Madeleine McCann: German prisoner identified as suspect #2

[Satchie]

I live in Spain and I have the same windows and shutters and I assure you that you can in fact get in and out of the windows very easily. The upper apartments accross from us have been burgled many times using windows smaller than the ones in the MCanns bedroons. It is why most properties have iron railings.

This is actually one of the reasons I didn't trust Amaral from the beginning. Incidentally the window pane sections lift and pull out completely but that wasn't done in this case and didn't have to be as there was plenty of room to get out. I can also jimmy some of my shutters up almost half way, but they drop back down with a crash. I have tried to upload a picture of one of my windows open but the file is too large.

Finally, someone who cares about the window! Thank you.

 

[Pisces Cloud]

You may come across a crazy couple who make bad choices and ultimately pay the highest and then they plot to cover their actions. But come on, we are talking about a group of Doctors. A large number of professionals all taking their children on holiday together. All meeting up of a day and night. Looking in on each others children! Are you saying aaall of these Doctors are in on a cover-up?? Well, they would have to be since every single moment of their holiday is accounted for. They spent their time together, for their children to share each others company. There is just no way on Gods Earth that these people put their heads together and made a pact, to clean the place up, get rid of the body and to never tell a soul. It is absurd. X

The only way these theories work with regard to the parents is to involve more and more people. It's just ridiculous. I also think the window business is going to turn out to be a complete Macguffin if this is eventually solved. Like what has happened in other solved cases when people have fixated on something they think is significant but then turns out that it never was.

 

[Satchie]

so you are claiming there is no truth in them linking him to the missing boy?

No, I am not claiming anything. I was trying to understand your posts.

 

[Satchie]

The only way these theories work with regard to the parents is to involve more and more people. It's just ridiculous. I also think the window business is going to turn out to be a complete Macguffin if this is eventually solved. Like what has happened in other solved cases when people fixate on something they think is significant.

I'm sorry if it bothers people, just ignore these posts. It's an aspect of the crime scene, that would indicate the perp was a burglar.

 

[katydid23]

So serious that they are linking him to crimes when he was 50 miles away like the other little girl yesterday? . I’m sure he was the only pedophile in that 50 mile radius as well. It’s clutching at straws. I’m sure he can be linked to even more crimes today , maybe anything within a 200 mile radius today.


Moo

Everyone tries to link sex offenders to as many cases as might be possible. That is how crimes are eventually solved. Only a few will be proven.

But if we just focus on this case with Maddie, we can see a lot of circumstantial evidence that points to this criminal.

--He fits the description of one of the Germans, who was seen on a balcony, 2 apartments away from where Maddie was sleeping that night.

--The composite drawing resembles what he looked like at the time.

--He was on the phone just before the kidnapping and that call puts him in the immediate vicinity of the resort.

--He has a long history of breaking and entering homes and hotels, in that area. And a long history of sexual assaults of children and of an elderly woman.

--He confessed to this crime on the 10th anniversary. When he did so, he showed some video of himself doing a similar crime, brutally a raping a woman, in the same exact area. He was recently convicted of that crime.

--The day after the child went missing, he took his name off the registration of his car, which he probably used in the kidnapping.

--He reportedly talked on the web, about his desire to kidnap a youngster and abuse them for days then dispose of them.


Anything else?

 

[katydid23]

I'm sorry if it bothers people, just ignore these posts. It's an aspect of the crime scene, that would indicate the perp was a burglar.

This prime suspect was a burglar.

 

[greengables]

Another point about the windows.....the mechanism that opens and closes the blind is next to the window, it would be nothing to assume that if he left through the window he could have pulled the cord up and release when he let go and shut the blind behind him. I wish i could post videos of how they function.

As for the noise noone surrounding would take much notice it is normal to hear shutters opening and closing all through the night here in Spain and they generally make s crashing sound when closing.

 

[Satchie]

This prime suspect was a burglar.

Exactly, so that reinforces his being the perp, if the crime scene shows evidence of burglary. There are many paedophiles, few are burglars.

 

[JediJim]

IDK. IMO most police forces these days understand the human mind is extremely unreliable and don't place so much emphasis on witnesses, they rely on forensics, all the way.

