Madeleine McCann: twins Sean and Amelie receive birthday presents from Maddie

Monday 1 February 2010

Above: Sean and Amelie, then aged 2, in Portugal in 2007

Sean and Amelie McCann, twin siblings of Maddie, who were just two years and three months when Maddie disappeared, will be five years old tomorrow, February 2nd. They celebrated their birthday with a party at the weekend and according to The Sun:

"MADDIE MCCANN'S SISTER AND BROTHER CELEBRATED THEIR FIFTH BIRTHDAY WITH A PARTY YESTERDAY AND A PRESENT FROM THEIR MISSING SIBLING.

Parents Kate and Gerry held the special bash for twins Sean and Amelie.

They always buy the pair a gift from their missing sister for Christmas and birthdays."

Do the twins think these presents actually come from Maddie? If so, I wonder what they imagine is the method by which these presents reach them.

In January 2008, according to a report in The Metro, Sean and Amelie were playing a game in which they endeavoured to find "the monster who took Maddie."

"The brother and sister of missing Madeleine McCann cope with their loss by playing a game called 'Find the monster that took Maddie', it was claimed on Sunday.

The game was described by leading world sex crimes expert Ray Wyre after he met parents Kate and Gerry McCann.

Twins Sean and Amelie, two, were helping to give their parents the strength to carry on, he added.

The parents told him they were together recently when the twins rushed into the room shouting.

He added: 'They said they were going to go and find the monster that took Maddie. Then they dashed off to play the game. It's a sad story, but it is healthy that Madeleine remains a real presence in their lives.'"

Do the twins still believe that a "monster," took Maddie? If so, they must also believe that this monster has some very kind and compassionate qualities if he allows Maddie to choose and send them presents. Maybe when they're older, they'll suggest that Kate and Gerry take note of the postmarks on the packages and alert the police.

In November 2009, the twins were ready to fight the man who abducted their sister. "We will fight the man who took our sister Maddie." The Sun (No longer available online)

"Gerry told Sky News the twins - just 18 months old when Madeleine went missing in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007 - want to find who took her and punish them.

He said: "They talk about her more than Kate and I do - it's incredible. Now they are saying, 'She's been taken, when we find who took her, we'll fight them'"

The twins must have some crazy mixed-up ideas about this "monster," of a man who took their sister. I have never seen any details of explanation offered to the twins as to why this person took their sister, though if he is a "monster," and they're going to fight him, then he must be an evil man in their eyes, but on the other hand, Maddie gets to send them presents?

Very early on in this sad case, Kate McCann said the twins were coping well because they had never spent much time with Madeleine. Over these past nearly three years, though, they have been encouraged to develop a myth about someone they must hardly have known and will surely not remember. The myth being enhanced regularly by Kate and Gerry seems to be of a sister who is being held by an evil man, but that she is able to communicate in a way by sending gifts and that one day she will be rescued and just take her place, happily, at the dinner table and share Amelie's toys. It's the myth of the golden girl who will return and they will all live happily ever after. We know that Kate and Gerry have consulted a psychologist about how to tell the twins about Maddie, but I cannot imagine a professional psychologist advising parents to maintain this kind of myth.

Maddie was just 21 months old when Sean and Amelie were born in February 2005 and she did not seem to take too readily to having two younger children in the family, demanding of her mother's attention.

"Kate McCann: my struggle to control 'very difficult' Madeleine." Daily Mail 17th September 2007

"The worst thing is that she started to demand lots of attention, especially when I was breast-feeding them.""She would run up and down screaming in the background, shouting for my attention."

"Kate McCann has revealed that she struggled to control Madeleine McCann after the birth of her and Gerry's twins, it was revealed today.Missing Madeleine would run around 'screaming...shouting for my attention', the mother-of-three said.

In an interview given to a Portuguese magazine before she was named as a suspect in the case of the four-year-old's disappearance, Kate also said the first six months of Madeleine's life were "very difficult" and that the girl had suffered from colic.

Speaking about Madeleine's upbringing, Kate, a 39-year-old GP, told Portugal's Flash! magazine: "She cried practically for 18 hours a day. I had to permanently carry her around."

