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

[pathfinder73]

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

Thanks for the article. Behind panels only if you have space at top or bottom of bath and that hasn't. You could check behind the panels if there was room underneath it. Eddie would have found anything there.

You could hide at the end of this bath.

[pegasus]

Not that bath you can't. Behind panels only if you have space at top or bottom of bath and that hasn't.

Taking this example to extreme - there is enclosed space between the left end and the wall see vid dog climbing on it.

[Anna]

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.

I don't believe she was there either, Brietta, but what is being discussed(if I fully understood) is whether the searches were thorough enough, to rule out all possible hiding places.

[mercury]

I don't believe she was there either, Brietta, but what is being discussed(if I fully understood) is whether the searches were thorough enough, to rule out all possible hiding places.

why would an abductor/killer "hide" a child in the apartment they were abducted/killed in or am I being dim

 &%+((£

[Anna]

why would an abductor/killer "hide" a child in the apartment they were abducted/killed in or am I being dim

 &%+((£

It does sound rather ridiculous, Mercury, but I believe a discussion was in progress, about the searches carried out.

[mercury]

It does sound rather ridiculous, Mercury, but I believe a discussion was in progress, about the searches carried out.

Doesnt it just.

Re the searches, I do believe they were just normal searches, as any police might do  thorough, but not thorough enough vis a vis ripping the whole infrastructure apart....far as I know, police dont dig up back gardens unless they suspect theres dead bodies hidden there, why would the PJ on 4 May think anything like this, or be castigated for not doing so

[pegasus]

Doesnt it just.

Re the searches, I do believe they were just normal searches, as any police might do  thorough, but not thorough enough vis a vis ripping the whole infrastructure apart....far as I know, police dont dig up back gardens unless they suspect theres dead bodies hidden there, why would the PJ on 4 May think anything like this, of be castigated for not doing so

Talking about the search 60 minutes before the GNR arrived.
Looking at the statements there are many places not searched.
For the understandable reason that assumptions condition search.

[mercury]

Talking about the search 60 minutes before the GNR arrived.
Looking at the statements there are many places not searched.
For the understandable reason that assumptions condition search.

ah well if you are gong to say the mccanns and friends' search was incompetent, good luck!

but no one would be expecting them either to be ripping out bath panels

*confused*

[pegasus]

We know the medicines were in the adult bedroom (either in a wardrobe or in the chest of drawers).
But because police didn't do a fingertip search in that room that night, we have no idea which.

[pegasus]

I'm trying to stimulate discussion. The really big assumption that everyone seemed to make that night was that the child was not in the apartment.

[mercury]

I'm trying to stimulate discussion. The really big assumption that everyone seemed to make that night was that the child was not in the apartment.

Well she wasnt, they looked.And if she was Im sure by now someone will have noticed the stench of a corpse under or over  a bathtub!
And
Why would any burglar come abductor/killer HIDE her

[pegasus]

Well she wasnt, they looked.And if she was Im sure by now someone will have noticed the stench of a corpse under or over  a bathtub!
And
Why would any burglar come abductor/killer HIDE her

I am not proposing anything like that. It is simply without any assumption or theory to search all possible spaces and many a case has shown the importance of that. For example in the "abductor entered apartment and took child away" theory it is still important to look everywhere even top cupboards just in case perp in a hurry has concealed some inanimate item there.

[mercury]

Ok I see where youre coming from now
Well, what can I say , nothing much