Right well who's to say then that nobody had ever passed away in that apartment before? My mother in law tragically took ill on holiday in Greece & collapsed and died. I'm sure a cadaver dog might pick up her scent. If a dog is trained to alert to blood, could be any amount of various explanations, someone hurting themselves on holiday or even ladies monthly waste being left in a bathroom bin/stained washing left in a wardrobe in a suitcase to take home, who knows.
The cadaver dog also alerted to the boot of the car Gerry and Kate rented when they returned to PdL, indicating that a body had been placed there.
The blood was madeleines not from someone who stayed there before, although there wasn’t enough markers in the blood to arrest the mccanns as the bleach had destroyed part of the dna. The same blood had traces left on the cat toy and the curtains. There was a pool of blood underneath some tiles. Kate had been seen in a supermarket buying cleaning products and the blood had been bleached over. The blood was also met with cadaver alerts which means it’s very unlikely to be from a nose bleed, but from something associated with death. There is no doubt in my mind it was madeleines blood. Possibly accidental, but the facts remain that the mccanns tried to hide the evidence of blood and spinal fluid belonging to their daughter, which makes them guilty in my eyes.
This is all my understanding too. The nosebleed story came later, with Kate saying that Madeleine had nosebleeds and she thought she’d had one on holiday but couldn’t exactly remember. Why wouldn’t she remember her 4 year old having a nosebleed if it was bad enough to be dripping on to the floor, and why would she have had a nosebleed behind the sofa where the blood was found?
If I remember correctly, the blood had enough markers to meet U.K. standards for positive identification of Madeleine’s blood but just lacked the number required for EU standards. Something crazy like that anyway.
One of the alarm bells for me was Kate leaving the twins when discovering Maddie’s absence. Logically it’s more difficult to abduct three children than one bit of you genuinely thought your child had been abducted would you really leave the other two whilst you alerted your friends?
As to the MWT theory that Maddie wandered and met some random unplanned fate, the parents were absolutely positive that she didn’t wander off. You have to wonder why? To me it suggests knowledge of the reality in the same way they started the fund and the talk was about it being necessary because they had to plan not just for the next month or so but the year ahead. How did they know she wouldn’t be found?
That’s right, Kate was insistent that “they’ve taken her” from the moment she raised the alarm at 10pm.
It was interesting how many people found her behaviour “off” and unnatural in those early days. I always thought that internal reaction should be trusted, gut instinct can be very useful and I think it highlighted an odd kind of cognitive dissonance that was very difficult to articulate.
At the time there was a lot of talk about how not everyone reacts in the same way but actually parents of missing children DO pretty much react in the same way. Hyatt talks about this in his statement analysis. Cortisol goes through the roof and there is frantic fear, high anxiety, urgency, desperation, guilt, excessive activity (searching, searching, searching) and other behaviours such as sleeplessness that come from the terror of not knowing where your child is and having no closure or certainty about the situation.
That is very different to a scenario in which you DO know what has happened to your child. There might be grief and shock, but the fear and urgency isn’t there. There is - however awfully it might have come about - closure.
Kate and Gerry indicated none of the signs of panic and desperation one would expect to see in parents of a missing child. I remember seeing an interview with Kare in which she said that the first couple of days were difficult and they didn’t sleep, but a few weeks later they were doing much better and sleeping through the night. I remember at the time thinking that was very odd and surprisingly quick recovery from such a terrible scenario. Any parent would pick up on that as being highly unlikely.
Personally I think she died accidentally in the apartment and they covered it up, and what we saw in subsequent days was two parents probably in shock and grief but who were not desperate to find their child because they knew she was already dead - and whose most pressing concern was planning how to get themselves out of the situation.
