Maddy MacCann: Loose Change. (15)

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O.K Here is what I believe happened and my theory nearly explains everything. The crux of the matter lies in the assumption that Madeleine died not on the 3rd of May but on the 2nd. So please bear with me before dismissing this right away.
The first clue lies in the fact that Gerry reported that he had his wallet stolen while at Gatwick Airport, London as reported on 20th June.
Quote ‘Madeleine McCann’s family called last night for the return of precious photographs of the missing child that were stolen from her father, Gerry, by a pickpocket.
Mr McCann’s wallet was snatched at a cash machine during a 24-hour trip to Britain. Madeleine’s grandmother, Susan Healey, said that irreplaceable pictures of the missing four-year-old, who was abducted in Portugal 49 days ago, were in the wallet.’ End quote.
Let us assume that it was not stolen but for some reason Gerry did not want his wallet to be searched. Why would he do so? Does the wallet contain pictures, taken on 2nd May or before, that link up to the last picture reportedly taken on the 3rd? Perhaps they show someone that left the PDL on the 2nd or early morning on the 3rd. But why not destroy them knowing they could be damning evidence? Well, the last pictures of a dead girl are too precious to destroy (irreplaceable). But then on 30th June Gerry is quoted as saying:

“Our friends brought back my wallet which had been returned, needless to say minus the sterling, although all my cards and ¤30 (£20) were still in it.
It is good to have my driving license back and one or two other important things.” End quote.

The report is that whoever pinched the wallet returned it to the McCann’s old address which was written on the inside of the wallet. Note: 10 days had passed from the missing wallet to its return where Gerry, now, deemed it safe to keep it at his home in Rothley, Leicester, although by now he was back in Portugal. After 10 days the wallet was returned to Portugal. At least the photos or whatever, ‘important things’, were now safe, away from the Algarve. It could even be the memory card used in the digital camera. Who would be that crazy to steal a wallet, perhaps under CCTV, to return back 30 euros, not to mention cards and driving licence?

Now, let us return to the so called ‘evidence’ that Madeleine was last seen on the 3rd.
The best evidence is the picture reportedly taken at 2:29 (Kate McCann's camera clock was one hour out so the display read 1:29 p.m.).

It is reported that it showed the time (display). I have examined the whole picture (not the close up of Madeleine) on the internet and I cannot see the time, let alone the date. But let us assume there is a time. Does it show the date? A time without date could be any day. Was the date and time inserted afterwards? I have a digital camera where one could insert the date and time afterwards but not delete them. Could there be a mistake on the date? Are there digital cameras that can change the date and time on the memory card before printing them or downloading them on the computer? Experts can surely tell.

It was reported that, ‘All three McCann children were in the crèche the afternoon of 3rd May which is a public place. This is ‘documented’. The nanny gave them all high tea at 5.30.’

Yet, by whom were they documented? Were they made by the nanny, Charlotte Pennington? The reports by the nanny are dubious as she has been hinting ‘preposterous’ things. For example; Seeing Murat on the 3rd. Discovering a man with a highlighted jacket on a boat kicking something etc. Only Miss Pennington claims she saw them at high tea. CCTV proved that at high tea, the McCann children were missing! (To be fair there is another report that the CCTV was not working) The McCann dismissed a paid childminder only a couple of hours before dinner. The only thing of worth reported by Miss Pennington is when she said she heard Kate shouting "they've taken her", which she later corrected by mentioning that Kate could have said other words before she shouted those infamous words.

So who saw Madeleine that day? The other Tapas 7 could also be disputed because of conflict of interest as I shall explain shortly. After several months Dr. David Payne suddenly remembers Madeleine being put to bed at 7pm. Hardly! Quote the police source: ‘These are people who spent a lot of time with their friends yet no one saw Madeleine or Kate for much of that day.’ End quote.

Now, back to May the 2nd. Pamela Fenn, the upstairs neighbour, claimed she heard Madeleine crying out for her father for an hour and a half (although several months later she denied it). Mark Warner got reports of the children crying in the evening and made a point of offering evening babysitting to the McCanns, which, incomprehensibly, they refused.

On May the 2nd, the Tapas 9 had dined at Chaplin’s restaurant which is about 5-6 minutes walking distance from the apartments. I think this is crucial to the whole event for Chaplin’s place is much further than the Tapas bar and is outside the Warner resort. Now, what happens is a matter of conjecture. Perhaps they went back and found Madeleine dead due to sedation/overdose of sleeping pills or a reaction to them or that she might have fallen down the steps after opening the door or a combination of the two. I do not think that the McCanns injected any drug via a hypodermic needle/IV because the needle’s puncture wounds would show if not on the missing body, on the twins.

