MADDIE: The Truth of the Lies

Contents:

Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1. Rain? Certainly not.
2. Last known of Madeleine Beth McCann.

3. News of the disappearance. The first 72 hours.

4. The real victim is a child missing.
5. The following days.
6. The arrival of the English police. Portugal is still responsible
7. Suspicious behavior and contradictions. The case of Murat.

8. A man with a child on the way to the beach.

9. Mallorca, September 2005.

10. Rethinking the facts.
11. Analyzing the place of a crime. The apartment 5A.
12. The unbearable lightness and inconsistency of the scheme to monitor the
children.
13. Minor inconsistencies in the testimony or evidence the parents of Madeleine
and their friends.
14. The first signs of death: reaction of parents.
15. A remembered crime: the corpse of Mariana or the difference between
investigating a crime with body or without body
16. Second signs of death: the intervention of the researchers.
17. First conclusions to be drawn from tests made by EVRD dogs and CSI.

18. The sacred and the profane that forensic researchers found in the bedroom of
the couple McCann.
19. Preliminary results of the tests referred the English laboratory. Preparation of
interrogations of suspects.
20. Preparation of ‘arguidos’ status.
21. A victim in a state of shock.
22. The removal of the investigation co-ordinator. Conspiracy or doubt?
23. In the Ria de Alvor, a year on, looking at the past and the future.

Acknowledgments

To my daughters, Agnes, Rita and Sophia, from the absent father who dedicated
himself to his profession.

To my wife, Sofia, for her trust, understanding and affection that has always
been, particularly in recent times, difficult and arduous.

To my family and friends, who always understood and helped me constantly,

including my brother Louis and his wife Cristina, my sister Lucinda, and the family
of Leonel Santos, in Faro.

To my colleagues in the Judicial Police, British Police and the thousands of

anonymous citizens of different nationalities, who have from the beginning, and in
many ways, expressed their solidarity. Also to Internet bloggers and surfers and
others who defended the cause of truth and justice.

The National Republican Guard, the Police Security Service, the Maritime
Authority, the Volunteer Firemen of Lagos, the Civil Protection of the Algarve, and
particularly the staff of the City Halls of Lagos and Portimão, in particular, its
president, Dr. Julio Barroso and Dr. Manuel da Luz.

A new friend, Dr. Luis Varela Marreiros, who contributed much with his work and
study, so this book could see the light of day.

Finally, to my editors, who expressed every confidence in this project and believed in me from the
start.

Introduction

This book was written to restore my good name which is in danger of being damaged after 26 years as
a Judicial Police Officer in Portugal because of what is, in effect, an ‘institutional lie’.

My application for official permission to speak received no reply. As a Judicial Police Officer, I
rigorously conformed to the regulations that I remain silent, despite that it was excruciatingly difficult
for me to do so.

I was subsequently removed from the investigation and it then became apparent
that my situation required a defence. My retirement from the police was
necessary to provide the freedom to speak out on matters that seriously concern
me.

A greater purpose of this book, however, is to contribute to the ‘discovery’ or

public release of relevant material and to contribute to ultimate justice in the case
that has become known as ‘Maddie’. Truth and justice are the basic values to
which I ascribe and which are an obligation of my conscience; these values
reflect back to the fundamental purpose of the institution to which I had the
honour of belonging. These values were not extinguished by my retirement and
they will continue to be present and my guide here.

This book in no way questions the work of my colleagues, of other Judicial Police
Officers, nor does it compromise the current enquiry.
I am deeply committed in my understanding and writing that this kind of work
must provide facts that will pass future due-diligence tests in my attempt to
discover the truth. However, the reader will discover previously unknown facts
and interpretations of facts, always with an honest interpretation. Naturally,
pertinent interrogations are also included.

A criminal inquiry is precisely dedicated and committed to the search for the
absolute truth, the pursuit of material fact; it is not the place to be politically
correct.

End of Introduction

First Chapter.
Chapter 1 Haste?
Certainly what not February of 2008 (9 months after Maddie's disappearance) On
Sunday of Carnival had begun to the sound of shots of the hunters, who, for between
the creeping bush of the place full of rut from the Algarve, were pursuing,
deslealmente, undefended rabbits. I woke up to way of the morning and decided to be
staying for house. In the last times, I had lacked will for walks or convívios, was
feeling necessity of peace and silence. If, when the day began, the sun was promising
a good day for the revellers, in the afternoon the time was changing, threatening rain,
spoiling the party and the carnival parades. I spy for the window and am at the
moments admiring the scenery of the fields from the Algarve, where the almond trees
flower already, in immense it renders rose-colored and snow white, in contrast with
the blue of the sea of that in the distance one catches sight getting confused with the
still blue of the sky. The touch of the tele - telephone wakes me of the lethargy in
which I am for the hard one recovers - lidade: someone is interested in
communicating with me, which in the last times it has been difficult. From another
side, a friendly voice that, with rage and sorrow, question: — Are You well? Did you
already know of the interview of our national director? I responded negatively to the
second question, waiting to know the reason of such preoccupation.

Maddie To Truth of the Lie — He says that we were hasty, that the constitution of the
couple as tested it was hasty. He will be well!? But if be linked partici - pou in the
decision … It will Be that it intends to kill the investigation!? My interlocutor was
referring to the investigation of a desapa - recement of a 4-year-old English girl of
age, taken place in the night of the 3rd of May of 2007, in Ocean Club, one of several
tourist aldeamentos of the Town of Luz, in Lakes – Portugal. Plain - mava-se
Madeleine Beth McCann, would be sleeping in the compa - nhia of two newer
brothers, while the parents had dinner, to a hundred of meters, with a group of friends
and holidays companions. This disappearance gave place to an investigation crimi -
nal never put on in Portugal and, probably, in any other part of the world. The couple
of the criminal investigation took place a fenó - meno mediático and global also
before I never put on. Great thing was said till the moment – truths and I lay - frogs,
when it are assisted, the couple of the duty of information, to campaigns of
desinformação what aimed descredibilizar at the developed criminal investigation and
the persons in charge for same. For me I invested it - gação was killed by it from the
2nd of October of 2007, when it seemed to have avenged a new English ultimatum in
the day itself in which the Treaty of Lisbon was discussed, for what was already
admiring me. In the last times it had assisted one more show mediático, a last forcing
for the theory of the kidnapping, with the spread for part of the family McCann of a
portrait-robot of a presumable kidnapper. It already not at all surprises me. — Do not
call. It is a Carnival. We continue with circumstance conversation, but I felt what,
definitely, my world had like what colapsado. After disconnecting, do I looked again
at the almond trees, plan - tadas in the hard ground from the Algarve, this ground that
can have had influên - rows backwards in the strategy of occultation of a corpse and, I
thought, hasty God would not have been while making them flower in Winter? I end
for

negative. It was certainly an act of love, looking like me of the legend of the Nordic
princess married with a Moorish king, which, in the Castle of Silves, was spending
the sad days with longings of his country because of not seeing snow. It counts the
legend that this king temou then begins it - tiva of ordering to plant almond trees in
the whole extension of lands of that one was catching sight of the battlements of the
castle. So, when the Winter arrived and the princess climbed to the top of the window,
he saw the white mantle of the almond trees in flower that were looking to snow of
his birth-place and his sadness finished. A little of history of the Algarve and of the
natives of the Algarve O Algarve always constituted a great hug opened to the world.
His position geoestratégica, the sky, the climate and the hospitali - dade of his people
were factors that, from remote times, led to the meeting with persons of other places.
This way shovels - recover fenícios, cartagineses and Greeks. Here they installed the
pomegranate - in, building roads of communication and leaving tracks of his
architecture, in Estói, Vilamoura, Arrived, Town of Luz, and at so many other places
where still today it is possible to admire the vestí - gios of his presence. The Muslims
also this way walked, extending the Al-Andaluz for west of the emirate of Córdoba,
the Al-Gharb, and his inheritance is just as well visible in the natives of the Algarve
and in his culture. It was in a tourist Algarve, of legends and of Moorish ones it
charms - of, that that child one day disappeared. An Algarve turned to the tourism
(maioritariamente English), from the 60 years of the century. XX To relation of the
Algarve with England had, along the histó - river branch, moments ups and downs.
During the period of the loss of inde - dispute (1580 to 1640), when Portugal made
part of the empire
Spanish, the devastation and withdrawal of Sense of smell happened for the troops of
the count of Essex. Between many other wealth, the count Essex after - sou-se of the
library of D. Jerónimo Osório, bishop of the Algarve, of which it was doing breaks the
Pentateuco published in Hebrew and printed in Sense of smell, for Samuel Gacon,
Jewish publisher, it was running the year of 1487, con - siderado the first book led to
the print in Portugal. The estate of the library of the man is caught sight by me, and
with her the Pentateuco (I them excelled - ros five books of the sacred Bible, referring
to Genesis of the Ancient Will), it remains in the United Kingdom, in the section
bodhliana of the British Library. Later, the natives of the Algarve, helped the Ingla -
land in the support the Gibraltar basic for the survival of this point of support of
"Home Fleet" and, 350 years later, kept on supporting and on caressing the subjects of
your Majesty aquando of the affluence of tourists originating from British lands,
being today this easy sympathy of noting in these lands from the Algarve. The
population of the Algarve never adapted with the domí - nio foreigner, joining
actively to the cause of the national independence shared with a rest of the people of
the Kingdom of Portugal. In the century, aquando of the French invasions, it was in
the Algarve XIX that the troops of Napoleão began to be defeated. The popu - lação
of Olhão revolted and, near the riverside of Quelfes, place of that I catch sight of my
window, they fought with glory against these invaders. In the height, a small and
fragile caique with the name of Good Success, manoeuvred by boys of Olhão, got a
beating, to a king D. John VI then exiled in the Rio de Janeiro with his court, the
piece of news of the release of the Homeland. Portugal is a country of brave people.
Hospitable people that there can receive the one who in the visit, without bending
before the arrogân - rows backwards, not even allowing enxovalhos, proudly of his
identity and independence, even in times of European Union.

It is also a modern, welcoming country of many investments and of mui - you them
tourists, diplomatic protagonist with recognized merit
and self-respect in the establishment of «bridges« with other nations. With other
States. With better or worse results, Portugal was doing alliances, pacts, treaties,
reinforced his relations bila - terais with countless countries. The alliance British-
Portuguese is, also, of that example – a sign of vitality of the relations between two
countries and, especially, general rule, of great understanding. An inquiry destined to
the archive I Have the premonition of which with that declaration the national director
intends to prepare the public opinion for the ine - vitável, in other words, the end of
the investigation and the filing of the inqué - rite.

This was seeming to be the strategy adopted on the 2nd of October of 2007, which
vein to be consolidated with the realization of diligence to carry out calendar, a little
for show. I was afraid soon that the investigation was put in question carried out up to
there, in the form to make easy an eventual filing. This investigation had come to
wear away the image of the Judicial Police officer, of his investigators and of
Portugal, and perhaps therefore it would end. The constitution of Kate Healy and
Gerald McCann, Madeleine's parents, since tested the turning point should have been
in the relation between the wrapped police officers and the couple. If, as for the
Portuguese police officer, this break happened, the same thing seems to itself not to be
able to say relatively to the English police officer. There was an understanding
between both police officers to advance in a course of investigation that was facing
seriously the possibility of the death of the child to have taken place in the apartment
but, suddenly, the English police officer inflected the course without coherent
technical explanation – as in front we will see. Strangeness always caused us to form
as the couple it was treated, even after his constitution as tested, and the infor - police
Freemason what eventually they had access.

Mentally, I am reselling the investigation, the memories flow in waterfall. I think

principally about that child whom, before 4 years pass somewhat see, in the sudden
form, when his right was denied to the existence, to be made a woman, to a potential
life of happiness and success in the company of his relatives and friends, which
abruptly was lost. Nothing does hurt. A fug of the facts seems to be be preparing,
when the force is reduced of completely and any type of sign, when the rights are
forgotten of that and of other children. But whom does this resul want - tado? Who
demanded my exit of the operational co-ordination of the investigation? Who wants
the end of the statute of the McCann and of Murat like tested? Those who insist on a
kidnapping theory? Those who affirmed, and in front will I say who are they, what for
much less had already fastened persons in England? Or what insist on the lie
forgetting the search of the material truth? To someone it will serve the eventual filing
of the inquiry and the end of the investigations. After my exit of Portimão on the 2nd
of October of 2007, it had decided to forget the case. Perhaps it was better, a face to
the powers that seem to be wrapped. If the authorities of the little native land of the
child want to know of what him happened, feeding the theory of the kidnapping,
because I will have to preoccupy myself? It will not be a preposterous declaration (or
induced it shears entre - vistadora) of a director of police officer that is going to
manage to put out the existent signs (also it will not have been said with this
intention), our work is molded in the cars. Only destroying them the fact is that it is
possible to put out the register from which it was done and it, even so, remains - - in
our memory and her of that what with us took to post the strenuous task of trying to
discover the material truth.

Another phone call. Now it is Sofia, my woman. Be preo - cupada with me, as a
matter of fact, it has not been doing another thing from the 3rd of May of last year,
already there vainly 9 months. If our marriage it had problems, they got worse after
that date. From that height that I became in a husband and almost absent father. If, of
beginning, I moved away from the family to protect it of the pressure mediática and of
necessity of the dynamic one of the investigation, now that alone living creature, for a
bitter taste for the life and with a treason feeling for part of the institution to which I
dedicated more than a room of century of my existence, nothing seems justified to me,
does not do sense. My family was not deserving the absence, but, for times, the equilí
- brios are out. It is necessary to isolate us of the world, pen - sar and to define our
projects of life again. Sofia cho is - each with the declarations of the national director:
— It comes to have for dinner with me the Portimão, the girls stayed at home of the
grandparents, we speak a little on what to happen is. I hide to I walk, need the
stimulant words of Sofia. Leaving from there, I am attentive to the news, taking
conscience of the gravity of the declaration of the national director, done for whom
without - daily pay affirmed that all the investigation lines were in opened. A thing is
valid determined investigation lines are maintained, other one is to investigate them to
the same time. Will have been forgotten all the facts perfected even to the decision of
constituting the couple as tested by suspicion of the practice of the crimes of hidden -
ção of corpse and simulation of crime?

Later, my illustrious teacher of Political Science and Constitutional Right, Doctor

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, comen - taria in the television the declaration of the
national director. I look like myself still of his lesson on the powers separation. But,
his comen - tário would restrict himself to the words of a director, if he affirmed that
same they killed the investigation. Again the death of the investigation, will it be that
a child did not die? Yes, a child died! And I say - - not for valuable judgements, but
for deduction substantiated by the gathering of informations, signs and proofs of facts
that are tips - mados in the cars. You ask and more questions! And the answers?

While trying to answer I was ending what perhaps had influên - it rows backwards
that it makes positive to let know the history of the investigation when this one was
lively, from the moment in which the girl desapa - resky. Much has been spoken, it is
brought near to hour of letting know the history of the investigation counted by the
one who coordinated it it operates - cionalmente and he survived it intensely, in the
company of men and women who represent what of better the Judicial Police officer it
has.

The care of a decision Already in Portimão, I find the inspector-chief Tavares de

Almeida, that I was integrating the team whom I coordinated. Conhecemo - - in from
the times in which we joined the Police officer Judiciá - river branch. Be apprehensive
with the words of the national director, talk about an inquiry for that it will have
already asked to the National Direction of the Polí - it rows backwards Judicial. For
him, the inquiry to our work will come to put the truth back. — During five months in
which we supported ourselves in the reverse side - tigação, we hear of everything a
little, but we were carrying out our work. We recall what we did, with great effort and,
honor - it lies, we have doubts that others could have made better. It is not a
presumption, it is a confidence in the rigidity of the work of all the profis - sionais of
police officer wrapped: — Hear! Cannot this gang do counts? Since it is possible to
talk about haste when the couple was constituted tested qua - tro some months after
the facts. Do not they know the beginning of not auto-car? It was referring to the legal
impossibility of keeping on gathering declarations of someone, like witness, of form
which this one gives knowing facts that come to incriminate it. In other words, when
someone is giving declarations on a determined case and, to given moment, one
checks that this citizen will have an eventual involvement or responsibility in practice
of any illicit act, is constituted tested. With that the citizen has a right and to have to.
Curiously, and on the contrary of what is so many times written in the press,
especially in the English one, the tested gains pro-tecção with the possibility to be
sent to the silence without which with that it commits a crime of false declarations –
as it would be the case if it was still maintained as it testifies. — I agree with you. If
there are mistakes in the investigation this is one of them.

