katydid23
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My question: if he was a known burglar in the area at the time of the disappearance, why was he not on police radar years ago and if so why not investigated further? He fits what the profile is often for these perps: white man usually around 25-40 years old, fits the general description of the sketch of a white man carrying a small child that one witness said, seems to be a loner (seems to not be married or have children of his own though I am not sure if that's the case but oftentimes these people are loners), not stable in employment or in housing situation it appears plus add the very relevant info re: burglary in hotels: BOOM, that would definitely be someone you really look into. I mean if an amateur had to draw a profile that would be it.
Did they not know he was a burglar till years later? Did he have an alibi? Was he even investigated? how does the rape of the American fit in- when did they find out about that? If they knew about that at any point in the last 13 years that makes the circumstantial evidence even stronger. When did they figure out him for the rape? Was it really 10 years before they connected the rape to him? There would have been DNA for that probably so whenever they connected him to the rape they immediately should have focused in on Madelaine. If it turns out to be him it seems like there will be alot that the Portguese and British police have to answer for for not figuring this out years ago.
How many burglars are there running around hotels in the area? I don't hear of massive burglaries in nice hotels in Florida or Hawaii; sure it may happen but it's not like there is a ring of burglaries because otherwise no one would vacation there. the burglars should have been the firs suspect. Is the area so unsafe that there are all these burglars running around and they just skipped him? It looks like a nice area on TV.
German police seem secure that they know how she died and that she is dead. Why? Confidence in the manner of death is intriguing. How would they know that without a body or confession? Is there a tape? Is there reason to believe what he told someone and that knowledge is second hand? Do they have him on tape confessing to someone?
It is not clear to me whether he is just such an obvious suspect and so they are announcing it now because it is so obvious and it may turn out that they really don't have much else on him and he is just a weirdo criminal unrelated to this crime OR they have some kind of tape of a murder or found DNA evidence of Madelaine somewhere.
"My question: if he was a known burglar in the area at the time of the disappearance, why was he not on police radar years ago and if so why not investigated further?"
According to the Daily Mail article, he was a suspect, but was 'cleared' in 2008. So he was on their radar earlier. But they mistakenly cleared him. He probably had a fake alibi from someone who lied for him. We can see that possibility because of the request, where they asked for help from those with new loyalties. There were also early mistakes w/the timeline.There are some clues to that in this article:
How the German Madeleine McCann suspect was discovered during a 13-year investigation
It had always been assumed that Madeleine had been snatched by 9.15pm, but in 2013 Operation Grange detectives said they believed her abduction could have actually taken place as much as 45 minutes later.
It meant that the witness statement of an Irish family, who had been on holiday in Praia da Luz in May 2007, suddenly took on new significance. Martin Smith from Drogheda reported seeing a man carrying a child around Madeleine's age towards the beach at around 10pm on the night she disappeared.
"How many burglars are there running around hotels in the area? I don't hear of massive burglaries in nice hotels in Florida or Hawaii; sure it may happen but it's not like there is a ring of burglaries because otherwise no one would vacation there."
Here is the answer to your question:
The Secret World of Hotel Theft
According to this article, it is way more common than you'd think. Hotels. especially upscale resorts, keep it quiet. But theft from hotels is a routine occurrence.
The Secret World of Hotel Theft
by MARK ELLWOOD
November 24, 2017
The lack of reliable data makes the topic a murky one.
But worse than the foiled burglary itself was the hotel’s reaction to it....perhaps because hotels prefer to discourage guests from turning the incident into a statistic, whether they’re one- or five-star spots.
“There’s no need to call the police, sir—if you would just calm down,” said the night manager. (I was neither shouting nor swearing, though the situation probably deserved a modicum of both.) It was only after I threatened to remain at the front desk to discourage other guests from checking in that he grudgingly relented. I was determined to know how my room had been so easily accessed, and what measures that hotel would take to prevent the same things from happening to other guests. Was the room attendant incriminated? Had I been targeted? Was I careless, and entirely at fault?
Nine times out of ten, people who have an incident [in a hotel] don’t go to the police,” says criminologist Bob Arno, who specializes in travel safety. Such low reporting rates are one reason the topic of theft in hotels is so murky. One expert estimated that every day in a big-city hotel, there’s at least one crime committed—and it’s almost always theft. Even when a crime occurs, police don’t separate hotel-related thefts from other burglaries or petty larceny; unsurprisingly, hotel companies treat their properties as mini-republics, and are loath to make any internal figures public.