:48pm UK, Monday August 04, 2008
Thousands of pages of evidence from the Portuguese police investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance have been made public.
A previously unseen official photo of the room Madeleine stayed in
The documents include forensic details as well as interviews with Kate and Gerry McCann.
There are also previously unseen official pictures from inside the apartment where the family was staying when Madeleine went missing - including a photo of the bed in which she had been sleeping.
The police files from the exhaustive inquiry, which lasted more than 14 months, were made public this afternoon after the shelving of the case a fortnight ago.
The mammoth dossier - said to run to 20,000 pages - includes details of the lines of inquiry pursued by detectives, witness statements and transcripts of interviews with the little girl's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann.
The files were released under Portuguese law after the period of judicial secrecy in the case was lifted.
Lawyers for the McCanns, from Rothley, Leicestershire, were formally given access to the files last week.
They are studying the dossier for fresh leads that the couple's private detectives can follow up in their own search for their daughter.
The McCanns are keen not to give "a running commentary" on their legal team's trawl through the files, family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said today.
And they are reluctant to respond to questions raised by journalists allowed access to the documents.
Mr Mitchell said: "The Portuguese Attorney General, in his recent statement, made it very clear indeed that there's absolutely no evidence of any wrongdoing by Kate and Gerry in any way, shape or form and journalists should bear that in mind when they examine the police files.
"A lot of this is historical detail drafted by officers who failed to find Madeleine and who quite wrongfully were going down inaccurate lines of supposition and assumption.
"We will not be commenting on any of this.
"Kate and Gerry are no longer arguidos (formal suspects). The Portuguese judicial system has accepted that they were not involved in Madeleine's disappearance in any way, shape or form and these files should be seen in that context.
"All that matters is the search for Madeleine. Kate and Gerry's lawyers are continuing to examine all of the information in minute detail and where anything that is relevant to finding Madeleine needs to be done it will be."
Until now Portugal's strict "segredo de justica" - or secrecy of justice - laws have limited the flow of information about the Madeleine inquiry.
The legislation is supposed to ban anyone linked to an ongoing police investigation from speaking about it, but has not stopped a series of leaks.
The McCanns repeatedly complained about restricted information being made public, and the couple believe there was a concerted smear campaign against them.
Concerns were also raised at the top level in Portugal, with the country's justice minister, Alberto Costa, describing the leaks as "worrying" in February.
48 unanswered questions
1. On May 3 2007, around 22:00, when you entered the apartment, what did you see? What did you do? Where did you look? What did you touch?
2. Did you search inside the bedroom wardrobe? (she replied that she wouldn’t answer)
3. (shown 2 photographs of her bedroom wardrobe) Can you describe its contents?
4. Why had the curtain behind the sofa in front of the side window (whose photo was shown to her) been tampered with? Did somebody go behind that sofa?
5. How long did your search of the apartment take after you detected your daughter Madeleine’s disappearance?
6. Why did you say from the start that Madeleine had been abducted?
7. Assuming Madeleine had been abducted, why did you leave the twins home alone to go to the ‘Tapas’ and raise the alarm? Because the supposed abductor could still be in the apartment.
8. Why didn’t you ask the twins, at that moment, what had happened to their sister or why didn’t you ask them later on?
9. When you raised the alarm at the ‘Tapas’ what exactly did you say and what were your exact words?
10. What happened after you raised the alarm in the ‘Tapas’?
11. Why did you go and warn your friends instead of shouting from the verandah?
12. Who contacted the authorities?
13. Who took place in the searches?
14. Did anyone outside of the group learn of Madeleine’s disappearance in those following minutes?
15. Did any neighbour offer you help after the disappearance?
16. What does 'we let her down' mean?
17. Did Jane tell you that night that she’d seen a man with a child?
18. How were the authorities contacted and which police force was alerted?
19. During the searches, with the police already there, where did you search for Maddie, how and in what way?
20. Why did the twins not wake up during that search or when they were taken upstairs?
21. Who did you phone after the occurrence?
22. Did you call Sky News?
23. Did you know the danger of calling the media, because it could influence the abductor?
24. Did you ask for a priest?
25. By what means did you divulge Madeleine’s features, by photographs or by any other means?
26. Is it true that during the searches you remained seated on Maddie’s bed without moving?
27. What was your behaviour that night?
28. Did you manage to sleep?
29. Before travelling to Portugal did you make any comment about a foreboding or a bad feeling?
30. What was Madeleine’s behaviour like?
31. Did Maddie suffer from any illness or take any medication?
32. What was Madeleine’s relationship like with her brother and sister?
33. What was Madeleine’s relationship like with her brother and sister, friends and school mates?
34. As for your professional life, in how many and which hospitals have you worked?
35. What is your medical specialty?
36. Have you ever done shift work in any emergency services or other services?
37. Did you work every day?
38. At a certain point you stopped working, why?
39. Are the twins difficult to get to sleep? Are they restless and does that cause you uneasiness?
40. Is it true that sometimes you despaired with your children’s behaviour and that left you feeling very uneasy?
41. Is it true that in England you even considered handing over Madeleine’s custody to a relative?
42. In England, did you medicate your children? What type of medication?
43. In the case files you were SHOWN CANINE forensic testing films, where you can see them marking due to detection of the scent of human corpse and blood traces, also human, and only human, as well as all the comments of the technician in charge of them. After watching and after the marking of the scent of corpse in your bedroom beside the wardrobe and behind the sofa, pushed up against the sofa wall, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
44. When the sniffer dog also marked human blood behind the sofa, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
45. When the sniffer dog marked the scent of corpse coming from the vehicle you hired a month after the disappearance, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
46. When human blood was marked in the boot of the vehicle, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
47. When confronted with the results of Maddie’s DNA, whose analysis was carried out in a British laboratory, collected from behind the sofa and the boot of the vehicle, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
48. Did you have any responsibility or intervention in your daughter’s disappearance?
A QUESTION SHE DID ANSWER
Q. Are you aware that in not answering the questions you are jeopardising the investigation, which seeks to discover what happened to your daughter?
