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Gerry returns to Portugal, 13 Jan 2009
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McCanns Return To Portugal, 23/09/2009
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The McCanns

McCanns advert for Oprah show

Gonçalo Amaral
 
- "They know that Madeleine is dead and that there were no abductors."
Correio da Manhã, 16 April 2009
 
- "...they are drowning in the lies that they have been saying."
SIC, 12 May 2009

 
The McCanns views on leaving their 3 children alone

Gerry arrives for questioning at Portimão

Gerry McCann
 
"It's difficult because if you are [at home] cutting grass in the back with the mower, and that takes me about half an hour, and the children are upstairs in a bedroom, you'd never bat an eyelid. That's similar to how we felt."
 
Timesonline 04 September 2007

Kate in Brussels

Kate McCann
 
"If I put the children in the car the chances of having an accident would be greater than somebody coming in, breaking into your apartment and lifting a child out of her bed. But you never think, I shouldn't put the children in the car."
 
Timesonline 04 September 2007

 
The question of Kate returning to work

Kate in Brussels

Sarah Montague: Could you consider going back to work, Kate?
 
Kate McCann: Errr... not at the moment, it just doesn't... doesn't feel right, to be honest.
 
BBC Radio 4 Today interview, 01 May 2008 (see below)

Clarence Mitchell

Clarence Mitchell
 
"She has no intention of going back to work."
 
LSE conference, 30 January 2008

 
The McCanns: Staunch Catholics?

Susan Healy

Inside the mind of Kate McCann Daily Mirror
 
31 January 2009
 
'Their family says the couple's ordeal has left their staunch Catholic faith undimmed.'
 
Susan Healy (Kate's mother)
 
22 October 2007
 
"...as soon as Kate realised what had happened, it was as if she started to ask God right away to give her Madeleine. Because Kate and Gerry were not the most devout family."
 
Gerry McCann
 
25 May 2007
 
"I'm not the most religious person in the world..."

 
Gerry McCann: Madeleine's 'little trip'

Gerry arrives for questioning at Portimão

Gerry McCann's blog
 
01 October 2007
 
'I am still amazed at the irresponsible reporting going on in the press with unsubstantiated reports from unreliable sources being repeated in the UK and Portuguese press unquestioningly. It is simply untrue that the twins think that Madeleine has gone on a 'little trip'.'
 
Maddy's on little trip Channel 4
 
19 September 2007
 
"There is no attempt to shield them from Madeleine. Questions as and when they arise are dealt with. When we were in Portugal we told them she was on a little trip."
 
Madeleine's parents speak of their 'guilt' ITN
 
25 May 2007
 
Mr McCann said: "We have said she's gone on a little trip just now and Amelie came out with one really cutting line that went right to the core, she said 'Madeleine's on trip, back soon'.

 
The question of 'abduction'

Alex Woolfall

Alex Woolfall (McCanns' first spokesman)
 
'Mr Woolfall says that he heard no suggestion in the early days that the girl had been snatched. "Certainly I did not hear any discussion that this could be a paedophile or an aggravated robbery. All the time I was around it was whether she could have wandered off and had an accident or somebody had actually taken her in, perhaps not with ill-intent.
 
"During the first 48 hours the word being used was 'missing' rather than 'abducted' or any link with a paedophile or any sort of crime. Towards the end of the second week I detected a shift towards there being a consciousness that she had probably been taken rather than wandered off, just on the assumption that anybody would have found her by now."'
 
Times interview, 06 October 2007
 

Woman silhouette

June Wright (Luz resident)
 
"I arrived at the Ocean Club reception at around about 10 to 11 and at the time that we arrived a police car arrived - and as the police officer got out a man approached him, who I now know is Gerry McCann, and said that his daughter had been abducted. That there was no way that she could have opened the shutters herself, she'd definitely been taken." 
 
Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, 18 October 2007
 

Woman silhouette

Susan Moyes (staying 2 floors directly above McCanns' apartment)
 
"We were woken up at half past eleven at night by one of the friends of the McCanns to say 'a little girl' had 'been abducted'; those... those were the words used."
 
BBC - Stoke and Staffordshire, 14 August 2007

Trish Cameron

Trish Cameron (Sister of Gerry McCann)
 
- Receives phone call at 23:40pm on May 3rd

'Heart specialist Gerry McCann rang his sister Trish in Scotland after Maddy vanished from her cot placed between two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.

Trish revealed yesterday: "He was breaking his heart, saying 'Madeleine's been abducted, she's been abducted'."'

Daily Mirror, 05 May 2007
 

Bridget O'Donnell

Bridget O'Donnell (staying in adjacent block)
 
'At 1am there was a frantic banging on our door. Jes got up to answer. I stayed listening in the dark. I knew it was bad; it could only be bad. I heard male mumbling, then Jes's voice. "You're joking?" he said. It wasn't the words, it was the tone that made me flinch. He came back in to the room. "Gerry's daughter's been abducted," he said.'
 
Guardian, 14 December 2007
 

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Male witness (On holiday, staying at the Ocean Club)
 
'I was looking in the little gardens on the poolside of that block, I was in the end garden when I heard a male voice; he sounded distraught, his voice cracking with emotion. I looked to see, who I now know to be, Gerry McCann stood above me on the balcony/patio about 3 metres away, speaking on a mobile phone. I cannot recall his exact words but I got the impression that he was speaking to perhaps a family member or someone he was very close to due to the nature of his conversation.
 
He said something along the lines of there being paedophile gangs in Portugal and that they had abducted Madeleine. I was so shocked by this, having originally thought that she had just wandered off.
 
