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Originally Posted by bretonbanquet
I agree. There's just too many gaps in what we're being told. None of it makes a lot of sense, but I don't know if that's because the police don't know anything, or just aren't telling us what they know.
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It seems like the police don't know that much... but police
always know more than what they'll tell you. At least, police in America do... I would assume it's the same way around the world. They have to have some secrets to their investigation, I guess.
Here, I'm just going to throw some hypothetical situations out again. And still, I, personally, don't have a judgement on this couple as to whether I think they did it or not.
Situation A: It very well could be a case of accidental death and, out of fear of getting charged with killing their own child, they go the missing child route. Hell, one parent could have lied to the other for a period of time about her being missing, so in that situation you'd have one who knows the truth and one who is worried sick over finding their daughter.
Situation B: I don't know how old the other McCann children are... I guess they're just little toddlers. But I will mention that in the Jon Benet Ramsey case, there are a lot of people who believe the Ramsey boy had something to do with it and the parents covered it up so the son wouldn't get in trouble... they had already lost one child and didn't want to lose their other one. Again, with the McCann kids being as little as they are, I really don't think that's plausible, but it would be another motivation for cover-up.
And another point: They've had a swarm of reporters around them almost this entire time... so it's hard to imagine that they would have time to move a body. (And it's even harder to imagine that they'd not try to have a proper burial for their daughter.) But, there's case after case on the record books of bodies being stashed and moved right under the cops' noses. It'd be difficult, but not truly impossible.
Either way, if the police do have forensic evidence that can prove Maddie's body was in that car... that's just damning. Forensics don't lie. Even if the blood was transfer blood, hair, whatever... what would the odds be that whoever kidnapped/killed her would have her body in that car, then a month later the parents just so happen to get the same rental vehicle? And what made the police want to swab that rental vehicle in the first place?
I don't know much about the evidence they have or about the quality of police investigations in Portugal as a whole, so I'm just saying.
I hope that the parents are cleared of all this, and either way I do feel for them because they've lost a child... but if it turns out that one or both of them were involved, I will be very, very disappointed in human-kind yet again. It's always disturbing to hear about a kidnapping and to know that there really are predators on the loose, but cases of parental involvement are even more sickening.