If it says in the flles that 'the alerts confirmed cadaver' (whatever that means) please provide a cite from those files. You can't quote Amaral as if he was representing the views of the investigation because he wasn't. He was giving his own oersonal opinion.
Why did Colin Sutton's book on the vicious murder of Amélie Delagrange become a best seller? Might it have any relevance to the fact that he was the senior investigating officer in the case which led to the conviction of her murderer who turned out to be a serial killer?
Why did Amaral's book on the unexplained disappearance of Madeleine McCann become a best seller ... bearing in mind there was no successful conclusion to the investigation?
Could it have been that purchasers were given the impression that as senior investigating officer at one time he was in possession of 'facts' of the case known only to him: the proverbial Ace up his sleeve springs to mind here?
Undoubtedly Sutton's book did exactly what it said on the cover. A record of a successful investigation leading to evidence which could be led in court with the only speculation being how many other crimes the perpetrator had been guilty of.
Amaral's book on the other hand falls into the category which was warned about by public prosecutors Jose de Magalhaes e Menezes, and Joao Melchior Gomes when they said ...
"Finally, it should be underlined that this case, unfortunately, is not a police novel, an appropriate scenario for a "crime" that is tailored for the success of the investigative work of a Sherlock Holmes or a Hercule Poirot, guided by the illusion that the forces of law and justice always manage to re-establish the altered order, returning to society the peace and the tranquillity that were only accidentally disturbed.
The disappearance of Madeleine McCann is rather an implacable and intricate case of real life, which lies closer to the lucid narrative by Friedrich Duerrenmatt, - "The Pledge. Requiem for the police novel" – because reality and everyday life owe little or no obedience, most of the time, to logic.
Life's events do not conform to stereotyped novel-like schemes, it is rather the case that its outcome is often the product of chance or conditioned by accidental and unpredictable factors, and therefore, hard to envision."
http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=3750.msg141867#msg141867Sutton's book no doubt contains examples of his "giving his own personal opinion" but his work did achieve the objective of removing an evil man to a place where he could harm no other young women and in his writing of it he did not set out to destroy the innocent.
Amaral's book "giving his own personal opinion" portrays on the contrary, an account of an unsuccessful police investigation the failure of which he justified by speculation and conspiracy theory. Which targets the innocent who are also the victims and which instead of solving anything was a cog in the wheel of halting the official police investigation of the crime against a minor.
No official investigation took place between 2008 and 2010 ... only her parents kept faith with Madeleine.
I really think that mentioning Amaral and Sutton in the same breath is an insult to the latter who wound up his police career on a worthwhile high.