I had looked up by now and we actually made eye contact, his conversation did not change at all when he realised that I was there. I felt as if I were intruding on a private moment and so I left the garden at that point.
 
Statement from PJ case files, 06 December 2007
 

Jon Corner

Jon Corner (Family friend/on board of Madeleine's Fund)
 
- Receives phone call at 03:00am on May 4th
 
'Jon Corner, a close friend of Mrs McCann and godparent of the twins, said Kate telephoned him in the middle of the night distraught.
 
He said: "She just blurted out that Madeleine had been abducted. She told me, 'They have broken the shutter on the window and taken my little girl.''
 
Telegraph, 07 May 2007
 

Woman silhouette

Sylvia Batista (Head of administration at the Ocean Club complex)
 
'She recalled that the twins were still asleep in their two cots and there was the small, bright pink wool blanket that Madeleine likes to hold when she sleeps. "We walked out quickly so as not to wake up the twins. The parents immediately said, 'She's been kidnapped'," said Batisa.'
 
Times, 06 May 2007

 
Jon Corner
 

Jon Corner
Jon Corner

Jon Corner talking about Madeleine (Vanity Fair)
 
"So beautiful, astonishingly bright, and I’d have to say very charismatic. She would shine out of a crowd. So—God forgive me—maybe that’s part of the problem. That special quality. Some ******* picked up on that."
 
Jon Corner - Cuddle Cat (Timesonline)
 
'Gerry paused over Madeleine, who – a typical doctor’s observation, this – was lying almost in "the recovery position" with Cuddle Cat, the toy her godfather, John Corner, had bought her, and her comfort blanket up near her head, and Gerry thought how gorgeous, how lovely-looking she was and how lucky he was.'
 
Jon Corner (Panorama)
 
CORNER: Well this is the bizarre thing Richard because the police said to Kate and Gerry: "Yeah, we're going to be coming along, we want to do some forensics." And Kate and Gerry were massively optimistic about this. You've got to remember if your daughter is missing and the police phone you and say: "We want to do some forensics, that's a straw that you hang onto. That's a moment for optimism.
 
- Just earlier Corner had said this:
 
CORNER: They took most of their clothing, they were taking even the wet clothes out of the washing machine. I was aware that the cuddlecat was boxed up and we were asked to leave the villa.
 
- So, the police phoned the McCanns to say they were coming over to do some forensics and the McCanns, it would appear, immediately filled up the washing machine with clothes.

Kate and Gerry McCann

 
Cases of Missing Women and Young Girls Get Varying Media Attention, 07 March 2010
 
Cases of Missing Women and Young Girls Get Varying Media Attention ABC News

Some Missing Persons Cases Captivate the Country While Others Get Little Notice

By RON CLAIBORNE and DAN PRZYGODA
March 7, 2010


Chelsea King was the focus of intense media attention and law enforcement effort, with hundreds of officers and thousands of volunteers joining the search for her.

Almost exactly a year earlier and about 10 miles from where King was last seen jogging, 14-year-old Amber Dubois left home to walk to school, never to be seen again. Yet, Dubois' case got far less media attention and seemingly fewer law enforcement resources.

Hundreds of thousands of children are reported missing every year. A hundred or so turn out to be the result of foul play, and only a handful of those get the kind of media scrutiny that King's case got.

Ernie Allen
, president of the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, says the cases that get the most attention tend to involve pre-teen children where it's immediately apparent that foul play by a stranger, not a family member, is suspected.

"Chelsea's case received enormous media attention because it was dramatic and sensational. The child goes jogging in a park area and doesn't come home. With Amber Dubois, nobody saw her disappear, and there's no tangible physical evidence," Allen said. "She just disappeared."

There have been countless high-profile cases involving young girls, including the disappearances of
Caylee Anthony, Jessica Lunsford, Somer Thompson and Madeleine McCann, whose story went global because of her telegenic look and her media-savvy parents.

Robert Thompson, a professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University, explains that the reason the media tends to go in a frenzy around these types of cases is really because of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

"Once one of these stories is decided to be covered, there's no turning back," Thompson said. "You've sent your reporters and your trucks to it, and you become invested in it. You start building interest in the story, and your audience wants to hear more about it, so you keep everyone there to continue reporting on it."

Maddie, ABC News, 07 March 2010

McCanns, ABC News, 07 March 2010

Critics Site Racial Inequality in Press Coverage

Many African-Americans and Latinos also perceive a racial bias to the coverage. Some believe more attention is paid to missing white children than to black or Hispanic children. Critics point to several examples.

The 2003 kidnap and murder of African-American college student Romona Moore from Brooklyn, N.Y., was eclipsed by the disappearance of Svetlana Aranov, a white woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side.

LaToyia Figueroa, a young African-American and Hispanic woman, who disappeared while pregnant in Philadelphia in 2005, only got a fraction of the news coverage as Natalie Holloway, a white teen who vanished in Aruba around the same time.

Kathy Times, a member of the National Association of Black Journalists explained, "If you're white, wealthy, cute and under 12, then you're more likely to get the eye of the national media."

Quoting from a Scripps Howard study, Times continues, "One study showed that about 35,000 kids went missing one year, and a little more than half of those were white, but about 67 percent of stories covered by The Associated Press were about white children."

And then there was the case of 13-year-old Laura Ayala, a Latina teen, who vanished near her Houston home in 2002 as she went down the block to buy a newspaper for a class assignment.

"The Hispanic media was wonderful," Allen said. "The mainstream media wasn't as interested. Is that because her mom couldn't tell her story in English? I don't know."