The Puzzle: Solving the Madeleine McCann Case

The Puzzle: Solving the Madeleine McCann Case

Thirteen years after a child is abducted, investigators have a credible suspect. Is the puzzle of what happened to her complete? "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant investigates.FEB 28, 2021


If the podcast doesn't play, you can watch it here https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-puzzle-solving-the-madeleine-mccann-case/

seems to be, the link fell of the internet.

for me this one does work; https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-puzzle-solving-the-madeleine-mccann-case/id965818306?i=1000511038475

on of the manny podcasts about the german suspect from 2020 onwarts.

if you listen to a podcast like this, you have to know it is a commercial project. money, law and advertisement has its influence.

this podcast does suggest they are bring us answers, in layman understanding falsely translated into truth.
but do they? no, they do not.

every podcast has at least a person, or when commercial made, that makes choices, choices influenced by their own opinions, their goals, and most times just making money of it. 

this one is a big commercial one. the name '48 hours', present itself as a documentary about crimes. it has a very long history as usa based program on tv. it has nothing to do with quality of the information. it's all about numbers of eyes, and now ears, that can not escape commercials.   

48 hours would not touch anything that could make them pay out, because of the information they have in their series, or that could shine a negative flaw on the commercials you get with it. the simply do not bite in the hands that feeds them. 

beside that it also has little journalistic value. 

look at the start, talking about a resort, a safe resort. well that did go wrong early, because ocean club was not anything the public would picture in their minds as being a resort. 

and the holiday apartment 5a, rented that week by the mccanns was not part of a resort. 

a resort is usually a piece of ground that has a physical separation of the rest of the world. most have fences, or even walls. the accommodation is meant for tourists that have booked. 

well 5a was just a property standing directly at the open streets of praia da luz. it was a mix of tourist and residents who lived there. in reality the apartment blocks could be managed by the ocean club, but had a pretty diverse type of ownership, most of these complexes are the result of investment plans like time sharing. so people do have ownership of the apartments, and most would be also available to rent out. or choose to delegate the renting out through action of ocean park the company. 

the ocean club itself had contracts with holiday selling companies to get the tourist in. in this case it was not one holliday seller, but many. besides that, there where a lot of owners who keep the renting out in their own hands. 

the set up of the ocean club had the accommodation itself as an open village plan. the only resort like amenities are to find at the places you could choose to book extra activities like sports or the tapas restaurant and swimming pool access. the same with the childcare facilities. 

the tourist could often choose for a type of packet from that, if serviceable by the holliday selling company. 

the ocean club is not a resort, but a company on paper and overseer of the facilities and accommodations.  

a true resort usually gives you normally easy access to facilities, that only have access to the tourists that are booked in. 

it was exactly that massive press pack that told us about apartment 5a a lot of lies. and even the mccanns had probably did a bit of a 'hyacinth bucket' style upcycling of what they rented, to their own family. 

we were told it was a villa, a hotel, or hotel room, in a resort. by who: wel exactly that press pack standing there outside 5a from the start. who could see with their own eyes, that it was just one of many apartments built in blocks near a road everyone had access to. 

was that a problem, yes, because it started a lot of misunderstandings from the go. 

it was also not a upper class accommodation, you could rent in 2007 an apartment like 5a from 250 euros and up, for a week, and that was cheap in 2007. it was the packet the tourist bought from the holiday company they choose what got the prices up. 

the big difference between part of a resort and just a building in a street is access. a resort usually has controlled access, an ordinary street does not. 

apartment 5a was not part of a resort, so that means calling it part of a safe resort is pure fiction. 

radio or a podcast means you do not look yourself to something, making it a bit problematic to get the right picture in your head. 48 hours like many plants a safe resort that was not there into your mind. 

all 5a was was just a ground floor apartment on a ordinary road, as road that was in use to get to an supermarket, used for transport of almost everything to the accommodation and residential properties. 
also every tourist that had access by their bookings had to go over that street to get access of the facilities in  now known as tapas area. 

just like that pack of press, every one could have walked near and around 5a. 

and this is only one of the myths that still is kept fed by the media.