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Madeleine McCann

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,289 ✭✭✭SteM


    cgcsb wrote: »
    Why? We are already assuming these people don't have emotions. We know for sure that they were extremely cold to their own children to say the least.

    I think there's a difference between being cold towards to their children and being able to dispose of one of their bodies without showing emotion in front of a group of people 10 minutes later.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,060 ✭✭✭Theboinkmaster


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    Ok, fine, take away the need to clean up blood.
    You still think its possible that shortly after 6pm they killed her, concocted a plan, stayed calm, hid the body, dumped the body, left no incriminating evidence, weren't seen by anyone, and then went off to a dinner party acting normally shortly after 8pm?

    Yeah we're in tin foil hat territory here I'm afraid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    cgcsb wrote: »
    Why? We are already assuming these people don't have emotions. We know for sure that they were extremely cold to their own children to say the least.

    On the contrary, I don't think they were cold with their children at all.
    Any footage I've seen with the twins and with Madeleine before she disappeared shows them as loving, warm parents.
    Leaving the children alone doesn't make them cold, it just makes them very stupid.

    As for how they acted in the aftermath, they were both highly distressed and extremely upset. When some people feel like that, they completely shut down emotionally to protect themselves.
    Its not unheard of and its not uncommon.
    It is their only way of coping.
    I agree they come across as quite cold in the subsequent interviews and press conferences.
    But I think that was simply their only way of handling the situation.

    And I don't think anyone here is in a position to judge how they reacted unless they themselves have had the misfortune of finding themselves in the same circumstances as the McCanns.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


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    Is there proof of that?

    What about the part of a rich friend of the mccanns getting involved?

    Well they show it in the netflix doc, I can't personally vouch for the affidavit or their rich friend's involvement, but Netflix showed it and the rich friend was confident enough to give an interview.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    cgcsb wrote: »
    They abandoned them every night for a week for several hours.

    No they didn’t. Now answer the questions. Why did he kill her? When did he kill her? How did he kill her? Where did he kill her? How did he move her body to bury it and when considering that they were under full time surveillance by the cops the press and the staff of the hotel?
    Go.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction


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    splinter65 wrote: »
    No they didn’t. Now answer the questions. Why did he kill her? When did he kill her? How did he kill her? Where did he kill her? How did he move her body to bury it and when considering that they were under full time surveillance by the cops the press and the staff of the hotel?
    Go.

    Not everyone knows as much as you Splinter, relax.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,244 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    Ok, fine, take away the need to clean up blood.
    You still think its possible that shortly after 6pm they killed her, concocted a plan, stayed calm, hid the body, dumped the body, left no incriminating evidence, weren't seen by anyone, and then went off to a dinner party acting normally shortly after 8pm?

    I dont know. Which is why I've never put forward a theory as to who did what.

    I've just refuted people who are 100% that their own theories are fact.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction


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    Why can't you show the

    NO ANTIHISTAMINES HAVE SEDATIVE PROPERTIES


    Please answer this before you go mad at other posters not answering your ridiculous questions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,244 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    splinter65 wrote: »
    Why did he kill her?

    Why does anyone kill someone?

    I see you've dropped out of the debate on police procedure about questioning people btw.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


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    People who were initially sceptical of the McCanns have said they have an excellent relationship with their children. One spoke in the documentary. So what makes you say they were "cold" toward their children? Are you referring to leaving them alone for a few hours while they had dinner? Again, it may be a mistake bordering on negligence, but hardly "cold" and unfeeling toward their kids.

    They passed it off as being British culture to abandon very young children for prolonged times and doing this repeatedly (enough for a supposed kidnapper to take note of the routine and hatch a plot to kidnap the child), while also saving a few pound on the babysitter, an English special if you will. Call it negligence if you want, they say it's their culture. I say it's coldness.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,249 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    Why can't you show the

    NO ANTIHISTAMINES HAVE SEDATIVE PROPERTIES


    Please answer this before you go mad at other posters not answering your ridiculous questions.

    That won't happen .


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    A reminder, I posted this just a few hours ago and the meandering has begun

    MOD - I'm writing all of this in bold as the other warnings just seem to be ignored.

    Please stop getting personal with each other, discuss the case, not each other. This mostly applies to the following posters who are repeatedly doing so and derailing the thread:

    splinter65
    Mike9832
    limnam
    Trekker09
    Plumbthedepths
    Teddy Daniels
    dark crystal

    Stop getting personal.

