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« Reply #200 on: November 06, 2009, 12:01:35 AM »

Of the new images of how his daughter may look now aged six, Mr McCann said: "That's not how we remember her," adding, "she is not a four-year-old girl anymore."


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« Reply #201 on: November 08, 2009, 08:26:07 PM »

YARD ASKED TO REOPEN MADDIE CASE 



MISSING: Madeleine McCann
Sunday November 8,2009
By James Murray, Investigations Editor SCOTLAND YARD should be brought in to take ­control of the investigation to discover what ­happened to Madeleine McCann.

Kate and Gerry McCann want the Yard’s ­renowned kidnap team to assess an avalanche of new information after last week’s emotional internet appeal, which ­generated five million hits from around the world.

Portuguese ­police, the Sunday Express can reveal, have failed to set up a new phone line for callers to ring with information.

Last night there was fury over thedismissive response. Interpol and Europol are among 163 ­forces worldwide that have committed to help with the appeal.

Portugal’s Policia Judiciaria is still ­in charge of the Madeleine case because that is where she disappeared over two years ago.

It would say only that if credible information comes in by fax, letter or email, it would be passed to senior officers if it was deemed “significant”.

There were also reservations last night about Leicestershire Police, who are aiding the ­investigation from this country ­because the McCanns live in their catchment area, at Rothley.

Last night former Scotland Yard chief Dai Davies said it was time to let the Yard take over.

The former royal protection head said: “Madeleine is a ­British subject and she deserves the best, which the Yard can provide. It is time to put any daft police protocols to one side and get on with the job of finding her. It is a solvable case.

“It is astonishing and disgraceful that the Portuguese have not assigned a specific team to scrutinise leads which could provide a breakthrough in the world’s biggest child abduction case.
   

“It is frankly outrageous that the parents of this poor child should be hiring private detectives to conduct an investigation which should have been taken on by the Yard in the first place.

“The Yard has a kidnap squad with a brilliant success record, and access to the best Holmes computer technology, forensics and investigative techniques in the world.”

Holmes, which stands for Home Office Large Major Enquiry System, is a state-of-the-art data system designed to deal with the huge volume of information major crimes ­generate.

Sources claimed last night that Leicestershire detectives have not been inputting all their information on Holmes.

Police forces across Britain have cracked scores of tough cases using the system because it can be programmed to ­highlight suspects and analyse the value of myriad leads.

No one was available at ­Leicestershire Police yesterday to confirm or deny the claims.

On Tuesday, Kate and Gerry, both doctors aged 41, made new television appeals via the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.

They urged: “Please take a minute and help us bring Madeleine home. Let’s hope and pray this message reaches those who know who took Madeleine and they find the strength to do the right thing.”

On Friday, a Leicestershire ­Police spokesman said any new i­nformation from the CEOPC ­initiative would be passed on to the Portuguese who would consider credible lines of inquiry.

Requests from the Portuguese to carry out new inquiries in the UK would be co-ordinated by Leicestershire Police.

New images of Madeleine, who would now be six, were shown in a video in English, Arabic, ­Portuguese, Spanish, French, German and Italian.

One showed how she might ­appear if her skin had darkened and her hair had been dyed brown to make her look like­ ­other children if she is being held in Morocco or Tunisia.

Another time-generated image showed how she might look now with her natural blonde colouring if she is being kept in ­Northern Europe.

While Kate and Gerry McCann believe Leicestershire detectives have worked hard, they feel ­Scotland Yard’s experts on ­kidnap, forensics and offender profiling could bring much ­needed impetus to the inquiry.

Madeleine vanished, aged three, from the family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve on May 3 2007.

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« Reply #202 on: November 08, 2009, 08:31:31 PM »

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« Reply #203 on: November 08, 2009, 08:32:10 PM »

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« Reply #204 on: November 09, 2009, 08:22:54 PM »

McCanns use psychologist to help tell twins about Madeleine
EmailWritten by whymadeleine on Nov-8-09 12:40am
From:  pickupthephoneandbringmadeleinehome.blogspot.com


A child psychologist is helping Madeleine McCann's twin siblings come to terms with her disappearance

The parents of Madeleine McCann have revealed how a child psychologist is helping them to tell their two other children about her disappearance.
Kate and Gerry McCann said they would be ‘frank and open’ with their four-year-old twinsSean and Amelie when they ask why their sister is still missing.

