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Madeleine McCann

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 Lady Poepoe


    Has Dr. David Payne been looked into? Kate and his statements of them beinging the apartment contradicts eachother.
    He was one of the last people to see Madeleine alive.
    He discribes the children as "peaceful" and like "angels" Such a strange way of speaking of children. It's like describing a dead person. Or maybe someone completely knock out.
    What if he gave the children something to help keep them asleep. But Madeleine overdosed before anyone noticed to help.
    His own mother in Law thought the twins were sedated. Kate was shouting and banging the wall just near them and they didn't wake.
    Maybe the witnesses saw David carrying a child. How tall is he?

    Or what if it was David turn to bathe the children? Didn't they all bath eachothers children! What if he got out of hand. Something happened that would cause the whole group to be investigated. All would face court and media etc.
    I get paedophilia bad vibes from the McCann and friends.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    Didn’t some friend say she heard/seen a ‘weird’ exchange between Gerry and one of the other men (was it Payne?) about one of the smallies. Was that dismissed as never came up in the documentary, or was it a tabloid rumour.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭BloodBath


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    The sniffer dogs have been discredited as reliable evidence.

    Discredited by who? The McCanns?

    This dog unit had a 99% success rate prior to this and was regarded as 1 of the best units in the world. There was a dead body recently in their apartment and the boot of their rental car. I have complete faith in those dogs. Far more than I have in Gerry and Kate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,159 ✭✭✭ParkRunner


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    Has Dr. David Payne been looked into? Kate and his statements of them beinging the apartment contradicts eachother.
    He was one of the last people to see Madeleine alive.
    He discribes the children as "peaceful" and like "angels" Such a strange way of speaking of children. It's like describing a dead person. Or maybe someone completely knock out.
    What if he gave the children something to help keep them asleep. But Madeleine overdosed before anyone noticed to help.
    His own mother in Law thought the twins were sedated. Kate was shouting and banging the wall just near them and they didn't wake.
    Maybe the witnesses saw David carrying a child. How tall is he?

    Or what if it was David turn to bathe the children? Didn't they all bath eachothers children! What if he got out of hand. Something happened that would cause the whole group to be investigated. All would face court and media etc.
    I get paedophilia bad vibes from the McCann and friends.

    I wouldn’t read too much into the twins sleeping though the noise and commotion. At that age babies enter into a very deep sleep and it has been shown recently that a fire alarm even won’t wake a baby in that stage of sleep. The heat too might make them seeem sedated.
    Saying that I also have twins and there’s no way you could enjoy a sun holiday unless they were sedated, even to get through the airport!

    Nonetheless, it’s too big a leap to make to say Madeleine was over-sedated and died and the parents disposed of the body and staged a crime scene. If that does turn out to be true they are stone cold people! There’s no way I’d leave kids alone in an apartment though even on hols and am amazed this happens! An abduction seems the most plausible scenario by far to me.


  • Posts: 4,806 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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    The thing about the abduction theory is... you have to believe the McCanns that the door was open. Originally they told the PJ that the window was open and thats how the abductor got in. They also told their families that the window had been shattered from an abductor entering.

    Of course, neither of those are true are they? The window wasn't shattered at all. In fact, it couldn't be opened from outside.

    Thats when the story changed to the door was open. Very strange not to mention this to the police.

    And now we have people questioning well trained cadaver dogs, questioning martin Smith's sighting but we just take it as fact that the door was open, because the McCanns said so.

    We take it as fact so much so that the poll on this thread even reads "Abductor had been watching and came in the open door".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭bogwalrus


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    Regarding the sniffer dogs. The teddy Kate mcann carried around had the scent of a cadaver. I am not sure how long it takes before a dead body starts to release the odour that can be passed on to the teddy but for arguments sake I will say within a few hours.

    I am going to assume then that Madeline had died in bed and was with her teddy for a long enough time for the odour to be transferred to the bear. This bear was then carried around by Kate and most likely left in the boot of rental car and in other spots leaving the scent of the cadaver there also. That's what I think the dog was sniffing anyway, not a body but where the teddy had been.

    The question then is where did Madelines body go. There are only two plausible scenarios in my head.

    Scenario 1. Kate did indeed overdose her child killing her and managed to hide her body.

    Scenario 2. The child was being watched and abducted but was already dead due to the overdose. A crazy coincidence but possible.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


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    Why do you put so much weight in one persons eye witness testimony, eye witness testimony and photofits are very unreliable?

