The case of Madeleine McCann

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Five hours in May (website)

Sample 11
The Poster Photo

There are some obstacles with the alleged “last photos”. Although any “last photo” was recommended to be used for the search for Maddie's wanted-poster, the parents seemingly had some problems to provide one actually taken. On the commonly known wanted-poster they indeed provided an absolutly out-of-time picture, showing Maddie at the age of about 2. As everyone knows, kids that age change their appearence much in just months. The far from being actual photo thus was clearly hampering the investigations in 2007. We have to question why did they chose such a useless photo? If the answer is, that it shows clearly the small colombola in her eye as an immoveable identity sign of Maddie, then this is not less disturbing: As police warned them not to make public this mark, as it would risk their daughters life, if she was with an abductor. As then the Abductor would have to get rid of her.

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Sample 12
Not searching “physically”

One of the most disturbing misbehaviour of the parents is the fact, which is underlined by a lot of dependent and independent witness statements, that they didn't really search for Madeleine (after their alleged disappearing at 22:00 until 23:15 when GNR police arrived). Even the parents themselves admitted to not having searched “physically”.

See McCanns Interview ?The McCanns Did Not Physically Search for Madeleine

See also one of the independent witnesses interview: ?Tapas Cook breaks silence

Much Disturbing here is: If a mother returns to a closed apartment, where is no physically evidence for a break in to be seen; where is practically everything in the same order when they last saw it; but except a window in the childrens bedroom which is slightly opened? What would you think, what would you do? It is on hand then that the girl missing may have opened herself a window to go around the Ocean Club on her own? Isn't it? Would you now search at once for the missing child somewhere around the Apartment? Or would you cry “They have taken her…” and insist that there must be an abductor? And thus you wouldn't “physically” search for your loved child? Really? Or is it a sign that they knew that there was nothing to search for. Besides, see Tapas cook statement, even the relatives of the McCann family didn't help in searching for Madeleine when visiting them in Portugal later.

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Oddities regarding the aftermath of the event
Sample 1A
?Portuguese priest 'ruined' by McCanns; Catholic News, 12 Dec 2007

The Portugese priest who gave solace to the McCann family after the ‘disappearance’ of their daughter Madeleine has stripped his church of all traces of the girl, with friends saying the experience has left him “ruined”. The Express reports seven months after the tragedy, Fr Jose Manuel Pacheco ordered the removal of scores of green and yellow ribbons which were put up as a symbol of hope in the days after Madeleine vanished. Posters and photographs of Madeleine which plastered the village of Praia da Luz have also been removed. Friends of Fr Pacheco – who came under police scrutiny after he gave the keys to his church to Gerry and Kate McCann to allow them to pray round the clock – say they fear for his health and that his life is now ruined. Fr Pacheco was questioned twice by detectives, and the church and its grounds were searched by police. Investigators became convinced Kate had confessed to him – but Fr Pacheco insisted he would stand by his priestly vow. A close friend of Fr Pacheco said the priest becomes irate at the mention of the Madeleine case and that even close friends must tread carefully when broaching the subject. “He says that it is an extremely unpleasant situation and that the McCann family only ever brought him problems. He told one friend they ruined his life,” the friend said. “He just wants to get on with his peaceful life before the McCann whirlwind raped his world. This has all been a very bad experience for him.” Another friend described Fr Pacheco as a “nervous wreck” and that he was “hiding secrets that are destroying him.” There has been no comment from Fr Pacheco.

See also more information about Priest(s) at ?McCannFiles and ?McCannFiles.

See also ?Youtube Video on pressure done to a possible witness.

