If Amaral had seen fit to visit the crime scene maybe we would have more facts, he didn't interview the parents, didn't visit the crime scene, heard everything second hand. He could even be classed as an armchair detective like the rest of us.
He is a co-ordinator.
All the big cheese police detectives even the UK, sit in their office and go through all the stuff the detectives under them gathers.
Its not CIS or any other T.V. series its true life.
Everything goes through him to be looked at and discussed and put in piles of importance etc.
He did go in the field anyway, perhaps you might not know about it, but he did even to the detriment of his marriage.
Its all there if you want to read about it.
At the start of this you have to remember it was simply thought it was a child who had wandered off.
There are NO abductions in PDL a quiet village its full of ex pats and children living there are considered safe.
A lot of the ground work had been done BEFORE the PJ were brought in.
Mr Amaral was there to co-ordinate the investigation not to go looking into into bins.
There was a HUGE amount of stuff gathered boxes and boxes of it. Can you imagine having to co-ordinate all of it. It was made even worse because of the appeals by the parents allowing so many nut jobs to say they had seen the child even in australia. EVERY sighting had to be checked. Jeez cant imagine it.
There was so much stuff gathered it took SY 2 years to go through it all to find ANYTHING the PJ may have missed.
So far what have they come up with?
Tannerman which was discounted already.
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oh and an appeal on CW of dodgy Efits already known about, aka Smiths already know about and about 3,000 more bogus phone calls to trawl through.......and its cost us lot in the UK what over 2 million ....... which could have been spent on helping the disabled in this country from freezing or going hungry............