    Eye witness testimony is unreliable, yet we are to believe the tapas 7's multiple edited version of events :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Eye witness testimony is unreliable, yet we are to believe the tapas 7's multiple edited version of events


    I think it depends on what or who the eye witness saw.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


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    I think it depends on what or who the eye witness saw.

    Seems to be McCanns version: Good.

    Anyone elses version: Bad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,041 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


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    The thing about the abduction theory is... you have to believe the McCanns that the door was open. Originally they told the PJ that the window was open and thats how the abductor got in. They also told their families that the window had been shattered from an abductor entering.

    Of course, neither of those are true are they? The window wasn't shattered at all. In fact, it couldn't be opened from outside.

    Thats when the story changed to the door was open. Very strange not to mention this to the police.

    And now we have people questioning well trained cadaver dogs, questioning martin Smith's sighting but we just take it as fact that the door was open, because the McCanns said so.

    We take it as fact so much so that the poll on this thread even reads "Abductor had been watching and came in the open door".

    I wonder why it doesn't say "abductor had been watching and came in through the open door, then tampered with the window and left through the open door"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭micks_address


    In the documentary, the kids on collection from the kids club appear exhausted and madeline asks to be carried home.. they barely make it through their bed time story before falling asleep... maybe they were drugged during the day? something dropped into their drinks? If it was an organised abduction then its plausible


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    In the documentary, the kids on collection from the kids club appear exhausted and madeline asks to be carried home.. they barely make it through their bed time story before falling asleep... maybe they were drugged during the day? something dropped into their drinks? If it was an organised abduction then its plausible


    Since you believe it may have been an abduction ,any thoughts as too why the Portuguese Police and Scotland Yard have

    despite years of investigation been unable to find evidence of an abduction? The only evidence offered is from the McCanns and that's not very compelling tbh. 'They've taken her' seems to be it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭micks_address


    Since you believe it may have been an abduction ,any thoughts as too why the Portuguese Police and Scotland Yard have

    despite years of investigation been unable to find evidence of an abduction? The only evidence offered is from the McCanns and that's not very compelling tbh. 'They've taken her' seems to be it.

    i don't have any strong opinion either way.... im keeping an open mind.. there definitely was some sinister characters around the area those days... the guys calling to people pretending to be an orphanage collecting money.. and one woman coming down to find one of those in her house talking to her daughter and he ran out.. it does seem to lend to the abduction possibility


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    Car was rented weeks after she went missing. Either stinky body transport or car has ability to time travel.

    Cadaver could have been rotten meat.
    Dogs aren't that smart and are easily distracted.
    Not everyone can be a detective and thank god for that. I'll keep my faith in the portugese police.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    i don't have any strong opinion either way.... im keeping an open mind.. there definitely was some sinister characters around the area those days... the guys calling to people pretending to be an orphanage collecting money.. and one woman coming down to find one of those in her house talking to her daughter and he ran out.. it does seem to lend to the abduction possibility


    Still leads me back to the question I asked, no evidence of abduction unearthed by either the Portuguese authorities or Scotland yard despite over10 years of investigation by both Police forces.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,345 ✭✭✭limnam


    Has Dr. David Payne been looked into? Kate and his statements of them beinging the apartment contradicts eachother.
    He was one of the last people to see Madeleine alive.
    He discribes the children as "peaceful" and like "angels" Such a strange way of speaking of children. It's like describing a dead person. Or maybe someone completely knock out.
    What if he gave the children something to help keep them asleep. But Madeleine overdosed before anyone noticed to help.
    His own mother in Law thought the twins were sedated. Kate was shouting and banging the wall just near them and they didn't wake.
    Maybe the witnesses saw David carrying a child. How tall is he?

    Or what if it was David turn to bathe the children? Didn't they all bath eachothers children! What if he got out of hand. Something happened that would cause the whole group to be investigated. All would face court and media etc.
    I get paedophilia bad vibes from the McCann and friends.


    I think David Payne was the guy who made some strange pedophilia type gestures/comments about Maddie from a statment from another couple who had been on holidays with them previously.


    This seem to be withheld from the Portuguese police for months.


