There was a man who matches the suspect’s description watching and in the area of the apartment in the days and hours preceding the abduction. Pictures that have been released of the suspect in a bar show that he does have pock marked skin. He has a history of burglary, sex offences towards women and children, drug offences, possession of child pornography etc. If he is the man described below, he had a male accomplice. The blonde man was also seen at the Tapas bar where there was an open book with bookings for the tapas bar which noted the families had booked the table every night as their children were sleeping in the apartments. Kate always felt anyone could have seen that and it shouldn’t have been on display.
The information below isn’t hard to find. It was on Wikipedia for goodness sake. I think it’s very likely they have at least one person who was involved.
- On 25 or 26 April, the tourist who rented apartment 5A before the McCanns found a man on his balcony who had entered via the steps from the street.[116] Polite and clean-shaven, the visitor asked for money for an orphanage.[117] On the day of the disappearance, 3 May, there were four charity collections by two men in the streets around 5A.[116] At 4 pm two black-haired men approached a British homeowner looking for funds for a hostel or hospice in or near Espiche, and at 5 pm two men approached another British tourist with a similar story.[118]
An "ugly" blond-haired man was seen on 2 May across the road from 5A, apparently watching it; he had also been seen on 29 April near the Ocean Club. On 30 April the granddaughter of 5A's former owners saw a blond-haired man leaning against a wall behind the apartments, and saw him again on 2 May near the tapas restaurant, looking at 5A. She described him as Caucasian, mid-30s, short cropped hair, and "ugly" with spots.[119][120] On the day of the disappearance or the day before, a man was seen staring at the McCanns' block, where a white van was parked.[120] In the late afternoon of 3 May, a girl on the balcony of the apartment above 5A saw a man leave through the gate below, as though he had come out of a ground-floor apartment; what caught her attention was that he looked around before shutting the gate quietly, with both hands.[121] At 14:30 two blond-haired men were seen on the balcony of 5C, an empty apartment two doors from 5A. At 16:00–17:00 a blond-haired man was seen near 5A. At 18:00 the same or another blond-haired man was seen in the stairwell of the McCanns' block. At 23:00, after the disappearance, two blond-haired men were seen in a nearby street speaking in raised voices. When they realized they had been noticed, they reportedly lowered their voices and walked away.[122]*
It looks likely someone was in the apartment. Look at the information about the open door.
- Madeleine's mother had intended to check on the children at 21:30, but Matthew Oldfield, one of the Tapas Seven, offered to do it when he checked on his own children in the apartment next door to 5A. He noticed that the McCanns' children's bedroom door was wide open, but after hearing no noise, he left 5A without looking far enough into the bedroom to see whether Madeleine was there. He could not recall whether the bedroom window and its exterior shutter were open at this point. Early on in the investigation, the Portuguese police accused Oldfield of involvement because he had volunteered to do the check, suggesting to him that he had handed Madeleine to someone through the bedroom window.[42][68]
Kate made her own check of 5A at around 22:00. Scotland Yard said in 2013 that Madeleine was probably taken moments before this.[69] Kate recalled entering the apartment through the unlocked patio doors at the back, and noticing that the children's bedroom door was wide open. When she tried to close the door, it slammed shut as though there was a draught, which is when she saw that the bedroom window and its shutter were open. Madeleine's Cuddle Cat and pink blanket were still on the bed, but Madeleine was gone*
In terms of the DNA, one strangers DNA was found at the scene. It was a bungled operation and the areas surrounding were not sealed off quick enough.
Not everyone in the resort at the time was interviewed; holidaymakers later contacted the British police to say no one had spoken to them.[80] The crime scene was not secured. Police took samples from Madeleine's bedroom, which were sent to three forensic labs in Portugal. It was reported on 1 June 2007 that DNA from one "stranger" had been found, but around 20 people had entered apartment 5A before it was closed off, according to Chief Inspector Olegário de Sousa of the PJ.[82][53] According to Madeleine's mother, an officer placed tape across the doorway of the children's bedroom, but left at 03:00 without securing the apartment.[74] The PJ case file, released in 2008, showed that 5A lay empty for a month after the disappearance, then was let out to tourists before being sealed off in August 2007 for more forensic tests.[38][83] A similar situation arose outside the apartment. A crowd gathered by the front door of 5A, including next to the children's bedroom window—through which an abductor may have entered or left—trampling on evidence.[84] An officer dusted the bedroom window's exterior shutter for fingerprints without wearing gloves or other protective clothing.[53]
The Portuguese police screwed this one up big time. They were intent on finding Kate guilty, ignoring the clues all along.
We know this man filmed two of the rapes he committed and these were not unearthed until recently. In terms of how the police could be certain of how Madeleine could been killed with no body as evidence, there are other forms of evidence aren’t there? Photos/footage (but maybe these do not directly link to the suspect, I.e it can’t be proved that he killed her yet), conversations or web chats that reveal information that only an abductor or killer could possibly have known. And he’s bragged to at least one person that he was the one who abducted Madeleine although one that occasion he did not admit to killing her.
Initial newspaper reports said that the police had proof that at least one of the vehicles could be linked to the crime.
These current developments should be taken seriously and investigated. It’s the closest anyone has ever got to solving this in 13 years.