Madeleine McCann Discussion

[Jayelles]

There is some more information in today's news. Her grandmother told the BBC that people should look out for a distinctive "flash" which Madeline has in her eye where her pupil runs into her iris.

I have done a little graphic for this (hope it works):-



If it doesn't work, the image can be seen by clicking on the link below:-

http://people.delphiforums.com/jayel...ye%20flash.jpg

[Miguel]

Hello. I'm from Portugal and I am following this case in the news everyday since Madeleine was abducted on May 3.
I have to disagree with some british media saying portuguese police is under-resourced and under-experienced. Our police is good in cases like this. In Sept 2004 a little girl disapeared in Algarve and the police solved the case. Unfortunately, the girl was killed by her mother who is now in jail for the next 20 years.

With Madeleine they are doing an impossible job. Within hours they had hundreds of agents on location, helicopters, they even closed border to Portugal/Spain in Algarve. The navy is in the water since day one, and they still there. If Madeleine is in Portugal they will find her.
One or two days after the crime someone spoted a man with a little blonde girl and called the police and 5 minutes later police was there (they were father and daughter on vacations). The only diference from UK is that some issues cannot be discussed in public. They hold information that is important to the investigation. They only release information that can help. I don't think that is unusual. The first days, police didn't tell all they know to the parents because they were suspects.
The media coverage is unbelievable. Rarely seen anything like this in Portugal. We only have 3 nacional TV Stations and, no matter what time, at least one of them is broadcasting live from Algarve. In the last 10 days, if you are in Portugal and turn on the TV you will see something about Madeleine.
There's a big reward for the safe return of Madeleine. Writer JK Rowling of "Harry Poter" is offering a substancial reward. All rewards together from celebraties and friends of the family sum up to 4 million euro. Soccer superstars Cristiano Ronald and David Beckam made apeals. Madeleine's uncle, John McCann, is trying to put photos on giant screens in Glasgow stadium during the Uefa cup final next wednesday.


The last news, police now know the motive of the crime and believe can rescue Madeleine at any moment. Don't know if dead or alive. The prime suspect is someone from UK in vacations in the same resort (problably friends of Madeleine's parents) or an employee of the resort.


PS: My english is not perfect. Sorry about that.

[Jayelles]

Originally Posted by Miguel

Hello. I'm from Portugal and I am following this case in the news everyday since Madeleine was abducted on May 3.
I have to disagree with some british media saying portuguese police is under-resourced and under-experienced. Our police is good in cases like this. In Sept 2004 a little girl disapeared in Algarve and the police solved the case. Unfortunately, the girl was killed by her mother who is now in jail for the next 20 years.

With Madeleine they are doing an impossible job. Within hours they had hundreds of agents on location, helicopters, they even closed border to Portugal/Spain in Algarve. The navy is in the water since day one, and they still there. If Madeleine is in Portugal they will find her.
One or two days after the crime someone spoted a man with a little blonde girl and called the police and 5 minutes later police was there (they were father and daughter on vacations). The only diference from UK is that some issues cannot be discussed in public. They hold information that is important to the investigation. They only release information that can help. I don't think that is unusual. The first days, police didn't tell all they know to the parents because they were suspects.
The media coverage is unbelievable. Rarely seen anything like this in Portugal. We only have 3 nacional TV Stations and, no matter what time, at least one of them is broadcasting live from Algarve. In the last 10 days, if you are in Portugal and turn on the TV you will see something about Madeleine.
There's a big reward for the safe return of Madeleine. Writer JK Rowling of "Harry Poter" is offering a substancial reward. All rewards together from celebraties and friends of the family sum up to 4 million euro. Soccer superstars Cristiano Ronald and David Beckam made apeals. Madeleine's uncle, John McCann, is trying to put photos on giant screens in Glasgow stadium during the Uefa cup final next wednesday.


