Not to be overlooked, is the fact that whoever carried off Maddie from 5A almost certainly had to go directly past the front doors of apartments 5B and 5D, and the stairwell that led to apartment 5H (above)...
It sounds crazy. You would think if the abduction was planned, so would the get away....in, out and gone!
It makes no sense to carry an abducted child around with you for x number of minutes...You say you are not sure of Tannner's statement, I have never been sure about the Smiths...However there are more of the Smiths that saw the sighting, which leads me to believe that they were telling the truth....
I can't see why Tanner would lie....other than creating herself some much needed attention...She has children of her own...I find it difficult to think that she was lying....but I suppose there has to be scope between them all.....
If she was telling the truth then he was heading towards Murat's......He did hire a car the next morning and this has never been explained...although I feel he was just as much a victim as the McCann's were in the eyes of the PJ.