As Amaral found out when he attempted to bury the family pet dog that had been run over, the ground in Portugal is rock hard. I don't see any would-be abductor going armed with a shovel. If Madeleine was hidden anywhere t had to be in a ready made hole or a well.
My "sympathy" with that (non) "argument" is precisely zero!
Amaral simply plagiarised the proper detective-work of Mark Harrison in digging holes in various places in PdL and
ruling out burial in coming up with a half-cocked "!thesis" of his own that Gerry
hid (Amaral's operative word!) Madeleine's body on the beach.
If you read Harrison's report carefully, you'll find he noted an area of free-standing rocks where he says that it would be possible (sic) to
secrete the body of a small child.
But at no point did Harrison say that anything of the kind had happened to Madeleine, done by Gerry or anyone else.
Amaral's (perfectly disgraceful) "thesis" is contained in his
El Mundo interview.
When will people wake up to what a pack of outright lies and distortions Amaral has told, both in his book and in interviews?
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. At one point, Harrison makes reference to
occultation of a body, giving rise to fevered speculation in certain quarters that Madeleine's disappearance had something to do with the 'occult'.
Of course
occultation simply means
hiding ...
