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Post by yollie on Jun 14, 2007 8:01:51 GMT 12
Copied from expatica.com the Dutch news in English:
13 June 2007
AMSTERDAM – Portuguese police have started a new search for missing British girl Madeleine McCann after the Telegraaf received an anonymous letter this morning.
The letter pinpointed a location on a map of the area near where the girl disappeared and claimed this is where her body could be found.
British media report that Portuguese detectives are searching the area indicated in the letter, a location about 15 kilometres from the holiday apartment where the girl was taken.
The site mentioned in the letter is near Odiaxere, northeast of Praia da Luz, where the McCann family was vacationing.
Portuguese police say they will start digging if the description in the letter clearly corresponds to a location on site.
Telegraaf receives tip about Maddie
[Copyright Expatica News + ANP 2007]
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Post by yollie on Jun 14, 2007 8:03:45 GMT 12
For those of you who would like to read more news from Europe, this site has the news of several countries, in English. www.expatica.com/ |
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Post by Lux on Jun 14, 2007 8:25:36 GMT 12
Thanks Yollie, you have a good night! I'm off to my working day  |
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Post by toerag on Jun 14, 2007 19:25:34 GMT 12
My partner just called me a freak because I said the father has someting to do with it not sure what.
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Post by rdsmum on Jun 14, 2007 20:27:19 GMT 12
Personally I think the parents should be strung up for leaving the kids on their own in the first place. How selfish. The apartments they were staying at offered a free babysitting service and there had been a number of sitters available that night, and they never bothered.
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Post by cookie on Jun 16, 2007 2:48:03 GMT 12
I personally feel the parents do not need to be told what they did was wrong...they have had the worst punishment any parent can receive.
After all lets face it we have all done it - nipped across the road to collect something, while the kids were asleep (i have), gone to the flat under me for a cuppa when hubby was away on excercise I would check on them every 20 - 30 mins and I had a baby moniter.
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Post by rdsmum on Jun 16, 2007 3:38:05 GMT 12
I know they dont have to be told what they did was wrong, and they must be going thru hell.
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Post by yollie on Jun 16, 2007 5:01:37 GMT 12
I think they'll be punishing themselves more than anyone else could ever do.
I hope the little girl is found soon whichever way it turns out. Apparently the search is going on in that area.
Wondering about that tip though, the newspaper received a similar letter when those two young girls went missing in Belgium.
I thought maybe some paragnost who doesn't want to be laughed at or dismissed by the police as they are wont to do.
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Post by queenie on Jun 16, 2007 10:08:32 GMT 12
A parents worse nightmare, and no I have never nipped out and left my son alone.. would never do so until he is in his teens at least..
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Post by queenie on Jun 16, 2007 10:10:39 GMT 12
There was a child here in the UK taken from her home while she was in the bath! they did find her...
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Post by rdsmum on Jun 16, 2007 17:34:26 GMT 12
A parents worse nightmare, and no I have never nipped out and left my son alone.. would never do so until he is in his teens at least.. Far from being mother of the year here!!! I dont think ive ever left mine on their own either. |
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Post by Lux on Jun 16, 2007 20:26:44 GMT 12
I've left my baby sleeping inside while putting out washing, house open, even if I was only out there for 10 minutes thats enough time for someone to come in through the front and kidnap the baby. Kids have been stolen within feet from there homes coming from school, on shopping trips with there parents, all number of places. I agree it was a stupid thing to leave children unattended for a period of time in a foreign Country, that is something I would never do, but we can all make judgements about it in retrospect, thats easy.
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Post by rdsmum on Jun 16, 2007 20:59:44 GMT 12
Ive left mine inside sleeping etc while hanging out washing, i think thats something everyone does but its a bit different to going out for dinner and leaving them alone.
Its easy for me to sit here and say Id never do something like that, but who knows what would happen if the need arose, maybe i would think differently. I hope I am never in that situation where I have to make that decision.
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Post by queenie on Jun 29, 2007 9:35:20 GMT 12
I heard on the news they have arrested one man and are about to arrest another.. no mention of finding the girl though..
