(vi) Can we get all this done before 8.30pm, when were supposed to meet our friends for dinner? 5. However, we are persuaded, largely by evidence on the two 'Last Photo' threads on CMOMM, that the Last Photo was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April. She described a man of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. AS far as we know, they knew no-one in the area who could help them. Catriona Baker also had a holiday at the McCanns home a few months after Madeleine was reported missing, suggesting a close relationship between them.. All of these, we say, are wholly consistent with something very serious having happened to Madeleine McCann on the Sunday. Or quickly nip round and knock on their doors. After jogging on the beach and going to fetch the twins, she collected Maddie at 5.30pm. The problem with the Tennis Balls Photo. She had a gold-coloured necklace put around her neck. Even had they all rapidly agreed to go along with an abduction hoax later that evening at 10pm, there would be all manner of questions and suggestions. over reports they were responsible for Madeleine's death. He also described the man as of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. They then said that the samples could have been from Madeleine but also that this could not be stated with any certainty. But we believe we now have sufficient knowledge to be able to state with confidence what we say below. He tried to prove this by quoting from a legal judgment in the United States, in the case of Eugene Zapata, accused of murdering his wife. It is a fact that from about 8am on Friday 4 May, the news of Madeleines reported disappearance rapidly became the top story in both Portugal and Britain for weeks - and has continued to make international headlines ever since. 19:56, 28 April 2015 By David Collins Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral was ordered to pay the family a total of 434,000 after his book claimed the parents covered up her death Kate and Gerry McCann urged the public to continue searching for daughter Madeleine after the hunt received a huge cash boost when they won 358,000 in libel . Were they sent ahead of Bell Pottinger as a kind of advance party because something serious had already happened to Madeleine? ANSWER: Again there are many instances in history where large groups of people who know about a serious crime work together to keep the crime a secret. There is agreement from the McCanns, their friends, other holidaymakers and Ocean Club staff that they were all settled at their table at around 8.30pm to 8.45pm. So the McCanns and their friends would be rapidly tossing these sorts of ideas around: Get hold of a car and drive the body somewhere well away from Praia da Luz. Portugal. Updated. We know for certain that three photographs were taken of Madeleine playing happily in the Ocean Club playground in Praia da Luz in the late afternoon or early evening of the first day of the McCanns holiday - Saturday 28 April (this disposes of the views of some people who have claimed that Madeleine was never on that holiday). Besides that, the times shown for Madeleine being in the creche do not even agree with what Kate McCann says in her own book about the events of that week. This was meaningless. It was very early - Madeleine might very well have been found alive and well later that Friday - but on that very day, many media editors immediately despatched reporters to Praia da Luz. Lourenco had evidently planned to call the police and already knew of the description that Jane Tanner had given to the police. We believe that there are a considerable number of people who know what really happened to Madeleine but will not speak of what they know. placed the two cots in position, placed a bed by the window, opened the shutters, windows and curtains to make it look like an abductor had broken into the apartment. We cannot say. However, we are persuaded, largely by evidence on the two 'Last Photo' threads on CMOMM, that the Last Photo was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April. Gerry McCann - statement 10th May 2007 [3] They continued with searches outside, around the various apartment blocks, the deponent having asked MATTHEW to go to the secondary reception in order to communicate the fact to the local police, since he had no doubt that his daughter had been abducted. Similarly, taking lunch in their own apartment every day after Sunday and not with their friends on the Payne's balcony. Despite this, Kate McCann had the effrontery to mention this case in her 2011 book on the case, madeleine. January 28 - A video of the McCann's search for Madeleine is shown at a fund-raising event in London in January to mark the 1,000th day since Madeleine's disappearance. They had no immediate access to a car, and so on. Thats 24 times as much time to think, plan and carry out a hoax abduction. Colin Sahlke died suddenly in mysterious circumstances with a significant amount of morphine in his system. When they were told that the smell of death and blood had been found in their apartment and hire car, they hurriedly came up with a series of improbable explanations for this: Blood spatters on the walls could have been caused by mosquitoes crashing into the wall, Madeleine has grazed her knee climbing up the steps to the aeroplane, The dogs has alerted to rotting meat, not the odour of a corpse, The dogs had alerted to dirty nappies, not the odour of a corpse, Kate McCann had certified six deaths in the two weeks before going on holiday, thats why the smell of death was on her clothes. 15 minutes to defend yourself against the death penalty. . Is that when Jane Tanner was briefed to give a description of Krokowski when she was questioned by the Portuguese police? In his analysis, Dr Roberts publishes disturbing evidence that Madeleines pyjamas may have been photographed on a blue hessian background, similar to that of the settee in the McCanns apartment, earlier during the day (3 May) when the alarm about Madeleine was raised. We think there are good grounds for suspecting that the two photos may have been taken on the same day, and that Madeleines very sad appearance could be connected in some way to her having died later that same day. views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016. Hairs of the same haplotype as Robert Murat and Jane Tanner found in Krokowskis apartment. In the very early weeks after Madeleine was reported missing, John Stalker, an experienced and respected detective chosen to work on the alleged Shoot to Kill policy in Northern Ireland, stated that in his opinion: My gut instinct is that some big secret is being covered up. Quite why the British Embassy would promote Murat to do this job is uncertain, unless he had a significant prior connection with the Embassy, and was co-operating with them in some way. Schneider, 50, a former TV reporter, said: "I do not give out such information . (v) Would we be investigated by the police? Maybe they would have had other related questions. They has eaten in the Millennium Restaurant