But here, a dilemma arises not only for the McCanns but also for the others as well. If they admit they left the children alone to go and dine in a 5-6 minutes distance from the apartments a scandal would ensue and the rest of the children are taken by social workers and they would be accused of neglect, let alone for accidental murder. Remember that Russell O’Brien and Jane Tanner have two daughters. David and Fiona Payne also have two children which reportedly had monitors on them but hardly matters when considering the distance. Mathew and Rachael Oldfield have one small daughter. In short, they would all end up in prison; they would loose their children (or their spouse’s child) and also their jobs. Dianne Webster is Fiona’s mother and thus would not betray them either. They are now bound by one thing. Guilt! Each one of them could not betray the others without betraying themselves. There motive is to cooperate with each other at all costs.

Now, one or more of them suggests the abduction theory but time is needed to bury the girl. So they would announce the abduction/disappearance the next day, 24 hours later. They must play their parts like what happened the day before but much more closer to ‘home’, in the Tapas bar and within the limits of the Warner compound and with the abduction scene added. They would also formulate the going-to-and-fro to ‘watch’ the children to make sure nobody accuses them of negligence. Early the next morning, 3rd May, (or even that same night) two or more of the players would leave to do their gruesome task and bury the girl. Who were the likely ones among the 9 that did the job? At first I suspected Russell and Kate because, Kate was indirectly responsible for the death of her child and Russell because of the timing (see below). They both have children and their partners would have to take care of the children back at the PDL. I think Gerry would have stayed behind, either because he does not have the guts to see his daughter being disposed off, or to coordinate and refine the abduction theory on the home front. But, as events have shown they had to improvise a lot. From the timing on May 3rd. I believe it was Russell O’Brien and his partner Jane Tanner (as I will explain later)

A car travelling for a modest average speed of 50 miles an hour (80 km) for 6 hours would have covered 300 miles (482 km), nearly all of Portugal and very deep into Spain, depending on which direction the car took-- if one travels in a strait line which is hardly the way roads are, but nevertheless, a considerable distance. I am stating at least 6 hours to allow one hour for buying a shovel and to bury the child and then another 6 hours to make it back in time for stage two of the operation. Total 13 hours. No wonder the PJ would never find the body. I have also considered disposal at sea but this is very unlikely since the parents would want to visit the grave in the future but anything is possible.

I do not know at which point the Nanny, Miss Pennington, was led into the secret and why she decides to collaborate with the players by lying. Perhaps, at least she did not lie when she said ‘I was in the apartment less than five minutes after they found that Madeleine had gone.’ (if one replaces gone with died). Pennington proved invaluable to act as a ‘witness’ and concocts that Madeleine was alive on 3rd May. She dismissed claims that the McCanns were not seen for six hours leading up to the disappearance. She gave them a perfect alibi. Charlotte Pennington grew up in New Zealand. She was also an actress, using the stage name Charlotte Whighton. Someone must have written the children’s name in the crèche book to prove they were there.

Now comes stage two, the Tapas scene, but first they huddle all the children together so that they can easily monitor them because two of the adults had not arrived by then. The first players arrived around 8.40 local time. It is claimed that the McCanns arrived first, but nobody, outside of the Tapas 9 really knows (The Tapas staff may be too busy and is unimportant for them who came first). But this makes sense because it is crucial for them to be seen. The others too, start arriving and commence ordering the meal and drinks, perhaps overdoing it, so that they are noticed that they are there. Russell O’Brien, Matthew and Rachel Oldfield arrive at the restaurant at 8.45. Why wouldn’t Jane Tanner arrive at the restaurant with her partner? Her reason was that she was tending to her sick child. But could it be that they had just arrived moments before, from a long journey, and that she went straight to her apartment to wash and change clothes while her husband made his appearance at the Tapas.? At 8.55 David and Fiona Payne also arrives at the Tapas. Russell O’Brien is thought to have left at 9.30 to check on the children but failed to give an explanation why he took about 25 minutes. Later he said it was because the child was vomiting. At this time he had changed his clothes. The Tapas staff says that he (Russell) was hardly at the restaurant at all. So could have gone to wash, change clothes and even hide his and his partner’s clothes, if my theory is correct. Also at 9.30, Mathew left the Tapas to check into Madeleine’s apartment. Jane Tanner-- who must have gone into the restaurant by then--corrects the anomaly by saying that it was at 9.45 that Mathew and Russell left the Restaurant. In order to explain their long absence (Jane and Russel) they had made a gross error in revealing that they had left a sick child alone which would surely be tantamount to gross negligence, the very thing they were trying to hide. For no rational parent would leave a vomiting sick child alone even for a few minutes!

Another mistake made by all those involved was that they tended to overemphasize their constant vigilance to the children but in turn has rendered their socialising together to a farce and difficult-to-explain timeline. This led the PJ, after 15 days of Madeleine’s disappearance, to suspect something was amiss and that some of them, if not all, were lying.