    Secondly, I think we've all had enough of this debate of trying to proved negligence by Kate and Gerry. That is never going to be solved and from the looks of it, nobody on this thread is willing to budge or even listen to the opposite argument. It stops here.


    Please discuss this topic in line with the charter and terms of use you signed up for when registering with boards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


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    SteM wrote: »
    I think there's a difference between being cold towards to their children and being able to dispose of one of their bodies without showing emotion in front of a group of people 10 minutes later.

    There is a difference no doubt. That doesn't mean that they aren't capable of same, and more. Most reasonable people do accept that they were sedating the children, a callous act in it's self, long before you get into murder theories.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


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    Yeah we're in tin foil hat territory here I'm afraid.

    It's far fetched alright, almost as far fetched as the McCann's version of events.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    cgcsb wrote: »
    There is a difference no doubt. That doesn't mean that they aren't capable of same, and more. Most reasonable people do accept that they were sedating the children, a callous act in it's self, long before you get into murder theories.

    No most people do not accept this, because there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to indicate they did. None. At all.

    The way some of you are talking you'd swear Kate put the lot of them under general anesthetic before heading out on a coke binge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    Not everyone knows as much as you Splinter, relax.

    I can never get an answer. Everyone knows that Gerry did it but no one knows how. The greatest murderer who ever lived.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


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    SusieBlue wrote: »
    On the contrary, I don't think they were cold with their children at all.
    Any footage I've seen with the twins and with Madeleine before she disappeared shows them as loving, warm parents.

    Most of the footage with the kids shows their twins comatose being carried around the place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    cgcsb wrote: »
    It's far fetched alright, almost as far fetched as the McCann's version of events.

    So how did they do it? How did they kill her, hide the body, get rid of all the evidence, dump the body and not get caught doing so in just under a 2hr window?
    While acting normally?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    cgcsb wrote: »
    Most of the footage with the kids shows their twins comatose being carried around the place.

    You must have watched a different documentary to me. Those babies were only a year and a half old, the way they were being carried is not uncommon for how old they were.

    Unless you are of course suggesting the McCann's continued to "drug" the twins after Madeleine disappeared, right under the nose of the police and the worlds media?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


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    splinter65 wrote: »
    No they didn’t.

    Yes they did, they even admitted this, while also spinning some bull storey about 'checking on them every few mins'. Staff at the restaurant say checks were few and infrequent and non existent some nights.
    splinter65 wrote: »
    Now answer the questions. Why did he kill her? When did he kill her? How did he kill her? Where did he kill her? How did he move her body to bury it and when considering that they were under full time surveillance by the cops the press and the staff of the hotel?
    Go.

    See my other posts for a theory. Only they know what they really done, but the wont say.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,244 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    So how did they do it? How did they kill her, hide the body, get rid of all the evidence, dump the body and not get caught doing so in just under a 2hr window?
    While acting normally?

    Probably the same way whichever stranger you think did it.

    Whichever it was they were successful is making her disappear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    cgcsb wrote: »
    Yes they did, they even admitted this, while also spinning some bull storey about 'checking on them every few mins'. Staff at the restaurant say checks were few and infrequent and non existent some nights.



    See my other posts for a theory. Only they know what they really done, but the wont say.

    Is this the theory where you said they dumped her body that night in the hire car, the same hire car they didn't actually hire until 25 days AFTER Madeleine went missing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,244 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    No most people do not accept this, because there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to indicate they did. None. At all.

    .

    Theres also no evidence to implicate anyone else is any of it yet some people are convinced that it was a stranger.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


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    SusieBlue wrote: »
    No most people do not accept this, because there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to indicate they did. None. At all.

    The way some of you are talking you'd swear Kate put the lot of them under general anesthetic before heading out on a coke binge.

    Come now, the twins were out cold while the building was being turned upside down by concerned guests and staff looking for her.

    Even the McCann's theory of a kidnapper climbing in the window is not possible without the 3 kids being sedated, the kids would have screamed bloody murder. Instead the twins weren't freaked out the next day.

    Kate later claimed the kidnapper must have sedated all three of them simultaneously somehow after climbing in the window. Even the friend who claimed she seen a man carrying a sleeping child, she supposed was Maddie, said the child was asleep.

