supposed sightings all over the world? The McCanns had enough savvy to make sure they employed top ranking lawyers for themselves, in both Britain and Portugal.
So far there is no sustainable evidence accumulated against Robert Murat, yet he does not seem to enjoy the on-going assistance offered to the McCanns, which I hear from 10 Downing Street would be afforded to any British national in these circumstances. With his dual British/Portuguese nationality, Robert Murat should be afforded similar consideration and certainly not be hounded without just cause.
November 26th, 2007 at 9:29 am
593 Yampster
It seems you aspire to being a wind up merchant, and even fail at that.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:26 am
The BBC should have shown the uncensored version, The latest reports in the Portuguese press, are showing the Pj excesses of irrational thought.
Dot
November 26th, 2007 at 7:05 am
Cheryl 646
Up early but off to work and will find it difficult to visit Anorak for a while. I hope you see this post.
Thank you for that link. I will certainly follow it up.
I think you’ll find that many people were very suspicious of the first team of plolicemen who went in and about the determination, or otherwise, to find Madeleine. It seems almost unbelievable that they would assign Amaral, given his background, an arguido himself in a case concerning the the alleged torture of another mother who lost a child. I wonder how the McCanns felt about that one? The information came out early one. Crass insensitivity to put it mildly.
However, I am loathe to give voice, certainly in public, to such suspicions as they may be unfounded (about the particular group of policemen involved). I don’t want to do to them what has been done to the McCanns and what was done to Murat at one point.
However, it is interesting that the BBC did not allow the original version of Panorama to go out. Apparently it contained some very serious allegations about what appeared to be deliberate police misinformation on this case, as well, of course, as an analysis of the appalling media abuse of the McCanns, in Portugal and faithfully reported in the press here, especially less reputable papers such as the Daily Express, the Sun and The Star.
Have you read the view of the man who pulled out of the programme at the last minute, refusing to allow his name or that of his company, to be associated with it any more? Of course, one may not agree with them, but they give a lot of food for thought about bias in the media, the BBC wishing to avoid controversy etc. etc. The McCanns actually thought the final programme “fair” but that is probably because they have become used to the tirade of accusations, I guess, and would expect it to contain innuendo about their guilt, which it did. It wasn’t entirely unbalanced as it did look at reasons why they may not have been guilty and also gave a good airing to Jane Tanner who decided to speak out about the man she claims she saw carrying a child, and, more importantly, it gave her the opportunity to state clearly that she was ready, at any time, “tomorrow” if necessary, to go to Portugal to be questioned again. She said they all were. This did rather give the lie to Carlos Anjos’ claim, also shown, that the “witnesses will not cooperate”.
Thanks again for thr link. I continue to keep a very open mind.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:59 am
527. Judith.
I have always maintained that CM has done more damage on his own than anyone could have wished for.
I think he has been given to them to tarnish their reputations and by the time they realize this it will be too late for them to backtrack.
He is ultimately protecting someone else and setting them up for the fall. This has become obvious.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:50 am
655
Kris
Good morning.
I think its a bit unfair to compare Stevo to the McCanns.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:33 am
So now we know who “Baby Grace” is, so that rules out any Madeleine connection, back to square one on that one then
November 26th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Hi Kris
November 26th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Wake up, England! Wake up! It’s nearly 6 a.m.!! Here in the western USA, we must go to bed soon or risk our husbands thinking Madeleine is more important than him!
November 26th, 2007 at 5:26 am
I particularly love how Stevo frantically changed his website without admitting any kind of error in judgment. It reminds me of, hmm, the McCanns, frantically adapting to the latest news without admitting to any sort of wrong-thinking or wrong-doing.