The case of Madeleine McCann

[Sparkfilms]

The entire case rests on what Jane Tanner said she saw.

If truthful, then maybe it was an abduction, or could she and O'Brien even have been involved somehow themselves?

Their witness statements just do not add up.

I still think this is very close to members of the Tapas 9.

Police never grilled them enough.

[nugnug]

I'm pretty sure its connected with a similar disappearance in Portugal

investigated by the same cops.

[joolz1975]

How bizarre that Gerry should be so suspicious and wary of O'Brien at around 9pm, yet half an hour later, he was entrusting the safety and well-being of the McCann children, and telling him that the patio door was left unlocked, and access gained to 5a via it?

Is O'Brien the bloke who has had allegations of innapropriate comments / conversation made against him in Amaral's book?  I will check this my self later on when I'm not at work.

I believe that person was David Payne

[Roch]

How bizarre that Gerry should be so suspicious and wary of O'Brien at around 9pm, yet half an hour later, he was entrusting the safety and well-being of the McCann children, and telling him that the patio door was left unlocked, and access gained to 5a via it?

Is O'Brien the bloke who has had allegations of innapropriate comments / conversation made against him in Amaral's book?  I will check this my self later on when I'm not at work.

I believe that person was David Payne

Thankyou.  I put the link to the book on this thread for you, further up.

[joolz1975]

How bizarre that Gerry should be so suspicious and wary of O'Brien at around 9pm, yet half an hour later, he was entrusting the safety and well-being of the McCann children, and telling him that the patio door was left unlocked, and access gained to 5a via it?

Is O'Brien the bloke who has had allegations of innapropriate comments / conversation made against him in Amaral's book?  I will check this my self later on when I'm not at work.

I believe that person was David Payne

Thankyou.  I put the link to the book on this thread for you, further up.

Ooh yes you did thankyou!! im part way through it! its very interesting!

The sniffer dog evidence is especially interesting! i think they are so clever! i have a spaniel he could sniff out a dog treat in an acre of land hes that keen with his nose!

[mike tesko]

the mcanns had the chioce of when to alert the athrotys.

if they had anything to do with it they would have delayed reporting it.

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there would have come a point when they would have to report it, and that was at about 10pm, when Kate declared publicly to all those present at the tapas bar, that Maddie was gone, and that "they" had taken Maddie...

at about 10pm was as good a time as any to break the news whilst the parents were allegedly out dining at the tapas bar...

[joolz1975]

Agreed had they left it till morning to report it then it would have looked more suspicious

[mike tesko]

Roadside door of apartment 5a, from where Maddie disappeared in 2007

I took this picture in 2010, whilst spending a week at the resort investigating this case:-

[mike tesko]

Lets take a look around the outside of the apartment block to familiarize ourselves with the site:-

[mike tesko]

The aforementioned photographs show views around the outside of the neighboring block of apartments from where Maddie went "Missing" in 2007, and the junction where Jane Tanner allegedly saw the man carrying off a child...

[Tyler]

Obviously we all have our own opinions on this case.I love to hear other peoples theories and do respect them.However,being a mum myself,I genuinely believe that Kate knows nothing.Am still undecided about Gerry.From almost day one,Russell and Jane played heavily on my mind.Both of them appear to have been active around the area of The McCanns apartment at the crucial time.I believe their own apartment was only next door but one?I have always had this nagging gut feeling that OBrien and Tanner handed Maddie over to someone.I think that Tanners supposed sighting was dreamt up to focus the investigation away from the tapas group.I really do believe that OBrien is at the root of it all.

[mike tesko]

Obviously we all have our own opinions on this case.I love to hear other peoples theories and do respect them.However,being a mum myself,I genuinely believe that Kate knows nothing.Am still undecided about Gerry.From almost day one,Russell and Jane played heavily on my mind.Both of them appear to have been active around the area of The McCanns apartment at the crucial time.I believe their own apartment was only next door but one?I have always had this nagging gut feeling that OBrien and Tanner handed Maddie over to someone.I think that Tanners supposed sighting was dreamt up to focus the investigation away from the tapas group.I really do believe that OBrien is at the root of it all.

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I took photographs of all their apartment doors, next to each other, and all around the block where the McCanns and the friends were staying which will be subject of my next posting of photographs, shortly...

If you take the McCanns out of the equation altogether - it leaves Tanner, O'Brien. Mathew Oldfield and Payne as the most likeliest of suspects...

Not to be overlooked is that in the days leading up to Maddie's disappearance, O'Brien was spending more and more time jogging around the resort with Gerry's wife, Kate - and his partner, Tanner may have  been getting distressed about how close this relationship was developing. Precisely why O'Brien chose to try to get close to Kate, may have been a contributing factor in why Maddie went missing...

[Alias]

First of all, welcome back, Mike. Hope you had a great trip to Turkey! 

I don't know too much about the McCann case. It has been in the media here, of course, but not nearly as much as in England I think I can safely conclude.
However, the McCann couple was on the NEWS (TV) here yesterday announcing their book. They really get a lot of exposure. Sadly there are so many other missing children and few of them receive nearly the amount of attention as Madeleine McCann.
The parents are very media savvy! I have to say that I was put off by something I read somewhere (don't remember where - just that it was on the internet). It was a kind of diary that Gerry was publishing, I think day by day while he and his wife were travelling Europe to gather attention to the case. His tone to me was almost offensive, as if he was basking in the limelight, enjoying the attention. Just felt it was off.

I hope Maddie will be found soon. Whether it be dead or alive. Personally I think she is dead. Everyone needs to move on - I can't imagine what all this is doing to the little twins.

[Tyler]

Mike, your knowledge on this case is fascinating.I do really think that I may have read the McCanns wrong though.I have trouble with the idea that they would keep pushing authorites to help find Maddie if they were responsible for her disappearance.They have welcomed the Met inquiry with relief and gratefulness.We are very much in agreement regarding the other tapas friends though.Alarm bells started ringing for me when I first heard about OBriens child alledgedly being sick and he was said to have bathed her and washed the sheets.Jane told that the child had been off colour for a couple of days.Who on earth would leave a sick child alone in an apartment?What if the child had choked on her own vomit?I believe that Maddie was smuggled out wrapped in the sheet that OBrien then had to wash to remove the forensic evidence,and handed over to someone.I hope the Met dig deep regarding OBrien.

[nugnug]

i would of thought they take a much lower profile if they had something to hide.