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Madeleine McCann

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    limnam wrote: »
    Someone being dead and alive at the same time is difficult for me.

    I'm weird like that ;)

    Sure lookit, there's dated reports you can google yourself if you're blurry about the sequence of the statements. I understand sequential reports can be difficult to decipher for some.


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


    I understand sequential reports can be difficult to decipher for some.

    We'll leave it there Crystal.

    I don't understand why it always ends up in snide remarks.


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


    Is there anything concrete that backs up this report by Paulo Reiz - considering that he was seriously anti-McCann parents. Have his details about the phone records/deleting etc. been substantiated by official sources. Or could they be random warblings by some trying to make a noise for himself. I don't know.
    I'm just wondering about those here who are getting hot under the collar as to the motivations that one has for deleting messages from their phone. i.e. that it somehows falla into suspicious going-ons.
    In summary; are there official reports on the phone messages that are available for all to see. Or are these phone comments just going on the back of someone who publishes something on the world wide web.
    I had a quick google there, and saw that police were trying to trace all phones in the area that night. There was mention of 3000. A very extensive overhaul. Do you really think they would just not bother going into every avenue possible for Gerry and Kate Mccann.


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


    antgal23 wrote: »
    If I were on holidays and my daughter went missing I don't know what exactly I would do as shock would set in

    But, I've been in two family situations involving my kids and my first reaction was to take them to the hospital

    Now, in the case of a disappearance I recognise it's different.

    However, I'd say if my kid disappeared I'd instantly leave the area and go looking for her. I'd want to take immediate action that involves moving and doing

    My natural reaction would not be " Let's sit down and selectively delete my call and SMS history. "

    That would require a very calm mental and physical state to which I wouldn't have due to the shock of the disappearance

    Except they did do that, they along with other tourists, hotel staff and the GNR searched the locality until around 4am and then Kate and Gerry went back out searching again at first light at around 6:30am. They then searched all day for Madeleine.
    They weren’t chilling out with a few whiskeys deleting their call histories, not bothering to even look for their child.

    They rang their families at home and their parish priest at around midnight that night to tell them the terrible news, phones then didn’t have the same capacity that modern phones do and maybe they deleted calls to free up overall storage so they could receive more texts.
    I don’t know why every innocuous thing they do must be portrayed have to have a sinister undertone.


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


    I suspect if there was nothing to back Paulos report only his word , chances are he would have found himself the subject of litigation as others did.
    I'll post the files with his findings.


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


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


    I suspect if there was nothing to back Paulos report only his word , chances are he would have found himself the subject of litigation as others did.
    I'll post the files with his findings.


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

    They didn't try to sue him?


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


    Old Paulus seems a bit of a bottom feeder as journalists go. Who'd bother suing him. Always going for the sleazy angle, yuk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,527 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    Call and text history can easily be traced without the phone. Your ordinary bill has a breakdown of call and text history, and every telecoms company has those records. Any half decent police force could track down this information. As they could cell tower records for where people have been.

    The Portuguese police were a bit of a joke back then. Their efforts to investigate were half hearted, eg the road blocks at the time. The last thing they wanted to do was get to the bottom of this as it might scare off families visiting their resorts.

    They likely intended investigations to go nowhere and either they suspected the McCanns but did nothing or they suspected an abduction but equally weren't too bothered about catching the perpetrator.


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


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    Old Paulus seems a bit of a bottom feeder as journalists go. Who'd bother suing him. Always going for the sleazy angle, yuk.

    I always wonder why people seek to discredit the individual rather than their findings?
    Similar to Kate seeking to discredit the dogs on several occasions.


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


    limnam wrote: »
    They didn't try to sue him?

    Unless it didn't make the papers I can't find any reference to them suing him.


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


    Call and text history can easily be traced without the phone. Your ordinary bill has a breakdown of call and text history, and every telecoms company has those records. Any half decent police force could track down this information. As they could cell tower records for where people have been.

    The Portuguese police were a bit of a joke back then. Their efforts to investigate were half hearted, eg the road blocks at the time. The last thing they wanted to do was get to the bottom of this as it might scare off families visiting their resorts.

    The UK Police have being every bit as inept as their Portuguese counterparts in that case, despite £12 million of taxpayer money being spent on the investigation although a former high ranking detective refused to lead the Mets investigation as he was warned by a senior officer he would not be allowed investigate certain avenues. Basically he was expected to work with one hand tied behind his back.
    I would thought resolving the case would have been very much in the interests of tourism to give families comfort that the area was safe.


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


    antgal23 wrote: »
    My natural reaction would not be " Let's sit down and selectively delete my call and SMS history. "

    That would require a very calm mental and physical state to which I wouldn't have due to the shock of the disappearance

    There is no reason to selectively delete calls unless your covering something up. Only someone who already knows they are guilty would do this.

    Sorry to go backwards but can we put to bed the idea she could have died days earlier. The usuals point to multiple witness accounts of seeing her alive. Could you link the PJ files for these sightings would like to review. Anyone have links for the forged signatures at the Crech line of enquiry of any evidence for or against?


