Madeleine Beth McCann born 12 May 2003 disappeared on the evening of 3 May 2007 from her bed in a holiday apartment in Portugal, sparking what one newspaper called “the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history” Still to this day no one knows where she is or what really happened to her. The general public have many theories such as she was abducted”, but the most popular theory is that she was murdered and the parents covered it up.
Was Madeleine abducted?
Madeleine was on holiday from the UK with her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann her twin siblings and a group of family friends and their children. She and the twins had been left asleep at 20:30 in the ground-floor apartment, while the McCanns friends dined in a restaurant 55 metres away.The parents checked on the children throughout the evening, until Madeleine’s mother discovered she was missing at 22:00. Now although this is what the parents have said this statement just doesn’t add up, for example Kate McCann said that when she found out Madeleine was missing she left her other two children in the apartment go and alert her husband at the restaurant, This is where many people think her story is flawed if u had just found out your daughter was abducted why would u leave your other two children home alone to go alert your husband? This is what Gerry McCann said when questioned about not having a baby sitter. “The kids were sound asleep and they were being checked regularly. We didn’t think we needed a babysitter. We are good parents and what we did felt perfectly reasonable at the time.” One of the the family’s neighbours at the time Pamela Isobel Fenn said in her witness statement that she hear “one of the children crying out for approximately one hour and fifteen minutes” There has been many inconsistencies with the parents and other people’s story’s which make it hard to believe that Madeleine was actually abducted.
Was Madeleine murdered and were her parents covering it up?
Now this theory is definitely the most popular and and what people seem to think the most truthful there is overwhelming evidence to back up this theory that Madeleine McCann was murdered and the abduction story is a cover up. There are many reasons people believe this such as the lack of evidence to prove that she was abducted, there’s no definitive evidence that proves Madeleine was kidnapped and that is why people doubt it and some of the parents actions before and after really raise suspicion.It is believed that Madeline was murdered inside her home as Portuguese police used two sniffer dogs and took them to various locations around the area but The two dogs, one trained to detect human blood, the other the smell of dead bodies, were taken to numerous locations, but only gave alerts inside the McCanns’ holiday apartment. The cadaver dog later gave another alert signal while inside the Renault Scenic hire car that the McCanns had rented 24 days after their daughter went missing. Madeleines DNA was found in the boot of their rented car. Also it is believed by many people that the McCanns disposed of her body which is backed up by this Irish family’s statement who were staying near the irish couple was confirmed to have seen a man carrying a 3–4 years old girl with blonde hair near the beach at Rue da Escola Primaria. at around 10pm. Electronic Facial Identification Technique was used from the smiths descriptions and the result was very similar to Mr. McCann’s face.
Another reason why the public believed the parents were involved in was their lack of cooperation in the investigation When Portuguese police decided to archive the investigation due to the lack of cooperation of the McCanns and their holiday friends, they had the opportunity to appeal against the decision But they didn’t.