Did the McCann"s sudden flight from Portugal engender suspicion?

[pathfinder73]

Keep digging ...

They are for the important evidence. With Wright returning on June 8 and noticing unpleasant smells in the car they will be investigating the start of june for a possible move. He returned on July 12/13 so before that date is another possibility.

12 JULY - Today I cleaned Cuddle Cat.

[Carew]

I believe that is how they would have reacted if they had been guilty in any way. 

They would have kept their heads down; made their excuses and got on with life. 
They could have forestalled media investigation by using the necessity to get on with life for the twins and asking for the privacy to do so.

What about pressure from family and loved ones? Do you think they would let them keep their heads down and stop looking? No way there's no choice in the matter. You've always got to search. Even more suspicious if you stop!

Yes.........As I recall, the McCanns have mentioned the importance of the twins knowing that their parents are doing all they can to find their sister. I think this aspect is important to them.

[Carana]

It is not unknown for those guilty of a crime to remain close to an investigation in order to keep an eye on proceedings, keep themselves informed and attempt to steer the direction taken in the investigation.

No doubt. UK FLOs are trained to watch out for that, aren't they?

[ferryman]

They are for the important evidence. With Wright returning on June 8 and noticing unpleasant smells in the car they will be investigating the start of june for a possible move. He returned on July 12/13 so before that date is another possibility.

12 JULY - Today I cleaned Cuddle Cat.

Surely you aren't getting excited about a rather bad smell in the boot of the car caused by rotting meat from a bag bought at a supermarket that burst open ...

Are you?

And seeing as Portugal has a perfectly good forensic laboratory, why wasn't cuddle-cat taken on day one for forensic examination?

[Wonderfulspam]

It is not unknown for those guilty of a crime to remain close to an investigation in order to keep an eye on proceedings, keep themselves informed and attempt to steer the direction taken in the investigation.

Mitchell Quy.

Made TV appeals for his missing partner....., whom him & his brother had dismembered in a bathtub & disposed of in carrier bags.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Oode9t6Yo

[pathfinder73]

Surely you aren't getting excited about a rather bad smell in the boot of the car caused by rotting meat from a bag bought at a supermarket that burst open ...

Are you?

And seeing as Portugal has a perfectly good forensic laboratory, why wasn't cuddle-cat taken on day one for forensic examination?

Excited nope. I follow evidence - open boot, dog alert in boot, unpleasant smell, unknown hairs in boot etc.

[ferryman]

Excited nope. I follow evidence - open boot, dog alert in boot, unpleasant smell, unknown hairs in boot etc.

Open boot to get rid of the smell of rotting meat.

[Brietta]

Is your spelling of "truth".............as in "troof seekers"..........intended as an insult?

Only if it is taken as such.

For example ... I object strongly to many of the descriptions attached to some posts, as is my prerogative, and if admin don't like what I'm saying about that, they will simply whoosh it.

[Brietta]

It is not unknown for those guilty of a crime to remain close to an investigation in order to keep an eye on proceedings, keep themselves informed and attempt to steer the direction taken in the investigation.

You would have to give me a cite of examples of the perpetrator of a crime keeping close to an investigation before I could discuss that further. 

[Carew]

Only if it is taken as such.

For example ... I object strongly to many of the descriptions attached to some posts, as is my prerogative, and if admin don't like what I'm saying about that, they will simply whoosh it.

What was your reason for spelling truth,  "troof?"

[Brietta]

I believe that is how they would have reacted if they had been guilty in any way. 

They would have kept their heads down; made their excuses and got on with life. 
They could have forestalled media investigation by using the necessity to get on with life for the twins and asking for the privacy to do so.

What about pressure from family and loved ones? Do you think they would let them keep their heads down and stop looking? No way there's no choice in the matter. You've always got to search. Even more suspicious if you stop!

I think  the friends and family would have gone along with the parents decision to try to resume normal life for the sake of the twins ...

When has it ever been the norm for the parents of a missing child to institute and organise their own search and investigation because the authorities were not doing so?

So who would have suspected a thing if that had not occurred?

[Brietta]

Yes.........As I recall, the McCanns have mentioned the importance of the twins knowing that their parents are doing all they can to find their sister. I think this aspect is important to them.

 ... and they are not an intelligent enough couple to have addressed that? ... bearing in mind that they would have returned from Portugal prior to the propaganda sites set up to massage opinion against them by starting myths about freezers etc. in use seven years later, despite firm evidence to the contrary ...

[Brietta]

What was your reason for spelling truth,  "troof?"

What is your reason for asking?

[Alice Purjorick]

The geezer's shell didn't seem to be very open to explanations that didn't fit with the "theory".

- The attempt by Lowe to explain the forensic results in simple terms led to a conspiracy theory that the FSS had somehow contaminated the "evidence".

- The caveat that a search for the potential issue of credit-worthiness of the McCanns showed no results on a database was interpreted as they didn't have credit cards.

- The caveats of Harrison and Grime about the dogs fell on deaf ears.

That's just off the top of my head.

The point at issue was whether one believes it is a matter for a police force that does not have primacy to report matters to the press it sees as deficient in the force that does have primacy rather than speak to them directly irrespective of whether they pay attention or not.

[Alice Purjorick]

What was your reason for spelling truth,  "troof?"

Known in the medical profession as Janet Street-Porter by proxy syndrome.