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The Disappearance of Madeleine Mccann

I have just finished watching the 7th of 8 episodes, and I keep changing my mind after everyone about whether it was the parents or not. Very interesting documentary that gets better every episode. What are everyone's thoughts on the documentary and do you think the parents played a part or not? I do find their lack of emotion during most interviews very odd...
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  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,314
    Ten minutes...
  • Some good bits but they padded it with loads of guff to fill 8 episodes.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,475
    Halfway through.

    Quite how the parents managed to cover a crime of that magnitude would take some doing wouldn't it?
    Portugal old bill next to useless.

    Parents heavily negligible. Disgraceful leaving their kids alone whilst they went off to have a bite to eat and get on the piss. But I guess they'll have to live with that.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,852
    edited March 2019
    Ten minutes...


  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,602
    Thousands of kids go missing every year. 
    Every child is  as important as the next.
    Why we have spent tens of millions on this one case  (as sad as it is ) and others never get a mention I do not know. 
    Had this been a working class couple from a council estate it would barely make the news but because they are educated doctors it is seen in a different way. 
    RIP the little girl as I as sure she died years ago.
    Agree entirely
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,602
    Halfway through.

    Quite how the parents managed to cover a crime of that magnitude would take some doing wouldn't it?
    Portugal old bill next to useless.

    Parents heavily negligible. Disgraceful leaving their kids alone whilst they went off to have a bite to eat and get on the piss. But I guess they'll have to live with that.
    They will have to live with it but I’ve always got the impression they don’t think they did anything wrong. Because they are middle class and educated they have managed not just to keep it in the media but also persuade the politicians and the Met to keep up the searh. Meanwhile we have to live with the mounting costs ...

    I really shouldn’t comment but those two really infuriate me for some reason. 
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    They are guilty of wasting taxpayers money. That sounds bad in a way because a little girl went missing but I am 100% in agreement with Blackpool72 on this one. 

    They were negligible but I doubt they had anything to do with the actual disappearance. I think the case would have been solved had it happened here. The Portuguese messed up the entire thing from start to finish and should be ashamed. 
  • SuedeAdidas
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  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,748
    edited March 2019
    I honestly can’t see that the parents had anything to do with her disappearance. 

    It would be a very risky/stupid tactic to keep campaigning for continued police investigation  funding if you were in any way involved. 

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  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,105
    I posted a link to the trailer a couple of days before it went on Netflix on the original thread, but it seems like that thread was sunk as my post didn’t bump it to page 1.
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    Said for years and will carry on saying so

    Madeline was sick, her dad medicated her and didnt tell her mum, her mum then medicated her and she died from an accidental overdose, however both parents being doctors did not want to risk their licence or reputation so made the whole abduction thing up and cant go back
  • JoshAddick
    JoshAddick Posts: 1,786
    Said for years and will carry on saying so

    Madeline was sick, her dad medicated her and didnt tell her mum, her mum then medicated her and she died from an accidental overdose, however both parents being doctors did not want to risk their licence or reputation so made the whole abduction thing up and cant go back
    Think they’d be more bothered about the prison sentence than their medical licence
  • The_Organiser
    The_Organiser Posts: 3,999
    I’ve thought similar in the past, but over the years I’ve come to the conclusion that I just can’t see how they would have pulled it off.

    The timelines involved don’t give them the opportunity to discard the body in my opinion.

    And they could be the best actors in the world but if you’ve just been involved in your daughters death, something would give, you could not maintain that act. The group of friends would surely have started getting suspicious. Things would not have added up.

    I just can’t see it and I really looked hard.

