My gut feeling has always been that the parents lied repeatedly to cover something up (my opinion only - nobody can say what is and isn’t fact in this case). Maybe they covered up their daughter’s death or maybe she was taken but they lied about doing the checks - we cannot say which it is, but their behaviour combined with the vast amount of inconsistencies in the statements in the police files suggest that they are lying to hide something. If my friends and I had lied about checking the children all evening and I then faced a lot of suspicion about concealing my child’s death, I think I would then have to bite the bullet and confess to the lie in order to account of my inconsistent statements and move the investigation on, but perhaps they didn’t feel able to do that, or perhaps they were covering for something worse than not checking.
I find it a really fascinating case. It’s easy to repeat things you’ve read or heard without checking the facts but that’s sensationalism. I like to fact check (I.e. look ant what is in the files - who knows if these anre true facts, we can only work with what we’ve got) and make my deductions based on that.
I think I mentioned a long way back in the thread about the dog evidence. I absolutely believe the dogs, and I do think it’s suspicious as anything. However, it’s worth remembering that Keela was trained to ONLY alert to human blood and Eddie was trained to relate to cadaverine AND human blood. So if Eddie alerted to something and Keela didn’t, cadaverine was present. If both dogs alerted to something, it’s likely that just blood was present, with potential for there being cadaverine and blood (unless Eddie had a different signal for the two scents - I can’t find anything which makes that clear). This means that the hire car is likely a total red herring as both dogs alerted to the same places - there could easily be traces of blood in the car from a number of scenarios. But in the apartment they both alerted behind the sofa in 2 places and blood was found and only Eddie alerted to the cupboard, the veranda and the little garden outside. You could read this as Madeline fell behind the sofa and died (and bled), was found too late to save but relatively quickly so cadaverine was not detectable, and potentially her body was initially put in the cupboard (inside a bag, say), then out of the window onto the veranda, then off the veranda onto the small garden below. That might be utter bollocks but it’s one interpretation. To give the McCanns the benefit of the doubt, if they were being honest about Kate’s clothes being scented with cadaverine because of recording deaths during her job, perhaps that scent transferred to the wardrobe. But how do you explain the veranda and the garden away? It’s interesting. I go around in circles with it all.
Also, the fridge has never been a fact - there was a spoof Gerry McCann blog at the time which mentioned taking the fridge to the dump. That’s where people read it, not the real blog.
this is disgusting … those two so called ‘professional’ people left their three children (tot and babies) alone and they get an apology for being suspects. WTFbritishspoofreportingonmccanncase.blogspot.com
Negligent and selfish though, there is no doubt about that.
