I have spent the last 5 years in varius forums reading about this on and off ( more off sometimes ) For whatever reason this case really got to me as it is such a mass of conflicting emotions and view points - apart from being a complete mystery.
I have always thought that the only way Gerry could have hidden or disposed of Maddy without detection would have been if he had lots of time to take in what happened - digest it - and then act. The theorys that Maddy had died in the previous days and was falsey signed into the creche make more sense to me if you are trying to work out a time line for Maddy to be so well hidden ,
But that brings into question other witnesses being wrong about seeing Maddy at 5.30 ( Creche nanny pennington ) this then leads to a whole load of issues in itself - and was something that the original police seem to have discounted .
Without repeating ad nauseam previous points it does seem tough to imagine say Gerry discovering say maddy dead from say some reaction to medication or maybe having fallen and then Gerry fiorst thought was of disposal. But if we accept that as given then there was time to head for the church and then dispose of the body in a freezer there, Again though it just seems fraught wiith issues - ie when did they retrieve , why didnt anyone check etc etc -
For Gerry to hav done this means he must have been in a very disturbed place - I dont care who you are you dnt just dispose of your child unless you are either a psycopath or disturbed.
There are plent of cases of parents killing their children becasuse of severe post natal depression or say through family break up that leads to the father killing - but in these cases there is usually no attempt to hide the crime.
I have not read Amarals book - did he say anything in this book about the church or his theory of freezers .
I also want to go vback and read any statemenst form the priest if available
I struggle with a reason for hiding a body, it doesnt make sense to me that they would prefer to take their chances by hiding a child that had died from some accident rather than admit what had happened and most likely face an investigation that would be far less serious than concealing a corpse, perverting the course of Justice and so on, it would have been an accident and while tragic, would surely not have escalated to the situation they found themselves in when made suspects in 2007.
If say, Gerry McCann did hide the body, the only reasons to my mind would be that he was in his mind at least, doing it to in some way salvage something in his family life.
What I mean is, I personally cannot see him hiding his dead daughter to save his job, it doesnt make any sense to me, but, if for example, Kate McCann had lost the plot and Madeleine had died from an incident, then I could see Gerry McCann acting on the spur of the moment, thinking that Madeleine was gone, but he could maybe save the rest of the family unit, by covering it up and pretending that someone had taken Madeleine.
In his mind possibly, he could have thought that the twins would lose their Mother, he may lose the children into care as a result?
I'm not stating this as something I am believing happened, just that I could see that being a reason to possibly attempt a cover up.
Still, there would be massive obstacles to overcome and I would have thought that if the above or similar did happen, then they would have wanted the body to be found in order to give her a proper burial, maybe that was the intention when the finger was pointed at RM, who knows?
I havent read Amarals book so cannot comment on his theories but with regards to the Church, by needing the keys, I guess its safe to say that the church was locked at night, which then begs the question, how would they have hidden the body there on the evening because surely in the next few days, with all the attention on the area, it would have been nigh on impossible to move it to the church?