Mistake number three came by an ‘unfortunate event’. At 9.05 Gerry leaves the Tapas to check on the children. Was he about to give credence to their abduction theory by noticing someone carrying something along the path so that Jane would substantiate the abduction scene? At 9.10 Jane went to check on the children and notices a man walking hastily, carrying a child. She memorizes the suspect, but fails to recognize Maddie. Unknown to Jane, Gerry had met Jeremy Wilkins – an English man he met during the holidays – and chats with him for ten minutes. So Gerry, could not say that he noticed a man walking down the path carrying a bundle (remember child covered) because Jeremy Wilkins would deny that, as he eventually did. Even if Gerry was not ment to be involved in the witness scene, there was still Jeremy to discredit Jane. But, couldn’t the abduction scene been referred to a later time say 9.32-9.45? No, because Mathew was in Madeleine’s apartment and could have caught the abductor. Also Russell was tending his sick child and could have heard a window being ‘jemmied’ and the door ‘tampered with’ as Gerry would want us to believe.

Now, knowing what we know, the original acted scene by Kate, where she finds her child missing, can hardly matter except that several witnesses heard her say “They’ve taken her”, which is to emphasize that someone abducted her and not wondered off by herself. Neither do the visits by the players to the children at various times, except those mentioned above, are of any importance. Everyone left the Tapas except Dianne Webster; end of scene.

One notes here several other inconsistencies:

1.Kate left her twins alone in order to raise the alarm, which would hardly makes sense, knowing an abductor/murderer may be lurking nearby, unless she knew they were really safe.

2. Kate was calm and on the phone when the police arrived (MW staff member)

3. Another mistake, and very crucial for credibility, was that she did not join the search for Maddy afterwards, but stayed at the apartment.

4. The jemmied window and the tampered door were not consistent with the police findings.

5. Madeleine did not wake up as she was being ‘abducted’.

6. The mysterious man seen by Jane was not very recognisable, perhaps to prevent innocent people getting arrested.

7. When the investigation tethered on credibility the players shifted their attention on Murat.

But more blunders where yet to come.

When police examined cuddle cat and returned it, Kate washed it after four days. Again here, it shows the indecision and what to do best. If she did not wash the soft toy she new that there was a fair chance that it be examined more thoroughly and if she did wash it, questions would arise as to why she washed it in the first place. Wittingly, she chose the better of two evils.

When reports of Madeleine’s ‘credible’ sightings were circulating around, the parents did not go with the flow and investigated them as a worried parent should do. Instead they chose to do whatever they were doing, yet kept appealing for help.

Now let us return to the immediate aftermath of 3rd May.

Various local witnesses saw Gerry and one of the Tapas 9 men walking around the church at about 5-6 am of 4th May. The church is next to Chaplin’s restaurant. What were they doing? One would presume searching for Maddy. But, could they were covering the tracks of 2nd May? Perhaps by making fresh footprints so that if anyone notices footprints they would say that they were made on the fourth. Perhaps, at the same time, they were discussing the previous journey and disposal place of Maddy?

So here it is about time to make another assumption, and one that I would not prefer to do, being myself a Christian. Assume that after Maddy died, in the Morning of 3rd May, the McCanns consulted with the local priest under confessional secrecy. They would explain that they were not exactly guilty but only of making a grave mistake by leaving the children alone. Furthermore, they would say that if they were caught they would be separated from the children and so would the other Tapas eight (the 9th being Dianne Webster). Surely the priest would be sympathetic. Suppose they told him they needed a decent burial for their child. The priest would contact a nearby church to arrange the process, perhaps in Huelva, Spain. Now the child is taken by Russell and Jane as described above. Although the journey is not very far the negotiations would take time and so they still arrived back late. It would explain why Gerry asked for the priest to be called at around 2am of the 4th. He would have told him about the journey and that all went well. It would explain the journey to Huelva on August the 3rd. They would have gone on a pilgrimage to visit and pray on their daughter’s grave and not to bury her and would explain why nobody saw them burying the child.

Ironically, all this seems to contradict one of the most damning of evidence towards the MCCanns. What about the DNA evidence found in the Renault Scenic hired car, and the smell of death, 24 days after Maddy’s disappearance? Remember the clothes of Russell and Jane and perhaps Maddy’s own clothes would have plenty of DNA left. They would have been thrown in a rubbish tip as they themselves had partially stated when they tried to explain about the body fluids. Remember, in a dead body the muscles relax and the clothes would have excreta and urine on them which would have started to decompose.

With this I would like to end up with a famous quotation by a person who himself was murdered.

‘…You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time….’

With this I rest my case.

Disclamour

All this is just a hypothesis and that all the players above may be innocent. It is left up to the police to decide. Bron

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But here, a dilemma arises not only for the McCanns but also for the others as well. If they admit they left the children alone to go and dine in a 5-6 minutes distance from the apartments a scandal would ensue and the rest of the children are taken by social workers and they would be accused of neglect, let alone for accidental murder.

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Who would be that crazy to steal a wallet, perhaps under CCTV, to return back 30 euros, not to mention cards and driving licence?

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Op zaterdag 13 oktober 2007 03:51 schreef moussie het volgende:
leuk verhaal, heeft alleen een heel groot haakje ..

