How Did Madeleine McCann Vanish Into Thin Air? Criminal Experts Analyse Infamous Missing Child Case

It’s been 16 years since Madeleine McCann disappeared from a Portuguese resort while on holiday with her family. The case garnered international media attention but despite numerous lines of inquiries and various sightings, Madeleine was never found.
So how did a three-year-old seemingly vanish into thin air and why has a concerted international police investigation never been able to produce a concrete explanation?
In this new series former Met detective Peter Bleksley welcomes a panel of criminal experts to analyse how Maddie went missing and why she’s never been found.
Joining Peter this week is criminal barrister Oliver Doherty, former Detective Superintendent Shabnam Chaudhri and Sky News' Crime Correspondent and Author of 'No One Got Cracked Over the Head For No Reason' Martin Brunt.
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[@ianstorrar934]

The question should be why were the parents not charged with at least endangering a child?

[@sashaboo72]

Because they are Freemasons with very high connections unfortunately.

[@susivarga7303]

Because the public support was so huge, nobody dared to touch them. White British doctors, 3 angelic children, dodgy foreigners, useless police. The perfect narrative.

[@veronicaknight5068]

children !! 3

[@mrspilling7664]

Whatever people think of the McCann's actions.. The FACT remains someone illegally broke into an apartment a stole a child. Also, if you think about it. The fact that this case has had so much attention.. It "probably" has prevented so many other children from being taken? The McCann family must have been through a living hell.. They've already paid the price. My heart goes out to them.. Praying for the best possible outcome.. 🙏

[@susivarga7303]

@@mrspilling7664 Nobody broke into that apartment. Do you have statistical proof for a decrease in the number of child abductions?

[@cheryljohnson866]

Parents should NOT leave 3 children alone and go off to dine, especially when on holiday. My parents never did, and if they could not find a sitter, they stayed with us.

[@liftfan2]

We all used to do it. I wouldn’t now, but everyone did then.

[@jgibbs651]

​@@liftfan2No, we didn't all do it. Quite apart from anything else, it's a criminal offence to leave under 14s alone.

[@marleneclough3173]

I never ever left my children nor knew anyone else who did

[@63mckenzie]

And by their own admission did it several times. Different laws for the middle classes. If they were working class the other two kids would have been put into care.

[@63mckenzie]

@@liftfan2 3 kids under 3? Seriously?

[@missrose5261]

To leave a toddler alone with other siblings its acrime itself.

[@andybowie8590]

Did he actually say that its normal to go out for dinner and leave 3 very young kids in an apartment alone? No decent parent would do that. This whole attitude that the parents are blameless is beyond belief

[@marynuber7294]

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

[@andybowie8590]

@marynuber7294 they're to blame on some level, even if its "just" neglect but I've thought from day one that they had something to do with it and there's a ton of evidence pointing to a cover up, for some reason the British police still won't class them as suspects, I don't get it.

[@shirleywilliams5397]

Gerry is a Mason. The police are Masons. Gordon Brown is a Mason. Either the police & PM covered up or they didn’t want to believe the McCann parents were involved. They definitely protected the McCanns. I think a sedative was given because Madeleine had previously wandered off & had cried out when left alone & due to her being dehydrated it lowered her heart & lung function enough to cause death. The parents probably didn’t realise as they were getting ready to go out, but probably found her just too late to revive her just before they left or during one of the early checks. I think Gerry was the one who found her dead & hid her body. Kate was never told where Madeleine was buried so that she could not slip up in interviews. I suspect Kate administered the sedative & Gerry hid her body. Or both gave her a sedative & caused the overdosing. Because their collusion is so complete. My views are based on early interviews with the McCanns.

[@koonta6079]

7 young children were left alone that night, the eighth child in the group was ill and her grandmother taking care of her. So we have not only the McCaans leaving their children alone, two other couples also left their children alone. This is the reason the Tapas7 won't talk as they are as guilty of child neglect as the McCaans.

[@lisadiamond9882]

The real mystery is why Maddie got so much funding, year after year. Yet other missing cildren dont get that, an example being Ben Needham

[@G-Man..277]

Mr mccann, do you know Robert murat? Bear in mind he should be frantic in the search for his daughter, says... I'm not going to answer that question. Or words to that effect. Thats the biggest mystery for me.

[@kevincurr4641]

Might be wrong, but the total public money spent on this deliberately obviously wild goose chase is approaching £14 millions.

[@63mckenzie]

And why are they are ignoring evidence she died in the apartment? Have you seen Richard D Hall's hours of videos on this?

[@63mckenzie]

@@G-Man..277 The Portuguese police knew their story was BS but there was an orchestrated campaign by the powers that be via the media to make them look like incompetent hicks. You have to ask why.

[@sillypuppy5940]

Something to do with the funny handshake brigade, I've heard

[@maardora_art]

I am Portuguese and I find it fascinating how some details are never discussed in international media. They drugged their kids and left them alone. The hotel wasn't as close to the restaurant as most of them want us to believe. The parents refused to answer questions when interrogated. Their friends screw the crime scene just by being there. And it became political. So, even if Portuguese police made some mistakes, the parents, the media and the influential friends they had didn't help at all. Because, if the parents were Portuguese, they would have been arrested and charged. I am sorry for that little girl, because she is the only one who I know is truly innocent on all of this.

[@ramonknijff6316]

The Portuguese Police did a great Job (IN IMPOSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES) to finish the investigation and solve the Madeleine disappearance case!!!

[@sallywalton5375]

How do you know, they were drugged!!

[@ramonknijff6316]

@@sallywalton5375 these are not my words? I only said that the Portuguese Police did a great Job!

[@sallywalton5375]

@@ramonknijff6316 so sorry, wrong comment, my apologies

[@ramonknijff6316]

@@sallywalton5375 no problem! We all make mistakes? Thanks anyway!

[@hubertpierre9507]

How Madeleine could vanish? Ask her parents!

[@lil-al]

Yes, they know exactly where they dumped her little body.

[@m.h.6499]

💯🎯

[@johngibbons1658]

My ex wife and eldest daughter stayed in exactly the same apartments in Praia de Luz......there is no way in the world would either of us of left our daughter alone for any amount of time let alone go out on the jolly for the night......shame on the parents.....inexcusable behaviour

[@karlaparker7988]

I totally agree no child should be left but in particular these apartments they are not inclosed where you go through a reception to enter they are on a normal street

[@audreykassem8010]

That was the 5th night of doing it too

[@nikkimango2854]

what is your point?

[@LinDa-vx3ly]

I’m sure they know by now. People don’t need to repeat this ad infinitum. They have learned their lesson by now, I’m sure. The main person who never should have done what he did is the perpetrator.

[@kernowarty]

It is amazing how many people think that the parents were involved in her disappearance but you never hear any mainstream journalist or tv presenter suggesting that. It is one big cover up. If the parents had not been doctors and instead lived on a council estate they would be in prison.

[@susivarga7303]

You want them to get sued?

[@susivarga7303]

@@mikeyacson9542 Yes! Regardless, you cannot go on tv accusing them and you know that too. They'll never pay for what they've done.

[@babs3652]

​​@@mikeyacson9542Yes they should have been investigated. One more thing. Why hasn't other lost children cases got involvement by the government? Why the McCanns?

[@vyvienvp3413]

Dr McCann was close friends with Mr Gordon Brown, then Prime minister. .....

