Madeleine McCann: Cluedo, Kate Summerscale Wins And Head Shaving The Tesco’s Girl
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NEW ZEALAND HERALD: “Real murder mystery takes top prize”
What’s a work of fiction got to do with Madeleine McCann, the disappearance of a real child?
Almost 150 years later, the murder at Road Hill House looks set to regain a firm grip on the national imagination after a modern account of the Cluedo-style killing won the £30,000 ($78,000) Samuel Johnson prize.
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Or The Murder at Road Hill House, by Kate Summerscale, had been deemed as the most commercial book on the six-strong shortlist.
Cluedo? But the McCann case has no suspects, let alone a weapon?
Rosie Boycott, a former newspaper editor and chair of the prize’s judging panel, says the winning book had been a un-animous choice.
Rosie Boycott says:
“It was very much like the [Madeleine] McCann case is today, with the media crawling all over it. No one wanted to believe an upper-class family could commit a murder like this one, so everyone wanted to blame the servants.”
Shall we serve the papers now, or will the McCanns?
NORTH WALES CHRONICLE: “Supermarket chain quashes Bangor child abduction rumour”
Rumour?
A SUPERMARKET has quashed rumours causing concern among Bangor parents that a that a missing girl has been found in one of their toilets with her head shaved.
The urban myth is believed to have been started during the hunt for Madeleine McCann who went missing in May 2007.
What’s the rumour, so we know?
A concerned mum from Bangor heard the rumour whilst talking to a friend on Monday night.
“A friend of mine asked me if I’d heard about an incident in Tesco in Bangor that had occurred over the weekend,” she said. “She said apparently a lady had lost her eight year old daughter and had contacted the staff at Tesco but they had closed.
“They searched the store and found the little girl in the men’s toilets and a man had his hand over her mouth and a woman was cutting her hair.”
Cutting her hair with pair of left-handed gardening shears, right? And he was an Albanian? And she was singing Two Little Boys?
Yeah, we heard that too. Take care, kids…
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July 30th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Captain Gerrys Blog Stardate 21 August 07
We did manage our early morning run today although not quite to the top of the hill due to time limitation. After dropping the twins off at the kids club we did interviews for the 3 biggest selling Spanish newspapers. The message was that we still believe there is a reasonable chance Madeleine is still alive and we are still looking for her.
We were also asked about what is being written about the investigation and pointed out how much of this is pure speculation. We directed them to the official Portuguese police statements that are very sober in comparison. A statement was released this evening through the Portuguese news agency LUSA. This is the translation of what was reported on Portuguese TV station SIC:
The news that points to the existence of an English suspect, close to the couple, connected to the disappearance of Madeleine on the 3rd May in the Algarve, “does not come” from the PJ and has no “logic whatsoever”, according to what the inspector Olegário Sousa told Lusa.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Evening, Gillyflower!
We’re a bit spread out; there’s another thread on killer blogs, as opposed to killer dogs, and I am hopping back and forth.
The McCanns have received an extraordinary degree of asistance, quite unprecedented in my experience.
And perfectly ordinary and untitled parents seem to have no problem in looking after their children; it has only been a section of the media here which seems to believe that children should neither be seen nor heard…
July 30th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Portia
“granted a sitter?”
by whom?
isn’t it the parents responsibility to look after their children….
even on holiday?
Madeleine is / was a normal British citizen. However I cannot equate the assistance her parents have received from many famous and wealthy citizens of the UK with that offered to other British citizens who find themselves in trouble abroad.
Like Ben Needham’s mother for example.
I strongly feel that this case will be solved. Someone , somewhere holds the key to the Madeleine mystery.
And one day that person or persons will have to clear their conscience.
Please may that day be not to far away.
(Evening all
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July 30th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Sorry to confuse you, I will state it more plainly.
Madeleine is a nobody and that is why this case has not been solved and why I believe it will never be solved. If she was someone important, she would have at least been granted a sitter.
