If the little girls were abducted by the man that Jane says she saw at 9.20 p.m. then the window was open from that moment on. ibid.
The dogs only reacted (alerted) in the apartment where the McCanns stayed. Eddie marked (alerted to) cadaver odour in the wardrobe of the McCanns’ bedroom … Eddie also detected the odour of death behind the sofa in the apartment’s living room. Keela is brought in, and she points out a small amount of blood behind that same sofa. ibid.
They inspect several vehicles, and they only alert to the car that was hired by the McCanns 23 days after Madeleine’s disappearance. Eddie alerts that the car key and the boot had been in contact with a dead body. Keela discovers organic traces for analysis in the boot. ibid.
These dogs have never failed in over 200 cases. ibid.
As well as Kate’s clothes and Madeleine’s soft toy. ibid.
The British press repeatedly attacked the Portuguese investigation. ibid.
Some witnesses are never questioned again in Portugal like the Smith family, who said they saw Gerald McCann carrying a child in his arms, towards the sea, around 10 p.m. on the 3rd of May 2007. ibid.
The front door and window were not forced. ibid.
Madeleine McCann: the three-year-old British girl abducted from her bed by a stranger between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thursday 3rd May 2007. It’s become one of the most enduring mysteries of our time. Buried By Mainstream Media: The True Story of Madeleine McCann, Richard D Hall online 2014
The Portuguese detective who investigated Madeleine’s disappearance pulled the McCanns in for questioning and made them suspects in their own daughter’s disappearance. ibid.
Initial press statements: front door lying open, window tampered with, shutters jemmied. ibid.
Gerry McCann’s first witness statement made the very next day … ‘using his key, the door being locked’ … ‘the windows to the children’s room open, the shutters raised and the curtains drawn open’. ibid.
‘It’s difficult to see how anyone could have interfered with those [bedroom window] shutters.’ ibid. Professor Dave Barclay, forensic scientist
The claims about the gust of wind and the door slamming shut were never in any of the McCann’s original statements. ibid.
The photos of the children’s room taken when the police arrived show the windows closed. ibid.
‘Reports state that Mr Payne saw Madeleine being put to bed by Kate at 6.30 p.m.’ … Who put it [news report] there? ibid. news report
Payne visit: a) just for a visit; b) to bring the children down; c) to see it Kate was all right; d) to help look after the children; e) to see if Gerry could play tennis; f) Dr Payne offered to go … When was the visit? … Was he there at all? … Statements made to the media seeing children put to bed … Children in apartment or not … Twenty separate contradictions … This visit didn’t happen. ibid.
The evidence of two cadaver dogs … all the alerts: eleven by the cadaver dog and another five in the same locations by the blood dog. ibid.
Not a charity … it was intended to be a fighting fund to meet legal expenses. ibid.
£50,000 per month fees to Metodo 3. ibid.
Metodo: Madeleine is alive; We know where she is; Closing in on kidnappers; Maddie home for Christmas. ibid.
Oakley International: basically a man-one band run by a an Irish fraudster and conman Kevin Halligen … Halligen achieved nothing. ibid.
‘Halligen squandered half a million pounds’. ibid. The Mail on Sunday
Why was the government so much involved? … Gordon Brown got even more involved when he became prime minister. ibid.
John David Gosch was kidnapped on a Sunday morning as he delivered newspapers in suburban Des Moines. Who Took Johnny Gosch? television news, 2014
Paul Bonacci’s confession connected Johnny’s kidnapping to a purported network of human traffickers based nearby in Omaha. ibid. caption
‘Bonacci is suffering from a multiple personality disorder.’ ibid. court psychiatrist
2006: In August Noreen started to receive dozens of photos of teenage boys bound and gagged. ibid. caption
Noreen: ‘I saw my son once.’ ibid.
Noreen: ‘I went to the door and saw young men standing there.’ ibid.
‘I believe this case shows the real Mexico. All of these events are marked by impunity. The bodies were abandoned, the injured were left bleeding out for more than five hours.’ The Missing 43: Mexico’s Disappeared Students, Vice News 2014, critic
Thousands of people have gathered to protest the disappearance of 43 normal students in the southern state of Guerreiro and the killing of six others … This case has stunned Mexico to new levels of outrage and anger. ibid.
On the afternoon of September 26th a group of about one hundred students … were ambushed by police patrols and that’s when the shooting started: police shot indiscriminately at the three buses. ibid.
‘Police hand-picked the ones that were taken away.’ ibid. escapee
More mass graves were being discovered. ibid.
On 27th April 2008 the horrific case of Josef Fritzl sent shockwaves around the world ... For twenty-four years Josef Fritzl had kept his own daughter captive in a cellar beneath his house. In that time he had used her as a sex slaves and fathered seven children. Fritzl by Fred Dinenage, CI 2014
In 1967 he was convicted of a rape. ibid.
At first Josef Fritzl entered a plea of not guilty. ibid.
It is a story of unimaginable evil. Josef Frizl held his daughter Elizabeth prisoner in the cellar of his home for twenty-four years. He forced her to have seven children with him and even murdered one of the babies. Fritzl: What Happened Next, Channel 5 2017
There was no natural light and barely any room to move freely. ibid.
For the children that remained, the only life they knew was that of an underground prison. ibid.
She [wife] was completely taken in by his lies. ibid.
‘He was not mentally insane.’ ibid. Dr Heidi Kastner, forensic psychiatrist
Fritzl didn’t want to show his face. ibid.
Fritzl showed little sign of remorse. ibid.
‘Fritzl raped a local woman. He broke into her house to do so and he served a year in prison for this crime.’ ibid. Dr Yardley, criminologist
When Fritzl’s abuse began she was only eleven. ibid.
Britain’s most notorious mother – the woman who faked her own child’s disappearance, but what made the mum of seven do the unthinkable? Was it really just for the money? Who is the real Karen Matthews? Shannon Matthews: The Mother’s Story, Channel 5 2017
Ten years younger than her, Craig was only eighteen when they met. He later moved in with Karen and became a surrogate dad to her kids. ibid.
‘A child in an adult’s body.’ ibid.
‘Is Karen Matthews still hiding a secret about who else helped her carry out a shocking crime?’ ibid.
She’s the most famous missing person in the world. 10 years ago tonight Madeleine McCann disappeared. But we’re still finding out more about the case: two police forces in two countries came to differing conclusions about what happened to her. Madeleine McCann: 10 Years On, BBC 2017
‘The statements of the whole group are inconsistent, to which it can be concluded they are all lying’. ibid. Portuguese rozzers
Portuguese detectives were looking at Kate and Gerry McCann. ibid.
Is it plausible that Kate and Gerry McCann in the full glare of the world’s media hid their daughter’s body? ibid.
‘Ten years on it’s time to say enough is enough.’ ibid. rozzer Sue Hill
It’s a case that has shocked, puzzled and divided the public like no other … an investigation which many argue is flawed from the start. Searching for Madeleine, Sky 2017
The report says the UK team felt more could have been done by the Portuguese police. ibid.
The McCanns sued Leicestershire police ... the force eventually agreed to give them some information. ibid.
The new Portuguese investigation focused on a series of sex attacks on young sleeping children on resorts along the coast. ibid.