The delay in proceeding to the constitution of the couple like tested. There was
politics it more and police officer her less. — Well, he would not say so much. The
mistake had treated the couple «with tweezers». Well you know that from much I give
in we saw that great thing was not slamming right and they were treated with
privileges. It is that that is not normal! — Perhaps the national director thinks that the
couple only left the Algarve since they had been constituted tested. — The couple was
for the Algarve, while one was talking about the kidnapping theory … when such a
theory was put in question, they began soon to speak in returning England. — From
where is ended that his constitution as tested it was a false pretext in order that they
left our country. — You know!? There were English journalists who considered For -
tugal a country of the Third World … I disagreed and I continue the discor - to give,
however, only in a country of Third World is that there is removed person in charge
for a current criminal investigation, unless the same thing had been a post in question
for the investigation that was driving. — It is spoken that very much in the
governamentalização of the justice … the form is forgotten as it is possible to
influence an any reverse side - tigação criminal— It is easy … con distributes the
investigation to persons of ours - guarantee … or then, if the things do not run well,
criminals are changed - ponsáveis you shear same … — it does not seem to me that
the bottom reason has been this, but … — There Are always valid and legal
arguments … Finally. The only obstacle to this management of the investigation,
almost politics … are the very leaders of the police officers.
It is necessary that they are opposed to dubious and opposite situations to the interest
of the investigation. They cannot bring into line with everything only to be seized to
the power … — Companion … The persons do not direct the police officers for inte -
resses people … directs them in the pursuit of the public interest. Only so it is
possible to understand the paper of the police officers in a State demo - crático and of
right. — But, look!... We can reach the point in which it determines - of the
investigations they will only be carried out by whom the tested ones quise - sender.
perhaps it was a question of «modernity«. — Of modernity or of interests … this is
completely a xxxx! — Speaking of that … you already saw the form how our Ben
plays - it is … they are not playing anything. — Nothing is little … they look that it is
not to be able to play soccer. Have you been seeing Seagull? Seagull is the nickname
of anciently central defense of the Benfica that was living in Portimão during the time
in which we supported ourselves to the front of the investigation. He was a
companion in the good and bad moments. Now it was looking like me of his
friendship and patience to endure me. — Look, it is that one that was still doing a
perninha in the defense of our Benfica. — Now only like trainer … like assistant or
up to principal trainer.

Behind the scenes of the investigation: the «room of crisis» Sofia has been hearing the
conversation. She knows of the work developed by Tavares de Almeida, it was him
who got to maintain operationally the room of crisis that worked even to the departure
of a last English police officer for the United Kingdom, which happened aquando of
the return of the couple England, as if there was no interest in continuing the
investigation in the place of the disappearance. Nor - malmente he was opening the
room of crisis about the six of the morning and only it was leaving it in the next dawn.
The whole information was directed to this room: it was bringing near by e-mail,
postal letter, tele - telephone, of the common persons, of other police officers and
other organisms. It was here that everything was happening. In the bottom, this room
was heart of the investigation. The information was an object of a selection to do the
separation between what was I aim and what was merely speculative, such as
avistamentos (what multiplied expo - nencialmente while the case was having
visibility mediá - it checks).
In parallel, there was also another room next to the room of crisis, where our
English colleagues were, and what was working in the logic of communicant pots
and of share of information. In the team meetings the British police officers were
taking also part and were registering his notes in Majors Incident Enquiry
Officer's Rough Book. In another room, another group was doing the analysis of
other * type of more technical information. For example, lifting of the pedófilos
that were still in the Algarve or the creation of the diagra - but of connections. A
hard and thorough work, of great value, then to be analysed by the group
previously described. One of the functions of Tavares de Almeida was consisting
in prepa - rar all the documents, of many people needing translation, in the form
to distribute tasks for many people you equip what in the land executes - *
Exercise books of notes of the English police officer.

vam the operational orders, testing varied information's. His revolt is natural.
There is an injustice feeling, the Polí - rows backwards Judicial seems to be a
stepmother for with his servants, he could never defend them and now it will be
putting in question his work. It is a sadness. The following days begin to be
spoken about the dismissal of the national director and again the PJ is on the
edge of a crisis. We do not understand this easy reasoning that seems to lead to
dismissals cycles in the hierarchy of this organization. The history of the Judicial
Police officer, his culture of investigation and the service that is of use to the
community advises to the stability and not to cyclical dismissals. How is it
possible that a criminal investigation, in the case the disappearance or death of
an English child, puts in question the Portuguese justice, the Judicial Police officer
and I polished the cooperation - cial between two countries with one of the oldest
alliances of the world? What you were able they made difficult and do they
damage the investigation? Perhaps while telling the history of this consiga to give
answer to that one and to other interrogations, contributing to the explanation of
the facts. As a matter of fact, I launch from now a challenge to the university
investigators of the Sciences of the Communication in order that they are bent on
this case and they observe, they analyse and they investigate like a simple case if
it converted in the biggest case mediático of the modern times. There is
something when of case was mismatched in all East and certainly that the
contributo of the academics will be able to be interesting.

The LGARVE «… When all Was Turned for the sea and for the south, in other
words, for Muslim Africa, and when the imperious End of Saint Raven is pointing
to America, limited by a screen of mountain ranges that do not give him
greatness but intimacy, the Algarve has the air of a girl before - - room and world
display case pilgrims. Girl, we repeat, and not only in the dimensions of the land,
in the shortage of great monumen - you them, but in the vegetable revetment
itself, since cork oaks, alfarro - banks, orange trees and almond trees, of
anãzinhas, they raise somewhat of the land, or then the fig trees double the
branches even to the ground, raste - jam and they raise again, like multiple arms
of out chandeliers …» Jaime Cortesão, Portugal – The Land and the Man
Chapter 2

Every holidays of Madeleine Beth McCann Sábado, 28th of April In the April end
of 2007, the Spring from the Algarve was in the height, in spite of not helping the
state of the time. It was raining occasionally - it lies. In the moments in which
the Sun was shining, the temperature tor - valley if pleasantly, but the nights
were windy and cold. In the Saturday morning, 28th of April, 3-year-old age
Madeleine, in the compa - nhia of the parents, Gerald McCann and 39-year-old
Kate Healy of age, doctors, with residence in Rothley, England, and two twin
brothers, Amelie and 2-year-old Sean, address for the airport of Leicestershire, in
order to board in a flight bound for Sense of smell. It is time of a short holidays
periods, which end is predicted for the next Saturday, 5th of May. Madeleine
seems happy and anxious. Of Sense of smell, where does it arrive at around 14h,
it moves, in a mini one - bus when it was given up by the tourist operator, for the
resort Ocean Club, in the Town of Luz, near the Lakes city, nearly 70 km of the
airport. With the McCann his woman 35-year-old, equally medical Fiona Payne
travels the family Payne, composed by 41-year-old David Payne of age,
medically, his daughters Lilly and Scarlett, criminals - pectivamente of 2 years
and 1 year, and 63-year-old Dianne Webster, controladora of credit, mother of
Fiona and grandmother of the children.

At around 13h, flying from London, the restan - 29 had arrived tes elements of
the holidays groups: the couple 38-year-old, medical Matthew Oldfield, and 37-
year-old Rachael Maplly, advisor of human resources, with the daughter Grace, of
19 months, as well as the couple 37-year-old, medical Russell O'Brien, and 36-
year-old Jane Tanner, gestora of marketing, with the daughters Ella and Evie,
respective - mind of 3 and 1 year of age. David Payne is the organizer of the
travel and it has been some years since these couples already spend holidays
joined. In January of 2003, encon - trando-se pregnant Kate Healy of Madeleine,
they spent a holidays weeks in the island of Lanzarote, in the Spanish archipelago
of the Caná - river branches. In September of 2003, the couple McCann, with the
friends Mat - thew Oldfield, Rachael Maplly, Russel O'Brien and Jane Tanner, you
give - locou-se to the Italian region of Umbria, where they spent a holidays
weeks and assisted the marriage of David Payne and Fiona.

Color - he was laughing the year of 2005 when, in September, the couple McCann
with his daughter Madeleine, in the height with 2 two years and 4 months, if
deslo - cou Majorca, Spain, for a few holidays shared with the couple Payne and
other friendly couples. In Ocean Club they proceed to the check-in, happening, in
luck, to the couple McCann to be accommodated in the apartment 5th, in at the
bottom of - - ground of one of the blocks of apartments, which rears give for the
swimming pools zone, tennis field and for the restaurant You Cover. This
apartment is in the corner of the block, being flanked by a public road.

Other couples accommodate in the apartments 5 h (family Payne), 5D (family),

and 5B (family Oldfield). The apartment 5B is half-walls with it 5th, and near 5D,
they all are situated in the first floor. Only the apartment 5 h is situated on the
first floor. The principal access 5th to the apartment is for the couple - that of
situated parking in the part frontlet of the block. This parking park is walled with
a central opening. The wall has nearly 1 meter of height. Separating the park of
estaciona - chin of the block, there is another wall, equally with 1 meter of
height, what it is opened in the central zone of such a block. It is necessá - * I
laugh to follow the way run by the side by this wall to reach the 5th principal door
of the apartment, which is simple, in wood and without great security, only with a
lock, needing a key to open it. The one who walks for this door passes,
obrigatoriamente, in front of window of the room where Madeleine and the
brothers were sleeping.
 Chapter 3
Piece of news of a disappearance.

The first 72 hours On that night, 3rd of May of 2007, I decided to have dinner in
the beer - river branch Carvi, good in the center of Portimão, before beginning
the travel of return to house. A year since was finding me in that city, directing
the department of criminal investigation of the Judicial Police officer. In 1982, with
twenty three years of age, in the beginning of my investigator's run, the Portimão
had moved and there connected knowledge with a charismatic figure of that land,
ex-leader camarário and athletic, simple person and dinâ - mica, my friendly
Manuel John. Much helped the elements of the PJ that for there were moving in
service. While autarca was the impulsionador of the installation, in the city, of a
department of the Judicial Police officer. It was with this fascinating person and
good con - tador of histories that again I decided to share the sacred moment of
the meal. For you realize between them of the coast vicentina and the shrimp of
the rock, we were speaking about several problems of the socie - dade
Portuguese.

For twenty four hours, already when of I left on the house way, I receive the
piece of news that the Republican National Police had comu - when the
disappearance of a 4-year-old English girl of age, of the interior of an apartment
was pecked to the squad service, while the parents had dinner to a hundred of
meters. The child was meeting on holidays with the family in the Town of Luz, in
Lakes.

Precise educations were given to a squad chief, with the fine one - lidade of what
the inspector who was moving to the place had aten - ção to the most lowest
details and was registering correctly all the details that they were coming to note,
must be doing acompa - nhar from an element of the technical skill, striving for
the isola - chin and preservation of the apartment. They should think about all the
means, if they developed the acts to warn necessary, in the form to preserve
signs and elements of proof. I demanded that they were maintaining me
informed.

Before returning the house I moved to the squad, constant service that works in
the installations of several police departments, confirming what we were
answering to the alert of the disappearance and they were been seizure - of all
the necessary and urgent measures. The squad chief had already alerted the
police authorities in the airport of Sense of smell and the mixed post installed in
the bridge of the Guadiana. The first skills do not carry out the wanted effect A
dislocation to the place, soon after the denunciation of the desapareci - chin, of
an investigator and an expert of the technical police officer seems not to have
produced, totally, the wanted effect. They reported, in the succinct form, what
they saw and what was given them knowing, pro-giving in to a photographic
report of the interior and outside of the apartment, the first floor n.º 5th of the
resort Ocean Club.

For us this photographic report does not show everything what there become, this
is, when they reached the place several persons were in the interior of the
apartment and in the effectuated photos nobody is seen. This will be a mistake
only justifiably for the lack of proceedings and internal rules of the Judicial Police
officer as for the treatment of cases of lost children, namely the first dislocation
to the place and the respective inspection.

The place of the facts should have been shown with loyalty, the photos, or video
images, they had to fix, for the history, what effectively the investigators saw
aquando from his arrival to the place. Namely the form since the presents were
put on. Given that it might be of the biggest relevance for to eternity - lução of
the investigation. It is described that the twins were sleeping in the cradles, but
there are not photos of this moment, and that they photographed it was two
empty cradles, only with the mattresses, without sheets and bed clothes. On this
affirmation there is no proof. More: what is the reason so that the sheets are not
in the beds of the twins?

If there they were they would have certainly normal tracks of the children. His
non-existence leaves us without certainty in relation to this affirmation. When I
brought near to house, Inês, ours favourite son, it was sleeping with the mother,
occupying my place. In silence, in the twilight of the room, I sat down in the bank
of the bed. Somewhere outside a girl was walking like her, of his age, but far from
the coziness of the mother.

Sofia woke up and foreseeing said: – What was? I told him and instinti - vamente
it put the hand in the small and hot chest of Inês, without however to himself
pulling for next to in the form leaving my free place. My woman knows me well
and knows that to lay would not go away.

After several telephone contacts, I sent a SMS to a director of Sense of smell:

English girl, 4 years of age, disappeared of a hotel of the Beach of Luz. It was
enough. While reading it it would take consciên - it rows backwards of the gravity
of the situation. Three years before we had in hands the investigation of the
disappearance / death of another child, to few kilometers of the Beach of Luz. In
the height we drove to despair since us fact had not been a sickish knowledge of
his desa - parecimento. We had kept the conviction of which, beginning
investigations soon after the disappearance, we might have reco - lhido other
elements of proof.

The speed of the police answer is Maddie To Truth of the essential Lie in this type
of cases. The first seventy two hours are problematic and important. On Friday,
4th of May The first interrogations and an informations request to the police
officer Anglicizes Now it was one more preoccupied dawn, feeling that something
was missed in the description of the event, the girl would have desa - looked by
the ten of the night, when it was sleeping with two brothers, newer, all alone ones
at home, the parents would be having dinner to a hundred of meters, with friends
and holidays companions.

It seemed there was a scheme of vigilance of the children, of 30 in 30 minutes, or

of 15 in 15 minutes – according to the versions – in what someone of the group
was going to see them. She would have been Madeleine's mother to be given for
his lack, levan - tando soon the kidnapping hypothesis. It is urgent knowledge
who is this couple and the group of friends, which they do, which problems have
in Ingla - land, if sometime they mistreated the children; will it be that some vizi
- nho, relative, friend, or different, noticed any incorrect behavior? Which his
profession? Do they practise it? To whole time? Will some member of the couple
have suffered of any depression? Was the relationship between the couple
healthy? Are they wrapped in any serious lawsuit? Does anybody want them
badly? Why? I call Glen Power, English official of connection in Portugal, give to
him conhe - cement of what if it is passing asking there to direct that one our
request, what we were considering essentially for her it investigates - ção, and is
waiting for an answer.

While it was doing those contacts and my daughters were sleeping still foreign to
the drama, Sofia prepared the breakfast to me in silence, it looked at me in the
interrogative form suspecting what leaving from that point on rarely would be
going to see me. We had already suffered an identic experience and he was
conscious of my pledge in that type of investigation.

The organization of the investigation in his first phase From dawn that the
inspector-chief Tavares de Almeida is in the installations of the Department of
Investigation I Believed - minal of Portimão accompanying the diligence that go
away reali - zando. It was his first day of holidays but, noticing the gravity of the
situation, it decided to enjoy them later, in the form to contribute to the
investigation. Also I and the director of Sense of smell would not be going to have
time for holidays pleasures

. It is necessary to continue with the national and international diffusion of the

disappearance: all the Portuguese police officers were already knowing, the
Interpol tam - bém. During the evening searches had been organized in the zone
of the disappearance, for part of popular ones and of the Republican National
Police, which would be retaken and extended during the day. The apartment will
of inspected properly, apesar of the village witnessed by the first officials of the
Judicial Police officer who there moved. Completely and they all there had
entered: from friends of the couple to employees of a resort, passing over him -
chins of the GNR and dogs. There is feared the contamination of the place of the
desa - parecimento of Maddie who will be able to have turned out to be from the
countless persons that there they were.

We have to meditate if such it contaminates - ção it was unconscious or

conscious, chance or with a concrete purpose. Be going to be difficult to find any
track, it it separates - chin will be able to be irremediavelmente contaminated. Of
Lisbon there is already on the way a team of scene of the crime, to examine in
depth the apartment meantime empty.

At around 9h, I bring near to the Department of Criminal Investigation of

Portimão. Like coordinator, I call the inspector-chief Tavares de Almeida to my
office and we talk on the case. We proceed to the swinging of what is already
done and plan diligence to be carried out of immediate one. The couple of the
searches in the zone, which include public crates of garbage and sewer pipes, is
necessary to give iní - I row backwards to hundreds of investigations; the couple
and the group of friends have to begin to be heard formally, we need his I
excelled - frogs declarations.

