General discussion about the latest news (not search related)

[Mr Gray]

Perhaps the people following my blog have a different view.

But hey, hey, hey, hey, oooooooooh.

29,000+ posts of no importance?  Very revealing, IMO.

 

the last 5 posts on your blog have one comment in total fro Anne Gueddes....and one from yourself...i would say that makes your blog meaningless

[Eleanor]

the last 5 posts on your blog have one comment in total fro Anne Gueddes....and one from yourself...i would say that makes your blog meaningless

Oh Dear.

[Angelo222]

If they were close to solving it do you think they'd announce they were looking for another years worth of funding.

Couldn't give a rats ass whether the pack up today or in 20 yrs time,I'll comment on a British tax funded investigation of a crime in a foreign country where they have no jurisdiction, as I see fit.

I think SY have more chance of finding out where Lord Lucan ended up than they have of solving the Maddie case.  I find their attitude to this case to be incredulous given they have spent over £11 million so far and provided nothing of significance.

[carlymichelle]

https://www.9news.com.au/2019/03/04/09/16/what-happened-to-madeleine-mccann-maddie-podcast?fbclid=IwAR3YRkJZTyVYSOuoTT7yS-vvlJO9QHwiRlyRzu-hUSbadjwGdSmllVnwqjQ


The troubling and perplexing case of Madeleine McCann: What happened to Maddie in quiet seaside town?
By Mark Saunokonoko
1:11pm Mar 4, 2019

The Madeleine McCann mystery is full of big questions, of course none more important than how does a little girl vanish off the face of the earth, never to be seen again?

Yet packed up in that troubling, overarching question, which has puzzled police forces from Portugal and the United Kingdom for over a decade, is a perplexing and sometimes disturbing chain of wider, unresolved concerns.

The Maddie podcast is the culmination of two years' of painstaking work, investigating how Madeleine, a small three-year-old British girl, vanished in Portugal in such unusual circumstances in May 2007.


While researching and making Maddie, a project which has included many interviews of key people in seven countries spread across three continents, some have asked, why now?

The simple answer to that is Madeleine is still missing. And there are lingering questions which appear to have never been adequately answered with a reasonable sense of finality.

Maddie is a wide-ranging investigation which tackles those questions.

This case is so complex it requires a probing, multi-episode podcast to properly examine what could have happened to her, and scrutinise all the unexpected avenues that search opens up.


To make sense of the evidence, test theories and understand crime scenes, many experts and people close to the case agreed to be interviewed. Former police officers and a criminal profiler, a DNA scientist and crime scene pathologist, experts in cell phone data and deception, private detectives who worked for the McCanns and reporters who covered this story all appear on Maddie.
Missing British girl Madeleine McCann, who vanished on May 3, 2007 while on holiday with her family in the Algarve, south Portugal.


When it comes down to it, there are really three likely scenarios when you consider what happened to Madeleine in the small coastal town of Praia da Luz, on Portugal's Algarve.

One: A paedophile or child trafficker somehow broke into the holiday apartment where the McCanns were staying and abducted Maddie.

Two: A thief broke into the McCann’s apartment 5A, bungled the robbery, and stole Maddie from the bedroom where she slept alongside her younger brother and sister, Sean and Amelie.

Three: Something else happened to Madeleine involving someone known to the family, and there has been an elaborate cover-up that has somehow lasted for more than a decade.

As one former long-serving police officer said in his Maddie interview, this is a case which can strongly divide opinions around a family dinner table.

Since 2007, her mum and dad Kate and Gerry have steadfastly denied they were involved in any crime which occurred inside apartment 5A of the Ocean Club Resort.

Police have never charged Madeleine's parents, but during the investigation they were at one time declared arguidos, the Portuguese term for formal suspects.

Law enforcement officials who appear on Maddie have highlighted possible "red flags" in the accounts the McCanns and their seven adult friends, known as the Tapas 7, gave to police. They also examine the evidence that supports the theory that Maddie was abducted by a stranger. 

In Maddie, a highly respected figure in the field of solving crimes zeroes in on what was a potentially case-changing piece of evidence in the original police investigation.

That interview could radically alter the direction of the case, and help answer the question: what happened to Maddie?

[ShiningInLuz]

I dont see the online discussion here has any value.....i think the whole of CMOMM has no value..you may have an over inflated view of the value of your posts.....you may think you add something to the investigation...i certainly dont...there are 7 guests watching this thread so i dont see how any comments here can be of any importance

So, you've trashed the whole of this forum, the whole of CMoMM, plus my blog.

 

The key point remains, why post 29,000+ allegedly useless comments?  Bizarre, IMO.

 

[Mr Gray]

So, you've trashed the whole of this forum, the whole of CMoMM, plus my blog.

 

The key point remains, why post 29,000+ allegedly useless comments?  Bizarre, IMO.

 

Are you saying my posts have value... Thank you

[ShiningInLuz]

Are you saying my posts have value... Thank you

No, I am asking why you wasted time on 29,000 posts you find to be of no value?  Surely you must have better things to do?
 

[Mr Gray]

No, I am asking why you wasted time on 29,000 posts you find to be of no value?  Surely you must have better things to do?
 

I've enjoyed the debate... Does that mean my posts have value

[Eleanor]

I've enjoyed the debate... Does that mean my posts have value

Isn't this why we are all here?  I have no pretensions towards solving the case.

[Mr Gray]

Isn't this why we are all here?  I have no pretensions towards solving the case.

That's what I thought

[Brietta]

Isn't this why we are all here?  I have no pretensions towards solving the case.

Like Davel, I enjoy the debate and I think more of us would were there less negativity and certainly less nastiness just for the sake of it.
I don't 'do' facebook ... but I checked out some of my missed notifications and found this very apt quotation ...

"Walk away from people who do you down.
Walk away from fights that will never be resolved.
Walk away from trying to please people who will never see your worth.
The more you walk away from things that poison your soul, the healthier you will be."

I think almost every post made here has a value.
If for nothing more than giving those of us who have an opinion ... the chance to express one ... bearing in mind that everyone has a voice thanks to this forum and there are a limitless number of fora in existence where the likes of me or Davel's 'freedom of speech' would not be tolerated.

[G-Unit]

Isn't this why we are all here?  I have no pretensions towards solving the case.

There's no chance of any civilian solving the case in my opinion. I don't think there's much chance of the police doing it either to be honest. I've learned a lot about other things; how people think, how they argue, what they believe and how the media operates.

[Eleanor]

There's no chance of any civilian solving the case in my opinion. I don't think there's much chance of the police doing it either to be honest. I've learned a lot about other things; how people think, how they argue, what they believe and how the media operates.

This Forum and this Case have done wonders for me.  At least I am able to hold my own these days.  I was such a wimp before this all began.

Much about myself as well.

[G-Unit]

This Forum and this Case have done wonders for me.  At least I am able to hold my own these days.  I was such a wimp before this all began.

Much about myself as well.

I was shocked ar first by some of the nastiness, but now I understand it's purpose. I've learned a lot about myself too.

[Brietta]

There's no chance of any civilian solving the case in my opinion. I don't think there's much chance of the police doing it either to be honest. I've learned a lot about other things; how people think, how they argue, what they believe and how the media operates.

I'm not too sure that the police don't already have a handle ... or believe they do ... on what happened on that May night in Luz so many long years ago now.