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Madeleine McCann

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,874 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    TheW1zard wrote: »
    Maybe tanner saw gerry after all. Then in the same few minutes the person who came forward collects their daughter. Meanwhile gerry is chucking the girl in the bin and back to the table for some more vino.

    Surely she would have recognised him, spoken to him!

    This doesn't really feel likely though it may be just technically possible.

    Loving parents don't really chuck the body of their child into a bin, and then carry on as normal.

    What nobody seems to be considering is the possibility of a neighbour - somebody local - they didn't search every single flat and house in the whole village.

    Yet historically, when a child goes missing, it is often a local person who was responsible. Remember that dreadful Holly and Jessica case in England? Many other cases too.

    A local resident can walk by un-noticed, knows every laneway, may have been watching the family from a window, knows where the bins are and when they are collected.

    A "local" is still entirely possible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,130 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Are the images current or from 2007?

    How close is very close?

    Are they on the street? If so where? Distance from 'resort'? Open or bin chute style?

    Underground carpark? Communal or individual?Locked or unlocked?

    Collection schedule?

    I could go ****ing on and on.

    What ****ing nonsense.

    I think it depends on what you believe yourself TBH. An open mind is a good thing.


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


    Day Lewin wrote: »

    Yet historically, when a child goes missing, it is often a local person who was responsible. Remember that dreadful Holly and Jessica case in England? Many other cases too.
    .

    Huntley was a caretaker at the girls school he knew them. Most murder victims know their killer.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭2u2me


    Often thought about the big dumpster bins that are prevalent in Portugal and Spain. Lift the lid with the foot pedal, and anything can go in there. The trucks collect every night I think.

    One thing that always stuck out in my mind was that there was a road filled in nearby early that morning. I think this was the spin on most of the early stories.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 959 ✭✭✭MonsterCookie


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    Surely she would have recognised him, spoken to him!

    This doesn't really feel likely though it may be just technically possible.

    Loving parents don't really chuck the body of their child into a bin, and then carry on as normal.

    What nobody seems to be considering is the possibility of a neighbour - somebody local - they didn't search every single flat and house in the whole village.

    Yet historically, when a child goes missing, it is often a local person who was responsible. Remember that dreadful Holly and Jessica case in England? Many other cases too.

    A local resident can walk by un-noticed, knows every laneway, may have been watching the family from a window, knows where the bins are and when they are collected.

    A "local" is still entirely possible.

    Didn’t tanner describe the guy carrying a child as wearing a jacket and long trousers I.e. not dressed as a tourist would be. Also, hadn’t she just walked past Gerry and the other fella.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭TheW1zard


    Are the images current or from 2007?

    How close is very close?

    Are they on the street? If so where? Distance from 'resort'? Open or bin chute style?

    Underground carpark? Communal or individual?Locked or unlocked?

    Collection schedule?

    I could go ****ing on and on.

    What ****ing nonsense.

    I meant the recycling bin Im not a monster.
    #eco


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭TheW1zard


    Didn’t tanner describe the guy carrying a child as wearing a jacket and long trousers I.e. not dressed as a tourist would be. Also, hadn’t she just walked past Gerry and the other fella.

    She said she had to be fair.
    Although they refute that.
    Just to be clear im in the abducted camp.
    I think its weird they didnt see her though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭BQQ


    Have the McCanns ever given an explanation for deleting calls and texts from that day off their phones

    Genuinely asking.
    It always struck me as suspicious


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭antgal23


    Often thought about the big dumpster bins that are prevalent in Portugal and Spain. Lift the lid with the foot pedal, and anything can go in there. The trucks collect every night I think.

    Could the little child have been disposed of in there? By anyone, not necessarily the parents, but they are not absolved either.

    Now before the usual posters try to provoke me, it is as good a theory as anything else. Unless someone knows that the bins were checked prior to pick up. If so, fair enough. Sorry if it sounds bizarre, but everything about this case is really bizarre anyway.


    I can't see the parents putting their daughter in a bin nearby, too close to the complex and would evoke a feeling of shame in the parents

    I'd accept if they drove the body somewhere and put it in another bin but not close by

    Did a stranger put her in the bin close by?
    I don't think so, what reason would a stranger have in killing her in the room and discarding the body in a bin? Doesn't make too much sense to me

    But then this is a case which doesn't make a lot of sense


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭antgal23


    Often thought about the big dumpster bins that are prevalent in Portugal and Spain. Lift the lid with the foot pedal, and anything can go in there. The trucks collect every night I think.

    Could the little child have been disposed of in there? By anyone, not necessarily the parents, but they are not absolved either.