    More questions that no one seems to be able to answer so just brush under the carpet.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    Why aren’t governments doing more to try crack/find and destroy these peodophile rings. With so many found in the wonderland photos (I cant read up on it is too upsetting), where are those kids like Rui Pedro. How can so many be taken, hidden and never ever found.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,153 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    Neither does Scotland Yard . You may sneer my reply but do you not find it strange that an organisation with the resources of one the world's most respected police forces could not find evidence of abduction after almost 11 years and countless millions?
    Still leads me back to the question I asked, no evidence of abduction unearthed by either the Portuguese authorities or Scotland yard despite over10 years of investigation by both Police forces.

    And no evidence of murder, accidental death, drugging, satanic cults or alien encounters of the third kind, either.

    Give it a rest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,167 ✭✭✭spaceHopper


    bogwalrus wrote: »
    Regarding the sniffer dogs. The teddy Kate mcann carried around had the scent of a cadaver. I am not sure how long it takes before a dead body starts to release the odour that can be passed on to the teddy but for arguments sake I will say within a few hours.

    I am going to assume then that Madeline had died in bed and was with her teddy for a long enough time for the odour to be transferred to the bear. This bear was then carried around by Kate and most likely left in the boot of rental car and in other spots leaving the scent of the cadaver there also. That's what I think the dog was sniffing anyway, not a body but where the teddy had been.

    The question then is where did Madelines body go. There are only two plausible scenarios in my head.

    Scenario 1. Kate did indeed overdose her child killing her and managed to hide her body.

    Scenario 2. The child was being watched and abducted but was already dead due to the overdose. A crazy coincidence but possible.

    or the Police cocked up the investigation, wanted a conviction so staged the cadaver search by getting something that had been on a body from a mortuary and rubbing it around the apartment.

    Video of the dog searching the car, he had to be brought back to the drivers door, how did they know to do that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,345 ✭✭✭limnam


    cursai wrote: »
    Car was rented weeks after she went missing. Either stinky body transport or car has ability to time travel.

    Cadaver could have been rotten meat.
    Dogs aren't that smart and are easily distracted.
    Not everyone can be a detective and thank god for that. I'll keep my faith in the portugese police.


    Dogs aren't that smart?


    The dog owner/trainer with 30 years experience wit an impeccable record now working for the FBI stated the dog won't detect rotten meat as a corpse.


    Yet you, who have no experience in the above just rock out a random statement about "dogs been distracted.


    I'd like to hear more from you.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,345 ✭✭✭limnam


    or the Police cocked up the investigation, wanted a conviction so staged the cadaver search by getting something that had been on a body from a mortuary and rubbing it around the apartment.

    Video of the dog searching the car, he had to be brought back to the drivers door, how did they know to do that.


    wow.


    And "we're" the ones coming up with conspiracy theories.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    pc7 wrote: »
    Why aren’t governments doing more to try crack/find and destroy these peodophile rings. With so many found in the wonderland photos (I cant read up on it is too upsetting), where are those kids like Rui Pedro. How can so many be taken, hidden and never ever found.


    I think that was covered briefly in the documentary.
    The rings require you to give new images to gain access and some level of trust...so you have to break the law to infiltrate.
    Plus, it would be difficult to get the staff to do this, you can see how much it affected the PI in the documentary.


    The laws around it are also not black and white, I think in the UK you can be arrested on suspicion or if you are trying to groom a child.
    In Ireland you can only be arrested after the fact rather than preemptively. I'm open to correction on that though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    cnocbui wrote:
    And no evidence of murder, accidental death, drugging, satanic cults or alien encounters of the third kind, either.
    But the Portuguese Police have been accused by several posters here of incompetence, Scotland Yard like their counterparts have also been unable to find evidence of abduction ( although that is the only line of investigation they were allowed pursue) so now we have two incompetent police forces. Most unfortunate.
    cnocbui wrote:
    Give it a rest.

    I thought Boom Bap was the Mod here?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭Steve F


    I haven't taken part in the poll as there is no "Haven't the foggiest what happened" option
    I find myself going around and around on this case
    I do find the Peter Hyatt conclusions compelling though


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 56,743 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    cursai wrote:
    Cadaver could have been rotten meat. Dogs aren't that smart and are easily distracted. Not everyone can be a detective and thank god for that. I'll keep my faith in the portugese police.

    What a ridiculous thing to say. Dogs are trained in all sorts of things all over the world.

    Seeing eye dogs
    Drug sniffing dogs
    Hunting dogs

    Etc

    You can disbelieve the theory on Madeline being killed/dying accidentally on the grounds of there being no actual proof (same as the abduction), but your comment above is absolutely ludicrous


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭BloodBath


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    cursai wrote: »
    Car was rented weeks after she went missing. Either stinky body transport or car has ability to time travel.

