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Originally Posted by 08marsh

There'd be more evidence of a struggle/death surely?
I'm with whoever said why on earth if a burglar was caught by a small child would they take the child with them?

They'd surely think "****" and get the fook out of there as fast as possible.

They sneak in, go into the bedroom the kids are in, Madeleine wakes up, they cover her mouth with hands/a pillow to keep her quiet, she suffocates and dies without a struggle, they panic and take the body with them and don't steal anything because they've just killed a little girl - they maybe assumed that the parents were in the next room, who knows - obviously just conjecture but it's pretty feasible IMO. They take the body because they don't want their DNA left behind - maybe Madeleine got out of her bed so they didn't actually touch anything - again, if you're in shock, you're not acting rationally. They still think "****" and get out of there as fast as possible, but take the body with them, and as calmly as possible walk away with her so that they appear normal to passers by. She'd have been asphyxiated so she wouldn't have been covered in blood or anything.