Madeleine McCann: German Prisoner Identified as Suspect, #35

[RichardKimble]

I thought the below was interesting.

@mrjitty this, I think, confirms your question about EXIF data. They could have him at the lake within a few days of MM disappearing. I can’t think of any other geolocation clues - perhaps an old Navman or something.

“The tip-off - plus geolocation clues found in the convicted rapist and paedophile’s vile stash of 8,000 of videos and images - is understood to have sparked the search.

“Concrete” information from the former friend of the fiend is understood to have led dozens of officers to the remote site.”

Maddie cops find 'relevant clue' as family faces agonising wait for answers

MADELEINE McCann cops have found a “relevant clue” after three days of searching for the missing tot at a desolate reservoir near Praia da Luz. Cops are shipping evidence discovered dur…

www.thescottishsun.co.uk

But , there's always a but, unless a link can be found to Madeleine then the case maintains it's status quo, CB could readily admit to being at the reservoir for purely no other reason than he can.The issue would be if he says he wasn't there but evidence of Madeleine and him there would be the issue, pure speculation I know but for 16 yrs it been nothing but.

 

[Mex]

I do wonder if, in the years after MM’s disappearance, CB perhaps returned to this area at the dam to remove or destroy any evidence. Especially considering the close shaves of the original lake search at this dam, and the search of his ‘dead dog’ property.

He was in the Algarve in June 2017, when he was caught masturbating in front of an 11-year-old Portuguese girl. He’s a very seasonal criminal as much as a seasoned one, always there with the school holidaymakers.

German suspect in Maddie McCann case charged in separate assaults

www.9news.com.au

After the abortive search financed by MC in 2008 I think if he had any mementos buried there he might have considered them as secure from intrusion as anywhere.

MM's case was archived in 2008 and it was clear it wouldn't be looked at again by the Portuguese authorities without there being new evidence. And even when it was reopened in 2013 reaching a conclusion was considered highly unlikely.

No-one least of all CB could have foreseen the active interest the BKA would take in cases against women and children all these years later.

My opinion is if he had hidden evidence at the dam he will have left it there. Would he even have thought of the possibility of soil samples being taken? Few of us did - we were thinking dam = divers and deposition site.

 

[Pixie Child]

I wonder if they tested the soil for calcium carbonate (bones) on site. That could be a ‘relevant clue’.

They would need to distinguish human from animal bones. I don’t know if they could do that on site. Isotope analysis would be lab work.

 

[RichardKimble]

As we understand it, he purchased it in Tomar on or around 3.5.07. He parked it at Villa Bianca where he showed it to DF in or around May 2007 (DF isn’t entirely sure when he was there). MT said it turned up in Orgiva end of May/early June 07. CB went I’m on to Berlin/Augsburg/Sylt.

The confession to HB was at the March 2008 Orgiva festival (shortly after the MC Arcade dam search.)

Is it the camper the appeal was interested in, back in 2020.

The first vehicle is a distinctive VW T3 Westfalia campervan. It is an early 1980s model, with two tone markings, a white upper body and a yellow skirting. It had a Portuguese registration plate.
The suspect had access to this van from at least April 2007 until sometime after May 2007. It was used in and around the area of Praia da Luz.

We believe he was living in this van for days, possibly weeks, and may have been using it on 3 May 2007.

We are appealing for anyone who may have seen it in or around Praia da Luz on 3 May, the night Madeleine went missing, the days before, or weeks following the disappearance.

 

[Mex]

MS has said, CB turned up with a "big" campervan in March 2008 at Orgiva's dragon festival in spain. So i would say probably yes!

Thank you SuperdadV8.
I remember that information now.

 

[SuperdadV8]

After comparing the patterns of the recent excavations at arade dam in the Sky News Video

'Material collected' in Madeleine McCann reservoir search to be sent to Germany for testing

Police from Portugal, Germany and the UK spent three days searching a reservoir and surrounding scrubland for new evidence.

news.sky.com

with common archaeological excavations

Römer im Attergau: auf den Spuren der Römer

Schon seit mehreren Wochen wird auf einem Grundstück in Königswiesen bei St. Georgen im Attergau nach Spuren einer Römeransiedlung gegraben.

www.meinbezirk.at

i assume, that the smaller holes seem to be a kind of probing, whilst the bigger trench seen in the video should have turned out to be a direct hit?

 

[Malleux]

Based on the landmark references you can see in the Sky News video, I've got the dig site as being located here.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1661819093874356224

 

[C.greek]

After comparing the patterns of the recent excavations at arade dam in the Sky News Video

'Material collected' in Madeleine McCann reservoir search to be sent to Germany for testing

Police from Portugal, Germany and the UK spent three days searching a reservoir and surrounding scrubland for new evidence.

news.sky.com

with common archaeological excavations

Römer im Attergau: auf den Spuren der Römer

Schon seit mehreren Wochen wird auf einem Grundstück in Königswiesen bei St. Georgen im Attergau nach Spuren einer Römeransiedlung gegraben.

www.meinbezirk.at

i assume, that the smaller holes seem to be a kind of probing, whilst the bigger trench seen in the video should have turned out to be a direct hit?