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


    OwlsZat wrote: »
    There is no reason to selectively delete calls unless your covering something up. Only someone who already knows they are guilty would do this.

    Sorry to go backwards but can we put to bed the idea she could have died days earlier. The usuals point to multiple witness accounts of seeing her alive. Could you link the PJ files for these sightings would like to review. Anyone have links for the forged signatures at the Crech line of enquiry of any evidence for or against?

    You keep stating things as absolute facts, when they aren’t.
    You’ve been offered multiple explanations as to why items were deleted, you see no worth in any of them, that’s fine.
    That doesn’t automatically equate to ‘they were covering up something they were guilty of’ being a fact, when there is no proof of this.


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


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    You keep stating things as absolute facts, when they aren’t.
    You’ve been offered multiple explanations as to why items were deleted, you see no worth in any of them, that’s fine. That doesn’t automatically equate to ‘they were covering up something they were guilty of’ being a fact, when there is no proof of this.

    Susie your spam posting nonsense isn't obfustigating anyone. Join in the antagonising of the evidence or retire from the thread.

    The selective deleting of phonecalls is one of many red flags. The theory of Madeline being accidentally killed days earlier per the deleted calls is supported by the very suspect creche log signatures.

    http://truthformadeleine.com/2011/05/kate%E2%80%99s-handwriting-at-ocean-club-creche-looks-like-a-forgery/

    Suzie you countered that there was multiple eye witness reports that she was alive in the days after the Tuesday screaming incident. Can you link to the PJ files for these witness statements?


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


    Unless it didn't make the papers I can't find any reference to them suing him.

    Strange if he was openly telling lies potentially hindering the case with the financial backing they had and the fact they'd tried to go after others you would imagine they would have on their track record.


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


    No selective deleting of calls would impact receiving a phone call.

    So I think we can move away from this as been a reason.


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


    OwlsZat wrote: »
    Susie your spam posting nonsense isn't obfustigating anyone. Join in the antagonising of the evidence or retire from the thread.

    The selective deleting of phonecalls is one of many red flags. The theory of Madeline being accidentally killed days earlier per the deleted calls is supported by the very suspect creche log signatures.

    http://truthformadeleine.com/2011/05/kate%E2%80%99s-handwriting-at-ocean-club-creche-looks-like-a-forgery/

    Suzie you countered that there was multiple eye witness reports that she was alive in the days after the Tuesday screaming incident. Can you link to the PJ files for these witness statements?

    I suggest if you have an issue with my posts, report them to a moderator instead of trying to dictate what I can and cannot post. I’m just as entitled to be here as you are.

    Red flag? Perhaps, yes, I can see why it might possibly raise suspicion in some people. That’s not what you said though. You said it meant Gerry was guilty and involved in a cover up, and it doesn’t mean that at all. That isn’t a fact.

    The last photograph of Madeleine was taken at 2:30pm on the day she went missing by the pool. If you are trying to suggest that the crèche staff lied about Madeleine being present in the kids club on the day she went missing, you’re going to have to back that up a bit more than with allegations that the signature looked forged.
    Why would the crèche staff lie? What’s in it for them?

    Your above link is from a website with a banner saying ‘Gerry is a liar’ so forgive me for not holding any worth in a website so clearly biased in one direction. Anti McCann websites don’t count as proof of anything.

    In the below link is the verified timeline of events on the day she went missing, including the aforementioned photo. It’s widely accepted that she was alive and well up until 6pm that day, and you’d want to have some concrete evidence to the contrary if you are going to try to imply otherwise.

    https://amp.theguardian.com/uk/2008/apr/11/madeleinemccann


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 242 ✭✭WAW


    All bill phones back then had detailed bills with full history so I can't get why people are fixated on this really.
    I remember myself selectively deleting to free up space.i might keep some phone calls to remind me of a number I hadn't stored or when I had called someone, eg if I needed a reminder to follow up with same person/company again. I wouldn't have had lots of numbers stored so I'd keep that call in the log but delete others. Same with texts.


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


    Thanks @SusieBlue

    6.30pm: Gerry asks David Payne, one of the so-called "tapas seven", to check on Kate and the children at the apartment.

    What a strange thing to ask someone to do and the Camera being an “hour out” so they say. Why would an adult have to check on another adult and their kids that aren’t their family? Could be Gerry be controlling.
    Strange, so many strange things in this case and they keep coming. Plus Madeleine was last seen on camera at 1:29pm (arguably 2:30pm)


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


    I believe I've been quite clear on it, but however, I believe she was abducted. There are numerous stories of break-ins in the area (attempted robbery just the week before in the apartment directly above apartment 3a, for example), of intruders in kids apartments, an attack on child in the same area two years before, scumbags like Brueckner all over the place. It's very possible he or someone else had inside information from a staff member and knew the apartment would be vacant for extended periods. Experienced burglar, No CCTV, unlocked apartment, easy pickings. In and out in less than 5 minutes.

    I do not believe the parents could have done it in the timeline, as I've previously posted. I also don't buy any of the reasons put forward as to why they'd do it, anyway. It would be next to impossible logistically, so that only leaves abduction or the possibility she wandered off, however, I tend to discount that for the simple reason I find it difficult to believe she would not only open the heavy patio door, but then close it again behind her on her way out, especially if she was still half asleep and upset. Now, it's possible, but unlikely, imo.