A. 'Yes, if that’s what the investigation thinks.'
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Thanks cannot be true, why not answer these questions? Kate, please prove them wrong and answer them now.
Brian
Brian
Apparently Kate was advised by her lawyer (who was with her at the time she was questioned) not to answer the questions because the police could re-phrase the same question later and if she answered differently she would be interrogated as to why. The questions were so ambiguous. Therefore, the lawyer advised her not to answer them at all.
Keep up the search for this precious little girl.
Jean
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Makes sense, has she answered them now? Would clear up allot of unnecessary speculation.
Many of these questions seem vaild.
Brian
'My name's Maddie. They took me from my holiday': The astonishing sightings
and CCTV footage police kept secret :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041818/My-names-Maddie-They-took-holiday-The-astonishing-sightings-CCTV-footage-police-kept-secret.html
Best regards,
Alexandre.
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Thanks, I'm not sure if this is her...why did she say 'My name's Maddie', wouldn't she had said Madeleine? From what I know, she's always used Madeleine.
Brian
Brian - Thought you should read this, if you have not done already.
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Will do...Brian
Madeleine McCann: Portuguese detectives lied to Gerry McCann about DNA evidence
Portuguese police tried to force a confession from Gerry McCann by lying to him about crucial DNA evidence in the investigation, a friend of the couple has said.
By Caroline Gammell in Portimao
Last Updated: 9:11AM BST 05 Aug 2008
Portuguese detectives knew there was no conclusive evidence against the McCanns three days before they interviewed them and made them suspects, official files have disclosed.
Police also released the first pictures of the bedroom where Madeleine had been staying when she disappeared.
Officers had been told in an email from the Forensic Science Service laboratory in Birmingham that no conclusive traces of Madeleine's DNA had been found in the family's hire car.
But detectives went on to tell Mr McCann, during an eight hour interrogation, that his daughter's DNA had been found in the boot of the vehicle, which was rented more than three weeks after she vanished.
A friend of the couple said: "It was pretty clear they were seeking a confession and were prepared to do this (put forward false information) to achieve that.
"Serious questions need to be asked about why this was put to Gerry as fact. It was sloppy at best and deliberately manipulative at worst.
"A number of senior officers went down the route of making assumptions and suppositions and trying to force a confession to something that didn't happen."
This was one of the main areas of suspicion and Mr McCann was made a suspect or "arguido" into Madeleine's disappearance, along with his wife, immediately after being questioned at Portimao police station on September 7.
The couple's spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "There was never any 100 per cent match with Madeleine's DNA. Caution was expressed from the very start.
"Police were wrong to pursue this line so vigorously, and the Portuguese legal system has now accepted that there was no evidence to support it.
"I can confirm that the Portuguese police put it to Gerry as a fact that Madeleine's DNA had been found in both the apartment and the vehicle when it is now clear that the initial FSS report had made no such claim.
"You have to ask yourself what the police were trying to achieve by overstating evidence that they didn't have, nor could claim to have.
"One wonders, under those circumstances, what the motivation was."
The release of the police files came 15 months after Madeleine vanished from her parents' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3 last year.
The police investigation had been shrouded in rumour and speculation because of Portugal's strict secrecy laws, but once the case was formally closed the restrictions were lifted.
Mr and Mrs McCann, both 40, and their lawyers were given access to the information last week and their private investigators are poring over the information for any new clues.
The files, thought to stretch to more than 30,000 pages, detail the enormous manhunt carried out by the Policia Judiciaria (PJ) – as well as witness accounts, possible sightings and false leads.
Certain information – such as the details of suspected and known paedophiles in the area – has been removed, while video tapes of the reaction of the sniffer dogs to the McCann's hire car will be released in due course.
The transcripts of interviews with Kate and Gerry McCann came from notes made by a police officer because the sessions were not recorded.
According to the files, Mr McCann was told on September 7 that Madeleine's DNA was discovered in the boot of the rented Renault Scenic, and behind a sofa in the family's holiday apartment.
"Confronted with the fact that Madeleine's DNA was gathered from behind the sofa and from the boot of the vehicle, and analysed by a British laboratory, he said he could not explain why this would be," the officer wrote.
But an email written by John Lowe of the FSS four days earlier on September 3 said the analysis of the samples in the car had proved nothing.
The message - written to Superintendent Stuart Prior, head of the British part of the investigation and forwarded to the PJ - concluded that there were some elements which matched the little girl's profile.
But the email, which was translated into Portuguese on September 4, warned that the samples could match huge sections of the population, including himself.
He said the result was "too complex for meaningful interpretation or inclusion".
The files also included details of the 48 questions Mrs McCann was asked during her time at Portimao police station as well as information about Robert Murat, the only other formal suspect in the case.
The British expat, along with the McCanns, was cleared by the Attorney General last month.
The McCann's spokesman Clarence Mitchell said the files showed the police were making the wrong assumptions.
"The Portuguese Attorney General made it very clear indeed that there's absolutely no evidence of any wrongdoing by Kate and Gerry in any way, shape or form," he said.
"A lot of this is historical detail drafted by officers who failed to find Madeleine and who quite wrongfully were going down inaccurate lines of supposition and assumption.
"Kate and Gerry are no longer arguidos. All that matters is the search for Madeleine. Kate and Gerry's lawyers are continuing to examine all of the information in minute detail and where anything that is relevant to finding Madeleine needs to be done it will be."
There is an estimated £500,000 left in the Find Madeleine fund which was set up after the three-year-old vanished to help pay for the private detective work.
Mr and Mrs McCann, from Rothley in Leicestershire, were dining with friends at a tapas bar 40 yards away when Madeleine's empty bed was discovered last May.
Despite Portugal's biggest missing person's inquiry, no trace of the little girl has ever been found.
The case was closed on July 21 after Portuguese prosecutors announced there was insufficient evidence, but said the case could be reopened if credible new evidence comes to light.
Last month, ex-police officer Gonçalo Amaral published his own version of events in a book which maintained that Mr and Mrs McCann were involved in their daughter's disappearance.
thank you good look alike to murat but carlos resembles murat too
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I agree.
