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Alfred R Jones

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Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3165 on: June 03, 2014, 04:55:21 PM »
Not sure about the bins - you may well be right.

A final site may have been selected during daylight hours with disposal during the night. Searching wasn't constant 24 hours a day for weeks  on end.

When would you imagine the person responsible for hiding the body would have had such an opportunity in the immediate aftermath of the disappearance?  Or are we talking many days later, in your view...?  Perhaps if the hider of the body was not the subject of intense police and media scrutiny in the following weeks you could well be right.

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Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3166 on: June 03, 2014, 05:00:04 PM »
My apologies, sometimes sarcasm doesn't come over within threads. I see where you are coming from.

That's what she said.
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Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3167 on: June 03, 2014, 05:30:37 PM »
... final site may have been selected during daylight ...
Yes, that makes sense.

Offline Brietta

Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3168 on: June 03, 2014, 05:43:49 PM »
i think mcann supporters need to start facing the reality that most likley they are looking  for maddies remains   they wouldnt be looking in   places that they are if they believe she isnt there  imo

What an odd comment to make. 

I think most concerned people are only too well aware of the possibility that Madeleine may be dead. 

IMO that is not a barrier to hoping that is not the case.
"All I'm going to say is that we've conducted a very serious investigation and there's no indication that Madeleine McCann's parents are connected to her disappearance. On the other hand, we have a lot of evidence pointing out that Christian killed her," Wolter told the "Friday at 9"....

Offline jassi

Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3169 on: June 03, 2014, 05:58:11 PM »
What an odd comment to make. 

I think most concerned people are only too well aware of the possibility that Madeleine may be dead. 

IMO that is not a barrier to hoping that is not the case.


Madeleine is either dead or alive.  Neither hope, nor prayer will make any difference what so ever  to that.
I believe everything. And l believe nothing.
I suspect everyone. And l suspect no one.
I gather the facts, examine the clues... and before   you know it, the case is solved!"

Or maybe not -

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Silkywhiskers

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Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3171 on: June 04, 2014, 12:25:02 AM »
Isabel Duarte has spoken -

'Kate and Gerry have not been given any information that Madeleine is dead, and until this happens they have to believe she is still alive. But they think police will come up with some significant news. It has been so long, and the investigating officers now have new information and there may finally be some answers'
Isabel Duarte, McCanns' Portuguese lawyer


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Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3173 on: June 04, 2014, 01:30:11 AM »
Madeleine McCann search: April Jones' gran tells of heartache Kate and Gerry McCann will be suffering
Jun 03, 2014 22:30 By Martin Fricker, Lucy Thornton, Luke Traynor
Linda Smith spoke after officers sent in the same cadaver dogs they used to hunt for the five-year-old, who was killed by cowardly thug Mark Bridger in October 2012

The same dogs they used to hunt for April are being used to find Madeleine

The gran of murdered schoolgirl April Jones has told of the ­heartache Kate and Gerry McCann will be suffering as police step up the search for their missing daughter.

Linda Smith spoke after officers sent in the same cadaver dogs they used to hunt for the five-year-old, who was killed by cowardly thug Mark Bridger in October 2012.

Spaniels Tito and Muzzy spent the day scouring scrubland close to where Madeleine vanished in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz in 2007.

Police were also seen digging at the site. Linda, 63, said: “I feel for the McCanns. I’m sure they are going through agony.

"In a way, they won’t want Madeleine to be found , but if they do, at least they will have some closure.

“The dogs were out a lot looking for April. They were very useful.

“It was a comfort to see the huge teams looking for our ­granddaughter and the skills at their disposal. I’m sure Maddie’s parents want to know what happened to their little girl.”

April’s body has never been never found since she went missing in ­Machynlleth, Powys, where the family lived .

Bridger, 47, is serving a whole-life life tariff for her abduction, murder and perverting the course of justice.

Kerry Needham, whose son Ben vanished on the island of Kos in 1991, also gave support to Kate, 46, and 45-year-old Gerry.

In October 2012 she had to endure the agony of watching specialist British police dig up farmland where the 21-month-old was last seen.


Kerry, 42, said: “It is the most horrific thought and feeling that any parent can go through , knowing that police are going to be digging up ground and there is a chance your child could be buried there, it’s horrendous.

“I was 99% sure they would not find Ben. But there was always that 1% chance they could and that’s very hard to cope with.

"There are some similarities between Ben’s case and Madeleine’s. My thoughts are with her parents.”

The dogs and their handlers – regarded as the most highly-skilled team in the UK – were joined by Britain’s leading search expert, from Sussex Police, who is helping coordinate the ­unprecedented police operation on Portuguese soil.

Tito and Muzzy both have a powerful sense of smell that helps them locate human remains, blood and fluid a human would be unable to trace.

The dogs, who always work as a pair, have been known to find bodies 20 years after they vanished and can even detect people underwater.

They are taught from the age of 18 months using pig carcasses, which are the closest to humans.

Handler Sally Richards said recently: “They are trained to find anything from tiny specks of blood which are hard for the human eye to see to a full-sized victim, and everything in between.”

The dog search came on the second day of the UK police ­operation in Praia da Luz to look for clues as to what happened to Madeleine.

She was three when she disappeared as her parents, of Rothley, Leics, dined out in a nearby tapas bar with friends.

