Indeed they did ... as indicated in my post. Unfortunately the significance of that was not appreciated or investigated by the Portuguese police at the time ... it had to wait for Scotland Yard to recognise the significance six years too late.
There is a thread on the forum asking "What did Amaral & co get right?" there are nine replies, two of which are from me and one which enumerates a few things he got wrong ... was the question posed "What did Amaral & co get wrong?" I imagine there would be far more than nine replies. One of which would be the failure to follow through on creche records which would have found the Totman family six years before SY did.
Making one wonder what other vital evidence was overlooked or disregarded through the incompetence of the initial investigation.
Well, you don't know the out come of the SY one yet ...
You could be saying more or less the same thing about that............ in my opinion.....