Brian
8.10.2008
A while back in about the end of July there was some talk of Carol feeling that Madeleine was in a school where a gold unicorn was the emblem. I have a found a school where they where gold uniforms and they speak pf their emblem being the unicorn as it stands for integrity and purity. I have skimmed thru the site, but I wanted to get it to you and others, I know "z" is a wiz at research and thought others could help. http://www.sanctonwood.co.uk/ On another note, if you are able to join the team in FL, I wish you all the luck and God bless. E
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Thanks, and will check out this site.
Brian
Hi Brian, did you see this?
What do you think?
Greetz, Vero
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Hi, not really sure.
Brian
4:03am UK, Saturday August 09, 2008
Police are reportedly checking CCTV footage of a girl in a Belgian bank who could be Madeleine McCann.
Madeleine was just three when she vanished
The report of the sighting comes as officers sift through dozens of other similar claims about the missing three-year-old.
A bank security worker said she saw the girl on Monday accompanied by a woman of North African appearance, on CCTV footage from a branch of KBC Bank in the west of Brussels.
The footage has now been handed to police who told reporters the child "was said to be much like Madeleine".
Belgian police said they had received more than 100 reports of possible sightings of the youngster and around 30 merited further investigation.
It comes after revelations that a Scotland Yard informant suggested Madeleine was stolen to order by a Belgian paedophile gang.
Met sources said they did "everything possible" with the tip.
Despite warnings that the Yard's intelligence may be flawed, investigators employed by parents Gerry and Kate McCann are vigorously pursuing the leads in Belgium.
The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said the couple's investigators welcomed information about all possible sightings but were most interested in recent reports.
He urged people to pass on any leads to the detectives using the contact numbers on the McCanns' website, www.findmadeleine.com.
Madeleine was nearly four when she vanished from her family's holiday flat in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz on May 3 last year.
Hi Brian! I hope all is well with you and your family. I continue to read your site and pray for Madeleine every day although I have been so busy with work. I was reading about possible sightings in Belgium and Holland and this article came to my attention.
Do you notice the resemblance between the Dutch sighting suspect sketches and the Carol Everett sketches? Notice that the article states the woman’s hair was brown, although it looks blond in the police sketch. What do you think?
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No, I did not see this...Carol's sketches look very similar.
Brian
Madeleine McCann: First pictures of Dutch sighting suspects
New photos of the couple believed to have been seen with Madeleine McCann three days after she disappeared have been released.
By Chris Irvine
Last Updated: 9:15AM BST 08 Aug 2008
The sketches were drawn by a police artist for the Daily Mirror on the evidence of Anna Stam Photo: PA
They show a dark-featured man with a moustache in his late 30s, who was speaking in Portuguese when Madeleine was allegedly spotted, and a brown-hair woman in her 40s who was talking French.
The sketches were drawn by a police artist for the Daily Mirror on the evidence of Anna Stam, 41, who claims to have seen the trio in Amsterdam.
Ms Stam's report was one of a number of potential sightings that emerged in the official police files released this week.
According to a witness statement to Dutch police, the girl entered Ms Stam's party shop in early May last year with a man and a woman and two other children.
The man - who "did not look like a nice person" - appeared to be speaking Portuguese but the woman spoke in English, telling Ms Stam they had a small circus in France.
Ms Stam was then approached by the young girl at the back of the shop, who asked her in unaccented English: "Do you know where my mummy is?"
When she was told her mother was in the store, the child replied: "She is not my mummy," adding "She is a stranger, she took me from my mummy."
The Dutch woman thought the girl looked "very much like" Madeleine apart from the colour of her hair.
It emerged yesterday that there were three more sightings of Madeleine, then aged three, in nearby Belgium in the weeks after she disappeared.
brian,look at this link remember all the names on romigen website
what on earth is this all about how weird the names appear on a goverment votas poll....................
see if you can understand it.
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Ok, Brian
Hi brian, been a long time. Got so much to say but first i am sending u stuff that sat in my draft folders for too long. best wishes, CL
11 children missing in Porto
There are 11 missing children since 2007 in the district of Oporto. The figures were disclosed yesterday by the Judicial Police and all had the motivation to cases of parental dispute. This number is still a tiny fraction of the 214 complaints of disappearances that reached the PJ of Porto in the first three months of the year, an average of more than two cases per day.
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Thanks for this.
Brian
8.11.2008
Hi Brian
I dont know how relative this is to the Madeleine case and I really don’t know what it means. But it has been bothering me somewhat for a while.
I always keep paper & pen beside my bed, to try to write down my dreams, but it seems I have not trained myself well enough for it, as you are able to do. I don’t meditate or anything to purposely receive anything, in fear of receiving something evil in my place that I cannot get rid of afterwards. I don’t know enough about it to go into it further that way & I find it a bit scary anyway.
But, for many many years I do have vivid visions, which are normally quick flashes of scenes, in colour too, which tend to be repeated – I believe so is to make sure I get a good picture of it, then I am woken up immediately. I do remember some of the visions.& can describe them quite well later on. I normally only tell my partner.
Some of the Madeleine related visions I have sent to you before.
I have kept a piece of paper beside my bed with Madeleine’s name on it for some months, in case I can receive anything, without asking for it as such.
The past few weeks, just before waking up, I have heard the name Edwards & has puzzled me.
Then just last week, again just before waking up, I heard very clearly the name Nick Edwards. So I forced myself to write it down so that I would not forget the name, once I’ve fallen back to sleep. I remembered it anyway later on before checking my paper.
I don’t know anyone with this name & it doesn’t mean anything to me at all.
It has bothered me quite a bit since & I’ve tried to ignore it, in fear of pointing a finger at someone’s name & ridiculed if I told someone else about it.
Ok this name, Nick Edwards, is quite a common name, so thought it pointless even to mention it to anyone, apart from my partner.
But this morning, I thought I would Google this name, to see what I could find & if it would mean anything to me.
Coincidentally, I found 2 Doctors with the name Nick Edwards. I didn’t expect that, but with quite a common name I suppose there is a chance of course.
