Some sources say both parents admit to using safe doses of a legal child painkiller to help the kids sleep.
But with the Portuguese police leaking left, right and centre to their own press and ours picking up stuff selectively it’s hard to know what is true.
I can’t see any motive for murder so IF the parents were involved i feel an accident is the most likely explanation.
I find it hard to believe, what with the UK press jackals being all over them 24/7 since Day One, they could have disposed of a body but you never know.
Maybe close friends have rallied round to help the family stay together despite the accident?
I’m not sure that some of this kind of reasoning isn’t based on hindsight - i.e. of course it was an unacceptable level of risk - it must have been, because a little girl went missing.
Granted, I’d have considered the kids rather young to be left completely unattended, but if they’re older, they’re harder to keep in one place anyway.
If, for example, the kids were known by the parents to be reliably sound sleepers, the room itself was believed to be secure, and the parents intended to check back very regularly, I don’t think it’s necessarily absolutely and entirely unreasonable to think it’s OK to nip out to a location a couple of hundred yards away.
I also ought to say that my general impression - which I openly acknowledge to be dancing a merry jig at the behest of its media-pulled strings - is that the Portuguese police have dropped the ball and seem to be trying to find some way - any way to wrap it up and call it a day.
Yes, this is my speculative theory too. There’s an interesting (albeit also wildly speculative) debate on, of all places, a Daily Mirror forum which has been running for a while now. This is the general consensus there - and outlines the slightly odd relationship between the 9 friends that they went with.
One of the issues discussed covers the fact that Madeleine had caused problems the night before by waking up and being upset at noone being about, and hotel staff had become concerned. If that’s true, I think there’s a good chance that the parents gave her a stronger dose of whatever sedative they were using the next night, perhaps with fatal consequences.
Also, personally, I can’t get over the fact that an apparent abduction took place from the same room where two other small children were sleeping without notice or any sign of forced entry. Something is definitely odd - although naturally the true facts aren’t yet known.
Have to say, I’m also slightly disturbed by the mass hysteria over here about the case - and the fact that millions of people have put money into a fund that has no aim apart from ‘finding Madeleine’. That goes hand in hand with the way in which the McCAnns have fed the media continuous stories - which again just seems like an odd approach. Not reading anything nefarious into that particularly, but there’s a lot that doesn’t add up.
The Guardian related a rumor (?) that they’d found some “body fluids” (but not blood) along with a fair amount of hair in the trunk of that rental car.
It’s the difference between ending dinner by picking up your tired & cranky kids from the babysitting area and putting them to bed yourself (and thereby possibly ruining any romantic mood established during dinner), and coming back to kids already asleep and being able to continue your own activities. Not that I agree with their decision in any way, but when we’ve had a babysitter who didn’t get the kids in bed before we got back from dinner, she never got a call back from us.
Yeah, the way this case has been handled has been entirely bizarre. Rumour has it that substantial DNA evidence has been found in the rental car, yet the parents are still in possession of it (and commissioning their own tests). I couldn’t imagine for one minute that this would be allowed to happen in the UK - surely the car should have been seized?
The police are in over their heads (bringing British experts in pretty much confirms this).
But Portuguese officials are still saying that DNA results from the car were inconclusive. Until someone goes on the record, I won’t buy it. The swirling rumors around this case are stifling.
This part is interesting, there’ve been all these characterizations of her as the “perfect mother”, always gentle and adoring, who never raised her voice or lost her sense of humor:
