Should A Halt Now Be Called In The Hunt For Madeleine Mccann?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3008479/Yes-s-time-stopped-looking-Maddie-police-boss-says-10m-hunt-end-DAVID-JONES-s-reported-case-eight-years-explains-heavy-heart-agrees.html

In an ideal world one could say that we should not begrudge how much money it takes in the quest to find what has happened to a missing child, but in this case I feel we must now draw a line under this particular case since it seems that this one case in particular has had an inappropriate amount of money and man hours spent on it already.

[andy-hughes]

I have always been curious why the media latched onto this particular tragedy, when children go missing every day - and I have yet to find a plausible answer.

As to your question - I am glad not to be the person who has to make that decision.

[anneasquith]

yes.

[Gromit]

If there are any avenues of inquiry still open they should be pursued no matter how much time has gone by or money spent.

But the British Police have been investigating for 4 years, and have come up with nothing. All credible evidence must have been looked at by now and the case will have to remain unsolved.

[Hopkirk]

Stop now

[pusskin]

Yes, time to stop the search now. Sad but necessary.

[Sqad]

Yes.......it is just an example of class distinction in the UK.........

A middle class family, husband a consultant cardiologist with attractive doctor wife........all good media fodder.

Had it been a shelf stacker from Rawtenstall with an unemployed husband ,the case would have been closed years ago

[Hopkirk]

... and perhaps the parents would have been charged with neglect?

[ludwig]

// I have always been curious why the media latched onto this particular tragedy, when children go missing every day - and I have yet to find a plausible answer. //

Because the parents have made it their mission for that to be the case, using every means available to them, and who can blame them. They want to find the child or at least find out what happened to her.

[New Judge]

What happened to her was that her parents left her unattended in a holiday villa for a lengthy spell. What happened after that is anybody's guess but that's where it began.

Time to draw a line under the case. She is either dead or living in North Africa. Either way she will not be reunited with her parents.

[andy-hughes]

Ludwig - // Because the parents have made it their mission for that to be the case, using every means available to them, and who can blame them. //

That explains the McCann's approach, and as you say, who can blame them, but it doesn't explain how the media picked it up and ran with it for so long, and now the world population all got on board as well - that is the mystery.

[naomi24]

//children go missing every day //

Four year olds don't go missing every day.

[chaptazbru2]

Sadly, I think it's time to call a halt, although I doubt the parents do. I personally feel that she's dead and has been for a long, long time. I don't think we'll ever know.

[ludwig]

// That explains the McCann's approach, and as you say, who can blame them, but it doesn't explain how the media picked it up and ran with it for so long, and now the world population all got on board as well - that is the mystery. //

Because the MCanns fought to make it that way by lobbying and publicising to the maximum, and employing other people to do the same, hiring private investigators with campaign funds etc.
After a while their involvement became part of the story itself - they were suspects themselves at one point remember - , and the media don't need lobbying any more to run it. It picks up its own momentum.