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Netflix Madeleine McCann

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mumineedawee · 16/03/2019 17:57

AIBU to think that any coverage of her disappearance is a good thing. I watched two episodes of the Netflix programme and think that if it were to bring her back into the spotlight, then surely it’s worthwhile? I’m on my own in that opinion here in our house.

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MyEyesAreNotDeceivingMe · 16/03/2019 22:01

www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/FIONA-PAYNE-ROGATORY.htm

This is the transcript of Jane Tanner's interview back in the UK and she talks about the baby listening, monitors etc.

My understanding is that it is a requirement in Portugal that all such files be made publicly available.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 16/03/2019 22:01

I think the theory transporting her body in that car at least 20 days after she died is stretching the limits of plausiblilty tbh. Unless you think they could have managed it without leaving her DNA all over it.

CoperCabana · 16/03/2019 22:01

Apologies. There were claims he played tennis in the days following. I am not sure how reliable. I thought it had been said before and on the other thread that they both played.

MuseumofInnocence · 16/03/2019 22:12

Just started episode 1, will watch with interest

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 16/03/2019 22:12

Where was her body supposed to be have hidden for 25 days?
How anyone can think that they killed her and somehow moved her body on the night in question without being seen and in such a short space of time, then hid her in a place they are not familiar with while under such scrutiny and then moved her body to god knows where for it never to be found is just bewildering.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 16/03/2019 22:16

I think Amaral’s theory at the time was a freezer. Christ knows where.

Riversguidebook · 16/03/2019 22:16

The child is not alive.

Regardless of the details of her disappearance, she is not alive.

Because the documentary got it in one highlighting her physical birthmark. It’s so recognisable she may as well have a unicorn horn on her head. She’s the most famous and recognisable child in the whole world .

She can be hidden away in a basement like the Austrian (?) abductees, or hidden away living as man and wife like the American girl who finally escaped as a teenager and was reunited with her parents, or the American boy who finally realised he’d been abducted when having to check his name against a student database.

But as soon as the first person ‘on the outside’ of her captivity sees her birthmark, it’s all over one way or another.

All us mothers would do the same as Kate, if we had her ability to raise money and media connections, to keep our missing child in the spotlight forever, so that their face is ingrained into the world’s memory. We’d never stop looking either, as she isn’t. Give her a break.

SilverySurfer · 16/03/2019 22:16

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nokidshere · 16/03/2019 22:18

I don’t understand how the other two children weren’t taken into care when they returned to the UK

Err because there is no evidence they did anything wrong maybe?

Ben Needham is still missing. His case has not been solved.

ColeHawlins · 16/03/2019 22:19

@SilverySurfer you'll get the thread deleted. Like last night's thread.

@LagunaBubbles Yes all eight episodes dropped at once.

ColeHawlins · 16/03/2019 22:21

Why abduct Madeleine, when there's another girl there who is too young to talk and give away who she is? It would be massively riskier to take Madeleine.

@Marcipex I agree that that's a hugely persuasive argument against the abduction theory.

AlecTrevelyan006 · 16/03/2019 22:21

and yet, all the things silverysurfer said are true...

SilverySurfer · 16/03/2019 22:22

I'll say no more then - I have no wish to be the cause of the thread being closed.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 16/03/2019 22:23

I think Amaral’s theory at the time was a freezer. Christ knows where

Yes the elusive freezer, that the McCanns knew where to find and then store Madeleine for 25 days without anyone finding her. Ludicrous that anyone might believe this theory.

nokidshere · 16/03/2019 22:23

Why abduct Madeleine, when there's another girl there who is too young to talk and give away who she is? It would be massively riskier to take Madeleine

Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her bedroom whilst her younger sister slept (and woke during the abduction) in the same room.

Fatasfook · 16/03/2019 22:24

Blaming the parents is victim blaming, shoulda woulda coulda but they didn’t and they are now living in hell on earth. Horrendous thing to happen to them.

Mrsmadevans · 16/03/2019 22:25

Good God the 3 kids shared a toothbrush is that true? How can anyone do that ? I don't know anyone who does that Shock

MissEliza · 16/03/2019 22:26

I think the question about taking the younger dcs into care isn't related to the McCann's guilt but the negligence in leaving the children unsupervised.

ColeHawlins · 16/03/2019 22:27

and yet, all the things silverysurfer said are true...

Without getting too deeply into it (and seeing the thread go poof) do we know all those things to be true? How?

Some are potentially odd (if true). Like the toothbrush. Some aren't really (the lie detector - it's disputed technology), but none of them seem all that damning to me.

Desperateforspring · 16/03/2019 22:29

I think Maddie caught the eye of some wicked person during that holiday club. What marked her out? Maybe when she's dived into the water to get her friends hat. ..

I'd be grilling all those camp people. We heard about cleaners Etc.

Never holiday club staff.

user1457017537 · 16/03/2019 22:30

Surely dna would have been on something of the little girl’s in that apartment. Why the need to fly home.

MadMillie · 16/03/2019 22:35

Blaming the parents is victim blaming, shoulda woulda coulda but they didn’t and they are now living in hell on earth. Horrendous thing to happen to them.

They left 3 children under the age of 5 in an apartment to go out. The twins were 2 years of age and Madeline was 4. So yes, I do blame them for their careless parenting. Frankly, I would never have left my children alone in a hotel room or in an apartment to go out to eat and drink. Can you imagine if someone posted on here to ask if it was ok to to leave their children alone while they went to a neighbours house to eat and drink? They'd be crucified and the thread would be left to run without being deleted. So no, blaming the parents for neglect isn't victim blaming.

ColeHawlins · 16/03/2019 22:35

Maybe when she's dived into the water to get her friends hat. ..

I doubt being feisty made her an attractive potential victim.

That anecdote did add to KM's description of a very confident child, though. Made me wonder just what she would do if she woke up to find her parents absent.

ColeHawlins · 16/03/2019 22:37

Blaming the parents is victim blaming, shoulda woulda coulda but they didn’t and they are now living in hell on earth. Horrendous thing to happen to them.

Rubbish. It's very difficult to discuss at all if you have to draw a veil over the choices of the Tapas 7.

ColeHawlins · 16/03/2019 22:37

And the "Horrendous thing" happened to MM.