Now we're making progress. This is my working theory, and here's my starting point.
Early morning May 2007 I switch on the TV to Sky News while eating my breakfast. Absolute cold start and NO context don't know what the story is. theres kate McCann being interviewed. "We checked every ten minutes" she kept repeating. It was at that point, I thought to myself "The lady doth protest too much" IE, she's lying. Caught up with the rest of the news story had her down as being neglectful of leaving her kids unattended while they were out at night and was just covering here arse.
Then as more and more of the story comes out over the weeks and months the inconsistencies start to show more and more and the parents behavior becomes less of grieving parents and more of media circus celebrities.
So, what I think is
They drugged the kid because she would not sleep and they wanted their holiday that they deserved.
Drugged kid falls down the back of the sofa and dies
Motivation for coverup: We drugged our kids and as kate is an anesthetist, she'll be struck off as a medical professional and an autopsy will show what's in her system, they were negligent parents leaving them alone which is a criminal offense in the UK. So not only do they lose their jobs, but could have the twins taken off them as well.
Maddie didn't die/abducted last that night, but earlier. Giving them preptime to hide the body and make a plan. Only witnesses are the twins who were too young to remember anyway.
Me personally, I never put that much into their behavior. Obviously I can't definitively rule that out, I think anyone on this planet is capable of murder under the right circumstance.
I still think two parents coming together with a plan to dispose of the body of their own daughter on foreign soil is extremely cold, calculating, and sociopathic, I don't think most parents would be able to do that even in the act of self preservation. Maybe they are those kinds of parents, but I think the odds are against them not only being able to pull something like that off and being able to keep a level enough head under that kind of duress to think concoct and execute that kind of plan. And not only that but one of the parents not objecting to it.
I'd at least want some type of physical evidence to point directly to them.
Also I think the fact that the body has yet to be found suggests it was hidden very well that no one stumbled upon it. Not just search teams, but hunters, etc. If dumped in a body of water, that it hasn't washed up anywhere, I'd guess it was probably dumped in dense forestry or buried. Would two parents who just found out their daughter accidentally died be able to drive around a region they don't know that well with a dead body in their car to dispose of it? Nothing's impossible, but I just don't find it likely.
I think the fact that witnesses spotted someone carrying someone away with clothes that looked like MM's, combined with the fact that no body was found and no one really saw much else gives strong credence to it being a predator. Someone who knew how to stalk, someone who knew how to take someone without arousing a lot of attention, and then disposing of a body so no one could find it.
I just can't get over two parents with no history of abuse or any vile actions on their children being able to muster the gall to execute a perfect plan under that kind of shock and stress, do it so well as a first timer disposing of a body that no one would ever find it, and then all these years being able between the both of them to keep it cool without either of them breaking.
Not impossible, but in cases where there really is no super strong physical evidence pointing to any particular individual and you're left up to circumstance and theories, I think you just play the game of what seems most likely. I think some creep out there(Brueckner or someone else) saw her outside at some point, took a liking to her, stalked the apartment buildings, waited for a right time to sneak in when they thought they had a chance, found a way to get in and snatch her, and then made off with her.
I hope it is this guy so everyone can know once and for all. Hoping they find some definitive linking evidence soon.
