This is why I wanted to see the footage (if it exists) when they went back the next day in the daylight to do a further checks at the flower bed. It is hard to get the full facts from the night time footage - Grime said he wanted to come back the next day as further checks were required. I know Eddie was very interested in the balcony outside the parents bedroom and he was sniffing that wall/climbing plant a lot as you can see in the footage. He was not interested in the main back patio door entrance. He alerted in the flower bed in the garden. I believe some climbing plant branches were collected for possible evidence. Now scent shouldn't be collected in the flower bed at the bottom of the steps unless there is a possible reason for it e.g. a body being there only for a short time i.e. light scent detected.
The cadaver body hypothesis sequence:
1. Behind Sofa
2. Wardrobe
3. Exit through Parent's Bedroom Patio Door to Balcony
4. Down steps to flower bed
5. Exit through gate.
I.m not sure what you are looking for, but you will find it in McCann files
I don't know if the following is any good on the cadaver and blood sniffer dogs. I thought the front was by the front main door, which I believe also has a flowerbed. All the dog reports are in the files
1. Apartment 5 A, OC resort from which the girl disappeared
- Cadaver odour dog
• in the couple’s bedroom on the floor next to the wardrobe.
• In the living room, behind the sofa, next to the lateral window of the apartment.
2. Patio area, in front of apartment 5 A
- Cadaver odour dog
• in one of the flower beds, the dog handler commented upon the weakness (lightness) of the odour detected.
3. Apartments where the rest of the group was staying
• Nothing was found by either dog.
4. Residence of the McCann couple at the time of the date of inspection
• Nothing was found by either dog in the villa.
5. In the locality of P da L
• Nothing was found by either dog.
6. The clothes and belongings of the McCann family
- Cadaver odour dog
• on two pieces of clothing belonging to Kate Healy.
• On a piece of clothing belonging to Madeleine.
• Possibly, on a soft toy belonging to Madeleine (cadaver odour was detected when the toy was still in the residence (on the date it was occupied by the family)).
• Signalling was confirmed in a scenario outside the villa.
7. In the vehicle used by the McCann family
- cadaver odour dog
• signalled the car key
- blood dog
* signalled the vehicle’s key.
* signalled inside the vehicle’s luggage boot.
8. In a vehicle used by a friend of the family who was staying at the same resort, coinciding for a few days.
• Nothing was found by either dog.
9. In all the cars used by Robert Murat and people close to him
• Nothing was found by either dog.
(Of a total of 10 vehicles the cadaver odour dog and the blood dog only signalled the vehicle hired by the McCann family on 27th May).
The places and objects signalled by the blood dog were tested forensically by the reputed British Laboratory (FSS) whose final results are not yet available. However, there are indications that would show that these will be inconclusive, in other words they do not corroborate the dogs signalling without leaving any doubt.
Based upon the action of the sniffer dog team which reveals the eventual existence of a cadaver in the apartment and in the car used by the McCann family and with the aim of enabling Gerald and Kate to safeguard their position in the process they were constituted arguidos, in the face of the mere possibility of their involvement with the eventual cadaver. During the course off their interrogation as arguidos they denied any responsibility in the disappearance of their daughter.
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