Maddie McCann

[mylestheslasher]

Wouldn't it be fantastic if that wee girl was found, however it does seem almost impossible sadly.

[nrico2006]

Sad that alot of those missing never got the same attention.  Would be great if she was found. 

Has there never been any clue to what happened Amy Fitzpatrick?

Was Blathnaid Timothy ever found?

[mylestheslasher]

Sad that alot of those missing never got the same attention.  Would be great if she was found. 

Has there never been any clue to what happened Amy Fitzpatrick?

Was Blathnaid Timothy ever found?

It's true what you say. A friend of mines brother vanished in Holland 3 yrs ago and has never been seen since. It's an horrific thing the not knowing. Their life is on hold ever since and no sign of any news, good or bad.

[tyrone girl]

Sad that alot of those missing never got the same attention.  Would be great if she was found. 

Has there never been any clue to what happened Amy Fitzpatrick?

Was Blathnaid Timothy ever found?

Maybe im wrong but was it not concluded in all probability that Blathnaid Timothy took her own life? Didnt the taxi driver take her to Howth harbour, i thought i read somewhere that thats the conclusion her family and the guards came to.

Anyway back to the subject it would be fantastic if the little girl was found. Do think its extremely unlikely that this case is her. Have no idea why they publicised it now rather than wait on the outcome. Surely the "eye" madeline has must have been evident on this child as obviously if she didnt have that she could have been ruled out immediately. Sad state of affairs all round and another heart wrenching disappointment for her parents if its turns out wrong.

[lurganblue]

Not sure if i should have started a new thread for this or not...

Binge watched the new series on Netflix "The disappearance of Madeleine McCann" and i have to say it has left me more confused than ever. Cant shake the feeling that the McCanns are lying about something, or at least holding back on the truth of the circumstances that night. Maybe that's a shame thing considering their negligence in hindsight, i dunno.

I did enjoy the series though and would say it is worth a watch. Perhaps in the long run it will help uncover the truth.

[Taylor]

Same as I was left more confused than before.

There are so many WTF moments in it.

Didnt know about the sighting in Morocco shortly after the disappearance which is chilling. Wouldnt have taken long to get from the marina to Morocco.

Then there is a rumour about the link between Clement Freud and the McCanns which is also believable

[brokencrossbar1]

Haven't watched it but have always had my doubts.  The big thing for me is the question about the resources pumped into this.  If this was wee Chardonnay from the Falls or the Shankill would there have been as much backing?  Like f**k there would have been

[nrico2006]

The sniffer dogs was the most amazing piece for me.  Still cant get my head around the car though, considering it was hired 25 days later and every step they made would have been watched.

[BennyCake]

The one thing that sticks out about this is the McCanns were never criticised for leaving their children sleeping on their own, while they went out socialising. If that was parents from some working class area, the social services would've been on their case. But here, nothing.

[AZOffaly]

The one thing that sticks out about this is the McCanns were never criticised for leaving their children sleeping on their own, while they went out socialising. If that was parents from some working class area, the social services would've been on their case. But here, nothing.

Seriously? That is the single most often aired criticism I have heard about this. How could you go out and leave your kids on their own?

[BennyCake]

The one thing that sticks out about this is the McCanns were never criticised for leaving their children sleeping on their own, while they went out socialising. If that was parents from some working class area, the social services would've been on their case. But here, nothing.

Seriously? That is the single most often aired criticism I have heard about this. How could you go out and leave your kids on their own?

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

[Solo_run]

It is the 40+ questions Kate refused to answer that bothered me

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?

[AZOffaly]

The one thing that sticks out about this is the McCanns were never criticised for leaving their children sleeping on their own, while they went out socialising. If that was parents from some working class area, the social services would've been on their case. But here, nothing.

Seriously? That is the single most often aired criticism I have heard about this. How could you go out and leave your kids on their own?

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

Mightn't have made myself clear. You said you hadn't heard them being criticised for that, my point is that is the criticism I have heard most often.

[tyrone girl]

Who said she didnt answer these 40 odd questions?

Also did this documentary not show that portuguese police had lied in terms of saying what was found in the car was NOT indeed blood nor was it a 100% match for Madeline? Was it not shown that it could have been any bodily fluids all mixed together and would have been a mixture of all of the families DNA.

Im not naive in that i know bad things happen etc etc and that parents do unthinkable things to their kids but for me i have never ever been of anything other than the view that this poor child was taken by an abductor. Everyone makes mistakes and there are many things people wish in hindsight that they had done differently. For these pair this was something they and their children have paid the price for im sure many many times over.

[highorlow]

This happened right at the outset of "social" media and with cheap flights the journos were able to follow the McCann's around and with the competition for a new angle to the story the whole thing became a media circus. It brings an aspect to the documentary that is not unlike the current propaganda machines in the media that appears to be controlling modern day politics and the way people are led.

From one episode to the next the media are either with the McCanns or agin them.