on the Saturday evening. They would have to deal with the initial shock of what had happened. Now lets examine why we say she died on the Sunday. Chapter 3: Announcement of a disappearance: The fi. On the very night when the McCanns and their friends should have been distraught, following Madeleines sudden disappearance, some of them were busy contacting the TV and print media and claiming, even in the very first hours after they had raised the alarm, that the Portuguese police were incompetent and not organising a proper search for her. But it later emerged that the Director and his deputy from a Bell Pottinger subsidiary company, Resonate, had flown out to help Mark Warner just days before, possibly on Monday 30 April. All of these, we say, are wholly consistent with something very serious having happened to Madeleine McCann on the Sunday. IE 11 is not supported. We have given, above, some general considerations as to when Madeleine may have died. There are too just many sightings of Madeleine all week; all those people cant be mistaken. How very true, over nine years later, has that prophecy come true. (iv) In a derelict house in Praia da Luz? On Monday 30 April, he was hastily summoned to Portugal, allegedly by his girlfriend, but possibly by others - Murats account of the phone call or calls that led him to take a hasty flight to Portugal is not convincing, 5. Immediately following the reported disappearance of Madeleine, the holiday company who arranged the holiday, Mark Warner, brought their PR company, Bell Pottinger, to Praia da Luz. rom what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, did not want to deliver up Madeleines corpse immediately and voluntarily, and there is a strong possibility therefore that it was moved from the initial place where she died. Body fluids found in the boot of a car hired by the parents of the missing four-year-old British girl 25 days after she went missing in Portugal showed she had been sedated, according to a French . We refer here to a masterly study of issues concerning Madeleines pyjamas by Dr Martin Roberts. These and a number of other considerations about Robert Murat lead us to think that he was summoned to Portugal during Monday 30 April because something serious had happened to Madeleine the previous day, and that his help was needed to cover this up. B. It was a wild goose chase. (i) They could say that Madeleine must have wandered off somewhere, (ii) They could say that they took her down to the beach and she got swept out to sea, (iii) Or could we get away with faking an abduction. We do not believe there is enough evidence to define one way or the other. . She said she spoke to a friend of hers, Edna Glyn, while the crying was going on, but neither of them did anything about it. A cadaver dog had alerted to the odour of a corpse which suggested that Eugene Zapata had moved his wifes body twice. British and German police appealed for information about the man and released photographs of vehicles a Volkswagen camper van and a Jaguar which he used at the time. The relevant facts are these. As a Netflix documentary sparks new interest in the case, we look at the v German police said earlier that the suspect, who lived near Praia da Luz, has been sentenced on numerous occasions to prison terms for sexual abuse of children in the past. . Not only was Dr Payne not independent, being a very close friend of the McCanns, but there were 20 or more significant contradictions between the accounts of Dr Payne and Kate McCann about what took place at that meeting, how long it lasted etc. . Quite why the British Embassy would promote Murat to do this job is uncertain, unless he had a significant prior connection with the Embassy, and was co-operating with them in some way. (iv) Is there any other reason why we dare not risk going to hospital and possibly facing a post-mortem? Was this an accident? When the film was published, the McCanns claimed she had been playing with Mummys make-up box, but that story didnt stand up to scrutiny. Michael Shrimpton reacts to this week's overblown reports of a 'fresh' development in the Madeleine McCann case. McCann vanished from her bedroom on May 3 during a family vacation in the Algarve while her parents were dining with friends nearby in the resort of Praia da Luz. The Murder of Madeleine McCann. Madeleine McCann has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared, aged three, in Portugal. When examined in detail, Lourencos claim that his daughter was nearly kidnapped by Krokowski falls apart. Madeleine McCann suspect charged with sexual offences by German prosecutors. A high-level meeting is taking place between their Portuguese lawyer and senior detectives involved in the long-runn Can we get all this done before 8.30pm, when were supposed to meet our friends for dinner? Madeleine vanished from their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3 in 2007, days before her fourth birthday. These have been fully analysed on CMOMM over the past few years. (The McCanns incidentally paid the amazing sum of 500,000 to Bell Pottinger to keep Madeleines name on the front pages of Britains newspapers for a year. Self-Proclaimed Serial Killer Sentenced to Death in Oklahoma for 1997 Murder of Newlywed Teen. Here are our main reasons: The Last Photo shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. That theory would require Gerry McCann to have made an extremely risky, not to say crass, decision to walk for some 15 or 20 minutes across the village, carrying his dead daughter, at the very moment that his wife and/or others was raising the alarm. Madeleine McCann was born in Leicester born to her parents Kate and Gerry McCann know all about her Parents Net worth, Nationality, Ethnicity and Occupation . No DNA of Madeleine was found in the McCanns apartment, nor on her clothes nor on objects she had used or come into contact with on holiday, e.g. The Madeleine McCann Research Group (MMRG) was set up in 2009, around the time that I created what was to become the most popular Madeleine McCann discussion forum on the internet: The Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann (CMOMM). New research in this section points to Madeleines death being on the Sunday or Monday and not Thursday 3rd May. Here, quite apart from the matters dealt with above, are several other specific indications that an abduction hoax was indeed planned over a four-day period: The relevant facts are these. The McCanns refusing to give their holiday photos to the police. views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, The A preliminary point to raise is: were the twins present when, according to the PJ theory, Madeleine died? Chapter 4: The real victim is the missing child. We do not therefore accept it as evidence that Madeleine was alive on Tuesday. First of all, what is known for sure about the period between 6pm and 10pm? Michael led the team of investigators which in 2007 located the boat on which Madeleine was being held and who were denied permission to launch a rescue bid, to their intense frustration.