Post 6
Some of you are pointing the finger at Gerry as being the man that the Smiths saw. Put yourself in such a position.
If you wanted to dispose of your dead daughter, would you carry her through the public streets, completely openly?
Of course you wouldn’t. Such a silly thing to suggest when Gerry had access to bags and blankets to hide her in/ with.
Now an abductor who had been let down by his pick up, was in a very different position IMO. If he had been commissioned, as I believe, to abduct Madeleine, he had a very valuable commodity and he was out of the apartment, already on his way to pick up, when he realised that the pick up wasn’t coming, IMO
He had to hoof it. No going back for a bag then.
*If * this man was the abductor and his getaway vehicle hadn’t arrived, he was forced to carry this little girl openly. Seems that he chose a quiet route and called in somewhere to get something warm for his valuable “Commodity”. When this man was seen by The Smiths,, if indeed they did see him, he appeared from the direction of the Staff quarters which was just about 40 metres up Rua d’Escola from the top group of the Smiths.
Did his accomplice live at the Staff quarters ? On the 3A’s forum it was stated that a scream was heard coming from there.
No-one knows who the Smiths saw, but the child certainly looked like Madeleine and, coincidentally, the man looked like her father. He certainly didn't look like the man Jane Tanner described.