The last news, police now know the motive of the crime and believe can rescue Madeleine at any moment. Don't know if dead or alive. The prime suspect is someone from UK in vacations in the same resort (problably friends of Madeleine's parents) or an employee of the resort.


PS: My english is not perfect. Sorry about that.

Miguel, your english is great, thanks for posting. On the whole, the media coverage here has been pretty sympathetic towards the Portugese police and when they say they are under-resourced and inexperienced - it's not a criticism and they explain that the reason for this is because you do not have the high crime rates that other countries have and that is one of the reasons why so many people keep returning to your country for their vacations. I have friends who will only go to Portugal on holiday because it's their favourite holiday destination.

We also understand that you have secrecy laws which prevent the police from disclosing details of the case. We have similar laws here which take effect when a person is charged with a crime. The law is called pro judice and it is to protect the integrity of the trial. As soon as someone is charged with a crime, the media cannot report on that crime until the trial.

We are all very hopeful that whomever has taken Madeline will look after her and decide to return her safely to her parents.

[Miguel]

Jayelles, I didn´t know that. Our media is saying that your media is criticizing the portuguese police. We have some poor media here, I have to admit. Always looking for scandals.
I think is great the two polices are working together, helping each other.
There were some critics to the parents because they left the childrens alone but I think is ridiculous. As someone said is a question of culture, they were on vacations in safe complex in a litle town with almost no crime.


Some details, as I read the news here in Portugal:

The resort had a 24 hour baby sitting service that the parents turned down. Later they told the police they thought there were security cameras all over the resort.
They left the 3 children sleeping in the house and had dinner in a restaurant inside the resort 50 meters away. They could see the back of the house but they could not see any windows or any doors. They checked the kids every 15 minutes or so.
The police took more than 2 hours to get there because the McCanns contacted the British council, instead of going directly to the police. The British Council contacted the UK police and the UK police contacted the portuguese police.
This is a low crime area, however during the summer when Algarve is full of tourists there are some robberys always during dinner time when the thieves know the tourists are at the restaurants and sometimes don't even lock the doors.

I hope Madeleine is safe and will return home soon.

[Jayelles]

Originally Posted by Miguel

Jayelles, I didn´t know that. Our media is saying that your media is criticizing the portuguese police. We have some poor media here, I have to admit. Always looking for scandals.
I think is great the two polices are working together, helping each other.
There were some critics to the parents because they left the childrens alone but I think is ridiculous. As someone said is a question of culture, they were on vacations in safe complex in a litle town with almost no crime.


Some details, as I read the news here in Portugal:

The resort had a 24 hour baby sitting service that the parents turned down. Later they told the police they thought there were security cameras all over the resort.
They left the 3 children sleeping in the house and had dinner in a restaurant inside the resort 50 meters away. They could see the back of the house but they could not see any windows or any doors. They checked the kids every 15 minutes or so.
The police took more than 2 hours to get there because the McCanns contacted the British council, instead of going directly to the police. The British Council contacted the UK police and the UK police contacted the portuguese police.
This is a low crime area, however during the summer when Algarve is full of tourists there are some robberys always during dinner time when the thieves know the tourists are at the restaurants and sometimes don't even lock the doors.

I hope Madeleine is safe and will return home soon.

You were absolutely right about the British woman. The news has been reported here. Police are interviewing more than one person and they have cordoned off a villa about 150 yards from the apartment where Madeline was staying. The villa is owned by a British woman, but it sounds as though it's her son who is being questioned.

One new report said that the son was staying with his mother, but that he is developing his own house. If this is true, I hope they search it too.

Miguel - the Portugese police were described on the BBC as being "Courteous, efficient and professional".

Incidentally, the man who appears to be getting questioned was reported by a British tabloid journalist. She reported her suspicions of him to the Portugese police, and the British police.

We'll see how this pans out. The police are at pains to point out that no-one has been arrested - yet.

