| "THE MCCANNS' GUILTY"
If the disappearance of Maddie was the plot of a novel by Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot would have reunited the McCann 's couple and the seven British friends by the side of the pool of the Ocean Club, and in an exercise of reasoning would have solved the mystery.
The researchers from the Judicial Police did not. They act from the beginning influenced by a thesis blowing at the highest level from England, the thesis of the abduction.
But the intuition, powerful weapon of the criminal investigation, told them that the key to the disappearance of Madeleine could be in what they called the British context: They had the conviction that the McCann's and their friends probably knew more than they told.
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Every night, the employees of the Tapas restaurant prepared the oval table, by the pool side of the Ocean Club for the dinner of any fun group of nine British that were spending their holidays there.
None of the couples took their children: the children were sleeping alone in the apartments. They began to arrive to the restaurant around half past eight.They liked to drink. Some asked for martinis and beer as an aperitif. Others, like Kate, preferred a daiquiri mixture prepared in the shaker with white rum, lemon juice and sugar syrup. They were mad about wine.
The women ordered white wine very cold. The men selected red wine. Over dinner,that would last almost till midnight,they usually drank amongst them between 10 and 12 bottles, always in a good mood.
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That night of May 3, Thursday, Gerry and Kate McCann, both of 39 years old, were the first to arrive at Tapas. It would be half past eight.
Thirty minutes later, as always happened since April 27 when they arrived to the Ocean Club, all friends were already accommodated at the oval table near the illuminated pool: David and Fiona Payne, both doctors, parents of two small children ; Russell O'Brien, doctor, and Jane Tanner, also with two babies; Mathew Oldfield and Rachel,doctors, which had a 18 month old baby, and Dianne Webster, of 62 years old Fiona's mother. That afternoon, around five and a half, Kate and Gerry walked with the three children near the beach, about 800 meters of the village.They were in the restaurant Paraiso.
Kate and her husband were with two more English couples. The employees remember it very well. There were six adults and seven children. Only the small children ate the kids menu. Madeleine ate spaghetti bolonhese. Adults asked for beer. Madeleine still ate an ice cream and played with her father in the swings.
It was the last time the child was seen publicly. All left the restaurant Paraiso by 18,15 and took the path to the Ocean Club. In a little more than two hours, after they put the children to sleep,the McCanns' were at Tapas for the routine dinner with their friends.
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It was a pleasant Spring night.The customers of the oval table oval glowed with joy. Kate was the more reserved.They asked for the usual drinks and the dinner, grilled fish and meat kebabs with the usual wine.The employees did not notice anything different.
Nothing led them to be suspicious of anything. They barely knew that a mysterious crime would, in the evening, shake the tranquility of the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz and throw the resort to the limelight of newspapers and televisions around the world. While the adults dined happily, eight children slept alone in four apartments: the three children of McCanns', two of Russell O'Brien and Jane Tanner,and two of David and Fiona Payne and the baby of Rachell and Mathew Oldfield .
Only David and Fiona used a system of communication to ensure that children did not cry.
The employees of the Tapas, that were working followed with particular attention any call from the oval table in that evening did not notice many people get out of the chairs in that night to go see their children.
They are sure that two men stood up, almost at the same time, only a few minutes after the dishes were served, shortly after nine o'clock. One of them was Russell O'Brien. The other was Gerry McCann. The rest of the group continued to eat and drink.
Russell, doctor, married to Jane Tanner,only returned to the table one hour later. He told his friends that he found the eldest child, the age of Maddie, very indisposed: the girl was vomiting and he changed the bed linen.
Gerry took about 25 minutes. To reach the apartment, Gerry had to circumvent the pool, leave the Ocean Club and go about 20 meters from the street poorly lighted till the small access gate of eight steps that ends in the door.
Back to the dinner, he crosses in the street with a British television producer Jeremy Wilkins, that he met during the holidays. Jeremy was walking his baby to making him sleep. The two men, who usually played tennis at the Ocean Club, greet each other and exchange two fingers of conversation. The street was deserted.
When Gerry sits again at the dinner table, Russell O'Brien had not yet come back,he finally, returns almost at 22 hours, nearly half an hour after Gerry. Then, when Russell had barely explained that the eldest child was vomiting, Kate McCann put the glass of white wine and gets up to go see her children.
Employees had already taken 12 bottles of wine to the oval table in an hour. For the time being, everything is still calm. Five minutes later, the Ocean Club turns into a chaos.
Kate McCann appears in the rear balcony of the apartment, which faces the interior of the Ocean Club. She screams and calls by her husband, Gerry, at the table with his friends. Kate is about 50 meters in a straight line. All hear her, but not all can see her because of the palm trees between the pool and the apartment.
The friends raise and precipitated themselves in the direction of the house rented by the McCanns'. That night, they did not took the digestives. They loved small glasses of bitter almond. The dinner was interrupted. Only one person stays at the table: Dianne Webster,Fiona's mother.
All the other run for Kate. They found her in a trance: They took our Madeleine,she repeats, without stopping, shouting. The friends enter the apartment, open and close doors, experiment the windows,open and close the blinds. Among the confusion, Dianne appears, the eldest of the group, which stayed at the table and walked slowly to McCann's apartment. Dianne goes to Maddie's room and sees how the twins Sean and Amelie, despite the noise, sleep like angels.
The Ocean Club,that was calm, becomes suddenly a confusion of screams and running. Alarmed guests appears at their windows.