It is these first declarations that start, always, to be almost important most

important, because of being contemporaries to the event. The declarations of the
employees of the restaurant and of the day-care center where Madeleine and his
were two brothers staying during the day also are important; in the bottom they
are the last persons to see the parents and Madeleine, as well as the friends. We
have of procu - rar you witness for between several present tourists in the resort.
It is necessary to obtain the list of such tourists, in order to next to the parents
and of the group of friends to check if someone is his acquaintance.

It resorts - - to the English police authorities with the purpose of knowing if some
tourist is there known and for which crime or suspicion. From the resort, we need
of locating and imagining all the registers of video, in an inquiry that will be going
to include hotels, ban - waistband, pharmacies, supermarkets, all the areas of
supply of fuels of the proximities, being extended to the installed ones in the
highway that ties Lakes Spain, as well as of the cameras of vigilance installed
along this road, in two senses. Atrous - vés of the Customs Vigilance of Spain,
one asks to the police authorities of that country that they are attentive to the
boarding points for Morocco, for ports of Tariff and Algeciras, namely atrous - vés
of the systems there installed of vigilance.

The Algarve has condi - ções you devise for the nautical sports, having several
marinas. Here originating recreation ships dock of more several origins and
nationalities. The coast situated, from the Algarve her around 120 miles of the
African continent and his position geoestratégica, between the Mediterranean and
the Atlantic, like the first coast of the conti - nente European, providing beaches
and pleasant bays, with very good climacterical conditions and of sea, constitutes
a plain - mariz, not only for tourists but also for dealers of the whole sort. — It
Tells to contact the marinas and the Sea, precise Police officer - me them of
gathering images and registers of entry and exit of embarca - ções from the last
days. — I am going to contact them to know if they began already you look in the
sea, near the coast.

Predicting the volume of diligence and information that would be going to begin to
arrive, we decide on the creation of a room of crisis: — We need a space to work
like crisis room … it gives orders in order that they prepare the room of meetings.
The information for that one looks not always if it finds Is Needed by Us of
information as of bread for the mouth. With base in our experience and intuition,
always having present the methods of investigation to be used, we are thinking
about the diver - the healthy forms of obtaining information with interest.

Do not prune us - to forget them of photos or videos done during holidays by the
couple McCann and the group of friends. They can be useful, in so far as, through
them, it is possible to detect and to identify some suspect or what had become a
suspect for his attitude relatively to the crian - ças. Nowadays the photographies
are a way of extremely vulgarized entertainment, especially for the vulgarization
of the photo - digital spelling, because they make into a fountain of information
daily pay - conscientious.

In other words, most of the persons take away hundreds of photographies one
holidays weeks, allowing gathering multiples details in more several situations,
because the probability of there were holidays photographies was lifted up. In
fact, the couple McCann and his friends who were on holidays in the Town of Luz
his photographies allowed to the PJ. However, one checked that not even the
McCann not even too many elements of the group had photographies taken away
in the night. Or better, no nocturnal photographies reached our hands, not even
of the couple not even of his group of friends.

What would have been important to realize what it went on on that night of the
3rd of May. An apartment without breaking in signs Being, in this phase, when in
all the hypotheses were opened, it and now loca - lizar and to identify all the
pedófilos to reside or to start holidays in the Algarve, in the form to perfect if they
were in the town of Luz and if they will be, in some form, connected with the
disappearance. Normally thefts take place in holidays apartments. A great deal of
the such times thefts are not communicated to the authorities I polished - you
row backwards because the tourist operators do not want bad publicity. In spite of
the apartment of where did Madeleine disappear not to have signs of breaking in
– on the contrary of what the parents affirmed and it was defending the Sky
News – it is necessary to perfect the criminal history of that tourist zone in
general and of the resort in individual.

Let's go then to the search of the suspects of theft of that zone, let's contact the
local authorities, let's look for registers. Let's appeal to the good sense of the
persons in charge for the resort, no theft or attempt that has taken place there
can be forgotten. It is not credible what anybody who had moved to the
apartment to steal had taken, it cheers or dead, the child, but … we cannot
discard who - wants hypothesis, for more ridiculous than she could look to the
first sight.

On still 4th of May It is necessary to register the means prepared during the
evening by the team who moved to the place, and to give knowledge to the Public
Ministry next to the Judicial Court of the Judicature of Lakes. Hesi - tamos in the
legal qualification to be given to the reported facts. I decided - I me them register
it as I kidnap, but soon we put to his front two question marks: we have doubts.
In the process still today it is possible to see the leaf with the description «Do I
Kidnap??» . The decision is not taken of light spirit. All the data were considered
existen - tes, several hypotheses, when it are come to the conclusion that the
hypothesis kidnapping would warn the interests in play, of the parents and of the
juvenile, well as of the investigation itself.

As in most of the cases, the investigation had begun with a dislocation to the
place of a team of officials of the service of squad, after comuni - shark of the
Republican National Police. The team who moved to the place prepared a report
where it described what he saw and what was reported, identifying intervenient
and eventual testemu - nhas, proceeding to an inspection lofoscópica and the
report * photographics. It was this report that me was present, in the morning
from the 4th of May. Of the reading of the same thing, one concluded for the
inexistên - it rows backwards of safe signs that were allowing to us to point in to
detain - mined direction, setting aside others. They were when in all the
hypotheses were opened: voluntary disappearance – the girl to have been lifted
of the bed, in the absence of the parents, and to have gone from house to his
search; accident, following death, with corpse's subsequent occultation; insults to
the physical entirety with turned in death;

• Gathering and analysis of fingerprints.

negligent or intentional murder, being of considering an act of vengeance; I

kidnap for subsequent redemption request; I kidnap for a predator for sexual
abuse, act of a pedófilo; kidnapping or death for part of someone who had been
introduced in the apartment with the purpose of stealing and was surprised by
the child.

The hypothesis kidnapping was allowing a more extended investigation and with -
plexa, launching hand of ways and resources what, otherwise, it would be difficult
to use. The arrival would be, so, possible for the Algarve of an extended team of
investigators, which is an essential face to the quantity of diligence to be carried
out, principally in the first 72 hours.

In a climate of peace and of silence, but with great to detain - minação and will,
we could have advanced with an efficient and efficient investigation, which,
avoiding the onus of the suspicion that could fall back on the parents and friends,
would manage through the search of to see - dade material perfecting what
happened to the lost child. The visit of the man consul and of the man
ambassador and the informations that delay in Ten of the morning arrives of
England, twelve hours after the disappearance, the côn - south Briton in Portimão
moves to the Department of Reverse side - tigação Criminal (DIC).

We receive it in our office, infor - I suckle - lo of the diligence that are current. He
will not have been satisfied. Someone hears it to the telephone that the Judicial
Police officer was not doing anything. Strange thing! Will it be that that
desinformação aims to give a different relief to the case? Perhaps yes or perhaps
not. Let's go with calm, let's not begin to think about conspiracies, let's
concentrate on the investigation, we have that loca - lizar the girl and it know
what it him happened.

And the information asked the Englishmen that delays in arriving, to the opposite
of what is usual. We continue without knowing anything on it couple, the group of
friends is not even left, do nor be left the children.

What creates limitations on the framing of the case. One of the ques - sound
relevant it was to know if Madeleine was a biological daughter of the couple
McCann – we might be before a case of kidnapping for part of the biological
parents. The asked information does not arrive, but there the English ambassador
is already arriving. It is not this normal preoccupation of the English diplomacy.
Who is this couple? Who are the friends? It is not diplomats that we need.

In this moment, that one that we need even is of a fast answer to the questions
gone to the English police authorities through his contact in the Algarve, Glen
Power. The searches continue. The unusual presence of the press In the land the
searches continue, when being used a helicopter of the Civil Protection, the
couple of the gathering of testemu - nhos of employees of the resort and of
tourists. We are that it preoccupies - of, feel there is in a race against the time,
which begins to become exhausted.

Tomorrow, on 5th of May, most of the tourists are returning to his country,
finishing the holidays periods. Another preo - cupação is the intention of the
parents of Madeleine and of his friends as for the date of return to the United
Kingdom. Such a return is predicted for the end of the afternoon of the 5th of
May. In this moment, we have not legal mechanisms to oppose such an exit, but
we need these persons in national territory. To way of the morning, the joined-
national director, of Sense of smell, reaches the installations of Portimão; from
this day, even to the end of September, which his life will distribute between
Sense of smell and Portimão, where it will move daily.

In a short meeting, him the facts are reported and it happens knowing the
diligence that are recovers it - lizar. It takes the decision of moving to the place to
know to have it - reno and loco to check in the course of the diligence. I
accompany it and, when they were there brought near, we realize another reality:
the ways of comu - nicação social there are already, Portuguese and English. The
piece of news of Madeleine's disappearance will have been advanced by the group
of friends for the organs of social communication, of the form faster than was
done with the police authorities.

This is a point that must be taken into account and properly explained. Technical
deficiencies in the tracks gathering In the interior of the apartment, elements of
the technical police officer try to gather tracks lofoscópicos (digital or palmar
impression), it is more safe to do this inquiry with the solar light of what during
the evening, but more abrangente will of carried out an inspection with the
purpose of locating another type of tracks, namely biological, blood, fibers and
hairs.

We assist horrified, to the work of one of these technicians abroad of the window
of the room used by the children of the couple McCann. It does not wear
appropriate suit, being doubtful what there finds any tracks. These images, of
almost I neglect, they begin to run world; there is not this the usual proceeding
of the technicians of the Judicial Police officer. There are no signs of breaking in,
of forced entry, you do nor see - tígios of kidnapper, feet fingerprints are not
found - you strike foreign to the users of the apartment, palmar or others what
confirm the theory of the kidnapping. Inclusivamente, is not that it finds - of the
marks of gloves, eventually used by the kidnapper.

But tracks are found: a palmar impression was found in the window of balcony of
the rears and fingerprints in the glass of the window of the room of where the
child disappeared. The impression pal - sea was excellent, in the middle of a
tracks almost deserted one, what it led us to be suspicious.

Later these suspei would be confirmed - you them. That impression was
corresponding to one of the police elements that moved to the place in the night
of the facts. A proceedings protocol is, in Portugal, without respecting for several
police force for these cases of desa - parecimento of children, perhaps since they
are not much common. But, from há some years, that we fight for the creation
and implementation of such a protocol.

It is completely invented, it was only to use and there adapted the international
protocols, for example, those of the English police officer, more got used to this
type of cases. A suspect whom quickly it stops the being. The searches continue
While there were gathered evidences of the employees of the resort, we are
brought near by the information of the existence of a suspect of sexual abuses of
juveniles, of English nationality, with connections to a situated pub to 150 meters
of the place of the facts. In the year of 2005, that English citizen had been a
target of an investigation and, in the form to avoid the action of the justice, it
escaped for the foreigner, per - dendo-se from there his track. It is noticed that
the pub is shut in and that the suspect has not been a visa in the zone.

Reach the speech with his stepfather and this one informs that the stepson is in
the Iraq. One makes necessary that the English authorities confir - mem this
information, which, later, comes to happen. In the main street of the Town of Luz
they were passing that you make of sanea - basic chin. When ditches opened and
being some visible collectors. During the evening, they had been when searches
were there effectuated with the dogs' help pisteiros, of the Republican National
Police. Ape - sar of that, we decide to order to inspect again the place. It reaches
- - the speech with the person in charge of the work.

The same thing explains that the access to the collectors it is covered to the end
of the day and they did not detect anything of abnormal one when, in the
morning, they retook the work. There speak the parents and the group of friends:
the register of the first incongruence Still on 4th of May The parents of Madeleine
and friendly begin to be that it directs - of for the DIC in order that, formally, they
give declarations.

It is necessary to perfect the circumstances in which the facts took place. The
ideal would be his audition to the same time, in separate rooms, in the form to
avoid the resultant contamination of evidences of the eventual share of
declarations, but they all cannot come, someone will be in the resort looking after
the remaining children. This is a usual proceeding. The objective of this
proceeding is evi - tar that the testimonies will be still influenced, that not inten -
cionalmente, for conversations between the witnesses. Very often some details
are still present, or are valued, when there is no information exchange. This
question is of the biggest relevance metodológica. We need of knowing his
routines and those of the children. What did they do during holidays, where they
walked. This information is important for, in subsequent diligence, reco - lher
elements that they matter to the investigation: for example, they were going
away to determined restaurant or esplanade of beach. The employees or other
clients can have informations of eventual suspects, or then there are vigilance
systems in video that had carved his presence and that of other clients and were
giving an idea of the environment that was survived on these days.

It is important to know who was the victim, as well as if the parents were a target
of some threat or they will be wrapped in some lití - gio.

In the eventuality of being before a kidnapping, we have of pon - derar the

hypothesis of a mistake had taken place. The target might not be Madeleine, but
the any one of other children, children of criminals - tantes elements of the
holidays groups. For what these must answer also to questions relative to
eventual threats or lawsuits. They had no vehicle, were moving on foot, and
Madeleine will have gone sometimes to the beach, but normally it was, with the
brothers, hand to the service of children's attendance, in day-care centers, in the
morning and in the afternoon, participating in playful activities with other children
watched by educators.

We end that the knowledge of the involving zone to a resort by part of the
parents of Madeleine and of the remaining elements of the group was limited by
the distances between the beach and his dwellings. During this first morning, only
it is possible to proceed to the investigation of a father of the child and of the
friends Matthew Oldfield and Jane Tanner.

Few investigations, but they begin when there is surpassing someone con -
traditions and inconsistencies. Essentially in the form like ace - diam to the
apartment. For example, Jane meets Gerald, who was talking with Jeremiah.
Gerald, for this height, already had gone to the apartment and had seen his three
children. Jane, in his testimony, affirms that it noticed the presence of a pseudo -
- kidnapper when he had just passed for Gerald and Jeremiah. From where: if
Jane alegadamente saw someone with a child to the lap – daily pay -
sumivelmente Madeleine – then Gerald and Jeremiah also should have seen it –
and such it did not happen. The mother of the desapare - cida, Kate Healy, and
the remaining elements of the group of friends, David Payne, his woman Fiona
Payne, Rachael Maplly, Russell O'Brien and Dianne Webster, will be heard in the
afternoon.

Prune these - rão already to know what it was asked and answered by the
previous ones. The effect astonishes it will not be able to work. one confirms that
they all have children, and that they accompanied them on holidays. When they
were moving to have dinner,
were leaving us sozi - nhos, sleeping, in the respective apartments. The
translation necessity does not make easy the investigations, they have time to
think between the question and the translation.

This fact takes place in completely and any inqui - rição in what it is need to
resort to translator, which acon - weaves always, for legal obligation, when we are
before the inqui - rição of ignorant citizens of the Portuguese language.

The declarations of the parents are in the direction of the existence of a

kidnapping, they force this idea, to the lively force they want that we think only in
this form. Gerald insists on the fact of the house of being in security with the
barred principal door. Kate, in his turn, does not enter through the principal door
but yes for the window of running. It affirms that the window was completely
open and the lifted blinds.
Such a theory has not great basis, face to the data that are perfected. Only the
evidence of Jane Tanner gives credit to such a theory. It imports now to
understand the incongruence in these testimonies. Let's see. Chronologically the
visits took place, according to the tes - temunhos, in this order:

21 h 05 – Gerald McCann (it is completely well with the children)

21 h 10/21 h 15 – Jane Tanner (kidnapper sees the plea with a child to the lap)

21 h 30 – Matthew Oldfield (it enters in the apartment, but not in the room, and
only he sees the twins)

22 h 00 – Kate Healy (it enters in the apartment and misses) Now, if the window
was opened when Kate arrives, as did not Matthew give therefore if Jane affirms
that at this time the child had been already seen to the lap of someone? Matthew
says that the door half was opened, Kate places that the door was complete -
open mind.

For what ends that Madeleine would not be already in room. What would Matthew
note, if we will give how váli - of all the testimonies.

Here another incongruence appears inesperadamente: Kate, when does it concern

an individual who presumably had taken a child to the lap, refers to the
information that was given by Jane. While doing it it describes the individual of a
complete form - mind different from what Jane described to the PJ. Jane affirms
that this one had clear pants and hair even to the neck. Kate, for his time, says
that that one would have long hairs and pants from gangue. Jane's attitude is
extremely headstrong. Jane testifies several times.,

Gerald tells to the police officer that Jane will have told him – after 0 h 00 of the
day 4, that there saw an individual to be passed in the rising sense of the public
road, and this one would have 30 to 40 years, with the dark hair and tra - jando
clear pants, it if this one did not recognize. THE GNR affirms that the parents
lifted the hypothesis of kidnapping because Jane saw an individual with a child to
the lap.

