Please help me evaluate these claims @ http://madeleinefoundation.org/main/30-reasons/
On one hand many of their claims seem spurious; to take one example cadaverine is not only produced by decomposing humans, but by all flesh afaik. But on the other hand the parents have always seemed a bit suspicious to me, so what is the consensus?
If you accept the verdict of the most intense scrutiny by the most vicious Rottweiler of an investigative media, together with the verdict of the Portuguese police and the UK than yes, it is compelling.
There is no stone remaining to turn.
For some reason that site makes me pretty angry. Leave the poor bastards alone.
Kid died in some sort of accident. Parents panicked and dumped the body somewhere. Penis ensued.
Even if they’re the poor murdering bastards?
Some of the points raised are pretty weak, I must say. Others are disturbing. I do think the McCanns have a case to answer, but once they were spirited out of Portugal the Portuguese authorities had no real opportunity to pursue it.
Always beware of any “fact” stated on online conspiracy websites.
Much of it is bull.
Point 2 about the dogs is just plain wrong.
Last year there was a big media storm here in the UK about alleged child physical abuse at a Jersey children’s home. They had dogs sniff around and they ‘detected’ human bodies.
No bodies were ever found.
The two dogs that were mistaken were ‘Eddie’ and ‘Keela’ - the same ones used in Portugal.
That website is just depressing. I feel that my IQs dropped 10 points reading that bullshit - textbook exercise in discussing the square root of fuck all. You’re writing a book on 60 (sixty!) reasons why Madeline McCann was killed by her parents? Fuck off and get a job.
The dogs were not ‘mistaken’ at all. They sniffed out several bones, several of which were human. It was humans who monumentally screwed up by wrongly dating the bones as recent at first, when they later proved to be centuries old.
The canines did their jobs perfectly, it’s a little hard to blame them for the mistakes of their masters.
Sorry, this is in reply to Dahu.
Ok didn’t realise they were actually human, albeit very old. But still, could the dogs really smell them? Also from the DM:
"His murder inquiry began when Eddie, an “enhanced victim recovery dog”, began barking in the cellar of Haut de la Garenne – the sign, according to its handler, that he had detected the scent of human remains.
By coincidence, the dog, from South Yorkshire Police, is the same animal that supposedly picked up “the scent of death” in the apartment where Madeleine McCann was last seen in Praia de Luz in Portugal.
According to Mr Harper, Eddie smelled the decades-old skull fragment through “several inches” of concrete, which police then smashed through. Eddie had the same reaction at another six locations at Haut de la Garenne but nothing was ever found.
“I don’t believe a dog can pick up such a scent through a layer of concrete,” said Mike Swindells, a former Lancashire officer who wrote the standard sniffer dog training manual.
“It’s really very unlikely.”
I would just like to point out that the Missing White Girl department of the media completely failed me, in the regard that I’ve never heard of this girl or story and therefore have no strong feelings either way.
You’re kidding, right?
No.
Is the fact that I’m not from the UK relevant?
To be fair it’s been 2 years since she went missing.
Probably. But I was in the US at the time and I knew about it, though it was slightly more widely reported in Britain.
No, it was inescapable in the US.
Interesting. Maybe I wasn’t watching the news very much back then. I was 21 at the time, one of those youngsters who only got his news from the Daily Show, so if Stewart wasn’t making jokes about it, it wasn’t on my radar.