Good article but I expect there will be sceptics on here who find it strange that he refers to the possibility that Bruckner would be id’ed as the culprit in the MM case as “good news” and that it could bring peace and resolution to rhe family. They’ll be accusing him of wanting or needing Madeleine to have been raped and murdered by a paedophile next, but that would only be demonstrating their warped logic.
Whatever missing person case one reads about there is an overriding need to find out what happened to the missing person - everlasting hope that he or she may be alive - or the necessity to find the remains to give a
decent burial.
Keith Bennett's mother Winnie Johnson is a prime example of a mother who never gave up searching for her son.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190192/Winnie-Johnson-The-mother-refused-search-sons-body.htmlIt seems to be a need deep within the human psyche: in my opinion it is why we have funeral rites and why it is important to us to reach a deathbed while our loved one still lives to say our last goodbyes.
Tom Wood who is a former high ranking police officer with experience of working towards apprehending a peripatetic offender has outlined the monumental task facing the German investigators in relation to tracing the movements of Brueckner their prime suspect.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/madeleine-mccann-case-has-similarities-scottish-child-abduction-tom-wood-2889765In the case of Caroline Hogg which he has chosen for comparison with what the German authorities are now facing he said the Scots had the benefit of luck on their side because the suspect's journeys had been meticulously logged and the records kept.
From that observation I think it is going to be a long hard road and a harrowing wait for all the families of missing people perhaps associated with the German investigation of Brueckner while they await the results of the investigations into their loved one's case.
I think the raw humanity of the situation these people find themselves in deserves sympathy and not the derision Madeleine's family are subjected to. But it takes all kinds I suppose.