Mrs McCann, 41, said experts have said the youngsters will ask about Madeleine’s disappearance when they are ready.

‘We’ll be led by them,’ she said. ‘We’ve had advice from a child psychologist and they’ve said Sean and Amelie will lead the way.
‘If they ask a question, we’ll answer them honestly. I’m not going to rush them, but if they ask something then I’ll answer them.’

Mr McCann, 41, a heart specialist, added: ‘We will answer their questions openly and honestly. What they ask, we’ll tell them. We’ll tell them what happened and what information we know.’
Three-year-old Madeleine, went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in 2007.


Last week, the McCanns released digitally enhanced pictures of how she might look as a six-year-old.
The images, based on the idea she may be held captive in southern Europe, Africa or the Middle East, show her with dark skin and dark hair.

Mrs McCann told a Portuguese chat show that the twins had helped her ‘adapt and function’ despite her grief.

Mr McCann added: ‘We do as much as we possibly can to ensure that the twins see us happy.
‘They give us so much joy and our life superficially would
look like any family with two young children.

‘Obviously one of our children is missing. Sean and Amelie know that and they know that’s not good, and they want Madeleine back.’

http://www.zimbio.com/Madeleine+McCann/articles/jWSej4NYr5I/McCanns+use+psychologist+help+tell+twins+Madeleine
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« Reply #205 on: November 12, 2009, 06:00:33 PM »

FRAUD cops are probing the bank account of a campaign group which says Maddie McCann is dead - and aims to blame her parents.

Who are they, then?

Controversial lawyer Tony Bennett helped set up the Madeleine Foundation, but its account is now frozen.

Oh?

Detectives want assurances over tens of thousands of pounds sent in by people supporting his warped aims.

So people sent in money for what purpose?

Bennett, 62, ran the account from his home in Harlow, Essex. Much of the cash came from the sale of £4 books blaming the McCanns after the three-year-old vanished in Portugal in 2007.

The self-published book.

The couple think many people may have mistakenly donated believing they were funding the hunt for Maddie.

Did you?

The account holds £2,700 but Mr Bennett is thought to have £90,000 in private accounts.

Thought to have by whom?

A rift had developed between Bennett and foundation chairwoman Debbie Butler. Police stressed the case was still only an investigation and no arrests had been made.

Oh dear.

A source close to Gerry and Kate McCann said: “This foundation is now in meltdown. They can’t wait to see the end of it.”

Madeleine McCann is missing.

Comments on this post are closed - we try not to encourage them.

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« Reply #206 on: November 22, 2009, 08:48:48 PM »

 Madeleine McCann detective paid £500,000 from donations facing £1m fraud chargeBy Daniel Boffey and Mark Hollingsworth
Last updated at 1:23 PM on 22nd November 2009
Add to My Stories  Missing: Madeleine McCann vanished in May 2007
A private detective whose company was paid up to £500,000 from publicly donated funds to find Madeleine McCann has been charged with fraud.
Kevin Halligen, 48, is wanted in America by the FBI for allegedly conning a law firm out of £1.3 million by claiming he could help free two men jailed in war-torn Africa. It is claimed he instead spent the money on a mansion.

However, he has not been arrested because US officials do not know where he is.

In another case, a US court has ordered Halligen to repay a loan of £2million to a business partner. And a British lawyer is claiming £1.3million after investing in Halligen’s company but receiving no return on the cash.

Halligen’s firm, Oakley International, was hired by the Madeleine Fund but was dropped after six months over claims he was making little progress and spending too much.

Halligen, who claims a wealth of contacts in the British security services and FBI, said he had infiltrated a paedophile ring in Belgium. He regularly visited Kate and Gerry McCann to give updates on the hunt for Madeleine, who was three when she vanished from a holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.

In the months after Halligen was ditched four investigators demanded another £200,000 from the fund claiming they had not been paid by him. Halligen’s indictment is likely to dismay thousands who gave money to the Madeleine Fund.