    Now before the usual posters try to provoke me, it is as good a theory as anything else. Unless someone knows that the bins were checked prior to pick up. If so, fair enough. Sorry if it sounds bizarre, but everything about this case is really bizarre anyway.


    I can't see the parents putting their daughter in a bin nearby, too close to the complex and would evoke a feeling of shame in the parents

    I'd accept if they drove the body somewhere and put it in another bin but not close by

    Did a stranger put her in the bin close by?
    I don't think so, what reason would a stranger have in killing her in the room and discarding the body in a bin? Doesn't make too much sense to me

    But then this is a case which doesn't make a lot of sense


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭Banana Republic.


    antgal23 wrote: »
    I can't see the parents putting their daughter in a bin nearby, too close to the complex and would evoke a feeling of shame in the parents

    I'd accept if they drove the body somewhere and put it in another bin but not close by

    Did a stranger put her in the bin close by?
    I don't think so, what reason would a stranger have in killing her in the room and discarding the body in a bin? Doesn't make too much sense to me

    But then this is a case which doesn't make a lot of sense


    Not a chance lads, the body would of been found straight away. If as said in a previous post they deleted so their calls and texts then for me that tells me they were in on it. The horrible job CB had to do was this one. On that basis I think the German prosecutor may have been trying to spook the McCanns by saying he’s got evidence that the child had passed away. It would fit with Operation Grange where The McCanns weren’t allowed to be investigated for this very reason. Would fit to say Madeline was taken with so much conviction by her mother straight away. Why the room had all evidence destroyed, why Gerry never went into the room even though he felt there was someone in there and had noticed the door was ajar. It would fit why Kate went to long way to raise the alarm, left the other two kids on their own to do so if a kidnapper was around.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,874 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    I'm not so sure the body would have been found straight away: Did the police search every bin, every night, for weeks afterwards? (Doubt it!)

    If there were some nasty paedophile living in, or staying in, another apartment in the same block or the same street, eyeing these children and the movements of the family:
    That person could have crept in, snatched a kid, clamped his hand over her mouth and hurried back upstairs in a few minutes.

    (Draw veil of horror over what happens next)

    but it results in the body of a small child with gaffer tape over her mouth, dead.

    Small enough to put in a black bag, keep in a freezer, drop into a dumpster many days later just like any ordinary citizen dropping out a bin bag of household rubbish.
    Gone overnight between midnight and 4 a.m.

    Nobody the wiser, done and dusted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭OwlsZat


    BQQ wrote: »
    Have the McCanns ever given an explanation for deleting calls and texts from that day off their phones

    Genuinely asking.
    It always struck me as suspicious

    Who would they have made calls to that needed to be deleted?

    1) Medical professionals. Over sededated or an injured Madeline asking for advise on what to do next. I think you can more or less eliminate this. I don't think any person with a conscience could realistically stay quiet. Unless it was a direct family member...

    2) Disposal. If Madeline was dead and needed concealing someone who can give advice on what to do next. Someone in tune with what the police response will be and how to get ahead/around it.

    3) Each other. If Kate discovers an overly sedated or critically injured Madeline she would without doubt ring Gerry. They're could have been a series of frantic over and back calls where the full gravity of the situation would have unfolded. *If this had happened for a missing Madeline there would have bee no reason to delete.

    4) Criminal ring. CB admits himself that he smuggled children and drugs. It's possible they were provided a contact number for someone that would take her away likely for a charge or a retuned favour. The Sigmund Freud link comes to mind too.

    What are peoples thoughts. The deleted calls and texts are among the very increminating bits of evidence.


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


    OwlsZat wrote: »
    What are peoples thoughts. The deleted calls and texts are among the very increminating bits of evidence.

    Surprised this element does come up more often as it's really really bizare.

    Were both phones cleared of all calls and texts?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,874 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    OwlsZat wrote: »
    Who would they have made calls to that needed to be deleted?

    ..............

    What are peoples thoughts. The deleted calls and texts are among the very increminating bits of evidence.

    Certainly a puzzle that needs answering.
    Not necessarily incriminating, but definitely calls for explanation.
    Were they ever asked? It would be a reasonable question.
    I mean, there could be simple, sensible explanations, too: like, the phone memory was full and they are desperately waiting for maybe a ransom demand.
    They were doctors, maybe someone thought they were rich. (This is quite a common thing in Sardinia!)

    (PS What is the Sigmund Freud reference that has been mentioned several times?)


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


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    Certainly a puzzle that needs answering.
    Not necessarily incriminating, but definitely calls for explanation.
    Were they ever asked? It would be a reasonable question.
    I mean, there could be simple, sensible explanations, too: like, the phone memory was full and they are desperately waiting for maybe a ransom demand.
    They were doctors, maybe someone thought they were rich. (This is quite a common thing in Sardinia!)

