# "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:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/61 "2007-10-26T22:30:53Z")
[QUOTE=you with the face]
That drawing belongs in a SNL sketch, along with the idea of showing it to the media with the hopes of it solving the case.
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If VCO3 had stopped there, it would have been fine. But the idea that it’s obvious that the parents did it is just dumb.
[QUOTE=Rilchiam]
No, no! See, the guy was just playing a joke. He was going to take away one child and wait to see if the parents noticed. In about a week, he was going to bring back Maddy along with another child, and wait to see if that got noticed, then take away one of the twins, and so on. What blew it for him was that the parents noticed right away that Maddy was missing. But when they sent him an email asking if he knew anything, he said he didn’t. And now he just wants people to stop talking about it.
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Well, then it’s obvious why the kidnapper hasn’t come back. Think at all the verbal abuse and snarky comments he’d have to put up with.
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### Author:  [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/62 "2007-10-26T22:41:48Z")
White, rich, doctor murderers. I say 3 out of 4 is enough for an arrest.
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### Author:  [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/63 "2007-10-26T22:42:55Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí]
Will someone pit this pitting please? I’m too lazy and not vitriolic enough.
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This approach seems to have failed around here recently.
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### Author:  [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/64 "2007-10-27T02:23:38Z")
[QUOTE=Jackmannii]
Besides, wasn’t there a dingo sighted in the area?
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Funny, but that’s the first case I thought of. Everyone was so sure that Lindy Chamberlain was guilty…
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/65 "2007-10-27T02:43:59Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa]
Ditto that.
It’s not CLEAR to anyone except VC03 that the McCanns murdered their daughter. I’m fairly cynical but nothing has been presented by anyone that has convinced me that the parents are guilty of anything. …
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Put me down for thinking that occasionally drugging their children so they can go out on the town is something they should feel guilty about. Assuming that actually happened, of course… there is so much bullshit flying around this case, you can’t be sure who said what unless it’s on tape somewhere. And if that particuar admission is on tape, I haven’t heard it.
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/66 "2007-10-27T03:35:28Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam]
No, no! See, the guy was just playing a joke. He was going to take away one child and wait to see if the parents noticed. In about a week, he was going to bring back Maddy along with another child, and wait to see if that got noticed, then take away one of the twins, and so on. What blew it for him was that the parents noticed right away that Maddy was missing. But when they sent him an email asking if he knew anything, he said he didn’t. And now he just wants people to stop talking about it.
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This board has been full of high comedy the last week, of a rare sort not seen in several years. I love it. 🆒
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/67 "2007-10-27T05:43:36Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose]
Well, gee whiz, that narrows it down considerable… :rolleyes:
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[QUOTE=eleanorrigby]
I truly don’t want to wade through the media swamp that is “Maddy”…
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Okay, you two are longtime murder freaks whose views (somewhere beyond “opinions”) I respect–who do you like? I’m still liking the parents.
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/68 "2007-10-27T06:02:43Z")
Let’s submit the air-conditioner-towel image as being that of a divinely inspired sketch artist!
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/69 "2007-10-27T06:09:03Z")
Are there any nude pictures of Kate Mccann on the internet? Someone suggsted that since the parents are swingers that some may be out there.
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### Author:  [@T\_SQUARE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_SQUARE)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/70 "2007-10-27T07:19:02Z")
I saw this in a movie once. As it turned out, the guy without a face was just Madonna with some panty hose on her head.
Does she have an alibi?
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### Author:  [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/71 "2007-10-27T11:49:40Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo]
This approach seems to have failed around here recently.
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Not through a lack of effort (though perhaps, of skill):
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9114509&postcount=59](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9114509&postcount=59)
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### Author:  [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/72 "2007-10-27T19:26:42Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam]
No, no! See, the guy was just playing a joke. He was going to take away one child and wait to see if the parents noticed. In about a week, he was going to bring back Maddy along with another child, and wait to see if that got noticed, then take away one of the twins, and so on. What blew it for him was that the parents noticed right away that Maddy was missing. But when they sent him an email asking if he knew anything, he said he didn’t. And now he just wants people to stop talking about it.
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“We’ve substituted this child with a Tasters Choice toddler. Let’s see if the parents notice.”
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### Author:  [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/73 "2007-10-27T20:47:20Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby]
I thought UK doctors weren’t all that rich, unless they do the whole “Harley St” thing(?). I’d say they’re comfortably upper middle class, myself.
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They probably clear $1m a year - not mega-rich, but at least 15 times the average income in the UK.
By now there’s so much bollocks been written in the media that it’s impossible to tell the true story.
Only the discovery of a body will help now, or a sudden confession. In terms of currrent evidence the police are totally snookered.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/74 "2007-10-27T21:00:27Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose]
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:
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I think I’ve seen him somewhere before…
[http://www.b3tards.com/u/a609ede35986cfd048a1/maddie-road.jpg](http://www.b3tards.com/u/a609ede35986cfd048a1/maddie-road.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/75 "2007-10-27T21:40:55Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam]
No, no! See, the guy was just playing a joke. He was going to take away one child and wait to see if the parents noticed. In about a week, he was going to bring back Maddy along with another child, and wait to see if that got noticed, then take away one of the twins, and so on. What blew it for him was that the parents noticed right away that Maddy was missing. But when they sent him an email asking if he knew anything, he said he didn’t. And now he just wants people to stop talking about it.
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Nice. Well done.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/76 "2007-10-27T21:41:06Z")
I dunno why VCO3 is complaining - if the girl was still alive, she’d grow up rich and thus his mortal enemy, so what’s one fewer plutocrat parasite?
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### Author:  [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/77 "2007-10-28T04:30:04Z")
I remember when that kid Smart, whatever her name was, was kidnapped. Some here strongly believed the father did it based on his being weird (mormon or something). Then that other couple who were swingers.
And way before our time was that dingo case in Australia.
By now the lesson should be that we should stop from speculating based on, mostly, our own biases.
Me? Meh! It’s a tragedy. And it happens, and worse, many times every day the world over.
I’ll grab the pitchfork when we have something in the way of evidence.
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/78 "2007-10-28T04:58:35Z")
[QUOTE=Mighty\_Girl]
By now the lesson should be that we should stop from speculating based on, mostly, our own biases.
I’ll grab the pitchfork when we have something in the way of evidence.
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Boy. You sure know how to suck the enjoyment out of good old fashioned mob mentality and vigilanteeism.
Spoilsport.
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### Author:  [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/79 "2007-10-28T05:00:38Z")
With all due respect, Susan-drove-her-kids-in-the-lake pretty much ruined it for any other parents that loses their child somehow. After you can wrap your head around THAT story, it’s kind of hard to sit through a similar situation and not feel twice shy.
I have no particular opinion on the case, however, my heart does go out to the child, regardless.
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### Author:  [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-a-pretend-picture-of-a-man-stealing-our-baby-say-murdering-parents-ro/424120/80 "2007-10-28T05:07:49Z")
[QUOTE=Auntbeast]
With all due respect, Susan-drove-her-kids-in-the-lake pretty much ruined it for any other parents that loses their child somehow. After you can wrap your head around THAT story, it’s kind of hard to sit through a similar situation and not feel twice shy.
I have no particular opinion on the case, however, my heart does go out to the child, regardless.
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Well, how about just keeping our minds open then? I don’t know if the parents did it, I don’t know if they didn’t. So I’ll just keep the torch away until we actually have something other than speculation by sleazy newspapers.
I know, I know. That’s just crazy talk.
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