Perhaps the above was the reason for Maddie's being shipped off to her grandmother's house in Glasgow when she was two years old, to spend the twins' first Christmas away from the family in Rothley. Gerry McCann's mother, Eileen McCann, interviewed by the Scottish Daily Record in April 2008:

"She said: "When she was two, Madeleine spent Christmas at my house and it was lovely.

"The next year, the family came up for New Year but on Christmas Day Madeleine called and said she'd got a kitchen from Santa. She was very excited and said 'I'm going to make some tea'."

This Christmas was spent without the blonde-haired, green-eyed girl who fills Eileen's life with such joy."

We are told repeatedly by Kate and Gerry McCann that milestones are important. Surely the twins' first Christmas, when they were a complete family, with their daughter Madeleine and the twins, represented a significant milestone? Surely a time for the whole family to be together to celebrate the occasion? But no, Maddie spent that Christmas with her grandmother. Perhaps the milestones that are important to the McCanns are those on which they can remind us of their continuing need for money to fund their search: first Christmas without Madeleine (which wasn't, of course!) first birthday without Madeleine etc etc.

So, Maddie got shipped off that Christmas and there is a further hint about Maddie's status in the family in a statement by Katherina Gasper, a doctor who went on holiday with the McCanns and their friends in 2005.

"During our stay in Majorca, Dave and his wife, Fiona, accompanied by this daughter Lily, took Madeleine (page 6) with them to spend the day, in order to give Kate and Gerry a bit of rest and time to be with the twins." 

This was September 2005, when the twins would have been 7 months old and if Kate and Gerry needed a bit if rest, rest from what? Maddie's need for attention? Maddie gets taken out for the day by people she could hardly have known, to give her parents time to be with the twins and then, come Christmas, she gets sent to her grandmother's house while her parents spend time with the twins. Did this develop into some kind of pattern with the relatives who visited to support Kate while Gerry was on duty at weekends taking care of Maddie while Kate was with the twins? Was that the relatives role, helping to keep Maddie and the twins apart so that there was no conflict? Not the best way to help siblings to care for each other or to get along and accept one another.

Was Maddie seen to be jealous of her little brother and sister and this was judged to be such a problem that instead of making sure the whole family enjoyed quality time together in order to develop healthy, loving, relationships, Maddie and the twins were seldom together? Kate said it herself: the twins never spent much time with Madeleine.

And then, there amongst the questions that Kate McCann refused to answer when she was made an arguida, is one which raises more questions about Maddie's place in the family:

"When asked whether or not it is true that in England she considered the possibility of handing over Madeleine’s guardianship to a relative, she did not reply."

I would assume that this question had some basis in information obtained by the PJ. It seems to be too specific to have been simply a random idea thrown into the mix of questions.

The McCann twins are in danger of growing up with some kind of euphoric recall about a sister who was never a significant part of their lives. They will no doubt be seeing images all over their home of a smiling blonde girl, their sister who was taken by a "monster," a child they hardly knew and they would not recognise if she were alive and turned up on their doorstep. Maddie exists for Sean and Amelie in those images, in the stories their parents tell them, in the games they are encouraged to play, in the conversations they hear around them and repeat, and in the totally incongruous presents she is supposedly sending to them. They obviously know that their parents are deeply immersed in this matter and of course, like small children who want to please their parents, they ask about this far-away child, who is long gone from their world and their memories. Maddie is a myth like the monster who took her.

Anna Andress

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‘Spanish detectives asked me to arrange for evidence against Gonçalo Amaral’

by astro 8 years ago

Lawyer who collaborated with investigators at the service of Maddie's Parents to the 'O Crime':

'McCann detectives asked me to get proofs against Gonçalo Amaral'

'Maddie parents foretold their daughter's death'

The lawyer who cooperated with «Método 3» makes surprising revelations

• «Maddie’s parents divined their daughter’s death»

• «Satanic societies and secret services involved in the Maddie Case»

In the book that he is launching this week, Dr Marcos Aragão Correia, the lawyer who defends Leonor in the process in which Joana’s mother accuses five PJ inspectors of having tortured her, reveals how his facet as a medium became important, namely in the discovery of the truth in the Maddie case, allowing «o Crime» to learn about some data, this far kept under secrecy, about the investigations that were carried out by Spanish detective agency Método 3, stressing the highly likely intervention of secret services and satanic sects in the disappearance of the English girl.



Interview by: José Leite





«O Crime» - What do you intend to reveal in this book of yours?