In the cars of the GNR one appears I did not believe - ção summarized but with
nuances: now the individual, besides the color of the pants – that remains same –
would have 1,78 m, it was wearing a dark blouse and there was leading to the lap
a child who was seeming to him that he was you see - had with pajamas.
Nevertheless, it does not describe pajamas, not even other details of the child or
of the individual. Later, in the morning of day 4, the father repeats this simple
description, but it sends a better description for Jane. At 11h 30 of the morning of
this day, Jane testifies in the PJ of Portimão.

It sweats it that I did not believe - ção is more detailed by it this time: he says to
be treated as a brown individual, showing 35 to 40 years, of thin physical build,
with around 1,70 m, very dark and thick hair, even to - I scratch feet, wearing a
few pants of type linen between the color beige and gilded, with a coat type
«Duffy«, but not so thick, with the black shoes, of the classic type;

it was going with a hurried floor and was taking a child laid on two arms at the
front of the chest; for the form since it was put on it gave him the sensation of
not being a tourist because of being so encasacado.

On the child he said what seemed to be sleeping, that only he saw the legs, which
it was going with the barefoot feet, with pajamas looked to cotton or pink of clear
color, possibly white - - clear, with a drawing, without being sure but supposedly
you flower. On the man it adds that it would recognize it of back and for the form
of floor.
Further on let's realize the importance of this affirmation!
This evidence frightens all.
He says that he did not know what Madeleine was putting on. It is not credible
that Jane did not know it. They had already spent, at least, 14 hours on the
disappearance of the child and Jane's version had been already communicated
the many people. As a matter of fact, the father had had just evoked his
evidence. But more: about the indi - víduo Jane Tanner says that he hardly spoke
with Gerald McCann without entering in details and that, only then, he will have
spoken with the police officer.

We are again before an incongruence. Notice-: soon in the night of the

disappearance, Kate spreads the form as Madeleine would be dressed when it was
laid. It is very strange that Jane Tanner, in the morning of the next day, when it
gives decla - rations to the police officer, was not knowing this elementary
description. So much more than during the evening the piece of news is passing
of mouth in mouth and there breaks loose a spontaneous movement of search of
the child. The one who was participating in this search, knew that it was looking
for a three-year-old girl, almost four, barefoot, put on with pajamas with - when
description supplied by the father the end of the night of the day 3 was put by
blouse and clear pants, with a drawing of animal color-de-rosa, it dates from the
disappearance. It prays, it is at surprising least than at Tanner, making part of the
group of friends who had traveled for the Town of Luz just to spend holidays
joined, desco - nhecesse such a detail. So much more what does Jane Tanner
place herself, for his testimonies, like witness fulcral in this phase.

The first one of many avistamentos.

An unexpected reaction of Kate Madeleine's parents are of return to the Town of

Luz when there are received photogrammes gathered in that of the areas of
service of the highway that ties Lakes to the frontier with Spain. In this photo -
grams is possible to detect the presence of a girl been similar to Madeleine,
accompanied by a couple. We ask for his return to Portimão. The afternoon had
reached the end. It is our intention to proceed to a recognition.

Kate Healy appears a little bored because of having been obliged to return and to
bothered with the speed reached by the car of the police officer where if it was
moving. We found strange what was not appearing given hope with the possibility
of the girl to be recovered. The recognition turns out to be negative. The
reinforcement of police ways Of Lisbon is bringing near a team of the Direction
Cen - tral of Combat to the Brigandism (DCCB), led by a pro-directing prio.

In spite of the decision as for his arrival for Porti - hand to have taken place
without consulting me, we agree with her. Saint arrived-good, his experience in
the area of seizures and rap - you them is a surplus value, they manage to agree
to ways that are not to our reach, his analysts are of better than the Judicial
Police officer has, there is greatly planning to be done and I work to advance. —
They that are prepared here to be many days. — Do not come with the idea that
this resolves quickly. — What do not begin to feel longings of house. — They are
not going to be able here ad is eternum, you have to understand the lack that
they will be going to do in his normal work place.

THE DCCB 55 it has many current complex and important investigations … what
cannot be stops. — It is a management to be done for the one who is in charge in
them. From now on the investigations begin to be directed by two joined-national
directors accompanied by the coor - denador of the DIC of Portimão.

Some months later, the inspector-chief, Tavares de Almeida, with some sorrow,
will tell in confidence to me what if we were alone in the this investigation might
have had a quicker ending, if it did not trail in the time, and with less outcry. It is
an opinion with which I do not agree I do not even stop agreeing, in this height
there are impossible sceneries build and efabu - home with the 'cathedrals'.

The Direction of the Judicial Police officer took that decision, which we found
right. Our duty he respected it and he worked with the ways that allowed us. The
reasons that, even - tualmente, could be behind of such a decision, besides the
interest of the resolution of the case, do not interest. During the afternoon it is
asked the Public prosecution service for the first notice of press autori - zação for
the emission of a notice to the press asking the spread of Madeleine's
disappearance, in an attempt of getting informations that drive us to his
whereabouts. Such an appeal is spread the next day (5th of May). Treat a normal
proceeding and it aims at getting useful informations.

With the notice there is spread a photo of the joined missing person - it lies with
numbers of contact. That spread will give place to an enormous torrent of
informations that, in his great majority, comes from persons who intend to have
psychological powers, with visions, or that dreamed about Madeleine. Even so,
and apesar of we maintain the objectivity, they are analysed properly and
considered. In a kidnapping hypothesis it is of meditating it alters one - ção of the
appearance of the kidnap victim, by this reason Madeleine's image was created
with different haircuts and color, which aju - would let throw us off the scent
determined avistamentos. We were coming to the conclusion, through several
avistamentos, which girls with Madeleine's age and his original appearance were
very common.

The investigation continues. There show up the fragilidades of the evidence of

Jane Tanner São 20 h 00, from the 4th of May (Friday), we are in the Beach of
Luz, want to know which in that zone, leaving of the hour in which the dinner
began in the restaurant You Cover the movement, in the previous night, as well
as the brightness conditions. Around there ficá - me them, even after 22 h 00. It
is right which today there are present persons who normally there would not be:
knots and the journalists.
Let to realize that that place has little movement and bad conditions of visibility in
the place where the witness Jane Tanner says to have seen the possible rap - tor,
that undoubtedly they would make a recognition difficult so for - menorizado as
the witness affirms. This observation is of agreement with evidences that point
for the fact of, on the 3rd of May, at around 21h 58, that zone of the Beach of Luz
it are practically deserted, without catching sight of anybody.

While the team of scene of crime, come from our Labo - ratório of Police officer,
proceeds to the inspection of the apartment from where the girl disappeared, let's
be know the land and we testing the declarations of the witness Jane Tanner.
These do not slam right. Which the necessity of the eventual kidnapper of having
walked for the most open zone, in spite of is not sufficient brightness that was
allowing Jane Tanner to notice so many details?

A planned kidnapping would take in count line all these items. The kidnapper
would have to have studied the zone, besides the hábi - you those of the family
and of the friends. There would be normal what, if it was not from there, had a
vehicle stopped in the zone with less brightness, which is situated from the
opposite side to the sense in which, I second to test - munha Jane Tanner, the
kidnapper was directed with the child to the lap.

Will it be that she saw in fact a man with a child to the lap to walk for east? Will
not he have seen it walking in sen - when had been opposite? On the other side,
if the kidnapper was addressing for a vehicle, this one would have to circulate for
the center of the Town of Luz, shovels - sando near the access of the restaurant
where Madeleine's parents had dinner, or then for the road of principal access to
the EN125, where it would arrive near of the place with better conditions to be
hidden in the darkness of the night. We go almost through all the arté - through
river branches, note that the beach is the point of easier access for the one who
has no vehicle and is an ignorant person of the involving zone to the Town of Luz.

In few bars, restaurants, or coffees opened in this height of the year, nothing of
abnormal one dressed up what could have taken place in the Thursday night, 3rd
of May of 2007, nobody became a suspect for his behavior. Having most of these
establishments shut in at around 21h. Discussion in the crisis room: the first
incongruence in the evidences of the parents Desde há several hours that the
crisis room is the fun - cionar, on the last floor of the building: with the elements
gathered during that first day, it tries to reconstitute what aconte - sky.

They continue when in several hypotheses were opened: voluntary disappearance

of the least; I kidnap with sexual intentions or of redemption; death. The opinions
are divided, the advantages and contras of each one of the they are discussed
several hypotheses in the active form, almost emo - cional. We cannot lose the
objectivity, let's concentrate, let's analyse the whole available information.

In the middle of an intense smoke we will organize the discussion. It is necessary

to open windows to air the environment saturated by the intense smoke of
cigarets that are burned, in a nervous frenesim, someone throws a question that
reaches the soul to us. — Hear there! What history is this of the window of the
room where was it sleeping (it will be that it was sleeping?) Madeleine to be with
the lifted blind? We have present the first declarations of Gerald and Kate Healy.
When Gerald saw for the last time the daughter, at around 21h 05, this one was
sleeping in the room with two twin brothers.

It agreed to the interior of the house through the principal door, using key. All the
windows were closed – locked or not, none could answer. The principal door was
closed. Only the window of balcony of the rears was closed, and being in this case
unanimous the testimonies, not locked. According to him, that entry was visible
of the restaurant where they had dinner, for what, around there nobody entered.
Madeleine's mother, at around 22h, while reaching the room, saw the open
window, the lifted blind and the curtains to flatter.
the missing person would be going to begin to say for the public opinion.

What not aconte - sky. We miss this rearguard support. The news multi they were
folded to each minute, the "straight ones" in the televisions were repeating - -
daily, in hundreds of professionals of the social communication they were
populating the Town of Luz and, especially, it was checking the unpublished one
(in Portugal) preoccupation of the parents in the relation with her communicates
- ção socially. It is not normal which common citizens to the one who adopts one
it had just disappeared that they nominate advisers of press.

It is not the question of looking down upon the paper of the social communication
in broad sense, not even in cases like this one, on the contrary. Not so little sig -
nifica to ignore the signs of the times, in which the social communication is
nearer, reveals more interest for cases of this nature – though the motivations of
several professionals could be different.

I hardly register this fact: an immediate and growing preoccupation for the
management of the communication for part of the parents. The analysis of the
images of the couple, in several interviews televisio - you swim, also it should be,
leaving from there, a priority. They continue the searches: look for access to the
cell phones traffic in the night of the disappearance Being all the hypotheses in
opened, one keeps with the loca - lização of the pedófilos on residing or on
spending holidays in the Algarve, for - tugueses and foreigners, in his majority
Anglicize.

They are passed qui - lómetros, when it are ended that there are not elements
that tie them to this disappearance. The analysts work in the data that are made
available by the investigation. They are bent on the testimonies that are arriving,
with special attention for the declarations of the employees of the resort, as well
as the registers tele - phonic what were made us available. The informations with
the results of the fulfilled diligence also healthy analysis target.

A necessity shows up. We have to have I access to the whole traffic of cell
phones occurred in the night of the facts. One decides defi - on- nir the
coordinates of the apartment of where did Made disappear - leine, and, on basis
of this fact, to perfect the antennas of cell phones and respective operators who
serve that zone.

Leaving from here one will ask for the register of all the calls and messages, efec
- tuadas and received through those antennas. The idea was simple: a kidnapper
who was operating in co-authorship, or even alone, can - he was laughing and it
should have used cell phone, way of communication today on quite popularized
day. Later it will be ended that not exis - it has suspect communications, besides
the relative ones to an interve - niente important in this case called Robert Murat,
who would come to be appointed tested.

In front we will see how Murat appears in our way. The walls of the room of crisis
begin to fill - - of analytical pictures, schedules, flow charts, maps of fulfilled
diligence and to carry out, photos and other elements with interest and always
Madeleine's photo, as if we could forget the reason of our work. Registers put out
in the telephone of the McCann – why? In the meeting extended to the whole
team of investigation, carried out between 23 h and 3 h, again in the crisis room,
and in the same full smoke environment, with the noise, almost irritating, of the
fountain of the square of the Town Hall of Portimão, they are discussed the
fulfilled diligence and his content, as well as I them happened - chins of the day.
There is the one who shows disagreement with the notice of the Judicial Police
officer.
Chapter 4

The truthful victim is the child disappeared In the investigation of crimes with
victim make imperious knowledge of whom it is the question, the physical
description is not enough, it is necessary to go further. The personality of the
victim, his habits and interests, as well as the familiar way and of friendships, are
factors that they can help in the investigation of the crime of which it was white.

When there are perfected all the steps that it gave even to the criminal event, it
can be reached why, the motivation of the criminal, the reason of one I
disappeared - chin or of a death. When it is the question of adult person, with a
history of life of several years, with a past and experience of life, invest it - gador
have his made easy work, there is more information on the person.

When a 4-year-old age child is in question, the information runs short, his short
life period makes difficult the definition of his personality, who is still in form -
ção. The definition of the form of belonging to the child is dependant of
information originating from the parents, from other relatives, from friends or
employees of the family, nearby and, for times, of educators. It is already not his
experience of life to be spoken for himself, but others the speech - sender for her.

In the cases of children's disappearance, say the estatísti - cas (including you
Anglicize them) that, in a very elevated percentage, the parents or other relatives
are the principal persons in charge. This one - tísticas they do not do proof, do
not say everything, without being able I invested it - gador criminal to be
stipulated by them.

The rule of the common sense obliges the one that is begun because of doubting
of the information originating from the ancestors, unless with that one suspects
only because of suspecting, owing such an information ava being cruised with
others in the form - liar and to decide of his credibility and truthfulness. The
ancestors of the lost child appear like victims before the public opinion.

In fact, the loss, even that temporary, of a son, it is a drama and causes anguish
and suffering to the parents. However, the criminal investigator cannot lose the
north: the principal victim is the child and, perhaps, the only one. The principal
preoccupation of the investiga - pain is the child, must work in the direction of
perfecting what really happened in the form discovering the material truth and
doing it executes. To identify it and to describe the victim constitutes part of the
answer to the question to which the whole investigator must respond: «who is
the victim?» .

Another part of the answer is to discover the agen - tes of the crime.
Disappearance and crime Aquando of a disappearance, he becomes an imperious
proce - it will give to the spread of such an event and the first hypothesis is
without - daily pay that of the disappearance to be a volunteer. When this least
possibility is, it is necessary to proceed to immediate searches, with the auxí - lio
from the physical description of the missing person and resource to a ways
panoply, from persons and dogs pisteiros up to appeals in the environments of
social communication.
Simultaneously, the investigator has of pen - sar in other means, namely the
eventuality of a crime: is it the answer to «what?» (what happened), to the same
time that it will find the answer to the question «where did it happen?», identifi -
cando the place where will it have taken place.
Will the search of the reason give criminals - put to «why?», at the rate of the
crime. The identification of the place, or places, it gives place to thorough
inspections, with sight to the localiza - ção and gathering of tracks, which can
serve as proof. While spreading the photo of a missing person proceed to a
acquaintance. Saint it contacts - of the Dutch police and judicial authorities,
proceeding - - to the emission of supplicant letter, in which they were asked
diligên - you row backwards what were leading to the location and identification
of a stranger.
The couple McCann was showing empenhamento and anxiety in relation to the
situation, responding prontamente to the e-mails, that conside - ravam genuine.
The e-mail seemed genuine and it might have some consistency, I put on what
Gerald McCann, Kate Healy and Madeleine had already experienced in life in
Holland during some time, still before of the birth of the twins. Will it be that
someone, who knew them in Holland, had acted now and when Madeleine was
kidnapped to demand a fat money of redemption to a wealthy father?

Both seemed there are convinced what through that road might rehabilitate his
daughter. Something that further on is described shook this appearance of
conviction. The Judicial Police officer did not hesitate not even a minute and,
while knowing the e-mail, in cooperation with the police officers of Ingla - land
and of Holland, a negotiations patrol began for color - reio electronically with that
individual, giving indications to Gerald McCann to respond to the e-mails and to
gather the maximum of informations that that individual had to supply, so that it
was possible to check if the trace was genuine and true and, in affirmative case,
to rescue Madeleine and to capture his kidnappers.

In that of the last negotiations carried out with that individual, in which he was
demanding 500 thousand euros for more informations, in a room of the PJ of
Portimão present inspectors and negotiators were in redemptions of the PJ and
elements of Scotland Yard and of the Police officer of Law - cester. one was
waiting for a contact on-line of that individual through the MSN, to define the
conditions and the place of delivery of the money in Holland.
The tension in the room was big. To a contrá - river, the casual posture of Gerald
McCann was contrasting with the anxiety of the police officers and was stopping
when they all were intrigued it investigates them - pains wrapped in the case,
including the Englishmen. The air of the room was very heavy, but while the
investigators were waiting for that one for so wanted contact, which in last
analysis might give precious informations and to indicate the whereabouts of
Madeleine, Gerald McCann was sucking casually one it sucks that it sucks while it
was reading banalities in sites of the Internet and was talking rugby and soccer
with one of the English police officers.
While speaking to the cell phone, with someone of his relations, he was laughing,
perhaps with a nervous laughter, but, even so, contrasting with the seriousness
of the moment. It did not pass when his attitude of that day was payed no
attention and the comuni there did not surprise the news come from the Dutch
police officer, two days later, - car to the PJ that the individual had been a
prisoner and that the information t was improbable and it had been invented only
to extort money to the couple.

