I must be having a piggin' dim day today.
Please will some wise person explain where Cipriano fits into Dr Amaral's thesis about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Just a few observations.
The area of the Algarve where Joana and Madeleine disappeared is a very under-populated area. The girls, both under 10, went missing within a short timeframe and within a small area. Neither of their bodies has yet been found. This is either a startling and unfortunate coincidence or perhaps their disappearances are connected. I struggle to think of any other disappearances of children from such a small area and within such a short timeframe anywhere else in the world that were unconnected but may be there are some examples I'm unaware of.
The man in charge of both investigations decided that in both cases the parents dunnit. In both cases fridges or freezers featured prominently in his theories, as did macabre and unproven scenarios such as "fed to the pigs" & cremated in old woman's coffin." There was no forensic evidence to prove either child died in the way that he claimed they did, or was disposed of in the way that he claimed.
These are a few of the reasons why the Cipriano case is of interest to those who believe Madeleine was most likely abducted. Some of us wonder if the two cases are connected somehow, despite the fact that the Ciprianos confessed - maybe there is an element of their daughter's disappearance that wasn't fully revealed at the time, or maybe they (being simple folk) they confessed to something they didn't actually do - it wouldn't be the first time, now would it?