Marcos Aragão – In the book «The Little Girls that Came from the Stars» I mix true facts with romanced ones, approaching new aspects of the private investigation that Maddie’s parents carried out into their daughter’s disappearance. I speak about my powers as a medium and how those powers were useful to develop a private investigation that counted on the support of the Método 3 Detective Agency. I wanted to employ that gift of mine into the discovery of a credible truth about the case of the disappearance of Maddie, stripping myself of any material purposes. The goal was not to earn money – even more so because I fortunately lead an economical life without any financial problems in Madeira – but rather to help those parents who lived in affliction. One of the major teachings of spiritism mentions that it’s only by helping others that we are able to help ourselves. That was what I intended to do: to help this little girl, thus conquering her precious Love.

How did that premonition of yours about the Maddie case happen?

On the 5th of May, upon returning from a spiritist meeting in Madeira, right after going to bed, but before falling asleep, at around midnight, an extraordinary thing happened to me for the first time in my life: I saw the image of a little girl that must have been around 4 years of age, with blond, shoulder-length straight hair, blue eyes, very disturbed, visibly unable to understand what was happening to her, accompanied by a female being of great beauty and great spiritual standing… Then, other images appeared, related to what had happened to her: I saw a strongly built man, blue eyes, somewhat balding and with blondish hair, brutally raping that girl and then strangling her with his hands, throwing the cadaver into a lake. I perceived by a map that was shown to me, that this happened in the Algarve, but I couldn’t read the name of the village. I stress that I hadn’t seen any photo of Maddie before, I only knew, from what I’d heard on the radio, that she was 3 years old.


That individual that you describe, was he ever referred to within the PJ’s investigation?

In fact, there were references about a strongly built individual of British appearance as a suspect. Still, as this was my first vision in my entire life, there was, on my side, a certain reluctance in divulging it. I let a few days pass, even to see whether or not the little girl showed up. Until I gave the lead to the PJ, on the 9th of May, but they never contacted me. Later on, an agent from the PJ in Portimão told me that the investigation’s thesis was not based on abduction anymore. Then, I decided to carry out a private investigation: I went to continental Portugal, and visited the various lakes and dams of the Algarve, until I reached the Arade one which was the only one that precisely matched the scenery that I had seen in my vision. I decided to contact a senior official at Método 3, the detective agency that had been hired by the McCanns to investigate their daughter’s disappearance. When I mentioned that the dam was located in Silves, I noticed that they were surprised and immediately wanted to speak with me.


What happened next?

Two detectives met with me and told me that they had already received thousands of leads, but that mine was corroborated by a physical case that they had already established. It involved a Portuguese truck driver, M. Gautier, who only two days after the disappearance of Madeleine, at around 4 or 5 p.m., while driving down the IC1 road, near the Arade dam, saw two cars parked by the road, an Audi A3 that was driven by a man and a green car (of a very special green) that was driven by a blonde woman. The two vehicles were separated by a small metallic fence, and while driving by in his truck, the driver saw what seemed like an inanimate child to him, being passed from one car to another, wrapped up in a blanket.

But how could he immediately conclude that it was a child?

By the manner in which the body stood out from the blanket, the bent legs and small dimensions made him conclude without hesitation that it was a child. On the other hand, the double caution with which the couple held the blanket on a hot day, became suspicious. It was all extremely strange, and because of that, in November, the truck driver reported everything to the detectives at Método 3, after the Portuguese police simply discarded that mysterious event that he had participated in. According to what he told me himself, the PJ’s elements even ridiculed him as soon as he called them on the day that he witnessed the translation of the body near the metal fence.

And did Método 3 ever investigate that case?

Of course. The Spanish detectives showed M. Gautier the photos of some of the main suspects in the disappearance of Maddie, and found some physiognomic similarities with at least two of them.

I read in the process concerning Maddie’s disappearance, which was archived in the meantime, that the PJ, after picking up on that lead again six months later, discarded it once more, after the analysis of the cellular activation of the antennae of the suspicious couple’s mobile phones, and after questioning the persons that owned a house on that plot…

There, the PJ committed a gross mistake by investigating only that suspect and his girlfriend. The truck driver said that he couldn’t guarantee that it was that precise suspect, but rather that it was a person with similar physiognomic features, mainly in terms of body mass.


