The 48 questions that remained unanswered

Source: Correio da Manhã, 03.08.2008, paper edition. Translation by Astro

Investigation – What the PJ inspectors wanted to know

When she became an arguida, Kate stopped talking to the inspectors

September 7, 2007. Kate McCann entered the Polícia Judiciária in Portimão in the morning and the questioning extended into the evening. She was heard as a witness, but the tension in the air was evident. For the first time, people were concentrated at the PJ building’s door and murmured words of mistrust regarding the couple.

On that day, CM had reported that the dogs had detected cadaver odour on Maddie’s mother’s clothes. A piece of evidence that the authorities intended to use as a trump, during a questioning that only changed course on the next day, after the PJ failed to see their doubts clarified.

Kate began by replying all the questions, but when she was made an arguida, she stopped talking. She went silent, in the company of her lawyer, and accepted all the insinuations in a provocative manner. Less than 48 hours later, Kate and Gerry travel to England with the twins, leaving the investigation into the disappearance of their daughter, who meanwhile had become four, behind.

They later guaranteed that they would return if necessary – which they never did, although they were never formally requested to return – and they are no longer arguidos for the suspected involvement in concealing the child’s body. Today, CM reveals the 48 questions that Kate did not want to answer during the interrogation and which reflect the investigators’ doubts. More than a year after Maddie disappeared, many of these questions remain unanswered.

Jeers for the McCann couple

The day that Kate and Gerry went to the PJ’s offices in Portimão marked a turnaround in the relationship between the local people and the couple: the curious bystanders that spent the day on the street jeered at Maddie’s mother and father, mainly criticizing the “absence of visible suffering” from Kate. The foreign press also attended in great numbers.

The Judiciária’s 48 questions that Kate did not answer

On the 3rd of May 2007, at around 10 p.m., when you entered the apartment, what did you see, what did you do, where did you search, what did you handle?
Did you search in the couple’s bedroom’s closet? (said she would not reply)
(Two photographs of her bedroom’s closet are exhibited) Can you describe its contents?
Why are the curtains in front of the side window, behind the sofa (photograph is exhibited) ruffled? Did someone pass behind that sofa?
How long did the search that you made in the apartment after detecting the disappearance of your daughter Madeleine take?
Why did you say straight away that Madeleine had been abducted?
Presuming that Madeleine had been abducted, why did you leave the twins alone at home while you went to the Tapas to raise the alarm? Even because the supposed abductor could still be inside the apartment.
Why didn’t you ask the twins at that moment what had happened to their sister, or why didn’t you ask them at a later point in time?
When you raised the alarm at the Tapas, what exactly did you say and what were the words?
What happened after you raised the alarm at the Tapas?
Why did you do to warn your friends instead of calling out from the balcony?
Who contacted the authorities?
Who participated in the searches?
Did anyone outside of the group learn about Maddie’s disappearance during the following minutes?
Did any neighbour offer you help after the disappearance?
What does the expression “we let her down” mean?
Did Jane mention to you that she had see a man with a child that night?
How were the authorities contacted and which police force was called?
During the searches, and already with the police present, in what locations was Maddie searched for, how and in what manner?
Why didn’t the twins wake up during that search, or when they went to the upper floor?
Who did you call after the facts?
Did you call SKY News?
Did you know about the danger of calling the media, because that could influence the abductor?
Did you request the presence of a priest?
How was Madeleine’s face publicized, with a photograph, or other media?
Is it true that during the search you remained seated on Maddie’s bed without moving?
How did you behave that evening?
Did you manage to sleep?
Before the trip to Portugal, did you comment on a bad feeling or a bad premonition?
What was Madeleine’s behaviour?
Did Maddie suffer of any disease or did she take any kind of medication?
What was the relationship like between Madeleine and her siblings?
What was the relationship like between Madeleine and her siblings, her friends and her colleagues at school?
Concerning your professional life, in how many and in which hospitals have you worked?
What is your medical specialty?
Did you work by shifts, in emergency rooms or in other departments?
Did you work on a daily basis?
Did you stop working at a certain point in time? Why?
Do your twin children have difficulty in falling asleep, are they unruly and does that upset you?
Is it true that at certain times you were desperate over your children’s attitude and that left you were upset?
Is it true that in England you considered the possibility of handing over Madeleine’s guardianship to a relative?
In England, did you give your children medication? What type of medication?
Within the process, you were shown films of cynotechnical inspection of forensic character, where the dogs can be seen marking indications of human cadaver odour and equally human blood traces, and only of human origin, as well as all the comments that were made by the responsible expert. After the visualization, and after cadaver odour was signaled in your bedroom next to the wardrobe and behind the sofa that was pushed against the living room window, you said that you could not explain anything apart from what you had already said?
You said that you could not explain anything apart from what you had already said, concerning the marking of human blood behind the sofa by the detection dog
You said that you could not explain anything apart from what you had already said, concerning the marking of cadaver odour in the boot of the vehicle that you rented a month after the disappearance?
You said that you could not explain anything apart from what you had already said, concerning the marking of human blood in the boot of the vehicle?
You said that you could not explain anything apart from what you had already said, upon being confronted with the result of the collection of Maddie’s DNA, which was analysed by a British lab, behind the sofa and inside the vehicle’s boot?
Did you have any responsibility or intervention in the disappearance of your daughter?

