We also learn, that the cadaver and blood dogs got a reaction inside a wardrobe in the parents bedroom...
So, body could have been (a) inside a wardrobe in the parents bedroom, (b) behind the sofa in the lounge, and (c) amongst the shrubbery in the poolside garden beneath the patio of apartment 5A...
The above is a possible sequence of events, (a), (b), followed by (c)...
If this is what did happen, then we somehow have to fit everything in, to the time slots involving the following nominal periods:-
Period (1) - between Gerry McCann playing tennis, and the McCann parents leaving apartment 5A at about 8.30pm to go to the tapas bar restuarant for evening meal and drinks...
Period (2) - between the McCann parents leaving to go to the tapas bar at 8.30pm, and 9.05pm, when Gerry McCann left the tapas bar, and 9.30pm when two group members left the tapas bar to go check on the McCann children in apartment A...
Period (3) - between when the two group members left the tapas bar at around 9.30pm, and 10pm, when Kate McCann went to the family apartment to make a personal check on her children, only to discover Maddie to be gone...
There are other important periods, which I shall outline in due course...