I am going to preface my thoughts with the fact that I think he is most likely guilty.
He does not say that he heard the announcement that they were looking for her. He didn't say that he approached anyone to say that he saw her go by the bleachers and to where she went. Why would he not let anyone know he saw her? Isn't that what most people would do? Who doesn't let people know they had seen a missing person, a missing child at that? Instead, he says this--
MADDEN: Last time I seen her, I was we was – I was – sitting on the side of the [INAUDIBLE], like I always, watching the…smoking a cigarette. And she walked by. And the other two girls came acro – through there first…I don’t know…a minute before. And then she came over there looking around, and I said, ‘Well, they want that way.’ And that was the last time I saw her.
MIEURE: And people were searching at that point?
MADDEN: No. [INAUDIBLE] And then nobody started searching for – I don’t know – 30 or 45 minutes, I guess.
MIEURE: So you saw her go by, back toward –
MADDEN: Well, she came in front of the bleachers to the back of the bleachers. [LONG PAUSE, AS MICROPHONE IS ADJUSTED.] And that’s all I know.
On the pictures, I think is trying to say that since he has photos which means he had to be in the stands. As a proud dad, he would have been taking photos. But, then we know she was not searched for until 35-40 minutes after he saw her. Who are the people who saw him continually? I think it is conceivable that he killed her and came back to the stands. If he smokes, his friends would know he had to get out of the stands to smoke. He could have been gone for fifteen minutes and then resume documenting the game.
MADDEN: Oh yeah, there were several people there. I’ve got all kinds of people to verify that I was there, you know, and seen me. I even took pictures on my phone to prove I was there, you know, to send to my ex-wife because she wasn’t there, and she wanted to see Blake playing football. So, I mean, I’ve got – I believe I’ll be okay.
Does he have game pictures of the minutes before she was killed? Since she was killed less than ten minutes before found, she was either slowly drowning or he was there then. Had the game been halted by that point?
It is horrible that the news team filmed with Madden's daughter present.