    Cadaver could have been rotten meat.
    Dogs aren't that smart and are easily distracted.
    Not everyone can be a detective and thank god for that. I'll keep my faith in the portugese police.


    They may have moved the body to a more secluded spot after an initial hiding spot. It's also possible somebody else who had rented the car prior to this had a body in the boot but considering human blood and cadaver was also detected in the apartment this seems unlikely. The Mcann's were seen airing the boot of this car out for days by a credible neighbour.

    Cadaver could not have been rotten meat. The dogs are specifically trained to react to "human" cadavers or "human" blood. In fact blood was recovered from both locations with partial DNA tests indicating it was Maddies blood.

    It's not about being smart. It's about using their noses to smell things we can't. These are highly trained professional dogs with proven high success rates. There is a reason they are used all over the world for detecting all kinds of substances. Because it works with a high success rate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,041 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


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    cursai wrote: »
    Car was rented weeks after she went missing. Either stinky body transport or car has ability to time travel.

    Cadaver could have been rotten meat.
    Dogs aren't that smart and are easily distracted.
    Not everyone can be a detective and thank god for that. I'll keep my faith in the portugese police.

    The dogs were specifically trained to find humans


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,913 ✭✭✭v638sg7k1a92bx


    BloodBath wrote: »
    Discredited by who? The McCanns?

    This dog unit had a 99% success rate prior to this and was regarded as 1 of the best units in the world. There was a dead body recently in their apartment and the boot of their rental car. I have complete faith in those dogs. Far more than I have in Gerry and Kate.

    Nobody can be convicted on the evidence of sniffer dogs alone.

    The suggestions that the parents hid a child's body for 3 weeks in a warm climate, rented a car, moved the body, disposed of it and did this while they were under suspicion from the police and had the world's media watching their every move is fantasy.

    That you put more faith in dogs than you do in the parents says more about you than it does them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,153 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    limnam wrote: »
    Dogs aren't that smart?


    The dog owner/trainer with 30 years experience wit an impeccable record now working for the FBI stated the dog won't detect rotten meat as a corpse.


    Yet you, who have no experience in the above just rock out a random statement about "dogs been distracted.


    I'd like to hear more from you.

    Working for the FBI is he? I am only aware of Grimes being asked to work in the US once - where guess what? The dogs barked and no forensic evidence was found to back them up. The case was solved, but not by Grimes or the dogs, which contributed nothing of value. Have you got any proof Grimes works for the FBI?

    It's incredible how all Grimes' claims about his unique training methods are just accepted without question. There has been no independent tests or evaluations of Grimes' claims. It would appear someone else in offficial Police circles isn't happy with all the claims of infallibility Grimes and his associates put about. Sky news did an FOI request and got a report that shows that there is a known problem - probably due to Grimes' intense efforts at self-promotion:
    Sniffer Dogs 'Can Hinder Police Work'

    By Gerard Tubb, Sky News correspondent

    Thursday 24 March 2011

    Police sniffer dogs used to find missing people and dead bodies "urgently" need better training and monitoring, according to an official report.

    The Government's National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) said specialist victim recovery dogs are not trained to approved standards, with no way of gauging their competence.

    The NPIA reviewed the use of the specialist sniffer dogs two years ago, but its report has only now surfaced following a request by Sky News.

    "There is no consistency in what the dogs can do and how it is done," the report states.

    "Furthermore, there is no national standard for accrediting dogs and handlers or record keeping of the success rate they achieve."

    The report added the dogs, which are trained to detect the smell of dead bodies, have "the potential to cause complications in an inquiry".

    "There is an urgent need to have national policy on their training, accreditation and deployment," it concluded.
    https://news.sky.com/story/sniffer-dogs-can-hinder-police-work-10488976

    Grime's brags constantly about his special training methods that deviated from the official training guidelines. Why anyone would find that reassuring is beyond me.


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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    She wandered out herself, something happened (car accident/paedo)
    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    I think that was covered briefly in the documentary.
    The rings require you to give new images to gain access and some level of trust...so you have to break the law to infiltrate.
    Plus, it would be difficult to get the staff to do this, you can see how much it affected the PI in the documentary

    You think they could fake photos or something, it’s just so upsetting thinking of what is happening. That Spanish pi was amazing, he did Trojan work.


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