It has taken fifteen years ~ is Madeleine's case close to being solved?

[Eleanor]

Right back atcha.

Really.  Don't bank on it.  I am much more tough than you will ever be.  And better educated.

[Vertigo Swirl]

That is such a laugh.  It's a good job that I like you.

it can’t be for her charm, wit and sweet nature, so I wonder what it is…

[faithlilly]

No I did not.  I am an equal opportunities sort of person.

That’s why I’m so surprised.

[faithlilly]

it can’t be for her charm, wit and sweet nature, so I wonder what it is…

I’m an absolute sweetheart when you get to know me. Thankfully you never will.

[G-Unit]

Really.  Don't bank on it.  I am much more tough than you will ever be.  And better educated.

Meanwhile, in the real world.....

[Vertigo Swirl]

I’m an absolute sweetheart when you get to know me. Thankfully you never will.

Indeed, I count my blessings every day.

[Eleanor]

It has so far taken fifteen years to come to this, while some of you hang on to something that is completely beyond me.

There has never been any evidence against The McCanns and never will be.

Whether or not Brueckner did this is by the by for now.  But the fact that I have defended his right to innocence is such a joke when none of you offered the same to The McCanns.

There are times when I wonder what sort of people you are.  Although fortunately this is not my problem.

[Eleanor]

it can’t be for her charm, wit and sweet nature, so I wonder what it is…

As it is,  I like most people.  It isn't in my soul to dislike anyone.

[Eleanor]

Meanwhile, in the real world.....

But you don't live in the real world.  I know your world only too well.

[Eleanor]

Meanwhile, in the real world.....

Golly Gosh.  And in hind sight, you think that this is funny?

[Wonderfulspam]

I have a love/hate relationship with Spammy.  So outragious are some of her ideas that she makes me laugh.  She can be kinda droll.

I hate it when she runs down The Mccanns, and think of her as like Junior school age, then .... WHOOPS, up comes a good post well worthy of the forum.

And in certain areas she shows real compassion.  Can't think why she so hates the Mccanns.

Aye, I'm not a bad guy really, just clinically insane, it runs in the family, my mother & aunt both developed dementia late in life so I've probably got that to look forward to, if I last long enough.
I can be compassionate, in the real world, I donate regularly to a small local cat rescue charity & in the last few weeks I kept seeing some poor homeless guy camped near my local shop, I've given him about £25 so far now.
I managed to restrain myself from giving him a right good kicking, like Helge Busching might have done.

[Brietta]

Why are we where we are today over fifteen years down the line from the night Kate discovered that Madeleine was missing from her bed?

Well documented mistakes were made by the initial police investigators.  None of whom had any experience within their ranks of working on child abduction cases.  Unfortunately neither did they see the necessity of bringing someone in who did.

Why is there a contingent of diehards from the original botched investigation still insistent that a known and convicted sexual predator cannot possibly be envisaged as being responsible for stealing a child.

There is evidence enough against this sexual deviant to make him the prime suspect of three police forces.  Some of which was in existence during the original investigation long before Madeleine's became a cold case.

[Wonderfulspam]

Why are we where we are today over fifteen years down the line from the night Kate discovered that Madeleine was missing from her bed?

Well documented mistakes were made by the initial police investigators.  None of whom had any experience within their ranks of working on child abduction cases.  Unfortunately neither did they see the necessity of bringing someone in who did.

Why is there a contingent of diehards from the original botched investigation still insistent that a known and convicted sexual predator cannot possibly be envisaged as being responsible for stealing a child.

There is evidence enough against this sexual deviant to make him the prime suspect of three police forces.  Some of which was in existence during the original investigation long before Madeleine's became a cold case.

Wolters isn't sure Brueckner actually abducted Maddie, he's only certain that he murdered her, apparently, & he presumes she was killed quite quickly.

But Brueckner was still hanging around the Algarve for at least a week after May 3rd, rather than skipping town pronto.

[Brietta]

Wolters isn't sure Brueckner actually abducted Maddie, he's only certain that he murdered her, apparently, & he presumes she was killed quite quickly.

But Brueckner was still hanging around the Algarve for at least a week after May 3rd, rather than skipping town pronto.

There are reasons for the fact that it took fifteen years before Madeleine's case had any hope of resolution.

The man who wasn't in when the police came knocking at his door in May 2007 managed to keep a low profile until 2013 when a witness identified him after watching an appeal by Kate and Gerry.
Pity the police didn't keep following that up since you say he "was still hanging around the Algarve for at least a week after May 3rd".

He remained 'hiding in full sight' until another appeal by Kate and Gerry in 2017 flushed him out into the open although we only heard about him in 2021.

Seems nobody paid him any attention during his sojourns in the Algarve which seems to have been his favoured stamping ground for all sorts.
It is where he committed the heinous torture and rape he was jailed for.  His victim didn't get justice in the Algarve.  The Germans had to do that for her in a German court.

What a charmed life this well documented career criminal led in the Algarve.  The INVISIBLE MAN for over fifteen years with a coterie of ex-police leaping to his defence in the Portuguese media when his cover was blown by a foreign police investigation.

[Wonderfulspam]

There are reasons for the fact that it took fifteen years before Madeleine's case had any hope of resolution.

The man who wasn't in when the police came knocking at his door in May 2007 managed to keep a low profile until 2013 when a witness identified him after watching an appeal by Kate and Gerry.
Pity the police didn't keep following that up since you say he "was still hanging around the Algarve for at least a week after May 3rd".

He remained 'hiding in full sight' until another appeal by Kate and Gerry in 2017 flushed him out into the open although we only heard about him in 2021.

Seems nobody paid him any attention during his sojourns in the Algarve which seems to have been his favoured stamping ground for all sorts.
It is where he committed the heinous torture and rape he was jailed for.  His victim didn't get justice in the Algarve.  The Germans had to do that for her in a German court.

What a charmed life this well documented career criminal led in the Algarve.  The INVISIBLE MAN for over fifteen years with a coterie of ex-police leaping to his defence in the Portuguese media when his cover was blown by a foreign police investigation.

Well they didn't really have good reason to suspect him of anything.

There was nothing immediately linking him to Madeleine's disappearance.

Maybe the crook he confessed to back in 2008 shouldn't have kept it to himself for 9 years.