The employees of the resort who were still on duty at that time also approach the McCann's apartment. The upstairs neighbor, Pamela Fenn, owner of the flat that lives there for half a dozen of years also goes to the McCann's door. She recalls very well of seeing Kate without a tear on her eyes. Pamela offers herself immediately to call for the GNR. Kate thanks her but tells her that it was not necessary because she had already called.
Maddie's mother did not told the truth. The first call for the Guard was made by an employee of the Tapas restaurant around 22h40 more than half an hour after Kate discovered that her child was missing. The first patrol comes on top of 23 hours. The military do not speak English and collect the first testimony with the help of an employee of the resort which acts as a translator.
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When the first investigators of the Judicial Police arrived to the Ocean Club, only a few minutes after midnight, in the early hours of 3 to May 4, they speak with Gerry and Kate.
The conversation took place in the apartment of the crime the 5A. The two twins, Sean and Amelie, sleep deeply. The policemen, trained to look in for the minimum details, observe curious how the house is impeccably tidy.It does not seem a place of holidays where three children run and jump the whole day.
The sofa has not one single crease and chairs are positioned meticulously. There is any clothes forgotten or out of the place, not even toys in sight.Only the cuddle cat, that was always with Maddie, is now tight in Kate's hands. The kitchen is clean, without the smallest vestige of remains of milk or children food.
The inspectors searched the house. They did not find the smallest signal of break in neither in the door or the windows. They noticed that the couple had not at home any medicine contrarily to the normal for a family in holidays. On that night, the McCanns' left the apartment and were housed in another flat of the Ocean Club. The crime scene is free for the team of experts of the Laboratory of Scientific Police that left from Lisbon.
The twins are taken by the parents. Kate carries the girl in her arms and Gerry the boy. Amelie and Sean continue to sleep and not even noticing the change. The couple is only authorized to carry the indispensable things to spend the night in another apartment.
The Judicial Police gives the next day, to the family the rest of things. The vestiges collected in the apartment where the crime happened were useless:they were contaminated by the crowd of curious that entered that house after the alarm.
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Katherine Marie Healy and Gerald Patrick McCann "Kate and Gerry", for the most close grew separated by thousands of kilometers. It was difficult that one day they met in an island of 50 million inhabitants.
She is English from Liverpool, he grew in a working neighborhood of Glasgow, in Scotland. Most Scots are catholic and the English are mostly Anglicans. Kate's family is part of the English minority faithful to the Church of Rome. The religion and the faith will be determinant to the union of Kate and Gerry.
The Catholic girl from Liverpool,when she decided to study Medicine, went to the University of Dundee in Scotland where she met the future husband, also student of the medical school.
Kate and Gerry belonged to the same group. She is snob, he is more sociable. But Kate according to what a colleague told the British newspaper The Mail on Sunday begins to loose the irritating superior air and turns into a bohemian. She goes to bars, drinks beer and amuses herself until early morning. Ends the graduation without problems. The book of the end of the course, in 1992, recalls her as one of the most popular of the medical school of the University of Dundee. It was known by the suggestive nickname of Hot Lips.
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The complicity between the four couples fueled the rumor that they engaged themselves in an exchanging sexual game known as swing.
The insinuation emerged for the first time in an English blog and ran world. The Criminal Police also became interested, but with caution in the sexual secrets of the McCanns'. The issue would only have interest to the investigation if the exchange of partners exceed the discretion of that group of friends.
If the swing was open to other men and women, the author of the abduction could well be one of presumable sexual partners of Kate or in a more tortuous theory, his wife, who for various reasons could feel despised.
Another fact interested the researchers concerning the sexual habits of the McCanns' and friends: Madeleine as well as the twins, was born by artificial insemination.Would Gerry be the real biological father? Or the girl was not born by in vitro fertilization, and the father would be one of the swingers? All the hypothesis were open as the manuals of criminal investigation teach.
The Criminal Police nevertheless was just chasing a possibility, the abduction. The crime could be justified by one of five reasons: Madeleine was taken by a pedophilia network ; stolen by a family to be sold to adoption; abducted for the payment of a ransom,taken by real biological father or abducted by circumstances related to the swing.
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Maddie's eyes are not equal. The left has shades of blue and green. The right is green and displays a sign of malformation in the iris, that in medicine is called coloboma, popularly known as cat's eyes. Gonçalo Amaral did everything to persuade them.
Kate and Gerry, obsessed with the divulgement of photos of the missing daughter did not listen to him. He asked them to at least not show a frontal photo of Madeleine .Without success. The McCanns' were stubborn.
The girl has yet another sign, brownish in the twin muscle of the left leg a particularity that was not disclosed. If Madeleine was kidnapped to be sold to a pedophilia network or a family for adoption, as was being investigated and the parents suspected, the divulgement of the eyes, that made her recognizable throughout the world, could led to her death this was at least the strong belief of the Criminal Police.
The girl was easily recognizable. Her life would not worth a centime. The kidnapper would hardly be able to sell her. Nobody would want her nor the pedophiles nor the family of adoptionj. No buyer would accept risks. Maddie was marked. Only one solution was left to the abductor: get rid of her.
Kate and Gerry, despite the cautious advice of the Judicial Police, even published the pictures of the eyes of the daughter. They did so aware of all the risks. One day after the disappearance, the angel face of Maddie already appeared in all the world.
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