OK i arrived late to this party and i got harassed out of the UK forum for being factual and not buying into their McCann conspiracy which has them hung, drawn and quartered.
Not a single theory fits and relies heavily on dubious claims.
As far as i see it, Bruckner fits the whole thing, and several more..he walked in to abduct, but his initial intent was robbery. When he realised that the family had a child, it got sinister...i think. But he'd done this before...it was still planned, and he used his contact either as an accomplice to abduction, or an unwitting accomplice that was 'only' assisting a burglary.
In 1994 he was in Germany and molested a child- he was 17.
Moved to Portugal in within a 40km radius, 2 blonde children disappeared, and a woman was raped on his beach route, which he was convicted for.
Leaving the area in 2008 for Germany, he worked 40km from a rural property he owned, which was also 40km from where Inga Gehricke disappeared in 2015.
Coincidentally he worked and a lived within a 40km radius of 3 unsolved child disappearances AND was known to be in the area in the latter two of those occurrences.
What is the probability that a person lived and worked within 40km of 2 disappearing children, and able to be in the area of a third and even fourth?..on first principles, one coincidence can be explained by chance...two can be explained by incidental coincidence, but three?...and four?. The likelihood is very low, but not conclusive of course. When you couple it with motive and criminal record though it becomes compelling.
The really scary thing is based on the limited information we have, his comments appear to allude to child trafficking. Stolen for order evil...'i have to do a horrible job tomorrow, but itll change my life'- may 2nd, 2007. ..
Could CB's paedophilia and drug running aligned him with opportunity for big $ human trafficking?..and did it AT LEAST three times?
Frightingly, if each was a big $ transaction, he seems to have run out of money almost every 10 years. Being a suspect for 1996, 2007 and 2015..
Where did he get the money to start his business in Germany from 2008 onwards?
McCann Conspiracies
Either the McCanns thought they could minimise the blame due to the opportunity their checking system gave the abductor, by hastily discussing the scenario..and it went to crap once the scrutiny arrived. Or they simply didnt recall the evening the same - thats actually a possibility. And since then there's been all sorts of suspicion due to that. That really does explain away almost everything.
There are multiple articles of drug and cadaver dogs of being only as good as chance. Many. A quick search comes up with a study in Australia that shows dogs are more wrong than right..in fact. And if a theory is based on a certainty that the dogs detected something, then its a weak theory.