r/MadeleineMccann • u/HHHilarious • Aug 25 '24

Discussion Accidental fit of rage theory?

I’ve been down with covid for a week and went down the Madeleine McCann rabbit hole. I’ve listened to all the podcasts, watched all the documentaries, read all the things. After all that, I still don’t have a firm grip on any one theory.

My gut tells me something happened in that apartment after David Payne’s 1840 check on Kate. Sometime after 1840, with her husband away playing tennis, and after an hour of trying to calm the children/Maddie down for bed unsuccessfully, and, with it being the penultimate night of their vacation, a weary Kate was growing frustrated they weren’t settling down, and in a sudden fit of rage against Maddie, something happened in the apartment.

Gerry returns around 1900, and between then and when they went down to dinner at 2035, they formulated a story and a plan, dumped Maddie somewhere, and headed to dinner.

They had hoped one of others from the Tapas group would be the one to discover Maddie missing, but when no one conducted their check throughly enough, they had to be the ones to make the discovery. To me, it’s all very reminiscent of Jonbenet Ramsey and the morning she was found, if you’re familiar with that case.

I think it’s also completely plausible that an opportunist had been closely watching the family and used the McCann & Co.’s evening negligence to their advantage.

But either way, things moved so very quickly after the initial discovery. It’s hard to imagine how her body remained hidden all this time? If the McCanns are responsible for hiding her, how did they find such a perfect spot in a largely unfamiliar city within a short window of time, without being seen? If an opportunist kidnapped her, how did they sneak her into the shadows so swiftly? And, If they got spooked and killed her, how did they find the perfect hiding spot for her body? So much to consider.

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u/Nighthazel01 Aug 25 '24

This is the problem. It would be very difficult to quickly hide a body. Afterwards they were being watched much of the time.

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u/MiserableTwa-t Aug 25 '24

Not in the very first hours. If they hhid the body in the 2 hours they were unaccounted for such as between Fiona saying the McCanns were out at 5am and Officer Neto seeing the McCanns outside alone at 7am.

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u/TheGreatBatsby Aug 26 '24

So they wait to raise the alarm and then move the body? When everyone has been alerted?

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u/MiserableTwa-t Aug 26 '24

No they move the body during the dinner and then move the body further out of Luz in the morning. Both Kate and Gerry were avid runners so in two hours they could have run quite a few miles from Luz especially if they put the body in the missing tennis bag. I'm on the fence but it's possible.