The fact is that Método 3 placed their bet on you and Dr Aragão Correia left to do that research in the dam?

Yes, they bet on me, after submitting me to a test in order to prove in an unequivocal manner whether or not my medium abilities and my posture were credible. They were fed up with following false leads. The fact is that the test gave totally positive results, according to what was confirmed to me by the director of the Agency in Barcelona herself, and as a consequence of that, Método 3 offered full support to my research. But given the fact that Maddie’s parents preferred to spend the decreasing money from the Madeleine Fund in mainly following leads that placed the hypothesis that their daughter was still alive, they dismissed the possibility of paying professional divers to scrutinize the dam. Then, I offered myself to pay for the first phase of the searches in the dam, having later received much support (even financial) from mediums and spiritists who believed in and corroborated my theory.

Searches that failed to find anything relevant?

Relevant yes, but not sufficient as evidence. Maybe I did some mistake, which may have alerted the possible abductor(s) of the little English girl: on the 11th of January, before the diving in the dam started, «Lux» magazine published those suspicions of mine on their front page. It was almost two months later that the searches were started at the dam, which was more than enough time for the criminals to hide any incriminating residues. Nevertheless, we discovered a girl’s sock that was Maddie’s age. I believe that the sock might have been used by Maddie, although the lab tests failed to detect any human residues, due to the fact that it stayed underwater for such a long time. We also found several interlaced ropes, over five metres long, which could perfectly have been used to tie up the body at the bottom of the dam. All of this was recovered by the divers in an area where there was no garbage. Método 3 always accompanied the searches closely, and took all of those objects to Spain.

Do you believe that Maddie’s abduction and death were an isolated action?

The information that I received as a medium didn’t allow for me to understand what the crime’s mobile was. But information that I obtained later on – even from consulting an excellent book by criminologist Barra da Costa – led me to believe the theory, that was exposed by that former PJ chief inspector, that the police wasn’t interested in finding neither Maddie nor the real culprits over her disappearance.

They weren’t interested? 

Dr Barra da Costa said that there was something like a tacit plan to induce a general sense of insecurity across society, to allow for the micro-chip (a device that after being implanted in human beings delivers signals to track them down) may be produced on a major scale. At the beginning I had some reservations concerning that issue because I had never heard about it, but I was careful enough to go on the internet and to consult several credible websites, including FBI and CIA sources, where I found some amazing things: the micro-chip was being promoted as the ideal weapon to prevent crime. They added that the population should be induced into accepting this technological revolution, even if at the cost of promoting insecurity policies. Well, the Maddie case fell like “soup in the honey” for the promotion of those insecurity policies, especially as far as children are concerned.


And why Maddie?

Concerning that issue, I obtained precious information with Método 3 (which I reveal in my book) concerning the status of the missing girl’s parents, who had very influent connections with the British government. Apart from that, one day before his daughter disappeared, Gerry received enigmatic coded messages on his mobile phone, which he failed to decipher. Was it a warning from someone connected to the British secret services, trying to warn him about the imminent abduction of his daughter? The fact is that the little girl fell victim to a perfect abduction, carried out by professionals, who studied all of the McCann couple’s steps and left no trace. The PJ’s investigation process even refers the existence of an individual who watched the apartment in a suspicious manner, during the days that preceded the abduction.

But at what level did the parents relate to the British government: with the secret service?

My book also discusses that. There was privileged knowledge by the American secret services, through the English, about those parents’ entire life. And although Gordon Brown is a person of integrity, I cannot say the same about George W. Bush, who is doubtlessly one of the major international terrorists. From here to the perverse secret societies, it’s a small step…

But what were those secret societies?

Everyone knows that president Bush was connected to a secret society, «Skull and Bones», whose elements have the fetish of lying in coffins and participating in satanic rituals. That society recruits for the major totally Machiavellian secret societies that seek to control the earth. Due to their strength at a global level, it would be natural for those societies to know about that privileged relationship between Maddie’s parents and the British government. And that in the case that one of the couple’s children was abducted, they could be certain that Gordon Brown’s government would act and that the case would become immensely media-exposed.

