Madeleine McCann: German Prisoner Identified as Suspect, #35

[RichardKimble]

Re the freezer was not one of the hypotheses that Madeleine s body was stored in one ?

 

[Davieson]

Re the freezer was not one of the hypotheses that Madeleine s body was stored in one ?

It was, but the implication was that it was powered up and working as a freezer.

 

[sleuth-d-]

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

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here's what the area looked like around the time (nearest two satellite image dates). much bigger 'temporarily dry' area to dig/bury/hide something if you go back in september/october.

 

[RichardKimble]

It was, but the implication was that it was powered up and working as a freezer.

That one was at one time you'd think.

 

[Davieson]

That one was at one time you'd think.

I guess so but don't think it would fit and work in CB's van. If he was living as a mobile vagrant of no fixed abode, he's unlikely to have the luxury of a freezer.

 

[RichardKimble]

I guess so but don't think it would fit and work in CB's van. If he was living as a mobile vagrant of no fixed abode, he's unlikely to have the luxury of a freezer.

That's another point, the area is or was not exclusive to CB.

 

[Malleux]

here's what the area looked like around the time (nearest two satellite image dates). much bigger 'temporarily dry' area to dig/bury/hide something if you go back in september/october.

Thanks, those are the pics I was referring to earlier. Are you able to get a closer shot of the 2010 one in the area I've circled? Do they look like open holes?

 

[sleuth-d-]

Thanks, those are the pics I was referring to earlier. Are you able to get a closer shot of the 2010 one in the area I've circled? Do they look like open holes?

this is a crop from the highest resolution earth pro allows.
not clear enough to say anything is a hole, or a tree, or something else imo. but others may see holes.

 

[Anxala]

That's another point, the area is or was not exclusive to CB.

Now now, it was his very own special 'little paradise'...!!

...as opposed to a place known locally as The Little Paradise (as per Okapi's earlier post).

I see the media continues to refer to it as the former (and not just the tabloids), so determined are they to whip up sensational, laden-with-evil-intent drama.

 

[Mex]

Would the searches have occurred if CB was not an arguido ?

I'm mystified if you think the identity of the suspect has any bearing on due process.

Isn't it enough that the German police have made the request to search in Portugal based on the evidence.

Had they reason to search in, for example France in an international investigation I think CB's arguido status would also have been of interest to the Brits and the Portuguese.

I don't know if I've explained that too well because I don't fully understand the reasoning behind the point you've made.

 

[Mex]

Re the freezer was not one of the hypotheses that Madeleine s body was stored in one ?

One of the many.

 

[Mex]

this is a crop from the highest resolution earth pro allows.
not clear enough to say anything is a hole, or a tree, or something else imo. but others may see holes.

I "see" three.

 

[Lyall0814]

One of the many.

And one of the daftest (imo)

 

[Malleux]

Now now, it was his very own special 'little paradise'...!!

...as opposed to a place known locally as The Little Paradise (as per Okapi's earlier post).

I see the media continues to refer to it as the former, so determined are they to whip up sensational, laden-with-intent drama.

Do you know for a fact that CB didn't call this place his "little paradise" though?

If you read Okapi's post, it is not Barragem do Arade that they are saying has the nickname "little paradise". It is a place called Quinta do Arade, which is a collection of 3 holiday homes near the dam. And it's not even a nickname really, they just claim that many of their guests have called it that.

 

[RichardKimble]

I'm mystified if you think the identity of the suspect has any bearing on due process.

Isn't it enough that the German police have made the request to search in Portugal based on the evidence.

Had they reason to search in, for example France in an international investigation I think CB's arguido status would also have been of interest to the Brits and the Portuguese.

I don't know if I've explained that too well because I don't fully understand the reasoning behind the point you've made.

it's not about his indentity, there's a statute of limitations in portugal, having an arguido seems to have circumvented it, so without it the case in portugal would have been at an end, so would any searches have happened if this were the case?

 

[sleuth-d-]

I "see" three.

but then, why are you looking for holes? something hidden in a hole would be filled-in.
is your thinking that something was buried in 05/2007 and then dug up at a later time (before 9/2010).

 

[Lyall0814]

double post!

 

[Lyall0814]

I doubt very much the reason for having a freezer up there was not to fly tip it. Must have been more accessible spots than that.

Did the police take it with them when they left? I don't know.

Still there isn't it? Ergo I think we can assume they think it unimportant.

I think we can also assume things from them allowing the journalists to traipse just wherever they wanted to (imo)

 

[Mex]

That's another point, the area is or was not exclusive to CB.

CB had the freedom of Europe and possibly beyond (when he wasn't under custodial sentence somewhere). But I think if any where was 'home' it was the Algarve. So I don't think it is extraordinary for friends to have seen him around and mention it.

 

[RichardKimble]

Do you know for a fact that CB didn't call this place his "little paradise" though?

If you read Okapi's post, it is not Barragem do Arade that they are saying has the nickname "little paradise". It is a place called Quinta do Arade, which is a collection of 3 holiday homes near the dam. And it's not even a nickname really, they just claim that many of their guests have called it that.

Still stands though it wasn't exclusive to CB.