[@babs3652]

@@vyvienvp3413 So.....they got special treatment. 🧐🧐🧐

[@janetsouthworth6983]

Normal people do not leave three babies alone while they go out for dinner, no matter how close the restaurant is, even on holiday, especially on holiday because of the strangeness of it all for the children.

[@ANANDALEEMA]

And they gave their kids sleeping medication!

[@deidremulroe2461]

Poor Maddie asked her mummy not to leave them, she was scared night before. 😢 It makes me feel sick 🤮

[@hennyc6556]

Kids in kids’ club during the day. Left alone at night. Family holiday?. Sad

[@Gill12283]

​@@ANANDALEEMA8:03 that's what my mother said 😞

[@garyedgar2797]

Yes, correct! All it takes is for one of them to waken and there's mayhem. I think they were drugged and an accident occured

[@MissOrchid12]

There's something seriously wrong about Kate putting Madeleine's 'cuddle cat' in tbe washing machine straight away. Not normal behaviour for a grieving mother.

[@kevinmadigan2340]

It was necessary because Kate was worried about dna being discovered which would cause so many questions to explain. It’s hard not to consider the possibility that a child abuse ring was the likely cause when you look back on why the government became involved so quickly

[@chrisliversidge1070]

We were in Italy at the time, and one night we were due to go out to dinner (all of us) but the kids were fast asleep, so, I left my wife to look after them, and went to the local supermarket bought sandwiches, lemonade and cakes, and ate them in the apartment, that's what you do! NEVER EVER would we have left them,

[@aman2welly]

It’s beyond me how the McCanns got away with neglect and no blame was attributed to them at all It’s a disgrace

[@DoubleTroubles729]

Because Mr McCann is a 33rd degree mason and in the ‘club’, that’s all that needs to be said…………’only the wise will understand’.

[@liftfan2]

I disagree. It was normal to leave your kids in the room on a Mark Warner holiday. We all did it.

[@catherinetaylor2333]

@@liftfan2 three tiny children???

[@deborah-hq7xe]

No it's not normal to leave your kids. Not now, not ever. Maddies' parents should have been prosecuted. The thing that I find hard to believe is that when kate discovered that maddie had gone, she ran back to the restaurant leaving her other 2 babies in that apartment alone.

[@mrshadenoughofallthis911]

If that had been a young single mum on benefits they would have been absolutely trashed by the media. Two doctors know better than most of us, which makes their neglect worse in my view. It is extraordinary to me that they did not lose custody of their other children at least temporarily pending an investigation.

[@johnydnb]

Parents know more they don’t blame each other, their friends who had access to their room and they don’t blame the hotel workers. The blame always get pushed out to this mystery person who is never going to get caught.

[@silentnight9655]

💯.

[@lulabellegnostic8402]

Since when has the home secretary jumped in and involved himself personally in the case of a missing person? Not even in this country let alone abroad. This has stunk to high heaven from day 1.

[@LinDa-vx3ly]

Oh, well I don’t know… maybe since it became such big news? And because it happened in another country? Once those two requirements are met, it can and does happen.

[@crawford1083]

"...we rather take our eyes off our children" (Martin Brunt). No we don't! If many people leave three kids unattended to go out for dinner, then these people are irresponsible parents!

[@joanclawford8964]

They left the doors unlocked too ... !

[@sidcymraeg]

Do you leave your children unattended at home ? No. So why on earth would you do it in a different country if you are a responsible parent? You wouldnt. While there were mistakes made later, this was the initial one !!!

[@wendybutler2359]

And the restaurant was not within sight of the apartment. It was over 800-1000 mtrs away

[@paulstone3209]

Totally agree with you, When my son was a child I was more vigilant on foreign shores

[@lindajennings7375]

Peter Hyatt is a statement analyst he has proven from the mcCanns language and body language that Maddie had an accident and died and it was covered up.

[@joycejnn]

People keep an extra eye on their children when abroad …stop making excuses !

[@kevinclark1992]

Yes they do, what a stupid statement for him to make.

[@jujutrini8412]

Exactly. I was quite puzzled by that comment.

[@flotinaway7]

Locking the door would have been a start.

[@patricialeask3937]

Exactly

[@LovingLioness]

I agree. This is a stupid and untrue statement by the commentator.

[@ddoherty5956]

How anyone could have amy faith in their medical judgement after seeing how irresponsible their parenting was is beyond me.

[@missjknowles]

At the very least parents should have been charged for neglect and administering sedatives. A definite case of manslaughter. I’m sure they never meant to kill Maddie. A shame they felt that a meal and drinks were more important than their children.

[@michaelbailey8729]

Gerry doesnt look like he's lost much sleep over it but Kate does.

[@m.h.6499]

💯💯💯

[@HappyRareGrooveMan]

Connected to the government say no more. Ask yourself ,there are so many children going missing but how come the papers picked up on this case ASAP ..

[@ruthbashford3176]

@@michaelbailey8729 He even managed to sleep the night Madeleine allegedly disappeared according to Kate's book, madeleine.

[@michaelbailey8729]

@@ruthbashford3176 Id like to read the book written by the Portugese cop but they got it banned.

[@nicolettacinci3053]

Oh please....who leaves 3 small children alone at night and goes to dinner? This is pure and simple neglect

[@Jamilla.315]

totally agree nicole.

[@paulwilliams5013]

..the parents appear to not know any better!

[@viv8117]

No we don’t, we watch our children all the time.

[@thecuriolounge]

Martin Brunt bought and paid for clown shoes. He basically claimed that British holiday makers neglect their children when abroad.

[@kirstys5601]

We should though. I would never leave my child alone in an apartment to go out and eat and drink.

[@ozzeelady6029]

It’s very strange to me that there were 3 small children in that apartment and the ‘perpetrator’ only took ONE child. 🤷‍♀️

[@janac407]

And the mum left the twins there alone after she found out Maddie was ‘gone’. Instead of looking for her after leaving her in an unlocked room, she shouted that she was abducted and ran back to the restaurant. Why would she leave the twins there if she though there was a kidnapper about?

[@hannibal999]

..and the two other child was still asleep because of the medications their parents give them every fkin night while they were drinking in the bar. Yet nobody thinks at british police that they should be investigated. justice failed miserably that little girl

[@simonlevett4776]

Well said.@@hannibal999

[@melvynobrien6193]

The German "suspect" was cleared years ago. Bad start. The cadaver dogs told the story. Maddie died in the hotel room; there was no "abduction."

[@DR-mq1vn]

The parents are awful parents! You should NEVER leave children alone at that age!

[@ANANDALEEMA]

And never give children medication to sleep! And they are medical doctors.

[@MexicanForLife220]

@@ANANDALEEMA They didn't.

[@ruthbashford3176]

@@MexicanForLife220 The evidence suggests they did!

[@shonabeggs4640]

​@@MexicanForLife220Evidence says they did, as did many witnesses that night. Those twins never stirred and yet the flat & the room they were in was full to the gunwales with the tapas mob, MW employees and plods.

[@MexicanForLife220]

@@shonabeggs4640 No, actually evidence says they didn't. For some reason not many news outlets reported that the twins were tested and no drugs have been found.