A document filed in the District Court of Columbia claims Halligen took money saying his firm could help secure the release of two executives from the Dutch company Trafigura imprisoned in the Ivory Coast in 2007. The men were arrested following the alleged unloading of toxic waste.

Halligen is said to have proposed a rescue operation by flying in South African mercenaries but it was later cancelled. The men were freed a few months later following a reported £120million payment.

Halligen was last seen in Italy and has allegedly left a trail of debts in America. The Madeleine Fund received more than £1million in donations after her disappearance but was hugely depleted by Halligen’s services. There are concerns the fund will be empty by the end of this year.

The McCanns had previously hired Barcelona-based detective agency Metodo 3 on a reported £50,000 a month. But the company lost credibility with the couple when its head of operations claimed he knew who had kidnapped Madeleine and hoped to have her home by Christmas.

After Halligen, the McCanns hired two former British detectives, David Edgar and Arthur Cowley. In August, Mr Edgar appealed for sightings of an Australian ‘Victoria Beckham lookalike’. But a Mail on Sunday investigation revealed the detectives had failed to make the most basic of inquiries in Barcelona where the woman was seen.

The McCanns’ spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, insisted the fund had not been duped. Two phone numbers previously used by Halligen were answered by a man who said he had no idea who Kevin Halligen was.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229919/Madeleine-McCann-detective-facing-1m-fraud-charge.html#ixzz0XdvdMyKZ
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« Reply #207 on: November 22, 2009, 08:54:57 PM »

From The Sunday Times November 22, 2009

Madeleine McCann fund hired ‘secret agent’ conman
Kevin Halligen with 'bride' Maria Dybczak at his honeymoon reception in Washington.
 
A BUSINESSMAN who pretended to be a secret agent has allegedly pocketed up to £300,000 from funds intended to pay investigators working on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Kevin Halligen, a British security consultant, was paid to find Madeleine but allegedly failed to pass the money on to the private detectives who did the work on his behalf. A friend of Kate and Gerry McCann, Madeleine’s parents, said they had become increasingly concerned about Halligen.

“He had this sense of cloak and dagger, acting as if he were a James Bond-style spy,” said the friend. “He promised the earth but it came to nothing.”

Halligen’s company Oakley International, which is based in Washington DC, was paid £500,000 after being hired by the Find Madeleine fund.
Sources close to Halligen say he offered to provide the McCanns with satellite images and lists of telephone traffic on the night Madeleine disappeared. The data were supposed to come from contacts in Washington but, one source claimed, “all he came up with was a Google Earth image”.

The Madeleine fund was provided with further reports from teams of investigators who found it increasingly difficult to obtain their fees from Halligen. One of them, Henri Exton, a former national head of undercover operations for the British police, is owed more than £100,000 by Halligen for work he did on the Madeleine case.

Documents show that while Halligen’s company was receiving the fund’s cash, he was withdrawing large amounts of money for his personal use. He had been using company funds to finance first-class flights, expensive hotels and chauffeur-driven cars.

His contract with the fund was not renewed in October last year. Halligen left Washington for a holiday in Rome but never returned to Oakley’s offices. He was last seen staying at the Royal Crescent hotel in Bath under an assumed name.

Halligen, 50, often pretended to have served in the intelligence services to impress business and social contacts, according to those who knew him well.

Two years ago he allegedly faked his own wedding to a lawyer in Washington, watched by former agents, a CIA station chief and an adviser to Barack Obama. Halligen told his bride that his spy masters would not allow his real name to be on wedding documents. He was, in fact, already married and the priest was an actor.

A wider financial investigation has found Halligen bought a £1m mansion with money allegedly defrauded from Trafigura, the company accused of dumping toxic waste in Africa. Last week the US Department of Justice issued an indictment seeking his arrest over the alleged Trafigura fraud.

Stephen Dorrell, the McCanns’ MP, said: “This man clearly saw a vulnerable family going through a terrible ordeal and the only thing he was focused on was that there were people offering money to help find Madeleine.


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« Reply #208 on: November 25, 2009, 08:55:45 PM »

 
 
MADELEINE BUSINESSMAN HOTEL ARREST
ABOVE: A businessman who is wanted by US authorities has been arrested in Oxford 25th November 2009
A businessman once hired to help look for Madeleine McCann who is wanted by US authorities over an alleged fraud was arrested at a hotel, according to sources.



