brooklandsblue2.0 said:
M18CTID said:
although I'm guessing we'll never find out the true depth of the McCann's involvement in all this.
Care to elaborate....be very careful.
Why be careful? The Times elaborated this scenario a while ago. The night before, Kate McCann admiited to police that Maddie had woken up upset and crying and they had discovered her. She asked her parents not to leave her again. Therefore the supposition was that they sedated the three kids so they wouldn't wake but that Maddie died because of this and they disposed of the body then concocted a tale of her abduction.
Once the initlal fuss died down, the police suspicions were aroused and they declared the mother an arguido (suspect). At that point she clammed up and refused to answer any more questions.
Some of the evidence to support this scenario included:
The friend who had supposedly last gone back to the villa to check had just gone in but admitted he had not actually checked the room the kids were in, suggesting he knew they should be sound asleep.
When she allegedly discovered Maddie had gone, the mother apparently didn't raise the alarm straight away but went back to the restaurant leaving the twins alone again. If you thought your child had been abducted there is NO WAY you would do this.
The others came back to search the apartment but the twins never woke up despite the noise and fuss.
A large sports bag belonging to the father (supposedly large enough to carry a small child) was allegedly missing from the apartment. Gerry McCann denied owning such a bag but witnesses are supposed to have seen him carrying it to tennis lessons he was having.
Police dogs supposedly detected the scent of a dead body in the apartment and on the mother's clothes, as well as in the boot of the hire car.
Despite it being early evening in a busy resort, the only eye-witness was one of their own friends, who reported seeing a man carrying a child.
The McCanns originally claimed that they arrived at the restaurant first at 8:30pm. But other witness statements had them arriving at 9pm. Their friend checked the apartment (but not the kids themselves) at 9:30 and she was then discovered missing at 10pm. So there is a "missing" half hour.
Of course only they know what really happened and however it went down they have to live with it.