This is the link that caught my interest about a Dr Nick Edwards http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/9/prweb285359.htm where it mentions at the bottom:
“Kinapse personnel have worked in a number of major Pharmaceutical R&D companies including AstraZeneca, Bayer, BMS, CMR International, GlaxoWellcome, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, MHRA, Roche, Schering AG and Wyeth. “
The company AstraZeneca is where John McCann (Gerry McCann’s brother) works. Ok, so it’s a coincidence, but I wanted to tell some else, just in case there is anything in it.
I also found a photo of him somewhere with mention of him attending either Oxford or Cambridge University, UK, but I cant find it now.
The other Dr Nick Edwards that I found Googling the name, is a man that has some issues with the NHS (National Health Service) system in the U.K.
May be nothing at all, but I feel better telling someone else about it, to off-load really.
Take care & keep up the brilliant work that you do Brian.
I hope that you can dream something else about Madeleine very soon.
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Hi, me too and was nice chatting with you too.
Brian
please look at these videos,you might have to scroll down to have a look im sure that this is her, and why is the child wearing a kilt?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/maddie/article1541035.ece
leigh
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Will do leigh.
Brian
8.15.2008
Hi Brian
Hope you are fine...busy with the Caylee story..??
Hope for the right outcome...justice.
Remember the Morocco picture Maddie?
Remember the Belgian sighting....
No picture of that girl...did the police believe "Dad" by looking into his blue eyes???
The woman never came forward and just after the news said it was not Madeleine...
McCann hires ex FBI agents
I've just made this phototric......Amazing is it....?
Matthew James put this photo on his website....
My friend Cath made this one...
8.16.2008
Dear Brian, i presume another 3000 people + have also been emailing you this latest published on matthew james site ..?? for me there is no question - this woman is ONE AND THE SAME as previous morrocan woman on dirt track (see pictures below)!!
To rewind YOU remember the debate about the original Moroccan photographs that came up some moths after the event. Someone took the time to analyse second batch supposedly taken by journalist who was out to prove that this was not Madeleine but a simple morrocan family... well one of your readers highlighted correctly that the second batch of pictures were a fixed due to the coloured "pom poms" on the hat of child carrier, being in a different in terms of 'repeating colour pattern' to the original lot... I have not got time to send this but you have it on your file...
Meanwhile, a couple of weeks ago, again when we see her possibly in a kilt in belgium and having divulged all this news - what bothered me was that the press reported that the REAL father had come forward and claimed away that it was a) his daughter b) a child midner who happened to be pregnant etc etc adn that it was not madelaine and tht there was nothign to worry about.. when i read this i did have a gut feeling somethign was not quite right. how come we had not seen a picure of the father who had reclaimed this tartan wearing girl as his own...
NOW - having seen this recent set of pictures i am convinced that some fishy media/other manipulation is going on and I am v suspicious!
What do you think brian?... looking at pictures do you see the unquestionable resemblence between woman a) and woman b).!!
wow.
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Hi, not quite 3000 people, but I'm getting mail...it seems like the same person.
Brian
8.18.2008
I found another thing about the sighting in Brussels- Molenbeek :
this article was placed on 26-09-2007
a part of the girls family lives in Molenbeek and the second sighting was in Molenbeek !!!
The girl seen in Morocco by Spanish tourist Clara Torres, who took a picture of a family walking near a road, is a Moroccan citizen, called Bushra Binhisa. She lives in Zinat, she is four of five years old and part of her family lives in Moleenbeek, Belgium. The attached picture shows Bushra Binhisa with her grandfather, Hamid Bisnhisa.
this is very odd isn't it ??
I think its the same person and couldn't it be that it was Madeleine twice ?
Katrien
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Hi, very odd and it would be wonderful if this was Madeleine.
Brian
not sure if you recived the first email but i am sending it to you again
hi brian, after seeing the recent cctv of the child and woman in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighbourhood,near the bank,as the security guard stated that he would put everything he owned that it was madeline,any way i googled it as it does state that Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighbourhood is near Schaerbeek neighbourhood,
It is a run-down, crime-ridden immigrant neighbourhood with a North African population, mainly Moroccan and Algerian. Europeans seldom venture there. Five minutes away, the Schaerbeek neighbourhood is the main Brussels red light district.
The Belgian capital is tipped to rival Amsterdam as the sex capital of Europe.
any way i google earth this and i see there is a church there called saint maria, hopefully i have attatched the place correctly, if my memory serves me right i think it was betty, i could be wrong that mentioned santa maria. any way if i have attatched it wrong then you could google earth it yourself, or may be someone who is more exsperienced with google earth could do it for you. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/182839.
leigh
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Got it, thanks.
Brian
was looking at your site (page 33)and saw the picture of the childs being carried in morocco, see the difference in the pictures as to how the one on the right has her legs at the side of the person carrying her, to which a child of that age i guess to me would sit,as you can see her legs at the side, look at the picture on the left no signes of any legs or the child holding on in any way.
take care
leigh
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Thanks again, and you too.
Brian
Dear Brian to summarise so far...
Back in autumn last year people were wondering if the morroco pictures of madelaine riding on the back of older woman were real? - it sure looked like her..?...
One month later, a so called journo caught up with the supposedly real family and re shot very similar photos of girl and family to prove it was not actually madelaine but blond child of a humble morrocan familiy?
one of your readers just sent this article through which says "part of her family lives in Moleenbeek,"
A few weeks ago a girl presumed Madeleine wearing tartan is spotted in Moleenbeek, Brussels and strangely the woman looking after her has an uncanny resembles to the bag carrying woman in original morroccan photographs...?
This is quite strange but I still am left wondering why the press released bogus second batch of photos to take us off the scent?- who is doing the covering up - from here it seem like someone from above made that second batch of photos 'happen'. Meanwhile in this recent brussels sighting - we are all told to calm down because the real dad has come forward to claim tartan waering girls as his child, yet we have not got his name or other bits of detail about him nor have we seen a photo of him ?
Best wishes, CL
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Hi, very strange...Metodo 3?
Brian
26.9.07
Moroccan picture: It's NOT Madeleine McCann
The girl seen in Morocco by Spanish tourist Clara Torres, who took a picture of a family walking near a road, is a Moroccan citizen, called Bushra Binhisa. She lives in Zinat, she is four of five years old and part of her family lives in Moleenbeek, Belgium. The attached picture shows Bushra Binhisa with her grandfather, Hamid Bisnhisa.
