Missing Madeleine

Well, that is the most realistic answer anyone could give, really. Just how long can a child survive without his or her parents?
Now the thing that they have to do is give and finish this case. But it seems they're bumbling that up (well, as far as I've heard)...
 
The case was handed over to a judge today (I think) who is going to review it (a 10,000 page document) and then decide whether or not the McCann's should return to Portugal for further questioning and possibly even a trial. So at least some progress is being made, but I think they're going in the wrong direction.
But how do you even start to look for someone who seems to have disappeared without a trace?
 
Tyler Durden said:
But how do you even start to look for someone who seems to have disappeared without a trace?
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Well, assuming that this case goes unsolved for decades, the only thing that police can hope for are major breaks or leads in the case. I can see it happening in this case in the near future, but like most cases, I fear that this one will just remain a mystery.
 
What Ive heard is that they may use the funds from what people donated to help find Maddie and use them to help fund her parents case. I dont think they should do that and give the money to a childrens charity or help locate other lost children, but here in the UK. The money wa given to find a child, not discover if her parents or gulity or not.
 
That's pretty sad if that's true. Like was said, the charity was initially set up to find Maddie, not to find out who took/killed her. It's a mockery of the whole idea of it.
 
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co....me=yes&more_nodeId1=132393&contentPK=18368972

This is Leicestershire said:
Madeleine McCann's parents will not use cash donated to help find the little girl to pay legal fees, it emerged today.

A spokeswoman for Kate and Gerry McCann said the couple would "definitely" not use any of the £1 million donated by the public to the Find Madeleine fund to pay solicitors' fees.

The McCanns have appointed top lawyer Michael Caplan QC, who stopped the extradition of General Pinochet from the UK to Spain in 1999, to prepare a case against any possible charges brought against them.

The McCanns' spokeswoman, Justine McGuinness, said: "The money given to the Find Madeleine fund will definitely not be used for legal fees."

Questions were raised in some sections of the media over how the fighting fund would be used.

The McCann family launched the Find Madeleine fund in May as part of a campaign to spread awareness of her disappearance.

They said any surplus funds raised would be used to help families search for missing children in the UK, Portugal and worldwide.

Thousands of people contributed to the fund by organising various fund-raising events.

Donations were made through the Find Madeleine website by well-wishers around the world and tens of thousands more contributed by people buying green and yellow wristbands produced by the Leicester Mercury.
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Yeah it was obivously brought up, but thankfuly now its not going ahead.
 
My friends and I had been discussing this after we heard about the various traces of evidence that the Portugese Police have uncovered. We've formed a group opinion and the general consensus is that, that night, Kate and Gerry might have actually sedated their children - I hear they're both doctors, so they'd have relatively easy access to sleeping pills and even syringes [which would back up the small traces of blood found]. We all seem to think that, even though only a small amount was given to the children [so they'd be asleep when the parents were out], Maddie was possibly given too much - maybe she had a convulsion and the parent struggled to keep her alive or something, explaining why large quantities of hair might have come loose. It all spins off from there but, in short, we think it's just been an innocent night out gone wrong and taken too far.
 
The fact that they would even do that to their children is absolutely disgusting. It's bad enough that they left three small children alone, but three small, UNCONCIOUS children? They deserve jail if that is the case.
 
Right now people are blamming the mother...and it appears that she had an history of mental problems and was taking some kind of pills although i do not know if they have yet confirmed it.

The police now as the diary of the mother in ther possesion in the hopes that it might help to understand what the exact relation with her daughter was.

Also the fact that the parents have hired two of the best lawyers in England seems to incriminate them even more.
 
that is more to protect them if they get into a legal battle over the disappearance, I personally think she is dead by now, not many abductions regardless of abductee would hold a child of that age for that long, of course I could be wrong here
 
Jimmy said:
Also the fact that the parents have hired two of the best lawyers in England seems to incriminate them even more.
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I find that comment inappropriate, invalid and offensive to all parties. They've hired good lawyers, which instantly makes them guilty? Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds? I'm going to take a shot in the dark and just guess that they've done that because the best lawyers can put forward the best case, and therefore the chance that the correct decision is made increases.
And think about that from the lawyers' point of view. They work tirelessly and endlessly to become the best, only to find that when they get there, whoever they represent is immediately branded guilty for hiring them?
 
FFGuy said:
not many abductions regardless of abductee would hold a child of that age for that long, of course I could be wrong here
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You could be wrong there, there was a case either earlier this year or last year, where this girl Natasha something had been kidnapped and held prisoner for over 8 years in some guys house =/

As for Maddie, i think either the parents are guilty, or the friends of the parents, or it'll be one of those things that will never be solved =/

She's only 4 so couldn't the abductor teach her a whole new language and lie about her past and everything until she's learned the language / believe them? Young children are so impressionable, and they learn languages easier or something.
 
At four years old, she's already going to have very prominent memories about her parents and home life. Such a big change in her lifestyle wouldn't be enough to suppress those memories, so one day she'd end up figuring out the truth.
 
Aerith Gainsborough said:
You could be wrong there, there was a case either earlier this year or last year, where this girl Natasha something had been kidnapped and held prisoner for over 8 years in some guys house =/

As for Maddie, i think either the parents are guilty, or the friends of the parents, or it'll be one of those things that will never be solved =/

She's only 4 so couldn't the abductor teach her a whole new language and lie about her past and everything until she's learned the language / believe them? Young children are so impressionable, and they learn languages easier or something.
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what i want to know is, why didn't the parents have a babysitter/carer looking after madeline?

I mean, either these are first time parents or they really screwed up medelines life
 
Tyler Durden said:
I find that comment inappropriate, invalid and offensive to all parties. They've hired good lawyers, which instantly makes them guilty? Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds? I'm going to take a shot in the dark and just guess that they've done that because the best lawyers can put forward the best case, and therefore the chance that the correct decision is made increases.
And think about that from the lawyers' point of view. They work tirelessly and endlessly to become the best, only to find that when they get there, whoever they represent is immediately branded guilty for hiring them?
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Yeah no need to insult me if they were innocent like you say (and i hope they are) they would not leave Portugal once things started to go bad for them, they would not need to hire lawyers.

You are the one who is being ridiculous if you think that people are not capable of doing such things.

But in a few days you will come to this same thread and apologize me because i am right and you are completely wrong.

I´ll be waiting.
 
If you were made a suspect in your daughters possible murder and abduction would you not prepare a legal defence?
 
well, put it this way, if you were questioned over your daughters death would you not want to marshal a defence in case worst comes to worst?

I mean, police have already found blood in the mcCann family hired car so that was either planted or the parents killed her, fanctly this could go either way and only time will tell, but you have got to give whoever abducted madeline credit, I mean with practically all of the western world looking out for madeline you would think he/she would have been caught by now
 
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