[Miguel]

Originally Posted by Jayelles

You were absolutely right about the British woman. The news has been reported here. Police are interviewing more than one person and they have cordoned off a villa about 150 yards from the apartment where Madeline was staying. The villa is owned by a British woman, but it sounds as though it's her son who is being questioned.

One new report said that the son was staying with his mother, but that he is developing his own house. If this is true, I hope they search it too.

Miguel - the Portugese police were described on the BBC as being "Courteous, efficient and professional".

Incidentally, the man who appears to be getting questioned was reported by a British tabloid journalist. She reported her suspicions of him to the Portugese police, and the British police.

We'll see how this pans out. The police are at pains to point out that no-one has been arrested - yet.

The police interviewed 3 people. One British man 50 years old, his mother 79 years old and a friend portuguese man. They left police station at 2am. No-one was arrested. As you said, the british man lives with his mother only 100 meters from where Madeleine disapeared. The man tried to infiltrate in the investigation since the begining. He was always near and asking the reporters how things were going. He even offered help to the police so that he would translate conversations between the police and british witnesses.
One jornalist from the Sunday Mirror reported his behavior to both polices.
The mother had some kind of stand on the street for colecting informations about Madeleine. She said it was for people who would not be confortable talking to the police they could go there and talk to her.

[Miguel]

Acording to the last news.
Robert Murat, the british man who was interviewed yesterday is now a defendant.
He is 32 and not 50 years old as I a said in the previous post.

[Jayelles]

Originally Posted by Miguel

Acording to the last news.
Robert Murat, the british man who was interviewed yesterday is now a defendant.
He is 32 and not 50 years old as I a said in the previous post.

The correct translation for arguido is "suspect". A defendent is someone who is on trial :-)

Marat is now an official suspect. However, the BBC have explained that he may actually have requested to be made a suspect himself as this gives him more rights than he would have as a mere witness.

[Miguel]

Originally Posted by Jayelles

The correct translation for arguido is "suspect". A defendent is someone who is on trial :-)

Marat is now an official suspect. However, the BBC have explained that he may actually have requested to be made a suspect himself as this gives him more rights than he would have as a mere witness.

Sorry. Didn't mean to give false information.
I searched for the correct word in an on-line dictionary.
You are right. "Arguido" is an official suspect.

The sum off all rewards is now 6 millions euros. I hope this will not make lots of people calling the police reporting things that are not true.

[dallasvic]

This child is so precious. I am Hoping and Praying that who ever took this child is someone who can not have kids of their own and has choose her to be their child this way we would know that she would be in GOOD HANDS til she is found.people like that are less likely to harm the child even though she would need professional help once she is returned she would not be physically harmed.

MY HEARTS AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE FAMILY

[teramiabullfrog]

on behalf of all of us involved with the charity "finding our children under stress" (f.o.c.u.s.) organization (a charity created and developed by families of the missing) we extend our hope and prayers your child is located and returned to you quickly.

there's so much to learn and improve. the international missing and exploited children agency should improve global law enforcement procedure in emergency abduction policy. all transportation should have had heigthened security watch. families need to be aware resort vacation destinations are no time to let down your everyday safety guidelines.

she could be anywhere by now. most attention should be in the area where the abduction occurred; however, flyer distribution of her endangered missing child photo-notice should be distributed and posted in all law enforcement agencies, all post offices, and given to other agencies and private charities who specialize in missing person notice posting and distribution, globally. if someone will provide us with a web address to print a copy of her missing child flyer and we will include her with our display binder (left in over 2,000 post offices in eight western united states). i will also see if she's currently displayed in the ncmec web.

[teramiabullfrog]

apparently madeleine's family is from portugaul; therefore, ncmec wouldn't have a missing child notice of her. i did inadvertantly find the crimelibrary missing children site and found the full story about madeleine there (excellent missing children site, i'll visit it more often and make copies of the missing featured here). i will make copies of madeleine immediately and include her in our display programs.