Will it be that Gerald McCann would know already beforehand give it - fastening
of that episode and therefore from soon one did not preoccupy? There was a
sentence that one of the English police officers used to tell regarding Gerald's
temperament, on the coldness that this one from always demonstrated regarding
the case: "They do not forget that he is a surgeon-cardiologist and begins when
persons are opening to way shortly afterwards of the breakfast.»
Chapter 6
The arrival of the English police officer.

In Portugal it is still the dog that shakes the tail … The first English police officer
to move to the DIC of Portimão, after Madeleine's disappearance, he was the
English official of connection in Portugal, Glen Power, which happened on
Saturday on 5th of May.

A «official of connection» is a police element that is next to the embassies of his

country, and that speeds the comu up - nicação between the police officers, like
the name of the post it defines. In the reducing form, he will be the
representative of the police officer of his country of ori - gem, in the constant
form, when one is constituting of several instru - chins of the international police
cooperation.

I know Glen Power some time ago. Martin Cox, who during years fulfilled this
function in Portugal, came to the Algarve with Glen in the height in which I
substituted this last vein. I worked with Glen in several cases made a list with
crimi - nalidade violent and organized, because it already knew his great capacity
of work, sympathy and humility.

Our relation for this height was more than a mere police contact, because I felt
apprehensively when Glen informed of me what would not be present the next
days. It had much that to do. However, it made clear that the colleagues of
Leicestershire would be going to join certainly the current work, if they recalled
that the language of the investigation is almost universal. Yes, in fact it is. But the
persons also count. In this as in almost all the cases, the proximi - dade of the
facts, the knowledge of the details can be to detain - minante so that something
more is perfected or for that one is still more alert to all the signs.

From there what a team of investigation, normally, catches in a case and the light
one even to the end. Two days then would begin to bring the English colleagues
near. The idea was that the English police officer would make two elements
available with experience in the support to victims' kidnapping relatives, to be -
coming from connection link between the couple McCann and the team of investi -
gação.
The National Direction of the Judicial Police officer had authorized the arrival of
these elements, in the context of the police cooperation. Bob Small responsible
for the Police officer of Leicestershire, reached then the Algarve, when loco of the
situation accompanying of another colleague, in order to intei - rar in and
evaluating of the necessities of the investiga - ção. Besides having been joined
with us, they contacted direc - tamente the couple. How, in Portugal, is still the
dog that shakes the tail and we were wanting to have certainties as for what the
English colleagues were coming to do to our country and where they would walk,
I gave clear and concrete orders to one of the Portuguese investigators: you are
going to be to sound - bra of the English chief executive.

I want to know what they will know, want to know what the Englishmen walk
doing here and with whom they speak. You are going to gather the whole
information that they will have and are going acompa - nhá-los day and night. In
the next moment, the two brought near he - police chins that would be going to
serve of connection link with the family, if what gave him psychological support.
Suddenly, the initial number of two persons increases exponencialmente. Paying
attention to the necessities of the English investigators, he is they when a room
was given up, beside the room of crisis that Task starts to call Portugal. They
bring near that it investigates - pains Englishmen of all the specialties and even
originating from Scotland Yard. Special teams of vigilance and technicians of infor
- mática and telecommunications were covering all the aspects of the investiga -
ção by the book.
They were bringing his portable and other gadgets high - tech and were ready to
collaborate. But, besides the universe of investigators and English technicians,
there were still other especia - lists that traveled even to the Algarve
. There were the calls profilers, what drew the profile of the presumable
kidnapper and from soon it draws - ram all the possible and imaginary lines of the
multiple sceneries with which we might be dealing. There came also analysts who
drew lines of time and pictures of connections on basis of the testimonies of
several witnesses and too intervenient in the inquiry and produced explicative
pictures in giant size that were covering the walls of the rooms of work.
They start to have straight access to the inquiry, participate in all the meetings of
the team of Portuguese investigation and take part of the decisions that are
taken. Through these police elements they are encami - nhados inquiries and
received declarations and news. On the 14th of May, Kate Healy appeared
shocked and frus - trada with the connection officials to the family, whom it asks
about him - ram where the daughter was.

The couple McCann would not be going to tolerate such daring, not even this type
of doubt. The English investigators who were giving support to the family had
specific formation in kidnapping and seizures. Daily the McCann were assisting in
everything what they were needing, giving I support them logístico and legally,
updating them of the progress of the investigation and serving of bridge between
the couple and the Judicial Police officer.

The truth is that they did not come lasting any more than a week in his functions.
On that day, the McCann color - reram with them, when it is contradicting
everything what would be of waiting from parents in refinements in a foreign
country, when they receive the friendly hand of compatriots, in addition from
police officers specialized in support to familiar kidnapping victims, with pleasure
of helping to resolve his problem.

Nobody could doubt of that couple, very much fewer police officers of his country.
Curiously, the Englishmen did not reveal the case and the PJ was not officially
informed and, on the contrary of what is a habit in these situations, only I learned
for road of information of the type intelligence.
Quickly was a solution and put right - - I marry him with one of the inspectors
who speaks English fluently. The afflux of information that brings the
Leicestershire near is enormous the given height, the local police officer is with
difficulties in proceeding to the analysis and selection of all this information.

To the 15th of May, the ins - pector Ricardo Paiva leaves for that city with the
purpose of collaborating with the English police officer in his country itself. In joke
tone, Ricardo will come to report what started the life to eat cakes and to drink
tea, growing thin a little bit.

In meanwhile, it was very well received by the English colleagues, when his
dislocation was useful, when it are ended that a great part of the infor -
Freemason received in Leicestershire had not any interest. What it was reaching
England in great quantity they were cen - tenas of daily, originating
communications of whole world, with indications on assumptions avistamentos
and even right locations of Madeleine's whereabouts.

It were of everything, from citizens compreensivelmente preo - cupados, what in

the best form that could were trying what will help, to the clairvoyants and
scientists of the paranormal thing, along the first months to follow to the
disappearance, voluntarily they were sending his vague messages for the English
police officer, which did so that quickly his sophisticated system informático
blocked.
This left considering them with preoccupation in what will be able to have run
badly, in special after so much effort and cash spent in the successive appeals
launched for the press to ask for the help of the population to resolve the case, to
the good English way!

On Tuesday, 12th of June, Chris Eyre responsible for the English police officers in
the geographical area where does the squad of Leicestershire position herself, and
Bob Small, they move to Sense of smell, where they have a meeting with
Guilhermino Encarnação, Luís Neves and me. The meeting has as finality values
the cooperation I polished - cial currently and his necessities. Everything seems
to run well – already we know of the incident occurred between Kate Healy and
the officials of connection to the family, but nothing is told to us.
We keep the sen - sação what the kidnapping hypothesis would be the politically
correct one, in meanwhile, they do not leave others of being on the table. In spite
of passing it of the months, we were noticing what the evolution of investigates -
ção taken place in Portugal it would not be known, for all, in Law - cestershire.

Some of the English colleagues who were arriving little knew of what here was
going on. One of the English police officers that che - gou to the Algarve, in the
September beginning, had in his wrist a bracelet of yellow and green rubber with
the inscription «Look will be Madeleine», acquired by two pounds, and which it
was playing ner - vosamente. It was his first time in Portugal and also the pri -
meira time that was working with the PJ in Portuguese lands.
But it is the truth that was only one of more than two ten of investigators whom
the English police officer detached to work, in exclusive, in the case. Portuguese
investigators told him that from there to a few days it already would not use such
symbol. In fact, such a vein when it happens so what took straight contact with
the inquiry, being knowing, for the first time, the existent signs, which were
putting in question the theory of the kidnapping.
What at present was a relation maintaining with an older woman and with the
daughter of this of 16 years of age, what it comes to deny. He will be able to be
paying the bill of an unsuccessful society and of problems between partners.
Murat and Michaela affirm to know Sergey because East, like technician of
computer science, promised to create a page in the Inter - net of the property
enterprise that the first ones wanted to raise.

The certain one is that, if they were joined near Ocean Club, on the 2nd of May,
the reason would be same, the creation of the page in the Internet. Luís António
comes being seen in the zone. Will it be that it was watching the woman? This act
of jealousy is not understandable: to accept the relation between his wife and
Murat and of walking following pursuance they the steps?

During the 14th of May, searches are carried out to a domi - eyelash of Michaela
and Luís António and to the vehicles for them it uses - of. Still during the
afternoon of that day, Michaela and Luís António give declarations. Michaela
seems to throw the faults of Madeleine's kidnapping up of the husband.
A pro-practical blema is placed, of immediate one. Luís António is a technician of
maintenance of pisci - in, it has to his post swimming pools of aldeamentos
tourist and of couple - ticulares, spread by the zone of Lakes and Town of Luz.
Some of the dwellings where are the swimming pools situated are shut in the
biggest part of the year: we are in May, it is a height of preparing the swimming
pools for the summer season. When several dwellings were identified where the
swimming pools are situated, diligence of vile ones is unleashed - toria in these
places, there are not found tracks of Madeleine's presence – we turn almost to
the stake zero.

Suddenly, a hope ray appears: at the home of Robert Murat a key was found. The
own thing explains that that key belongs to Michaela: according to him, that one
it will have dropped the key of accidental form. Thing estra - nha, where was the
key before falling? In a pocket of Michaela or in his suitcase? How did she fall at
the home of Robert Murat? Con - we follow to know that the key opens a garage
used by Luís António, with the warehouse of the products of treatment of the
pisci - in. The garage is situated in a social Lakes district, for where, of immediate
one, a team of investigators moves. But it swims. There are no tracks of
Madeleine's presence in that place.

The English profilers are formal:

there is 90 % of hypotheses of Murat to be Madeleine's kidnapper

The English profilers, which assisted to a first interrogató - river of Robert Murat,
they keep on working, just, in his profile. There appears the testimony of a
pseudofriend of adolescence, person with police register. This one will come to
say that, in the adolescên - it rows backwards, Murat had appetite to do sex with
animals, reporting episodes of attempts of sexual relation with a cat and a dog,
what it would have died of pursuance with wickedness refinements. For besides,
with 16 years of age, it would have tried to violate a cousin.
East set up describes Murat like a perturbed and violent person, with a sexual
detour and a sadistic personality and of misanthrope. We find completely great
stranger, but the profilers aca - bam because of defining the profile of Robert
Murat. With the honest strong one - bilidade, of 90 %, there will be he person in
charge for Madeleine's kidnapping. it seems, suddenly, easy to us of more: we
realize somewhat of the cons - trução of suspects' profiles, but to prepare them
on basis of test - munho of the set up one is in the form to conclusions daily pay
be drawn - cipitadas and, by chance, not much solid.

As if light had been done in the memories of some friends of Madeleine's parents,
these are remembered, suddenly, of having seen Robert Murat, in the night of the
 Chapter 8

A man with a child to the lap on the way of the beach on 3rd of May of 2007,
after 21 h 27, restoring Dolphi»,

Town of Luz To family Smith, native from Ireland, spending holidays in the Beach
of Luz, has just paid the dinner and drive for the Bar Kelly's, mold to 50 meters,
of where it will go out about 21 h 55, in direction to the urbanization It Shines of
Luz, the west of Ocean Club, and the 300 meters fence of this, where they have
an apartment for holidays pleasures.

They will return early the house because one of the members of the family will be
going to return to Ireland the following morning. The group is numerous, four
adults and five children: the patriarch of the famí - dregs, when his woman, a 23-
year-old son and the woman pregnant of the third son, the children was
reformed, with 58 years of age, of this, of 13 and 6 years, a 12-year-old daughter
and two 10 and 4-year-old grandchildren, descen - teeth of a daughter who had
stayed in Ireland.

They walk for north, of not very joined form, with the children in view of the
adults, when traffic is not. They raise a small staircase and agree to the Street on
25th of April, cross it and enter in the Street of the School Pri - mária. This one is
parallel to the Street 1.th of May, which flanks, for west, the Ocean Club.
When still are 30 meters passed, rawly - zam-se with a man who walks in the
middle of the street. The man transports a child to the lap, with the head leaned
to the shoulder left, without seeing the face, with the arms hung to a long one of
the body, wearing pajamas of clear or pink color, with the barefoot feet, the
typical white skin of the Britons and the long blond hairs for the neck.
She is a girl and it will have nearly 4 years of age, measuring nearly one meter of
height. The man who goes down the street, face to the form of putting on, does
not seem a tourist, uses lime - ças of cream-colored or beige color, classic cut, of
farm between the linen and the cotton.

It is white, with around 30 to 35 years of age, from 1,70 to 1,80 meters of

height, normal physical build, in good physical form, short and chestnut hair, the
face seems brown when the solar exhibition was owed. The images of Robert
Murat as principal suspect of Madeleine's kidnapping begin to run world.
In Ireland, for where did they return after holidays, the famí - dregs Smith is
accompanying the report of what goes on in the Town of Luz. They learn about
the existence of an eventual kidnapper who would have been a visa for the
witness Jane Tanner, as well as about the suspicions that fall back on Robert
Murat. The patriarch of the famí - dregs Smith contacts the Irish police officer. It
reports what they turn in the night from the 3rd of May. The man with a girl to
the lap that met them is not Robert Murat.

Smith knew Robert Murat and it was not him the person whom he saw on that
night. Revising the aconte - I cement, he is almost sure that the girl to the lap of
that man was Madeleine. An operation logistics is mounted in order that Smith
brings to the Algarve the family in secret.
On Saturday, 26th of May of 2007, in the installations of the Department of
Investiga - ção Criminal of Portimão, one proceeds to the investigation of a
patriarch of the family and of two children. His evidences look credíveis, but due
to little brightness that was existing in the place of the facts, do not manage to
recognize the man who was transporting the girl to the lap.
They describe the form as he it was transporting it and was walking: it had this
image they been strongly carved in the memory. After his testimonies, move with
a team of investiga - pains to the Town of Luz. There they identify the precise
place where the meeting took place with the man of the girl to the lap. The next
day, they return to Ireland. His presence in the Algarve was maintained in secret,
as well as the existence of his evidences. They will go acom - panhar the
development of the case. Any other detail that they come to remember will be
informed of us. We have now test - munhos credíveis on the existence, in the
night of the 3rd of May, of a man with a girl to the lap, to walk on foot in the
Town of Luz.
Chapter 9

Majorca, September of 2005

Madeleine Beth McCann, with 2 years and a half, and his twin brothers, in the
height with a few months of age, leave on holidays in the company of the parents
for the island of Majorca. Together with them space another three couples of
doctors with the respective children: David and Fiona Payne, with a 1-year-old
age daughter, when pregnant Fiona of the second son is; S. and T., with two
children, 1 and 3-year-old age boys; and the couple S. G. and K. G., with the
daughter 1-year-old and average E. of age. K. G. also was pregnant of the second
daughter.

The travel had been organized by David Payne and the group was installed in a
great dwelling rented for the effect. S. G. had frequented the University of
Dundee, between 1987 and 1992, having known there Madeleine's future mother.
K. G. only came to know Gerry McCann in the marriage you gave with Kate Healy,
about 1998, in Liverpool.

After that event, the couple S. G. and K. G. become intimate friends of the
parents of Made - leine, meeting with regularity, spending joined weekends,
maintaining contact for telephone. In the third or fourth night in Majorca, after
the dinner, eating and drinking, when they were seated around of a table in an
exterior patio of the house, K. G. assists a scene that causes him I am afraid
relatively to the well-being of his daughter and of other children.

She was sitting down between Gerry McCann and David Payne, when he heard
last this one asking if it links, perhaps telling -- Madeleine, would do «this«, if
there began next act to suck one of his fingers, which was entering and was going
out from the mouth, insinuating an object fálico, while, with the fingers of
another hand, it was doing circles around the nipple, in the provocative and
sexual form.

Just as K. G. looked with amazement at Gerry McCann and at David Payne, it did
a nervous silence to itself. Then they all continued talking as if nothing had acon -
woven. This episode provoked in K. G. a serious doubt relati - vamente to the
relationship of David Payne with children. Still in another opportunity, K. G. would
see David Payne doing the mes again - me them gestures, if this time they talked
about the daughter herself.

In those holidays periods it was the parents who were giving bathtub to the
children, but to be left from there K. G. never again let David Payne approach his
daughter. After these holidays in Majorca, K. G. only David and Fiona Payne found
the couple in an opportunity, without speaking with them from this height.

