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Interviewer (Sandy): A computer aged photo of missing girl
Madeleine McCann. Now, this is what she might look like today at the age
of nine, five years after she disappeared while on vacation with her
family in Portugal. British investigators think that it is possible
Madeleine is still alive and they have launched a massive review of more
than forty thousand pieces of evidence. Joining us now Criminal Profiler
Pat Brown and Pat is writing a book on the McCann case...hi Pat
Pat Brown: Hi Sandy
Sandy: So Scotland Yard wants to reopen the investigation and
they're saying the evidence suggests Madeleine may still be alive. Do
you believe it?
Pat Brown: Well, I'm kind of wondering where they're coming up
with that because first of all if she were kidnapped and were somewhere
out there in the world, she's had her face - this is the most well known
child, missing child, in the entire world with tremendous publicity, her
photo has been everywhere and she has a particularly her unusual eye
colour, coloboma, a real standout...so that somebody would never have
seen her, or that anybody would keep her around with that particular,
you know, identifying mark and run around and put up with her is so
unlikely ... it's hard to believe that she would pop up after all this
time.
Also there's the simple fact that if she were abducted it would be most
likely by a local person right around Praia da Luz, er, that's what all
the evidence points to if it were an abduction, so we would be looking
at a local child sex predator who would have probably killed her within
the hour, that's what we have for all the statistics, so I'm not quite
sure where they're coming from, I'm not sure what any of the evidence
they reviewed tells them that she's out there some place when they
haven't in fact even proven an abduction and they haven't brought the
parents back in and the friends and done all their proper re-interviews
and they haven't done another crime reconstruction. I'm not quite sure
where they're coming from but er there's always hope and you know we
have that.
Sandy: Yeah, no, true, it's always good to have that but you know
they've built up a huge er portfolio here if you will, thirty-seven
investigators on the case now, they said that they've found a hundred
and ninety-five investigative opportunities that weren't looked at, some
simple, some complex, and they're only quarter way through the
documents. Now I gather that they ... whatever they're
investigation...is in the United, in the UK, holds no sway in Portugal,
all of this would have to go back to Portugal, er, police in Portugal
would it not?
Pat Brown: That's correct. The Portuguese would have to reopen
the case, which by the way can be reopened if the McCanns just ask it to
be reopened. They have not done so. Er, but yes they would have to
conduct the investigation. Now of course, if it's true that the Met
finds really great information that convinces the Portuguese police
there's something out there that they've completely overlooked, great
information that say Madeleine is out there alive somewhere and they
need to go look for her or that she isn't alive and that they can focus
in on a suspect, well they would probably do that, but er, I'm just not
sure where they're coming from. As I said, when you, when you review a
case you always go back to the beginning and I don't understand why
they, the, this particular investigation, this review shall we say, has
skipped the beginning and gone to looking at a massive amount of tips
because we all know that there's so many tips that come in on cases you
can drive yourself crazy running down every one of them. So you have to
go back to the evidence and review the actual crime, all the crime scene
evidence and start there.
Sandy: Okay, Pat Brown thanks so much
Pat Brown: Thanks Sandy. |