On the other hand, those satanic sects would know beforehand that the crime would never be discovered in Portugal, as it happened, due to the ineptitude that our police present in finding abducted children. And they also knew that the person who is responsible for that investigation in the Portimão department had already proved his incompetence in the Joana case. All of that would reinforce the politics of implementation of the insecurity theories – another abducted child, nobody knows who did it, etc…, benefiting the interests of the industries that will launch said micro-chips. I was shocked when I saw reports that stated that if the technology had been implemented already, Maddie would easily be found. They revealed a lowly attitude by using the little girl’s memory…


How did you appear in the defense of Joana’s mother?

Método 3 asked me to juridically investigate (to arrange for evidence and witnesses) the tortures by Mr Gonçalo Amaral, namely over Joana’s mother. According to them, this was a coordinator who had revealed an embarrassing ineptitude in the investigation of child abductions in the Algarve, systematically incriminating, without no evidence whatsoever, the missing girls’ mothers. I spoke to ACED and asked them if they were interested in me writing independent reports about Leonor and her brother, João Cipriano.


Did you reach any conclusion through those interviews with Leonor and João Cipriano?

I was confronted with two different states of mind: Leonor was shocked about what had happened to her daughter; João displayed no remorse. It is curious that the first time that I sat down in front of him, I saw streams of blood running down his face, as if he was guilty over his niece’s death. I was impressed, but I remained silent and told nobody about the fact. But now, after having questioned tens of persons, after Leonor herself told me that he was not to be trusted, that on the evening of the crime (he had arrived at Leonor’s house just one day before), as soon as the child left the house, he went after her, all of this added to the depositions from relatives and from persons who dealt with them in the village of Figueira, I was fully convinced that it was João Cipriano who murdered Joana. In fact, I learned that he had already been convicted over attempted homicide of an individual, having received 100 euros and a motorbike to do that service.


Why didn’t he reveal the location of the cadaver?

He always held on to the hope that if the cadaver wasn’t found, he would be acquitted. He also incriminated Joana’s mother, saying that she had beaten the little girl, and saying that Leonor had written him letters stating that she had sold her daughter, but she never wrote to him, as prison records prove. In that village everyone knows that Leonor had never beaten the little girl and that she had an excellent relationship with her.

Did you find any mediunic contact points between both cases: Joana’s and Maddie’s? 


One “transported” me to the other. It’s curious that the parents of both children received mediunic information themselves: according to data that I obtained with Método 3, before coming to Portugal to spend their holidays at the Ocean Club, Maddie’s mother had a horrendous foreboding that something serious would happen. She even spoke to her husband about cancelling the trip to Portugal but Gerry convinced her to come. Only a few days after Maddie disappeared, the father also had a vision of a long tunnel with a light at its end, where Maddie was standing, surrounded by that magnificent light. Joana’s mother also had a vision of her daughter accompanied by an adult couple. She tried to approach her daughter on a thinking level, but the couple told her that it wasn’t possible and very gently led Joana away. The interpretation that I make on the level of parapsychology, a science that I studied for almost ten years, is that Joana is also in the spiritual world already, accompanied by good spirits who protect her. I thank both for the Love that they have given me, offering me these marvellous missions.

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Gonçalo Amaral replies to Aragão Correia: 

«All he wants is publicity and clowning»

Concerning the contents of this interview, we contacted former PJ inspector Gonçalo Amaral, who clarified as follows:

“I don’t believe that Método 3 chased that lawyer up. What he says is a lie. All he wants is publicity and clowning around. If he was at the Arade dam looking for Maddie after having a ‘vision’, why didn’t he dive into the waters?...”

Concerning possible contacts between Método 3 and the PJ investigators, Gonçalo Amaral refers:

“There was a meeting in Elvas and in Portimão between Dr Paulo Rebelo, the Spanish police, the detectives and millionaire Brian Kennedy, who financially supported the McCanns. The testimony by the truck driver was part of that conversation, but later that lead was dismissed.”



source: O Crime, 04.12.2008, paper edition 

Joana Morais

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If your child was abducted would you...

Immediately leave your remaining children to call for help?