[@evelynashman6421]

The parents are to blame! Shame on them for leaving such vulnerable young children alone in the first place!

bull crap

[@tosser1485]

Lots of parents do the same thing with their children they were only a few yards away

@@tosser1485 exaxctly

[@louiseadkins3294]

They were far enough away for her to disappear.

[@MrZORROish]

NO, THE ABDUCTOR IS TO BLAME!!!!!

[@vomo767]

No, the people who go on holiday and come back with their children which is 99.99% are the people who don't leave a 3 year old and a set of 1 year old twin babies alone and unattended in an apartment with the door left open while the parents are drinking and eating with their friends out of sight of that apartment, who tf does that???? The McCANNS are responsible for the loss of their own child, they are to blame and they are responsible for whatever has happened to her!!

[@dave788]

Well said I agree

[@davehunter9342]

A lesson in murder and how to get away with it

[@stevefowler3398]

​@@thetruth9210DOCTORS? Who told you that? You have correctly surmised that everything they have said is lies, so why believe THAT one?

[@freddiebiscuit9703]

NO! You don't go away on holiday and take your eyes off your children, especially in a foreign country. Normally a holiday with small children is centered around them and if you do want some adult time you try and get away for a few days at some other time and leave them at home with close family. You certainly do not leave two BABIES (the twins were babies) which everyone seems to forget when thinking about a nearly 4-year-old child. her siblings were 18 months old!

[@Swimkid1]

As soon as the parents began to be questioned - they fled the country. Enough said.

[@milesreardon8387]

I know of no parent. Whom would leave 3 small children alone whilst the parents go drinking. At night. That is the scandal

[@lynnedavies5884]

Report them.

[@ellyjay3957]

The parents of Madeleine are guilty as hell in my opinion.

[@MI7DJT]

Google for image of Tony Podesta red shoes club. Gerry McCann is next to him. They are all pedos.

[@JH-ck1nr]

Most people think they are.

[@miavos3610]

The father is guilty, and the mother is covering for him. Threatened to cover for him. Oops - have to add that it's my gut feeling.

[@johnclegg4993]

Human blood was detected by a sniffer dog in the Apartment and in the boot of THEIR car.

[@ellyjay3957]

@johnclegg4993 I know. I think the whole thing is a massive cover up.

[@andreagriffiths3512]

Back when I was younger and didn’t know better, I believed the parents when they dismissed the findings of the dogs. But I then got to know a rescue dog and a cadaver dog. They were exceptionally well trained. If a cadaver dog indicated, then it’s a safe bet someone was dead in that apartment at some point.

[@catman4471]

And if an EVRD alerted? Eddie was an EVRD, it means he was trained to alert to more than one type of scent. He did not bark once for blood and twice for cadaver, his alerts were the same for whatever he detected. He would alert to dried blood from a living person and Putrecine which can be found in urine, as well as other body scents and cadaverine. An EVRD was the wrong type of dog to bring to Portugal and this was clarified by the PJ after Amaral was taken off the case, something Amaral should have done fro the start. You might like to google search forensic canine white papers by Martin Grime, published in 2018. You will find EVRD's are no longer reccommended and Grime say's a dog should be trained in one type of scent only.

[@angelapowell2366]

She's not been abducted, sadly the parents involved a tragic accident.

[@stevefowler3398]

Not an accident! Why cover up an accident? Manslaughter yes! Beaten to death? Abused and died? Drugged?

[@EMEL-hr4ut]

You have to ask why such a big cover up by Top Brass. We know the blue bloods ike paedophilia and sacrifice

[@donnajohnson8035]

I’m sorry, but in a foreign place, I’d keep much more of an eye on my children!!!! Talk about excusing the child neglect - absolutely disgusting!!

[@olwenloud9704]

Why do you think that foreign places are more dangerous?

[@flowerjpotter1629]

​In a strange place one might not be aware of certain hazards that only the locals know about. Any parents with young children in their care need to keep an eye on their little ones no matter where they take them.

[@tedmanson3506]

​@@olwenloud9704because they are.

[@Christianandproud726]

It doesn’t matter foreign countries or home country kids should never ever have to be alone

[@simonlevett4776]

really ?@@tedmanson3506

[@dee4732]

If they were a family from a council estate they would have been charged with neglect....no broken doors no broken Windows cadaver dogs reacting to scent.. The Portuguese police thought from the start that Maddie had not been,snatched but when your family is friends with the PM Gordon Brown and you are a pair of doctors,it gives you special privilege

[@lynnesmith8281]

I was a single mum. Can you imagine what police would have done to me if one of my kids went missing? I can. I would have gone to jail for sure.

[@ritadonnelly8820]

that's a fact for sure

[@SuperJohnyyy]

A family from an estate wouldn't leave their kids sedated and alone in a foreign country

[@gregoryholstein3033]

@@SuperJohnyyySpot on Johnny. Cheers.

[@olwenloud9704]

You obviously never went on holiday to Butlins. Ordinary people routinely left children in their chalets, there were patrols. If they heard children crying, they put a call into the bars and restaurants.

[@QuertY1]

The sniffer dogs found evidence in the apartment and in the hire car weeks later. 3 children, 3 years and under, were left alone without a listening or baby sitting service, with the door unlocked next to a public road. Their parents left them to go to a restaurant with their friends. The parents have not been charged with abandonment, social services were never involved, they were still allowed to keep their twins. If this happened to parents from a council estate, the parents would be in prison.

[@sandiknits4174]

So strange that Gerry said in his first statement that the door was locked and he used a key to go in. Once the idea that anyone could have come in through the window was discredited he changed his story and said the door was left unlocked! How crazy to even admit that !

[@chriswilliams2514]

How the hell could they go out and enjoy themselves and leave three children un attended it’s an absolute disgrace. 😮

[@antoninasmith1012]

neglect

[@michaelb2388]

They were hungry and needed a break from the kids.

[@kevind6956]

@@michaelb2388I’m sure the kids were hungry too. We always took our children with us, never left them alone.

[@gloriadenning3860]

@@antoninasmith1012 That's putting it mildly. Poor Maddie, with low lifes like those two for parents.

[@heleneocleary5888]

@@kevind6956 I think alcohol was the carrot not food to be honest.

[@alantheloneranger]

To me, the only suspects are the parents.

[@charlottebruce979]

Really? So the person who took her is entirely innocent? Wow, everyone has their priorities way off.

[@ruthbashford3176]

@@charlottebruce979 In 16 years there has not been an iota of evidence that Madeleine was abducted by anyone.

[@shonabeggs4640]

​@@charlottebruce979Gerry took her. After stuffing her in a sports bag.

[@Murphystar]

@@charlottebruce979she was never abducted.

[@lizxox9460]

Gerry wears red leather shoes

[@elmaneti01]

I get always amazed by these programs and the experts. Anyone chosen off the street has more reliable and structured analyzes and, above all, conclusions then they do.

[@allanfarran364]

The parents should have been charged with neglecting a child leaving her home alone

[@danpope9981]

Parents should be in prison for child neglects Over 13 million of public money spent 2600 on average on missing child Discusting especially the money they pocketed from it!

[@jackwatsonepic626]

So how come all these years later we are still talking about this case , but everybody's forgotten about Ben Needham who went missing on the Island of Kos in 1991 at 2 year old . is it because his parents aren't doctors 🤔 🇬🇧

[@selinamcilwaine4731]

Exactly. It is not what you know but who you know. Guilty as hell.