In the last two years the relation between the couple McCann and the mentioned
couple, S. G. and K. G., will have cooled, having redu - zido to social contacts,
being only in parties of ani - versários of the children. What above is written was
reported to the 16th of May of 2007, thirteen days you punish after Madeleine's
disappearance to the polí - it rows backwards that it Anglicizes, for the couple S.
G. and K. G. It was an information to impose - tante and relevant for the
investigation. However, nothing went trans - mitido to the Portuguese police
officer. In the middle of July, they began to run noises, between the team of
investigators, that something of pare - cido would have gone on, if there were not
known, in the height, details and the identity of the intervenient ones. These
noises were pointing to an identic situation eventually occurred in Greece, in a
holidays travels. However, we did not know any testifying proof this sense.
Explanations were asked for the English police officer, but nothing was confirmed
to us, in the height. Dressing that only after my exit of the investigation, perhaps
in ends of October of 2007, the fact is that the testimony of K. G. will have been
row - had to the Portuguese police officer.

With legitimacy one asks: which the reason of the English police officer to have,
to what does everything indicate, when that testimony was hidden during six
months? When did know what organizing David Payne of the travel Majorca, and
to whom did they go it marks - of the anomalous behaviors in the relationship
with the crian - ças, it was the same that the Portugal organized the travel, what
was making part of the holidays groups of the village of Luz where Made was
becoming complete - leine, what was the first friend of the family to be seen
beside Kate McCann after the disappearance of the child (as in front he will see
himself) and what in the date of the testimony was still in Portugal, being able to
be confronted with these declarations?
There do not remain doubts that the Portuguese investigators might have
advanced with the investigation, of a faster form, if they took knowledge of the
eventual facts of Majorca, if they had known them useful time.
These testimonies referring to the travel seem to charge Majorca when floodgate
was determined - gentle and deserving chin of deepened investigation. Estare -
me them before a relevant profile? Will this profile be able to make a list with
what went on in the night of the 3rd of May? The credibility of the testimonies of
S. G. and K. G. cannot be easily arranged in question, since both are doctors and
of the same circle of conheci - chins – such as the members of the group of the
Town of Luz, who are English doctors and are known well between themselves.
Chapter 10

the facts Rethink

on 3rd of May of 2007, seventeen hours and thirty minutes, esplanade of the
restoring Paradise, mold in the Beach of Luz, her nearly 600 meters of the resort
All the couples of the holidays groups with the respective children, with the
exception of the couple McCann, of the twins and of Maddie, and Dianne Webster,
older element and mother of Fiona Payne, are seated on a table, where they eat
and drink.

None of the children seems to be sick, which walk already run for the esplanade.
Other blond children, of Madeleine's age, also run and play between the
esplanade and the sand of the beach.
It is a calm end of afternoon, nothing of abnormal one if it passes. At around 18h
13, the men leave the table, addressing on foot for the resort, leaving backwards
the mulhe - criminals and the children.
Fifteen minutes then the women and the crian - ças follow they the steps. A few
minutes then, David Payne is near Madeleine's, what father is playing tennis and
asks after the woman of this. Kate is in the apartment 5th with Madeleine and
two twins.
Of immediate one, David Payne moves - - for the apartment. There brought near,
one installs the doubt: what went to do there? How much time there remained?
Did he see the children? Did it play them? How were they?
The first version as for the time in which David Payne remained in the apartment
5th, was of 30 minutes, according to Gerald McCann.

However, in the words of Kate Healy, who gave a second version, they were not
any more than 30 seconds. It is the question of a too significant discrepancy not
to be taken into account.
As for what would have been going to do there, also there are several versions:
to know only if Madeleine's mother was needing something or to help to bring it
the children to the recreation zone. Not here the versions coincide minimamente.
David Payne affirms to have seen Madeleine and his brothers and it will define
that moment like the vision of three immaculate angels.

It is registered then that David Payne, around 19 h 00, is the last person, besides
the parents, seeing Maddie, as much as we know. There will run another version
of this end of afternoon and of the going of David Payne 5th to the apartment.
According to Fiona Payne, would not Madeleine's father be playing tennis and it
was at home, David Payne would have been if moved there in the company of the
woman Fiona … Where is the truth?

In the registers of the images gathered in the esplanade Paradise, only fifteen
minutes after David Payne leaves such a place the fact is that Fiona Payne and
you sweat them companions followed him the steps even to a resort. What can or
want to hide declarations so easily were you counter dictating?

On 4th of May of 2007, 07 h 00, town of the Sargaçal, in the proximities of the
Town of Luz Y. M., of 52 years of age, of English nationality and gestora of social
services of juveniles' protection, with twenty five years of experience in the
children's area in risk, find on holidays in the Algarve, tie the television and he
sees in an English channel the piece of news of the disappearance, in the village
of Luz, of the small English one.
It takes the decision of moving to the place of the disappearance with the
intention of giving support to the parents of the child. Little after 09 h 30, with
the help of the present police elements in the place, it manages to arrive next to
Madeleine's parents.

These are accompanied by another individual who never identified, but who was
defi - nido like an intimate friend of the family. Madeleine's parents were upset,
but it is only the mother who was crying inten - samente.
While arriving next to the parents of Madeleine, Y. M. begins to ask questions,
wants to know the periodicity with which they were going to see the children
during the dinner, they answer him that of hour in hour, as well as if Gerald is the
biological father of Madeleine, wanting with that question to perfect the possibility
of a biological father of to have come to gather the daughter.
With those questions Madeleine's mother begins to be irritating--. Such questions
should be formulated by the police officer. According to the mother of Madeleine,
the police officer there it should already be in great number in order that they
find his daughter, what it had been taken by a couple.

Presuming that Madeleine's parents were the suspei - tar of his official quality and
gestora of social services of juveniles' protection, it shows his official documents
given out by the police officer and English government. The father of M. shows
the documen - you them to an intimate friend of the present family, who notes
that such documents are authentic. But nonetheless they are shown entu -
siasmados with his collaboration. In that moment, Y. M. tries a desperate, precise
maneuver of there separates Madeleine's mother of others two, invite it for a
reserved place, he wants esclare - cer the history of the couple that I second Kate
would have taken his daughter.
Such a maneuver has no effect, Madeleine's mother reacts agres - sivamente and
refuses abandoning two companions. Y. M. appears preoccupied with the agitation
of Madeleine's mother, veri - being what same still had not received medical
support which it would be needing.

Madeleine's mother still will have told him that in that moment, ten of the
morning, his daughter was lost 13 hours ago.
Now, on these accounts the disappearance would have taken place at 21h 00 and
not at 22h 00. This contradiction is important and there will have to be deducted
the impact of two sceneries of the disappearance in the versions that will come to
be produced by the couple McCann and by his group of friends.
Before the intimate friend of Madeleine's parents to be brought together with
these and to tell him that they did not want already to speak any more with her,
dispensing his support, Y. M. still had time to alert for the cares having them with
the ways of social communication, acon - selhando - them be maintaining in
silence. Y. M., since it arrived next to the parents of Madeleine and of his intimate
friend, found the face familiar of this, thinking that it would have known it in the
context of his functions, eventually for it having had some intervention in some
case that had passed by his hands, in the area of the juveniles' protection.

Later, Y. M. it came to identify the intimate friend who was near the McCann that
morning. It would be the question of David Payne, the organizer of the holidays
travels to which an anomalous behavior had been marked, in Majorca, by S. G.
and K. G. Next to the English police officer we tried to perfect the eventual
existence of anteceden - tes you police or judge of David Payne, but nothing was
consisting of his registers. The only thing that was perfected was that David
Payne is the great friend of Madeleine's father, knowing itself from the time of the
faculty.
Chapter 11

Analysing the place of a crime.

The apartment 5a

There Are 10 h 00, after dispatching the whole daily means of the department, I
meet, in my office, with the remaining members of the team who investigates the
disappearance of Made - leine.
These meetings have been routine, disposing of the presence and participation of
the English colleagues, originating from the town of Leicestershire, and 46-year-
old José Freitas of age, British, give - cendente of natural Portugueses of the
island of the Madeira that in tem - powders migrated for the United Kingdom to
the search of work and of better conditions of life.
José Freitas is a superior picture of Scotland Yard, with a great experience in the
investigation of violent crimes, kidnapping and seizures. A Portuguese speaks
with accent, it will be with us even to the return of the McCann the Ingla - land,
but he will not learn to say «press«, hardly will manage to say «enterprise«.
Freitas had reached the Algarve to the end of 18 days of investigation.

You were murmuring for the English police officer they will have che - cattle to
the conclusion that the current police cooperation only would have to gain with
someone who was understanding the Portugueses and our culture. Besides the
swinging of the effectuated diligence, we proceed to the analysis of the
photographic report effectuated in the apartment 5th in the night of the facts.
The apartment is composed by two quar - you them, a living room and kitchen.
The first thing that is obvious it is the "arrangement" of the room where
supposedly Madeleine would be sleeping and his two twin brothers.

There are no kidnapper's visible signs in the access to the window of the room of
Madeleine. — To what height is the wall of the window? — To 91 cm. Have
another bed leaned to this wall, what it has signs of there someone had slept.
There is a chair of stick leaned to the wall to the bottom. Were considered what -
he wants marks of shoe … — Of this bed for the wall of the window all the
centíme - tros are? — Forty, but the bed has not marks of stamping. — Good … of
the two one, or this window did not serve for anything …, or then they were two
kidnappers, one on the inside and other on the outside.
The "arrangement" is not total. The window of the room is protected of the
outside by a blind, which only is moved by the interior. In the interior there is an
opaque curtain for protection of the lumino - sidade, even to the wall, and even
to the ground, with embrace. it is noticed two side curtains that all the curtains
are pulled for the center of the window, her without covering in the totality.

Hold it from the right side there is fallen in the ground, between the feet of the
bed and a chair in stick, this one leaned to the curtain of the right side. Hold it
from the left side it is lifted in the support of the wall.
There is untidiness in the curtain of the left side. It seems that someone closed
the curtains to the haste. None of the embraces of the curtains is in the correct
position and nor - badly, lifted in the wall.
Kate says that when it happened for the desa - parecimento of Madeleine the
curtains were completely closed, i.e. they would have been run by the parents,
and the eventual rap - tor is that it would have put them in that position, in the
form to make easy his passage for the window. Now, hold them that they are
used for sus - to have the curtains when these are gathered lateralmente. To run
the curtains, they have to come off of the embraces. For - so much, it can have
been only in the moment of close the curtains that the hold that they were in the
position in which they were found. Another hypothesis is that such side curtains
were gathered and only after the disappearance they were withdrawn of this
Chapter 12

To untenable lightness and inconsistency of the scheme of vigilance of the

children

One of the problems put to the investigation made a list - - with the counting of
the hour of the facts. The certain hour in which it happened for the disappearance
looks there is dependent of report of parents and of friend. There were not
doubts that Madeleine's parents were going to watch, during the dinners, his
children from time to time, according to it was registered in the book of reception
of the restaurant Slaps.
What was happening with other parents, with the exception of the couple Payne,
which was using an intercomunicador to hear noises and cho - rar of the children.
This vigilance was taking place during the dinner, but then of the dinner it arrived
when periods were taking place of more than one hour without which the children
were watched.

Till the evening of the 3rd of May, the vigilance would be of 30 in 30 minutes. But
on that night the term seems to have been reduced for 15 in 15 minutes,
according to the testimonies of the members of the group. Two contradictory lists
and a childlike book torn To a first investigator who moved to the apartment,
after the alarm of the disappearance, was informed of him the existên - it rows
backwards of a scheme of vigilance of the children while the parents had dinner
to a hundred of meters.

In the height, Russell O'Brien handed to him over two lists for himself written by
hand in the inside cover of a childlike playful book, a sticker activity book for
children with more than three years.

We think that the book belonged of Madeleine and do not realize because they
tore the cape of a book of the child.
A child had had just disappeared and all his belongings should be precious for
those who were loving it.
Would there be even any more no paper around? A simple napkin? The per -
gunta stays on air and the answer is one more contradiction. Such lists were
containing the eventual register of the visits to the apartment. In it is possible to
read:

8.45 pm – All joined near the swimming pool for food;

9.00 pm – Matt Oldfi eld sees in all the 3 windows 5th, B, D ALL the closed est
es;

9.15 pm – rry does McCann go to the room? P you that of the room when

9.20 was opened pm – Jane Tanner verifi here 5D – Sees a stranger when a child
is walking getting a beating to the lap;

9.30 pm – Ru ell O'Brien in 5D – fi him her d nte;

9.55 pm 10.00 pm – Alarm given after Kate.

The second list presents some differences to that it does not give birth - clear
hundred:

8.45 pm – Swimming pool;

Does Matt regulate to 9.00-9.05 – all the closed est es there saw in all 3 rry
Chapter 13

Mere contradictions or signs in the evidences of the parents of Madeleine and his
friends?

We have the conviction of which the evidences of the parents of Made - leine and
of his friends they are not correct, when great contradictions are between them.
The subject is boarded in that of several meetings of the team of investigation.

The first idea is that these contradictions will be able to result from the fear of a
group of tourists that neglected the policewoman of the children, entrusting that
they were in security, face to a police and judicial appliance that desconhe -
hundred. In the bottom the idea is this: almost they all are doctors, with children
of ages inferior to four years of age.

Does what would happen to his runs, and to the children, dig of the public or
judicial knowledge the lightness with which they left them alone in an aparta -
chin, without security, they went to have dinner to a hundred of meters, eating
and drinking well – according to evidences, the group was normal to drink eight
bottles of wine, four of white and four of dyed one?
In addition without visibility for the rears of the apar - tamentos, especially for
those who position themselves at the level of at the bottom-do-chão, and much
less for the upside down quarters of the children ahead of the block of
apartments. In spite of the fact that the aggravating circumstance of the
daughter of one of them has been disappearing. They all show preoccupation in
making believing that his children stayed in security, and watching - of.

The couple Payne will affirm that, since they have intercomunica - pains to hear
crying or other noises, his children were in security in spite of being in an
apartment with little or no security in terms of structure of the door of entry, only
a fragile door in wood, with a mere lock system.

The couples Oldfield and, in spite of his apartments also they are situated in the
first floor, with a principal door and a window of balcony in the rears, think his
safe children because they had everything the shut and barred one.

The couple McCann thinks that his children are in security guard himself that the
window of balcony of the rears is not closed and not locked and it is possible to
enter in the apartment this way, without being seen.
Of the restaurant You Cover the visibility, in the night, it are almost null, bitter -
cendo two factors: a protection of opaque plastic that reduces considerably the
exterior visibility … and the fact of having jan - tado of back for the apartment.
On the contrary of Kate Healy, who always said to have entered in the apartment
for the window of balcony of the rears, his husband will come to say that it
agreed to the interior of the apartment through the door princi - pal, using a key.
However, the witness Jeremy W., on holidays with the family, leaves from house
with the son baby, using a trolley, about 20 h 15/20 h 30, in order to it fall
asleep. Per - runs several arteries of the tourist complex. So that the baby fell
asleep, it began to do the reverse way.

At around 21h 05, it finds Gerald McCann going from the apartment for the
access gate to the garden. It talks with him during 3 to 5 minutes. The detail of
the access to the apartments is already not despiciendo, becoming a piece fulcral
for the understanding of what if shovels - I am in the night of the 3rd of May. The
discussion of the subject inside the team of investigation is interesting: — There
do not remain doubts that the quickest form of agreeing to the interior of the
apartments, of the first floor, coming from the restaurant You Cover, it is for the
Chapter 14

The first death signs break of the parents

Em ends of May, Sofia, my woman, it moves to the ins - talações of the

Department of Criminal Investigation of Portimão with a lovely flowers basket.
Orchids, roses, gérberas and lilies decorated by butterflies and birds, the whole
set in tones of green and yellow, colors that were symbolizing the search for
Made - leine. A missive signed by our daughters was accompanying the flowers:«
Father! We like very much you, do not forget us, but it finds Madeleine. Rita and
Inês». That flowers branch was on top of one of the furniture of my office,
withering con - forms the days they were passing, almost to the same rhythm
the one that was given up the hope of finding the girl with life.

In this height, it seemed that, suddenly, you give the couple McCann - pertava for
the hard reality – the strong possibility of the daughter to be killed. We can be
naive, but, to given moment, feel that at least Kate Healy would be in the
arrangement of, without being compromised, to indicate the place where the
body of his daughter was, and what the same thing would be situated in the zone
of the Town of Luz. Perhaps link encon - trasse the indirect form of making it
appear.

So, in the June beginning, Kate Healy begins to notice some informations relative
to the location of the corpse of his daughter. As the own one would come to
affirm, such data had been supplied with him by persons with psychological or
paranormal powers. The corpse might encon - trar-se in a collector of sewer
pipes who flows into the Beach of Luz or in the cliffs the spring of that beach,
place where, for times, was it practicing race.