[sharlock]

Originally Posted by Miguel

Sorry. Didn't mean to give false information.
I searched for the correct word in an on-line dictionary.
You are right. "Arguido" is an official suspect.

The sum off all rewards is now 6 millions euros. I hope this will not make lots of people calling the police reporting things that are not true.

Hi Miguel,
In my opinion there will be a flood of calls as is usual in any case with a large reward. Lets hope that these will at least be genuine calls.
I wish I could understand how adults could be so callous as to be part of a paedophilia ring (especially the women); this is a parents worst fears realised!
Sharlock

[Mishell1383]

Originally Posted by Jayelles

You know - these websites COULD be used to benefit the Madeleine's Fund.

Instead of the owners keeping the money from the advertising, they could donate it to the Madeleine Fund and post a link to the Official website.

The advertisers still get a hit
The Fund gets paid for wrong hits
The Fund gets free advertising

I wonder if any of these website owners would have the backbone to do this?

you def have a point! Maybe they will donate? That would be wonderful.

[Jayelles]

The British police have set up a website and appealed to anyone who was at the same resort in Portugal as the McCann's have been staying to upload their holiday photos at this website. I don't think the photos will be getting displayed on the website - just sent via the website to the police. They aren't interested in scenic shots - just photos with strangers in the background. They are going to compare the photos with know paedophiles.

Jessops (High Street Photography store) will scan photos free of charge for anyone who doesn't have their photos in electronic format.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6677803.stm

[MaggieMay]

I was thinking of approaching my kids school to ask if they could have a non uniform day where the children will donate maybe £1 for not wearing their uniform and the money could be sent into the Madeleine fund.

[sharlock]

Originally Posted by MaggieMay

I was thinking of approaching my kids school to ask if they could have a non uniform day where the children will donate maybe £1 for not wearing their uniform and the money could be sent into the Madeleine fund.

You guys are all so fantastic! I want to cry reading this thread; the worst things so often bring out the best in people and I can see that all of you guys are among the best! This little girl has to be found quick any case with this much attention puts the paedophiles in danger and I am terrified that they will decide to get rid of the risk! I pray to God she will get home safe and sound!

[Jayelles]

Originally Posted by MaggieMay

I was thinking of approaching my kids school to ask if they could have a non uniform day where the children will donate maybe £1 for not wearing their uniform and the money could be sent into the Madeleine fund.

Good idea! Schools are often more than happy to oblige in this way. Plus it's a good way for people on tight budgets to give a small amount and feel as though they are contributing.

[Reborn17]

Originally Posted by Jayelles

Good idea! Schools are often more than happy to oblige in this way. Plus it's a good way for people on tight budgets to give a small amount and feel as though they are contributing.

To have a day like that at schools would be a very good idea to help raise money to help find Madeleine i'm sure most parents wouls contribute to such a worthwhile cause.

[Mishell1383]

Originally Posted by Reborn17

To have a day like that at schools would be a very good idea to help raise money to help find Madeleine i'm sure most parents wouls contribute to such a worthwhile cause.

I totally 100% agree !

[Reborn17]

Originally Posted by Mishell1383

I totally 100% agree !

There are a lot of schools out there and if they did this once a month they could build up a central fund to help lots of people in the same position as Madeleine's parents.

I have a colleague in the UK and he told me that at his daughter's school (a Catholic School) the kids are foregoing lunch on Friday's and their lunch money is being donated to the Madeleine fund. The students are also wearing the yellow ribbons and buttons or t-shirts with her picture on it. I think this makes the kids feel like they are helping plus creates more awareness of her disappearance.

If this little girl is still alive, I am sure she is in continental Europe or north Africa so it is imperative that her image stays public. I keep hoping to hear some positive news on this case. My heart goes out to the family.

