Yeah the "We're cashing in on our daughters media coverage fund."

The parents won't get any of the many many many millions of dollars for the not-quite 4-year old child they left unsupervised to babysit 2-year old twins while they partied. Yeah, right.

Of course they will make money from this tragedy.
Of course if this happened to anyone who wasn't rich to begin with, it would never be in the news, they wouldn't be able to cash-in and they would be facing charges for the abandonment of their innocent little angel who thought her parents would protect her.

Was thinking something completely different... it happens when I am off caffeine...

If the movie is made with a 'awareness that this sort of thing happens' and 'maybe if someone sees this in hopes to trigger more information' then more power to them.

But I agree with some of the comments on the story itself, the more media coverage, the less likely she will be found alive.

Its easy to criticize this family. I thought the same thing you did. But, maybe they are needing the money to continue the search for their daughter.

Who are we to sit here in our computers and question the intentions of this family who just lost there daughter. I know if I were to lose a daughter I would do anything to try to find her. If that meant making a movie so I could get more funds, you bet damned well that I would.

All I'm saying is that we need to start putting our selfs in there shoes.

Well first of all, I wouldn't abandon a toddler, having her babysit two babies while I partied.

Therefore, my child probably wouldn't have been taken, wandered off, or whatever happened.

As I said, if this happened to people who weren't rich they would face criminal charges as well as standing a good chance of losing the 2-year old twins to protective custody at least for a little while.

The public would be calling for their heads if they were some poor family from kentucky. If they were rednecks from Florida the public would be calling for them to be executed. If the family was a minority, if they were on welfare, if they... well you get it, there would be great sympathy for the child and nothing but derision for the so-called "parents"

Second of all the millions and millions of dollars will also be used for the family's living expenses. No they are profiting from their actions. It isn't like every single penny will be used in the investigation. No the money will also be used for the family's expenses, the cost of promoting the fund, the cost of raising money, etc, etc.

The fund isn't a charity so they can do as they please. To think that every penny is to be used just to search for the little girl who is missing because of their selfishness is naive.

Some of the money, maybe even a substantial amount might be used in the search, but I doubt it will be that much. There is very little that can be done at this point. What exactly will the millions and millions and millions of dollars purchase that can be said to be for the direct search for the little girl?

I in the end opinions are like a**holes, everyone has one and they all stink.

You don't know for sure what the parents intentions are going to be. All you know is what you have experienced or seen in the past.

Yes, they were in the wrong for leaving their child alone. But, maybe, just maybe, they are trying to do the right thing or have you lost such faith in Humanity?

There's a good chance they won't see a penny of it.

I've yet to find official confirmation yet but it would appear that the blood in the car is Maddie's, and that the Portuguese police are about to charge her parents.

For anyone not following, the car in question was rented after Maddie's disappearance, so the conclusion is that either her parents put her body in the car or by some hideous coincidence the same car had been previously hired by the child's abductor.

If convicted, money from a film, book or interviews would be counted as profits of crime and so be confiscated.

Okay, lets assume you are right, although it has been stated that the fund is also to pay their expenses "so they can focus on the search" without having to actually work for a living, as well as to pay for a public-relations campaign and to drum up even more donations. That isn't an assumption or an opinion, that is a fact, not to mention common sense.

How exactly would multi-millions of dollars be used for the search? What would they do hire every private detective in the entire country? Pay off every low-life until someone spoke up?

No, don't be naive. Some of the money will be used in the search, however a large percentage will be used for things not directly connected to the search. They couldn't spend the 10's of millions of dollars on just the search if they wanted to.

I knew her parents were suspects as they always are in these cases. I didn't know there was that sort of physical evidence!

I'm upvoting the link, but downvoting the parents.

I dont mean to be morbid in the least, but she is likely not alive anymore. She is 4, and if she did wander off, a 4 year old doesnt take long to end up in alot of trouble fast. Im really sorry to say it, and she is freaking adorable, but this doesnt look good for the kid. And her parents, with the blaring mental capacity of a wet brick, allowed this to happen.

There was blood on a wall in the apartment and blood in the hire car.

Both of these were missed by Portuguese investigators and only found when British police turned up. Since then there have been all sorts of delays with the testing etc.

This news about the results has only come out today, and bizarrely I saw it in a physical copy of The Metro this morning on my way to work, but is typical of the coverage this has received - the press has been switching between supporting and blaming the McCanns with some regularity, although admittedly not on an hour by hour basis until today.

For what it's worth, my own armchair theory is that the McCanns gave their children some sort of sedative so that they could go out to dinner without fear of them waking up. Unfortunately, Maddie did wake and attempting to move in her drugged state fell and hit her head. On discovering the body, the parents panicked, hid the corpse and concocted the abduction story. Later on they took the body away from the holiday complex in the rented car (if I remember rightly there's an unaccounted for trip across the Portuguese/Spanish border and out of surveillance jurisdiction during the relevant period) and have been maintaining the pretence ever since.

This may seem a little far fetched from a rational point of view, but if you consider that neither parent would have been in a rational frame of mind when they discovered their dead daughter, to me this seems more plausible than various tales of white slavers and mysterious strangers knowing exactly which chalet to strike in the secured compound.

Good theory, and thanks for the additional links.

But, what about the witness that was in the apartment that heard Maddie crying for 75 minutes beforehand. And the two people seen outside the apartment that night.

Are there any witnesses, besides their dinner guests, that saw the parents leave to go check on the children every so often, like they claimed?

Also, so they hid the body behind the couch for a while, but obviously not for almost 4 weeks till they got the rental car. So, they must have had to move the body at some point, but how long would it keep? It's kind of gross, but doesn't blood jell up or something, inside a corpse?

I didn't know about the crying for 75 minutes. It's possible that she took some time to die from her wound and was crying in pain, but I have to admit that is just wild theorising.

So far as I know the two extra people claim has never been substantiated, and what is often overlooked is that the compound has CCTV - footage from this has been used as evidence that she came back from the trip they took that day alive.

I think, although could be wrong, that the dinner guests are the only witnesses to Kate and Jerry's checks.

With regard to the blood, without wanting to be too grim, the News.com report uses the term "bodily fluids" instead of blood. There would be fluids from a 4 week old corpse.

She was four. I have a four year old. I wouldn't ask her to watch a dog, let alone tow babies. No sane person would ask a four year old to be responsible for anything.

These people were terribly irresponsable and are 100% responsible for her 'disappearance'. As pocksucket is pointing out, they are even more responsible for it than I had originally assumed.

Yes, they are responsible for losing their daughter. and as you can see I made that comment before pocketsucket pointed out how responsible they were.

But, with that aside, what I was trying to say, is that people need not to be so quick in judging others and put themselves in the situation. I never mentioned that they were not responsible.