It’s hard to believe it has been a year since little Madeleine McCann disappeared. With that, I want to ask:
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News reports are saying the McCanns may be cleared from their status of suspects.
Yes, you read that right.
Furthermore, the Portuguese police are saying that they don’t have a shred of evidence against the McCanns.
What do you think about the news?
I’d say it was about time! Let’s hope they actually do it, and not just feed the rumor mill. Until I see it, I won’t believe it.
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Kate and Gerry McCann released a video plea for the return of Maddie yesterday. Have you seen it?
Read more In the beginning of the video, you may notice Kate and Gerry McCann are taking deep breaths. It shows they are nervous. That is indisputable. But the question is what are they nervous about?
Some might say it is because they are lying. I disagree simply because I don’t see any other indications of deception. Furthermore, I would have expected to see nerves like this in earlier interviews with the McCanns when they were in the media spotlight on a daily basis and when the heat was the hottest–when they were named suspects, but I did not.
This is the most nervous I have seen the McCanns.
I suspect the McCanns are nervous because they are pleading to the person or persons who have been involved in the abduction of Maddie for her safe return.
If you decided to make a video message, and talk to someone who you truly believe might hold they key to your daughter’s safe return, wouldn’t it make you exceptionally nervous as well?
I believe it would. It would make your heart pound because you’d know how serious it is. Say or do the wrong thing, and the implications could be horrible. Yet if you do or say nothing, you may forever regret not speaking out.
Imagine the McCanns nerves when making this video.
Watch how the McCanns look at the camera, and how they show genuine emotions when they plea to the person who may have been involved, or is involved in the disappearance of Madeleine. You can feel they are talking to someone beyond the camera. You can feel they have a vision of someone. It is in sharp contrast to the behavior that Drew Peterson expressed when he talked to Stacy a few weeks back during his interview with Matt Lauer.
May 2008 bring Madeleine home to her parents, safe and sound.
I have been asked by one of my readers to review the latest interview of Kate and Gerry McCann given to a Portuguese reporter in the past week and shown here on Sky News in the UK.
When I watch the interview, I do not see anything that alerts me to the fact the McCanns are being deceptive. Do know I watch each and every video with an open mind, and I am willing to change my stance should I see any indications of deception. However, I just don’t see any evidence let alone suspicious red flags in the McCann’s behavior to support otherwise nor have I from day one.
To the contrary, I see many indications that Kate and Gerry are authentic and genuine. Their emotions, facial expressions and reactions are normal and consistent with what they have been through. If I get some free time, perhaps I will write up the expressions I see that support honesty.
Read moreI also don’t see Kate’s expressions much differently than in her other interviews. Yes, she shows slightly more emotion, but I wouldn’t personally say it was notable.
What surprises me the absolute MOST in this case is how people have not gotten mad at the Portuguese authorities for mucking up this investigation so bad. Why don’t we have critical articles and posts written all over the internet about them?
Nor have people gotten mad at the media for reporting every ridiculous, crazy rumor that has come forth. Since when is it the media’s job to report every rumor that circulates? That is where I believe the questions and the outrage need to be, but for some strange reason that has never properly developed.
If anything, the behavior the Portuguese police and media should give people pause, and perhaps a renewed interest to reconsider the McCanns as innocent people.
Instead, I see people holding on fast and furious to their emotional belief the McCanns are guilty without looking at anything that has developed around them. That flat amazes me, but I understand why. Emotions are powerful blinders to the truth.
There is a video of the McCanns being interviewed by a reporter on YouTube that is getting attention. People are questioning the interview because Mr. McCann’s behavior is different in this video than in other videos, and they are correct.
In the video, Gerry’s voice loses strength, he smiles, looks away and he scratches his ear. While none of these are clues to deceit by themselves, combined –and compared to other instances of Gerry talking — his behavior here is unique — and that is a red flag.
That is about all that can be said about this video.
Does this video change my original position that I believe the McCanns had nothing to do with the disappearance of their daughter? No, it does not.