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So the McCanns are innocent after all…

July 22, 2008 · 13 Comments

They are no longer suspects and the investigation has been shelved, but does anyone else still have that lingering feeling that there was something about the disappearance of Madeleine that just doesn’t feel right?

Categories: Madeleine McCann

13 responses so far ↓

  • Stu // July 22, 2008 at 9:08 am

    I always thought there was something peculiar about how media-friendly they were and how they were always beyond reproach (“Hey, don’t point out that they left their children alone in an unfamiliar building whilst they went off and had dinner - show some respect”) and I wasn’t surprised when they were made suspects. On the other hand, when the media did start to turn against them it was a little sickening. The whole case was, as you say, just slightly peculiar - as is the fact that there hasn’t been the slightest clue as to where she did go.

    I don’t think they did do it. Just that it’s all a bit weird. Life is sometimes weird, though, as the extremely creepy Spectator feature showed earlier this month (not for the faint-hearted).

  • asquith // July 22, 2008 at 9:27 am

    I was utterly outraged by the smears and lies deployed against people like Robert Murat. Scum like Murdoch should never be allowed to print a word again after this. I don’t know how the media get away with flagrant libel every time.

    Sorry to plug myself, but:
    http://dry-valleys.blogspot.com/2008/07/tabloids-are-scum.html

    Beware of the language :)

  • Letters From A Tory // July 22, 2008 at 10:02 am

    The media have certainly not helped this investigation. They went after the McCanns and Murat in an incredibly aggressive and unforgiving way and biased the public’s perceptions enormously.

    I really just don’t understand how no-one can have a clue where Madeleine went - it just gives me that nagging sense that someone knows a lot more than they are telling the police, but I couldn’t say who that was.

  • JuliaM // July 22, 2008 at 11:09 am

    “…does anyone else still have that lingering feeling that there was something about the disappearance of Madeleine that just doesn’t feel right?”

    Oh, quite a bit…

    As Stu points out, the initial fawning of the media and just how quick they were with supportive ‘everyone does it!’ articles, when no one I have ever spoken to has ever agreed with their decision to leave their children unattended that night.

    The battening on Murat as a suspect by the ‘Mirror’ reporter who’d obviosly watched a little too much ‘Criminal Minds’ and fancied herself a profiler.

    The McCann’s behaviour while under investigation, and the murky dealings regarding the fund set up to cash in on the initial public support.

    Among many, many other things. And I really think this case is destined to be another Jimmy Hoffa/Judge Crater/Lord Lucan….

  • Letters From A Tory // July 22, 2008 at 11:15 am

    Maybe that’s what I was getting at - the twists and turns were so big and so violent that I found it impossible to believe anyone, the police included.

  • Snafu // July 22, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    It will all make for a great film in a couple of years…

  • Letters From A Tory // July 22, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    Not sure a film producer would dare go near this story - wasn’t there a film that got cancelled recently because the storyline was really similar to Madeleine’s disappearance?

    I don’t think the public would react very well to a film about it in any case!

  • JuliaM // July 22, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    “…wasn’t there a film that got cancelled recently because the storyline was really similar to Madeleine’s disappearance?”

    ‘Gone Baby Gone’ - it got delayed to just last month, not cancelled:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452623/

  • Bahtat // July 22, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    Brilliant that now means they are free to con the public out of more money - they must be down to their last few hundred thou by now.

  • Chris Palmer // July 23, 2008 at 1:39 am

    The whole Madeline episode was a particularly strange and dubious one. I still have a feeling that her parents accidentally killed her and then hid the evidence. I realise I don’t have anything to go on or proof, but I just think that it is very strange that the girl disappeared without a trace.

    Once the police files are released in the future we may find out why they were made official suspects. Until then however, it doesn’t really matter much any more does it?

  • asquith // July 23, 2008 at 7:18 am

    It isn’t our place to offer up speculations about who may or may not have done it. If you have energy to spare, use it on looking for the child and finding out who harmed her.

  • tyson // July 24, 2008 at 10:18 am

    The police should have screened out the most obvious explanations first before pursuing the most unlikely of causes. They went about the investigation the wrong way round.

    I am not saying the child snatching theory is/ was possible, it was just an exceedingly inplausible explanation given the circumstances.

  • Letters From A Tory // July 24, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    I’d love to see the case file about the possible ways in which someone could have targetted a particular room to snatch a child, not knowing whether the parents would be inside as well. Surely any potential kidnapper couldn’t have stumbled across the McCann’s room by chance?

    The more I think about it, the more this whole thing doesn’t make any sense. And remember that the police never denied finding Madeleine’s DNA in the boot of her parents’ car - they just said that they couldn’t be 100% sure.

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