    (PS What is the Sigmund Freud reference that has been mentioned several times?)

    If it was both phones it'd be odd to clear two of them at the same time. For both to go "full" at the same time.

    What phone could you have 2007 were call history would fill it?

    Very odd.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭nc6000


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    (PS What is the Sigmund Freud reference that has been mentioned several times?)

    He died in 1939 so I think we can rule him out of any investigation. The McCanns had lunch with his grandson Clement Freud who happened to have a holiday home 600 yards from the Ocean Club - this was two months after her disappearance.

    https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/sir-clement-freud-exposed-as-a-paedophile-as-police-urged-to-probe-madeleine-mccann-links-34806089.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭antgal23


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    Certainly a puzzle that needs answering.
    Not necessarily incriminating, but definitely calls for explanation.
    Were they ever asked? It would be a reasonable question.
    I mean, there could be simple, sensible explanations, too: like, the phone memory was full and they are desperately waiting for maybe a ransom demand.
    They were doctors, maybe someone thought they were rich. (This is quite a common thing in Sardinia!)

    (PS What is the Sigmund Freud reference that has been mentioned several times?)



    Very strange behavior indeed

    If I delete my phone SMS and calls it's because I want to cover up something

    Then she says " They took her "

    Did they sell her? Were they being blackmailed? Did they arrange the abduction? Relationship with Clement Freud


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    antgal23 wrote: »
    Very strange behavior indeed

    If I delete my phone SMS and calls it's because I want to cover up something

    Then she says " They took her "

    Did they sell her? Were they being blackmailed? Did they arrange the abduction? Relationship with Clement Freud

    I've deleted SMS messages to make more space on my phone. Just saying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭flasher0030


    OwlsZat wrote: »
    Who would they have made calls to that needed to be deleted?

    1) Medical professionals. Over sededated or an injured Madeline asking for advise on what to do next. I think you can more or less eliminate this. I don't think any person with a conscience could realistically stay quiet. Unless it was a direct family member...

    2) Disposal. If Madeline was dead and needed concealing someone who can give advice on what to do next. Someone in tune with what the police response will be and how to get ahead/around it.

    3) Each other. If Kate discovers an overly sedated or critically injured Madeline she would without doubt ring Gerry. They're could have been a series of frantic over and back calls where the full gravity of the situation would have unfolded. *If this had happened for a missing Madeline there would have bee no reason to delete.

    4) Criminal ring. CB admits himself that he smuggled children and drugs. It's possible they were provided a contact number for someone that would take her away likely for a charge or a retuned favour. The Sigmund Freud link comes to mind too.

    What are peoples thoughts. The deleted calls and texts are among the very increminating bits of evidence.


    This doesn't make any sense. Criminal investigators can retrieve deleted texts etc. from phones as part of an investigation. Happens all the time. And get get phone calls rang/taken very easily from phone records.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,874 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    If you had sold your child or accidentally killed her, it is very unlikely that you would tell everyone, alert the whole community and start a frantic search with police involved? (where nothing is found?)

    Wouldn't you be far more likely to keep quiet and hide all traces for as long as possible?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭OwlsZat


    limnam wrote: »
    Surprised this element does come up more often as it's really really bizare.

    Were both phones cleared of all calls and texts?

    No they were'nt wiped. Some messages were deleted which can be normal and to do with space. However, the call history on both phones were also selectively deleted.

    This is the problem when things happen so fast. You attempted to be clever but your haste in carrying out the task you in fact do something even more incriminating. We will never know who the calls were to. We just know that the McCanns didn't want anyone to find out about them. We know that they thought they were incriminating.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭OwlsZat


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    Wouldn't you be far more likely to keep quiet and hide all traces for as long as possible?

    Only if your happy to go to prison when it finally does blow up. Good luck trying to explain why you said nothing about the missing child for weeks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭OwlsZat


    This doesn't make any sense. Criminal investigators can retrieve deleted texts etc. from phones as part of an investigation. Happens all the time. And get get phone calls rang/taken very easily from phone records.

    Here are the details if you have the time to find out the story for us :D

    https://mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/DELETED_CALLS.htm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭TheW1zard


    She drugged the kids, Madeline died. He chucked her in the bin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭antgal23


    OwlsZat wrote: »
    Here are the details if you have the time to find out the story for us :D

    https://mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/DELETED_CALLS.htm


    Excerpt from above site

    'Mr and Mrs McCann were never closely questioned by the PJ about the detail of their calls, but Gerald McCann excused the deletions by saying that his telephones memory only retained details of the last ten calls made. This obvious inaccuracy (It already had retained details of 17 calls) does not appear to have been challenged by the PJ and it does not in anyway explain the selective deletions from his wifes handset.

    So the bottom line is that Kate McCann was in Apartment 5A when Madeleine cried for her father between 22.30 and 23.45 on Tuesday 1st May 2007, leading to a unique flurry of late night calls and to unique calls very early the following morning. A forensic examination of the records of Madeleines attendance at the 'Lobsters' creche on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd May 2007 is critically important because if they have been falsified, to establish she was there when she was not, this case takes on an entirely new dimension and sets different search parameters.

    Secondly, if the memories of the mobile telephones were deleted in way suspected, a level of cunning is implied that would be capable of conceiving plan to deliberately delay reporting Madeleines 'disappearance'; if for no other reason than to disassociate it from the crying incident on Tuesday 1st May 2007.'

    Is it possible that Maddie's crying and the husbands flirting with the busty hotel worker drove her to accidentally kill the wee girl ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭flasher0030


    antgal23 wrote: »
    Excerpt from above site

    'Mr and Mrs McCann were never closely questioned by the PJ about the detail of their calls, but Gerald McCann excused the deletions by saying that his telephones memory only retained details of the last ten calls made. This obvious inaccuracy (It already had retained details of 17 calls) does not appear to have been challenged by the PJ and it does not in anyway explain the selective deletions from his wifes handset.

    So the bottom line is that Kate McCann was in Apartment 5A when Madeleine cried for her father between 22.30 and 23.45 on Tuesday 1st May 2007, leading to a unique flurry of late night calls and to unique calls very early the following morning. A forensic examination of the records of Madeleines attendance at the 'Lobsters' creche on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd May 2007 is critically important because if they have been falsified, to establish she was there when she was not, this case takes on an entirely new dimension and sets different search parameters.

    Secondly, if the memories of the mobile telephones were deleted in way suspected, a level of cunning is implied that would be capable of conceiving plan to deliberately delay reporting Madeleines 'disappearance'; if for no other reason than to disassociate it from the crying incident on Tuesday 1st May 2007.'

    Is it possible that Maddie's crying and the husbands flirting with the busty hotel worker drove her to accidentally kill the wee girl ?

    Oh my good GOD!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭OwlsZat


    antgal23 wrote: »
    Excerpt from above site

    'Mr and Mrs McCann were never closely questioned by the PJ about the detail of their calls, but Gerald McCann excused the deletions by saying that his telephones memory only retained details of the last ten calls made. This obvious inaccuracy (It already had retained details of 17 calls) does not appear to have been challenged by the PJ and it does not in anyway explain the selective deletions from his wifes handset.

    So the bottom line is that Kate McCann was in Apartment 5A when Madeleine cried for her father between 22.30 and 23.45 on Tuesday 1st May 2007, leading to a unique flurry of late night calls and to unique calls very early the following morning. A forensic examination of the records of Madeleines attendance at the 'Lobsters' creche on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd May 2007 is critically important because if they have been falsified, to establish she was there when she was not, this case takes on an entirely new dimension and sets different search parameters.

    Secondly, if the memories of the mobile telephones were deleted in way suspected, a level of cunning is implied that would be capable of conceiving plan to deliberately delay reporting Madeleines 'disappearance'; if for no other reason than to disassociate it from the crying incident on Tuesday 1st May 2007.'

    Is it possible that Maddie's crying and the husbands flirting with the busty hotel worker drove her to accidentally kill the wee girl ?

    Yes, this is one of the more plausible theories. Kate had talked about how Madeline was a difficult child and the lady staying above had reported the calling out for the father. I think there was also accusations of falsifying signatures in the Crech services. From memory I think this is exported in the Maddie podcast done by 9.au if you haven't listened to it it's excellent. Would certainly make it easier to move the body as some McCann defenders like to obsess about. Also they questioned Kate alone believing they would get her to confess. So seems they shared your logic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭ldy4mxonucwsq6


    OwlsZat wrote: »
    Yes, this is one of the more plausible theories. Kate had talked about how Madeline was a difficult child and the lady staying above had reported the calling out for the father. I think there was also accusations of falsifying signatures in the Crech services. From memory I think this is exported in the Maddie podcast done by 9.au if you haven't listened to it it's excellent. Would certainly make it easier to move the body as some McCann defenders like to obsess about. Also they questioned Kate alone believing they would get her to confess. So seems they shared your logic.

    Was she not seen the day of the actual reported disappearance though?

    Or is it only the creche records that say she was in kids club that day, did any of the workers remember seeing her that day?


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


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    I've deleted SMS messages to make more space on my phone. Just saying.

    Does your partner delete them at the same time?

    Do you delete call history to save space?

    Does your partner do it at the same time?


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