Hopefully no news is good news - as in the police are carrying out a proper investigation and the media circus has stopped. In my opinion the key to this case is going right back to the beginning and investigating the days around Madeleine's disappearance. What the key witnesses did and said. Looking at the inconsistencies and so on.
There are some key facts that have been ignored or distorted by all the media frenzy.
1. The apartment was not broken in to - there was no evidence of a break in.
2. There is no evidence of an abduction by a stranger.
3. There are conflicting accounts of what happened on the days around Madeleine's disappearance from the key witnesses.
4. The parents and friends accounts of how often and when they checked the children are inaccurate/conflicting.
5. The parents did not join in the search for their daughter on the evening of her disappearance.
6. The parents criticized the police investigation from a very early stage, despite not joining in to look for their daughter.
7. The parents insistence that their daughter had been abducted - they think by a paedophile group - is inconsistent with their belief that it was safe to leave their children alone in an unlocked apartment.
8. The parents alerted the media at a very early stage. They employed their own detectives who were not experts in missing children cases.
9. the parents started up a Fund using maximum publicity and with celebrity endorsement to get public money.
10,. The parents have used money from the fund to sue people who do not support their abduction by a stranger theory
11. The detective on the case, Amaral, was wrongly accused of beating up a woman who is now in jail convicted of the murder of her 8 year old.
12. The McCann's and their friends did not take part in a reconstruction of the evening which could have helped jog people's memories.
13, Jane Tanner's testimony was not convincing - she changed her story. The abduction theory rested heavily on her 'sighting' which has now proved to be irrelevant.