[@jo.s7993]

Absolutely right, it makes me so angry.

[@denisehill7769]

If I remember rightly his mum came in for some criticism - yet she's never given up on her search. Despite not being given millions to help. Don't recall her threatening anyone with legal suits etc...whereas the Teflon Two made it into a publicity campaign from the very start.

[@Cosmic-lover293]

Allegedly, some toy of bens was found in a hole in their back garden in kid. It’s all edged that an alcoholic workman ran over Ben and killed him. No human remains though. But no, Ben needhams case got hardly any attention.

[@teresabelshaw4262]

Little Ben will never be forgotten 😢😢

[@annemelia2332]

It's ridiculous to claim that people take their eyes off their children when on holiday. I was always hyper vigilant and watching them carefully.

[@xx-wy5ot]

Agreed, Im way MORE watchful on holiday actually. Different surroundings, more water,more strangers. Don't agree with Mr Brunts comments on that!!!

[@Jennaz1111]

If the dogs are trained to smell dead bodies, and they could smell and were signalling their find, why tf didnt they arrest the parents. Imo its more then enough evidence if dog smells a DEAD BODY on the PARENTS. Im 19 years old, and fucking terrified for the future. This is how police and government officials search for and help neglected children? They completely overlook the trained professional dogs they bring in that have alerted and done their job. The parents are most likely to blame. They 1. Neglected their young children leaving them home alone while going out to dinner. 2. The dogs could SMELL A DEAD BODY ON THEIR BELONGINGS IN THE APARTMENT SHE WAS LAST SEEN.

[@postiej36]

The first question should be why it’s the only case in history that has used blood & cadaver dogs, then completely ignored their findings.

[@ruthbashford3176]

That is a very good question. If a cadaver dog had alerted to the past-presence of a corpse in Christian Brueckner's campervan he would have been arrested and charged over Maddie's disappearance.

[@moonshadow3946]

@postiej36 That is an absolutely excellent question. Thank you for posting this comment.👏⭐

[@moonshadow3946]

​@@ruthbashford3176Yes Exactly Ruth. That is completely what would have happened. Thank you for saying this as it's a very important point of view. 👏⭐

[@martinebarnard-delaroche7438]

Yes indeed - the "official narrative" appears to be that the child was abducted, yet the cadaver dogs told a completely different story so it didn't fit that narrative - I go with the dogs...

[@laurielovett8849]

@@ruthbashford3176 And it wasn't just a polite bark,I thought the cadaver dog was going to explode barking, he never shut his mouth

[@kevin982]

I believe the McCann's should have done time in jail. It was their fault for not looking after the kids.

[@scaryfakevirus]

They 'looked after the kids' all right.

[@marie-francoiserama7052]

If Maddie is dead, where is her body? Maybe only Bruckner knows. The fact that he was not arrested says that he can denied this one and that form part of the German Theory. Now that they have him in Germany, he will not escape.

[@stephenrobinson8244]

Maybe but there were several families there, are they gonna lock up everyone. All the finger pointing is easy from behind the screen. We can't be sure on anything apart from Maddie is An anagram of I'm dead.

[@pommiebears]

⁠@@stephenrobinson8244 No…they’re going to lock up the parents of the child missing. Other people don’t have the responsibility of others children. That’s ridiculous. I’m disappointed in your answer, because I’m a Robinson too. Lol. Your anagram is, however, spooky.

[@gonnievanherwijnen7066]

The policedogs sniffed a cadaversmell in the hotelroom. They did not left her alone safely and she had got sleepingpills to have a nice diner for 2 in the hotel and came back and she choked maybe the sleepingpills were to much your moisture in the mouth sinks with the throuth suffecation as result. cadaverdogs smelled the dead body later. Coming back they took her out in a blanket in panick. A witness saw a man walking with something wrapped in a blanket. That was her father brunging it to a place nobody saw ..took the car and they left to dispose her..burry her in dunes or surroundung. Because a witness saw one man walking with a big blanket something was in it.

[@ramonknijff6316]

Kate McCann has called out from the very first moment that: "Madeleine had been taken" and did not react as a parent would normally do in that situation, for example "Madeleine is gone, I can't see her anymore?" That same night Kate and Gerry contacted Sky News, while they left the search for their child to others that night?? (If it had been my child I would have continued to search unstoppable!) No! This Loving Parents had other priorities? Saving their reputation was playing the main part for them to invite the World Press on their doorstep in Praia da Luz and convincing everyone that Madeleine was abducted!

[@bomboomsreality3113]

The parents should be accountable for this

[@kernowarty]

Cadaver dogs were ignored. They had a previous impecable record with finding traces of blood and bodies. Did they fail this time? Of course not.

[@BillBiggs1]

The dogs were paid off

[@kutatm]

@@BillBiggs1😂.

[@ruthbashford3176]

Cadaver dogs are 94-98% accurate, so trusted in fact that uncorroborated cadaver dog alerts are now allowed in courts as evidence in both the US and UK

[@moonshadow3946]

@kernowarty Well said.👏⭐

[@TurdFergusen]

@@BillBiggs1with treats and scritches

[@Brian.001]

I don't know what happened, but one thing that really stands out for me is that Kate ran back to the restaurant, leaving the 2yo twins alone, after Maddie 'had been taken'. !! That is inconceivable, given that they had phones.

[@Threadbow]

Yes that's crazy

[@Brian.001]

@@khkforest It does make you wonder, at the very least. How could she leave the twins alone again at that time?

[@flyingfish4561]

Because she or her husband overdosed Maddie killing her then dumping her in the sea.

[@Brian.001]

@@flyingfish4561 Not sure about that one. They would have to weigh the body down to prevent it getting washed up. But just think - she goes to the bedroom, finds Maddie gone and the shutters broken and the window wide open. What to do? Leave the twins there and run back to the group!! Obviously!!!

[@patfurnival]

@@khkforest😊 4:53

[@petawillingale]

All those years ago i felt the parents were involved but i didnt know why, all these years later my feelings still haven't changed!

[@Snoozzzzzze]

It is very interesting and refreshing to read the comments here. 100% of the comments blame the parents for at least neglect and most for man slaughter by overdosing on anaesthetic. There isn’t a jury in this land that would find them not guilty yet millions are spent on these heinous people when other children disappear every year.

[@adelemcg69]

We do NOT take our eyes off our children in foreign countries because the sun is shining and the atmosphere relaxed. We do NOT go out for dinner, leaving our children alone in an apartment. We eat together and when the children go to bed we may sit on the balcony. That's as far as we ever went from our children when abroad on holidays!!

[@nikkimango2854]

Oh my God, you must be the parents of the year..

[@adelemcg69]

​@nikkimango2854 far from it. We all make mistakes but none so stupid as the McCanns.

[@bodyscanandrelax]

Seemed the children were basically just an inconvenience to the parents. Stuck in Crèche by day, left alone in apartment at night. Poor kids.

[@MsMiklosa]

I have never left any of my three kids alone no matter where. Going to a restaurant and leaving children back in hotel is outrageous. Before blaming police, blame the parents.

[@olwenloud9704]

It was on the apartment sit, only a couple of hundred meters away.

[@JR-dl9zt]

I agree should have been charged with neglect !!!

[@jambourie]

@@olwenloud9704 And, your point being. The fact that Madeline went missing is living proof that this was a shitty idea. That poor baby.