I like your line of thinking! The small holes are very shallow to be really probing. But it's true they didn't need to dig dip to go back 16 years! The trench is where they must have found something of interest but also the holes were dug where there was evidence of fire activity (some of the holes at least)
I would assume the dogs/equipment they ysed helped them to dig at these specific spots. There is no pattern like you see in a normal archaeological dig. Therefore I assume they had other indications to take samples from these specific spots

 

[C.greek]

Excellent! The dig site does not appear to be under water under any circumstances... so they must have really had Intel (source with them?) To dig specifically there... so potentially CB parked up in the parking lot and spend time (?) At that site close to the water and under the cover of trees/shrubs... jmo

Based on the landmark references you can see in the Sky News video, I've got the dig site as being located here.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1661819093874356224

 

[Mex]

But , there's always a but, unless a link can be found to Madeleine then the case maintains it's status quo, CB could readily admit to being at the reservoir for purely no other reason than he can.The issue would be if he says he wasn't there but evidence of Madeleine and him there would be the issue, pure speculation I know but for 16 yrs it been nothing but.

I think you are right about the case maintaining its "status quo". But that does not necessarily mean that failure to find linking evidence at the dam will mean failure to eventually charge CB using existing evidence.
Which must be compelling to have him officially designated as prime suspect in the murder of a child. My opinion

4 May 2022
Fresh evidence has been found against the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a German prosecutor has revealed.
H C W said in an interview on Portuguese television that investigators believed they had found “some facts, some new evidence, not forensic evidence.”
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He added: “We are sure that he is the murderer of Madeleine McCann. We are sure that he killed Madeleine McCann. The investigation is still going on and I think we found some new facts, some new evidence – not forensic evidence, but evidence.”

Madeleine McCann: ‘new evidence’ linked to suspect found, prosecutor says

German prosecutor says investigators are sure Christian Brückner killed three-year-old and have ‘new facts’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Mex]

Based on the landmark references you can see in the Sky News video, I've got the dig site as being located here.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1661819093874356224

Wow! Extensive and targeted area. I think they knew exactly what they were after

 

[Mex]

I like your line of thinking! The small holes are very shallow to be really probing. But it's true they didn't need to dig dip to go back 16 years! The trench is where they must have found something of interest but also the holes were dug where there was evidence of fire activity (some of the holes at least)
I would assume the dogs/equipment they ysed helped them to dig at these specific spots. There is no pattern like you see in a normal archaeological dig. Therefore I assume they had other indications to take samples from these specific spots

"Therefore I assume they had other indications to take samples from these specific spots"
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Initially the vegetation was too dense for drones to see what was on the ground. I think the intelligence had to come from, a witness statement (perhaps) but very definitely from the dogs.

 

[C.greek]

I looked a bit more carefully at the below video

Police leave holes two feet deep as Madeleine McCann reservoir search ends

Discovered items sent to German lab after police leave Algarve reservoir

www.independent.co.uk

And I realised that they dug some of these and left the dug up soil next to them, meaning they didn't take that soil for analysis... one seems to be of charred leaves... very interesting... also the trench is not deep but it is long... and I cannot see the soil heap from that!

 

[Mex]

I looked a bit more carefully at the below video

Police leave holes two feet deep as Madeleine McCann reservoir search ends

Discovered items sent to German lab after police leave Algarve reservoir

www.independent.co.uk

And I realised that they dug some of these and left the dug up soil next to them, meaning they didn't take that soil for analysis... one seems to be of charred leaves... very interesting... also the trench is not deep but it is long... and I cannot see the soil heap from that!

Journalists were all over the area when investigators left, as everyone knew they would be.

Maybe a case of can't see the wood for the trees? While we are all discussing holes in the ground, what might we be missing.

 

[C.greek]

Journalists were all over the area when investigators left, as everyone knew they would be.

Maybe a case of can't see the wood for the trees? While we are all discussing holes in the ground, what might we be missing.

What they found inside these holes??

 

[Mex]

What they found inside these holes??

I was intrigued by the circular precision of the holes left. But why leave the filling soil in a heap beside them.

 

[Denis R Tandib]

I looked a bit more carefully at the below video

Police leave holes two feet deep as Madeleine McCann reservoir search ends

Discovered items sent to German lab after police leave Algarve reservoir

www.independent.co.uk

And I realised that they dug some of these and left the dug up soil next to them, meaning they didn't take that soil for analysis... one seems to be of charred leaves... very interesting... also the trench is not deep but it is long... and I cannot see the soil heap from that!

I think the reason there is no soil from the trench is because it was already there. It looks to me like a pre existing cap site that has been levelled and the trench is perhaps drainage. I’ve seen lots of camping spots like this.

 

[Denis R Tandib]

I was intrigued by the circular precision of the holes left. But why leave the filling soil in a heap beside them.

Made by a drilling rig most likely.

 

[mrjitty]

I looked a bit more carefully at the below video

Police leave holes two feet deep as Madeleine McCann reservoir search ends

Discovered items sent to German lab after police leave Algarve reservoir

www.independent.co.uk

And I realised that they dug some of these and left the dug up soil next to them, meaning they didn't take that soil for analysis... one seems to be of charred leaves... very interesting... also the trench is not deep but it is long... and I cannot see the soil heap from that!

I don't think that is charred leaves - I think it is the raked off layer of dead leaves and twigs - it all looks quite grey because they are filming under shade (02c)

 

[mrjitty]

What they found inside these holes??

Certainly much of the spoil is missing