I feel quite sorry for those who support the McCanns sometimes. You have to cast doubt upon some witnesses, the Portuguese Police, the Irish police, the efficiency of cadaver dogs, the efficiency of cadaver dog handlers. the skills of English-Portuguese translators, the intelligence of those who don't agree with you......quite a list!
With regard to the dogs - it's not the handler - its the misinformation spread about them by those sceptics who persist in spouting the myth that because Eddie barked - someone MUST have died in 5a which I find objectional - because according to the handler himself - that isn't true.
The problems encountered by translators have been commented on by the translators themselves - who have included notes explaining the difficulties involved and why they were not able to make precise translations on occasions.
When I read comments from sceptics (mainly elsewhere thank goodness) who seriously believe that photos show that Madeleine may have had a prosthetic arm and that she wore wigs in many of the photos - and read questions like 'what happened to the bloody footprint found outside the bedroom door? and a long thread claiming that Madeleine died way before the 3rd and was replaced by a trained clone of her for the rest of the week - then yes I freely admit to questioning the intelligence of some sceptics. And those examples are just a tiny percentage of the claims some sceptics actually believe - in order to convince themselves that it was the McCanns wot dunnit.
As for the efficiency of some (but not all ) of the PJ Officers involved in this case - then IMO the following comment by a member of the Portuguese judicial system says it all.
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ANTONIO MARINHO PINTO: (translated) I’m convinced the McCann case will feature in Portuguese judicial history as a bad example. What a criminal investigation
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