[dallasvic]

Originally Posted by elvislives

I have a colleague in the UK and he told me that at his daughter's school (a Catholic School) the kids are foregoing lunch on Friday's and their lunch money is being donated to the Madeleine fund. The students are also wearing the yellow ribbons and buttons or t-shirts with her picture on it. I think this makes the kids feel like they are helping plus creates more awareness of her disappearance.

If this little girl is still alive, I am sure she is in continental Europe or north Africa so it is imperative that her image stays public. I keep hoping to hear some positive news on this case. My heart goes out to the family.

Hi Everyone ,

Sorry i have not been here today. Had to sleep and feel better.
Yall have some great ideas going on here . These thing would help keep her pic. out they so it does not slide through the wood work like alot of thing do . People need to be reminded.
HERE to yall
My Heart & Prayers Are With Madeleine & Family

[Livia]

These are all fantastic ideas! Just when something like this makes you start despising the human race, you regain your faith in people by seeing everyone working so hard to try to find this little girl.

My heart goes out to those poor parents, who must be experiencing their own private hell right now.

I pray that little Maddie is soon reunited, safe and well, with her family.

[teramiabullfrog]

california is a long way from where Madeleine McCann disappeared; however, volunteers of the Finding Our Children Under Stress (F.O.C.U.S.) Organization printed copies of her flyer, laminated two of them and taped them on the outside windows of our missing child mobile awareness center van, as well as included copies of her flyer in our 3-ring missing child display binder and left them for display in post offices along California's west coast. anyone can help, print a flyer of her from her web page, take it to your local post office and ask the post master or station master to post and display her flyer in the post office lobby, in accordance with the Presidential Memorandum, signed by then President William Clinton on 1/19/96, every building owned or controlled by the federal government is required to maintain a display area for the general public to view missing person notices. nobody knows where this little girl is so as many places her flyer is posted the better. every time we stopped at a post office or store, people crowded around our van to view the laminated flyers (other flyers on the van include the current active amber alert cases as well as the flyers for two missing who's family post here on crimelibrary forum, and several other missing who's family we've been helping distribute and post flyers for, for years). the U.S. has some wonderful federal laws and federal programs to both help find short and long term missing persons as well as to help teach child abduction prevention; unfortunately, most of the laws and programs are not managed at the level of efficiency they were originally intended, instructed, and are annually federal funded; therefore, they are not accomplishing what they were designed to accomplish. We realize Madeleine McCann is not from the U.S.; however, missing children/persons is a global problem and every source of service offered and available to help find a missing person needs to be tapped, she could be anywhere, and everyone, everywhere, should get involved and help bring this child back home to her loved ones. another of those think globally and act locally situations.

[sharlock]

Originally Posted by teramiabullfrog

california is a long way from where Madeleine McCann disappeared; however, volunteers of the Finding Our Children Under Stress (F.O.C.U.S.) Organization printed copies of her flyer, laminated two of them and taped them on the outside windows of our missing child mobile awareness center van, as well as included copies of her flyer in our 3-ring missing child display binder and left them for display in post offices along California's west coast. anyone can help, print a flyer of her from her web page, take it to your local post office and ask the post master or station master to post and display her flyer in the post office lobby, in accordance with the Presidential Memorandum, signed by then President William Clinton on 1/19/96, every building owned or controlled by the federal government is required to maintain a display area for the general public to view missing person notices. nobody knows where this little girl is so as many places her flyer is posted the better. every time we stopped at a post office or store, people crowded around our van to view the laminated flyers (other flyers on the van include the current active amber alert cases as well as the flyers for two missing who's family post here on crimelibrary forum, and several other missing who's family we've been helping distribute and post flyers for, for years). the U.S. has some wonderful federal laws and federal programs to both help find short and long term missing persons as well as to help teach child abduction prevention; unfortunately, most of the laws and programs are not managed at the level of efficiency they were originally intended, instructed, and are annually federal funded; therefore, they are not accomplishing what they were designed to accomplish. We realize Madeleine McCann is not from the U.S.; however, missing children/persons is a global problem and every source of service offered and available to help find a missing person needs to be tapped, she could be anywhere, and everyone, everywhere, should get involved and help bring this child back home to her loved ones. another of those think globally and act locally situations.

