Madeleine McCann

Tristen Hissing Typhoon wrote: »

Maybe Gerry's accomplice was Amaral, did you ever think of that? Local knowledge and all the rest. Who better than a police officer?

MonkieSocks wrote: »

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wmpdd3 wrote: »

I've just finished the Maddie podcast.

I found it extensive and balanced, similar to Richard Hall but only in depth in certain subjects.

The main part I take away from it is, until the dna notes are examined again, there will be no answer.

I always found that part the most fudged and unclear in other documentaries, but it was explained fully here.

Mark's conclusion is pretty much the same as Richard Hall's but with a slightly different time line.

Accident, body hidden.

Both still highlight David Payne as a person to be examined further.

Ann22 wrote: »

Is the podcast just called "Maddie" with a photo of her face with a red background?

je551e wrote: »

Just finished the Podcast and like above comments it’s very good . the DNA being reanalysed is the only way to go now but the resistance to this only adds more questions.

After listening to this and watching the Netflix documentary it has opened my eyes to the fact we live in a world that inhabits some amount of monsters!

cnocbui wrote: »

There might be a very good reason, in that the material may no longer exist as it was used up in the original test.

I remember from the Meredith Kercher murder investigation in Italy that a minute sample of blood was obtained from a knife and that it couldn't be retested because it was consumed in the test.

Technophobe wrote: »

blocked here..what does it say?

FORMER Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral has revealed a German paedophile suspected over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance is not Martin Ney.

The ex-cop sparked speculation Ney was the prime suspect after saying in an interview earlier this year investigators were focusing on a German paedophile in prison.

Madeleine disappeared days before her fourth birthday in May 2007 after parents Kate and Gerry left their children in their apartment in Praia da Luz.

Amaral was the officer initially in charge of the investigation and made the McCann's "arguidos" - or official suspects - before he was sacked from the case.

In his interview with an Australian podcast, he mentioned the possibility of a German paedophile being responsible - but he didn’t mention 49-year-old Hamburg-born child strangler Ney by name.

Instead he described the suspect only as someone who had been ruled out of the investigation into the missing British youngster in 2008 but later jailed in his home country.

Now Amaral, the original lead investigator in the case, has now said the suspect isn’t Ney, who was jailed for life in 2012 for abducting and murdering three children, and sexually abusing dozens more.

When he was shown a photo of him on Spanish TV, Amaral responded: “It can’t be him.”


“A paedophile who is German and serving life for killing children has been spoken about,” he told a show about missing adults and children.

“What I know is that the suspect is not him, it’s another man. He’s also in prison in Germany. He’s also a paedophile.”

In a bizarre twist, Amaral said the suspect looks similar to Madeleine’s dad Gerry before saying that Ney bears no resemblance to him.

The slur comes after years of legal wrangling between the former police chief and the missing youngster’s parents over his book ‘The Truth of the Lie.’

He claims in the controversial 2008 book that Gerry and Kate McCann had covered up their daughter’s accidental death in their holiday apartment.

The McCanns have made a last-ditch attempt to the European Court of Human Rights after losing a libel fight against Mr Amaral in Portugal.

Last year Amaral claimed MI5 spies had helped to cover up Madeleine’s death and disappearance.

He said British secret agents “for sure had an involvement” in an Australian documentary which aired in April 2018.

The McCanns have repeatedly said the fake accusations against them have harmed the search for Madeleine.