At Last a Podcast from the Experts.

[Robittybob1]

I don't see that as a simple solution.
It depends on Madeleine waking
AND getting out onto the street
AND a passing motorist knocking her down
AND then deciding to abscond with body

That is all very possible IMO. 
She seemed to wake most nights (Tues and Wednesday, and why not Thursday?).
The front door was unlocked from the inside (not deadlocked).
Cars past by the apartment.
Would he pick up a hit and run victim?

[jassi]

That is all very possible IMO. 
She seemed to wake most nights (Tues and Wednesday, and why not Thursday?).
The front door was unlocked from the inside (not deadlocked).
Cars past by the apartment.
Would he pick up a hit and run victim?

Almost anything is POSSIBLE, It doesn't mean it actually happened.
One needs supporting evidence of such an event.

[jassi]

And I suspect the writers of this series had one eye on the Maddie case.

When writing fiction, one can make anything up to suit the plot.

[Carana]

When writing fiction, one can make anything up to suit the plot.

I tend to agree with that, Jassi, although most likely from a different perspective. ;)

[Angelo222]

Almost anything is POSSIBLE, It doesn't mean it actually happened.
One needs supporting evidence of such an event.

We have supporting evidence that she went out and crossed the road then disappeared. I imagine she was hit in the middle of the road and was thrown towards the lamppost where the scent stops.  As she was barefooted on this occasion the dogs would have been able to follow a positive scent.

[Angelo222]

When writing fiction, one can make anything up to suit the plot.

I can see echoes of the Maddie case throughout their plot.

[jassi]

We have supporting evidence that she went out and crossed the road then disappeared. I imagine she was hit in the middle of the road and was thrown towards the lamppost where the scent stops.  As she was barefooted on this occasion the dogs would have been able to follow a positive scent.

The sniffer dogs followed a scent.
That scent did not have a time -tag so could have been made at any time during the previous day or two.
It is merely an assumption that it relates to that night.
IMO

[jassi]

I can see echoes of the Maddie case throughout their plot.

Maybe so.
Many hollywood movies are based on a true event, but bear little resemblance to reality.
Fiction molds reality into drama.

[G-Unit]

They have primacy... They simply have to ask... Why would they not be available to them

I don't know which information Perlin needs, who it belongs to or where it is, and neither do you imo.

[Mr Gray]

I don't know which information Perlin needs, who it belongs to or where it is, and neither do you imo.

I think you are amking a feeble attempt to show some sort of conspiracy

[Angelo222]

The sniffer dogs followed a scent.
That scent did not have a time -tag so could have been made at any time during the previous day or two.
It is merely an assumption that it relates to that night.
IMO

Can you explain why the scent stopped DEAD at the lamppost?

I will also add the possibility that an awake Maddie heard her father chatting with Jez Wilkins outside and so determined to follow this time instead of staying in her bedroom crying.  Kate McCann has already told us that Maddie would go out the front door and tear off down the walkway well ahead of the rest of them so she knew where she was going.

[Eleanor]

Wasn't that fiction?

Yes it was.  But so is a lot of so called evidence against The McCanns.

However, someone thought of the possibility.

[Eleanor]

And I suspect the writers of this series had one eye on the Maddie case.

Quite possibly.  But you have to admit that it could happen.

[Mr Gray]

You think it's reasonable to expect a dog only trained to detect human blood to find a few cells of Madeleine's in the boot of the car?  I thought the child could never have been in the hire car, so they weren't the results I was expecting.

who says the dog alerted to blood from madeleine...the whole thing is an uncertainty...in jersey  cocnut was found where the dog alerted...we dont know for certain that what was recovered was waht was alerted to

[G-Unit]

I think you are amking a feeble attempt to show some sort of conspiracy

Well you're wrong. I have no idea whether every scrap of the FSS's information was handed to any police force. If Mark Saunokonoko is correct some information was archived at some point and withdrawn in 2012. I don't know who would be allowed access and why they needed it. Perhaps you know?