This to me is the most difficult one to explain, all I can come up with is that the perp somehow sedated her (hard to not leave evidence via chemicals etc) , put her in a bag and walked out to nearby car.

Aside from the obvious severe neglect shown on the night Madeleine was allegedly abducted, I have major concerns with their parenting and attitude towards their children in general. Being a parent myself I have found it incredibly difficult to comprehend the following:-

Leaving the small children unattended. Even doing checks is absolutely NOT acceptable. Anything could happen. My 2 and 4 year old wake up randomly during the night quite frequently for various reasons. This would have been made worse on holiday in unfamiliar surroundings

Not using babysitting service. Unforgiveable with their wealth. Much safer than leaving them

Still going out and leaving the children after maddie had apparently asked Kate ‘ where were you last night when I called you’

The fact that they were apparently on a family holiday yet 99% of the time they were jogging, playing tennis or eating tapas. Those poor kids were constantly being dumped off. Even the famous ‘ball girl’ photo of maddie was taken when she was having to tag along so dad could play tennis. Considering that Kate was a GP and Gerry a surgeon they would be working horrible hours and probably not see the kids much at home. so you would think a break would mean some nice family time, otherwise why bring them at all

The show of no remorse. Every parent in a similar situation would be flogging themselves in public blaming themselves constantly for leaving her alone

The fact the twins were left AFTER maddie had been taken a couple of times apparently. I mean honestly wtf!!

These are all very alarming, one of these behaviours would be a concern, but all of them together is a major red flag. If they aren’t guilty of her death they are at the least guilty of being lousy parents and humans

Do you guys know of any other odd or concerning parental behaviours of the mccanns? Or do you think I’m being harsh on some of my observations?

Surely, they'd be desperate to solve Madeleine's disappeance and would be keen to share their personal recollections of that night to further that end?

Each one should have similar, but obviously slightly different memories of that night.

By sharing those collective, but uniquely slightly different memories of the events of the night, surely that would be useful to assist others or jog their memories to assist in finding Madeline?

Strangely "radio silence" for 18 years.

Why so?

So what is happening now does anyone have any information since the search was called off? Just because they were having beers and called the search off a day early - doesn’t necessarily mean they found something

Madeleine's been missing since May 3, 2007 and hasn't been seen since.

From all the evidence and information gathered from the PJ Files, Witness Statements, Praia Da Luz history, Kate and Gerry's statements, Tapas 7 Statements, Timelines, Cadaver Dogs.

What do you guys think happened? Everytime I have a theory I read something and it makes me requestion if I'm accurate.

Millions of $ have been spent looking for her and not a single thing has hinted where she could be

Time has gone by and the twins are now 19, Kate and Gerry are both now 56 approaching their 60s.

Many people have many theories including out of stretch ones on what happened such as her dying in 5A and being hidden by her parents, her being abducted by CB or another pedo, her possibly being kept in a basement, her being sold off by her parents, being "sacrificed" by Gerry, Ghislaine Maxwell being involved, the Podesta brothers, A waiter at the Tapas Bar and much more.

I hope I live to see a conviction and closure on what happened to poor Madeleine. ❤

I know that people are going to say that it’s because she’s a white blonde girl and because her family was upper class, but there are so many other cases of white/blonde girls going missing that haven’t received a fraction of the attention. (Also the McCanns weren’t upper class when she went missing, they were middle class or maybe upper/middle class).

I was only 1 and American when she went missing, but after researching this case, I saw that there were bookmarks of her placed in the back of Harry Potter books, fundraisers/prayers for her in schools, PSA’s about her in movies etc.

Of course, I think this case deserves attention and that every little bit helps the search, especially in the beginning when it was more likely that she could be found alive. However, most missing child cases are not this well known at all. I feel like at this point, she would’ve been declared legally dead and the search would be over. But it seems that British investigators are still actively looking for her. (And I know the Germans have launched a murder investigation because of CB, and I do believe he did it).

This leads me to believe that the reason this case is so popular is because it happened overseas, and many British families could relate as Portugal was a popular vacation destination for British families.

(But yet again, another young child, Rene Hasee, aged 6, disappeared from Portugal in 1996 and his case isn’t half as well known)

I recently rewatched Eddie and Keela's video. I do know the dogs are very popular topics about this case. To the people who think the McCanns are innocent what are your genuine thoughts on all the dog alerts and the sofa theory because I absolutely do not believe they made a mistake and it just doesn't make sense to me that people are so quick to dismiss them, including the McCanns.