M and A
Well it was her parents choice she didn’t, not the UK govt, not the Portuguese govt. There is no proof a crime has been committed.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
M and A
Have you heard of the young couple on honeymoon in Antigua? she has been shot dead, and he is brain dead
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Read in your news earlier they are removing the husband from the life support system! What really got to me and my dander up was the people who said they heard cries for help and made sure they locked themselves securely in their rooms! Holy hell, did anyone every think about calling for help immediately or yelling out “help is coming” and causing a commotion to attempt to chase the perpetrators out? They freaking minded their own business and protected their own arses while according to the papers it went on for 20 minutes and that young bride was crying out for help!
Cheryl, I hope someone did at least phone…….
July 30th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Given the size of the effort put in by the Leicestershire Police, who had over 11,000 items of information on the investigation in their files, I really don’t think it could be described as sitting on the investigation.
Bear in mind that not only the Leicestershire police but also SOCA and the Attorney General opposed the MCcanns application for over 11,000 items because it would prejudice the criminal investigation, among other things…
July 30th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
M&A -
If Prince Charles & Princess Diana had lost Prince William while on holiday, do you think the British government would be sitting on the investigation?
M and A
Er Portia, the security guards the nannies the police and armed personnel surrounding them?
Incidentally we cannot interfere in another country’s legal system.
Your comparison is out of place anyway, the McCanns are receiving possibly even more assistance than anyone else ever has. Her parents were with her and in good health and able to look after her.
Have you heard of the young couple on honeymoon in Antigua? she has been shot dead, and he is brain dead
July 30th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Garbage or not agw, it is as requested from a legitimate news source, if we are only to post officially verified statements that is a different matter and somewhat narrows the target area. The obvious question is …..was the report leaked or was it made available to certain parties, you may have noticed that the Portuguese authorities have made no comment on the alleged leak, call me cynical, but I am willing to bet a Ruby to a grain of sand that no one will be looked for or charged over this media claimed leak.
M&A
Artemis
Unless and until the reports are officially released you are relying on conjecture and that is not acceptable given the nature of the material.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Hi all- I’m wondering if the Irish man witnessed a staged event. There is always that possibility.
The way I look at this case, if the British government doesn’t care about Madeleine, why should the Portuguese government care?
Apparently, being born a McCann is too insignificant for the British government to bother with lending a hand in the investigation. Had the girl been born with a title, things would have been different.
M and A
Portia, where do you get that idea from?
July 30th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Aye right son, whitiver ye think, mibees aye mibees naw, ye canny trust yon gadjies……..
July 30th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Perhaps a ‘fetch’ - or a doppelgänger ?
July 30th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Well we now know that individual was not the handsome and educated Gerald McCann, unless he really does have a split personality!!!!!!!!!!!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-9AAY67PQ
July 30th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
DuncanR Says:
July 30th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Elena
What you doing on this thread, girl?
(Perhaps I would have been better off choosing Maria as my dolly companion and keeping you as my ‘bit on the side’?)
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No Duncan please don’t. Never mind Chenier I am a real girly girl ! Swear!
July 30th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Chenier seems to think that a person entering the apartment would be unable to do so without clambering around and making all sorts of noises which would definately have woke the tots up.
Are the only type of males you meet in your life Chez my darlin akin to Frank bleedin Spencer?
July 30th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Chenier
You’re like that new washing powder ‘SUDS’. Its firkin amazin’.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Chenier,
As you well know, more than one person reported seeing that individual. They weren’t all male.
Furthermore if I were a gay male I would have said it and I wouldn’t have had a problem with it. Why should I?
Oh and your comment, “The chances of a female imagining that a man would know aquamarine existed, much less be able to distinguish it from all the other shades, are around zero.The only men I have ever come across capable of that feat are very, very gay.”
Well I suppose all the great artists were gay too. This surprises me, since Vermeer who could apparently see a number of colours in a mere cloud and like most artists of the time mixed his own colours, was married. In fact his wife had 14 pregnancies. . Most men know know the difference between blue and green and what a mixture of the two might look like. I think it is insulting to men in general to assume they might mix these colours up with beige. Now if you don’t mind this is getting tired and silly.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
The Real Stig Says:
July 30th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
For the avoidance of doubt, ‘around zero’ means ‘around zero’.
