Did you miss the CBS 48 Hours Mystery story last night, “Where’s Maddie”? You can watch the video here by clicking on CBS News.
Her story will also be broadcast tomorrow night on BBC One.
Panorama: The Mystery of Madeleine McCann will be shown on BBC One at 2100 GMT on Monday, 19 November.
Note: Panorama’s special on the missing child, shown on BBC1 at 9pm, attracted an average of 5.3 million viewers and a 22% share, according to unofficial overnights.
Update 11-20-07:
(CBS) A leading private investigator who went undercover for 48 Hours Mystery takes issue with a woman’s claim that she saw what may have been little Madeleine McCann being carried off by her kidnapper.
SYNTHESIS OF CHLOROFORM
Required: Calcium Hypochlorite 100g (bleaching powder), acetone 44ml
Sodium hypochlorite solution is sold as liquid pool chlorine.
Chloroform, if stored for more than a few months, decomposes to Phosgene, which was a WW1 era chemical weapon.
Acetone is readily available as nail varnish remover.
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Ms Tanner said she saw a man carrying a girl and believes this man was the abductor of Madeleine McCann. Nobody holds a child like that for any length of time. The normal stance would be to keep the child’s body upright with the head resting upon the adult’s shoulder, which would be more comfortable for both.
If this man is the abductor, the only way to remove the child from her bed without waking the twins, would be to use chloroform laden handkerchief in order to keep her asleep. The man that Tanner spotted could be holding the handkerchief against the child’s face, along with a pink blanket or her own pyjama top to keep it in place.
Chloroform decomposes to Phosgene, which is toxic, and would be lethal to a young child.
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A Lurking Stranger
“I saw stranger lurking near Madeleine flat” – An unnamed nanny tells police she saw a man “lurking” close to the McCanns’ holiday flat. Her initials are MH. In the summer of 2006, she was babysitting a six-year-old boy in the same apartment used by the McCanns in 2007. She “discovered the suspicious man lurking in bushes”. It was a Thursday. Madeleine disappeared on a Thursday. The Daily Express says there are “marked similarities to the Madeleine case”
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Robert Murat is a suspect in the Madeleine McCann case. His girlfriend is divorcee Michaela Walczuch. Murat was dating Walczuch while she was still living in her marital home with Portuguese husband Luis Antonio.
All these people have direct links to the Ocean Club territory. Luis Antonio was the pool cleaner and had access to pool cleaning chemicals. According to Portuguese Police, all their alibis have been checked. Miss Walczuch told police she was at a Jehovah’s Witness meeting in nearby Lagos on 3rd May. But Tiofilo Castelo, a member of the Algarve Regional Association of the Jehovah’s Witnesses said she had been “thrown out” of the church over 12 months ago.
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