Kate McCann Officially A Suspect in Daughter's Disappearance

Sarah · #1 09-07-2007, 05:07 PM

Here are the blurbs off the Associate Press wire.

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AP-Portugal-Missing Girl URGENT

VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal (AP) - A family spokesman says the mother of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann will be declared a suspect in the case today.

Family spokesman David Hughes tells The Associated Press Kate McCann was questioned for almost 11 hours yesterday, and is due back at a police station in Portugal's Algarve region today.

When asked about reports that Kate McCann would be named a suspect in her daughter's disappearance, Hughes said: "They told her last night that it would happen today. That's definite."

And, a full story is available on the ABC news website:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/...3571302&page=1

Frankly, if it's true, I think the whole thing is absolutely disgusting. Another story of a family member playing the press game to cover their tracks. If she really had something to do with the disappearance, how the hell can this woman sleep at night - knowing she lied to the Pope, for Christ's sake?

camchristo · #2 09-07-2007, 05:20 PM

^I just read the story on the web. Absolutely nauseating. People are donating time and money to helping find that little girl. And really, who the eff leaves their almost-three-old and two-year-old twins alone in a hotel room while they go out to eat? Frequent check-ins or not.

amber · #3 09-07-2007, 05:24 PM

The article I read said that the blood they found in the rental car shouldn't be evidence b/c they rented that car a full 25 days after the child's disappearance.

I highly doubt they were involved.

bretonbanquet · #4 09-07-2007, 06:49 PM

Yes.. let's hold on a second. This is all over the news here and the thing is, no-one knows anything about what's going on. The media aren't being told anything, and the newspapers are guessing some pretty groundless stuff as usual.

The Portuguese police have either gone a bit frantic cos they haven't got a clue what to do next, or they really have something. And by something I don't mean the blood in the hire car thing. That is seriously implausible.. for the parents to have had the child in the car at that time, i.e. three weeks after the disappearance... can't have happened. TV cameras and reporters were all over that couple at that time. They hardly had time to duck out and transport the kid somewhere in the meantime.

If they did have anything to do with it, and I still doubt it, it might have been an accident that they're covering up.. but the fact that the hick cops in Portugal are treating the mother as a suspect doesn't really prove anything.

bretonbanquet · #5 09-07-2007, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by camchristo

And really, who the eff leaves their almost-three-old and two-year-old twins alone in a hotel room while they go out to eat? Frequent check-ins or not.

I agree with that though

danax6 · #6 09-07-2007, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by camchristo

^I just read the story on the web. Absolutely nauseating. People are donating time and money to helping find that little girl. And really, who the eff leaves their almost-three-old and two-year-old twins alone in a hotel room while they go out to eat? Frequent check-ins or not.

Which is exactly why I wasn't surprised to hear the mother may have had something to do with it the first time that came up. But with all the other evidence at hand, I doubt her involvement.

Sarah · #7 09-07-2007, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

Yes.. let's hold on a second.

Hence my use of the phrase "if it's true".

bretonbanquet · #8 09-07-2007, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Sarah

Hence my use of the phrase "if it's true".

Sure, but the rest of your paragraph suggests you've already decided

camchristo · #9 09-07-2007, 08:02 PM

^Yes, I meant nauseating if true. Who knows if she did it. The random dude who is a suspect seems more plausible to me, but you never know.

That being said, even if the parents had no involvement, they are whack for leaving those young children alone. For all they know, that child could have gotten up, left the room and wandered out. Crazy.

bretonbanquet · #10 09-07-2007, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by camchristo

^Yes, I meant nauseating if true. Who knows if she did it. The random dude who is a suspect seems more plausible to me, but you never know.

That being said, even if the parents had no involvement, they are whack for leaving those young children alone. For all they know, that child could have gotten up, left the room and wandered out. Crazy.

I agree. The parents have received quite a bit of stick for that, and rightly so, I think. I don't understand why people take kids that young abroad anyway, they get nothing out of it, and sometimes it's risky. On holiday in a strange country you'd be hard pressed to keep an eye on kids 24/7. They'd have more fun staying at home with grandparents etc..

Sarah · #11 09-07-2007, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

Sure, but the rest of your paragraph suggests you've already decided

Whatever dude. I said if it's true then and if she really had something to do with it. That's two - count 'em - hypotheticals. I never said, "the bitch did it".

You can put words in my mouth if you want. I really shouldn't have to justify my position to you, so I have no idea why I'm bothering right now.

bretonbanquet · #12 09-07-2007, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Sarah

Whatever dude. I said if it's true then and if she really had something to do with it. That's two - count 'em - hypotheticals. I never said, "the bitch did it".

You can put words in my mouth if you want. I really shouldn't have to justify my position to you, so I have no idea why I'm bothering right now.

Neither do I. I wasn't really addressing you in the first place.

WizNicks · #13 09-08-2007, 12:25 PM

The whole story has been really fishy right from the beginning on. The parents did too many things "you don't do". Trying to make awareness of your child's "loss" is okay, BUT THEY DID A F****G WORLD TOUR!!!! They toured all over Europe, met the pope and what's the purpose of meeting the German chancelor???? And who payed for all of it? Nice people who felt sorry for the parents. Even if they didn't do it, it was all a little bit too much of everything. Next week they are going to America on their world tour to talk with Jonbenet Ramsey's parents about their experiences when their daughter was so cruely taken away from them and from there they travel to LA to met with OJ Simpson, because after his wife's death, he was a broken man too.

gldstwmn · #14 09-08-2007, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

The article I read said that the blood they found in the rental car shouldn't be evidence b/c they rented that car a full 25 days after the child's disappearance.

I highly doubt they were involved.

I tend to doubt they were involved as well. I don't really know all the specifics of the case. I read the parents were actually a few yards away from their room when they had dinner so I think that may be giving the wrong impression as well.

Sarah · #15 09-08-2007, 02:12 PM

They really don't seem like the type of people who would do this. As far as I can tell anyway.

The forensic evidence just puzzles me a bit. They find blood from the area of disappearance, and then blood again in a car rented a month after the fact. It just doesn't make sense in any way other than a body being moved.