Has Any Other Person Disappearance Case Attracted So Much Attention As This Case Has?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2679009/Madeleine-McCann-officers-today-use-sniffer-dogs-examine-cars-two-official-suspects-quizzed-week.html

A number of Met police already deployed in Portugal, and now a further two South Wales Police specialist dog handlers, and victim detection dogs, involved in the Metropolitan Police’s multi-million-pound reinvestigation of this case.

[black_cat51]

not that i can immediately think of, but so what? Does the amount of attention a case gets mean anything?

[Mick-the-Miller]

I can't help thinking this is a total waste of time (and money)!

[Bazile]

//..Does the amount of attention a case gets mean anything? //

Well i should think that the lack of attention that the families of other missing persons get , mean a lot to those families

[sp1814]

Lord Lucan.

Amelia Earhart.

The Lindbergh baby.

[Jomlett]

The Met's finest are there at the behest of Cameron so no expense spared...

[mikey4444]

How terribly inconvenient it must be for all of us, for the silly McCanns to want to find out where happened to their daughter.

[askyourgran]

The trail is surely cold by now. I really do hope they can find out about her disappearence for the sake of the parents, who have been so insistant all along. But I think it will be a miracle if they track down the little girl.

[Mosaic]

Has any other missing person etc...

Lord Lucan
John Stonehouse
Federico Garcis Lorca

Come on you ABers, you know a challenge when you read one.

[sp1814]

AYG

There have been a couple of very high profile cases in the past few years, of abducted kids who have escaped their captors after being missing for years. This story springs to mind:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/us/kidnapped-california-woman-found-safe-after-10-years.html?_r=0

If I were in the McCanns' shoes and saw the details of these cases, it would reinforce the will to get my case drawn to a conclusion - for better or worse.

The one thing that no-one would want to face, is their child after years...after giving up the hunt.

[mikey4444]

Stonehouse did disappear but he was eventually found and went to prison, if my memory serves me well ?

[sp1814]

Some really appalling grammar in my post of 15:52.

It's literally like I never went to school.

[mikey4444]

We are far too poolite to notise sp1814 !

[askyourgran]

Not to worry sp, I got the gist of it. But 100 lines for your errors.
I agree entirely with you, no-one would like to think that their child is lost for ever and I'm glad that they intend to keep searching again. Ben Needham's mother looked distraught last year when she went back to Greece. But what are the chances of these young children remembering their parents if they do escape?

[sp1814]

AYG

Yes - good point. The cases I'm thinking of featured girls who were much older than Ben and Maddie, so they recognised their family when they were reunited.

If Maddie were found, say, in 10 years time, it's likely that she would have very little recollection of her life before she was abducted.

Another thing about this case...I think that many people just want 'to know'.

You know...at the moment, it's like watching a mystery, and then someone switching off the telly before you found out who did it (sorry for the horrible analogy - couldn't think of anything better).

The Maddie McCann case is particularly baffling because it was like she simply vanished into thin air. No CCTV of her being led away, no forensic clues, nothing.

I think a case like this sets the imagination off, and people somehow need 'closure'.

They want the answer to the puzzle.

[andres]

And I for one hope they get the answer soon.

[Bazile]

sp //The Maddie McCann case is particularly baffling because it was like she simply vanished into thin air. No CCTV of her being led away, no forensic clues, nothing. //

Could it be that this abduction was very carefully pre planned , taking particular care of the lie of the land - i.e . by abductors who were particularily knowlegible about the area , taking a route where they were unlikely to be noticed - i.e no cctv etc

[Peter Pedant]

Has any other missing person etc... Lord Lucan, John Stonehouse
Federico Garcis Lorca

Come on you ABers, you know a challenge when you read one.
yup sure do. I invoke Godwins Law....

Martin Bormann, Eichmann, ?

Blake the spy ?

Jack the Ripper ?

[zoe76]

Didn't they take sniffer dogs over before and they 'found' traces of blood and smell of 'death' in the boot of their car? and the parents said it was with the mother working in the morgue days or maybe weeks before so the smell came from her? Time to get a bath methinks

[andres]

Yes Bazile.-- I did say on another thread way back that I thought it was an abduction to order. Would have been easy to smuggle her away . The sea is close by, roads into Spain etc.
If I am wrong and I sincerely hope so, then it would have been easy to dispose of a body by putting it down one of the many deep shafts along the hilltop road to the west. I nearly fell down one of these last time I went there.