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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zable" data-source="post: 160792" data-attributes="member: 47">Madeleine Was Here (MwH): Part 1_OverviewIf you’ve watched The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann and had watched Madeleine Was Here before it, then you’d have seen familiar faces, images and scenes from MwH scattered throughout TDoMM.Faces such as:_Ernie Allen, the former president of the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited children who, back in 2009, gave K&G an age-progressed picture of Maddie;_Jane Tanner & Matt Oldfield who, along with Gerry, participated in an unofficial re-construction of events in Portugal;_Kate + pics of Dave Edgar & Arthur Cowley, the private investigators working for the McCanns at the time that MwH was made.As well, the sketches of suspects Bundleman & Cooperman (drawn by police sketch artist Melissa Little whom TDoMM featured). Cooperman has either an alias or adoppelgänger known as Creepyman.  Also, there's Mr Spotty, aka Scareface/Pimpleman.Plus, the scenes of Gerry with his patients & clips of the re-enactments.MwH was made by the UK’s Channel 4 programme The Cutting Edge. A voice-over informs us, “the second anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance is approaching. Kate and Gerry want to use media attention to keep the search in the public’s mind.” When Maddie vanished in 2007, K&G began a Find Madeleine campaign.From the very first day of Maddie’s disappearance, the Tapas 9 have maintained that she was abducted. To this day, the Find Madeleine website speaks of Maddie in the present tense, and as an abducted child. On the site’s homepage, her family gives 4 reasons why they persist in searching for her. Chief among them: “There is absolutely nothing to suggest that Madeleine has been harmed.”  <a href="http://findmadeleine.com/" target="_blank">http://findmadeleine.com</a>When the McCanns moved out of their accommodation in the Luz Ocean Club and into the villa they rented, Gerry turned a section of their bedroom into an office, and set up a blog site.  A post he made on his blog for June 21st 2007 (marked Day 49) began: “Met with the Portuguese police today for an update. Their committemnt [sic] to find Madeleine matches ours and we all hope for that vital breakthrough every day.”The Find Madeleine website that was built for the Find Madeleine campaign used to contain a link to Gerry’s blog posts, but no longer.K&G returned to the UK for good on Sept 9th 2007, two days after being made arguidos. The following July, their arguido status was lifted; but contrary to what we hear announced on MwH and elsewhere, they weren’t “cleared as suspects” by the PJ – whose lead working hypothesis was that Madeleine had been a victim of a violent/accidental death in her family’s holiday unit at the Ocean Club.The PJ also had another working hypothesis, that Maddie had been abducted.For each of these hypotheses, the PJ had an arguido/arguida – Robert Murat for abduction, K&G for concealing Maddie’s death. That lasted until Portuguese authorities decided to archive the case in 2008 for insufficient evidence. That was the point at which the arguido/arguida status of all three had been lifted.It’s important to remember, though, that police suspicion of every one of them remained because (a) the fact that they had become official suspects in the first place meant there had been strong grounds for that to have happened; and (b) there not being sufficient evidence to charge them did not mean they were cleared of wrong-doing.   ….If I understand the judgment of Portugal’s Supreme Court of Justice properly when it said the McCanns had not been “cleared as suspects”, this is also how the court had thought.But it shouldn’t have taken the Supreme Court of Justice to ram this message home. This was something that had been obvious to others before then. For instance, now retired British detective superintendent Colin Sutton (who enjoyed a reputation for being a cold case specialist) had felt the need to publicly remind folk some years ago that Portuguese police had never cleared K&G as suspects.Up until the Supreme Court of Justice’s final ruling in 2017, K&G and their spokesman Clarence Mitchell had repeatedly said publicly that they had been cleared. Nine years of claiming that. IMO, if K&G genuinely didn’t know this to be untrue, then they must have had lousy legal advice. If they hadn’t ….the suspicion is we were being conditioned to believe that what they said was true. ***0***According to MwH, the McCanns had obtained some 30,000 of the PJ’s investigative files and had spent some 100K quid from a fund (supposedly * The Find Madeleine Fund per MwH) to have the files translated.(*Note: I could be wrong, but I doubt a Find Madeleine Fund was officially set up. Perhaps that’s simply money from Madeleine’s Fund that was set aside for the Find Madeleine campaign and not for the family’s personal use.)MwH debuted on May 7th 2009. The Cutting Edge voice-over informs us that “Kate has spent the last six months going through every document”. Kate says she wanted to do it herself because she knew she’d be using “a fine tooth-comb”.In the doco, Gerry says of Maddie: “She’s either out there or she’s not. And, there’s nothing to say she’s not out there alive. So, it’s simple: She’s out there until proven otherwise.”The Cutting Edge asks him, “Who is actually looking for Madeleine at the moment?”Gerry responds: “…but in terms of an investigative strategy then there is no law enforcement agency that is proactively doing anything. It’s pretty amazing really when you think about it. It’s a very serious crime, and we’ve got to do it.” That crime he’s talking about can only be an abduction.The Cutting Edge informs us, “They plan to return to Praia da Luz to reconstruct key events around Madeleine’s disappearance, hoping to provoke a response.”The first time I watched MwH, I took its contents at face value. When I’d first heard about the Maddie case, it was being reported as an abduction. I never followed the case. Years later, by chance I stumbled on the doco on YT and decided to watch.When it got to the part “hoping to provoke a response”, my reaction was this: Provoke a response from whom?I mulled the strange use of the word “provoke”, its appropriateness.  