The Daily Profiler

You don't have the facts either sowho are you to say they are innocent.

You said... "You should all pray you are never in this situation because you can be assured people like you will judge you and you will wish you had compassionate, non-judging people on your side."
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I don't need to pray for this. I KNOW I will never be in this position. I KNOW. I would never leave or have my children in a situation where harm could come to them. I am what you would call a Mother. It is my job to protect my children. I would never neglect my children, I would NEVER Leave them wide open to all the dangers of the world, all alone and frightened. NEVER. I will never be in the position the McCanns are in.

7.49, You completely overlook that the behaviour of criminals may give clues about their personalities, their motives, their mental state or may reveal clues that indicate they are lying. You don't need the "full facts" to do this.

Many people have seen through the McCanns by observing their actions and questioning if that fits a position of innocence or guilt. Clearly to put Madeleine in danger if she was genuinely believed to be alive by tipping off abductors is not how any other parents of missing children would behave and fits the scenario that they were involved and are acting out a charade.

I have no connection with Pat Brown, but her approach is to be open minded and to examine what the suspects say and do. That is an established police method.

7.49, You completely overlook that the behaviour of criminals may give clues about their personalities, their motives, their mental state or may reveal clues that indicate they are lying. You don't need the "full facts" to do this.

Many people have seen through the McCanns by observing their actions and questioning if that fits a position of innocence or guilt. Clearly to put Madeleine in danger if she was genuinely believed to be alive by tipping off abductors is not how any other parents of missing children would behave and fits the scenario that they were involved and are acting out a charade.

I have no connection with Pat Brown, but her approach is to be open minded and to examine what the suspects say and do. That is an established police method.

Anonymous, I hate to tell you this, but even the police do not have all the facts. They have only what information they have been able to retrieve - some of which might be misleading. The police are doing exactly what I am doing and what many others are doing; theorizing based on the totality of the information one has at hand. This is why it is called a theory.

The police may have more than one theory or they may change their theories as more facts come in. They will not charge anyone, however, until they have enough information to prove that a crime has been committed and who the person is that has committed that crime.

While by law, no once can be considered guilty without a jury or judge handing down that decision, the lack of such a finding does not mean the person is innocent of committing the crime. He can just not be held legally responsible without going through the court system.

I do not know if the McCanns are guilty of harming Madeleine, obstruction of justice, or fraud. I can say they are guilty of child neglect, although not legally guilty of child neglect.

I do hope I never find myself in such a horrific situation as the McCanns. But, let's say due to some selfishness or ignorance on my part, I end up in such straights, I can promise you this. Full cooperation with the authorities, submission to a polygraph, proper use of donations, and behaviors not so far out of the human norm that I make people raise their eyebrows at my actions.

The McCanns brought much of the negative reactions on themselves. Like Drew Peterson who says the press is responsible for his bad situation, the McCanns, like Peterson, court the press and like being in the limelight. If one is going to do that, one must expect to be scrutinized. I know this to be true, as I get my share of hate mail because of my outspoken manner. Anytime I get tired of it, I can stop doing commentary and retire to private life. I have known many families of victims who run campaigns to find their loved ones or the murderer of their loved ones and they don't have any bad publicity at all. Maybe it is because we find them sincere and innocent of manipulation and deceit.

Suppose, just for the sake of argument, that there is an abductor keeping the child in his/her clutches. When one publicizes the purported whereabouts of that abductor and child, there are two scenarios: one is right, which means that the child is whisked away from the location (or killed), or one is wrong, the abductor knows it and nothing much happens (including nothing positive). Announcing that the car's plate number is known would mean - if the car was used by the abductor - that the car as well as the location are abandoned, an alibi is concocted for the plate (unless it was a changed plate to begin with), again, the child would either be killed or, if the abductor is for some very special reason attached to her, relocated. If the car was not used by the abductor - well, what happens is what happened in Bosnia.
BUT, the riskiest scenario of all is announcing that one is "closing in one the abductor". Since no specifics are given, the abductor - always assuming he/she exists - does not know for sure that it is a false alarm,. nor does not know how much the detectives might know about him/her The likelihood of his (her) panicking and killing the child is absolutely the greatest, indeed almost 100%.
Now, this last statement was exactly the one made by Metodo, who cannot act without their client's consent. So the act was carried out that almost guarantees the killing of the child.
Now, further assuming that team McCann has the minimum of thiking ability (and I see no reason why we should deny them this), they either knowingly took the step that would lead to their child's certain death, or the whole thing is a hoax. For me the first assumption looks impossible (stupid and cruel beyond belief - why should one think so badly about the McCanns?). One is left with the hoax, deliberate fraud. But why should the McCanns resort to such fraud if they are not involved in Madeleine's disappearance? I can rack my brains all I want but I fail to come up with a reason. So one is left with the conclusion that they were indeed involved: hence the need for distraction tactics. If the reasoning above is correct, the fact that "we are closing in on the abductor" was publicized - and it is a FACT - actually does constitute evidence of the parents' involvement, so one can in no way say there is no evidence to refute the abduction theory. True, the defense would play on their assumed stupidity and the top-notch lawyers they have hired may win on this point, but to any normal thinking person the statement that there is no evidence of the parents' involvement (pronounced by several posters here, viz. an 5 31 and an 7 49) is simply false.

Bravo! Indeed! What kind of people wouldn't become enraged that the detectives they hired were such big publicity hounds that they would risking getting their daughter killed with their claims of being close to catching the kidnappers? People that know all the talk in the world isn't going to make a difference in their child's status.