Kevin Halligen, 48, was arrested at the Old Bank Hotel in Oxford, following a discrepancy over his hotel bill and is currently in custody in the county, it is understood.

The US Department of Justice issued an indictment for the Briton two weeks ago alleging he tried to defraud a London law firm of more than two million dollars (£1.2m).

His firm, Oakley International, was used by Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry for around six months last year to look for their missing daughter.

Thames Valley Police said in a statement: "We arrested a 48-year-old man at the Old Bank Hotel in Oxford. It was a discrepancy over his hotel bill."

Earlier this month the US Department of Justice issued an indictment for Halligen, who is from Surrey, alleging he conned a London-based law firm out of 2.1m dollars.

It is alleged he claimed the money was to help secure the release of two business executives from the Dutch company Trafigura, who were arrested in the Ivory Coast.

Halligen is accused of using the funds for his own benefit including buying a mansion in Virginia.

Washington-based Oakley International was paid around £300,000 by backers of Madeleine McCann's parents to help look for the child after she went missing from an Algarve resort in May 2007. The six-month contract saw the firm hire other private detectives, set up a hotline and process information, but was not renewed.

A spokesman for the McCann family said: "Our association with Halligen and Oakley International ended well over a year ago. Given that an arrest has been made it would be inappropriate for us to comment."

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« Reply #209 on: December 09, 2009, 05:36:34 PM »

McCanns to attend libel trial

09/12/2009 - 19:19:09

Madeleine McCann’s parents will fly to Portugal tomorrow for the start of a libel trial against former Portuguese policeman Goncalo Amaral.

Kate and Gerry McCann are planning to attend the opening of the trial in Lisbon on Friday, their spokesman Clarence Mitchell said.

Today Mr Mitchell said: “I can confirm that Kate and Gerry McCann will be travelling to Portugal on Thursday to attend the opening of the defamation case against Goncalo Amaral in Lisbon on Friday morning.

“They only intend to appear at the opening and I would expect that they will return to the UK fairly swiftly.”

Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal on May 3 2007 while her parents dined with friends nearby.

Despite a massive police investigation and huge publicity worldwide, she has not been found.

Mr Amaral was involved in the initial investigation to find Madeleine but was later taken off the case.

In his book, 'The Truth Of The Lie', he claimed Madeleine was dead and questioned the McCanns’ account that she was taken while they were eating with friends.

In September, a Portuguese judge granted an injunction banning further sale or publication of the book.

It also banned Mr Amaral from repeating his claims about Madeleine or her parents.

The injunction came after a year-long campaign by the McCanns’ lawyers to prevent the publication of the book and a subsequent DVD.

Speaking after it was granted, Gerry McCann said false allegations had done immense damage to the search for their daughter because Portuguese people would be dissuaded from coming forward with information.

At the time he said: “There’s a lot of people in Portugal, who might have evidence, that believe Madeleine is dead.

“If people believe that, they won’t search for her and they won’t come forward with information.

“I know for a fact people have been told Madeleine is dead. There is no evidence to support that and that is unforgivable.”

At one point Portuguese police made Mr and Mrs McCann, from Rothley, Leics, arguidos, or formal suspects, in their daughter’s disappearance.

They were questioned by detectives but their arguido status was later lifted.

Since then they have continued to campaign to find their daughter.

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/mccanns-to-attend-libel-trial-437646.html#ixzz0ZEY36940

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« Reply #210 on: December 13, 2009, 10:42:07 AM »

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580124,00.html

Madeleine McCann's Parents Return to Seaside Town Where Daughter Disappeared

Sunday, December 13, 2009




 Kate McCann visited Praia da Luz, Portugal, for the first time since police wrongly named her as a prime suspect in the case of her daughter's disappearance — and said she felt closer to Madeleine.

McCann, who was cleared of any suspicion last year, travelled back to the Portuguese town with her husband Gerry.

They made the visit after a court case they were planning to attend in the capital Lisbon yesterday was unexpectedly delayed.

SLIDESHOW: Where Is Madeleine McCann?

Writing on the official Find Madeleine website, McCann said she had longed to return for two years for "personal and emotional reasons."