[@heleneocleary5888]

If they had been in a hotel there is some sort of supervision . A reception desk etc. No this was a private apartment on the ground floor with steep steps and a gate onto the road. I don’t think anyone would do it something else must have happened We however do not know.know what happened just that Madeline has disappeared.

[@lil-al]

@@olwenloud9704 A couple of hundred metres?? Are you crazy? That is far too far away to protect tiny children.

[@lucybeckmann1378]

The evidence suggests that the parents were to blame. There definitely has been a cover up.

[@patriciafinn5717]

Its a tragedy that has been never investigated the parents properly.

[@Golds174]

The parents are to blame, who leaves their kids alone whilst dining out? They also bathed each other's kids, which is a massive red flag. Go and speak to really investigators like Richard D Hall and Sonia Poulton, they will tell you what happened.

[@scaryfakevirus]

Yes, all very strange but it goes much deeper than that though. And why were the Met police brought in to take over investigation? To control the narrative maybe?

[@garypearn5886]

Sonia Poulton somewhat bizarrely did a total u-turn from her initial position to they're innocent, leave them be

[@CdEmm50]

Yes, visiting to bathe other kids struck me as odd at the time, I'm being polite here...

[@laurach.5550]

@@garypearn5886 Sorry, but doesn' t Sonia think the parents are to blame?

[@garypearn5886]

@@laurach.5550 Yes, I thought she did but then I'm sure I saw something that contradicted that. However, doing some digging she seems true to her initial thoughts - leastways judging by this tweet by her in May 2022: 15 years ago today Madeleine McCann was reported missing. I've made 2 counter-narrative docs as I've seen how media have lied. Fact remains there's more evidence to suggest Maddie was NOT abducted than evidence to suggest she was. I consider this 1 of the UK's biggest cover ups.

[@lindaefraim5895]

I can’t understand how any sane adult can leave their kids alone sleeping at home or in a holiday home/hotel and then go to a restaurant. It’s so irresponsible. You don’t leave to have fun and let your kid home alone. Kids can wake up and walk away, do things and harm themself or the house if they found something as a knife or matches and put the house on fire. As an adult you need to be around. No one would leave their toddler to the daycare and the babysitter went to a restaurant when the kids have a nap. No one would leave their kids there but it seems to be okay at holidays and a Friday night because mom and dad want to have fun. So irresponsible! I have six kids and I have never ever done something like that. If we went away on a holiday and the kids goes to sleep me and my husband stay with them

[@davidwhite1795]

Portuguese, Spanish and other southern European People just cannot understand why these children were left alone in the chalet and not brought along to the meal with their parents??

hindsight is a great thing hey. Some of the comments here are unbelievable . It looks like we have perfect parents all of a sudden here .

[@spaceted3977]

I worked for Haven Holiday Firm as a Security Guard !!! They provide a Baby Patrol, or Cots to keep the Children with the Parents in the Restaurants and Night Clubs So there is No reason to leave their Children Alone !!!!

[@jambourie]

​@you don't need hind sight to know leaving three young babies alone night after night is at best extremely risky, and at worst gross negligence.

[@anaromello]

​@expecting parents not to leave 3 children under 3 alone in an unlocked apartment to go drinking isn't demanding "perfect parenting". It's a basic minimum that is required not to be a terrible, neglectful parent.

[@user-ig6dw8hy5m]

For goodness sake we the normal people know who killed this poor little baby, she was not taken look within.

[@bingonamo7520]

The most bizarre thing about the Madeleine McCann case is, it happened 16 years ago in 2007, yet it's constantly in the media all over the world, as though she is the only child on Earth that has ever gone missing in all of that time. I live in NZ and am sick to death of hearing about it. Who is it that keeps it in the media constantly and why? Why would we over here in NZ need to be reminded of it each fortnight or so, for 16 effing years? We've got our own missing kids that have never been found and some of them went missing many decades ago. A lot of these kids stories don't even make it to the media in the first place. Why does no one question that and why do journalists not bring it up as entirely and absolutely suspicious, that their colleagues keep putting it out there so often, 16 years on?

[@johnstock-hw9in]

I think that the answer to your question is diversion. It is obvious to everyone that a second and highly covert agenda surrounds this case which must never be exposed. Periodic focuses on spurious suspects and evidence keeps the theory of an abduction alive. My big fear is that in order to prove to the world that it was an abduction sooner or later a fall guy will be found. The guy that they have under arrest in Germany at the moment could well be the man as I believe that the has a dreadful criminal record including heinous and deviant crimes. So on that basis alone there will be many who will be pleased to see him locked up for life, the abduction will be proven and the case closed for ever.

[@ramonknijff6316]

​@@johnstock-hw9inChristian Bruckner has nothing to do with the abduction! He is one of the umpteenth suspects created to keep the money guzzling tap open and the ABDUCTION story alive??

[@jambourie]

And this case was so preventable it's bloody ridiculous. Looking for a child that would have so easily been protected. How many kiddies disappear through no fault of the parents but this. It makes no sense.

[@kernowarty]

Sleeping tablets or liquid, waking up and walking out, falling down and hitting head, reputations to think of, fear of prosecution, guilt at leaving them alone, misleading timeline, rented car, rural burial, cover up. In a nut shell.

[@waxrepine1298]

Actually I think the body was dumped at sea.

[@laurapearson3370]

​@@waxrepine1298so do I

[@moonshadow3946]

@kernowarty Well said. A very truthful and educated comment about the Case. 👏⭐

[@ferventheat]

​​@@waxrepine1298 there is some suggestion that the McCann's used a boat going by testimony from a local boat owner. That would make some sense with a quickly buried body on the beach on the night of her death and then later remove her by cover of night. I don't know if they dared risk a burial at sea as they do often resurface. I think they buried her somewhere safe. We await their deathbed confession.

[@shonabeggs4640]

That kid was not seen for days before the chosen night. Sold to pdf files when done with her.

[@kernowarty]

The parents know a lot more than they are saying.

[@janeclarkson8471]

I definitely think so too!

[@kutatm]

I’d say the parents know exactly what happened, they covered it up!

[@Crispvs1]

@@kutatm Really - do tell why you think that. If they knew so much, then why did they appear night after night on television desperately appealing for someone - anyone to come forward with information about their missing daughter?

[@ruthbashford3176]

@@Crispvs1 Its called PR, the McCanns were very good at that.

[@paulwilliams5013]

..didn't Kate say to the group at the dining table.. '"they've taken her'". That implies that she (and maybe the group) might have known who 'they' were. I'm sure that she WAS 'taken'...but not alive ...in a bag.... collected by undertakers or equivalent, under the cover of darkness..

[@christinewilson1538]

As a retired police officer, I point out that your criticism of the Portuguese police is unfounded; if a child is reported missing in the UK the initial officer(s) must search the building and outbuildings to make sure the child is not hiding or injured within the boundaries of the home - they do not treat it as a crime, unless they see something to suspect that, and the Portuguese police saw no cause to think a crime had been committed because the parents originally said the door was left unlocked and Madeline was missing - not taken (they later changed their story to the door was locked and someone had taken her...even though there was no evidence of forced entry).

[@claravide5259]

Eu sou portuguesa e sinto-me ofendida por ninguém falar da negligência dos pais e do facto de deixarem os filhos sozinhos...etc..etc

[@lynnebarnes3840]

Yes, they drugged the children and then went out partying, but, no one mentions this.

