Re. How they got rid of a body without a single witness:
Smith sighting? We don't know whether there were other witnesses do we? Tapas group member? A wealthy friend living nearby with a car maybe?
Re. Seeming odd that the cigarette butts were not examined:
What seems odd to me is that the twins were not checked immediately for having been drugged as they were sleeping so heavily and K checked their breathing.
What also seems odd is that the parents thought it was ok to leave their babies and toddler home alone in an apartment that was the other side of a wall, across a swimming pool and out of earshot of them. That seems pretty odd to me given that they are seen as being fit enough parents to carry on bringing their kids up and not be punished according to Portuguese law. Don't people smuggling drugs caught in countries abroad get punished by the laws of those countries? How long does it take for a baby to choke to death? I'm pretty sure it's less time than the family took between 'checks' that evening.
What also seems odd is that KM could manage to go jogging within days of the 'abduction' yet didn't search. Maybe she searched whilst jogging, eh?
What also seems odd is that the Mctapas gang spent time creating a timeline. What for? If the person who saw M last on a check knew the time then the 'abductor' must have struck after that time. No need for the other times to be documented at that stage.
What also seems odd is the involvement of such high profile people willingly supporting the abduction theory. Flying the MCs off to meet the Pope.
What also seems odd is the first media reports as breaking news the following morning here in the UK had a child welfare officer saying that leaving kids home alone was ok under those circumstances as the parents were nearby.
What also seems odd is the trip to Huelva with posters printed in the wrong language. Surely with the funds pouring in, they could have printed them in the correct language.
What also seems odd is that the parents said they would give up their house to find M, yet the very questionable fund made it possible to raise millions of £s providing financial assistance for the family.
What also seems odd is how quickly the parents changed their minds about staying in Portugal.... when the dogs arrived.
...... I could go on and on.....
As for Cuddle Cat:
It probably smelled wonderfully of Persil at that time.
All IMO.
The smith sighting was not of gerry. We know this because several non-tapas nine wiotness place him at the complex at this time. Given the sighting was at about the same time the alarm was raised people are going to remember seeing the father there. The smiths have not once identified the man they saw as gerry. At the time they all said they had no idea who the man coudl be. Several weeks later after the mccanns were made arguidos one of the smiths said though it was dark, he did not have his glasses and he could not identify the face of the man, he thought that perhaps by the body language the man may have been gerry but he wa sin no way positive. The other smiths did not support this. The PJ discounted the smith sighting as gerry.
Even if one of the taps nine other than the mccanns dispose dof the body, how did they do it given they are all accounted for, and faced the same issues in that they did not know the area well, had no vehicle, only had access to public areas etc.
There is no record of the mccanns knowing anyone in the area at this time, aside from their holiday companions. The PJ final report confirms this, when they talk about the fact that no-one can see how the mccansn could have got rid of a body.
There is nothing suspicious about going jogging, especially if this is what you normally do to try to clear your head, de-stress. The McCanns had had a horrendous ordeal, and they had two choices 1) keep going, 2) collapse and become incapable. They chose the first option because they had three young children and each other who needed them to be OK, and one of those children really needed them to help find her. People who lose a child in whatever circumstances keep going normally. I remember when two girls disappeared from cambridgeshire a few years ago, they were not found for about two weeks and during that time one of the mothers spoke to a reporter when out shopping - she said she had to do soemthing. It is normal.
According to the PJ files, Kate did look, although in the UK police do not normally allow parents to physically search for their child. Do you have any evidence that contradicts the witnesses that sya kate was looking that night?
Rightly or wrongly leaving a child in thse circumsatnces is not neglect. The PJ report I linked ot above disccuses Portuguese neglect laws and explains why the mccanns were not guilty of it.
Listening services, where children are left in a room and a nanny listens outside the door every half an hour are popular in the EU and no-one has ever been prosecuted for using one. The McCanns made their own listening service by checking the children every half hour, just like the listening service their friends had used in a MW resort the year before. Whether we agree with it or not, thousands use these services. I agree it is a stupid thing to do, and a child could easily get hurt in half an hour, but the thing is they are legal and are used so the mccanns were not unusual in this.
The mccanns left quite a while after the dogs appeared. And lets face it, eddie was cute but despite the red tops claims not one of europes top dogs. According to SYP he was not even top in the two dog team he worked on and had only found one body in his career with them (and if news reports were to be believed, humans coudl smll the body). Not one person has been able to substantiate clams that eddie was one of the best, that he never failed. WE know his alerts in jersey did not mean a body was there, and we know he alerted to dried blood. So the fact he alerted to a card fobb that only contained material from a living person, and then alerted to a flat where someone had bled for 45 mins does not mean anything in terms of whether madeleine had died there or not.
There is no evidence the mccanns washed the cat just before the dogs arrived, it was several weeks before. and washing a cuddly toy is not exactly unusual.
So has anyone actually got any evidence against the mccanns as opposed to just speculation and opinion? The PJ said there was no evidence against them, scotland yard say it was a stranger. Where is the evidence that contradicts them?
And most importantly how was the body gotten rid of either by the mccanns or their friends. Some time between five thirty when madeleine was last seen alive by MW staff, and ten when the alarm was raised and people were swarming in and out of the flat the body had to be hidden, and hidden so well it was not found by anyone, or to be fair any sniffer dog, eddie or the ones deployed that very night. There is no record of the mccanns or their friends knowing anyone in PDL, so unless someone can work out how they did it the mccanns cannot not have anythign to do with the disappearance, since if they did then they would have had to have got rid of the body. And if anyone can work out how they did it, they may well have cracked the case so its worth thinking about.