Forensic archaeologists and anthropologists also worked ­alongside the British teams from Operation Grange – set up in 2011 by the Met to re-investigate the case – on the patch of scrubland.

It is 300 yards from the holiday apartment where the McCanns were staying.

PAMark BridgerJailed: Mark Bridger 
The area is known locally as The Mound and is a hangout for alcoholics and drug users.

Two Met officers used shovels to lift ­corrugated iron covering a hole on the site.

They then removed piles of dirt from the hole and surrounding area, which had earlier been cleared of undergrowth.

Earth was placed in a bucket and carried off.

The Sussex Police expert, who has not been named, was spotted advising Scotland Yard officers as they carried out fingertip searches in undergrowth and on rubbish-strewn barren areas nearby.

Det Chief Insp Andy Redwood, who is overseeing the ­operation, stood watching pensively.

The archaeologists and anthropologists, from the firm Alecto Forensics in Preston, Lancs, took soil samples from a taped off area and mapped the terrain.

According to the company’s website, forensic archaeology and anthropology are “essential ­components in an investigation that involves clandestine burials”.

Roland Leon / Daily MirrorUK police dog unit Search area of hilltop in Praia da Luz, Portugal, which has been sealed off by police who are about to start digging as they hunt for missing Madeleine.pic of tent they have put up.Hunt: Dogs search a hilltop area in Praia da Luz 
Its experts have previously helped ­identify victims of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York and the 7/7 London bombings.

Four workers used chainsaws and strimmers to cut back swathes of undergrowth to clear the way for ­the search, which ended at 6pm.

Local police officers on horseback patrolled the site and Portuguese detectives filmed the entire operation.

Sources said last night the hunt could be extended to two more sites in Praia da Luz before the end of the week.

The Scotland Yard team have approval from officials in Lisbon to conduct searches until the end of the week.

The time frame of the operation is unlikely to be extended.

British police have made numerous trips to Portugal but this week is the first time they have actively carried out searches.

It is the biggest operation linked to Madeleine’s disappearance since the initial search wound down a month after she went missing.

The UK team is investigating a string of sex attacks by a lone male paedophile on young British girls while they were on holiday in the Algarve.

They are looking at nine assaults and three “near misses” on youngsters aged six to 12 between 2004 and 2006, including one in 2005 on a 10-year-old girl at Praia da Luz.

Hundreds of people have already made contact with officers in response to appeals for help to find the vile pervert.



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Offline John

Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3174 on: June 04, 2014, 02:41:33 PM »
Please post all comments relating to the current ground inspections and digs in Praia da Luz on the new thread. TY

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Offline jassi

Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3175 on: June 05, 2014, 02:11:12 PM »
Tell that to a missing child's family who in my opinion will always hold on to hope.

Of course they will. What I'm saying is it won't make any difference to whether she is alive or dead.
I believe everything. And l believe nothing.
I suspect everyone. And l suspect no one.
I gather the facts, examine the clues... and before   you know it, the case is solved!"

Or maybe not -

OG have been pushed out by the Germans who have reserved all the deck chairs for the foreseeable future

Offline jassi

Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3176 on: June 05, 2014, 02:58:11 PM »
Of course it will, im not understanding you way of thinking, there is a huge difference between alive and dead.

How will hope change anything?
I believe everything. And l believe nothing.
I suspect everyone. And l suspect no one.
I gather the facts, examine the clues... and before   you know it, the case is solved!"

Or maybe not -

OG have been pushed out by the Germans who have reserved all the deck chairs for the foreseeable future

Offline Brietta

Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3177 on: June 05, 2014, 04:55:45 PM »
 
Statement by Kate and Gerry McCann
https://www.facebook.com/Official.Find.Madeleine.Campaign

Official Find Madeleine Campaign

We would like to ask people to refrain from spreading rumours and speculation based on inaccurate press reporting. We are kept updated on the on-going work in Portugal and are encouraged by the progress.

Thank you for continuing to stand by us and supporting our efforts to get Madeleine home.

Gerry and Kate
"All I'm going to say is that we've conducted a very serious investigation and there's no indication that Madeleine McCann's parents are connected to her disappearance. On the other hand, we have a lot of evidence pointing out that Christian killed her," Wolter told the "Friday at 9"....

Silkywhiskers

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Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3178 on: June 05, 2014, 08:49:19 PM »

Statement by Kate and Gerry McCann
https://www.facebook.com/Official.Find.Madeleine.Campaign

Official Find Madeleine Campaign

We would like to ask people to refrain from spreading rumours and speculation based on inaccurate press reporting. We are kept updated on the on-going work in Portugal and are encouraged by the progress.

Thank you for continuing to stand by us and supporting our efforts to get Madeleine home.

Gerry and Kate

They want US to refrain from rumours and inaccurate speculation?

Really?

These people who have smeared and maligned every professional who has ever attempted to find their daughter?

Priceless.

I and many others will discuss whatever we want thank you Kate and Gerry.

OH and perhaps you could advise what "efforts" you are currently making to find Madeleine?


Silkywhiskers

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Re: Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann
« Reply #3179 on: June 05, 2014, 09:30:44 PM »
The Mirror would have us believe SY have unearthed clothing of some sort.

Local reports said “non-organic” items had been discovered close to the pit on Wednesday and is being subjected to forensic tests.

A source said: “It could be days before the significance of the items is known.

"Several are being analysed by the British team.”




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