What/where should have been investigated,but was not?

[pegasus]

Another place is the bathroom - incompletely searched IMO

[mercury]

Another place is the bathroom - incompletely searched IMO

incompletely searched for WHat?

[pegasus]

incompletely searched for WHat?

A true investigator does not know what he or she is looking for. The idea is to search every space IMO.

[pegasus]

IMO there were half a dozen places in there where the great detective's assistant Mr Fong could have hidden, and (going by the statements) none of the searchers, nor the GNR later, looked in any of them.

[pegasus]

Another place we never heard of anyone searching is the lift engine room.
See in this video (at 25 seconds) http://youtu.be/Oww-pkOnSAA?t=25s
Do you see where it is?

[mercury]

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[pathfinder73]

IMO there were half a dozen places in there where the great detective's assistant Mr Fong could have hidden, and (going by the statements) none of the searchers, nor the GNR later, looked in any of them.

What was hidden? An alive screaming Madeleine or did Eddie detect the lion the witch wardrobe and she was in Narnia. Kids toys look like they were hidden from crime scene photos unless they didn't play with any. A bucket and spade outside it.

[pegasus]

What was hidden? An alive screaming Madeleine or did Eddie detect the lion the witch wardrobe and she was in Narnia. Kids toys look like they were hidden from crime scene photos unless they didn't play with any. A bucket and spade outside it.

A true investigator searches every physical space in the residence.
Without applying assumptions or pre-decided theories.
It would only have taken a few minutes do a real full search.
But assumptions took hold and the search inside was incomplete, both before GNR arrived and after.
(And BTW a trivial detail - there were two buckets outside the front door).

[pathfinder73]

A true investigator searches every physical space in the residence.
Without applying assumptions or pre-decided theories.
It would only have taken a few minutes do a real full search.
But assumptions took hold and the search inside was incomplete, both before GNR arrived and after.
(And BTW a trivial detail - there were two buckets outside the front door).

They did search the apartment. You can't hide her under the bath in the bathroom.

[pegasus]

They did search the apartment. You can't hide her under the bath in the bathroom.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/P9/09_VOLUME_IXa_Page_2311.jpg

Since you have brought up the bath ....
Is the panel removeable? If not then how can plumbing maintainance be done?

[Anna]

Yes, One can be hidden under a bath, but it would take time.


Dunlop, who lived a few hundred yards from Julie, had been in a brief relationship with her. Drunk and belligerent, he arrived at her three-bedroom terraced home near Stockton-on-Tees in the early hours of the morning demanding sex. When she refused, he murdered her and then stuffed her body behind a panel under the bath.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-406247/A-mothers-fight-justice-murdered-daughter.html#ixzz3giykx37u

[mercury]

Since you have brought up the bath ....
Is the panel removeable? If not then how can plumbing maintainance be done?

why would a burglar kill and stuff a three year old inside a bath!!? honestly

[pegasus]

why would a burglar kill and stuff a three year old inside a bath!!? honestly

This has nothing to do with any assumption of anyone doing anything.
It is just an extreme illustration of the difference between
1. Pseudo-search by subconscious assumption (not physically searching all spaces).
2. Real search (physically and pedantically searching all spaces).

[mercury]

This has nothing to do with any assumption of anyone doing anything.
It is just an extreme illustration of the difference between
1. Pseudo-search by subconscious assumption (not physically searching all spaces).
2. Real search (physically and pedantically searching all spaces).

so IYO the PJ did a "pseudo search" on 3/4 May of apartment 5a because they had unconscious "assumptions"?

[Brietta]

This has nothing to do with any assumption of anyone doing anything.
It is just an extreme illustration of the difference between
1. Pseudo-search by subconscious assumption (not physically searching all spaces).
2. Real search (physically and pedantically searching all spaces).

Had my child gone missing in similar circumstances I would have ripped the place to shreds looking for her ... I have no doubt that was done by those directly involved ... and by those who searched dispassionately and with cooler heads.
I have no reason to believe that every inch of the apartment including the adjoining dark garden area was not searched, even the most improbable places. 
Quite simply Madeleine was not there to be found.