It has taken fifteen years ~ is Madeleine's case close to being solved?

[Wonderfulspam]

I doubt that has ever happened.

Oh c'mon, it must have happened.

Kate must have sat describing them curtains blowing open to each police force separately, & on multiple occasions, & all the detectives present found the story utterly unquestionable.

[Rossb]

Oh c'mon, it must have happened.

Kate must have sat describing them curtains blowing open to each police force separately, & on multiple occasions, & all the detectives present found the story utterly unquestionable.

How if they were not there either

[barrier]

I doubt that has ever happened.

Rowley in 2017 said they didn't (MET) saying that was all covered by the PJ in the first investigation.

[Eleanor]

Rowley in 2017 said they didn't (MET) saying that was all covered by the PJ in the first investigation.

Let's face it.  No one tried harder than The PJ to find something questionable about The McCanns.

[jassi]

How if they were not there either

   Who wasn't there ?

[Wonderfulspam]

Let's face it.  No one tried harder than The PJ to find something questionable about The McCanns.

There wasn't a lot they could do other than question them really, the trail went cold down Rua Escola.

[barrier]

Let's face it.  No one tried harder than The PJ to find something questionable about The McCanns.

So it was a thorough investigation .

[Vertigo Swirl]

So it was a through investigation .

That yield no worthwhile evidence against the McCanns.  By your logic this means they could not possibly have been involved in their child’s disappearance right?

[Eleanor]

That yield no worthwhile evidence against the McCanns.  By your logic this means they could not possibly have been involved in their child’s disappearance right?

Right.

[Rossb]

  Who wasn't there ?

The police

[Rossb]

So it was a thorough investigation .

Not really, 3 unidentified prints on inside some on the shutters but no prints were tested on putsode of window, so yeah not thorough, also the portuguese their was finding of their dna in the apartment. Bloody hell

[barrier]

Not really, 3 unidentified prints on inside some on the shutters but no prints were tested on putsode of window, so yeah not thorough, also the portuguese their was finding of their dna in the apartment. Bloody hell

Well one of the unidentified was not CB then .

[Brietta]

Well one of the unidentified was not CB then .

Even if it had been Brueckner's no-one would have known for the simple reason the Portuguese did not look for what to them was in effect a missing local paedophile.

The problem of why we have had to wait for any progress to be made for over fifteen years is two fold.

Amaral tells us in his book he had decided overnight that he had solved the case;  a claim from which he has never deviated from promoting.

Amaral has told us via the media that Brueckner was on police radar in 2007 but was never looked for after one abortive attempt.

Think about it carefully.
If you have absolutely decided on your perpetrator before seeing any evidence or even before visiting the crime scene, what importance do you attach to carrying out a thorough investigation.
If a local paedophile goes missing during an investigation into a missing child and you can't find him despite looking, why would you forget about him and stop looking for him.

I don't think either response was appropriate and it puzzles me how anyone could base a belief system on such obvious mismanagement.

[Wonderfulspam]

Even if it had been Brueckner's no-one would have known for the simple reason the Portuguese did not look for what to them was in effect a missing local paedophile.

The problem of why we have had to wait for any progress to be made for over fifteen years is two fold.

Amaral tells us in his book he had decided overnight that he had solved the case;  a claim from which he has never deviated from promoting.

Amaral has told us via the media that Brueckner was on police radar in 2007 but was never looked for after one abortive attempt.

Think about it carefully.
If you have absolutely decided on your perpetrator before seeing any evidence or even before visiting the crime scene, what importance do you attach to carrying out a thorough investigation.
If a local paedophile goes missing during an investigation into a missing child and you can't find him despite looking, why would you forget about him and stop looking for him.

I don't think either response was appropriate and it puzzles me how anyone could base a belief system on such obvious mismanagement.

Did he go missing?  By all accounts he was drifter. Where was he supposed to be to your satisfaction at any particular time?

[jassi]

How could he go missing ? He wasn't subject to any restriction of movement order, was he?

I'm sure he knew where he was.