Why Madeleine ?

[AnneGuedes]

Have you heard of a father having lost his child and stealing a same sex same age (or appearance, then blond and blue eyed) child ?
When kids were stolen (see for example "the man who laughs") it was not in order to love them but to make them work and exploit them.

[Redblossom]

no witnesses to Madeleine being taken

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That is a valid statement from Redblosdom Ferryman !
Not one person can prove categorically to have seen Madeleine being 'taken' !

I meant no one saw her definitively being carried, not that no one saw her being lifted out of bed, obviously that isn't possible. Jane Tanners uncorroborated statement of seeing a man could have been any child, despite the Mccann commissioned documentary stating she did actually she her being taken away being misleading, as was Kate Mccanns comments on Oprah that Jane Tanner saw the child's bare arms, which she did not. the Smiths *may* have seen Madeleine, but its quite tentative as there are many young children who might look similar from the back. not to mention the girl the Smiths saw had trousers and long sleeves, hardly a description of Madeleine's pyjamas.