Indeed. If you got 10 people to watch a 5 minute crime clip on tv, you would actually get 10 different versions. Ranging from the descriptions of peoples clothing and the colour of their car.
As time goes on the memories will be even less reliable.

 

[otto]

He had moved out of that house before the disappearance ,(perhaps because he was sent to jail,)

"At the time Madeleine disappeared the suspect was, police believe, living in a white VW Westfalia camper van with yellow skirting"
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-5293762

Maybe he parked the van near the shack where he lived at the time he raped the 72 year old tourist in her home along the path to the beach. When Madeleine disappeared, he had the van and a Jaguar. Where did he park them?

 

[katydid23]

Another point about the windows.....the mechanism that opens and closes the blind is next to the window, it would be nothing to assume that if he left through the window he could have pulled the cord up and release when he let go and shut the blind behind him. I wish i could post videos of how they function.

As for the noise noone surrounding would take much notice it is normal to hear shutters opening and closing all through the night here in Spain and they generally make s crashing sound when closing.

But why would he climb out the window, holding a child, when the door was unlocked?

And that window faced the street, I believe. Pretty risky climbing out a window holding a 3 yr old. Especially when you could just carry her out the back door. JMO

 

[Giuc0]

At night, when most people are either minding their own business or sleeping, I doubt he'd been noticed.

 

[greengables]

I remember seeing the blind being dusted for prints but i wonder if they also dusted the cord mechanism.

 

[JediJim]

Does anyone know whether CCTV was gathered from the area at the time? I realize there were lots of issues with the investigation. Is absence of CCTV footage one of them?

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I may be completely wrong but wasn’t there cctv of a child and adult in Portugal shortly afterwards? Minding you if a child was abducted, you would hardly go to a petrol station with them would you?

 

[Sairzz]

Do we know if the camper had a German number plate? I've had a look back through some of the older possible sightings and found this one from the 28th may 2007 in spain,
possible Madeline McCann sighting with a German man in a VW van with a German number plate.

 

[otto]

This prime suspect was a burglar.

Burglar and Sex Offender.

"He was born Christian Fischer in Bavaria in 1976, but was given up by his birth mother and placed in a children's home in Wuerzburg and was adopted by the Brueckner family as a baby, taking their name.

He descended into a life of crime as a young teenager, and was convicted of his first burglary in his home town of Wurzburg in 1992, when he was 15.

Within two years, the warped teenager had progressed to sexually abusing a child, with the playground attack earning him a two-year youth sentence, of which he served only a part."​

Madeleine McCann: Police link suspect to missing schoolboy, 6 | Daily Mail Online

 

[Ardoch]

It sounds like, every 15 of 20 minutes, many different people were popping into the apartment where Madeleine slept. They were not entering through the window, and they weren't using a key. If one more person, Christian Brueckner - roughly the same age as parents - did the same thing but left with a child through the other door, no one would notice.

This is along the lines of my thinking. Did everyone in the Tapas group stick to the agreed routine on checking the children? And as the night wore on?
Maybe one of them forgot to mention that they'd opened a patio door (for air) and therefore the person before that gives a different account?
I agree with what's mentioned upthread about evidence being more reliable and more important than witness accounts.

 

[otto]

I may be completely wrong but wasn’t there cctv of a child and adult in Portugal shortly afterwards? Minding you if a child was abducted, you would hardly go to a petrol station with them would you?

I'm wondering about whether CCTV was collected in the area. If a Jaguar or van are now the source of interest, were they seen on CCTV footage.

 

[Giuc0]

Do we know if the camper had a German number plate? I've had a look back through some of the older possible sightings and found this one from the 28th may 2007 in spain,
possible Madeline McCann sighting with a German man in a VW van with a German number plate.

Haven't found a thing about the campvan number plate

 

[JediJim]

The tapas group.Let’s say that they all took it in turns to check on the children. Was it 3 or 4 rooms to check? I don’t know.
The point is that no one really knows if the children were all checked properly. For example they may have just listened from outside the door. Which would mean that Madeleines abduction time frame would be even bigger.
No one in the group is going to admit that they didn’t check on Madeleine properly are they, considering what happened?....
If that makes any sense?!