With the machine of Krugel, in search of a corpse

Não making happy with these traces that it was going it provides - cendo, to the
9th of June Kate will have asked relatives or friends to move his house, in
England, in the attempt of finding Madeleine's hairs. These were then
messengers for Africa of the South and hand to an ancient colonel of the South
African Army, called Krugel, what it would have invented and developed a
machine for corpses' location from the beginning of the release of atoms. In other
words, a body in decomposition freed atoms, soon, hairs of this body put in the
interior of that machine look for the identic atoms.

To the 28th of June, in that of several meetings that the couple McCann was
maintaining with elemen - you those of the Judicial Police officer, such a
possibility and his inten is told - ção of bringing Krugel to the Town of Luz.
According to last East, leaving from the South Africa, in the possession of
Madeleine's hairs, it had conse - guido to draw an imaginary line, which was
crossing that locali - dade and was ending in England. So, it would be in the Town
of Luz that Madeleine's corpse would be.
The couple McCann wanted the anuência and the support of the Judicial Police
officer for the diligence to efec - tuar for Krugel. The couple was admitting now
declaradamente the death of the child, on the contrary of what they had come to
affirm publish - it lies and of what they would recommence affirming
subsequently and, so much how much I know, they keep on affirming today.
The extended team of reverse side - tigação (both Portuguese and British) it
received with estupe - faction to piece of news of the supposed technological
developments in the area of the corpses' location.
In spite of our knowledge what would be already in application identic
technologies in any paí - cathedrals, namely in the USA, the "machine" of Krugel
Chapter 15

A crime in the memory: Mariana's corpse or the difference between investigating

a crime with body or without body

The forms of investigating crimes with or without body they are, in some form
different, and his difficulties increase expo - nencialmente between a situation
and other one. In the first one, to reverse side - tigação seems to be made easy
by it, at least as for the definition of the type of crime. We have a body, analyse
the extern and internal habit, send the same thing to him for the autopsy and, in
beginning, the cause of the death is perfected.

When it are ended that we are before a violent, resultant death of the action of
somebody else, I believed an act - minoso, investigations begin from the place
where the body was found, through a detailed inspection of the same thing.
When there is not body, but only a disappearance of a person, child or adult, the
case changes of figure. With a desa - parecimento it can be in cause or not a
crime.
That one can be a volunteer, but the investigator will think about other hipóte -
cathedrals, beginning because of understanding it why it was giving
disappearance, to the same time that it will have to begin to work on basis of two
premises: the lively or dead missing person. In the first case, efforts - tado the
voluntary act of the missing person himself, we can avan - çar for a picture of
seizure or kidnapping, with redemption request, for mere vengeance, for sexual
acts, pedófilos or with another motivation.

If to think in the event of the missing person if encon - trar when the situation
was killed, then, it is complicated as for the existence or non-existence of crime,
and in this case which type of crime.
The death can have happened suddenly in the sequence of an accident, with or
without action of somebody else, or for fraudulent or negligent act of somebody
else. If the death of the missing person has been taking place in the sequence of
action of another person, serious difficulties appear to determine the type of
crime in question and the intensity of the fraud. When body is not, as we can
check the cause of the death. When body is not and sus - being bribed of death,
we will be, certainly, in the presence of the ocul - tação of a corpse, being able or
crime simulation does not take place. But the corpse's occultation can be
sophisticated or not, according to the intelligence or the opportunity, face to the
time, ways to the disposi - ção and to the place where it took place to death.

A corpse tells That I Remember a crime to Myself of that girl 3-year-old called
Mariana of age, killed to the kick for the father himself. It was passing the year of
1999 and was put in the Azores, in commission of service, in the Department of
Criminal Investigation of Thin Tip of the Judicial Police officer.
At around 8h 00 of a Monday, we were aler - tados for the Health delegate, for a
situation that it was considering abnormally. It had been called to certify a death
of a child and was finding strangers any wounds that the body apresen - tava.
While reaching house of Mariana, we came across the mother sen - tada on top
of a towel that it was trying to hide. The towel was soaked of blood, the blood of
Mariana. Mariana's parents were saying that she had died during the sleep, when
fragile lie face was possibly choked with the milk that was drinking of a feeding
bottle, to the marks violently printed in his child's body, in the back and in the
tail. Coincident marks with the ilhoses of the boots of the father. Mariana was
presenting injuries in the head.
The father, after the pontapear as if it was a football, launched it against the wall
of the room. His head, holds for the hairs, it shocked for several times and
behavior. While passing now for his fourth examination, in the vehicle Renault of
the couple McCann, Eddie alters significantly his behavior. Visivel - lies more
excited, it did not address of immediate one for the vehicle, like fez with the
previous vehicles. Lift the head and, with the nose on air, it sniffs incessantly
around the vehicle charging what is to the search of the fountain of that
characteristic odor that so well knows and with which so many years ago it is got
used to deal, what in that zone it already detected lightly, but he knows that it is
going to finish because of finding.

The voice of the specialist Martin puts order in the dog, which seemed
entertained in that commission, and obliges it to return to the thorough
examination in the fourth vehicle. Eddie reveals more one of the surprises of the
case, while barking strongly as a sign of alert for the existence of corpse's odor in
the vehicle rented by the couple McCann, more concretely in the inferior part of
the door of the engineer, and in the berry - geira, where the dog was bitting and
barking, indicating that the odor was being given out from the interior of the
vehicle through the close season - ção existent around the doors. This vehicle
was of pursuance, in the evening inside, I subject to a complete and thorough
forensic examination for part of the experts of the PJ, with the help of the dog of
detection of human blood, Keela, having already to the dawn been found tracks
hemáticos, in special in the places indicated by the dog: key and baggage car of
the vehicle. There were then collected samples of parts of the baggage car of the
vehicle, what were sent for it it labors - forensic thorium of Birmingham, in the
United Kingdom. Like the event with the apartments, once any more, Eddie did
not reveal any interest for the remaining inspected vehicles, ape - in having
shown interest in the vehicle used by the McCann. Eddie did not hesitate, had not
behaviors brought near with other cars, when his actions are turning quite clear
and precise. The valoração of the proof of the dogs is determinative in this type
of cases. It is also important that a criterion is maintained homogéneo in his
valoração. In other words, there cannot be criteria dualism. If the truth is the
alone one and the methodologies of the modern police officers are very
approximate, then it does not make sense despise this type of intrumentos of
investigation and of gathering of tracks with probational value. It increases still,
in this line, that the presence of these dogs was suggested by the police officer
herself English and decided between the Portuguese and English police officers.

I had been already removed from the investigation when it brought near to my
knowledge that a neighbor of the couple McCann in the Town of Light, a
Portuguese jurist, was reporting what, in nights previous to the examinations
carried out in the vehicle used by the couple, witnessed what were maintaining
frequently the baggage car of this opening. On the odors of the vehicle and blood
tracks, a brother-in-law of Gerald will have subsequently affirmed that they were
using the baggage car to transport garbage and that in that of the times, to a
trans - to carry foodstuffs, would have tipped blood over of bifes in the baggage
car, if they justified so the "strange" odor. For his time, Kate's cousin said that the
car had unpleasant smells that judge they were given rise by the shirt tails of the
babies. These justifications do not gather face to the especificidade of a tra -
balho of the English dogs. These are exclusively trained to detect human blood
and odor of human corpse. The consi - derações on the type of hygiene of the
users of the car do not look to us even credíveis for persons civilized like those
who integrate the group, because this two are testimonies, at least, gentle.

Gathering of the tracks detected by the inspections cinotécnicas

In the sequence of the detection of the tracks hemáticos for part of the dogs
EVRD and CSI, beginning happens to a process of gathering and remittance to
forensic laboratory. From soon two questions were lifted: like them retiring in the
Chapter First 17

conclusions to be drawn of the examinations effectuated by the dogs

EVRD and CSI

In the sequence of the results obtained through the work effectuated by Eddie
and Keela, took place one more meeting of the team of investigation, which
always disposed of the presence of the English colleagues. The subject of this foi
to analysis of those data: — Good! There is a detail that it highlights of these
results, the dogs only marked corpse's odor and human blood in proprie - dade of
the couple McCann. — It is an undoubted fact,

in spite of we had effectuated exa - mes in places and goods of other owners.
This was the first conclusion: the existence of corpse's odor and human blood
only was compromising the McCann. — How it will be possible to interpret the
odor existence of cadá - to see and blood in the interior of the apartment? —
That there was a corpse there, and that the same thing was moved of behind the
sofa for the room of the couple. — The blood behind of the sofa can belong of the
kid, and in this case it will have died there. — Yes! So the form is explained as
this sofa it was encon - drill, as well as the untidy curtains.

This era to the second conclusion, the existence of a corpse and the strong
probability of the death to have happened suddenly behind that sofa of the room.
The last one was connected with the odor the corpse in Madeleine's, what
peluche it was seen on top of the bed by the investigators who moved to the
apartment in the night of the disappearance. — In the room and in Madeleine's
bed is not odor of cadá - to see, how is the existence of such an odor explained in
the puppet of peluche? — There can Only be a hypothesis. When it died it would
be with the puppet near itself. There were preliminary conclusions, which were
needing of being corroborated by positive results of the English laboratory to be
consolidated like proof.
Chapter 18

The sacred one and the layman that the investigators found in the room
of the couple McCann

D the observation effectuated by the investigators inside the house, in special in

room now occupied by the couple and in the room that was serving of office to
Gerald McCann, place where Madeleine and his complex diary was organized and
administered the Bottom and where Gerald was sitting down to write his blog,
one could be said that the couple had a heterogeneous behavior and enough dife
- renciado in the way as they were facing the disgrace that on them was knocked
down.

What the investigators saw was the paradigm of the sacred one and of the
layman: the room was noticing two reality dis - dyed, two faces of the same coin.
Kate Healy was seeming to be in mourning. From his side, there were many
people photographies of Madeleine stuck in the wall and put in frames on the
table table it fits-ceira, in spite of the fact that the peculiarity of each one of them
has a crucifix, a saint or a third, I eat that looking after the soul of the girl. The
Sacred Bible was also present on the bedside table of Kate Healy and had marked
only, with a holy picture, a page of the Ancient Will, of Samuel's second book, in
the tenth chapter as, where if they could read the next and significant verses:

David said the Natan: "I sinned against the LORD.» 1 3 Natan answered him:
"THE LORD forgave your sin. You will not die.

However, since you offended seriously the LORD with action that you did, it will
die certainly son who you was born.» And Natan returned for his house. THE
LORD injured boy whom Urias's woman had given to David with a serious
disease. David prayed to God for the boy; it fasted and spent the night knocked
down on the ground.
The anciãos of his house, of foot next to him, were asking him to get up of the
ground, but link he did not want to make it not even take with them any food. To
the seventh day, the boy died, and the serfs of the king were fearing to give him
the piece of news of the death of the boy, since they were saying: "When the boy
was still living, we were talking to him, and he did not want to hear us; how are
we going to say to him now that the boy died? Prune that he eats - to be crazy!»
David noticed what the serfs were whispering between themselves and buy -
endeu that the boy had died. Did it ask them: "The boy died already?» They
answered him:« It died.» Then, David got up of the ground, washed itself, put
perfume, changed clothes and entered at the home of the LORD to adore it. Of
turn to his house, it told them to serve the meal and he ate. His serfs told him:
"That you do? When boy was still living, you were fasting and crying; now that it
died, you get up and eat!» Did David answer: "When the boy was still living, I
was fasting and praying, thinking: "Who knows if the LORD will feel sorry for me
and the boy will cure me?” But now that did it die, for what will I fast more? Can
I make it turn, by chance, to the life? I will go for joined of him; he, however, will
not turn any more for next to me.» David it consoled Betsabé, his woman. It
looked for it and for pain - for miu with her. She was pregnant and gave birth to a
son, to which David put the name of Salomão.
THE LORD loved it and orde - 25 nou to a prophet Natan that him of this surname
of Jedidias that means «beloved of the LORD». In the bottom for David the life
had to continue.

For contrast, of another side of the room, in the part pertaining to Gerald
McCann, the walls were naked, showing some coldness, when there is not the
only photography of his daughter Madeleine. Only on top of the bedside table if it
were finding three curious literary works that Gerald McCann was reading:
supplicant letter. We questioned Stuart on that subject. What «were gathering
elements on the couple and the friends», and they had already ordered a first
answer.
This era relative to the situation socioeconómica and in her, strangely, it was
affirming that the English police officer what to the couple McCann it was not was
known by me - of the credit cards or of debit. – It is not possible. – Have they no
credit cards? But there are two that are identi - been: what was used to pay the
air travels and arrange with what it proceeded to the rent of Renault Scénic. –
This gang that is stopped things and supply with us the data of the credit cards
and debit since they reached Portugal.

We were conscious of what we were asking. A card of credit or debit allows to

know several things: where does it walk - ram, where they were, what they paid.
With the analysis of the movi - chin of such cards it is possible to reconstitute the
life of his holder and by chance to come to some conclusions.

From soon if it kept the conviction of which very with difficulty we would obtain
the wanted information. Stuart was doing another request. It would be good
what were I gave out - of two supplicant letters, one relatively to the friends and
other one to the couple McCann. This is that we do not realize. Trick or breach of
trust? In a moment of relaxing of one of these meetings, I will have that he eats
- when a lapse had been or, perhaps, I will have been inopportune and little
diplomá - little bit. Preoccupied in spite of the fact that the possibility of the
couple McCann been, in some form, wrapped in the disappearance of his
daughter, and when was it reasoning as for the types of crime that same they
could have practiced, I noticed a fact., really, if it was coming to confirm any type
of responsibility of the couple McCann, then it might be in question, relatively to
the bottom created for the searches by Madeleine, who was reaching more than 2
million pounds, a crime of trick or breach of trust. the discussion opened then
and, in fact, with the appropriate premises, the trick crimes quali - staying or
breach of trust might exist, but Portugal would not have jurisdiction to investigate
and to judge for such a crime. This perten - ceria to the United Kingdom, since
the bottom is registered in that country. The English colleagues noticed then the
hard one it recovers - lidade: the strong possibility to have a crime to investigate
in his country, having like eventual suspects the couple McCann, thing that was
seeming not to please them very much.

Having noticed a sudden paleness in the face of the present Britons.

Chapter 20
On the way of the constitution when of decision was tested

A of constituting when the couple McCann Em Portugal was tested, completely and any criminal
investigation only happens in the context of a process-crime, what it has three phases: inquiry,
education and judgement.

The investigation properly stated takes place in the inquiry phase, in charge of the organs of criminal
police officer, which enjoy technical and tactic autonomy, under the direction and inspection of the
Public prosecution service. In the context of such a process there are processual subjects, one of them is
the tested.
The figure of the tested one was created in the form to grant to the whole sus - chest of the practice of a
crime a set of rights and duties. One of the underlying beginnings to our penal processual regime is it
of not auto-car, without being legal to allow that a witness supplies elements that come to incriminate
it. I.e. a witness cannot be allowed to keep on speaking and on letting know facts that charge it as for a
determined crime.
The right to the silence, like tested, avoids that one car incriminates - ção. It is certain that the figure of
tested, nowadays, it brings a determined social stigma, being almost irrelevant being called itself what
all the persons presume clear up to proof in opposite, which will be able to happen with a
condemnatory sentence.
Attentive the processual requisites and face to the signs that up to that time exis - tiam, of corpse's
occultation and simulation of crime, when were consolidated for the results laboratoriais, though
introductions, and face to couple - when had been eminent for the United Kingdom of the couple
McCann, was overcome the decision of questioning them, before they left our country. This decision
was properly prudent, it wrapped all the elements connected with the investigation, the Public
prosecution service and the national director of the Judicial Police officer.

On the 3rd of September, Ricardo Paiva, the investigator portu - guês what straightly was dealing with
the couple McCann, moved to his temporary residence, and there it notified them of the date and hour
of the diligence. In the height, Kate Healy reacted negatively, demons - trando two types of
preoccupation. One relative to his parents: "what my parents are going to think». Other one relative to
the press: "what the press is going to say when he will know». It wove, still, accusations gone to the
Portuguese police officer:« the Portuguese police officer is suffering pressures of the Government so
that it puts an end quickly to the investigation».

In one more meeting, between investigators portu - gueses and Englishmen, get ready the
interrogations, having been it links - borado a roll of questions that were happening, principally, on the
night of the facts. We wanted to test our doubts and to confront the future ones tested with the existent
signs. The days of interrogation of the couple McCann A decision for the constitution as tested of Kate
Healy and Gerald McCann was taken. The notification, for such an act pro-cessual, already had been
effectuated.

