The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

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They both come across as idiots.
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I wonder if the parasitic vultures of the gutter press and the MeTube gossip merchants who prey on victims and their family's misfortune just like the pedo's themselves do, will ever apologise for their unconscionable role in pointing the finger at the family.

If anybody has any confusion here..
Sure any journalist or investigator or anybody can investigate any possible leads they like, a very good thing - but to earn your living from then just publishing rumours, half-arsed facts and wild speculations accusing suffering innocent parents of murdering, (and worse) their own daughter is beyond putrid imho.

But these purveyors of sordid salacious gossip have no ethical concerns, and no capacity for self-reflection, so don't expect any apologies even if the obvious suspect is finally convicted.
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It's not just gossip, if you get your head our your arse and actually look into it, there is a lot that doesn't make sense about the official narrative.
People often lie to cover up accidents, especially people who have a lot to lose.

Even pretty blonde people.
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rozzieoz wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 7:19 am

Even pretty blonde people.
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I always find that responses that are worded with the intention to bring others along and help guide towards seeing different perspectives are the ones that have me go - hmmmm I see what you mean - and then Go from there, whether I agree or not - I may at least have found there was another way for the same information to be viewed -

Those that point fingers, ridicule, seek to say me good you idiot do nothing to progress things. It’s very alienating for the target.

There’s been a lot of that type of interaction with covid on social media.


Some do very well to foster engagement of those with different views. I’m still learning
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I've been a journalist / writer since I was 15.
I ask questions, it's entrenched in my nature to be curious, especially about things that don't make sense.

And this has a LOT that doesn't make sense.
I came to this conclusion very soon after it happened, there was a lot that went on that didn't make sense.

I don't believe they purposefully killed their child.

This is what I think happened, it seems the most likely scenario based on all the evidence:

Being doctors (specifically anesthesiologists) the parents gave the children a slight dose to make them sleep, while they went out to dinner.
Maddie woke up, was still drowsy, fell and knocked her head. Cadavar dogs picked up the trace of blood around the sofa, and also in the boot (trunk) of their car.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/all-th ... 44F4FBB3E/


“ Despite police probing the couple, the theory of Calpol has been discredited while forensics confirmed there was no links between Maddie's DNA to the apartment or car.“

“ Jim Gamble, a former top child protection officer, told producers: "Ultimately when you read through the detail of the DNA you see the absolute red herring it was, but it was a dangerous red herring because I think investigators in Portugal thought this was a smoking gun."

Portuguese journalist Sandra Felgueiras said she had felt "lied to" by her Portuguese police sources, who had tried to claim the evidence was damning.”

I’ll gamble on Gamble.


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Armchair sleuths went to town on the disappearance of Cleo in WA. Yep, mistakes happen, but from my armchair (where I question despite not being a journalist/reporter), I realise we can find the answers we seek all too easily when not careful
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violet wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 2:13 pm https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/all-th ... 44F4FBB3E/


“ Despite police probing the couple, the theory of Calpol has been discredited while forensics confirmed there was no links between Maddie's DNA to the apartment or car.“

“ Jim Gamble, a former top child protection officer, told producers: "Ultimately when you read through the detail of the DNA you see the absolute red herring it was, but it was a dangerous red herring because I think investigators in Portugal thought this was a smoking gun."

Portuguese journalist Sandra Felgueiras said she had felt "lied to" by her Portuguese police sources, who had tried to claim the evidence was damning.”

I’ll gamble on Gamble.


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Armchair sleuths went to town on the disappearance of Cleo in WA. Yep, mistakes happen, but from my armchair (where I question despite not being a journalist/reporter), I realise we can find the answers we seek all too easily when not careful
It’s called confirmation bias. You form an opinion or scenario, and then find relevant facts that reinforce or confirm that scenario, and then start focusing on that scenario and those facts, to the exclusion of contradictory information. It’s an easy trap to fall into, especially when one is under pressure. We actually have training to specifically highlight those risks.

There maybe times when it is understandable that it happens, such as
The police, under pressure to find a child with time running out.
A prosecutor with a deadline before a potential criminal is let loose.

I cannot see that it is justified for so called professional journalists to fall into similar traps when they benefit from the luxury of time. Unless the deadline they worry about is not making tomorrows paper, which would be tragic.
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Re: The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

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The first journalists off the flight to Ayers Rock were sceptical. Their vehemence infected investigating detectives. At this moment died the period of clarity. The new scepticism provided a warm and verdant solution in which to grow a bubbling culture of belief, an urban myth: dingoes just don't behave like this.

Exactly here, at this very point, the first phase of Azaria mythmaking took its shape: the child was slaughtered, this is a family of madcap religious beliefs, Seventh-day Adventists, worse, the father is a pastor. The cities began to buzz with Myth One: Azaria was dispatched by the pastor on Ayers Rock [sic] to atone for the sins of the world.

Then surfaced, through the Melbourne Truth, the intelligence from a Mount Isa general practitioner, mistaking an entry in a dictionary of Christian names: Azaria means 'Sacrifice in the Wilderness'.

Within a few weeks the volume of rumour swelled.
Azaria had been dressed in black clothing;
Azaria had been hurt falling from a shopping trolley and was irreparably damaged;
a tiny coffin made for Azaria was found in the Chamberlains' garage;
a passage in the Chamberlains' Bible was highlighted in red providing a template for Azaria's execution.


The rumours travelled by gossip in pubs and at dinner tables, and by journalists who put them to police and to law officers as questions..
We began to watch the development of two mechanisms of crowd behaviour: the 'urge to chase', followed by the 'urge to lynch'.


"Something's not right!" the urge to lynch the urge to lynch...
"Somethings not right. I know it."

Lindy Chamberlain was of course totally vindicated and pardoned after years of prison. And grief.

Oh well, you know... she coulda.
Anyway, move on. I have. i'm working on Maddie's case right now..
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