Open a fund to help pay for solicitors

Refuse to do a reconstruction

Tour around Europe talking to dignitaries not actually looking for your child

Leave your remaining children in the creche the very next day

Meet the Pope

Refuse to answer 48 questions

Refuse help from Missing People Abroad

Complain about the speed of a police car whilst informed of a potential lead

Laugh, joke and suck lollipops whilst one of the most significant abduction leads came to a climax

Set up a website

Not bother offering a reward

Hire cowboy detectives with no experience in looking for missing children

Smirk when you hear that your child may have been seen

Hand out photographs of when your child was younger

Not bother to search for your child

When possible sightings emerge, ignore them all and go in the opposite direction to promote your search

Spend time deleting text messages and phone calls

Change your statements over and over again

Laugh your head off after you've claimed that your child was stolen by paedophiles

Not hand out leaflets or posters

Charge people who genuinely wanted to help you find your child for the tacky memorabilia in an online store

Go jogging

Play tennis

Push the statement of a known liar to cover your back

Let someone you hardly knew that checked on your child walk away scott free

Demand an archive of your case

Hide efits because you closely resemble the prime suspect

Put pressure on the police to highlight an abductor that never was

Shout out "They've taken her" not distinguishing which child they took

Do planned photo shoots for the media

Collect free wine from the bar where you used to frequent

Go on suspicious trips to three places whilst the sniffer dogs are being organised

Check the breathing of your remaining children who didn't wake at all during the 'abduction'

Say that your child went missing at 10pm rather than earlier in the evening as stated on witness statements

Have 'words' with witnesses

Use the media to help make changes in your story

Plan special events months in advance to commemorate your childs 'disappearance'

Don't bother questioning your friends after hearing of a disturbing statement 

Lie about not owning a blue bag that was photographed in your wardrobe after your child went missing. 

Say it's rotting meat, trash and dirty nappies when a strange and unpleasant smell is noticed in your hire car

Leave your car boot open, morning noon and night for days on end

Write in your book that the last 'happy day' was on the 2nd of May. What about the 3rd

Question your friends if they had problems remembering the exact times they saw your child

Tell a social worker that your child had been abducted by a childless couple

Ask your friends why they started searching in the opposite direction to which the 'abductor' was spotted

Still leave the apartment after thinking the 'abductor' could be in there with your children

Question your friend who had supposedly spotted the 'abductor' after the tracker dogs followed a scent in the opposite directions

Leave the country after blood and cadaver dogs alerted to most items belonging to you, including a hire car

Leave your child behind

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Kate forgives...

Kate McCann is able to forgive the man who she claims abducted Madeleine.

The man who she has claimed is part of a paedophile gang.

The man who she claims took her daughter from her bed.

The man who did not kill her daughter (she believes he kept 
Madeleine alive).

This man who when she dreams, she imagines has treated her 
child in the most heinous of ways:-

'Madeleine' Page 119 - " Her (Madeleine's) perfect little genitals 
torn apart." states Kate 

Yet she can forgive this evil excuse for a human being the dregs and scum of the earth..?

Graphic courtesy of Lizzy Taylor

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The great escape

On the 29 July 2007 Kate told us she would not go home without Madeleine. Gerry went all out on his mission to champion the cause of all abducted children, also making long term plans and events to keep Madeleine in the public eye. Kate said that Gerry was totally exhausted but the people of Praia Da Luz and holiday makers alike remarked that Gerry was in fact, particularly 'buoyant.' Just three months after Madeleine had 'disappeared' he was able to function normally, laugh, joke and organise events months in advance.

Was he buoyant at their extended vacation, the offer of free wine from the Tapas bar as and when required, meals cooked for them, the twins being looked after whilst they went jogging and played tennis?

Given the use of a private plane, they toured Europe raising awareness of missing children, but they didn't look for, or find Madeleine. They also left the twins behind in Praia Da Luz, very odd considering they had lost one of their children. Surely in normal circumstances they wouldn't have wanted them out of their sight, not hundreds of miles away not being able to hold, hug, kiss and reassure them that everything's going to be alright. 

Back from the 'Tour' there were staged photo shoots for the press and still the children were dropped off at the creche whilst mummy and daddy did their own thing.

Enter the dogs Eddie and Keela on the 6th and 7th of august 2007. The results of the forensics which would have all fingers pointing in the McCanns direction. Eddie and Keela had been successful in 200+ cases but suddenly we had Gerry informing us that the dogs were extremely unreliable. The McCanns were in the frame, the tide had started to turn and the press stories being printed were not in their favour. On September 7, 2007 they were made arguidos, two days later they hotfooted it back to the UK, why the hurry if you're innocent?

The McCanns leaving Portugal two days after being made arguidos

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