Don't think I'd go as far as say they were in a peado ring but I just can't look past the parents on this one. Too many things just do no add up. Every single thing they did upon "discovering" she was missing just doesn't fit what a normal worried parent would do. You don't delay informing people, you don't contaminate the evidence, you don't keep changing your story to the police and you certainly don't leave 3 children alone in a hotel in a foreign country to start with.

I don't think they have ever said they left the children alone before?
When did they say that?
Very favourable media? Yes, perhaps at the start. Yet it turned very quickly into a witch hunt for the very same reasons that people liked them for at the beginning; their faith, their media friendly image, their cute little daughter.
Then It turned into the usual English media backlash that turns on the average reader/punter and sells shit papers.

It's in that Maddie book McCann wrote. The night before Maddie went "missing" she thought someone had been in the apartment so that made her check more frequently the next night...not enough for them to not sod off out mind.

Plenty of kids go missing everyday, i dont see large scale international operations to find them.