In this circumstance also the evidence about “Maddie ghost visits mum”, written on Daily Star (Express Group have removed all online links) on 19 October 2007 is of some disturbing interest: “Tormented Kate McCann told last night how she is visited in the night by the spirit of her missing daughter Madeleine. The anguished GP says she is regularly woken up by visions of the four-year-old in her bedroom. Kate, 39, revealed the visions to her mum, Susan Healy, who was worried about her daughter’s lack of sleep Susan had assumed Kate and husband Gerry were being kept awake by her two-year old twins, Sean and Amelie. She was stunned when Kate revealed it was missing Madeleine who was haunting her. Susan, said: “She told me she has difficulty sleeping and wakes during the night. I asked: 'Do the twins come and wake you up?” Kate said: “No, it's Madeleine. She comes in.”“

In this circumstances also one may have a look at remarks about the McCann's visit to the Pope, taken from Tony Bennet's booklet (2008):

The Pope’s decision to withdraw all support for the Doctors McCann

On his own admission, in a video-recorded interview,Clarence Mitchell , who was then employed as the Head of the Media Monitoring Unit for the Central Office of Information, boasted of having ‘arranged’ for McCanns to visit the Pope. He did this using government connections and by speaking to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of England, Cormac Murphy O’Connor. Just over three weeks after Madeleine ‘disappeared’, the McCanns met with the Pope, Benedict XVI, who publicly blessed a photograph of Madeleine before the world’s media.

The Vatican thereafter carried very prominent pages on their website featuring the McCanns and their emotional search for Madeleine. The McCanns had frequently made their ‘strong Catholic faith’ very much an issue, and were frequently described as ‘devout Catholics’.

Yet 48 hours before the McCanns were made formal suspects, the Pope withdrew all references to Madeleine.

No further references to the McCanns’ campaign and their fund to ‘find Madeleine’ have been made on the Vatican website since then. It seemed to many seasoned observers of the Roman Catholic Church that the Pope had received strong indications that the McCanns’ abduction claim did not stand up.

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Sample 2A

In an interview for CTN ?Kate said:

“It really isn't easy,” coping. “Some days are better than others. … There's days when you think, 'I can't do this anymore,' and you just want to press a button, and we're all gone, and it's all finished, and we're all together and gone. Wherever. But you can't, you know. Just occasionally you'll have a – if you're having a really bad day, which we do. And you can't help but think that.”

This is an extremely disturbing quote. What is Kate saying when she says that she sometimes wants to “press a button”, the result of which would be that they were “all gone, and it's all finished”? It would appear to imply the families communal death through the quick and painless means of pressing an imaginary 'suicide' button. If that is what she means, then there must be serious concern for the safety and welfare of the twins should the McCanns eventually face charges over Madeleine's disappearance. She continues by saying that they will be “all together and gone”. The only way they could be “all together” in such a scenario as she describes, is if she knows that Madeleine is already dead.

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Sample 3A

An Empty Cupboard, 25 Feb. 2014:

Extract: “Go back only three years of the seven and recall how we were told day after day that Kate McCann's quest for truth, Madeleine, was going to kill off the haters' gossip and and set the record straight. That lasted until publication day and a relentless confirmation, page by damning page, of almost all the rumours, including, to take a single forty eight hour episode, her admission about the systematic mobilization of family shills to lie on her behalf – the famous “green light”– and Gerry McCann's dignified and unwavering belief in his own innocence, so strong that on hearing the details of the case against them late on Thursday September 6 [2007] – including that shadowy and as yet unnamed witness who saw them “carrying a big black bag” – he burst into tears and cried “we're finished!” And followed his next-day interrogation by making plans to “sneak” (Kate McCann's word) across the border in a hire car.

Strong truthful Kate talked him out of it and instead “on the advice of our lawyers”(Smethurst, Caplan) the pair “decided to get out as soon as possible,” i.e. with a panicky Saturday September 8 [2007] as their last day in Portugal. “Of course,” writes our heroine, “many sections of the press would suggest we were running away – ”. That's right, Kate, they would, they did and you were. But Kate, in a typical Madeleineism, forgets what she's written a few paragraphs before about legging it SAP and completes the sentence “– but as I've recounted, the decision had been made several weeks earlier” and “all we were doing was leaving a day earlier than originally planned.” Reading that typical exhibition from a nauseating, self-admitted and proven liar reminds us why WAs [circle of supporters/ Wright's Activists] don't quote Madeleine [Kate's Book] much anymore, doesn't it? Instead they put it into a “Don't mention again” locked drawer.”

