The other occupants of Apt 5a before and after the McCanns visit.

[sadie]

I do admire you, SerenEdipity.
By law, in Portugal and in France, death clothing is incinerated for salubrity reasons.

What about the solid gold watch and the wedding / signet ring?

[Lace]

Who is scoffing, Lace ?
As we now know, the chemicals believed to create the ‘odour of death’, putrescence and cadaverine, last no longer than thirty days.

Well it looked as if you were scoffing at Carana's suggestion that Eddie might have alerted to the scent of blood, even though the blood was not there.

As the dog alerted to the floor and wardrobe where the McCann's would store their dirty washing I find this idea very believable.

In the article I posted the trainers cannot take into account the dog alerts when there is no body as it is mentioned someone could have cut themselves or left a sanitary pad in the area where the dog alerted.

[Mr Moderator]

Lets keep on topic please.

To summarise. 

Tasmin claims in her statement to have stayed for extended periods of time in apartment 5a with her mother and grandmother.  Nothing we have seen shows it to be otherwise.

It has been suggested that clothing or other possessions which belonged to Tasmin's granddad, who died in hospital, could have been contaminated with cadaver scent and ended up in apartment 5a.  Later to be alerted to by EVRD Eddie.

[Mr Gray]

eddie alerted at the flowerbed..
Would the scent really last that long...outside...wind...rain

[pegasus]

Without agreeing with it, taking the conjecture someone proposed above (previous occupant's clothes stored in wardrobe following death in hospital), this might explain not only Eddie's alert near the wardrobe, but ALSO all Eddies alerts to clothing because those clothes would have acquired scent by contact while in wardrobe (NOT while being worn).

[sadie]

Without agreeing with it, taking the conjecture someone proposed above (previous occupant's clothes stored in wardrobe following death in hospital), this might explain not only Eddie's alert near the wardrobe, but ALSO all Eddies alerts to clothing because those clothes would have acquired scent by contact while in wardrobe (NOT while being worn).

I cant remember.  Was it that wardrobe that cuddlecat was put in?  No alert before, but an alert afterwards?

[stephen25000]

Lets keep on topic please.

To summarise. 

Tasmin claims in her statement to have stayed for extended periods of time in apartment 5a with her mother and grandmother.  Nothing we have seen shows it to be otherwise.

It has been suggested that clothing or other possessions which belonged to Tasmin's granddad, who died in hospital, could have been contaminated with cadaver scent and ended up in apartment 5a.  Later to be alerted to by EVRD Eddie.

This should also include the distinct possibility that 'cadaver scent' was from another source.

Also, why was the cadaver scent 'spread' around ?

[CPN]

Further disruption to this thread will be met with sanctions.

Sanction me, no problem.  I am just standing up for myself  But I just want to know - does that mean sanctions to the moderator who started the insults?

[AnneGuedes]

Further disruption to this thread will be met with sanctions.

What are you waiting for ?

[AnneGuedes]

Without agreeing with it, taking the conjecture someone proposed above (previous occupant's clothes stored in wardrobe following death in hospital), this might explain not only Eddie's alert near the wardrobe, but ALSO all Eddies alerts to clothing because those clothes would have acquired scent by contact while in wardrobe (NOT while being worn).

Can you explain why you don't agree ?

[John]

It is very obvious from the comments that many find this subject a bit uncomfortable but without having all the facts at our disposal I fail to see why.

We don't even know when the grandad passed away relative to Madeleine's disappearance?  Given that cadaver scents do not last much beyond a few months I personally cannot see a logical connection.

[Cariad]

Further disruption to this thread will be met with sanctions.

May I politely request that Angelo's comment calling fellow members P I T C H F O R K E R S is edited or removed then please?

Or even, god forbid, met with sanctions?

[AnneGuedes]

May I politely request that Angelo's comment calling fellow members P I T C H F O R K E R S is edited or removed then please?

Or even, god forbid, met with sanctions?

You'd be surprised if masks were removed.

[John]

May I politely request that Angelo's comment calling fellow members P I T C H F O R K E R S is edited or removed then please?

Or even, god forbid, met with sanctions?

That word cannot be posted as it is automatically censored.

[pegasus]

Can you explain why you don't agree ?

IMO the hospital clothes conjecture is good to examine (even if it turns out to be incorrect) because it brings up the process of scent transfer to clothes while unworn in a wardrobe.