Little before 15 h 00, 6th of September, Kate Healy enters in the installations of the DIC of For -
accompanied shears helm that it advises of press. His lawyer is already to his wait and the room where
it will be going to pass questions it - thorium is already prepared. Abroad, from há some time that the
public gathers. Kate Healy laughs, while crossing the door of the edifí –

I row backwards, saying that it is good for the tourism, when it is referring to the show mediático what
was mounted. Two questions are put in that moment. His lawyer does a last attempt in the direction of
without proceeding, for already, to an interrogation like tested, but you punish to an investigation like
witness. We do not bring into line with East apparent retreat. Some of the leaders from the investigation
seem to wait for the miracle of a confession. As for that, this one - me them skeptical. It decides to
begin to cross-examine it like witness, must stop such an investigation when, in the report storm that
would be going to do from the 3rd of May, it was reaching the moment in which at around 17h 30, he
returned to the apartment with three children, because breaking from there everything what he was
saying might incriminate it, if the prin was in question - cípio of not auto-car and the obligatoriness of
constituting it tested face to the sufficiency of the existent signs.

Another question was attached to the presence of the assessora of press. – Look there! I can be
deceived, but I run the code of pro-one cease pencil-box and do not find here the adviser's figure of
press. Is this one of the new alterations to the code that are going to come into force soon, or is a
modernice? – It stops there. There is no problem. The woman sits down near the being - vigor of squad
and waits for the end of the diligence. It was not agreeing with the advisers' press presence to the
installations of the police officer while that type of diligence was passing. That presence was
unnecessary and ominous for the investigation, but the lady there was staying to the wait. At around
20h 00 the investigation was interrupted for rest and food, being retaken at 22h 00 and ending at 23h
00. Nothing of relevant much resulted from this investigation, besides two details: Kate was
remembering - - now – 5 months later – that Gerald was wearing a few blue pants from gangue and it
was using athletic shoe, in the night of the 3rd of May. Another detail was connected with the time that
David Payne, in the end of the afternoon from the 3rd of May, had delayed at his home.

Gerald was speaking in 30 minutes, Kate Healy was affirming now only 30 seconds. The necessity of
reducing this time of permanence of David Payne, in the apartment 5th, when there Kate Healy was
only, with three children, while Gerald was playing tennis is not understandable. Which the problem of
being 30 minutes or do you punish 30 seconds?

Before Kate Healy and his lawyer abandons - sender the building, it was necessary to join with a
person in charge of the Police officer of Public Security, in order that Kate was guaranteed all the
security conditions. Tested! There are 11 h 00 of the morning of the 7th of September. Kate Healy is
appointed tested and it subjects to term of identity and residence, giving like residence his residence of
the United Kingdom, for existi - strong senders signs of the practice of the crimes of corpse's
occultation and simulation of crime. Kate Healy, when the interrogation began, apro - veita his statute
of tested and one sends to the silence. Even so, there him are formulated several questions that aim to
explain the circumstances in which it will have taken place to death of his daughter, in the night from
the 3rd of May of 2007, in the interior of the apartment 5th of Ocean Club, in the Town of Luz – Lakes.
From 16 h 00, pro-one gives in to the constitution of tested from Gerald McCann and subjection to
term of identity and residence, having supplied the residence of the United Kingdom, since there are
strong signs of the practice of the crimes of corpse's occultation and simulation of crime.

On the contrary of Kate Healy, his husband one does not send to the silence and responds to the
questions that are formulated to him, beginning because of denying peremp - toriamente any
responsibility in the disappearance of his daughter Madeleine. As for 30 minutes that, 5 months ago
behind, it was affirming to have been the time that David Payne had delayed in his house, in the
afternoon end from the 3rd of May, affirms now that that one was the total time that he delayed when
his house was going of the tennis field and returning, at around 19h 00, already equipped for the tennis
departure. A question lifts this answer. If the tennis play was sea - cado of 18 h 00 to 19 h 00, and when
David Payne reached a court at around 18h 30, why will it be equipped if, while returning to a court,
the play had ended?

The heavy sleep of Sean and relevant Amelie Questão was the connected one with the fact of the twins,
who in the night of the May 3 were sleeping in the room of the sister, they had not woken up during the
hours that there remained in spite of the resultant noise of the confusion of persons into which the
apartment was made. He said what in the height it had found this fact estra - nho, having thought soon
that his children had been it drugs - of for the kidnapper, only having told these suspicions to the police
officer some days after the events. The problematics of the twins, Sean and Amelie, not to have woken
up during the time in which the searches passed in the apartment (with the open window, blind levan -
tada and remote curtains and flattering in a cold night) lifts the strong suspicion of they were hackled.
This fact is so obvious, what only spent more than three months after the disappearance of Madeleine is
that Kate Healy suggested to the police officer the realization of analyses to the blood, hairs and nails
of those children.

Gerald McCann admi - aunt now this possibility – for effect of the kidnapper, clear. Highlight - me
them what there were no a few days after the disappearance that Gerald McCann told to the police
officer his suspicions as for the dopagem of the children. They had spent more than three months, so
much in his case as in that of Kate Healy, to talk to the police officer of such an important suspicion.

In the beginning of the investigations, it was of our knowledge that the twins were still sleeping in the
cradles when the police elements there if they moved. Their detail they had continued sleeping, then
and during the uproar that must have taken place in that apartment after Madeleine's disappearance,
came to lift suspicions as for the eventuality of same they were able to have been hackled. The
hypothesis was considered of asking the parents for authorization to subject the twins to examinations
that they were allowing to explain that phenomenon. In the heart of the team of investigation, there was
come to the conclusion which face to the pressure mediá - checks, the parents would be publicly
exposed like suspects, it was what was the result to which it was approaching, because it was not conve
- niente to ask for such an examination. This decision came to have influence it denies - tiva in the
investigation, it was a mistake that it was not possible to have committed and that normally is not
committed. Later, when Kate Healy suggested the examinations to the children, we contacted the
National Institute of Forensic medicine, coming to the conclusion that hundreds are the produ - you
them with sedative effect. An examination of that type was applying for a sus - advance bribe of the
type of product.

When did the motherly grandfather of Madeleine affirm, in the television, that the mother was giving to
the children Calpol to help them sleeping, already they had spent several months on the 3rd of May. It
was now impossible to find any track. Even so, the mother came suggesting the realization of such an
examination. Like doctor, certainly he was knowing the very time so that the realization gave type of
inquiry it was allowing getting positive results, what it was already widely outdated. Wean it of
sedative ones it can bring implications at the level of the sleep. If it gives to a child, normally, sedative
to sleep – what might explain the fact of not having woken up on the 3rd of May, in spite of the whole
noise that had had been done – and then if remove him, in the sudden form this medicine, the same
child can come having difficulty in falling asleep, what it seems to have happened with the twin
brothers of Madeleine days after his disappearance – how, as a matter of fact, it was told by Kate in the
exercise books found during the searches to the residence of the McCann.
Chapter 21

An Irish family in shock state September of 2007.

The couple McCann has just reached the United Kingdom, after more than 4
months of stay in the Algarve. The television covering more bri looks to report of
the subjects' redemption - tannic when any country of the Third World was
sequestrated in. It is a return almost apoteótico. Gerald McCann goes down of
the airplane with one of the children to the lap, on the left shoulder. The son has
the head leaned to the shoulder and the arms hung along the body. Gerald goes
down the steps and begins to walk for the trace, without - daily pay with the son
to the lap.

In Ireland, the family Smith, as mui - you them other families, assists that event,
in the news section of 22 h 00 of the BBC, when suddenly they are attacked of a
strong shock: they recognize that person, his form of the son carries forward the
lap and of walking, Gerald McCann is, with a great degree of certainty, the person
who in the night of the 3rd of May of 2007, at around 22h 00, met them in the
Town of Luz, when there is leading to the lap a 4-year-old girl of age, which was
showing to sleep deeply. The patriarch of the family Smith, while contacting the
police officer, notices his bad-tempered state, from the 9th of September that has
not been sleeping and is upset. For him it is as if he was seeing the repetition of
the night in which a man saw transporting the child in the Town of Luz. The form
since he saw, now, Gerald McCann going down of the airplane and transporting
one of his twins, despoletou any thing in his head, made recognize the same way
of floor and the appearance of the man seen in the night in which Madeleine
disappeared. Still not completely convinced of what he sees in the BBC, it looks
at the news of the channels ITV and SKY News. No, there are no doubts, Gerald
McCann seems to be treated to himself the same person whom he saw in the
night from the 3rd of May of 2007, in the Town of Luz, with Madeleine to the lap.

Smith, shaken and preoccupied by what he has just seen and of concluding,
needing now that the investigators, put in charge of the case, contact it. In the
September end, we stay when Smith knew of that recognition for part of the
family. This one seemed a piece that was fitted suavemente in the puzzle. Now
perce was possible - ber the interest of the witness Jane Tanner in "ordering" the
presu - mível kidnapper in opposite sense, removing the attentions of the per - I
attend through what Gerald would have gone, on that night, towards the beach.
While going from the apartment 5th of Ocean Club, the man with the child to the
lap it did not walk for east, towards the house of Robert Murat, but yes for west
towards the family Smith. This piece of the puzzle was allowing now to rebuild
what if shovels - I am in that cold night of the 3rd of May, in the Town of Luz. The
puzzle was almost complete. We took a decision, to unleash an operation logistics
in order that to bring again the witnesses of the family Smith the Portugal. Here
they would be heard and, we have legal and pro-cessuais to ourselves, one would
proceed to the respective recognitions, across of the television images, since the
personal recognition was out of question. The reconstitution of the facts, which
was including avis - tamento in the Town of Luz, for part of Smith, also it was of
pon - derar seriously. But Smith did not come to Portugal. The Portuguese police
officer, after my exit, ideas seedling and it opts to ask his investigation doing use
of a mechanism of international cooperation. This option implicated what this
diligence, leading to end for the Irish police officer, was delaying absurdly, taking
place only some months after the 1st of October.

Meantime, they ran noises which strange persons to the investigation take I knew
- chin of the existence of this witness and of his family and, supposed - lies, it will
have tried to reach the speech with Smith, desconhendo-se his intentions.
The piece of news of a removal: the ending of a campaign of slander and of
insults Was a tear of light, in the middle of the bad time that was insisting in
continuing, but the expected one was to happen. In the Forum assist them - me
to the ceremony presided by a delegate of the Government in the Provín - it rows
backwards of Huelva, and there I met companions and friends again.

Then from the 14h 00, while it had lunch, I received the piece of news. The fact
had been that it rows - when a fax had been for the Department of Portimão,
where the national director was ceasing my commission of service, ordering my
return to the Directorship of Sense of smell. In this 2nd of October, comple - tava
48 years, it was not the wanted gift, but the waited one. In the bottom, it was
the ending of a campaign of slander and insults, condu - zida against the
operational coordinator of the investigation of the case Madeleine, orchestrated
and developed by British ways of social communication, almost from the moment
in which the investigations began. The strategy was simple, the investigation is
attacked, when there is put in question his operational, to the same time that
finds a country of Third World Portugal, with one judicial and police system
completely exceeded due to his methods almost of the Middle Ages.

Of the United Kingdom they were bringing another type of news near. The British
prime minister would have tele - fonado to Prior Stuart, person in charge of the
police officer of Leicestershire, if he asked about him if it was confirming the
dismissal of the coordinator ope - rational of the investigation. We do not know
the reason of such an interest in so humble Portuguese public official, for part of
the pri - English meiro-Minister. We do not even want to believe in what ran
behind the scenes of the Treaty of Lisbon on con's necessity - signature of the
dismissal of the operational coordinator of the investiga - ção, before being
prepared signing the treated saying. Rumors, certainly, and it swims more. It is
the gentle sensation of, for the first time in the history of the Judicial Police
officer, and of our public administration, one yes - ples official to be removed, of
his post, under the extern influence. Distant space the wise words of the Marquis
of Dovecote, it was running the year of the grace of 1759, to an English ally: "I
will never grant you except what I owe».
Chapter 23

In the river branch of Alvor, a year later, looking at the past with
confidence on the future

8th of May of 2008, Restaurant Ababuja

it has been some months since had not the pleasure, not even the opportunity, of
meeting, personally, with my colleague and friend Tava - Almeida's criminals.
After some telephone contacts, we woke up in to come to have any thing as a
snack to the Ababuja, one of several restauran - tes of the riverside zone of the
Alvor, in front of the market of the fish. This was one of the places where, it has
around a year, we were joining the turn of a table, to have dinner or to have
lunch, with colleagues of the English police officer who moved for our Algarve,
when con is cooperating - nosco in the investigation of the disappearance of
Madeleine McCann. Here, in spite of the customers were, in his great majority, of
British origin, we were passing payed no attention and, for incredible what looks,
were getting some privacy and anonymity.

Now, we were two alone, far from the lights of the footlights and of the revelry of
those days, in the esplanade, admiring an end of dazzling afternoon, with the sun
to be still thought about the calm waters of this river branch that separates two
districts from the Algarve in which the investigation, Lakes and Portimão
unfolded. In spite of liking saying the Tavares what if encon - tra completely
removed from the investigation, never in an attempt of forgetting and advancing
for other objectives, our conversations are going to give, invariably, to the same
place: the disappearance of Madeleine.

We remember the thousand of fulfilled diligence, the cen - tenas of searches, in

hundreds of investigations, the interrogations, the examinations and skills,
inquiries, analyses, in an attempt of reconsti - tuir and to rebuild the facts, with
the bitterness of not having conse - guido to find Madeleine. — Do You Remember
the results that we left definite in the inquiry after the interrogations of the
McCann? — Look there! Because you ask about me that? Is it … is passed, … it
forgets … — do You find to forget possible? It is not necessary to forget the past,
but to learn with him … — Oh companion … also has been passing our Benfica and
is today what it is. — There be! They did not learn with him … — Forgot and it
was fast … — Then let's not forget the recent past and that girl. — How it is
possible to forget the girl … I Want Myself that it is esque - cer of the
barbaridades of some persons. —

Returning to the initial question. You know, I have the conviction that someone
goes away to see Greek to substantiate something in sen - when had been
opposite. — Do not doubt, those results are properly fun - damentados, in facts,
signs and material proof. — The two were not alone reaching such results, she
was the whole team of investigation. A disappearance, a window and a corpse
Aqui brought near imports to do a deductive synthesis on this case. In other
words, to reject what is false; to remove what one cannot pro- var, for
insufficient; to give how valid and acquired from what proof was done. So:

1. The theory of the kidnapping is defended from the first hour by Maddie's
parents;

2. In the heart of the group, only his ancestors declare to have observed the
window opened in the room of the girl desa - looked; the majority cannot witness
it loyally since there had come to aid to the apartment after fact to have already
been the alarm;

3. The only extern testimony to the group that tells the open window and the
lifted blinds is it of Amy, one of edu - cadoras of Ocean Club, which points to his
observation for around 22 h 20/22 h 30, soon, enough after the alarm was given
and without proving what it arranges so esti - plow opening deeply to the hour in
which it the crime took place;

4. The set of testimonies and evidences show up an elevated number of

imprecisions, incongruence and contradictions – what will be able to be typified,
in some cases, like false evidences. In individual, the depoi - chin-key for the
theory of the kidnapping, of Jane Tanner, loses the whole credibility because of
having evolved successively along several moments, becoming ambiguous and
being disqualified;

6. There is a not located corpse, observation validated by the English dogs EVRD
and CSI and corroborated by the results laboratoriais preliminary. For me and for
the investigators who with me worked in the case up to October of 2007, the
results which we reached were the next ones:
1. The least Madeleine McCann died in the apartment 5th of Ocean Club, of Town
of Luz, in the night of the 3rd of May of 2007;

2. A kidnapping simulation took place;

3. Kate Healy and Gerald McCann are suspect of envolvi - chin in the occultation
of the corpse of his daughter;

4. The death will be able to have happened suddenly in result of a trá - gico
accident;

5. There are negligence signs in the policewoman and security guard of the
children.

The Sun begins to put itself on the beautiful scenery of this river branch. Crian -
ças English plays in the pedestrian precinct, under the attentive glance of his
parents. I look at the Tavares, see in the eyes the brilliance and the joy with
which in that day of November of 1981 we met in the School of Judicial Police
officer to begin the course of agents of investi - gação criminal. The past seems
to be distant, but done not not forgotten, and the future is already tomorrow. We
are conscious of having given best ours for the resolu - ção of the case. Our
convictions suit the experience profis - sional, facts and collected signs and from
his interpretation to the light of the Right. Our work was developed with the
objective of the realization of the justice through the search of the material truth,
the only one that must prevail face to a universe which common compensation to
be seen - dade of the lie.

Olhão, July of 2008