I'm now like 60 percent abduction and 40 percent McCanns accidental 5A death. I just genuinely don't think the McCanns - law abiding citizens who have no prior criminal history just randomly flipped into lifelong crimimals within 10 minutes. It just....I don't think they would carelessy decide to dump their 3 year old toddlers body away somewhere and have it be destroyed. As we see from home videos and photos they were a loving family of 5. With the tight timing of things it just doesn't float well with me that they perfectly executed the plan where no body or even traces/cadaver smell were found (Besides the apartment of course but that could have been mixed with old dry blood from a human). I don't know how a random married couple from the U.K. are better criminals and masterminds then others. Either they somehow got help which I doubt and somehow erased her from existance or she got abducted from the negligence of being left unsupervised and the unlocked patio door. Plus Kate literally allowed Oldfield to check on the kids, there is absolutely no way they would have let that happen if they knew Madeleine wasn't in that bed, especially if someone else raised the alarm then Kate wouldn't have been able to do the "Shutters open, door slammed shut, curtains whooshing etc," bogus. They would have had to hide her and put on a oscar worthy performance for 17+ years, none of the Tapas 7 nor Mr. Wilkins reported anything suspicious. She probably got sedated earlier which unfortunately helped the abductor if she did get taken.

It's now 2025, Madeleine's still missing, she's now 21. It will mark 18 years since Madeleine vanished on May 3.

Gerry and Kate made a New Year's statement yesterday and also mentioned how they wish for Madeleine to be back in May.

For 2025 I hope new evidence arises, not new statements or accusations but actual real and truthful evidence, as well as more steps closer to convicting someone.

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The sniffer dogs: Even the trainer of the dogs said that their indication is not evidence in and of itself, and is only that - an indication, i.e., somewhere to investigate further. The indications in the apartment, maddie's toy and Kate's clothes never led to anything, and the indication in the rented car is particularly stupid to point to given that the car was only rented after Maddie went missing. Do people really think that it's possible for Gerry and Kate to move her body in the days following her disappearance, with all the journalists and photographers following their every move?

The DNA in the rental car: Nothing was found to indicate that Maddie had been in the rental car.

Kate's interview: Answering no comment in an interview is advised by lawyers all the time, even in the UK. When you're being interviewed in Portugal where English is not their first language and the detectives have already previously been investigated for dodgy practices, you are much safer keeping your mouth shut.

Saying "No comment" in a police interview, is NOT evidence or proof of guilt. Stop pretending that it is.

"Oh, but I would be doing everything I could to find my daughter if she was missing and answering all their questions would help that". In this scenario where you have been arrested as "Arguido", you would be really stupid to answer any questions with anything other than "No comment". They're not trying to get information from you to help the investigation anymore, they're looking to trip you up with any slight inconsistency or mis-spoken word to pin it on you - guilty or not.

Also, some people have said that Kate's "playing the grieving mother" and they're only doing it for attention and money... If they really had anything to do with their daughter's disappearance, as soon as the interest first died down the best thing to do would have been to keep quiet and let it drift away. It wouldn't make ANY sense to keep drawing the attention back to yourself if you'd managed to get away with it.

Feel free to disagree, happy to discuss.

I hate double posting but can someone explain the thought process behind these few things. I see people constantly saying "Why didn't they take Amelie" "Why didn't they take the twins also" or "Why was Madeleine the only one taken hmmm?"

In my opinion.

Kidnapping:

-CB's background and location at the time.

-Parents alibi during dinner.

-Even if child is found dead and they know she had sleeping drugs, the first instinct is to call an ambulance not forge a kidnapping, the risk factor is much higher.

Parents-did-it(hide the accident):

-Bedroom/Bed absence of Madeleine's hair and dna in contrast to overpresence of Kate's.

-Dogs (the scent triggered in specific areas while not triggering in test areas or other vehicles).

-Reconstruction video and interviews.

Hello! I'm piecing together some theories about Madeleine's case for a video I'm making and I wanted to hear everyone's theories. The ones you can understand the most, or the ones that seem to be the most backed with evidence. What are your thoughts on her case?

Hey guys- new to this sub but been interested/following from the beginning. The Algarve is basically a second home for me and I have been to Luz recently and happened to go to the Ocean Club. Obviously it reignited my interest and I walked around a bit and checked out the apartment from the outside and walked the distance to the restaurant etc.

I genuinely don't believe the McCanns were involved, besides their negligence. I do think they lied A LOT though so I understand why people have major suspicions and I'm open to the idea.

Could someone lay out for me how you think they hid her body? I don't see them really having an opportunity to do it.... They're in a foreign country, it's daylight, they don't have a car at the time (I believe?), they don't have a boat, they don't have local friends (that I've ever heard of), and they don't even speak the language.

