Podcasts by Mark Saunokonoko of 9News.

[The General]

Wouldn’t you have to have a real nerve to walk through town carrying an uncovered dead body?  Would ‘t every braincell in your head be shrieking “cover up the body, don’t be caught with a corpse in your arms”?

Yes, it would take balls of steel.
But what's the alternative (as per the hypothetical narrative)?

[Venturi Swirl]

Yes, it would take balls of steel.
But what's the alternative (as per the hypothetical narrative)?

Well, if dumping a body in a bin is a pretty foolproof way of getting rid of a little body then why not chuck it in a bin a bit closer rather than the other side of town?  There surely must have been one or two.  How about walking away from thr action (suh as it was) rather than towards it? 

[jassi]

Well, if dumping a body in a bin is a pretty foolproof way of getting rid of a little body then why not chuck it in a bin a bit closer rather than the other side of town?  There surely must have been one or two.  How about walking away from thr action (suh as it was) rather than towards it?

I would agree with that last point.
Maybe there was a specific goal, such as the church or the beach, so the risk had to be taken.
Being dropped in a bin was only one suggestion - there could be other potential hiding places.

[Venturi Swirl]

I would agree with that last point.
Maybe there was a specific goal, such as the church or the beach, so the risk had to be taken.
Being dropped in a bin was only one suggestion - there could be other potential hiding places.

You have a body to hide and your immediate thought is PdL church?  Whereabouts exactly?  As for the beach, it’s dark, you don’t have a spade, there are likely to be more people en route, really??

[jassi]

You have a body to hide and your immediate thought is PdL church?  Whereabouts exactly?  As for the beach, it’s dark, you don’t have a spade, there are likely to be more people en route, really??

Desperate times, desperate measures. Who knows what the motives might be?
Both places I mentioned might have been temporary places of concealment, awaiting a further visit later to move somewhere else.

[Venturi Swirl]

Desperate times, desperate measures. Who knows what the motives might be?
Both places I mentioned might have been temporary places of concealment, awaiting a further visit later to move somewhere else.

If the McCanns had come home to discover a corpse they were not under any time pressure to make an instant disposal.  I’m sure they could during the hours following the supposed discovery  have come up with a better plan that didn’t involve parading a corpse through the centre of a holiday resort.

[Venturi Swirl]

Wouldn't you have to have some personal experience of covering up a body before you would know what it would do to your braincells? Doctors for instance will have more experience in dealing with corpses than the general public.

Do doctors have more experience than thr general public of getting away with hiding bodies in holiday resorts?

[Venturi Swirl]

We don't know that yet. That includes you btw. They certainly do have more experience in handling dead bodies. Perhaps calling home to some of their medical friends would be a clue that they needed some advice.

Advice about what?  Where to hide a body in a holiday resort?

[faithlilly]

I would agree with that last point.
Maybe there was a specific goal, such as the church or the beach, so the risk had to be taken.
Being dropped in a bin was only one suggestion - there could be other potential hiding places.

Or perhaps he wanted to put as much distance as possible between the body and 5a ?

[pathfinder73]

Advice about what?  Where to hide a body in a holiday resort?

You have the beach/rocks, sewer pipes, boats, building site, deserted buildings/gardens, even bushes to temporarily hide.  You may have to go back later to better hide if you are out alone!

[Robittybob1]

You have the beach/rocks, sewer pipes, boats, building site, deserted buildings/gardens, even bushes to temporarily hide.  You may have to go back later to better hide if you are out alone!

Is that what you are suggesting actually happened?

[Venturi Swirl]

Or perhaps he wanted to put as much distance as possible between the body and 5a ?

What difference would a few hundred yards make?

[Venturi Swirl]

You have the beach/rocks, sewer pipes, boats, building site, deserted buildings/gardens, even bushes to temporarily hide.  You may have to go back later to better hide if you are out alone!

Why would you have to phone home to your medical friends for advice on any of that?  Why would you need to risk your liberty by going  back and re-hide the body when you could simply claim the abductor dunnit (Faithlilly’s theory) and where, in the middle of the night without a car or digging equipment and with the possibility that you might bump into search parties and dogs at any time, are you going to find a better hiding place?

[kizzy]

What difference would a few hundred yards make?

Could be the difference in not finding her - in the immediate area where they were searching.

[Venturi Swirl]

Could be the difference in not finding her - in the immediate area where they were searching.

I thought the whole of PdL was searched, not just the area around the apartment?