[@chrishutch2387]

@@lynnebarnes3840typical old women, deep into menopause and heavily over dosed on HRT spouting BS theories with ZERO evidence. Bore off and find something interesting to do with life, don’t you play bingo anymore?

[@olwenloud9704]

And you “know” this how?

[@lynnebarnes3840]

@@olwenloud9704 the parents said they were "at dinner" they say they were so close "as the crow flies" but it was some distance to walk, some manipulation of the facts there. The little ones were in the mothers arms at mid morning rag doll like, completely unconscious at mid morning. There's video.

[@charlessquare862]

Soy español y también estoy ofendido del trato dado por la prensa británica, denigrando el trabajo de los policías portugueses y en última instancia de nuestro país hermano

[@nbenefiel]

The fact is that no physical evidence of an intruder was ever found. I find this disturbing. When we were in Hawaii my husband and I were thrilled we could see our kids sleeping from the hot tub and pool. If we couldn’t we would not have gone to the pool without them, vacation or no vacation.

[@thefonzeful]

everyone, i mean everyone forgets this....... they phoned the sun newspaper in u.k. as soon as she was discovered missing!! think about that for a second..............if my kid went missing temporally whilst on holiday in a foreign country, i don't think i'd think to call a british newspaper. before you say it wasn't temporary because she's still missing, the parents must have surely thought it was temporary? so why call a british newspaper when you are on holiday in portugal? and the way people condemn the Portuguese police's actions is terrible. why would the police corden the area? it wasn't a crime scene, was it? unlocked doors, open windows? kid wanders off and get's lost in a foreign country........................... it was only until the dogs came in to identify it AS a crime scene (due to blood and dead body detection skills of those 2 dogs). up until that point, it wasn't really a "crime scene". those dogs also identified the hire car the parents were using at the time of her "abduction". remember they don't detect people scents, they only detect blood and dead bodies.........................................................

[@sauzee55]

the portuguese police are adamant that the mccanns are involved ,

[@gregevans8939]

I thought the verdict of the Portuguese police was.... that there was NO evidence that she was taken from that room. NO evidence that anyone entered that room. However there was blood evidence from inside the apartment !! How on earth is anyone in their right mind still talking about her being abducted ???? This all reeks of a cover-up... I just wish I knew why....

[@DepakoteMeister]

Because the NHS could not aford to lose that many Doctors.

[@scottandrewhorne4655]

THESE SOULESS MONSTER MCCANNS KATE AND GERRY KNOW ALOT OF SECRETS ON THE ILLUMINATE. THAT IS WHY IT HAS BEEN COVERED UP BY OTHER SOULESS MONSTERS WORKING IN AND FOR THEIR FORCE POSITION OF POWER SOULESS JOB ROLES FOR THEIR FORCE POSITION OF POWER SOULESS ORGANIZATIONS AND OR SOULESS ESTABLISHMENTS

[@ferventheat]

Friends in high places... Gordon Brown, Clement Freud to name two. Tony Blair made the special provision of funding for the 'search' for Maddie so they got a lot of help. Potentially there is masonic connections, suffice to say they got special treatment and the Met refused and still refuses to this day to interview the McCann's.

[@nbenefiel]

There is simply not enough evidence to charge anyone.

[@scottandrewhorne4655]

@@nbenefiel Oh But There Is. BECAUSE GODS WONDERFUL EARTHLY CREATURES THAT SMELT BLOOD DO NOT LIE NOR DO I AND NOR DO MOST OF US HERE WALKING ON THIS EARTHLY WORLD THIS EARTHLY REALM. BECAUSE FOR MOST OF US WHO ARE WALKING HERE ON THIS EARTHLY WORLD THIS EARTHLY REALM WE HAVE OUR SOULS ATTACHED TO OUR EARTHLY BODYS THUSFORE WE REMAIN CONNECTED TO HEAVEN AMEN XXXXXXX AND WE GOOD HUMAN BEINGS WE ALL KNOW WHAT KATE AND GERRY DONE AND SO DO THE CORRUPTED SOULESS ORGANIZATIONS AND OR SOULESS ESTABLISHMENTS AND THE SOULESS PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THESE SOULESS ORGANIZATIONS AND OR SOULESS ESTABLISHMENTS WHO ARE COVERING UP ALL OF THIS THESE SOULESS PEOPLE THEY ARE JUST DISGRACFUL SOULESS MONSTERS THAT IS ALL THAT THESE SOULESS PEOPLE ARE AND THEY ARE OF TO HELL ON THEIR D DAY. FOR THEIR CRIMES COMMITED AGAINST HUMANITY

[@49537480]

We had a holiday home in Lagos Portugal at the very time Maddie went missing. I can tell you that the Portuguese Police were searching boats in the marina, there were missing person posters put up everywhere, coastguards were searching the sea with helicopter support. How the McCanns had the nerve to criticize the Portuguese Police and the lead detective Amaral is beyond belief. The Met were a source of entertainment to the locals digging up areas of wasteland in the height of the summer season, which of course could have been carried out of peak. The locals joked the Met needed their summer break every year, to follow up once again another person of interest. People should read Detective Amarals Book" The Truth Of The Lie"

[@angeliquecaroartt7542]

Yes and I am only sorry I can only "Like" once when I really want to "Like" a thousand times.

[@catman4471]

Truth of the lie is Amaral's excuse for messing up the case, simple.

[@lindamaroukis4586]

I have read The Truth of The Lie. I believe it. Well written and all the facts are laid out

[@catman4471]

@@lindamaroukis4586 No, Amaral's interprettion of the facts was flawed. First, he believed one dog detected only blood and the other only cadaver, which is incorrect, the cadaver dog also alerted to blood from a living person. He didn't read the full report regarding the DNA samples and believed 15 out of 19 markers matched maddie's, which is not what the report say's. He believed the dogs had a 100% success rate where Grime makes it clear he is unaware of hown many times his dogs have been right. Amaral got so much wrong then wrote a book about his misinterpreatations. Check out the PJ Files and compare the facts. Amaral messed up, simple.

[@catman4471]

@@Angelica-lo5qs Hold on one second...are you sleeping with Amaral? Are you trying to tell me that because I can read the facts in the PJ files that I must be a family member? Just because you're too gullible to believe whatever you're told without checking fcts for yourself, does not give you the right to castigate me for supporting the truth. There is no doubt the McCanns were wrong in leaving their children alone but that wasn't the topic of conversation, the topic was Amarals nonsensical book for an investigation his team messed up. Fact, not fiction.

[@denisebrown6939]

Who is this guy?...saying parents dont look after their children on holiday.? You cannot let your guard down on holiday. You still have a duty to protect and be aware of any safety issues.

[@carolegill2456]

It will always be a mystery, the child gone without eye witnesses or trace of her anywhere. Leaving young children all alone was a big mistake

[@thecuriolounge]

The absolute state of Martin Brunt falsely and *smugly* claiming that it's normal for British holiday makers to neglect their children whilst abroad and providing yet another excuse for the McCanns for their blatant neglect. Disgusting take. Also can't believe that Peter Bleksley of all people is just going along with the official story rather than looking at her parents having knowledge of her disappearance. Utterly shameful.

