in Correio da Manha today (August 23):
http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=255036&idselect=181&idCanal=181&p=0
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http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=19 post # 279
Searches: Death possibility considered by the McCanns
Parents suggested PJ to search for cadaver
The first people who put the theory of Madeleines death on the table were the McCanns themselves. They contacted Policia Judiciaria in July, informing that they intended to use the services of a South-African radiesthesist, who presented great credits in the search for cadavers. Maddies parents just requested that the Policia Judiciaria would accept the knowledge of his advances, and, if they would think it was convenient, to include these in their investigation.
The McCanns were immediately confronted with the obvious. PJ said they would accept that, if the parents were also aware that they, themselves, stopped believing that Madeleine was alive. So it happened, and the professor, who came to Portugal with varied equipment, did several mediations around the Ocean Club apartment. The radius that was likely for the hiding of the body included the beach, which is located south of the resort where the girl disappeared from.
His conclusions met the elements that had already been collected by Policia Judiciaria, and his credibility was also evaluated by the way he presented himself. The professor paid for all of his travel and lodging expenses and explicitly instructed that he wanted no publicity around his discoveries.
It was only after that episode that the English dogs came over. They were suggested by British police, as everything pointed to a death scenario. And they also validated the same path, which indicates that the childs body can be hidden nearby, or even on the beach. Less than 1 kilometer from the location where she was last seen alive.
Speech changed over the last weeks
After it became public that the PJ had stopped looking for a child, and was concentrating on the recovery of a cadaver, the McCanns evidenced some discomfort. Through various means, they made public that they did not know that was the possibility that was being considered by the authorities, and never revealed that they had advanced this possibility themselves.
Then, they made believe they were going to demand explanations from the Judiciaria a meeting that has been successively postponed because the samples from the collected residues were not finished yet but now they show a complete inversion in their speech. In an interview that was given yesterday to Spanish daily newspaper El Mundo, Kate again mentions kidnapping and even says that her daughter could be living in Spain.
Another thing that has been perplexing authorities is the possibility that the couple might return to England, at a time when the investigation seems to have found a solid course. CM knows that possibility was never equated to investigators, although they accept it as highly likely to happen over the next few weeks.
CM could also find out that the delay in the arrival of results of the exams that were requested from the Birmingham lab, is confusing the investigation. Seventeen days after the first samples were sent to England, the lab still gives no information, either official or officiously. Nobody knows whether there are any preliminary results, if the samples have any quality to extract any genetic profile, or even if it was detected to be a human residue.
And if PJ believes they do not depend on those exams to proceed with the investigation, the truth is that the confirmation that those are Maddies residues is fundamental to define what are the next steps to be taken.
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