Texana
Overreaching
But of course Tex, it had to be an intruder! My goodness a child would never waken up & just cry because she was left all alone in the dark while her parents went out to get drunk now would she?
Nothing like setting the scene, eh?
Exactly.
And just like when Kate ran into the room and "knew" right away that Maddie had been abducted, she "realizes" now that Maddie must have awoken to an intruder and cried.
So if the intruder left the first night, why not the second?
Logically speaking, you can't assume a connection/cause and effect between the children awakening and crying, and the next night's abduction.
The crying could have alerted a possible intruder/kidnapper that the children WERE being left alone.
The children's crying could have no connection whatsoever to a kidnapper the next night.
Absent any other concrete proof, you cannot logically connect the crying to an intruder.
If the intruder came the night before, why did he/she leave? What cut that intrusion short? Wouldn't an abductor be prepared to deal with a crying or fussy, awakened child?
This is either Kate backing up the agreed upon story, or Kate justifying every single shred she can grab, as pointing to an abduction. But why an abduction?
And that simply doesn't make sense as well. A four year old is more likely to get up and go look for Mommy or Daddy than anything else. So why are the McCanns still presenting themselves as so convinced that Maddie was abducted?
Jane Tanner's changing story? The changing shutters? The changing position of Cuddle Cat alone?
The more we get into this, the less sense the McCanns' words make, and that ought not to be so.