Lux in this world you need to lock your front door if your out the back and vice versa, our doors are locked nearly all the time while in the house! especially if we are upstairs..
and if i'm out in the garden and the police helicopters start flying over above i go inside and lock the door!
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Post by rdsmum on Jun 29, 2007 9:40:20 GMT 12
OUr doors are always locked, and if I am on my own with kids at night, the chains are across as well, til john gets home. I even have car doors locked sometimes if in lots of traffic or if some undesirables are around!!
The kids know not to open the door to anyone they dont know and they dont speak to strangers.
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Post by rdsmum on Jun 29, 2007 9:45:00 GMT 12
We live only about a 10 minute walk from the prison (big place) and I actually feel quite safe!! In the 4 years we have lived here there has only been one escape.
We dont have the police helicopters very often, but the spotter plane is out every week - football!
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Post by queenie on Aug 14, 2007 9:44:23 GMT 12
over 100 days now and they are no closer to finding her.. they have reserched one mans house and now have found some blood splatter in the apartment where she went missing from, seems strange that they just found some blood splatter 3 months on..
on a slightly different note it was very interesting to see the reaction on the beach when it was announced that a child was missing, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked around, usually they just keep on doing what they were doing and pay no heed.. both times the children were found btw..
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Post by yollie on Aug 17, 2007 1:07:04 GMT 12
The blood spatters turned out to be a man's.
There was also a tip that she had been seen with a Dutch guy and an English woman in Belgium about 2-3 weeks ago, they took the straw that she had been drinking from for DNA testing but it came back negative.
Probably another dead end.
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Post by toerag on Sept 8, 2007 21:23:40 GMT 12
My partner just called me a freak because I said the father has someting to do with it not sure what. I guess my guts feelings are still on target  |
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Post by maire on Sept 9, 2007 8:50:04 GMT 12
It's looking more and more like the parents are the culprits.
Maybe an accidental overdose?
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Post by Lux on Sept 9, 2007 13:23:53 GMT 12
Doesn't make sense though Maire, they have put themselves out there for too long, I mean if they were the killers (parents) wouldn't thy be winding the whole thing down by now...dunno it's hard to fathom they look like decent people...but who can tell.
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Post by yollie on Sept 9, 2007 21:17:26 GMT 12
At the moment they are apparently treating the mother as a suspect, saying that she probably accidently killed Maddy and they both went and hid the body. They have both been interviewed for hours.
I think they are just looking to pin the deed on someone at the moment.
It doesn't make sense, they are both doctors and if something HAD happened surely would have known to contact the authorities?? Instead of faking out an abduction scene!
Lux I sort of agree with you there as well, although there was a case here last year of a guy that went to the media saying his wife had disappeared. He acted out the bereaved husband on tv, asking her to come home and saying how much he missed her, etc. Turned out that he had killed her and dumped her body behind the wheelie containers in the backyard!!
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Post by rdsmum on Sept 9, 2007 21:33:43 GMT 12
MMMM not sure on this one.
I agree Yollie that them being doctors they would have known to inform authorities, but then again anyone with half a brain would KNOW that. Maybe they thought that if they did inform authorities, it would look really, really bad with their occupations, etc.
But the accidental overdose of child painkillers, surely you have to give the kid a hell of a lot to kill them, I know when giving it to my kids, I may have given a bit extra than the bottle says, it would be interesting to know, how much you have to give for it to be classed as an overdose
It just doesnt strike me that they 'dunnit' if you know what i mean, its been dragging on and on for ages now...3 months? And you would think (well I do) that the pressure would have made one of them crack by now. Who knows..... if it turns out that they did do something.... they are damned good actors!
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Post by bingbong on Sept 10, 2007 15:07:34 GMT 12
Although from my armchair assessment when i seen the Mother recently her neck looked a bit to stiff that seemed like a bit odd for me in the nuances of any appearance clues not that I am wanting to smear her. If they were the "killers" then it looked like a busy little area if they were out for Dinner [alibi] what did the eat? Others involved mmmmmmmmmm.
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Post by bingbong on Sept 12, 2007 20:55:19 GMT 12
Peculiar I Say!
"Kate McCann told a British Sunday newspaper that detectives had pressured her to confess to having accidentally killed her daughter."
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