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hier klopt dus geen snars van .. welk dilemma ?
Hoezo zouden de vrienden aansprakelijk kunnen zijn/gehouden kunnen worden voor een moord, al dan niet per ongeluk, begaan door de McCanns ?

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En hoe zinvol is het om een ontvoering te bedenken als dekmantel voor het feit dat je de kinderen alleen hebt gelaten als je de kinderen weer alleen laat tijdens "de ontvoering" ?

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Op zaterdag 13 oktober 2007 23:40 schreef Suko het volgende:
Ik ben nog steeds het verhaal van Cactus aan het herkauwen (het is ook het enige topic door hem aangemaakt op dat forum) en ik vind het buitengewoon facsinerend, ondanks de vraagtekens natuurlijk. Ik heb zelfs het idee dat hij meer weet dan dat hij loslaat, maar dat is speculatief mijnerzijds.

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Wat betreft die vrienden waar Moussie het over heeft. Cactus heeft het over het vinden van een dode Madeleine, Cactus: "Now, what happens is a matter of conjecture. Perhaps they went back and found Madeleine dead due to sedation/overdose of sleeping pills or a reaction to them or that she might have fallen down the steps after opening the door or a combination of the two. I do not think that the McCanns injected any drug via a hypodermic needle/IV because the needle’s puncture wounds would show if not on the missing body, on the twins."

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Tja, de McCanns waren elke avond voor diner in de Tapasbar, naar eigen zeggen, dat is al erg, maar nu blijkt ook verderop wel eens de maaltijd genuttigd te worden, de Chaplin’s restaurant (buiten het resort), vrijwel naast het veelbezochte kerkje.

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Wie weet wie er bij waren toen Madeleine op de 2e mei dood werd gevonden, dan heb je al gauw een verbond met de aanwezigen en daarna ook met de anderen. Ik zelf bedenk daarbij dat het net zo goed een eigen kind had kunnen betreffen van die vrienden, zou ook een rol kunnen spelen, die gedachte alleen al. Als later bekend wordt dat je flink veel avonden de kids alleen hebt gelaten en dat wordt er ook nog een dood gevonden....dan krijg je het halve vaderland over je heen, je veilige upperclass wereldje voorgoed naar de kloten, want je sleept de rest van je familie ook met je ondergang mee, in die wereld speelt dat helemaal, vooral in Engeland. De upperclass wordt met een loep bekeken, als je dan door wat dan ook iets 'not done' doet, dat ben je down en out en laten ze je vallen als een baksteen. Je reputatie is alles, je wereld en dus je leven. Dan is het niet zo gek dat je wordt meegesleurd (ze weten teveel van elkaar) en stick to your story, de kaken op elkaar houden. (en niet te vergeten, mogelijke belangenverstrengeling, in de groep en daarbuiten)

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Ook dat 'wallet' verhaal, gewoon verzonnen door Gerry, het klinkt zo prachtig bedacht, gewiekst ook. Wat Cactus later beschrijft: "Gerry's wallet did not go missing. He claimed it was missing. This can be found in the various newspapers. Also on Gerry's blog. But I cannot find any mentioned Staff from Warner which were mentioned by name who claimed they saw them that day, apart from the other Tapas friends and the Nanny. Neither have I seen any other pictures/CCTV of Madeleine on 3rd May other than those shown by her parents."

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Die priester is misschien inderdaad een beetje een loose end, vindt Cactus zelf ook, maar het zou zomaar kunnen, met een logisch vervolg wat betreft hun eigen trip naar het Spaanse Huevla ('toevallig' net een feestdag, alles dicht, ook de kerk, wat ze wel gepland hadden) een bezoek aan het graf? Want de pers (een paar journo's) was daar alleen aanwezig bij het busstation en verder zijn ze daar ruim 2 of 3 uur alleen geweest. En verder was die priester ook even plots uit beeld (net toen de politie een en ander aan hem en z'n collega wilde vragen rond die datum, nooit meer wat op gehoord) en heeft hij ook op z'n donder gehad van de bisschop omdat hij de sleutel voor privégebruik van de kerk aan de McCanns had gegeven. Ja ja, die roomse rakkers!

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Toevallig gaat het nieuwe opperhoofd van de Portugese politie wél de omgeving van die kerk wéér aan een onderzoek onderwerpen. "They paid particular attention to the area outside the chapel, which used to be a cemetery, leading to speculation that they are about to order fresh searches in the area." Tabloid-bron

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Het laatste nieuws, beide artikelen uit de Daily Mail:
Bloody footprint found in McCanns' apartment
"A bloody footprint was found in Kate and Gerry McCann's apartment, matching a print on their hire car, according to a forensic report shown to The Mail on Sunday. [

The existence of the two marks, which has never been revealed until today, is apparently at the heart of renewed suspicion that the couple were involved in their daughter's disappearance. New tests carried out at the Forensic Science Service laboratory in Birmingham show there is a 'moderate' chance that the blood belonged to Madeleine. But the results are inconclusive." De rest.