"We travelled to Praia da Luz yesterday afternoon. I have longed to come back here for two years for personal and emotional reasons.

"Early this morning we went to the lovely little church of Nossa Senhora da Luz. It was so quiet and peaceful — a real sanctuary.
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« Reply #211 on: December 13, 2009, 10:44:04 AM »

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2009/12/13/exclusive-madeleine-mccann-search-cash-due-to-run-out-in-three-months-86908-21894112/

Exclusive: Madeleine McCann search cash due to run out in three months

Dec 13 2009 Sunday Mail


CASH funding the search for missing Madeleine McCann will run out in three months.

Maddie's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, are now preparing to open talks with multimillionaire businessman Brian Kennedy to extend his backing.

The couple had feared the fund set up to trace their little girl, who has now been missing for 31 months, would be exhausted by the end of this month.

But they have boosted it with payouts won in legal actions against newspapers in Britain and abroad.

Glaswegian Gerry and Kate, both 41, flew to Portugal last week for a new libel action against former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral, who wrote a book claiming Madeleine died in an accident, but on Friday the trial was adjourned until next month.

It could see them net £1 million - cash that would be immediately diverted to the fund to find Madeleine, who was just about to turn four when she disappeared from their Algarve holiday home in May 2007.

Scots double glazing tycoon Mr Kennedy has not yet indicated that he will continue to contribute cash The McCanns' PR man Clarence Mitchell, who also acts as spokesman for Scots doubleglazing tycoon Kennedy, said: "No one is worried about the situation.

"Brian Kennedy has not said he won't continue to back the fund and the search will not cease until we have found her.

"As and when the fund diminishes, there will be talks with Brian and various other backers. There is approximately £500,000 left in the fund and there is enough money to keep going until early spring.

"Money is being spent more slowly. We had thought it would run out by the end of the year but the drain has not been so severe.

"If it had not been for the libel settlements, the fund would have depleted long ago. A lot of work that has been done has ruled things out.

"A number of leads are being followed at the moment. Kate and Gerry do feel that progress is being made."

Kate and Gerry, who both work as doctors in Leicestershire, have pledged never to give up looking for their daughter.

The fund is keeping costs down by running a smaller team of detectives and concentrating the search on southern Spain, Portugal and northern Africa.

Kevin Halligen, an Irish crook who posed as a security consultant, was paid £300,000 from the fund and is now facing fraud charges.
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« Reply #212 on: December 13, 2009, 10:45:54 AM »

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« Reply #213 on: December 13, 2009, 10:49:33 AM »

Kate McCann: I can find a little solace at the resort where Madeleine was taken

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Last updated at 1:56 AM on 13th December 2009

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235463/Kate-McCann-I-little-solace-resort-Madeleine-taken.html#ixzz0ZaID6BFt

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« Reply #214 on: December 16, 2009, 11:53:24 AM »

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« Reply #215 on: December 18, 2009, 01:41:30 PM »

 Kate and Gerry McCann today issued a fresh appeal for their missing daughter Madeleine as they faced the prospect of spending their third Christmas without her.

In a new message on the Find Madeleine website, the couple said: ‘There will be a spare place at the Christmas table again this year.
‘If you know anything, do the right thing and helps us fill it.’
 Christmas past: Madeleine feeding her younger sister Amelie in 2006

Doctors Kate and Gerry, both 41, also posted a photograph of Madeleine which was taken during Christmas 2006.
It shows the youngster at the family home in Rothley, Leicestershire, five months before she went missing from a holiday resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
She is pictured sitting on the floor, dressed in red, feeding a chocolate lollipop to her younger sister Amelie.
The couple said: ‘There is only one thing Madeleine wants this Christmas – and that’s to be back home.’
They urged: ‘If you know where she might be, please help.’
The McCanns, whose youngster daughter and her twin brother Sean are now four, added: ‘All we want this Christmas if for Madeleine to be home.’


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236858/Fresh-appeal-McCanns-face-Christmas-Madeleine.html#ixzz0a4DqcjMD
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« Reply #216 on: December 19, 2009, 01:02:53 PM »

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2009/12/19/madeleine-mccann-mother-s-christmas-wish-to-have-daughter-home-100252-25426111/


Madeleine McCann: Mother's Christmas wish to have daughter home

Dec 19 2009 by Laura Sharpe, Liverpool Echo



THE grandmother of missing Madeleine McCann has appealed for whoever knows where she is to “end our agony.”