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Sample 4A
Psychology

When questioned with particular dangerous questions there were allways seen suspicious behaviour which may be attached to typical movements of liars, or at least to people who have to conceal something in the dark. This of course does not mean that such people ARE Liars, it just means to be SUSPICIOUS of being a Liar. Although every witness will feel sometimes uncomfortable on some particular questions, the fact here is that this seemingly appeared to be allways the case for the McCann's in critical interviews. After 2008 but Clarence Mitchell controlls very much interviews and critical queations are since disallowed.

One may have a look at the Youtube Videos ?McCanns body talk and ?McCanns body talk 2.

Especially interesting is the video ?McMinute - Gerry asked "Did you kill your daughter?". It shows the reaction when Gerry is against expectation asked “Did you kill your daughter?”. It must be remarked here, that this question at that time he was asked in several interviews, but never that suddenly and directly. What we see then are seemingly 10 seconds close to a confession (Seconds 7 to 17), as Gerry starts to cry at high frequency speech, but then gets back to control as he needs some time to come down to his usual kind of story telling. In this circumstance of being close to a confession one may also have a look at the video ?Why did Gerry's sister expect Kate to be charged with accidental death?. In late 2007 Gerry's Sister Philomena told a reporter that Kate seemingly would confess soon. Also watch her slipped tongue “Gerry and Kate have not told them [siblings Sean and Amelie] where she [Madeleine] is…”

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Sample 5A

The 48 Questions

On the 7th Sept. 2007 Gerry McCann and also Kate Healy McCann were asked 48 simple questions. As they were official suspects (arguidos) at this date they of course had the right to refuse to answer. While Gerry decided to answer and did, with some more or less contradictions left, but Kate refused to do so as she was adviced so by here lawyers. The disturbing fact is, that those questions were known and could be answered as well naturally by an innocent , but even also from a self confident liar, easily. Obviously there was to much worry about if Kate could stay the stress and would not keep that cool as Gerry did.

These are the questions she refused to answer :

(1) -  On May 3 2007, around 22:00, when you entered the apartment, what did you see? What did you do? Where did you look? What did you touch?

(2) -  Did you search inside the bedroom wardrobe? (she replied that she wouldn’t answer)

(3) -  (shown 2 photographs of her bedroom wardrobe) Can you describe its contents?


(4) -  Why had the curtain behind the sofa in front of the side window (whose photo was shown to her) been tampered with? Did somebody go behind that sofa?


(5) - How long did your search of the apartment take after you detected your daughter Madeleine’s disappearance?

(6) - Why did you say from the start that Madeleine had been abducted?

(7) - Assuming Madeleine had been abducted, why did you leave the twins home alone to go to the 'Tapas’ and raise the alarm? Because the supposed abductor could still be in the apartment.

(8) - Why didn’t you ask the twins, at that moment, what had happened to their sister or why didn’t you ask them later on?

(9)- When you raised the alarm at the ‘Tapas’ what exactly did you say and what were your exact words?

(10) - What happened after you raised the alarm in the ‘Tapas’?


(11) -  Why did you go and warn your friends instead of shouting from the verandah?

(12) -  Who contacted the authorities?

(13) -  Who took place in the searches?

(14) -  Did anyone outside of the group learn of Madeleine’s disappearance in those following minutes?

(15) -  Did any neighbour offer you help after the disappearance?

(16) -  What does ‘we let her down’ mean?

(17) -  Did Jane tell you that night that she’d seen a man with a child?

(18) -  How were the authorities contacted and which police force was alerted?

(19) -  During the searches, with the police already there, where did you search for Maddie, how and in what way?

