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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
The whole point of performing an investigation is to collect evidence to lead towards a conviction. So until there is no evidence pertaining to a paticular thread of enquiry it remains an active lead.
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I'm assuming you mean 'until the police are satisfied there is no evidence', because there is, by definition, no evidence unless any evidence has actually been found.
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Motive remans to be discovered, it;s the evidence that leads to motive in most cases.
The family have been investigated to a degree already, one of the press conferences was used to forensically psyschoanalyse the behavior of the parents. Actively advertising the fact that you know who your suspect is not the best route of action to take.
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I'm not saying the family are above suspicion. People murder their children, that's a fact and its sufficient grounds to ask whether that happened here. It's not sufficient grounds for endless speculation however and it isn't sufficient grounds for the police to throw hour after hour of intense investigation at it in the hope that sooner or later, something will turn up.
I don't doubt for a second that they will have looked at how the parents behaved during a press conference but once again, it is a fallacy to make more of this than is actually the case. Asking questions and making enquiries does not infer that the police believe someone is guilty.
And we return again to the issue of Portuguese law - if the police had been pursuing the McCanns with the same intensity as they have Robert Murat, whay have the McCanns not yet been declared official suspects?
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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
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I'm of the opinion that whilst they might not have done it, its feasible they could have.
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In which case we are at linguistic cross-purposes.
Feasible can mean either
possible or
likely and I have been understanding you to be suggesting the latter.
The fact that parents kill their children does indeed mean it is technically
possible that the McCanns may have murdered their daughter. I do not however believe it is
likely.