The question that she answered

Are you aware of the fact that by not answering these questions you may compromise the investigation, which is trying to find out what happened to your daughter? She said “yes, if the investigation thinks so.”

Process becomes public tomorrow

From tomorrow onwards, the entire investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine will be made available to the arguidos, to the witnesses, to the lawyers and also to the journalists, because it is a case of manifest public interest.

The process, which was archived on the 21st of July, will also be available to the general public, a situation that will allow for an authentic scrutiny of the work that was developed by the Polícia Judiciária. This decision, which came as a surprise due to the fact that the case involves a child, was only announced at this point in time, after the Portuguese lawyers for the McCann family, Carlos Pinto de Abreu and Rogério Alves, requested the Portimão Court for priority in the access to the process.

Last Wednesday, the Court had requested the interested parties that had already asked for the consultation of the process to leave a CD at the secretary’s office, given the fact that the process will be supplied in a digital format.

The archiving of the investigation into the little girl’s disappearance, which happened on the 3rd of May 2007, in the Algarve, precipitated the lifting of the judicial secrecy, which had been extended precisely until the month of August.

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Lo Says:
November 25th, 2011 at 11:11 am

As two Doctors the McCann’s earnings would have amounted to somewhere in the region of, lets say for arguments sake, 200K pa, if not more. Why if they both had professional jobs would they not hire a nanny to look after the children, unless they had something to hide? Usually parents earning that amount of money have very stressful jobs, and three children would add to that stress. The usual excuse for not hiring a nanny is the parent/parents, as in the case of the Beckhams, want to do the parenting themselves. But, unlike the Beckhams who have the luxury of an entourage, these two people had very full on careers too. It is also obvious from reading Mrs McCann’s Diary and the book that a) she was struggling to maintain a work like balance, and b) that Madeleine was an active little girl.

Again, as Doctors these two people would have access a vast drugs cabinet. They also whilst struggling to cope with the children, (and who wouldn’t with three children under four years old) felt confident enough each night whilst on holiday to book a table for 8.30 pm and arrived,one assumes, most nights on time. How could they do that? How could they guarantee that all three children would be asleep by that time? As a parent myself I could not do that with one child, let alone three toddlers, and quite often have to leave invitations open ended on arrival times.

I believe on the night Madeleine went missing, she actually died of a drug overdose, administered by her parents to make her go to sleep, so they could go out to dinner with friends, either that same night or the night before,but unfortunately I think it resulted in the death of Madeleine.

Mrs McCann has said in a statement that she spent the night before madeleine died in the childrens bedroom because of a fight with her husband, but was it because Madeleine was ill, too ill to take to the hospital incase they where questioned and in the process died?

Failing that…

I believe that when the two women claimed they last went into the apartment together and witnessed all the children there, Madeleine was actually dead or in a coma, but Katie McCann did not realise.