(20) -  Why did the twins not wake up during that search or when they were taken upstairs?

(21) -  Who did you phone after the occurrence?

(22) -  Did you call Sky News?

(23) -  Did you know the danger of calling the media, because it could influence the abductor?

(24) -  Did you ask for a priest?

(25) -  By what means did you divulge Madeleine’s features, by photographs or by any other means?

(26) -  Is it true that during the searches you remained seated on Maddie’s bed without moving?

(27) -  What was your behaviour that night?

(28) -  Did you manage to sleep?

(29) -  Before travelling to Portugal did you make any comment about a foreboding or a bad feeling?

(30) -  What was Madeleine’s behaviour like?

(31) -  Did Maddie suffer from any illness or take any medication?

(32) -  What was Madeleine’s relationship like with her brother and sister?

(33) -  What was Madeleine’s relationship like with her brother and sister, friends and school mates?

(34) -  As for your professional life, in how many and which hospitals have you worked?

(35) -  What is your medical specialty?

(36) -  Have you ever done shift work in any emergency services or other services?

(37) -  Did you work every day?

(38) -  At a certain point you stopped working, why?

(39) -  Are the twins difficult to get to sleep? Are they restless and does that cause you uneasiness?

(40) -  Is it true that sometimes you despaired with your children’s behaviour and that left you feeling very uneasy?

(41) -  Is it true that in England you even considered handing over Madeleine’s custody to a relative?

(42) -  In England, did you medicate your children? What type of medication?

(43) -  In the case files you were SHOWN CANINE forensic testing films, where you can see them marking due to detection of the scent of human corpse and blood traces, also human, and only human, as well as all the comments of the technician in charge of them. After watching and after the marking of the scent of corpse in your bedroom beside the wardrobe and behind the sofa, pushed up against the sofa wall, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?

(44) -  When the sniffer dog also marked human blood behind the sofa, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?

(45) -  When the sniffer dog marked the scent of corpse coming from the vehicle you hired a month after the disappearance, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?

(46) -  When human blood was marked in the boot of the vehicle, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?

(47) -  When confronted with the results of Maddie’s DNA, whose analysis was carried out in a British laboratory, collected from behind the sofa and the boot of the vehicle, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?

(48) -  Did you have any responsibility or intervention in your daughter’s disappearance?

The Only QUESTION SHE DID ANSWER

Q. Are you aware that in not answering the questions you are jeopardising the investigation, which seeks to discover what happened to your daughter?

A. ’Yes, if that’s what the investigation thinks.’

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Sample 6A
The never done questioning of the McCann's by British prosecutors

Altough since today there was not any sustainable evidence to the abduction theory, and despite the fact that the only sustainable evidence still points to the parents of Madeleine, the parents were never questioned by any British Authority. The Leictershire Prosecutor called such a questioning barefaced just a “waist of time”. Even Scotland Yards ”Operation Grange” started with the still unfounded presumption of the McCann's to be not suspect. Alarmingly the Madeleine Fund in the preliminary agreement between the Met and the Portuguise Police got the status of a Co-Investigator with a very privileged access to intimate actual informations regarding the ongoing investigations.

This is more than disturbing, as the evidence until today solely points to the parents, a fact which cannot been overseen by any professional investigator who is aware of the still in effect PJ-files. The presumption of innocence for anybody in a state of law never means that people being suspects may not been taken under even harsh examinations. More than that, even when not convinced fully, it is visa versa the very duty of any state of law at least to question the prime suspects, such as here the McCann's and the Tapas 7, by aggravating cross-examination and even more painful house searches.

Really none of those duties ever were done in the UK. This cannot been explained by pure chance, there seemingly is the oddity of a still enduring covering up of the case in the UK leaded by some still not fully decoded high levels of preferabilties for the State.

