The money for the book is going to help fund the investigation team they have hired the last 4 years to find their daughter.

 

If they had anything to do with their disappearance they why would they continue to pay for a these private investigators?

Why would they continue with this front of public appearances?

Why continue pressing the police to continue on looking through the police files?

 

If  they had some part in it I am sure mistakes would have been made and they would have been found out by now.

 

 

 

As for the parents seeming to be out to make money, I dont blame them at all considering the search was (untill recently with the Met police getting involved) being funded by their private investigators.

 

Feel sorry for them but not as much as i feel for the young girl who with proper care this wouldnt have happened

 

if it was some working class parents who had left there kids to go out for the night the story would have been spun very differently by the media and they would never get the chance to go on the late late and other such prime time shows.

it make me sick that someone who left there child in a foreign country in a unsecure apartment is getting so much public symapthy

 

+1

 

Well said deise

 

and the portuguese cops were fcukin useless 

 

Jaysus, thats an awful thought.

Harsh. Very very harsh indeed.

Of course they accept that it was their mistake for leaving their kids unminded, but she admitted last night that she has persecuted herself many times since then for having done so. She looked an absolutely broken woman last night, still. They made a mistake 4 years ago and are paying the heaviest price possible for it, so it is a bit heartless for people to be still putting the boot in after all this time.

Yes other kids from poorer families have gone missing and the same publicity has not been generated. That is a media issue. But you can't blame the parents here for using every possible means at their disposal to keep their case in the public eye in the forlorn hope that they might see their child again. It would seem very harsh to begrudge them the publicity that they themselves are generating. It is their only hope. At least they are not giving up.

And anyone who thinks that the parents had anything to do with their child's disappearance needs their head examined.

Well said Emerald, none of us can imagine what the McCann's are going through.

 

Listening to it at the minute. There is a sizeable and increasingly loud crowd of conspiracy theorists on this case especially at the minute with the Netflix series just having come out.

Have to say I've never believed that the parents played any part in the disappearance, i'm halfway through the podcast series and that hasn't changed.

 

 

 

Also, one theory is they accidentally gave her too much medication to help her sleep. How would one parent communicate to the other that she'd died in the time after she was discovered not to be in the bed, and keep it from the rest of the group who were at the tapas bar? Seems impossible to me.

Got as far as his cover photo and I already know it's bullsh*t

Have read that myself. Wasn’t the mother an anaesthetist, and the other kids slept right thru the ordeal including some of the time the  police were in the apartment 

 

That said, I think the only thing they are really guilty of is neglect. On the doc they mentioned that on their restaurant booking for the Tapas restaurant on site under their group booking for the week it said something like "reservation for week required as parents are leaving their children asleep in the apartments". That was available for anyone to read!

 

The location of the apartment right by the street too, it was asking for trouble leaving the kids unattended with doors unlocked.

 

The biggest mystery for me is how the body was never found or the abducter caught out with all the attention. My theory is one of the following

1. It was a complete lone wolf who did a good job of disposing of the body.

2. It was a major criminal organization who abducted her to a peodo ring with help of corrupt police/officials. Probably killer her and got rid of the body after all the attention.

 

I actually think #1 is the most plausible as surely someone would have talked if #2 by now

Agree on the neglect especially with the location of the apartment-

Although my parents did the same to us but we were Dundalk kids.

Different times back then. Nobody would do it now.

Had to be a one man job as you say. 

After all these years we are never going to find out the truth.

 

 

I have always felt it was a robbery gone wrong. Why take her and not the other 2 kids as well? I always felt she must have disturbed someone and in a panic to shut her up she was smothered. However that Adam Campbell case in Scotland would make you think- was it some sick f**ker who for whatever reason was in the apartment( a lone wolf robbery maybe) who did what Campbell did?

The folks being involved full stop always seemed a stretch, as the show said, they went through IVF to have Madeline, stupid waste to go to all that effort only to do something.

