Since the 'Maddie in the bin' theory I purported caused so much outrage for it's content & not providing supporting evidence, I feel it incumbant upon me to portray the sources of my theory,
1) Madeleine's possible death before leaving the apartment,
I form the basis of this theory from the McCanns media interviews as follows,
GerryMcCann: Aug 10, 2007 Sky News Interview.
“everything we have done, during the last hundred days, is focussed on, errr... the belief that Madeleine was alive when she was abducted”
So Gerry has doubt as to her being alive before leaving the apartment, something which surely could only come from some sort of prior knowledge since it is seriously unlikely somone would murder her and leave with her body.
Radio Five Live Breakfast Interview May 1st 2008
'what evidence does anyone have to suggest that Madeleine is dead?' because we know of no evidence to suggest otherwise and we would like a public acknowledgement of that."
Gerry, it would appear, knows of no evidence to suggest Madeleine is anything other than dead.
Kate McCann: Sara Antunes de Oliveira, SIC, 9 March, 2010
"We're not going to sit here and lie and be totally naïve and say she's one hundred per cent alive."
A few years later and Kate is even more certain in saying they would be lying if they said she was alive.
Again, something that could only come from prior knowledge.
2) Smithman.
I then utilised the Smiths sighting of an inert child being carried by a man with a 60-80% resemblence to Mr McCann. From this I propose during this hypothesis that the man seen was actually Gerry McCann carrying his deceased child.
3) Method of diposal.
And finally the bin, in Kates book she states:
"Friday 4 May. Our first day without Madeleine. As soon as it was light Gerry and I resumed our search. We went up and down roads we’d never seen before, having barely left the Ocean Club complex all week. We jumped over walls and raked through undergrowth. We looked in ditches and holes. All was quiet apart from the sound of barking dogs, which added to the eeriness of the atmosphere. I remember opening a big dumpster-type bin and saying to myself, please God, don’t let her be in here. The most striking and horrific thing about all this was that we were completely alone. Nobody else, it seemed, was out looking for Madeleine. Just us, her parents."
So less than 12 hours since Madeleine was apparently seen being carried away by Bundleman, Kate believed her daughter could possibly be found inside a big dumpster type bin,
Infact she considers it so likely that she pleads with God for her not to be in there.
From this I deduced that Kate knew it was where she went.
"Maddie in the bin" theory?
The first person to propose that was Dr Amaral.
In his book, he relates that he is called away from a meeting in the early hours by his distraught wife, who has found the body of their pet dog with a head injury. She pleads with him to quit the investigation, but he calms and reassures her.
Then he attempts to dispose of the corpse of the dog by digging a hole to bury it, but finds the ground hard to dig. He realises how much 'easier' it would be to hide, rather than bury, the dog!
Hey presto!
Amaral's theory of what Gerry did with the body of Madeleine was formed.
Have you ever wondered where it came from?
The proper detective work of Mark Harrison:
The report considers the viability of burial on the beach and the likely
movement of a body if it entered the sea. It also considers the likely incident
of such a disposal choice and any local impact factors that make this a more
or less likely event with the aim to inform decisions on any searches.
Praia Da Luz Beach.
In simple terms the beach is in a natural inlet and bounded by cliffs.
The winds are generally from the west and create low energy waves of less
than 2m. This is significant regarding any body disposal scenario from the
shore as the wave energy is not sufficient to "take a body" out to sea. Instead
a body would most likely trave1 eastwards in a re circulating motion along the
shoreline until it was trapped by the rock outcrop to the east of the beach or
consumed by marine life. ti the entry point was the rock outcrop itself to the
east of the beach then the body would most likely continue in a re circulating
motion along the shoreline until it again encountered a bamer to its passage,
the most eastward of this would be 5km away at Ponta Da Piedade near
Lagos.
Sub Surface Burial on P D Luz Beach
For Body Disposal Purposes The Beach Can Be Separated And
Discussed Into 6 Areas.
Figure 2.The boulders in the rock falls are too large
to man handle. Vegetative growth suggests rock
falls have been in situ for some time. The low energy
wave action would not move any of the boulders. It
is possible a small child could be secreted amongst
the rocks in natural voids.
Figure 3.The cliff edge at the base of the beach is at
an angle that inhibits soil removal. The shale re fills
any hole dug and is unsuitable to achieve a burial.
Figure4.At the base of the cliff are wave cuts where
the bedrock has been eroded by wave action. Here
sand can be easily dug but after a few centimetres
the digger reaches the bed rock, preventing a
successful burial.
Figure 5.The beach cusps or berms are mounds of
sand made by wind action. These cusps form at the
limit of the tides reach and would only be recovered
in storm conditions. Digging on the cusps is easy but to achieve as
more than a few centimetres depth is very difficult to
the fine sand granules refill the hole
Figure 6.The dark sand in this image shows the
intertidal area. Here digging and burial could
possibly be achieved although it would be through a
mixture of grave1 and water. However any burial
would be quickly exposed by wave action and
ultimately taken into the sea.
To be clear, Harrison himself never formed
any firm opinion of his own about what might have happened to Madeleine, and Amaral's outright lie that he did is (in my opinion) the most serious lie of all the lies in Amaral's book.
