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Originally Posted by nomadking
Well "abducted by person(s) unknown" is also "baseless speculation". It's all a matter of "well that is what must have happened" with no actual proof. Entering a room that happens to have 3 children in it, with the very high risk of somebody else coming along to one of the other rooms in the building(possibly from the FREE child-checking service that the resort had), which was also subject to frequent visits to somebody from the Tapas group. How likely is that?
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Given that you don't seem to understand the role evidence plays in enquiries of this kind, there is little point in engaging in a game of "how likely". I'm afraid there is a little more to it than positing scenarios and then arguing over how plausible they are.
There is an active investigation, led by the Met, which is currently pursuing - on the basis of a thorough review of all the evidence gathered over the last 8 years - the possibility that there was a sexual motive to Madeleine's disappearance. A number of suspects and witnesses have been interviewed in the past 12 months.
The sad fact is, the Portuguese police were culturally unable to understand the McCanns' behaviour both before and after their daughter disappeared, bungled their crime scene investigation and then filled the evidence vacuum with a baseless scenario in which the parents (either accidentally or deliberately) killed their daughter, then did such an expert job of covering it up, that the police could find no evidence of any crime, except of course the fact that a girl was missing. And the McCanns were said to have accomplished all this without prior planning, without any resources beyond the contents of their suitcases and their holiday money, and being away from home in a foreign country.
The idea is absurd beyond parody, but the shocking incompetence of the Portuguese police, and a willingness on the part of certain gullible sections of the British public to believe everything's a cover up (especially if the internet says so) have seen to it that, eight years later, we are still discussing it.
Be absolutely assured, however, that the Metropolitan Police are not pursuing a line of enquiry called "the parents did it".
Anyone interested in how a cold case is actually handled in real life, as opposed to on the telly, might do worse than to read this useful summary here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...the-truth.html
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
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Hardly! But there are none so blind as those that refuse to see.