Unless she was put in the sea 

 

I don't think its a robbery gone wrong. If a 3 year old woke up during a robbery they wouldn't or couldn't really do much apart from cry.

Yeah the more I think the more I think it may be an Adam Campbell type incident. I just don't see it as child traffickers. That theory just doesn't hold water for me. The parents were grossly negligent but they will have to live with the fact their kid disappeared in a foreign country and she was never recovered alive or dead and no one knows what happened. They did wrong but they have paid a price that one can't even fathom. 

Gemma O'Doherty thinks it was Tony Blair wot done it 

Sure less than 0.01% of people are capable of doing such a wicked thing to young child. Then for them to have the opportunity to do so, being in the right place at the right time, makes the chance even more remote.

There was a lot less written about all the children he murdered.

So either, somebody from that group had something to do with, or more likely their stories of checking on the kids every 20 minutes are absolute lies. I reckon they were getting sloshed and rarely checking on the children. When the child was missing then, they had to cover their arses even more.

How the parents were not facing neglect charges I'll never know. Leaving the back door open was criminal, in the literal sense. That apartment could have been locked with a key. The problem being that whoever was due to check on the children would have had to take a longer route back from the restaurant to the front door of the apartment, thereby reducing their time available for drinking.

I have huge sympathy for the child. Dreadful events, whatever has happened. I wouldn't have any sympathy for the parents though. They should have faced jail time for neglect. It's scandalous that they haven't.

The police made an absolute b*llox of the investigation. As mentioned in the documentary, there had been a number of sexual assaults on young girls in their holiday complexes who were visiting the area with their families. And the more frightening incident where a mother answered her door to a male charity collector, who during their conversation had his eyes fixated on the woman's 3 year old daughter. A day or so later, which happened to be a short time (can't remember the exact number of days but was no more than a week) before Maddie disappeared, the mother walked in to her kitchen and found the same man standing beside her child before he ran off after being caught. How the police neglected these cases is beyond me.

Something I never realised before was how easily accessible their apartment was from the road. Gross negligence by the parents here. 

Sad moment in the documentary when they look at the case of the young Portuguese boy who was abducted and his mother looked through a catalogue of images taken from paedo sites, and found her child in one of the images. You'd nearly rather your child was dead than being subjected to those sorts of people.

 

 

 

Just finished watching the documentary last night and those two lines of enquiry surely must be the one that would lead to the truth. The guy wearing the surgical mask breaking into apartments and sexually assaulting or attempting to assault(I think in one case even attempted to abduct a 3 year old) young girls must be a key suspect. But that reconstruction scene of him climbing into a bedroom and lying next to a young girl really gave me the creeps as did the fake charity collector being in the house the day after calling looking for funds but staring at a 3 year old girl inside instead. Both those scenes gave me creeps I can't even describe.

 

 

Amarel was incompetent and clueless and already up for charges of misconduct on a previous abduction case where the parents were basically framed. I actually feel sorry for the McCann's having to put up with vitriol on the internet from losers who are adamant it was them. Uninformed pricks. But anyways I agree that connections should have been made between the abduction and these 2 incidents. I myself felt the creepy sick bastard climbing through windows into apartments and sexually abusing young girls was the prime suspect. But both a trafficking gang or lone wolf scenarios should have been pursued to the fullest. A complete clusterf**k. Poor Madeleine. Went to bed that night safe and never found. God knows what happened in between. Desperately tragic.

He predicted in one of the episodes that in around a year a German paedophile would be announced as a suspect by British police as the scapegoat

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Why do you think they called him Gerry? His real name is Frank.

 

What took them this long to announce him as a suspect?

 

Genuine question

 

 

Havent a clue.  Just pointing out  that it's not as big a call as it seeks at first once you know who the police have their eye on  

I think it's probably best if you read up on it rather than asking on a football forum.

Full Podcast Here

Listened to the first 3, appears to be in the parents are guilty camp