Hi termiabullfrog,
I have started a thread on CL called "You can help us save our kids. Some ideas on what you can do and advice from posters!". When I read your post I just had to paste it to this thread because I was not aware of some points you made and thought your post was fantastic. I hope you do not mind that I have done this but if you do I will ask FW to remove my post.
Thanks

[Jayelles]

Thank goodness for people like you guys who offer prayers instead of criticism. I've seen some really vile things posted about this family and can only take comfort from the fact that Kate's Mum says no-one can hurt them more than they are already hurting nor blame them more than they blame themselves.


"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up. " - The Reverend Jesse Jackson

Originally Posted by Jayelles

Thank goodness for people like you guys who offer prayers instead of criticism. I've seen some really vile things posted about this family and can only take comfort from the fact that Kate's Mum says no-one can hurt them more than they are already hurting nor blame them more than they blame themselves.


"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up. " - The Reverend Jesse Jackson

I couldn't agree more, J. It is very disenchanting that anyone would want to attack this family while they are in such despair. About a week ago someone emailed me a clip of Nancy Grace where she was excoriating these parents for their "negligence" (with a look of utter disgust on her face) and calling for thier arrest!! I lost all respect for Nancy Grace after seeing that. To be insensitive and cruel to the victims of a horrible crime is beyond my comprehension.

No doubt if the parents had hired an unknown babysitter to watch their children and the sitter harmed the children in some way, people would be critisizing their negligence for leaving their children with a stranger.

I am glad to see that most people on this board understand that the McCanns are the victims of one of the most horrific crimes imaginable and are decent enough to not cruelly add to their suffering.

I forgot to mention that I was in LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) the other day and saw posters of Madeleine in the international terminal (by Customs). The campaign to make her disappearance public has been very successful on an international scale. I just HOPE HOPE HOPE someone finds her soon.

[Mishell1383]

Originally Posted by Jayelles

There's always some heartless so-and-so who tries to profit from a tragedy:-

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...269093,00.html

Fortunately this one got caught.

It has always boggled my mind, the people that do this. How can someone sleep at night, how can someone be so heartless, how can someone be so... so.... SHALLOW AND COLD!? I do not understand this, I doubt anyone else does too. Thanks for sharing that link Jay, I'm glad she got caught.

[Jayelles]

Originally Posted by elvislives

I couldn't agree more, J. It is very disenchanting that anyone would want to attack this family while they are in such despair. About a week ago someone emailed me a clip of Nancy Grace where she was excoriating these parents for their "negligence" (with a look of utter disgust on her face) and calling for thier arrest!! I lost all respect for Nancy Grace after seeing that. To be insensitive and cruel to the victims of a horrible crime is beyond my comprehension.

No doubt if the parents had hired an unknown babysitter to watch their children and the sitter harmed the children in some way, people would be critisizing their negligence for leaving their children with a stranger.

I am glad to see that most people on this board understand that the McCanns are the victims of one of the most horrific crimes imaginable and are decent enough to not cruelly add to their suffering.

I've stopped reading the threads where the parents are being attacked. I think it would be a rare parent who hadn't had a "Phew" moment with their children. Also, there is a lot of misinformation being posted.

As you say - supposing they'd hired a babysitter (who would have been a local stranger) and something had happened? Many parents make use of baby listening services which are usually offered in these hotels but the service only listens at the door - the McCann's and their friends chose to check the children themselves by going in and actually physically checking them. What they did was MORE than the standard listening service provided.

I've seen some terrible things posted about these parents by people who know nothing about them and it makes me so sad.

On a brighter note, I saw this post yesterday:-

http://www.webbsleuths.org/dcforum/D...38/209.html#26

It's an excellent post.