    They were def partly to blame for the disappearance though through negligence.
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    Said for years and will carry on saying so

    Madeline was sick, her dad medicated her and didnt tell her mum, her mum then medicated her and she died from an accidental overdose, however both parents being doctors did not want to risk their licence or reputation so made the whole abduction thing up and cant go back
    Think they’d be more bothered about the prison sentence than their medical licence
    Maybe, but if it was classed as an accidental death then there may have been no prison sentence, but medical icence would have been gone and there personal and proffesional lives would be over
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,870
    Said for years and will carry on saying so

    Madeline was sick, her dad medicated her and didnt tell her mum, her mum then medicated her and she died from an accidental overdose, however both parents being doctors did not want to risk their licence or reputation so made the whole abduction thing up and cant go back
    Based on?
  • The_Organiser
    The_Organiser Posts: 3,999
    Said for years and will carry on saying so

    Madeline was sick, her dad medicated her and didnt tell her mum, her mum then medicated her and she died from an accidental overdose, however both parents being doctors did not want to risk their licence or reputation so made the whole abduction thing up and cant go back
    Think they’d be more bothered about the prison sentence than their medical licence
    Maybe, but if it was classed as an accidental death then there may have been no prison sentence, but medical icence would have been gone and there personal and proffesional lives would be over
    Have they worked since anyway? Genuine question.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,025
    Christ even the dodgy characters on Jeremy Kyle face a lie detector test.  I am right that neither of the McCann's have faced one yet?
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    JohnBoyUK said:
    Christ even the dodgy characters on Jeremy Kyle face a lie detector test.  I am right that neither of the McCann's have faced one yet?
    Polygraphs are pseudoscience. may as well put the parents on a ducking stool
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,950
    Said for years and will carry on saying so

    Madeline was sick, her dad medicated her and didnt tell her mum, her mum then medicated her and she died from an accidental overdose, however both parents being doctors did not want to risk their licence or reputation so made the whole abduction thing up and cant go back
    Think they’d be more bothered about the prison sentence than their medical licence
    Maybe, but if it was classed as an accidental death then there may have been no prison sentence, but medical icence would have been gone and there personal and proffesional lives would be over
    Have they worked since anyway? Genuine question.
    Yep. My mum told me Gerry did my Grandads triple heart bypass. Or another operation on him...

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  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,416
    Zero chance the parents were involved. Like others have said, there were too many people about and the timescales would make it impossible. Furthermore they do seem like decent people.

    Whilst leaving Madeline to sleep in an unlocked room was careless, they've paid the price and then some. People do wreckless things all the time. The McCanns were just seriously unlucky.

    Don't buy the argument about wasting taxpayers money. If our children went missing, we wouldn't give two hoots about whose money is funding what. You'd just be focused on getting the truth.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,056
    I honestly can’t see that the parents had anything to do with her disappearance. 

    Ot would be a very risky/stupid tactic to keep campaigning for continued police investigation  funding if you were in any way involved. 
    You forgot to slag them off because they’re middle class. 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,056
    Said for years and will carry on saying so

    Madeline was sick, her dad medicated her and didnt tell her mum, her mum then medicated her and she died from an accidental overdose, however both parents being doctors did not want to risk their licence or reputation so made the whole abduction thing up and cant go back
    What are these ramblings based on? 
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,370
    We  watched all episodes. I thought it about seven episodes to many. Lots of fillers, what ifs and finger pointing but no real evidence other than what the world has known for ten years. 
    The spainish private investigator summed it up for me when he said he wanted to help, find something or the child, but there was nothing. No leads, nothing.

     I personally believe the parents were to blame, they were reckless and selfish in the extreme leaving not only one young  child alone but also their two other children. Also the other parents in the party also did the same with their children. As parents we (my wife and I), always took the view that a family eats together and goes out together. If the children are knackered, tough, we all stay in. My experience of Southern Europe is, they are very family friendly and very accommodating of children to the extent that they expect you to have your children with you. 

     I don’t think their are any conspiracies here involving the parents or authorities, just the kidnapping and probable murder of a child by a person or persons unknown. Probably one very sick individual because it’s very difficult keep secrets when more than one person is involved, people talk eventually.

  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,421
    Illegal sedation gone wrong days before, gave them time to dispose the body.
    Abduction made up.  

    Allegedly. 
  • Tragic and we will never find out the truth of the actual events. 
  • The_Organiser
    The_Organiser Posts: 3,999
    She was at the kids club the day she disappeared.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,213
    The person(s) to blame is/are the abductor(s). 
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,421
    edited March 2019
    She was at the kids club the day she disappeared.

    That’s my theory over.