It doesn’t mean, for example, absolute zero.
Just close….
July 30th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Elena
What you doing on this thread, girl?
Here I am flashing my bum for you on the other thread and you’re wasting your time here?
I’ll never understand woman!
(Perhaps I would have been better off choosing Maria as my dolly companion and keeping you as my ‘bit on the side’?)
July 30th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
PDL may not be under floodlights but there is adequate street lighting (and at the Ocean Club) to see people and possibly what they’re wearing. If you’re looking of course. Most of us don’t make notes.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Chenier
“The chances of a female imagining that a man would know aquamarine existed, much less be able to distinguish it from all the other shades, are around zero.”
My father used to paint, and I can assure you was aware of the colour and could distinguish it.
I can assure you I can also. Ever looked at a paint chart when decorating a house?
July 30th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Elena
You swore to me you were a woman !!!
July 30th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
elena
Not so dark maybe
http://tinyurl.com/6hjm3n
July 30th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
chenier Said:
“Oh, and I’m not at all sure that your gender is, as you suggested yesterday, female.
The chances of a female imagining that a man would know aquamarine existed, much less be able to distinguish it from all the other shades, are around zero.”
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Well if you think I’m a gay man then I am glad you aren’t a detective on the MMcase.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Elena Says:
July 30th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
If you delve back into the archives you will see that the nature and extent of street lighting in and around PDL has been exhaustively discussed; you will be able to spend many a happy hour.
Oh, and I’m not at all sure that your gender is, as you suggested yesterday, female.
The chances of a female imagining that a man would know aquamarine existed, much less be able to distinguish it from all the other shades, are around zero.
The only men I have ever come across capable of that feat are very, very gay.
Martin Smith isn’t the slightest bit gay…
July 30th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
chenier Said:
July 30th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
On coincidences, and the claim that after dark people can detect shades of aquamarine and green, and so forth.
I haven’t laughed this much since Clarrie’s faux press conference and the amazing Gail Cooper’s equally amazing claims.
Thank you.
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You’re welcome Chenier. Laughter is good for the soul and I am delighted that it comes so easily to you.
You have been naughty though. You never told me there were no street lights in PDL.
Of course that might explain why different colours could not be discerned. Of course the thing that still bothers me is why beige. I f they couldn’t see colours, why not grey?
And it being so dark and all why bother asking descriptions at all, why not query passing shadows. Of course you are sure the lights were that poor aren’t you?
July 30th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
On coincidences, and the claim that after dark people can detect shades of aquamarine and green, and so forth.
I haven’t laughed this much since Clarrie’s faux press conference and the amazing Gail Cooper’s equally amazing claims.
Thank you.
July 30th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Chenier said,
The difficulty is that you are flatly contradicting the people who actually saw the man.
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How?
July 30th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Chenier said,
And whilst I appreciate that you are not a detective, most people grasp that beige is rather common; lots of people wear beige.
Now if it had been sky blue pink with yellow patches…
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Perhaps that is so and maybe that is why this man did not choose sky blue pink with yellow patches. However, why not cream or navy or black or white or grey or aquamarine or green or shorts or 3/4 lengths or black with a beige top? Or a beige hoodie?
Clothing for men, like that for women is very varied.To my mind it is a strong coincidence, too strong a coincidence to be discounted. All my opinion …and I am sticking to it.
July 30th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
if, on holiday, you said you saw a man wearing beige clothing, I would say you have a high chance in ten of getting it right.
July 30th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
JJ,
That is one regal looking dog!
July 30th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Cheryl said,
“The McCanns are not my ‘heros’ at all but I’m just one of those people who when I see others being kicked when they are down I come to their defense! You know to even up the playing field? Anyhow, using logic never hurts!”
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Agreed.
Especially if they are already grieving and in a situation that is horrific and they are being kicked for something you feel they didn’t do.Okay blast them for leaving the children in the apartment, that is if you have never made a mistake and are in a position to do so, but after that Geeze …………