I can't see that happening.
Madeleine's pink blanket wasn't seen again after the 4th May. This blanket was found on 13 June after a letter was addressed to a dutch newspaper telling the location where Madeleine was buried.
Officers in Portugal are investigating the letter's claims and are poised to visit Odiaxere. Dutch police said part of the reason the letter was being taken so seriously was because it was similar to one sent to the same newspaper last June following the disappearance from the city of Liege, in Belgium, of two girls: Stacy Lemmens, seven, and Natalie Mahy, 10.
In that case the author claimed to know where the girls had been buried. The children's bodies were found two weeks later in a storm drain near a railway crossing a short distance from the location identified in the letter.
Sita Koenders, from the Dutch police headquarters in Amsterdam, said today De Telegraaf had received the letter on Monday and passed it straight to the police.
"We carried out forensic investigations straight away and, as soon as the report from the forensic tests came in, we sent it to the Portuguese police. We are awaiting instructions from the Portuguese and will start an inquiry into finding the author if that is required," Mr Koenders said.
"We are taking this very, very seriously. We have to."
Madeleine's pink blanket WAS NOT FOUND, on the 13 June. Why are you making things up?
Daily Star
by Jerry Lawton
15 June 2007
POLICE fear a beach towel found where a psycho's map says Madeleine McCann is buried could have been used to spirit her away into the night.The find was made in the Portugese wilderness yesterday at the spot where the map claims the fouryear-old has been buried.
Detectives have sent it for forensic analysis to see if it was the cover Madeleine was wrapped in as whoever snatched her fled from the family's holiday apartment in the resort of Praia da Luz on May 3.
They plan to test it for traces of Madeleine's DNA. An eyewitness to the kidnapping told police she saw a man carrying the youngster off wrapped in a "blanket or towel".
A family friend spotted a man carrying off a small child in a "bundle" on the night of the abduction.
The towel was discovered after a map and letter claiming to reveal a burial site were sent to a Dutch newspaper.
Last June two almost identical maps and a letter were sent to the same paper.
They pinpointed the graves of snatched Belgian stepsisters Nathalie Mahy, 10, and seven-year-old Stacy Lemmens.
Detectives fear whoever sent it could be an international paedophile serial killer.
An investigator who has tracked down 14 missing children has told police Madeleine was snatched by an international paedophile ring leader known as The Frenchman.
Yesterday, eight plainclothes detectives started searching scrubland near a dirt track in Odiaxere, a village nine miles from the abduction scene.
It is the spot where the map claims Madeleine's body has been buried.
A more intensive search of the area was delayed by heavy rain.
The towel was discovered by Dutch journalists. They were suspicious because the spot is nine miles from the nearest beach.
Madeleine's mother and father Kate, 38 and Gerry, 39, are waiting anxiously for news.
Last night Gerry told of the family's anguish over the map.
He wrote on his internet blog: "One can imagine how upsetting it is for Kate and me to hear of such claims."
He said Dutch newspaper bosses who revealed the details before police had been able to establish the map's authenticity were "irresponsible, insensitive and cruel".
