Originally Posted by bitontheslide (Post 9934677)

I think the parents came from a position of guilt from the very beginning. They left their children and went out drinking with friends.

Something then went wrong, and Maddie either had an accident or was taken, and from that point forward the parents have been trying to minimize their own culpability. They were not honest from the outset and I don't believe they have been honest at any point to this day. I blame the parents without reservation, whether that be for abduction, an accident or murder. They remain responsible for the situation and I don't know why they haven't had to face the consequences in a court of law.

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 9934610)

The two big give aways for me, are that they supposedly declared that she had been "taken by someone" immediately when the only thing that had happened was that she was missing. Most people's first assumption would be that a child had wandered off looking for them / was lost, not a random kidnapping, especially as the other two children were still safe.

Second thing is that they kept insisting on a narrative where the window had been forced open for someone to get in, and then when informed that the sequence of events was impossible, suddenly changed the story to the door being left unlocked. :think:

Straight away none of it adds up. Trying to figure out what DID happen is really mostly speculation, obviously, but you can be pretty sure that there's a lot more to what happened that night than they've ever said, just based on their inconsistencies and changing stories, and other very odd statements from various people.

Originally Posted by Ammi (Post 9934586)

..that was a really absorbing watch, Niamh...not just relating to Madeleine’s disappearance ..but also in general of statement analysis...I hadn’t known there was such a thing actually...(...actually is a red flag word I think..ooooops..)...


...but yeah..the past tense thing ...(...with always the belief that she was taken but still alive..)...has always felt a bit odd...and also in a time of such extreme panic and chaos emotionally and with their thoughts etc... when she was discovered gone...Kate said her immediate thoughts were of what Madeleine had said, which is why she knew she had been taken...so it was not acted on in leaving the children alone again but it was the first immediate thought...?...I don’t think chaotic and panicked minds have immediate thoughts, do they..?...and not connecting in that way to what Madeleine had said...connection comes when the mind becomes less chaotic, surely...connection requires a calm mind ..?...anyways yeah...an absorbing and interesting vid, thank you Niamh..:love:..