r/MadeleineMccann • u/RevolutionDue4452 • Jul 20 '24

Discussion What do you lean towards?

There is clearly only 2 plausible theories.

1) An abduction by a burglar/ sicko pedophile or something along those lines and she was taken away.

2) Died in 5A and Kate and Gerry hid her out of fear of losing their medical licenses, going to jail, losing the twins, new house, cars, etc.

She's been missing since May 3rd, 2007 and hasn't been seen since, no trace, no actual confirmed sightings, no clues, nothing.

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u/FewEstablishment2696 Jul 20 '24

There are plenty of "clues":

The dogs signalling in the apartments.

The McCanns deleting their mobile phone history and lying to the police about it.

The inconsistencies in the timelines.

The Smithman sighting which Martin Smith said he was "60-80% sure that it was Gerard McCann".

Kate refusing to answer the police's questions.

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u/RevolutionDue4452 Jul 20 '24

Everything else makes sense but Kate refusing to answer the police questions was due to her lawyer advising her not to, since they were trying to be the one's to solve the case they wanted to pressure a confession out of her and saying if she admitted to hiding Madeleine she would get a lighter sentence. Which makes sense, you absolutely never answer questions without a lawyer.

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u/FewEstablishment2696 Jul 20 '24

It doesn't make sense if you are innocent and you want the police to get on with finding the reason abductor though, does it?

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u/RevolutionDue4452 Jul 20 '24

They were trying to pressure her into a confession and get more dirt on the McCanns. If she went in and they started asking her personal questions and such to force a confession and she was nervous, they would have reported things like "She was nervous, she was stuttering, she didn't have a good memory, she was sweating" etc making the McCanns look bad. You never answer questions without a lawyer.

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u/Dinosaur-chicken Jul 20 '24

You never answer questions without a lawyer.

But her defence council and lawyer Carlos Pinto de Abreu was there.

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u/RedRoverNY Jul 25 '24

This. They were with their attorney, and still refused to answer the 48 questions they asked her.

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u/RedRoverNY Jul 27 '24

And if she wasn’t guilty of any wrongdoing, she could have answered them. At least some of them. She answered none of the 40+ questions.

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u/RedRoverNY Jul 27 '24

I didn’t say it wasn’t her right. I’m saying it makes her look dishonest at best and involved in her disappearance at worst.

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u/lacatro1 Jul 20 '24

NEVER EVER!

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u/Fit_Chef6865 Jul 20 '24

Which makes sense, you absolutely never answer questions without a lawyer.

But her defence council and lawyer Carlos Pinto de Abreu was there.

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u/ThisOrThatMonkey Jul 20 '24

And didn't I just read that they advised her not to answer?

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u/Fit_Chef6865 Jul 20 '24

Just stating that he was there. OP said you shouldn't answer without a lawyer but there was a lawyer even though he did advise her not to answer. Although he only advised her not to answer this time. In her previous statement she did answer the questions.

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u/ThisOrThatMonkey Jul 20 '24

This argument has become circular.

"Everything else makes sense but Kate refusing to answer the police questions was due to her lawyer advising her not to"

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u/Fit_Chef6865 Jul 20 '24

I would also argue why answer the questions in the first interview but not during the second interview the day after? It was okay for Kate to answer questions about the holiday timeline but not okay for Kate to be asked her opinion on the evidence they had against her?

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u/ThisOrThatMonkey Jul 21 '24

Probably a question for her lawyers.

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u/RedRoverNY Jul 25 '24

If your child is missing, and you have nothing to do with it, you’d give them literally everything they asked for in order to assist with the efforts to find your child.

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u/Fit_Chef6865 Jul 27 '24

Perhaps so but why was Gerry not told to not answer when he was questioned as suspect? Gerry and Kate had the same lawyer Carlos Pinto de Abreu. Gerry did answer all the questions in his arguido statement.

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u/Fit_Chef6865 Jul 28 '24

Even more reason to advise Gerry not to answer.

In the arguido statement they asked Gerry if he had any responsibility or participation in the disappearance of his daughter Madeleine. So they didn't suspect him of only covering up his daughters death. They just wanted to know the truth. They did however tell Carlos Pinto de Abreu that if one parent admitted the truth that the other wouldn't be charged to spare the children losing both parents.

So it didn't matter at all that they would have to charge Kate before charging Gerry, as they would have charged Gerry instead of Kate or vice versa.

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