Speaking on the day Kate and Gerry McCann launched a fresh appeal, Kate’s mum Susan Healy, of Mossley Hill told the ECHO: “Like Kate we continue to hope Madeleine will be found and it would be nice for her to be home to Christmas.

“I remember last year thinking I hope we don’t have another Christmas without her, but here we are.

“We just wish whoever knows something would come forward.

“We echo Kate and Gerry’s thoughts and we hope that someone will end our agony and let her be brought back home to her family.”

New pictures were released on the Find Madeleine website as Liverpool-born Kate and Gerry faced a third Christmas without her.

In an emotional plea greeting visitors to the site, they said: “There will be a spare place at the Christmas table again this year.

“If you know anything - do the right thing and help us fill it.”

Mr and Mrs McCann added: “There’s only one thing Madeleine wants this Christmas – and that’s to be back home.

“If you know where she might be, please help.”

The new pictures show Madeleine smiling and feeding a chocolate lollipop to her younger sister Amelie before she disappeared.

The McCanns, both 41, from Rothley, Leicestershire, said: “Christmas is a time for children. Please help us bring ours back.”

Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal on May 3 2007 while her parents dined with friends nearby.

Despite a massive police investigation and publicity worldwide, she has not been found.

Last weekend Mr and Mrs McCann returned to Praia da Luz together for the first time since Portuguese police named them as suspects in their daughter’s disappearance.

The couple, whose suspect status was later lifted, visited the seaside resort’s church of Nossa Senhora da Luz.

They wandered along the beach where Kate said she felt able to reach out to Madeleine and find a little solace.

Mrs McCann said: “Although our pain feels much rawer here, it is comforting at the same time since we feel closer to Madeleine.”
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« Reply #217 on: December 20, 2009, 03:32:47 AM »

Dear God give me Grace is all I can say. 

And Madeline, I am so sorry for what you had to go thru and hope you are in a happy, wonderful place now.  I believe you are.  There will be people made to tell what really happened to you someday. 

God Bless Mr Amaral now too for the truths he tried so valiantly to tell about what he learned.  And also to Mr Bennett who always had your face in front of him in his work to fight for you and your rights.

We have always felt your spirit Madeleine and will always work for the truth to come out about what happened to you.  The bad guys aren't going to keep it from being told.

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« Reply #218 on: December 20, 2009, 09:54:17 AM »

God bless you Madeleine...
you have a special place in my heart...and you always will...
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« Reply #219 on: December 23, 2009, 01:19:06 AM »

Since the early days that Maddie went missing, have gotten whiplash following this case.   

A lead is followed and that's the whole focus for a length of time.  Then it doesn't pan out, and the focus invariably turns back to Maddie's parents being involved.  Then another lead is followed, and I'll be dang, the focus went off her parents and the new lead is the whole focus for awhile.  When that doesn't pan out, the focus turns back to the parents.  Back and forth and back and forth.   There were days I was convinced the parents were involved, and other days I was convinced it was someone else.  Sev someone else's.  Sigh.   

Then the focus on that guy who is/was dying of cancer.  Whatever happened to him, has he died?  Seems to me he was the best lead they've ever had.  But how convenient for sev that he is/was dying, he couldn't speak for awhile yet promised an interview and supposed proof of an alibi for that night.  Then when he could speak, refused interviews and 'hid in his room'.  How easy it would be to simply blame him, even after his death, and just wipe their hands, case closed.  Seemed like for months LE/whoever waited and waited to interview him.   Were they waiting for him to possibly die first?  Sigh. 

Then the focus abruptly went to that woman who supposedly asked someone if they were bringing 'her new daughter'.  When she was finally tracked down, (in Australia?), that evidently didn't pan out, then it's back to sev accusing Maddie's parents again.  And then omigosh someone saw Maddie in Sweden.  For the love of pete!!!! 

When will it ever end?  We're all gonna need a chiropractor before this case gets solved.... if ever. 

Justice for Maddie!! 
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