LOL IrishMist...I KNOW, I like to type it myself
I found this too:
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/16865/KILLER-STEPS
I know it is a "rag" but...WOW...this one is brutal!!
Now falling down the outside steps brings up a whole different set of circumstances. Like if she did fall down those steps....who found her? And when? How long did she lay there? Was this before or after dinner?
I don't know about this....I don't recall the dogs finding blood outside the apartment. I am sceptical.
I wonder if this is really true:
Last night it was alleged that it was UK detectives – and not their Portuguese counterparts – who first raised suspicions about the possible involvement of Madeleine’s parents.
. . . A Brit police source said: “Our detectives use a mantra in big investigations – ‘clear the ground under your feet’.
“Here, that meant look at the apartment and the circle closest to Madeleine – her family.
“They should have been the first to be looked at properly.’’
It would sort of make sense, since no one seemed to have suspected the parents at first.
In the U.S., the parents would have definitely been the first suspects.
In reading the report about the possible fall on the stairs, I keep thinking of this quote from an early interview of Kate's:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...id=482379&in_page_id=1770&ICO=NEWS&ICL=TOPART
"I know that what happened is not due to the fact of us leaving the children asleep. I know it happened under other circumstances."
Asked about whether the decision to leave them meant she and her husband were responsible for their daughter's disappearance, she said: "It cannot be considered a crime.
"Someone committed one, but not us."
That is a fascinating quote - she is exhonerating herself completely through rationalization. Because the "circumstances" are actually the same whether someone took Maddie or she wandered out.
The "circumstances" were that Maddie was in the room alone with her brother and sister, and if someone took her, they were just taking advantage of the circumstances and not making new ones.
Unless Kate is looking at this a totally different way than we think:
The following is all speculation on my part:
Leaving Maddie in an unlocked room asleep did not lead to the disappearance, but "other circumstances" did. That is very careful wording because if the child died accidentally, then she isn't really lying at all. The "other circumstances" would be that Maddie did not obey them and stay in bed. It would also be a reason that she keeps saying Maddie would never get out of bed and leave the room - more denial of her own culpability.
"It cannot be considered a crime" - that sounds like denial to me. If they were the responsible adults, then it "can be considered" a crime.
What if she has convinced herself that they did nothing wrong in leaving the kids alone (obviously they feel that way - so safe, and they were in the "backgarden" at the Tapas Bar, and everyone else left their children also, and it was better than leaving the kids with strangers, etc).
But when she says that a crime has been committed but
not by them, what if she means that someone moved the gate from the stairs, and that is the crime?
Did one of the other parents remove the gate from the top of the stairs and not shut it or replace it when they were "checking" on the kids? Is that why other people in the party need to be interviewed again, and why doubt is being cast on some of the stories?
In other words, Kate would "know" the circumstances, because she would believe that Maddie would never have removed the gate herself, so the crime is that the barrier was gone?
Or was the crime that another parent left the door open or the door unlocked?
Anyway - just something that keeps coming to mind as I'm reading these new theories.