If I’d kidnapped your four-year-old two years ago and had kept her alive all this time, I think I’d have had more immediate things to worry about ….such as her still-fresh memories of her family ….her likely vocal distress about the alien environment around her sans anyone she’d ever known. If the folk around me hadn’t ratted on me by this time, if the child’s ‘alerts’ on outings to the outside world  that I/my family was a stranger to her  hadn’t borne fruit in this time, would I now feel threatened by your “reconstruction of key events”?  What provoked response do you seek from me? What do you want me to do, kill your child?Kate has repeatedly said that the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited had encouraged the McCanns to keep Maddie in the public’s eye. <a href="http://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/isyourchildmissing#whattodoifyourchildismissing" target="_blank">http://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/isyourchildmissing#whattodoifyourchildismissing</a>Back in 2007, on June 3rd, the Daily Express published an article where it reported that Sir Elton John had been playing “an emotional DVD of Madeleine at his concerts but now believes a larger effort would do more to raise awareness of her predicament”.  The news report appears to have been run with these headlines: “Let’s hold a Madeleine Day for the whole world”.DE then quoted Gerry: “One of the ideas is maybe getting all the people who have publicly supported us to come together. I don’t just mean from the UK but from different parts of the world. We want a big event to raise awareness that she is still missing. “We would look at high-profile people who have already pledged support. It will be some sort of focus around an anniversary, to tell people that Madeleine’s still missing. I think it would be later this year, once media attention has dropped, to bring it back up, hopefully, for a short period.”Further down in the same article, DE reported: A month after the sleeping Madeleine was snatched from her bed, Gerry and Kate McCann have betrayed the first signs that their hopes of finding her alive are starting to fade.The couple confessed that they are haunted by the harrowing thought of her being held captive by a pervert. ... Kate said: “We don't know where she is. We’d like to think she’s still in Portugal, she might still be in Portugal.“But we know there’s a possibility she’s gone over the border – or several borders. We know there are bad people out there, but we know there are also a lot of sad people. We hope it’s the latter.”Gerry added: “Of course we believe Madeleine is still alive but you would be incredible if you hadn’t considered the worst scenario, that she’s dead.“Kate and I discuss it – not a lot, but we talk about hope, and that while there’s some we will not give up. At the minute, there’s loads of hope.”Kate writes on findmadeleine.com, “Gerry and I have been criticised at times for publicising Madeleine's disappearance. We did what we felt was best at that time, obviously having no experience of such ordeals. Thankfully NCMEC has assured us that this was the right thing to do.”Interviewed by the BBC a couple of years ago, Gerry referenced the NCMEC and said that one of the things that had stuck with them since making contact with NCMEC was the notion that the younger a child was at the time he or she was taken, the higher the chances the child was taken to be kept alive.Former Arts and Entertainment Editor for The Times (of London) Tim Teeman wrote about MwH the day after it was first broadcast.  <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cutting-edge-madeleine-was-here-er-keep-it-in-the-family-extreme-male-beauty-9plpw50lrqx" target="_blank">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cutting-edge-madeleine-was-here-er-keep-it-in-the-family-extreme-male-beauty-9plpw50lrqx</a> Excerpt:To keep the chances of finding her alive, the McCanns have to keep the story alive, and The Cutting Edge observed the McCanns at home: a picture of determinedly amiable domestic life emerged. But the family is uncomfortably beached between a desire for privacy and a desire for as much publicity as possible to find Madeleine. This presents a problem for them, and for documentary-makers and journalists. The drip-feed of information (like the new suspect) and access to the McCanns is controlled by the family and their Press representative Clarence Mitchell. The journalism of the The Cutting Edge documentary was thus skewed to whatever the McCann’s agenda was. It was hard to see what material The Cutting Edge had uncovered itself: it seemed to just record whatever the McCanns wanted us to see.I’ve no idea to whom Tim was referring when he wrote “the new suspect”. Possibly, either Pimpleman or Creepyman.  With hindsight, it appears to me that with MwH the McCanns were revisiting the old to recast/restate things new.</blockquote>

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