So it's now, what, four years since the Germans said CB did it. Or even longer? Despite which we seem no nearer any charges, and the entire case against him appears to rest on accusations against him made by other career criminals with whom he's fallen out. The only criminal proven to be associated with this matter is, of course, one of the Portuguese detectives.
This isn't going anywhere, is it?
Over the Xmas break I was listening to various YT videos about this. There is certainly no shortage of opinionated amateurs, that's for sure. Listen to one and 50 more pop up in your stream. Two things I did hear that I didn't realise though were that CW is not actually an investigator of this case, but a spokesman; and that Amaral's theory - for which he has literally no evidence - apparently assumes MM was kept in a minibar-size fridge. And that's not even the unlikeliest thing he thinks. He also thinks the McCanns covered up something awful and in a matter of hours persuaded their group of friends to help them do so.
This is the strangest assumption of all. In the Barrymore / Lubbock case, none of the people in the house would be able to prove they had nothing to do with it. Nobody's word would conclusively exculpate him / herself or implicate anyone else. So you can sort of see why nobody said anything helpful at all: to do so wouldn't dispel any suspicion. In the case of the Tapas 9 though, they have never been suspected of any involvement in the disappearance. So what on earth are they supposed to be gaining, in the view of those who think they're hiding something? Amaral thinks JT is an unreliable witness with the implication that there's method in her supposed unreliability. Given that not even Amaral thinks any of this group had anything to do with whatever happened to MM, why would they clam up to defend the McCanns if, as he claims, the latter did? How could the McCanns persuade all these people to lie for them, and thereby get involved, so readily?
With a lot of these cases you can work out what plausibly / probably happened; there may not be any evidence but you can sketch out what could have happened. With this case, 17 years on I still haven't a clue.
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