I believe that when Katie McCann went into the room alone on the final visit, it is only then she actually check properly on Madeleine and realised this was the case.

I believe the book and the diary has been written to throw people off their scent with suggestiveness, but more to persuade people that there was an abductor, when in fact there was not. Also, Mrs. McCann herself actually suggests that the abductor came into the apartment on two consecutive nights and administered drugs to make the twins sleepy so enabling him to slip into the apartment without waking the youngest two children. Did she do that just in case the police took specimens from the remaining children?

I believe that this is the reason the parents do not see themselves as wrong in leaving the children alone that night, and will not accept the blame, because the blame they do have resting on their shoulders is the result, rather than the cause of that neglect.

I believe that is why Mrs McCann deleted all the calls off her mobile phone the night Madeleine went missing, to delete especially the ones to her husband when she’d found out what happened.

I believe that is why the police reported the apartment had been tampered with and forensics lost before they arrived, because on that night she tried in a frenzy to resuscitate the child.

I believe that is why the toy Madeleine carried every where, the little cat had been washed. To get rid of the forensics, a) to cover up that nights events, as Madeleine most probably was sick, and also, b) to stop any sniffer dogs finding her body from the scent

What I don’t believe is, if you have a three year old little girl, who by your own admission is an active child, you would leave an apartment door open – I have an eight year old, at the time this happened he was also three, and under no circumstances would you do that. In fact for various reasons you just would not leave three children on their own in an apartment, unless of course you were absolutely sure they wouldn’t wake up, and wander off in the time you were gone.

I don’t believe that a mother who had just lost her child would have the vision nor willingness to pen a diary, nor indeed the actually strength/imagination put a book together. Yet Katie McCann has managed to pen a book, get it published, and on the shelves. All in the name of finding Madeleine.

I don’t believe also, that any mother who had just lost her child would strap on her jogging shoes and go jogging a few days after with her husband, unless of course she needed to focus her mind., and lets face it her mind needed focusing because she was about to lose everything if she were found out.

Finally their appearance at the Leveson Enquiry…. and the outpouring of rage on twitter which is where I began to notice people like yourselves. When you first look at that on face value one assumes, as a doubter, they are doing it for publicity and maybe even a handout of money. I don’t think so, I think they are doing this so the tabloids who carry news to the majority, the same majority Mrs McCann upholds that very prominent scouse accent for, and the same tabloids who, whilst being vile at the way the extract information, kept their story alive, have now served their purpose, and this couple would now like this story pushed under the carpet especially as the funds are running out, and they need to go back to the day job.

Anyway those are my thoughts – I apologise to anyone they have offended but thank you kindly if you have got to the bottom of this page

Site Admin: In the 4 1/2 years since Madeleine disappeared, this site has received more than enough information that demonstrates Madeleine died in May 2007. Your comment is well put together and there is no need to apologise for possible offence. How can the truth be offensive?

Referring to your comment about their potential income, let’s not forget that Kate had become work-shy after the birth of the children. She was only working a few days in Melton Mowbray and that would not have given her the maximum earnings she was capable of.

Our guess is that the McCanns were hard up because Gerry was having to compensate for Kate not working to her full potential. Add to that the high mortgage and car loans and you have a couple who were probably struggling to keep their heads above water. Their real income was probably closer to 100K than 200K.

We see these pseudo-middle-class people in many walks of life. They rise from a relatively poor working class background and then they quickly want the trappings of success for bragging rights within their circle of friends. Add a bit of name-dropping and you can see through their fake lives. Look at the way Kate referred to the Prime Minister and Cherie Blair. You’d think she was their best friend with the way she talked about them on first name terms.

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john pocock Says:
December 18th, 2011 at 9:44 am

i recently wrote a short comment on friends reunited re, the mccann case and got a varied reaction but one thing i did notice was about 40% totally swallowed the story as related by kate and ,to a lesser extent(we know who wears the trousers)gerry.
i myself have never been guided by or believed the “story” and am absolutely that a few more are also on our wavelength.
if you would like to read the piece and the reaction ,good/bad it is on friends reunited over 60,s site

thanks very much……….john