    Their own version of events must include sedation. Kids don't just sleep through such things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


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    splinter65 wrote: »
    I can never get an answer. Everyone knows that Gerry did it but no one knows how. The greatest murderer who ever lived.

    Well nobody knows for certain except the McCanns, hence the thread. We do know Kate tampered with the window and lied to the cops about discovering the crime scene and the sniffer dogs identified the location of a corps, and the DNA of Madeline was found in the car.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    Probably the same way whichever stranger you think did it.

    Whichever it was they were successful is making her disappear.

    My theory is that they were being watched.
    It was written in the restaurant reservations book that the Tapas group had a specific table block booked at a specific table for the whole week.

    It was noted in the book that the specific table was needed because the parents were going to be dining while their kids were in bed in the apartments.
    This book was accessible by the waiters, bartenders, cleaners and not hidden from the general public.
    Anyone could have seen this note.

    All it would have taken would have been a day or two of observation to establish the routine.
    Its widely accepted that the McCann apartment was the most vulnerable as it had street access.
    I think someone sinister learned that they were leaving their children alone, watched, and took their opportunity.

    I believe she was taken out of PdeL almost immediately.
    Where to, I don't know. But I don't believe she was there for long after she was taken.

    I find this scenario far more believable and reasonable than Kate and/or Gerry murdering their child, getting the other partner on board with it, dumping a body in an unfamiliar location and then carrying about their business as usual until they feigned the "abduction".
    It becomes even less believable when you consider that some think the Tapas group were also involved in the cover up, would you lie for your friend if they murdered their own kid?

    And lastly, they persist on bringing media attention to it over a decade later. Everyone would have long forgotten about Madeleine if her parents hadn't persisted in keeping her name in the public domain over the last few years.
    Why would they keep attracting attention to themselves if they were in any way responsible?

    The worst things in the world have been said about them, and some of it deservedly so, because they were STUPID to leave the kids alone.

    But why would they keep dragging this negative attention, this media intrusion, this judgment from the court of public opinion on themselves & their twins unless they knew someone else was responsible for their child going missing?

    Because they know they aren't responsible & they feel a massive burden of guilt for leaving Madeleine in a position where she could be taken from them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction


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    cgcsb wrote: »
    Come now, the twins were out cold while the building was being turned upside down by concerned guests and staff looking for her.

    Even the McCann's theory of a kidnapper climbing in the window is not possible without the 3 kids being sedated, the kids would have screamed bloody murder. Instead the twins weren't freaked out the next day.

    Kate later claimed the kidnapper must have sedated all three of them simultaneously somehow after climbing in the window. Even the friend who claimed she seen a man carrying a sleeping child, she supposed was Maddie, said the child was asleep.

    Their own version of events must include sedation. Kids don't just sleep through such things.

    Some do. My 4 year old will sleep through anything, I drilled two holes in a concrete wall in the bedroom while he slept one evening, didnt stir.

    These kids were in a hot country most likely running around playing and swimming all day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    cgcsb wrote: »
    Well nobody knows for certain except the McCanns, hence the thread. We do know Kate tampered with the window and lied to the cops about discovering the crime scene and the sniffer dogs identified the location of a corps, and the DNA of Madeline was found in the car.

    Wrong, on so many counts here. The DNA found was not proven to be Madeleine's, in fact it was proven that it could have been the DNA of Kate, Gerry or the twins.

    There is no evidence Kate tampered with the window.
    There is evidence that Portuguese police failed to preserve the crime scene, allowing the world and his wife traipse through the apartment, hence damaging chances of finding any DNA.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


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    SusieBlue wrote: »
    So how did they do it? How did they kill her, hide the body, get rid of all the evidence, dump the body and not get caught doing so in just under a 2hr window?
    While acting normally?

    Is it the 'acting normally' bit that you find hard to deal with? like most people wouldn't act normally, Jeffry Dhamer and Ted Bundy acted not only normally, but were quite charming moments before/after extreme acts of brutality. There are people in this world who are capable of such things. Just look at the West case in the UK. You are assuming that they would act like you would act, this isn't always the case, a small number of people in the world are capable of seriously nasty stuff.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


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    SusieBlue wrote: »
    Is this the theory where you said they dumped her body that night in the hire car, the same hire car they didn't actually hire until 25 days AFTER Madeleine went missing?

    Nope, never said that.


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