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En verdomd, er is weer een Nanny opgedoken:
Revealed: The nanny who could help clear the McCanns' name "This is the nanny Madeleine McCann's parents believe will be a key witness in their fight to clear their names and find their daughter.

For five months the identity of the Mark Warner employee who was looking after Madeleine in Praia da Luz's Kids Club in the hours before her disappearance has been a closely held secret. She was witness to the McCanns' movements during the week they were on holiday in Portugal and fed Madeleine less than three hours before she disappeared.

On the morning after Madeleine's disappearance it is believed she even told Portuguese police of a man she had seen acting 'suspiciously' around the apartments. Today we can reveal her identity as 20-year-old Catriona Baker, the daughter of a nurse and draughtsman from Manchester.

The McCanns believe Ms Baker is a key witness in the defence that they are assembling with the aid of a team of lawyers and investigators. De rest.

Dat laatste verhaal verwijs ik naar het rijk der fabelen, in dit geval, wanhoop...het gaat er van de week om spannen nu het Britse testrapport eindelijk (morgen zegt men) wordt vrijgegeven, ben er alleen niet gerust waarom dit eerst door de ogen van een aantal Porugese ministeries moet gaan alvorens de politie en de McCanns de uitslagen te zien krijgen. En verder wordt het nog spannender omdat die gegevens op de juiste wijze geïnterpreteerd dienen te worden om later als eventueel bewijs te kunnen dienen.

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Op zondag 14 oktober 2007 02:13 schreef moussie het volgende:

daar zaten de kinderen te eten voor ze naar bed gebracht werden .. dat was dat restaurant waarvan die eigenaar Gerry nog had zien dansen met Maddie, hij had zich alleen in de dag vergist (waarschijnlijk omdat het bericht dan beter, spreek : voor meer geld, verkoopt) .. de ouders zelf zaten dus iedere avond in de Tapas te eten

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maar waarom zou je die onzin moeten bedenken .. Gerry is weken eerder al thuis geweest om hun zaken te regelen, verlof opnemen ed, alles wat die kwijt had willen maken en wat volgens die Cactus dan in die wallet moet hebben gezeten had die op dat moment gewoon thuis kunnen laten

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Dit is toch geen verrassing Suko .. er zullen er nog wel meer komen ook .. of dacht je dat er maar 1 nanny op dat hele resort werkt .. ?
het seizoen is over, de vakantiekrachten komen weer naar huis, ik verwacht dat er nog meer nanny's in de media komen bevestigen dat het kind idd nog geleefd heeft op 3 mei en op welk tijdstip zij wat met wie heeft gedaan .. dat wij het anders gewend zijn, dat bij ons dit soort dingen al vroeg in het onderzoek bekend zijn, betekent niet dat het een fabeltje is omdat het nu pas naar buiten komt ..

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Op zondag 14 oktober 2007 02:47 schreef Nadine26 het volgende:
Oh, ik had uit het verhaal van Cactus opgemaakt dat de vriendengroep op de avond van de 2e in dat ándere restaurant (op 6 minuten lopen) had gegeten. Heb ik óf niet goed gelezen, óf Cactus heeft zich vergist (heb nu even geen zin om het weer na te zoeken).

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Maar werd Gerry toen al door de politie verdacht? Zo niet, dan heeft hij er misschien helemaal niet aan gedacht om zich van die spullen te ontdoen. Er had nog nooit een haan naar de McCanns gekraaid, noch naar die foto's of wat hij verder nog aan 'verdachte' spulletjes in zijn portemonnee bewaarde.

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Lijkt mij ook, ja. De hele cactus-theorie valt natuurlijk in duizend stukken als Maddie wél is gesignaleerd op de 3e. Zijn scenario is helemaal opgebouwd rond haar éérdere overlijden, op de 2e dus. Het is weliswaar een spannend verhaal, aannemelijk opgeschreven ook, maar hoe groot is de kans dat helemaal niemand in dat resort - en daarbij moeten we vooral aan de crècheleidsters denken - heeft gemerkt dat Maddie een volle vakantiedag heeft gemist? Natuurlijk is het mogelijk dat iemand haar naam later op de presentielijst heeft gezet, maar dan nóg was zij zelf niet lijfelijk aanwezig en dat valt op.
Dus helaas, de cactustheorie gaat niet door naar de volgende ronde

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wauw, dit voelt net een timewarp .. waren we hier niet al ergens helemaal in het begin .. en was ons daar niet door professionals uitgelegd dat je met de tegenwoordige slaappillen geen dodelijke overdosis meer kan krijgen, dus zelfs al zouden beiden haar een dosis hebben gegeven is het uiterst onwaarschijnlijk dat zij daaraan zou kunnen overlijden ..
Daarnaast denk ik dat meneer Cactus nog nooit geprobeerd heeft een kind een pilletje te geven .. laat staan 2

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dat was dat restaurant waarvan die eigenaar Gerry nog had zien dansen met Maddie, hij had zich alleen in de dag vergist (waarschijnlijk omdat het bericht dan beter, spreek : voor meer geld, verkoopt) .. de ouders zelf zaten dus iedere avond in de Tapas te eten

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"Paulo Rebelo, the new head of the investigation, is expected to request that searches are carried out within a 15km radius of the Ocean Club holiday resort in Praia da Luz where Madeleine vanished on May 3.

