Why have the McCanns never taken part in an actual organised search for Madeleine?

[slartibartfast]

Yes -  and I can just imagine the comments if they were going back to PdL at every opportunity.

For instance:-
 
Why are they searching Pdl when they know the biggest search ever in the history of Portugal has been carried out there. 

It's an insult to the locals and everyone else who searched.

It's just an excuse to have lots of free holidays.

What a disgusting waste of fund money.

Why are they leaving the twins so often - they're neglecting them.

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And on and on it would go - cos one thing is for certain - nothing they ever do or will ever do is right in some people's eyes. IMO.

Damned if they do and damned if they don't.

The advice from the experts in order to give a missing chld the best possible chance of being found is to keep the child's profile as high as possible in the public's mind for as long as possible.  That is what the McCanns have done and it is what Ben Needham's mum does too.

In America at one time they used to put missing children's piccies on milk cartons - so that millions of people would see them every day.

To be perfectly honest, I would have found it a lot more understandable if they went back to PDL at every possible occasion and really got to know the area and the people and look and talk.

[Benice]

It it had been my child I would have been out there every waking daylight hour and to heck with the police and reporters.  Not the McCanns though?      Very odd indeed?      >@@(*&)

Do you also think it ''very odd indeed'' that April Jones parents stayed at home - or that Sandy Richardson's mother did not search at all for her little boy?




 

[Lace]

To be perfectly honest, I would have found it a lot more understandable if they went back to PDL at every possible occasion and really got to know the area and the people and look and talk.

How do you know they haven't ?

[Benice]

To be perfectly honest, I would have found it a lot more understandable if they went back to PDL at every possible occasion and really got to know the area and the people and look and talk.

They did make friends in PdL- and Kate has been back several times.  We don't know what she did whilst she was there.   But of course, in some people's eyes, whatever it was - it will definitely be wrong.




 

[Benice]

We also had the promise of not leaving PORTUGAL without MADELEINE.

Of course that is how they would have felt  - and I've no doubt Kerry Needham felt the same about leaving Kos.  It's the natural reaction if your child has disappeared in a foreign country - to want to stay there.       But circumstances change over time Stephen and it isn't a sin to have a change of mind in light of them.

[Redblossom]

They did make friends in PdL- and Kate has been back several times.  We don't know what she did whilst she was there.   But of course, in some people's eyes, whatever it was - it will definitely be wrong.

Meeting defamation lawyers and image consultants and doing tv interviews/book plugs in the main ....all under the umbrella of "the search" of course

eta

oops forgot,  Gerry first returned early 2009 to make the documentary Madeleine was Here

[Lace]

Meeting defamation lawyers and image consultants and doing tv interviews/book plugs in the main ....all under the umbrella of "the search" of course

eta

oops forgot,  Gerry first returned early 2009 to make the documentary Madeleine was Here

Where could they have searched Red?

[Estuarine]

Meeting defamation lawyers and image consultants and doing tv interviews/book plugs in the main ....all under the umbrella of "the search" of course

eta

oops forgot,  Gerry first returned early 2009 to make the documentary Madeleine was Here

Of course then the fund can fund it 

[Redblossom]

Where could they have searched Red?

Ive never posted they should physically search in Portugal years after!
At the time it might have been fruitful.....at least they did a whole hour of it next morning! Gosh! Why bother at all. Pffft

[Lace]

Ive never posted they should physically search in Portugal years after!
At the time it might have been fruitful.....at least they did a whole hour of it next morning! Gosh! Why bother at all. Pffft

I read the help notes a 'what to do if your child goes missing'    a while back.    Not for UK can't remember what country it was for.

They said,    search for your child in the places you think she/he may be,   now remember Madeleine went missing in a foreign country.     It went on,  this should take about an hour,   then phone the police.

An hour is a long time when you are searching where a small child of almost three may have gone.

[AnneGuedes]

They did make friends in PdL- and Kate has been back several times.  We don't know what she did whilst she was there.   But of course, in some people's eyes, whatever it was - it will definitely be wrong.

Do you really believe there's a conspiracy against the McCanns ?

[AnneGuedes]

I read the help notes a 'what to do if your child goes missing'    a while back.    Not for UK can't remember what country it was for.

They said,    search for your child in the places you think she/he may be,   now remember Madeleine went missing in a foreign country.     It went on,  this should take about an hour,   then phone the police.

An hour is a long time when you are searching where a small child of almost three may have gone.

I'm sure any instruction concerning missing children says that abduction requires calling
112 immediately.

[AnneGuedes]

In America at one time they used to put missing children's piccies on milk cartons - so that millions of people would see them every day.

Yes, it happened once. Do you know for which child ?

[Lace]

I'm sure any instruction concerning missing children says that abduction requires calling
112 immediately.

Well you have to make sure they are actually 'missing' first Anne,  that means searching the house and the surrounding area,  otherwise they could just have wandered out.

[stephen25000]

Do you really believe there's a conspiracy against the McCanns ?

The 'make believe' conspiracy.

It does get a tad repetitive and only holds power in the minds of the 'believers'.