[@thecarpetman7687]

And people wonder why people can’t stand Brits abroad if that’s the attitude to their kids…no wonder they are like a bunch of louts

[@ellenlyons4090]

That wasn’t what he said at all. He said that people are much more relaxed when on holiday and can take their eye of the ball so to speak.I got what he was saying your in a nice environment Sun sea sand kids are happy on the beach or in the swimming pool your on a complex every one’s friendly your more relaxed. The last thing your thinking of is someone is going to abduct your child. You would be shocked at how many children go missing abroad one of the worst for children going missing is Disney land in America so I’m told. We don’t hear of these cases Madeleine’s case got media attention because her aunt contacted British media because they didn’t think the Portuguese police were taking it serious and they knew time was of the essence if they were to find her. I can’t believe it’s 15 yrs god love her she would be 18 yrs old now.

[@thecuriolounge]

@@ellenlyons4090 That is absolutely what he said, and at the same time he absolved the parents of any wrong-doing. Yet again the parents are getting away with blatant negligence. Maddie did not go missing as a result of "taking the eye off the ball", she went missing as a result of serious neglect. The Portuguese police took this very seriously, they just didn't believe the narrative that the parents were innocent and they believe the parents are guilty in some way. They contacted the British media for damage control because they know that they're the ones in the wrong. Also, she went missing *16* years ago, not 15, and she would be 20 today, not 18. Literally your entire comment is 100% incorrect.

[@ellenlyons4090]

@@thecuriolounge I stand corrected it was 16 yrs and as she was three she would have been 20 yrs old on the 12 May 2023. The point I was making that Martin Brunt was saying people are more relaxed and less vigilant than if they were at home. I was suggesting reasons for why that might be. Why do you feel the need to speak down to people and take it personal that Martin Brunt wax suggesting British holiday makers neglect their children whilst abroad. That’s you making assumptions he said people he didn’t specify a nationality did he. It was a generalisation.

[@thecuriolounge]

@@ellenlyons4090 This still isn't a case of being "less vigilant", it was neglect. I'm not taking anything personally at all. I actually think it's not even true. Most good parents are way more cautious and vigilant when holidaying abroad. Ultimately what I meant was that his comment was absolute nonsense.

[@ruthbashford3176]

A child is reported missing (not by her parents) to the police. The last place she was seen alive and well (according to her parents) is in their holiday apartment. The parents claim she was abducted but their stories are inconsistent and there is no evidence of an intruder in the apartment. One of the best cadaver dogs detects the past-presence of a corpse in the holiday apartment, hire car and only on items belonging to the parents. I think that would be enough to get most people arrested but not the McCanns.

[@georgiaclapham9204]

absolutely. i trust the dogs. also the mccanns' behavior was very suspect after the so-called abduction.

[@j4mm213]

Why did the McCanns lie about the window being open that itself is a red flag.

[@mountainsofmourne]

@@georgiaclapham9204 Knowing about the need to preserve any clues, the McCanns and their friends all gathered in the flat - and drew up a timeline (actually, two versions) of where they all were at those times. Then they contacted the Portuguese police and the Mark Warner site office. Ruined any traces.

[@melgrant7404]

@@georgiaclapham9204 agree. Funny how they said they wouldn't be leaving without finding maddy first and then when the finger was being pointed at them they left promptly.

[@catman4471]

The parents stories are not inconsistent, not their statements anyway. There was no evidence of an intruder because the police messed up their chances of collecting any. 'One of the best cadaver dogs detects the past prescence of a corpse in the apartment'....really? Eddie had a very keen nose which made him good at his job, but his job was to alert to blood from a dead or living person and the scent of a corpse. He was never trained to give different alerts for blood or cadaver. Why do you think he alerted to a cadaver?

[@bpfromowc]

The McCanns: “Embedded Confessions” is a forensic examination of statements made by the parents. It’s the best analysis I have seen of what happened to Madeleine. It involves what’s known as “statement analysis”. I strongly recommend it.

[@alexpd308]

“Took their eyes off” is a bit of an understatement . What they did was leave two babies and a 3 yr old alone in a flat in a foreign country while they went to the pub. Whatever happened to her, happened as a result of neglect.

[@Mcfctreble23]

When I’ve gone anywhere with my five sons when they were toddlers me and my wife would never let them out of our sight . I’ve spent many holidays just standing there watching them.

[@charlottebruce979]

We all do as parents it's standard, they made an error of judgement, and the other families did the same. I stopped to do the shoes laces of my five year old for a few seconds, and my two year old vanished for a few minutes. It's impossible to always watch them every second.

[@plipertyplap4899]

The cadaver dogs told you what happened to her .

[@jogtheviking]

The Cadaver (corpse) dogs picked up, she died in the apartment but rather than convict the parents we claim the dogs are wrong (which they aren't)!

[@caroleoneill2872]

Correct they never are & are still used today as well only good old Gerry Mccann says the dogs aren't reliable. If you believe Gerry Mccann then you will believe anything

[@terrygrady8413]

The parents are 100% responsible and must be punished for neglect.

[@charlottebruce979]

I think the man who took the child is to blame, the other parents did the same, why are we focused on the parents it's the person who took her!!

[@terrygrady8413]

@@charlottebruce979 You could say allowed to take her. I am a parent and there is no way I would have left young children alone in an apartment.

[@ruthbashford3176]

@@charlottebruce979 No-one took Madeleine. There is simply NO evidence she was abducted.

[@charlottebruce979]

@terrygrady8413 I'm a parent too, and I wouldn't have done what they did, I'm too anxious a parent, but considering the parents had separate bedrooms from their children, the perpetrator STILL could have taken her by going through the shutters, without the parents knowing.

[@cb4883]

​@@ruthbashford3176NO ONE ABDUCTED HER SHE DIED AT THE HANDS OF HER PARENTS 😮

[@heatherwhittaker6169]

The parents left very young children alone..could the child have woken and injured herself..the parents finding her when they returned, covered the accident up? I am so sorry for the child,never the selfish parents.

[@mtbroca]

I've always asked myself why the parents were out dining with such a young child alone in the room. You would assume the child needed to also eat.

[@Juandan59]

Mr. Grime, who trained Eddie and Keela, patiently explained that the dogs had traced the ‘smell of death’ - human cadaver - on around 200 previous occasions. They had never once been wrong.

[@Ligerpride]

Imagine being a police detective, retired or otherwise, looking at this case......and then wondering what happened? The amount of pretend chin stroking and "mystery" about this story is ludicrous.

[@janelowe524]

It’s not a mystery look at the parents who drugs their kids to go out on the piss

[@scaryfakevirus]

Police officers will have a good idea as I am sure you realise. Anyone in the police (with a brain) will understand. I know.

[@Ligerpride]

@@scaryfakevirus yes. But they go on TV as ambassadors for the parents and slate anyone who dares question what the parents are saying.

[@ruthbashford3176]

@@dddayesq5061 I think the Portuguese police could tell these so called professionals where they've gone wrong. Perhaps these 'professionals' should look at where the evidence actually leads.

[@scaryfakevirus]

@@Ligerpride Because it's a conspiracy.

[@dawwgf]

3:22 no. Leaving your toddlers and infants unsupervised in an unlocked apartment in a foreign country while you go and get drunk with your friends at least a quarter of a mile away? That’s really *not* familiar to most of us.

