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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2019 18:43:56 GMT
The Madeleine McCann disappearance case has intrigued people across the world for more than a decade. When the 3-year-old girl disappeared while on a family vacation in Portugal, her family was immediately thrust into the spotlight. Madeleine's case is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, and is one of many true crime stories being highlighted in today's true crime boom, which is drawing attention back to her parents as well. Madeleine McCann's parents are Kate and Gerry McCann, who both were doctors, according to Country Living. Kate also became an author in the years following her daughter's disappearance, writing a 2011 memoir about their experience entitled Madeleine: Our Daughter's Disappearance and the Continuing Search for Her. At the time of Madeleine's disappearance in 2007, the couple were both in their late 30s. Four months after Madeleine's disappearance, news outlets around the world reported that Kate was named a suspect in Madeleine's disappearance. Officials reportedly offered her a plea deal of two years or less in prison if she admitted to accidentally poisoning her daughter with an overdose of sedatives. She was released without charges, and police attention then shifted to focus on Gerry, who was also interviewed and released without charges. Much of the suspicion surrounding the McCanns was based on DNA evidence found in their car, which was inconclusive but was misinterpreted and subsequently misreported and sensationalized in the press. By 2008, Portuguese authorities declared that there was no evidence found to implicate the McCanns, as the Telegraph reported, and their status as suspects was dropped. However, theories that the McCanns were involved persisted. One of the former police officers who investigated their case, Gonçalo Amaral, wrote a book in 2008 that claimed Madeleine had died accidentally and that the McCanns had faked the abduction case to cover it up. The McCanns sued Amaral for libel, and in 2015, the BBC reported that they won damages of £358,000. When the Netflix filmmakers began working on their documentary, they reached out to the McCanns, who declined to participate. They issued a statement on their website explaining their decision: "We are aware that Netflix are planning to screen a documentary in March 2019 about Madeleine's disappearance. The production company told us that they were making the documentary and asked us to participate. We did not see and still do not see how this programme will help the search for Madeleine and, particularly given there is an active police investigation, could potentially hinder it. Consequently, our views and preferences are not reflected in the programme. We will not be making any further statements or giving interviews regarding this programme."
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Post by Admin on Mar 22, 2019 5:56:23 GMT
"That should raise hope..." The authors who feature in the new Madeleine McCann documentary have explained why they think the missing girl is still alive. Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, who appear in Netflix's new docu-series The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, have said that they think Madeleine was the victim of a "planned abduction." Speaking on Ireland AM today, the pair said the evidence points to a crime that involved taking Madeleine from the outset, meaning that it's far more likely that she wasn't simply murdered. "The evidence says that the apartment was being watched during that week," said Summers. "There was a man seen standing looking up at the apartment and that there was some sort of an operation going on. "Then we have the incidents of a man breaking in and interfering with little girls in the middle of the night. It seems to me that common sense would dictate that the information we have does suggest that it was a planned abduction." The author pointed to statistics from studies concerning similar cases in the States that show that a substantial number of missing children do actually return home. "40 percent of young children who disappear turn up dead one way or the other, but 56 percent of them are found alive," he said.
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2019 0:02:35 GMT
VIEWERS of the Madeleine McCann documentary are convinced a kidnapper targeted her after seeing her playing with friends at the resort's Kids Club. The Netflix series - which revealed a previously unseen photo of Madeleine at the daycare centre in Praia da Luz - discussed claims she was "sleepy" when her parents picked her up. It sparked theories someone who spied her at the Kids Club may have drugged her and twin siblings Sean and Amelie so they could snatch her from the family's apartment while parents Kate and Gerry were at a nearby restaurant. Nicola Begg said on Twitter: "So what if [the kidnapper] had been watching Maddie, watched that the McCanns were leaving their apartment for dinner and checking every half an hour, then on the day she disappeared gave the three kids something to make them so tired they wouldn’t wake? "Then went in after Gerry first checked on the kids, took Maddie easily as the kids had been drugged, sold her on etc? Just one theory." Viewers have been gripped by The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann since it was released on Netflix last week. Brit tourist Neil Berry, who was staying at the Ocean Club at the same time, told the documentary makers his daughter Jessica became pals with Maddie at the resort's play group. He said: "They were of a similar age and they became thick as thieves. "I remember they had been out sailing, which I though was quite brave of the kids' club, that they took them out on the sea. They were together in the boat. "Jessie's only real recollection of the holiday was Jess lost her straw summer hat in the sea and Madeleine launching herself into the sea to recover it for her - much to the alarm of the kids' club staff who swiftly grabbed her and dragged her back into the boat."