Correction: The name of the girl is Bouchra Benaissa. In the picture, Bouchra with his father, Ahmed Benaissa, an olive farmer. Bouchra parents are Ahmed Ben Mohamed Benaissa et Hafida Achkar.
MOVE TO 2008
morocco
NOW ORIGINAL PICTURES BELOW
(SEE WOMAN ON RIGHT HOLDING BAG)
hi brian i came across this on photobucket, take a look http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj278/curiousistheword/there is some intresting pictures there, the person who posted them on there states he thinks that the guy who is watching madeline and gerry playing near the climbing frame is called Mr Gonzalez, any way ill let you check out the site take care
sorry brian i shoould of told you this in my previous email, if you look at this pic that is on the photobucket link i sent you it looks like the guy looks similer (looking the hair shaping) to the person who is inside the climbing frame. just a thought.
leigh
8.23.2008
Hello Brian,
A lot is said about the sightings and the pictures at Brussels...
but isn't it odd that a father (who is as rich as he can have a nanny
for his daughter)
does allow the nanny is wandering in an area with a little girl, who
is known as
crime-ridden and five minutes from the red light district??
We have to be objective, but it is strange in my opinion...
what do you think about it??
Have a nice day
regards Johanna
from
the Netherlands
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Hi, still not sure...it's very odd.
Brian
Dear Brian, I came across a website that I thought may help Bette. Its called virtourist.com When you go into it, get onto the Belgium page, then scroll down to the first picture and click on Brussels. This will bring you 50 photos taken of Brussels. On photo 20 is a picture of Santa maria church, where it tells how parts of the church is in disrepair and its only used for concerts now while they are trying to raise funds to repair it(Ithink Bette mention this). Also probably a coinsidence but in the photo 44 one of those ladies looks very like the Morocco/Belgium lady in the cctv pics on pg 33 of your Madeleine site. You'll know which one I mean when you see it! There are also photos of at least three statues with horses.
I know you are really busy i hope I'm not wasting your time, I do hope also there is news of little Caylee soon.
Take care
Katie
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Thanks Katie, will do.
Brian
Madeleine fund in chaos as private eyes are axed after draining £500,000
By Daniel Boffey and Miles Goslett
Last updated at 10:14 PM on 23rd August 2008
The fund for finding Madeleine now has only £500,000 left in its coffers
A team of private investigators working behind the scenes to find Madeleine McCann has been axed after being paid £500,000 from publicly donated funds.
The Find Madeleine Fund quietly engaged the services of a US-based company which was awarded the lucrative six-month contract earlier this year.
The company, Oakley International, which boasts former British security service and FBI contacts, was hired to monitor the Madeleine Hotline, carry out detective work and review CCTV footage of possible sightings of the missing girl around the world.
A source revealed that the company had also spent resources in an attempt to infiltrate a paedophile ring in Belgium.
However, the company’s contract will now not be renewed. The Mail on Sunday has learned that double-glazing tycoon Brian Kennedy, who has been underwriting the fund’s search for Madeleine, has conducted a review of the agency’s work and has become unhappy with the progress it was making.
The deal was abruptly ended following a meeting last week after the fund brought in independent monitors to assess how the money was spent.
The cost of employing the agency - run by a Briton, Kevin Halligen - has drained the Madeleine fund and there is now less than £500,000 left.
The development is likely to dismay the thousands who gave to the appeal, and raise questions about how the fund has been administered.
Mr Kennedy, who owns Sale Sharks rugby club, was said to be ‘angry’ because he believed Oakley’s bills, estimated to be more than £80,000 a month, were too much for the results they achieved.
A source said: ‘There is a sense that they were meaning well but hadn’t got as far as they should for the money involved.
'Brian Kennedy thought their work was far too pricey and wanted to know where the money was being spent. He wasn’t satisfied with their answers and the contract was not renewed.
‘Madeleine’s parents, Gerry and Kate, have been kept informed all along and agree with the decision. A lot of people were asking questions about where the money was being spent.’
Kate and Gerry McCann agree with the decision to drop Oakley International
Oakley International won the contract after an introduction by another company, Red Defence International (RDI), based in Jermyn Street, Central London.
Listed as being involved with both companies was Mr Halligen, 47, a communications expert. He is given as the ‘contact name’ for Oakley International Group, a company registered in Washington DC as the manufacturer of search and navigation equipment.
The company says it has annual sales of £33,000 and only one employee, who appears to be Mr Halligen.
The address given for the company is 2550 M Street NW Washington, which is the downtown office of Patton Boggs, one of the largest and most powerful law companies in America.
A source at the law firm said last night that the lawyer who represented Mr Halligen was unavailable for comment.
RDI, formed in 2005, bills itself as ‘an experienced provider of crisis prevention, management and expertise’. It claims to have a presence in Washington DC and Virginia and representation in the Middle East, Africa and Central America.
Brian Kennedy, who has underwritten the search for Madeleine, is dissatisfied with the agency's work
However, its latest set of accounts is two months overdue and it faces being fined by HM Revenue & Customs.
Among the main players working on the McCann contract were Mr Halligen and Henri Exton, 57, who headed the Greater Manchester Police undercover unit until 1993. He then worked for the Government before moving into the private sector.
One day after a crisis meeting last week with the Madeleine fund administrators, Mr Halligen resigned as a director of RDI.
Mr Exton, of Bury, Lancashire, has the Queen’s Police Medal and an OBE. During the Seventies and Eighties his work included uncovering organised crime rings and recruiting supergrasses.
He also infiltrated football gangs, at one stage becoming a leader of the Young Guvnors, who followed Manchester City, and was forced to take part in organised incidents to preserve his cover.
Previously, the McCann fund had employed a Spanish detective agency called Metodo 3. However, the fund lost confidence in them, especially after they announced they would find Madeleine by last Christmas.
She had disappeared from the resort of Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007, nine days short of her fourth birthday.
A spokesman for the McCanns said yesterday: ‘Kate and Gerry, the fund and their backers have always sought to employ the very best people and resources in the ongoing search for Madeleine.