[@ramonknijff6316]

It would be fair for Goncalo Amaral to receive substantial compensation from the Portuguese government for being unjustly removed from office, causing emotional and financial distress for him while he proved irrefutable evidence and resolved the case! The Portuguese government should never have allowed themselves to be put under such pressure by the British in 2007, because they also knew that Amaral was right/as well as everyone else involved!

[@hannahtattoo]

Who doesn't keep the same eye on their children? Really?

[@redjacc7581]

"it's a holiday situation so we take our eyes off the children" what a moronic thing to say from a journalist. Most parents dont leave their children in the apartment unsupervised!

[@Qkano]

Most parents might leave their children for 5 minutes to pop to the shop. What most parents would never do is leave them unattended for 4 hours in an unlocked apartment at the same time every night (a pattern of behaviour) Absolutely - indeed, my parents were MORE careful when on holiday than when at home in the back garden.

[@georgiaclapham9204]

@@Qkano i would not ever have left my kids to "pop to a shop"!

[@iRoppa]

“We’re dealing with parents who don’t know what happened to their daughter.” - erm, I would say they know EXACTLY what happened to their daughter.

[@williammccarthy4441]

How can parents of a missing child think about going for a run along the beach in front of journalists and cameras????

[@Swansong321]

To talk about what really happened away from everyone...no-one could listen to them running by the ocean

[@susanspencer4075]

I have always felt from day one the parents lied through their teeth. Ask any parent of three toddlers, you would not leave them in a flat alone with no adult keeping their toddlers safe. We all know toddlers wake up, have falls, get into something they should not. These parents refused the babysitting service on site, and it's said these two doctors medicated there children. This case has always stunk to me everyone who investigated came to the same conclusion, no abduction. I got that the father was in the club, hence the involvement of prime minister of the UK and others. Ask yourselves did Ben Needham who disappeared on the island of kos get prime ministers, coverage by world media, millions from UK gov for finding there child, no, does it still get publicity no, so what's the difference, I also believe bruekner is a fall guy and another reason the deep state involved and an typical fall guy found to close the case. Still not convinces.Ask yourselves why does every investigator come to the same conclusion no abduction took place. Watch the deception detectives these parents do not tell the truth and are as guilty as sin, plus working together, notice in early interviews they were final, and closed, spoke volumes.

[@chriscoles8579]

See my comments…..all guilty as hell..massive cover up….many members of the government attended their swinging parties in uk as did Brukenbaur….

[@wendacox9105]

If we had left our 3 children alone at night and gone for a meal at our local pub literally a stones throw from our house im pretty sure social services would be involved and we would be accused of neglect ..Rightly so ..These parents screwed up big time ..Disgusting leaving babies home alone in a foreign country aswell 🤬🤬

[@missp.buttons3602]

I strongly disagree with the guy who said we relax and don't watch our children as closely while on vacation as we do at home. As a grandmother I'd say the opposite is true.

[@oc2538]

Because of this case (I was 24 at the time) now at 35 with little kids I never let my child get even ten feet away from me. It's actually terrible to live with this much anxiety, but better safe than sorry. Their problem was they left the children alone to sleep. They made the most ridiculous choice. I don't know of any parents who do this. I always take my kids with the stroller to the restaurant. They can sleep in the stroller. The fact several couples, all educated individuals, thought "this is safe for the kids" blows my mind. Yes the police were sloppy, they didn't react quickly. But trafficking in the Mediterranean is very serious. It should be punished with the death penalty.

[@janac407]

The parents were always number one suspects in Portugal and it was believed Maddie died by accident in the hotel room. Gonzalo Amaral’s book is available online for free, it is very interesting and consistent with the strange behaviour of the parents. They declared she was taken from the unlocked room but were not physically looking for her. The cadaver dog detected a scent of a dead person on Maddie’s cuddly toy. (And in the room and their rented car) They washed it the next day and then kind of laughed about it in one of their interviews. Their interviews are hard to watch. I wish the truth came out about what happened to Maddie that night.

[@Michael-speed]

Braindead, honestly how exactly did they get away with murdering their child whilst among friends and hide the body. Stupid person.

[@isabelvilalobos]

I agree! I read both his books and they are very good explaining the whole case, what probably happened, based on facts!

[@bradwhelan4466]

The truth has come out, the real mystery is how they have escaped prosecution. Everything you have said is true but there is a lot more to this than meets the eye, including their high level connections to members of the establishment, which goes a long way to explaining many things.

[@marcinp.6599]

Yes. True. And it's the UK police who messed the investigation up (covered up), not the Portuguese one.

[@bigduphusaj162]

​@@bradwhelan4466Gerry had Tony Blair and Gordon Browns number on his phone. Im not talking afterwards im talking he had them on his phone before she went missing. Blairs PR spin master was put in charge of spin for them.

[@jartotable]

The local peoples know exactly who should be arrested. Father has been proven by many highly acclaimed criminal, body and language specialists claim he shows massive signs of 'duping delight'.

[@lesgensdeprovenceontlaparo6531]

And a whole lot of other manipulative tactics as well as contempt for those that ask pertinent questions.

[@ramonknijff6316]

The establishment is committed to ensuring that their house of cards never collapses! Heads of respectively politicians, Leicestershire Police, the Met, Clarence Mitchell, Murdoch's Imperium and everyone else involved continued are under protection!! And so Madeleine has never had a voice in this insane situation since 2007..... The question is whether she ever going to have It and her right to be served to rest in peace? That seems to be the only real Justice in this case!

[@jambourie]

Its incredible how they go on and on about the failings of the portuguese police but nothing at all is said about the failings of the parents. They place no blame or responsibility for the fact that something happened to that poor little child on the parents. If they had hired a babysitter, stayed with the children, taken the children with them none of this would have happened. Maddie was gone before the police got there. They were not responsible for her loss.

[@ruthbashford3176]

The Portuguese police solved this crime in 2007 but were unable to arrest the prime suspects and was forced to let them escape to the UK because of interference from the British government. When the McCanns lost their libel action against Goncalo Amaral the Supreme Court did point out that Kate and Gerry had never been cleared by the Portuguese police. The British police investigation, Operation Grange, which started in 2011 had a narrow remit that did not include the McCanns or their friends, the Tapas 7 so they were not interviewed or investigated. This was confirmed in 2017 by he former assistant police commissioner Mark Rowley. Unless the people who were there at the time can be interviewed and investigated Operation Grange will go on for ever.

[@corneliuscornia3189]

British are the most manipulative people in the world,not surprised they lied about this too

[@KarenHowatt]

Martin Brunt is wrong, we watch our children even more on holiday!! .....The story the parent told is a lie, she died in the apartment a couple of days after arriving and they came up with this story. The Portuguese Police detective did an amazing job and his book tells the truth.

[@catman4471]

the portuguese detective and his crew f'd up the investigation and his book is his attempt to cover up his incompetence.

[@jeremyc6827]

In your unprovable opinion.

[@drofnats1962]

I had this vision years ago that Kate would walk into a Police Station and admit to the Disposal of Maddie when the Twins turned 18, but she still has time. Nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors, but I bet Maddie's Brother and Sister have heard a few raised conversations about their Sister over the years that have caused the alarm bells to ring. Sometimes we forget Children grow up to be adults, what do they think of the wording used in the Books Kate Published about their Big Sister Maddie McCann. R.I.P Maddie 1st May 2007