    I try to look at the facts and go from there. I believe facts are all you should go on when assessing cases like this, not wild supposition and outlandish conspiracy theories. Logic should be used , not fantasy, imo.

    But that’s only your opinion. Same as D Notice from the other poster. Same as parents had something to do it in my opinion.

    So how about not whining at people for having a different opinion??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Thanks @SusieBlue

    6.30pm: Gerry asks David Payne, one of the so-called "tapas seven", to check on Kate and the children at the apartment.

    What a strange thing to ask someone to do and the Camera being an “hour out” so they say. Why would an adult have to check on another adult and their kids that aren’t their family? Could be Gerry be controlling.
    Strange, so many strange things in this case and they keep coming. Plus Madeleine was last seen on camera at 1:29pm (arguably 2:30pm)

    Yes, but witnesses attest to her being collected from Kids club that evening (3rd) at 5.30pm:

    https://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/KIDS-CLUB-STAFF.htm
    3. That yesterday Madeleine arrived at 9.10. It was her father, Gerry, who brought her;
    4. That her mother, Kate, picked her up at 12.25;
    5. That her mother, Kate, dropped her off at 14.50 and picked her up at 17.30;


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    But that’s only your opinion. Same as D Notice from the other poster. Same as parents had something to do it in my opinion.

    So how about not whining at people for having a different opinion??

    Whining?? I was specifically asked what my theory was and I gave my opinion.

    What's your problem?


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


    Was there some conflicting witness statements?


    Stacey

    . That the children were dropped off by their parents at 9.30 and that the mother picked them up at 12.30;
    4. That it was the father who dropped them off at 14.30 and that it was the mother who came to fetch them at 17.30;


    Cat

    4. That her mother, Kate, picked her up at 12.25;
    5. That her mother, Kate, dropped her off at 14.50 and picked her up at 17.30;

    Was Cat and Stacey talking about the same incident here as they dont seem to give the same story


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


    Doesn’t sound like much but its either to try Male life normal for the kids but how could they and not ask where Madeline was. Nothing sounds normal.

    The fact they also left the twins in Portugal while they headed off to meet the pope etc is chilling. Surely you’d never want to leave your children out of your sight if one had already gone missing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    limnam wrote: »
    Was there some conflicting witness statements?


    Stacey

    . That the children were dropped off by their parents at 9.30 and that the mother picked them up at 12.30;
    4. That it was the father who dropped them off at 14.30 and that it was the mother who came to fetch them at 17.30;


    Cat

    4. That her mother, Kate, picked her up at 12.25;
    5. That her mother, Kate, dropped her off at 14.50 and picked her up at 17.30;

    Was Cat and Stacey talking about the same incident here as they dont seem to give the same story

    It appears one staff member minded the twins and one staff member minded Madeleine.


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


    The fact they also left the twins in Portugal while they headed off to meet the pope etc is chilling. Surely you’d never want to leave your children out of your sight if one had already gone missing.

    They left the twins with Gerry’s sister Trish and her husband Sandy and I believe they were only gone overnight.
    The majority of Gerrys family had already arrived in PdeL several weeks before to support them. They were with family, I don’t see what’s chilling about that.

    If they had dragged the twins to meet the pope and around Europe people would be complaining about that too, they really just can’t win.


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


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    They left the twins with Gerry’s sister Trish and her husband Sandy and I believe they were only gone overnight.
    The majority of Gerrys family had already arrived in PdeL several weeks before to support them. They were with family, I don’t see what’s chilling about that.

    If they had dragged the twins to meet the pope and around Europe people would be complaining about that too, they really just can’t win.

    It’s odd behaviour.


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


    SusieBlue wrote: »

    If they had dragged the twins to meet the pope and around Europe people would be complaining about that too, they really just can’t win.

    Their daughter allegedly goes missing and you suggest that if they refused to let their other children out of their sight people would be complaining? Seriously I can't believe some of the nonsense people are willing or make up.
    It would be perfectly understandable if that was the case, but oddly it wasn't.


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


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    They left the twins with Gerry’s sister Trish and her husband Sandy and I believe they were only gone overnight.
    The majority of Gerrys family had already arrived in PdeL several weeks before to support them. They were with family, I don’t see what’s chilling about that.

    If they had dragged the twins to meet the pope and around Europe people would be complaining about that too, they really just can’t win.

    Yes of course people would be complaining that a couple whose daughter was allegedly taken refused to let their other children out of their sight. What absolute nonsense.


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


    Would anyone be willing to post FACTS in this case?

    I have some but welcome the views of those who think there was nothing wrong with leaving three babies alone night after night in a strange home, foreign country, and they only ever saw those kids for bed and bath. (Well maybe the rare parent filled fun thing for half an hour like tennis or something), doubt the twins could partake though!

    Anyway, I have no doubt that my lovely followers (detractors) will enlighten me, because AFAIC this case is so full of holes it should be called the Colander Mystery!


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