# "Let's draw a pretend picture of a man stealing our baby," say murdering parents (RO)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 26, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120 "2007-10-26T15:43:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/1 "2007-10-26T15:43:16Z")
This is so stupid that it’s hilarious - those parents that clearly murdered their own daughter have now released [a magical picture](http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071025200552.z0wjfq1b&show_article=1) that they hired someone to draw of a man carrying their baby away. The picture, of course, isn’t based on any _actual_ witness or anything of the sort - at most, it’s based on a man that someone _eating dinner with the McCains_ had “uhhh, seen around and stuff.”
When will we just acknowledge that these rich white doctors killed their own child and send them to the gas chamber?
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### Author:  [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/2 "2007-10-26T15:50:00Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3]
When will we just acknowledge that these rich white doctors killed their own child and send them to the gas chamber?
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Well, if we can prove they’re rich, white, and doctors, isn’t that enough to warrant a death sentence?
That’s in part what you’re implying, right?
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/3 "2007-10-26T15:52:53Z")
Nah, they only have $499K in investments, so they’ll just get a slight rap on the knuckles.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/4 "2007-10-26T16:04:13Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic]
Nah, they only have $499K in investments, so they’ll just get a slight rap on the knuckles.
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But by the time they go to trial, the interest _will have compounded_! Kill 'em!!
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### Author:  [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/5 "2007-10-26T16:05:15Z")
I avoid the news these days, since mostly it’s a poorly-constructed peice of tripe with little original or useful reporting. Dare I ask, then what exactly happened? Is this another “despite there being no evidence that anyone else was involved and ample evidence we butchered our own child for kicks, we’re able to say with a straight face some random stranger walked off with our child” routine.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/6 "2007-10-26T16:05:47Z")
I agree that it seems like a bizarrely pointless stunt. Consulting a psychic, I could understand, but drawing a picture of a Mysterious Stranger? Bwah?
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### Author:  [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/7 "2007-10-26T16:06:56Z")
Why doesn’t the article that you linked to have this picture? And why isn’t the picture part of [www.findmadeleine.com](http://www.findmadeleine.com)? Seems like something the McCain’s released would be a part of their website.
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### Author:  [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/8 "2007-10-26T16:14:43Z")
[QUOTE=smiling bandit]
I avoid the news these days, since mostly it’s a poorly-constructed peice of tripe with little original or useful reporting. Dare I ask, then what exactly happened? Is this another “despite there being no evidence that anyone else was involved and ample evidence we butchered our own child for kicks, we’re able to say with a straight face some random stranger walked off with our child” routine.
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Oh, it’s that to the 10th power. You should read up on it, seriously.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/9 "2007-10-26T16:14:54Z")
The drawing itself is [here.](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/25/nmaddy225.xml) What’s bizarre about it is there’s no face, not even the amount of face that a Ken doll would have. It’s just a generic male with Caucasian hands and longish black hair, wearing brown slacks and a black shirt, carrying a limp child’s body. What’s Joe Friday gonna do, put out an APB for a white guy wearing brown pants and a black shirt? Oh, and, he was moving “with a sense of urgency”. Well, gee whiz, that narrows it down considerable… :rolleyes:
What it looks like, more than anything, is one of those “Stranger Danger!” illustrations found in pamphlets for grade school children.
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/10 "2007-10-26T16:15:11Z")
[Here it is](http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10_04/mccannartimpPA2510_468x526.jpg) It looks like something off of a YP paperback cover.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/11 "2007-10-26T16:19:20Z")
Wow, I don’t believe, hehe. That’s about as close as you can get to blaming it on “Some Puerto Rican Guy”
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### Author:  [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/12 "2007-10-26T16:33:39Z")
Would someone care to summarize for one unaware of this whole deal what the evidence against the parents is?
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### Author:  [@Aangelica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aangelica)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/13 "2007-10-26T16:34:14Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse]
[Here it is](http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10_04/mccannartimpPA2510_468x526.jpg) It looks like something off of a YP paperback cover.
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Upon viewing of that picture, how did the friend of the parents not have any clue something hinky was going on?
If I saw anyone walking down the street with a kid passed out like a Fainting Maiden from a circa 1910 horror movies in their arms, I’d be concerned.
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### Author:  [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/14 "2007-10-26T16:37:10Z")
I don’t get it. From the link in the OP
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> Tanner said she had seen the man walking away from the area around the family’s apartment, but had not realised the importance of what she saw at the time.
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> Where Tanner could not be certain of her account, the artist left details blank, to ensure accuracy.
Am I missing the part about the witness seeing this guy carrying a child away? If not then why does the picture show a guy carrying a child away, given the second line of my quote?
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### Author:  [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/15 "2007-10-26T16:41:24Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn]
Would someone care to summarize for one unaware of this whole deal what the evidence against the parents is?
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I actually don’t think they have any evidence against the parents, other than circumstantial. And by circumstantial, I mean that they don’t have any evidence of any kind, so the parents look suspicious by default.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/16 "2007-10-26T16:41:58Z")
It looks like he twisted his left ankle pretty badly.
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### Author:  [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/17 "2007-10-26T16:42:17Z")
[QUOTE=Aangelica]
Upon viewing of that picture, how did the friend of the parents not have any clue something hinky was going on?
If I saw anyone walking down the street with a kid passed out like a Fainting Maiden from a circa 1910 horror movies in their arms, I’d be concerned.
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The whole point is that _nobody saw anything like that_ - it’s a completely magical, made-up picture, hence the pitting.
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### Author:  [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/18 "2007-10-26T16:43:38Z")
[QUOTE=Stuffy]
I don’t get it. From the link in the OP
Am I missing the part about the witness seeing this guy carrying a child away? If not then why does the picture show a guy carrying a child away, given the second line of my quote?
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No; **nobody saw what’s being depicted in that picture, or anything like it**. That’s why it’s stupid, and why I’m pitting it.
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### Author:  [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/19 "2007-10-26T16:47:57Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn]
Would someone care to summarize for one unaware of this whole deal what the evidence against the parents is?
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Medical doctor parents take three kids on vacation to a resort, then leave the kids alone in the hotel room while they go out to dinner within eyesight of the hotel room. Oldest girl magically disappears from the room while they’re eating dinner. Parents admit to giving kids drugs to make them to go sleep “sometimes.” Parents spend over an hour cleaning up the hotel room before calling the cops. Mom’s first reply to noticing the daughter missing is to scream out, “they’ve taken her!” rather than something more natural such as, “where is she?” or “Maddie’s missing.” etc. etc. etc. they’re guilty as fuck.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/20 "2007-10-26T16:48:00Z")
OK, first, the name is McCann.
Secondly, it’s unlikely there’s a Puerto Rican involved, as they were in Portugal.
Thirdly, there’s nothing against the parents at all - rumours of DNA, but nothing brought as evidence. There is a chattering campaign against them, partly because they’ve made their loss into a media circus, and the media always bites the hand that feeds it.
Fourthly, the “man carrying child” was indeed witnessed, and has been mentioned since the child’s disappearence. Why they’ve suddenly chosen now to do a really shit artist’s impression, I have no idea.
The OP is nonsense.
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