Little Madeleine - she could be anywhere

[Pawsitive Thinking]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstor...9520-19848259/

[Karen]

No, they found that that was the 5-year-old daughter of an olive farmer.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe...oto/index.html

[lvpets2002]

Darn & I was hoping it would have been this wittle missing child.. Everyone here at work thinks the girl is dead.. How so horrible..

[Hellow]

Dang it!!! I don give an dang about her parents anymore, i just care about little Madeleine. I cant imagine how scared she is by now, not seeing her parents for i dunno how long, I just wish the abductors would turn them self(s) in so this little girl can go on in life.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

[Pawsitive Thinking]

I heard on the news this morning that the police in Portugal are now working on a theory that the McCann's buried Madeleine's body when they went to Spain to "search" for her..........um.....how exactly.............

There are now fears for the state of Kate's health

[xVelvet_FuzzButtx]

I guess its happened several times more recently, but after all this time I really doubt she's alive. and I question if they'll even find her body I'm sure part of this is my pessimistic nature, I dunno. one scary thought since she was "abducted" in europe is child slavery(sexual) or human traficing and I personally would rather her have passed away then suffer through that.

I do hope they find out the truth though. dead, alive, cover up, or kidnapped.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

150 days too many

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEuQn5rWPa0

[Pawsitive Thinking]

The bungling Portuguese police chief running the Madeleine McCann probe was last night kicked off the case by furious bosses.

Officials demoted boozy chief inspector Goncalo Amaral after he launched an astonishing public attack on parents Kate and Gerry and British detectives.

The 48-year-old accused the McCanns of manipulating the investigation and claimed police here are pandering to the family.

His outburst angered bosses who decided it was the final straw in a series of embarrassing blunders during the investigation to find missing four-year-old Madeleine.

A Policia Judiciaria spokesman said: "Goncalo Amaral has been removed from the DIC (Portugal's CID) in Portimao and all the cases it is dealing with.

"We cannot make any comment on the reasons for his dismissal. But he did not resign, he was removed."

The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "We are aware of what's happened and simply cannot comment.

"However Kate and Gerry have consistently said they are willing to co-operate with Portuguese authorities and will continue to do so, regardless of who is in charge of the hunt for Madeleine."

A source close to the family added: "Things like this are frankly just a distraction, what they want is for people to concentrate on the search for Madeleine.

"The most important thing is that the inquiry is led by someone who can do a professional and good job and help them find their daughter."

Amaral accused doctors Kate and Gerry, from Rothley, Leics, of distracting the investigation. And he said of Leicestershire detectives: "British police have only worked on what the McCanns want them to work on, and which is most convenient for them.

"They have only investigated tips and information developed and worked on for the McCanns, forgetting the couple are suspects in the death of their daughter."

But a source close to the couple, both 39, said: "It's wrong. Leicestershire police are not doing anything at Gerry and Kate's behest. They are there for liaison."

Amaral was number three in the investigation but in charge of running it on a day-to-day basis from Portimao.

He works as little as four and a half hours a day and takes boozy three-hour lunches despite a mountain of Madeleine leads to investigate.

The inspector also vented his anger that Leicestershire police were following a wild tip emailed to Prince Charles's website.

It suggested a disgruntled maid at the Ocean Club complex in Praia da Luz where Madeleine vanished from on May 3 may have kidnapped her.

Amaral, who will be moved to Faro, ranted: "The lead has no credibility. This story about kidnapping for revenge is another lead worked on by the McCanns.

"Everything said by employees, current or former, has already been investigated by the Policia Judiciaria."

But the McCann family source said: "The lead was passed by Clarence House to the Met Police and they took it seriously because it was from a real woman and she had left the Ocean Club in bad circumstances."

Amaral has probed just two child murders in his 26-year career.

He is under investigation for allegedly helping cover up a police beating to extract a confession from Leonor Cipriano, 36, the mother of a missing girl.

She is serving 16 years for the murder of her eight-year-old daughter Joana, even though the body has never been found and she has retracted her statement.