Remarkable: On 3 Dec. 2007, the Daily Express published an article (no longer on-line) about the McCanns: “Madeleine: British Diplomat had doubts about McCanns A British diplomat warned the Foreign Office of concerns regarding Mad­eleine McCann’s parents, it emerged last night. Doubts about Kate and Gerry McCann were raised almost immediately by an official sent to Praia da Luz due to what he considered to be “inconsistencies” in the couple’s testimonies about the night the four-year-old vanished. The warning was contained in a classified document sent from the Algarve to the Foreign Office days after Madeleine’s disappearance. Details of the letter have been leaked through the British diplomatic mission in Brussels to the respected Belgian newspaper Derniere Heure. The unnamed diplomat voices his concern about the “confused declarations” as to the whereabouts of Kate and Gerry McCann and their friends in the final hours before Madeleine’s disappearance. He also mentions the couple’s “lack of co-operation” with the Portuguese police in the light of instructions from London suggesting consular staff “overstretch their authority and put pressure on the Portuguese authorities”. The document also asks for confirmation of orders sent by the Foreign Office in London the day before, commanding embassy staff to give “all possible assistance to the McCann couple”.“

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Sample 7A
Resignation of Kate's friend Esther McVey

McCannFiles: ?Esther McVey is a long-time friend of Kate McCann and was spokesperson for Madeleine's Fund from its launch in May 2007. Esther and Kate first met in 1986, when they were both 18, at the North East Technical College in West Derby [in Liverpool], where they were studying A-levels together. She joined the board of Madeleine's Fund on 20 June 2007 and continued her role as spokesperson for the Fund until her resignation, announced in January 2008. Ms McVey has remained resolutely tight-lipped as to the reason, or reasons, behind her resignation - a rather ironic position, considering her former roles in the media/PR. She is currently the Conservative MP for Wirral West and the minister for disabled people. Her own website, on which she once displayed an online petition in support of the McCanns, now contains no mention of Madeleine McCann at all.

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Sample 8A
Reaction on Blood traces and Cadavour Odour in Apartment 5a

With no reasonable doubt there were traces of blood and cadavour odour in the McCann's Apartment. Any parenst of an abducted/killed child would of course if innocent insist that police have to follow this strongest evidence found since then. But what disturbingly happens is: The parents deny there beeing any traces at all. They still today insists the DNA results would not be conclusive and the sniffer dogs would have been wrong anyway.

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Sample 9A
Friends hold out from the Maddie search

Until the 3rd of May, the nine adults of the Tapas-group were best friends. Normally, it would be entirely self-evident that these friends would also fight together after the 3rd May until to today in the search for Maddie at the forefront. But what did really happen? None of the seven former friends of the McCann's took significant enough part in the global search for Madeleine Beth McCann. All drew back and no one helped in an appropriate manner.

How to explain this? It could be that Gerry and Kate had no talent for reliable friends. That all these friends only cowards and shirkers were. All seven. But can that really be?

The same is true for the McCanns Extended Family. There is no adequate involvement in the search for Maddie. Just Uncle Brian Kennedy holds a stake at Madeleine's Fund as one of the directors. That's all, nothing else. Why this denial of cooperation?

The disturbing answer may be quite simple that they all knew that Maddie is dead and the parents bear their guilt. Obviously, with their help in the cover-up of the fact, they had done their largest and most definitely last friendly service to the McCann family.

Note: There is a witness statement by Madeleine's grandmother Susan (Mother of Kate) which underlines the situation (?Flash Magazine, 30 Apr. 2009) : „….Maddie's mother does not leave the house and the father grows ever more distant from his wife. Two years after the child's disappearance, Madeleine's grandmother Susan tells Flash! she “lost both her daughter and granddaughter that wretched night.” …Nowadays the McCanns are not a part of the area's social scene, unlike before. “They are insular.” According to the source the residents are tired of the media, that's why they distance themselves. At most the house is visited by close family and three others “of the group of nine friends (seven friends) who were with them in the Algarve when Maddie disappeared, that is David and Fiona Payne and Jane Tanner, as they are connected with them.”“. Also other former friends drew back, see e.g. Sample 1A and Sample 7A. Even on the webpage of Kate McCann's book 'Madeleine' co-author and former Gordon Brown ghostwriter J. K. Rowling there is no mention left for the search for Maddie. The last gathering of the Tapas-friends where at Rothley in Nov. 2007.

