If you’d simply strung them up in the first instance then you’d never know if they dunnit or not, nor what became of Madeleine. I suppose that wouldn’t bother you in the slightest though...
Is the comment "I suppose that wouldn’t bother you in the slightest though.." an ad hominem argument?
Wikipedia has this as a definition of "ad hominem fallacy" "Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.[2] The terms ad mulierem[3] and ad feminam[4] have been used specifically when the person receiving the criticism is female.
However, its original meaning was an argument "calculated to appeal to the person addressed more than to impartial reason".[5]"