‘Kate and Gerry, via the fund and the backers, continue to employ many such resources and it is true that Red Defence and Oakley were part of those resources.
‘I simply will not comment on any personnel, financial or operational details whatsoever.’
No one could be reached for comment at Oakley International or Red Defence International.
Mr Kennedy, estimated to be worth about £250million, became involved after being moved by the plight of the McCanns during the period they were made formal suspects – arguidos – in Madeleine’s disappearance. Portuguese prosecutors dropped the couple’s arguido status last month.
The 47-year-old made his money in double-glazing and home improvement ventures with companies including Everest windows. His Latium Group business empire has an annual turnover of about £400million.
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Very sorry to hear this...how's Metodo3 doing? Linked the Morocco photos to them yet? I really think that a local search would be the best thing to do, and that's free.
Brian
8.24.2008
DD6906
"Madeleine has gone, check RM -- by the church, dig and you will find her"...I think this is about the Madeleine case, and I'm sorry but I think there is a chance that Madeleine is not longer alive...I hope this is not the case. I do not think she's been moved very far, if at all.
8.26.2008
My friend, I saw that you posted at your site that you think Madeleine is not longer alive. I wonder, can you confirmed that, since if you say: "I think" that is not 100% sure. Waiting for you urgent confirmation about it, one other thing: Matthew James still says she is alive and stil there is the feeling that she will be returned. What is your opinion about what you say about the possibility of she is no longer alive, and what does this "RM" means? That place is Praia da Luz? Waiting urgent for your response. Regards. Pedro
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Hi, I'm not 100% certain about anything, but I think it happed a few days ago and I no longer believe she is alive, last nights dream once again confirmed this. I wish this was not the case, but that's what I have...RM is Robert Murat and yes, Praia da Luz..
Brian
I read your most recent dream (most probably) about Madeleine Mccann and I panicked about what it said. I felt like my heart stopped for a minute. Even though there has always been the possibility of Madeleine not being alive anymore, I always thought she would finally be found alive and reunited with her family.
I felt so awful and I got so angry. Why aren´t specially trained or experienced investigators not able to find her? I contacted the Mccann´s investigation team by e-mail, informing them on your website (again) and told them about your latest dream. I urged them to send people out there just in case it may not be too late yet.
What do you think yourself, do you think that what you dreamt has already happened, or could it be in the future? Frankly I don´t think I want to read your answer, if you know what I mean.
But what if she is still alive and that she still can be saved, only it has to be very very soon? Wouldn´t it be absolutely awful if afterwards we´d find out she could have been saved, but that help came just a bit too late!
Actually, if what you dreamt is correct (I hope not), then "RM" should be stopped, because if he starts digging, I think it is too late. Do you agree?
Brian, last year you were willing to go there and search the place yourself, or perhaps in this case, knock on RM´s door. Would you still consider to go, if we all would ask you to and help you financially? If someone has a gut feeling about where she might be, it must be you. Perhaps with a (small) team of people who know how to handle these things (retired policemen or investigators). Are there some of them perhaps among your readers?
I apologise if I sound too bold, but I am just trying to think of a way how we could stop your dream from actually happening, of course hoping it hasn´t already happened!
I pray for poor, poor Madeleine to be safe and alive, to be found soon!
Evie
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Hi, I think she died of suffocation and it happened a few days ago...of course I hope I'm wrong, but that's what my dreams have been about. I do not think there is anything I can do, I wish there was, but I don't think I can help.
Brian
Brian - I have just read your latest post regarding Madeleine. I sincerely hope it isn't true. Why of earth would someone keep her for so long in Praia da Luz and then suffocate her. It just doesn't make sense. I have followed you since May last year, and I have believed in practically everything you have written, but I just can't bring myself to believe that Madeleine would be killed now after all this time. It would have been believeable if you had said that she had been killed just after she had been abducted because of all the publicity, but not 16 months on, there is no point.
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Hi, these are my dreams...and I said I would post them...why would I say that? believable? I'm not trying to be believable, I'm just trying to share what I know...my dreams.
Brian
Hi Brian, I’m still checking your website any chance I get and I’m so heart broken since your last post. I hope it’s NOT true and/or something can be done to stop Madeline from being hurt or even worse, I just can’t bring myself to even type the word. I still hang on to all hope that Madeline is alive and will be returned to her family and I will continue to hope until they find concrete evidence to tell us otherwise. I’m not disputing your dream just hanging on to any and all possible chances that Madeline will be found. I don’t think I could take it if I had to read a headline saying otherwise. My heart is racing right now just thinking about it and I start to cry every time I think of the worst possible outcome. I know it will be a VERY HARD day for a lot of your readers if you’re right.
To EVERYONE reading Brian’s site, please pray with all your heart that Brian’s dream has been misinterpreted and for Madeline’s sake that she will be found and QUICK, like today!!!! She has already been away from her family way too long and needs to be with her mom, dad & sister & brother. Let’s all band together in hopes that she is being loved and taken care of during this horrible time and continue to pray for good news…..
I’m still praying for you Baby Girl in hopes you will be home soon. Madeline Sweetheart, You have stolen the hearts of many and will NEVER be forgotten!!!!!
With all my Love,
Erica
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Hi Erica, I hope it's not true...remember these are just my dreams, and we have all done much more work than things just based on my dreams...and I will continue to do so.
Brian
HI Brian
Is there some way that Gale and Travis can confirm this dream as well. Not finding fault with you Brian as you know but ????
Perhaps this is better for Madeleine to be in heaven then to be in a dark dungeon. I say this while crying.
I have read your website about Madeleine and contributed where ever possible every day since the 7th May 2007 in the hope that I could help to find her and right the injustice – so if they could confirm this as well it would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Liz – Ireland then Sydney
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I would love to be wrong...tell you what, I will record a phone session about this case with each one of them.
Brian
Hi Brian, just sent you email.
It looks like your DD6910 could possibly be related to the Madeleine case 347, as you have written RM & Luz and drawn a religious cross sign as you have in many DDs. I can see that you have also written ‘chest hurts’ but you had not mentioned that on the translation.
