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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 5:58 pm
I just received this by email and thought it was worth posting here just in case: PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE AND FORWARD IT TO EVERYBODY IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK... i am thanking you in advance...... From Phil McCann : As you are aware my niece, Madeleine, is still missing and I am asking everyone I know to send this as a chain letter.Please send it to everyone you know and ask them to do the same, as the story is only being covered in Britain, Eire and Portugal. We don't believe that she is in Portugal anymore and need to get her picture and the story across Europe and the U.S. as quickly as possible. Suggestions are welcome. Please Pass this email on to everyone in your address book and they reckon it could cover 80% of the world's inboxes in 2 weeks. Madeleine's Eye Holds Vital Clue Madeleine McCann's family believe a new picture of the missing four-year-old could play a vital role in the search for her. The photo of the youngster shows clearly the her distinctive right eye, where the pupil runs into the blue-green iris. The new poster of Madeleine It is this distinguishing mark that will identify Madeleine to those on the lookout for her, according to aunt and uncle John and Diane McCann. The Glasgow couple aim to distribute the appeal poster, which features the Crimestoppers telephone number, as far afield as they can. Family friend Andrew Renwick told Sky News that support for the search had been "overwhelming" and her family were extremely grateful. Her right eye Mrs McCann said: "The purpose of the poster is to highlight the distinction in Madeleine's eye. "We want to make the most of it, because we know her hair could potentially be cut or dyed." Mr McCann added: "The poster was designed by a friend of the family and I've begun Emailing it to acquaintances in different parts of the world. "I'm asking people to circulate it the best they can and make it be seen." Madeleine's Eye Holds Vital Clue

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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 6:51 pm
For more info on this, see the SNOPES Web site. It includes info on the contact information, reward, and other news sources.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 7:54 pm
Is this the little girl who went missing while her parents left her in the hotel room on vacation while they went out to eat? That whole story stinks of suspicion, in a Jon Benet kind of way. She is a very pretty girl and I do hope she is found safe, but there's something in the details that doesn't make me feel good.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 8:11 pm
Same one.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 5:58 am
Portuguese police act on Madeleine burial tip Anonymous Dutch letter claims missing U.K. girl buried under rocks near road CBC With all the publicity this case has received, I have been concerned that any pedophile with a brain in his head and possession of this girl would know that the only solution to get the hunt stopped is to kill her and then let the police know where her body is   
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 2:37 pm
?? parents left two yr olds and Madeleine alone unattended while they went out for dinner? they must be racked with guilt. Isnt that illegal in Canada? to leave children under ten unattended. I just did a quick search. Looks like the case is still unsolved and the con artists are coming out of the woodwork trying to get money from the parents. the few 'in house' abductions I know about all end up being done by someone the family knows. I wonder who was following them, watching them ..other than possibly the Resort staff.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 3:48 pm
Yes it is illegal but people do it all the time (we don't).
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 6:56 pm
See, that's the thing about this case... I don't understand how any parent would leave their child in a HOTEL ROOM in a foreign country while they went out to eat. Sure, they went back to check on her every 1/2 hour, they say; when I was talking to a friend about this case very early on, she said, "Well, I wonder if that's not a case of 'over-vigilance'? Someone sees you going back to your room 3 times in a 90-minute span, maybe there's something valuable in there... I just don't understand the parenting involved in leaving her in the room. If it was just an honest, stupid mistake, well then, my heart goes out to them. But I've said it once and I'll say it again, something about this case smells wrong. Sunshyne, you'll know what I mean... remember a few months back, the pregnant Indian woman who was murdered... her husbad appeared on the news about a day and a half later, all distraught? I knew it was him from the moment I saw him. I get the same parental-involvement feeling with this case as I did with that case; same as I (still) feel about the Jon-Benet case. Off topic... why do some missing children get the attention of Bono and JK Rowling, but others hardly get the attention of the police??
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 7:08 pm
Karen, I've heard that question asked and discussed and it seems to be various factors, sometimes just depends on what else is going on in the local area, and also online, what is picked up. But often it really is the families who make the difference, if they keep the story current, give press conferences, get advocates who get them on tv, or even like this family sending out emails. Of course way too often the timeframe is real short and after a time the child probably won't be found alive, but it is still vital to keep the story out there, just in case, so that the child might be recognized, or even see that they are being sought.. Elizabeth Smart is one case like that. I know that isn't the whole answer but some of it.
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 8:15 pm
karen, i felt the same way in the pregnant women case who was murdered in ohio...jessie davis. i knew it was the boyfriend from the 1st minute. just felt it. can honestly say, i did not have that instinct about jon-benet but, had that feeling about the aruba murder of natalie holloway.....the vandersloot father aided and abetted those 3 boys somehow ....someway.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 8:55 pm
Karen, I couldn't agree with you more about leaving the kids unattended. Sorry, this isn't the 1950's and they weren't living next to The Cleavers. I was shocked to hear people would go away on holidays and leave their children ALONE in a strange place. I feel horrible for feeling it, but part of me thinks those parents deserve it. Of COURSE I don't actually think they deserve it, but it's sort of...karmic or something. Personally, I can't understand why these superstars are supporting these negligent parents, when other children are abducted in situations that are BEYOND the parents' control. These people could have stayed with their children, and none of this would have happened. OK, insensitive rant is over now.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 9:39 pm
I wouldn't go so far as to say that the parents 'deserve' it, and I know that's not what you meant, Eeyore. It seems very selfish, on one hand, like the parents felt deserving of a vacation and the daughter got in the way of their romantic dinner plans. Was there not a 'family friendly resort' they could book, with sitting service on-staff? Of course, hindsight is 20/20 and who knows the details of why they felt they needed to leave her alone in the room. I, as a parent (when I become one) would never DREAM of leaving my child like that. Home in bed while I went to the neighbor's place for an hour? MAYbe. In a hotel room abroad? Absolutely not. Every time a prominent missing child case comes up like this, I think of Michael Dunahee. Just like I get a strange feeling about some of these other missing kids cases, I've always had a weird sense that's he's still alive, out there somewhere...
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 12:39 am
Ee, I think the stars are doing it for the child.. who certainly didn't deserve it.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 2:49 am
but she wasnt alone in the room. The twins were there too. Why werent they taken? If this was really about kidnapping for $$$ why not take em all? wonder if there was any way the youngster got out of the room herself and wandered off. I dont know where the resort is. Ocean Nearby? river? you'd never find the body if in the water off Portugal. IMHO
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, July 01, 2007 - 5:49 pm
Just to a misstatement... the parents were dining at a tapas restaurant nearby. It was NOT a "romantic dinner." And they dining on the grounds of the resort where they were staying. A "family friendly" resort.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Monday, July 02, 2007 - 9:26 am
People have to remember that just because something isn't done in our country , doesn't mean it is the same all over the world. In some countries with low crime rates they have no concept of why we would not be able to leave a child in a buggy outside a store, for instance. Danger to the child isn't even a concept in those countries. We can't always judge people from Europe by what our culture has brought us to.
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Darclyte
Member
07-11-2005
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 3:29 pm
I went to school with a girl who had a similar eye thing with both eyes, and her mother had it in one. I wonder what that's all about. The funny thing is there was a semi-popular song out around the time that was called "Blank's Eyes" (where blank is the girl's first name.) I always thought that was nifty and that it should have been "her song."
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