I'd have thought it far easier to explain an accidental death than making up some convoluted tale/ involving others about her mysterious and sudden disappearance?
I will warn you that there is an essay ahead
It is convoluted, I will hold my hands up to also thinking that. I don’t think it’s very cut and dry. I don’t for instance believe everyone has been paid off to keep quiet. I think that’s far fetched because (as people have shown above) - where does it stop?
It is far easier to say oh yes she’s been abducted. It seems suddenly very clear cut. Which is why I remain on the fence. However I do think it is equally convoluted to say that she was abducted:
- in a room with very little of her dna inside
- in a room where there was no dna or evidence from the guy himself
- where he most likely waltzed up through the open patio doors
I know a few posters up thread have mentioned that the dna collected was inconclusive. But I still can’t get my head around that? Where are her fingerprints, footprints, saliva, hair?
She was in that apartment for a week. Why was everything obtained, not solidly conclusive? I’m not saying I want proper gory blood spatter - but she was in that apartment, living alongside her family, for a week. There would have been something somewhere, surely? Not even on the bedding she was snatched from? I mean, the police found blood spatter from the little boy that was there just before them, but Gerry had to get a pillow from home that had Maddie’s DNA on it for reference? Her clothes and soft toys all brimming potentially with evidence (remember, Kate said Cuddle Cat was sat ‘on a ledge’ leading her to believe of Madeleine’s abduction - they would have had evidence of someone else in the room with her tossing the toy away at the least) - had been washed. So did the abductor sit and launder the toy too? Not in much of a hurry! (I jest)
https://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/MADELEINES_DNA.htm - DNA from Madeleine McCann came from the reference pillow, reported as also coming from behind the sofa and in the boot of the hire car that the McCanns hired after her disappearance. Hairs and cloth were obtained from the apartment but didn’t come from Madeleine.
If there wasn’t - reports said only Kate’s fingerprints were lifted from the ‘jemmied‘ windows for instance - are we to expect that he sat there, took time to scrub that apartment inch by inch to cover his tracks, before making off with Madeleine? At the risk of sounding like captain obvious surely taking the time to do that would have cut him very fine in terms of being caught!
Having no DNA from the man himself, believable perhaps - probably wearing gloves, perhaps a mask. But no footprints? Shoeprints at the very least? The floor of the kids’ bedroom looks like it’s tiled so fresh shoe prints could have been lifted maybe?
And then the point of entry. Which has been thrown into question by the McCanns themselves. Was it through the jemmied window or the patio doors? Established he just sauntered in through the unlocked patio doors and made off with her. Then, how did she not wake? Start screaming bloody murder? She, compared to her younger siblings, wasn’t a fantastic sleeper. Of course an adult would be able to muffle her cries, but surely not to the point of silence? A statement from Mrs Fenn mentioned she was able to hear a child crying, but no one hears this abduction happening or some sort of scuffle at the very least? She doesn’t cry out, scream, he doesn’t shout at her to shut her up? No one sees him on his way out, presuming he went the way he came, no one sees his van? Wasn’t it so that the nearby area was very narrow - surely someone would have seen him, even if that isn’t necessarily a member of the Tapas 7 or the McCanns.
I’m not disbelieving you here - I want to believe! - it’s just that I can’t get my head around the abduction story. There are so many unanswered questions to it IMO. Doubtlessly some of it will come from my own personal misunderstanding - some of it may very well come from the beginnings of the investigation wherein people were in and out of the crime scene and elements such as pillows and duvets weren’t obtained by the PJ.
But surely without any fingerprints or footprints from either Madeleine OR a mystery abductor - the only conclusive evidence of an abduction is that she had gone, and perhaps that the McCanns had given him a timeframe if they weren’t actually checking. Perhaps, they’d made it easier still for him, unwittingly so, by sedating Madeleine. But of course it’s all hearsay!
I would be very happy if it were laid out as to how exactly it was done. Maybe it’s just me - too young and naive to think of such things going on in the world.
I suppose the truth of it is that they weren’t checking on the kids as often as they claimed, and that possibly he had been planning it over the course of the week, hence the meticulousness. And the small errors, like allowing for so many to be in and out of the crime scene rather than cordoning it off.
I don’t expect you to read all of this - the long and short of it being I have questions about whether she was abducted and questions as to whether it was a covered up accidental death! Nothing seems to fit perfectly. I suppose now we just wait on Brueckner and what the evidence is should it ever come to light.
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gerry had to go home to get a sample of maddie's dna because there was not enough trace of her in the flat. There is no accurate account of what happened on the day she went missing. Grown adult professionals can't remember why they did this, when..... but David payne remembers the last time he saw all three kids they looked so well cared for, so happy and mostly in white.... really?