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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2019 19:35:01 GMT
Madeleine McCann was reported as missing on May 3, 2007, at 10:14 p.m. Madeleine was on vacation in the Portuguese beach resort town of Praia de Luz along with her parents, Kate, and Gerry, and her younger twin siblings. Kate and Gerry claim that Madeleine and the twins were asleep in their room when they decided to go to a nearby tapas restaurant for dinner. Leaving your children alone in an unlocked hotel room while you go eat and drink may be viewed as being irresponsible, but there are other factors that you should know. http://instagram.com/p/BvUjH1PHvaU Firstly, the restaurant in question was 150 yards away from the hotel room where the family was staying. In fact, it is technically visible from the outside area where Kate, Gerry and the rest of their party were sitting. That said, it was almost impossible to see if anyone was going in or out of the apartment from that particular vantage point. Something else worthy of note, the McCanns weren't traveling alone, they were on a group trip with two other families who also left their sleeping children alone when they left for dinner. The group decided to take turns during dinner making the rounds to check the children. When Kate went to take her turn, she claims she found Madeleine was gone and the window and the shade open. http://instagram.com/p/BvR0mz6HOtr The McCanns were not arrested for the crime, though they both were named official witnesses. However, they weren't the only ones who were questioned or suspected in relation to the disappearance. British ex-pat Robert Murat, who lived with his mother just a quick walk from the beachside resort where Madeleine was staying, was the first suspect officially named by the authorities. Murat immediately volunteered as a translator, being fluent in both English and Portuguese. He also cozied up to the press in a way that garnered notice. He confided in one reporter that he had a daughter Maddie's age and was, in fact, going through a painful divorce from her mother. Add to this the fact that Murat had a distinctive appearance due to being blind in one eye, and you had the perfect suspect. Murat was eventually cleared of all charges but still suffers from the way he was treated for simply trying to help a frantic family. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a man walking away from the resort with a sleeping child over his shoulder, but they were unable to give descriptions. In fact, countless people throughout the country and the UK reported seeing Madeleine, but none of these reports were ever corroborated. The most popular theory currently held is both positive and negative. The positive is that since nobody has ever been recovered, the police now suspect that the little girl is still alive. However, the negative side here is that they believe she may have been abducted and sold on the black market. Being a white child, she would have extreme "value" in the eyes of potential slavers. There have been reports of a young woman matching Madeleine's description seen in Mauritius, a known location in the white slavery market.
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2019 18:27:34 GMT
KATE and Gerry McCann refused to cry on television after Madeleine disappeared - because they didn't want any "b*****d paedo" child snatcher to revel in their tears. Cops warned the couple not to show "over emotion" because "paedophilic kidnappers enjoy seeing the distress they've caused", their spokesman Clarence Mitchell has revealed. The ex BBC journalist has been handling the McCanns' media dealings since three-year-old Maddie vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in May 2007. Kate and Gerry's apparent coldness in front of the cameras prompted much public speculation as to why they seemed so calm in such traumatic circumstances. the police told them not to cry. Not to show any over-emotion. Kate and Gerry, both doctors and both logical, were not going to let that b*****d have that satisfaction and so were very rigid Clarence Mitchell It sensationally claims she may still be alive - and explains how Portugal is a prime target for traffickers because its location allows abducted children to be instantly taken overseas. Yesterday, we revealed how the McCanns are being bombarded with hate mail from trolls in the wake of the Netflix documentary - as police wait for extra cash to continue the search. The official campaign website, set up to help find Maddie and endorsed by Kate and Gerry, has monitored and deleted the vile abuse as it vows to stamp out online hate.
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