Is there anything else that you have written or drawn on this DD that you can remember or could translate further? Kind regards, Z xx hug
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Hi, yes I think you're right, have not copied the dd to this case yet...I could not read some of it, but I'm pretty sure what it was about, but will try and translate more.
Brian
Brian,i cant believe what you have wrote maddie is dead and burried in the church grounds.
Brian is murat threatening you at all?or have you done this because of the investigation going on.............
im gob smacked and truelly lost for words.
yours
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Hi, I have not been threatened, these are just records of my dreams...and that's all.
Brian
8.28.2008
So sad that you are writing Madeleine might be deceased...
I hope to God as you do it is wrong...
I haven't heard from you and know how busy you are
I emailed regarding Madeleine I am resending this because
I am writing she is very much alive
water surrounds Madeleine
Austrian mountains a refuge of sorts
can not name but it is very remote
a vacation package of sorts
the phone number is isolated to incoming only
Regal authority is very much involved now
German side of Escape Frontier Travels
will stay until August 20th to Spain for holy
pilgrimage honoring Virgin of the Mount
Mountains to the left Mountains to the right
Madeleine is not the child in the picture
staged to take focas off of traveling to
Guard inside the Old Garden Club Resort
authories are involved and will not
reveal the location of child who is very much alive
Madeleine was inside the church for a few hours
hidden behind the scapula? scapular? door opens
to a small closet to change clothing...was taken...
Christ is the savior for all children
Yes all children are loved and cherished
surrounded by the guarded path
Madeleine will be going to wales
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Thank you, I hope she is alive too.
Brian
8.28.2008
Madeleine Mccann,should be looked for as a living person,there is no evidance to sugest otherwise,brian people will stop looking for her,i dont feel your helping puting out these negative thoughts,please continue to look for her.
she deserves to be found.
'One month later, on 11 June, the PSP police force in Amadora, received a report from a man who had just seen a girl with straight blonde hair, dressed in a track suit and with a mark in her eye in a restaurant in Mem Martins. The man spoke some words to her, called her Madeleine. According to the man's report the child reacting by shouting: "Help!"
The man the child was with – 30-40 years old, 1.70 m (5’ 7’’), swarthy complexion, "of Magreb origin", suddenly got up and left with the girl in a black BMW "with an NL disk", meaning that it was likely from Holland, the witness said. The police went to the scene of the sighting, but never traced the child or the BMW.'
now,i do not know how much truth is in this it was in the mccann files,it could be from the police files section.
brian,now help us please dont give up on madeleine
s
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Hi S, nothing has changed, I think people that have been following this and other cases know we will not give up....my dreams are just a small part of this ongoing case.
Brian
Dear Brian,
I presume you knew that the coordinates that we've been looking at very recently happen to be 1 step from Robert Murats house.
To be precise it is on the road outside his house (and possibly) over drains (whether new or roman although because the road is very straight i would put money on it being originally a roman road) If you look at the attached you can see location a ) is murats house b) is coordinate match and c) identifying a grassy place (golf course?) which might resemble the circle you drew on your dd6690. Note the filled in darker inner circle and the lines and zig zags above could indicate the shape the buildings make from Trebuchet MS shot?
Meanwhile, it might mean nothing, but I spotted a similarity to words in your dd's for rui pedro and this one for MM.
RUI PEDRO
No 1
"police, R ??, Catholic Church involved, no trust"
"116, no air -- please help"
MM MCCANN
No 2
"217 - no air - rm - help - too late ?, - do not come back - tunnel water - 370588434 - 13626?3952 9-5-2008---"...I'm sorry, but this may relate to the Madeleine McCann case, but I'm not ever going to give up hope.
No 3
free 3626? - 8434 too late -- latch, no 5/9/2008, no, green tag, scf001 FF, RM ?, luz"
My conclusion is as yours is - that someone else other that portugese police should have had a chance to search the drains and the basement in murats house as well as his pool house.
From what I have weened over the past year or so is that there is a basement with a false wall and that perhaps there are tunnels nearby that murat discovered? I know it might seem futile given your latest dream but we still have a few more days before 5th September 2008.
Best wishes, CL
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HI, yes I'm very familiar with the location of Murats house, and yes, someone other that the PJ needs to search this area...what's September 5th?
Brian
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Only got 1 picture to open
DD6910
"free 3626? - 8434 too late -- latch, no 5/9/2008, no, green tag, scf001 FF, RM ?, luz"
Dear Brian, I have attached a street map and as it is easier to match up. According to this the location is somewhere between the ocean club on the way to the baptista supermarket.... The only thing i don't understand is you say the coordincates match the number and i am no expert on how that works but don't see how they match. obvously 3705. and 843 but the other numbers are not the same i.e. 370588434 - 13626?3952 and the cordinates of from google map being 37 05'22.19" N, 8 43' 49.16" W
Best wishes, CL
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Hi, what DD's are your referring too? I could have made a mistake, will also post the map you just sent.
Brian
Dear Brian,
I just wanted to thank you for the marvellous work you have done on the Madeleine case. The last dreams are disheartening to us, your readers, but I can’t imagine how you must feel yourself, experiencing these dreams. Thank you for sharing them, as hard as it must have been. No matter the outcome of the Madeleine case, we have all learned much by following your site. I had no idea how many children go missing in this world. I also had no idea that there were dedicated people like yourself looking for them at no financial return. Let us all try to make this world a little better by looking for those who are missing and caring for each other a little more.
Pauline
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http://www.anaanapublishing.com
http://tattoo-and-tapa.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/tihotitatau
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Hi Pauline, I wake up all the time with tears on my face...it's very hard, but you have to stay composed and hope for the best...will share this email with the team.
Brian
Hi Brian, thank you for the sketch! It’s important to look after yourself. You have served many. Madeleine has taught us all so much. As long as all of us that have been touched by her disappearance don’t forget the lesson, somehow, it will help the world be a safer place, even as hard as it is.
Bless everything in your life ...
Pauline
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Hi, will do.