[Jayelles]

The McCann's cannot bring themselves to leave Portugal and are to stay there for the time being. They feel that this is where Madeline is and don't want to leave her:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/6736625.stm

[dallasvic]

Originally Posted by Jayelles

The McCann's cannot bring themselves to leave Portugal and are to stay there for the time being. They feel that this is where Madeline is and don't want to leave her:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/6736625.stm

I do not think I could leave either. That is were she was last seen and you hope that she shows up near there and I would want to be there also if it were me.

I am headed to light a few candles for Maddy. If you have'nt yet Pleasee do : keep that light shinning for her

[imanewsjunkie]

I can't believe there is still no new or leads :-(

[Jayelles]

The parents are obviously running out of steam. They were interviewed today and seemed more broken than I've seen them. I guess the have been kept going over recent weeks with the purpose of raising awareness. Now that they've done their awareness "tour" they have more time to reflect on the fact that there's been no progress. They must also be devastated after the false hope of the phone call whilst they were in germany. This was a phone call from someone who said he knows where Madeline is and wanted to speak directly to the parents. They McCanns cancelled a couple of tv appearances to be ready for the caller to call back, but nothing came of it. The police felt it wasn't a hoax.

It's so terribly sad. I cannot imagine how awful it must be to just "not know".

[Mishell1383]

Originally Posted by Jayelles

The parents are obviously running out of steam. They were interviewed today and seemed more broken than I've seen them. I guess the have been kept going over recent weeks with the purpose of raising awareness. Now that they've done their awareness "tour" they have more time to reflect on the fact that there's been no progress. They must also be devastated after the false hope of the phone call whilst they were in germany. This was a phone call from someone who said he knows where Madeline is and wanted to speak directly to the parents. They McCanns cancelled a couple of tv appearances to be ready for the caller to call back, but nothing came of it. The police felt it wasn't a hoax.

It's so terribly sad. I cannot imagine how awful it must be to just "not know".

wait!!? They felt it WASN'T a hoax!?

[Jayelles]

Originally Posted by Mishell1383

wait!!? They felt it WASN'T a hoax!?

That's right - they felt it wasn't a hoax. I think that has really knocked the McCann's for six. I got the impression that they may have thought there was going to be a ransom demand or something - which was why the McCanns were asked to be on "stand-by" and they ended up missing a couple of tv appearances as a result. However, the caller didn't phone back.

ETA - here is a news article about it:-

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/d...stery_call.php

[dallasvic]

Originally Posted by Jayelles

That's right - they felt it wasn't a hoax. I think that has really knocked the McCann's for six. I got the impression that they may have thought there was going to be a ransom demand or something - which was why the McCanns were asked to be on "stand-by" and they ended up missing a couple of tv appearances as a result. However, the caller didn't phone back.

ETA - here is a news article about it:-

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/d...stery_call.php

Hi Jay & Everyone,

I was wondering did they say how long after she was abducted that the phone call came? I did not see it in that article or I over looked it. I have seen to many cases like this one were they ask for ransom and when they did not call back something went very wrong an the victim was no longer alive. I am hoping and praying that is not the case here.

[dallasvic]

Hi D,

I got the impression the call happened in just the last day or so. I pray that whoever made that call does know where that precious baby is and finds the courage to call again. The McCanns need their daughter and little Maddy needs her parents. This case is just making me heart sick. I cannot imagine the pain and fear that the entire McCann family must be experiencing. Dear God, please give the person(s) who took Maddie the courage and spiritual strength to return her. Please God, just one phone call with a location that will bring that baby back home. Please.

For the McCann Family For their beautiful little girl, Maddie
My HEART & PRAYERS Are With The Family

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/...l=eng&gi=maddy
Thanks Brooke.I was praying with you on that one.

[Mishell1383]

Did anyone else read this news report? http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/eu...issing.mccann/
I hope to God it is not true!! Please be a hoax! Maddie you HAVE to be out there somewhere!