Areas to be examined include the coast between Praia da Luz and the village of Burgau, land between the Ocean Club and the beach and the forests and isolated villas around the Bravura dam in Odiaxere, the Diario de Noticias newspaper reported.

Mr Rebelo, one of Portugual’s most senior detectives, has appointed six experts to review “loose ends” in the police investigation after concern that it has focused too much on Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann. One of the experts is believed to be a member of the Serviços de Informação e Segurança (SIS), Portugual’s equivalent of MI5." De rest op The Times.

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"A vast reservoir near to the town where Madeleine McCann went missing is set to be trawled as police relaunch an active search for her. The new inquiry head has now tripled the size of his team in a bid to crack the case and ordered fresh searches of a 10 mile area around the holiday town of Praia da Luz from where she disappeared five months ago.

A search is also expected of the dense woodland and isolated dwellings around the reservoir - known locally as Barragem da Bravura, literally the Reservoir of the Wilderness - which leading detective Paulo Rebelo believes was not combed carefully enough in the days following the four-year-old's disappearance.

According to Portuguese newspaper the Correio Da Manha, the "meticulous" Rebelo has ordered his reinforced team to pay "special attention" to the area around the jagged reservoir, which has a 25 mile perimeter, and is 15 miles from Luz. Sites to the south of the Ocean Club where the McCanns and their friends stayed, including Luz and Burgau beaches, are also to be "fine combed" by inspectors, who will particularly focus on spots where the British group used their mobile telephones.

These are the first significant searches for three months. Detectives have already revisited the family's rented apartment and the tapas bar where they dined on May 3, the night Madeleine disappeared, and this weekend began a review of the case files, looking for loose ends. A friend of Kate and Gerry McCann said: "Any widening of the search area is encouraging and we would welcome that. It does sound as though there is more vigour in that aspect of the inquiry which is good."

He added that while it would be a "tragedy" for the family if police searches eventually yield the little girl's body, at least it would help lift the cloud of suspicion from them. "If she is dead then she is dead but not by their hand," he said.

Another friend dismissed a report this weekend about suspicious footprints in the McCanns' apartment and the car they hired 25 days after Madeleine went missing as being like "something out of an Agatha Christie novel". "It doesn't imply guilt in any shape or form," she said. "There are a lot of perfectly good reasons why a footprint of that nature might be found."

Newspapers cited a report on results due back from the Forensic Science Service in Birmingham this week that detailed a footprint in the apartment which had specks of unidentified blood in it, linking this to a potentially matching footprint above the bumper of the McCanns' car.But an FSS source said: "The simple fact is, as was the case before, the results are not conclusive." Restant op de telegraph.co.uk

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Op zondag 14 oktober 2007 20:21 schreef Suko het volgende:
Inderdaad, er zullen betrouwbare getuigen moeten zijn die Maddy op 3 mei hebben gezien, waar én wanneer, waarschijnlijk is dat wel bekend bij de PJ en weten wij dat gewoon niet. Blijft dus uiterst speculatief maar als de PJ het wel weet waarom dan die plots opduikende nanny's, mogelijk geregisseerd uit het McCann-kamp?

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Het is niet onmogelijk, ze kán zijn gevallen met een suf hoofdje, er is niet gezegd dat ze aan sedatives is overleden.

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Ik denk dat je je vergist, dat was het Paraiso restaurante op of aan het strand, waar Gerry (mogelijk) met Madeleine heeft gedanst en inderdaad de eigenaar zich misschien in de dag had vergist, zoals hij later verklaarde. Ze aten dus wel eens in Chaplins (volgens sommige op 2 mei), een meer exclusieve tent. Ook volgens een Spaanse documentaire, Bron, post van Newkidontheblok. Daar zullen dan wel getuigen-verslagen (personeel e.d.) van zijn mag ik aannemen, van alle locaties waar de McCanns kwamen?

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Ohw, wat die priesters aangaat, één is een Anglicaanse rakker, Haynes Hubbard, die andere is wel rooms, Father Jose Manuel Pacheco, blijft lastig en Portugese wetten zijn ondergeschikt aan die van de kerk. Maar of ze nou verhoord zijn of niet blijft mistig.

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Wat betreft die rondgang van het nieuwe opperhoofd, dat is idd logisch, ff een rondje langs de velden maar er werd benadrukt (gesuggereerd) dat er een nieuw onderzoek aldaar (nabij de kerk) gaat plaatsvinden, that's all.