Brian
HI BRIAN, we have not printed this article yet and i think it has good info in it... just in case needed. best wishes, CL
Father of suspect's Algarve property fortune
By Duncan Gardham, David Sapsted and Richard Edwards
Last Updated: 2:24AM BST 16 May 2007
The family of Robert Murat, the man Portuguese police say is a suspect in the Madeleine McCann investigation, were once one of the biggest names on the Algarve.
His father, John, was a leading property developer and instrumental in transforming Praia da Luz from a fishing village into a high class tourist resort. He died from throat cancer - when Robert was 12 - and the family fell on hard times.
Just four years later, Robert left Portugal for a job on a turkey meat processing line at Bernard Matthews in Norfolk.
He went on to meet his now estranged wife, Dawn, and fathered a daughter, now aged four - the same age as Madeleine McCann and apparently strikingly similar in appearance.
But the marriage broke down and 15 years after he left, Murat returned to the Algarve, finally following in his father's footsteps by entering the Portuguese property market working for estate agents. Yesterday, the man considered a harmless oddball was identified by the Portuguese police as a "formal suspect" in the abduction investigation. His father, John, half Portuguese and half English, met Robert's mother, his second wife, when she was working as a nurse in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. Jenny, from Sidmouth in Devon, was 12 years his junior.
The pair married in Surrey in 1967 and their first child, Richard, was born in Exeter two years later. The next two, Samantha and Robert James Queriol Eveleigh Murat were born in West London in 1971 and 1973, when the family was living in Richmond-upon-Thames.
John Murat made his money in the mid 1970s as the bottom dropped out of the Portuguese property market over fears that there would be a communist take-over following a military coup.
"Praia da Luz was just a beautiful beach then," an old friend of his told The Daily Telegraph, "but there were already British and German expats looking to move into the area. John was a canny businessman and exceptionally intelligent and he spotted the opportunity. He was widely respected, kind, generous, a bon viveur. He helped build Praia de Luz in partnership with another Portuguese businessman until they fell out."
As a child, Robert went to the private International School, in Porches. After leaving school at 16, he moved to Britain where he found himself working on the production line for Bernard Matthews, producing dinosaur-shaped poultry products. He met Dawn Brown, eight years his senior, and the couple moved into a house in the village of Hockering.
Gareth Bailey, who worked with Murat at a car dealership in Norwich, said: "He is one of those overly-helpful people who likes to get involved with everything. I can see how his character could be misconstrued in a different situation."
Murat also put his linguistic abilities to good use, helping Norfolk police when they needed an interpreter for Portuguese agricultural workers. In 2005 he persuaded his wife to move to Portugal with him but it was not a success and she became homesick.
Whatever detectives discover, there will be few of Murat's friends who will readily accept that he could be guilty of abducting Madeleine. "I am 100 per cent sure that he would not be capable of harming a little girl. I would trust him with my own daughter," said Mr Bailey.
Hi Brian
Following a post from S regarding a sighting of Madeleine in June at Mem Martins – look at the post code!
Kind regards
Z
Brian
Hope all’s well with you & family.
Following my previous email on Bette G’s writings re Gattenburg & Etenburg and how I found these names sounding more Austrian, perhaps German, Swiss.
It seems there is/was a place called Gattenburg which is now named Gattendorf in Burgenland, Austria & is SE of Wien (Vienna), although Gattendorf’s nearest city is Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, as Gattendorf is very close to the Slovakian border.
“Gattenburg original Roman Catholic register:
[Austrian Burgenland] [Manuscript Book] An original Roman Catholic register of baptisms, marriages and burials (C 1682-1762, M 1684-1762, B 1696-1762) for Gata (Moson, Hungary), later called Lajtakata (Hungary), now Gattendorf, Burgenland, Austria, lying about 35 miles to the S.E. of Vienna.
The area was part of Hungary before WW1 and had a largely German and Croatian population. Today the Burgenland village of Gattendorf has a population of about 1,200. The register is substantial and was kept in
Latin by successive priests.”…
…”The parish is referred to throughout by the name, Gatta, while the parishioners are called Gattenses.”…
Taken from http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MARKET/2005-10/1130698807
Gattendorf in Austria has a railway line running through it & there has been a quite a bit of mention of a railway line from other psychics insights.
Carol Everett has just recently mentioned Austria as well as Germany as being Madeleine’s location & amongst mountains. http://www.caroleverett.com/maddy-mccann.htm and Carol also mentioned a place that is like Düsseldorf or a place ending with Dorf, which means village, but Düsseldorf is more like a very up-market large town or even city, with rich business men, as in Frankfurt too.
And Carol also mentioned that she feels this place is 1hour drive from the German/Belgian border & with a lock nearby, so sounds more like on a large river, but that was back in August 07. So of course Madeleine could well have moved onto anywhere since then.
A lot of Austrian, German place names end with Dorf, Burg, Berg. By the way, Berg means mountain area. Burg means castle hill area as Schloß (Schloss) means castle, or can be a chateau type building. Kirche means church. Cathedrale is spelt Kathedrale. In case anything helps in Googling.
There is also a place called Ettenberg of the Waldhausen area in Austria which is West of Vienna http://www.fallingrain.com/world/AU/4/Ettenberg.html ( http://www.fallingrain.com/world/AU/a/E/t/ ) ( http://www.fallingrain.com/world/ ) spelt slightly different to Bette’s Etenburg, but its very common that places in Europe mainland can be spelt different ways in different countries throughout mainland Europe.
How Austria/Germany links with Bette’s mentions of Spain etc Ive no idea, but perhaps her mentioning Ocean Cruise Lines, could mean Madeleine is with someone from a cruise liner & they go all over the place stopping off at different places in different countries on day trips with visits to cathedrals & historic sights etc.
The drawing Bette’s done of a mans face with the circles/swirls around him saying Ocean Cruise Lines, struck me as perhaps referring to a radar/radio officer.
But also, the circles/swirls within the ‘O’ of Ocean could well be a logo for a cruise company.
Could she be in cabin 217 & the ships number is 272, but where would the arch gate come into it, so I’m incorrect in even thinking that.
Bette’s drawing 4th from the last, mentions something about “Madeleine is with the glad….. Masonic lodge of” …..
Is Bette or anyone able to tra
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