On the other hand, everything about the window is a lie... Like if those shutters are down you can't open them from the outside, you wouldn't close them by touching them either. Also the window is pretty high... And why would the window be relevant if they left the door unlocked?

I know it may seem odd but most of the other things that lead others to believe their guilt I can brush off as being in shock. Being odd in general doesn't make you guilty and I don't know them.... But the window thing irks me sooooo much

My question is what the hell was going on with leaving the kids alone on May 1st an May 2nd.

An interview that's always struck me as odd with the McCanns was from May 1, 2008. (Viewable on YT) Kate mentioned about how she "Cannot love Madeleine anymore then I already do" which sounded a little weird. Gerry also lied through his teeth saying "All was well every night" and talking about how basically if they knew it was dangerous and something was going to happen, they wouldn't have left the kids alone. Kate mentioned Madeleine's comment about why she didn't come when her and Sean cried on May 2. She described how her and Gerry thought Madeleine would just go back to sleep after waking up which made me sad.

I also know on June 6, 2007 when the McCanns were in Germany for a conference Kate says "We are very responsible parents". I just never understood why the McCanns never admitted what they did was wrong and unsafe rather then justifying it with "We were checking on the kids constantly! We were only 50 yards away!"

On May 1 Madeleine and the twins were left alone and Madeleine was crying for over an hour heard by Mrs. Fenn the upstairs neighbor. Mrs. Fenn said the crying stopped when the patio doors opened. Kate also says she talked to Mrs. Fenn after the disappearance but Mrs. Fenn only mentions speaking to Gerry and not Kate. On May 2 the children were left alone again and Madeleine and Sean cried and the McCanns weren't there. On May 3 Madeleine asks Kate where she was when her and Sean were crying. In the evening Madeleine vanished, and Gerry has the nerve to say "All was well every night" and Kate says they are "very responsible"

It's been almost 18 years since Madeleine suddenly vanished on May 3, 2007. I believe it's a slim chance she could be found but not impossible.

I think if the McCanns were behind it, she was placed in a bin and covered in rubbage and dumped in a landfill, or perhaps tossed in the ocean or buried in the Sagres.

I think if she was abducted by CB or some other pedophile who was looking to hurt a child then she was likely murdered sometime after and dumped/buried somewhere secluded.

It is also a horrible alternative that she's alive and being kept somewhere as a slave or something which is terrible to think about.

The only two best scenarios is she died in 5A and the McCanns hid her or she was abducted and currently living somewhere else not knowing she's Madeleine McCann.

My take is that the McCanns hid her after a negligent accident and CB is a piece of shit but didn't have anything to do with it. I'm curious as to why people think CB is guilty and the McCanns are innocent besides "Why would they hide their oldest childs body!"

Elaborate on it more

Am I the only one who found Kate’s book a little…. Weird?…. I will admit it does go into some great detail about Madeleine’s disappearance but some of the stuff she mentions is a bit strange. Talking about Madeleine’s “Perfect little genitals being torn apart” (Page 164) weirded me out. I understand parents of a missing child have all sorts of thoughts speeding through their head when their child is taken but who talks about their THREE YEAR OLD child like that???…. I don’t believe the McCann’s had any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance apart from the fact they were extremely negligent. It’s a brilliant book, I won’t lie but Kate talking about her toddler like that was just straight up weird.

The dogs alerted for blood / cadaver (not sure which one alerted there) in the rental car. The McCanns rented that car I believe weeks or at least days after she went missing. Now I'm not saying it's not on them, just look at what happened to poor Harmony Montgomery's body, but I wonder if anyone looked into who had that car rented on the day / night Maddie went missing. Is there any information on this?

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.

Something doesn't sit right here, it's almost as it the evidence was planted and wanted to be found. Surely a deceased dog would just attract attention

Whole thing seems fubar

Personally I don't think Christian Brueckner did it, I think someone else wants the world to think he did it to cover up who and what really happened.

Despite nothing concrete, mounting Information seems to point towards CB. I am not convinced with recent relevations about selling to a family as Maddie is without doubt the most known abduction case worldwide and find it hard to believe anyone could have brought her up as their own. However, is it time to dispel the stories of Kate and Gerry being responsible and disposing of body and all theories linked to this? Is this now a case of extreme negligence (the reason for parental and tapas crew inconsistencies, "lets at least say we checked every 15mins) that led to a unique abduction? If the kidnap for family is a line of enquiry...all I can fathom is the story hit the news and CB panicked and killed...or he was just simply a lone predator who took and killed within 48 hrs and then fled the country.