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Nee, er zullen nog tig blikken nanny's en andere plots opkomende getuigen open worden getrokken, wellicht uit wanhoop....

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en hopelijk is het Britse Lab-rapport nog compleet (na de eerste inzage door de Portugese autoriteiten), als het bij de Portugese politie aankomt. En dat er genoeg expertise aanwezig is om de gegevens op waarde in te schatten cq intepreteren, dat is nog een duivelse klus.

En verder gaat het opperhoofd opnieuw op onderzoek uit:
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Maar wordt er ook gezocht op:
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Op maandag 15 oktober 2007 11:40 schreef moussie het volgende:

nou, ik heb me suf gegoogeld en er is zo goed als niets over te vinden .. ik kom niet verder dan wat speculaties op wat fora, en dat algeheel dan gebaseerd op een spaanse TV-uitzending ..

vraagje : als hier ook maar een draadje van waar was, zou het dan niet meer dan breeduit in alle kranten hebben gestaan, met name in 24Horas ? Ik bedoel maar, die pakken elke theorie die ook maar enigszins levensvatbaar lijkt op en meten het kamerbreed uit, waarom dit dan niet ?

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Op maandag 15 oktober 2007 11:40 schreef moussie het volgende:


nou, ik heb me suf gegoogeld en er is zo goed als niets over te vinden .. ik kom niet verder dan wat speculaties op wat fora, en dat algeheel dan gebaseerd op een spaanse TV-uitzending ..

vraagje : als hier ook maar een draadje van waar was, zou het dan niet meer dan breeduit in alle kranten hebben gestaan, met name in 24Horas ? Ik bedoel maar, die pakken elke theorie die ook maar enigszins levensvatbaar lijkt op en meten het kamerbreed uit, waarom dit dan niet ?

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Op maandag 15 oktober 2007 12:40 schreef Nadine26 het volgende:

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Maar het was toch allang bekend dat de McCanns tijdens hun vakantie ook een avond 'in de stad' zijn geweest & gesignaleerd? Dat herinner ik me wél; ze waren een avond 'uit gegaan', en die avond had zich niet in de tapasbar afgespeeld, maar buiten het complex, op een behoorlijke afstand. Ik denk dat daar verder weinig aandacht voor is geweest, omdat ze altijd hebben toegegeven dat ze zónder kinderen op stap gingen, en de focus heeft altijd gelegen op de avond van de 3e mei. Wat ze de 2e precies deden, was tot dusver niet echt van belang. Vermoedelijk is het nog steeds niet van belang, aangezien de hele Cactustheorie onwaarschijnlijk is.

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Op maandag 15 oktober 2007 12:56 schreef Suko het volgende:

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Nou ja, er is geschreven dat ze in Lagos zijn gezien, "Did you ever leave her all night and go to town?"
A barman is said to have seen the McCanns in the town of Lagos one night, leaving Madeleine and their other children five miles away at the apartment. The couple maintain they ate every night at the Ocean Club restaurant in Praia da Luz, close to where the children were sleeping." Daily Express Niet echt een betrouwbare bron dus...

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Op maandag 15 oktober 2007 13:10 schreef kahaarin het volgende:

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Hoi allemaal!

Het zit nog net zo vast als eerst, ik ben nu echt aan het wachten op de definitieve uitslagen van het Engelse lab, er worden nog steeds van alle kanten stoepjes schoon geveegd, aantijgingen gedaan en beschuldigingen ge-uit.
Kun je er nog een touw aan vast knopen?
Ik niet meer.
Alles wat er op het moment wordt gemeld is alleen maar meer van hetzelfde, behalve die nieuwe zoektocht, waar ik een beetje sceptisch over ben.
Waarom nu, waarom daar en gewoon waarom?
Vermoedelijk weten we nog niet de helft van wat er zich afspeelt en wie er nu precies aan de touwtjes trekt, ik wil een statement potverdorie!

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Op maandag 15 oktober 2007 11:56 schreef Suko het volgende:
Nu de Portugese politie weer gaat zoeken is het toch wel interessant om te lezen dat eerder ook al is gewezen op deze zoekplekken in o.a. Odiaxere in juni: "Portuguese police are investigating a possible breakthrough in the Madeleine McCann inquiry after an anonymous letter was sent to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf allegedly identifying where the girl's body had been buried. Dutch police said yesterday they were taking the contents of the letter "very seriously". It is understood the author claimed the four-year-old had been buried under rocks in deserted scrubland in an area called Odiaxere, about nine miles from the Mark Warner resort in Praia da Luz, where she went missing." The Guardian. Iets waar de Telegraaf zelf niets eens mee komt, zeker vergeten, meldt alleen de nieuwe zoektocht.

En de Daily Mail: "Detectives will scour a ten-mile area around Praia da Luz and a reservoir surrounded by forests as the search for Madeleine McCann gains new intensity this week. In the first large-scale searches for more than three months, Paulo Rebelo, the new head of the investigation, has not ruled out using divers at the 2.5mile wide reservoir.

