Did That English Woman Kill Her Daughter In Portugal?

[Fat_Sunny]

F_S Was Unaware Of This Story Until Yesterday, So He Doesn't Know The Full Background, But Apparently It Is The Big Story In Europe Right Now.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=480630&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490


Did The Mother Kill Her On Purpose Or By Accident, And Then Hide The Body? Or Did Inept Portuguese Cops Try To Frame Her Just To End The Case?

It Is Very Strange. If She Did Not Do It, Then They Are Making Her Life HELL!

[TheMojoPin]

Since most children who are murdered are typically killed by their immediate family members, I'd say the odds that the mom did it are pretty damn good.

[JimBeam]

I too had only heard this story yesterday and thought that they said that the mom was giving the kid some form of sedative so that she and the husband could go out at night.

That's as much as I had heard.

[KnoxHarrington]

I've also read that in Portugal's legal system, you get more rights if you are named an official suspect than you do if you're just a witness; for example, you are compelled to talk if you're not a suspect. So people do occasionally ask to go ahead and be named a suspect in a case to get those protections.

[sailor]

i read they found some of the girl's blood in the family's rental car, but the family says they didn't rent the car till a month after she was missing. i can't begin to think of how that meshes, but you'd think they'd have it on record when the car was rented. i also didn't hear of the case till she was made an official suspect. odd.

[DonInNC]

From the article-

Police apparently believe Mrs McCann, rather than her husband, is their main suspect because of a "scent of death" allegedly detected on her clothes by sniffer dogs trained to find a corpse.



That seems like a stretch. I'll withhold judgement.

[A.J.]

[SIZE="2"]F_S Was Unaware Of This Story Until Yesterday,

I too had only heard this story yesterday

BBC, SkyNews and CNN International have been all over this story for months -- almost as much as the Rhys Jones murder; the 11 year old kid that was shot and killed by gangmembers in Liverpool.

[PapaBear]

BBC, SkyNews and CNN International have been all over this story for months -- almost as much as the Rhys Jones murder; the 11 year old kid that was shot and killed by gangmembers in Liverpool.
I was going to point out how weird it was that they hadn't heard about this story. Then again... I have no idea what this Liverpool shooting is about. Was the 11 year old white?

[JPMNICK]

i was going to say what mojo said, it does seem like there is a good chance it is going to be her parents

[S0S]

It's hard to say.
The Portuguese police are under immense pressure to find a suspect. They could be publicly showing interest in them so another suspect slips-up and reveals his or her self.

[moochcassidy]

i think theyre scottish

[PapaBear]

i think theyre scottish
Scottish... English... Irish... American...

At least this poor little girl was white enough to make it into the news.:down:

[moochcassidy]

Scottish... English... Irish... American...

At least this poor little girl was white enough to make it into the news.:down:

exactly.

this is a horrific story...and her image is a moneymaker for the press now.

makes her suffering even more tragic

[A.J.]

I was going to point out how weird it was that they hadn't heard about this story. Then again... I have no idea what this Liverpool shooting is about. Was the 11 year old white?


Yep. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/gun/Story/0,,2162571,00.html)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44074000/jpg/_44074349_rhys203.jpg

[Ritalin]

It was either the mother in Portugal....or Professor Plum in the library with the candlestick.

[StupidGirlllll]

The parents even went to the Vatican to see the POPE, so if she did kill her daughter thats pretty sick thing to do.

[sailor]

exactly.

this is a horrific story...and her image is a moneymaker for the press now.

makes her suffering even more tragic

everyone needs to make a livin'.

[Zorro]

I have no idea whether or not the parents did it, but from the stories I've been reading over the last couple of months the Portuguese police are considered the Keystone Cops of Europe.

[The Silencer]

i think she killed her kid...they found blood and hair i think in a van or something

[ralphbxny]

If she did kill her she just got hot to me and I will write her letters in jail professing my love!!!

[MadMatt]

I have no idea whether or not the parents did it, but from the stories I've been reading over the last couple of months the Portuguese police are considered the Keystone Cops of Europe.

Yeah, they seem to be spinning their wheels as much as the authorities in Aruba did when the Halloway "disappearance" occurred. The biggest difference is that people actually seem to care about this little girl and there has been a lot of public pressure to find the killers.

In Aruba, only the parents and the press care - nobody else is very interested in a privileged, drunk, white teenager who hooked up with the wrong crowd at a nightclub.

[sailor]

Yeah, they seem to be spinning their wheels as much as the authorities in Aruba did when the Halloway "disappearance" occurred. The biggest difference is that people actually seem to care about this little girl and there has been a lot of public pressure to find the killers.

In Aruba, only the parents and the press care - nobody else is very interested in a privileged, drunk, white teenager who hooked up with the wrong crowd at a nightclub.

remind me not to go to aruba, then.

[TheMojoPin]

remind me not to go to aruba, then.

Remember to not go to Aruba.

[sailor]

Remember to not go to Aruba.

ha! that really made me laugh out loud. i never go anywhere, anyway, tho.

[DarkHippie]

Policewise, I think that we're a little spoiled because our police are much better trained and have better equipment when it comes to this kind of thing. They can't all be Jerry Orbach