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Sample 10A
The cancelled Reconstruction

A reconstruction, or better said a reenactment of events with the original people at the original site is always a mighty forensic tool for finding the truth. You can use it very well to find out what fits together and what does not fit. So contradictions of statements can be identified, but also new possibilities of a putative crime run may be found. For a possible culprit so provides such a reconstruction hazard. For the possibly innocent, however, a great option is given to find the unknown kidnappers. But in spite of varied efforts of the Portuguese police reconstruction with flimsy grounds was rejected and never adequately supported neither by the Tapas-Group yet by the British authorities.

See summary of details at ?McCannFiles: “Emails and letters from the PJ files revealing the reluctance of the 'Tapas Seven' and Jeremy Wilkins to take part in a reconstruction of the events of the evening of May 3rd - eventually leading to its cancellation.”

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Sample 11A
Here are some quotes and freudian slips made in interviews. They are disturbingly close to a confession:

Gerry told us: “I don’t have a problem with somebody purporting a theory, writing fiction, suggestions”. Kate and Gerry: “Police don't want a murder in Portugal and all the publicity about them not having paedophile laws here, so they're blaming us.”

Gerry “There's no evidence that Madeleine is dead and there's no evidence to implicate us in her death”. As well as: “Kate killed her in frenzy. Madeleine was sedated by us, she fell down the stairs, in which case you would have thought they'd have found her body. I've heard all that. What I want to know is, who told them all that?” Clarence Mitchell: “I believe Kate and Gerry are not responsible for Madeleine's death”.

(Seemingly knowing Madeleine is dead definitely, while but officially always claiming the very opposite.)

Kate said: “It really isn't easy,” coping. ”Some days are better than others. … There's days when you think, 'I can't do this anymore,' and you just want to press a button, and we're all gone, and it's all finished, and we're all together and gone. Wherever. But you can't, you know. Just occasionally you'll have a – if you're having a really bad day, which we do. And you can't help but think that.“

Gerry even posted on his blog: “Sometimes people do things for reasons that even they cannot understand. An act of madness, an accident or sudden impulse can lead to consequences that people may never have imagined or intended. Faced with such a situation we believe any human soul will ultimately suffer torment and feelings of guilt and fear.”

(Seemingly a mea culpa through saying it clearly, but never admitting it, never surrender to justice, just relief.)

[mike tesko]

Until someone proves to me that what appears to be a shallow grave in the rear garden of the derelict building close to the church in Praia de Luz, that the rear garden and the rooms of the derelict building were searched early on in the investigation I will stick with the theory that Madeleine's remains were disposed of there, and still to this day it probably still is there.

Also, if it was searched, and on what date?

[mike tesko]

Until someone proves to me that what appears to be a shallow grave in the rear garden of the derelict building close to the church in Praia de Luz, that the rear garden and the rooms of the derelict building were searched early on in the investigation I will stick with the theory that Madeleine's remains were disposed of there, and still to this day it probably still is there.

Also, if it was searched, and on what date?

To my knowledge the PJ, and Scotland Yard officers, have never searched the small grave identified by me in the rear garden of the derelict building.  I was the first person to identify the location of any grave in Praia de Luz, and especially since the grave is located very close to two buildings of interest in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, namely the Church where the McCann parents sought refuge soon after the alarm was raised, and Chaplins bar, where the Tapas group including the McCann parents partied  until about midnight on the evening of 1st May 2007 - add in the location of the derelict building, and you have three key buildings within a stones throw of each other (the Luz triangle)...