Mr Rebelo has overseen a fresh look at the McCann holiday apartment and has ordered a root-and-branch review of the five-month investigation. The Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias said the new search areas were linked to mobile phone calls made by the McCanns and their friends while they were in the Algarve.

It was not clear whether the calls had been traced to the areas, or if police believed they had been discussed by the McCanns during their phone conversations. The area around the reservoir, known as the Barragem da Bravura, or Wilderness Reservoir, is a remote, isolated spot which would not rank highly on a normal family holiday itinerary.

The man-made lake, near the village of Odiaxere, lies near the main road from Lagos to Portimao but is not a tourist attraction. It is surrounded by forests and Mr Rebelo was said to feel it had not been examined properly in May, when up to 300 officers carried out searches for Madeleine. De rest.

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Op maandag 15 oktober 2007 13:34 schreef Suko het volgende:

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Die nieuwe zoektocht is op initiatief van het nieuwe opperhoofd van de Portugese poitie, met nog wat andere onderzoekjes, het wachten is op het Britse Lab-rapport, eerst gelezen door de Portugese autoriteiten en dan pas kunnen justitie en de betrokkenen aan de slag. Dan ook kan de haarkloverij beginnen, het vinden van belastende bewijzen...en voor de rest ben ik het met je eens. Zelf vind ik het onderhand een beetje genant aan het worden. Wij gepeupel wordt een loer gedraaid, aan alle kanten, en of het ook tot iets gaat leiden?

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"Imagine your child gets stolen from you, you go through all the hell that comes with that, then when the Portuguese police cannot find the person who has stolen it they (sources) start placing stories in the press, each one of which is shown to be unfounded a week or two later but by then they have spread around the world," Branson said on America's NBC Today Show.

"They had no proper legal representation and so I felt it was important they got the top Portuguese and British lawyer on board so that they could get the truth out. "I think over the last month since that has happened the tide has turned and people generally accept around the world that the Portuguese police and press overstepped their mark."

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"Meanwhile the McCanns were said to be "emotionally torn" to learn that Portugal's biggest ever anti-paedophile operation has failed to turn up a single lead in the hunt for their four-year-old daughter, who went missing during a family holiday on May 3.

Operation Predator saw 150 computers snatched by police from 80 suspected paedophiles during raids on 75 properties. The McCanns were said by friends to have hoped the raids would turn up "vital leads" that could help find Madeleine and suggested the shift of the investigation had moved away from the theory that they somehow harmed her.

According to reports in the Portuguese daily Correio da Manha, officers focused particularly on blonde girls of a similar age and with similar characteristics to Madeleine, but found no trace of the missing girl."

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The raids, dubbed Operation Predator, were not formally linked to the Madeleine investigation but officers trawled through thousands of pictures and videos in an attempt to find a link to the four-year-old. Any clues to her whereabouts would have been passed to the detectives leading the search.

Child protection officers found hundreds of images of light-haired children on the seized computers, including some whose faces had been digitally distorted to stop them being recognised. Detectives used software to unscramble the children's faces but said none closely resembled Madeleine who went missing in the Algarve on May 3.

They are understood to have used advanced technology similar to that employed by Interpol last week in the unmasking of a European paedophile who had posted hundreds of images of himself online. The offender, codenamed Vico, had protected his identity by digitally altering his face. He was shown sexually abusing boys in Vietnam and Cambodia.

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Op dinsdag 16 oktober 2007 05:49 schreef voyeur het volgende:
Die forumpost is een sterk verhaal Suko en weerspiegelt mijn eigen ideeen over de zaak.

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Gerry has suggested the child was snatched to order by a paedophile ring, but Kate said, "Madeleine is such a sociable child, so funny and engaging. She has a lot of personality. I bet she's giving whoever she's with her tuppence worth.” Of the many crass statements this couple have made, this is the most shocking and needs no further comment from me".

Hoe gruwelijk om over je eigen dochter te zeggen.

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Madeleine: Search on Computers Comes To A Dead End


Portuguese police officers last week seized 150 computers after they raided 80 properties across the country in their hunt for Madeleine.
They were hoping to find some sort of evidence that would lead them to the missing girl as fears that she might have been abducted by a paedophile and abused.

A news paper called Correio de Manha were told by police sources that they came across many images of young children who looked similar to Madeleine.
Paedophiles had attempted to disguise the images in an attempt to cover up their crimes by luckily with the latest technology some of the images were redefined.

It has been reported today that Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for The McCann family, said ““It does sound as though one avenue of investigation has been closed.”

Also, the results of the forensic tests carried out in Birmingham on hair and body fluids which are thought to have belonged to Madeleine have been received by Portuguese police although the results are not yet publicly known.

These forensic tests were done on the samples from the McCann’s family hire car, which they hired after Madeleine’s disappearance.

Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry McCann still remain suspects in the case.