Madeleine McCann from Leicestershire, England went missing May 3, 2007. While vacationing with her parents in a resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal, it was claimed by her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, she disappeared from their room as they dined at a nearby restaurant within the complex. Her parents notified police she had been abducted. The question remains, was it an abduction, or cover-up to something else?
On September 7, 2007 Kate McCann is given “arguido” status by the Portugal police. This is known as someone who has become a formal suspect in Portugal. On September 8, 2007 Gerry McCann is given “arguido” status, or formal suspect. The Portuguese authorities made them arguidos with the belief that they had something to do with their daughter’s disappearance. They have maintained their innocence.
July 21, 2008 ” … the investigation into the disappearance of the minor Madeleine McCann has been halted because no evidence was discovered of any crime committed by the suspects,” the Attorney-General Fernando Pinto Monteiro’s office said in a statement. It added the investigation could be reopened “if new evidence emerges from any serious, pertinent and authoritative” source.
What Does Reverse Speech Analysis Reveal?
The original post date for the reverse speech examples found was August 2, 2008. Less than a month after the official investigation ended. There have been several posts added over a nine year period. The audio files researched have spanned over 10 years.
Kate indicates in a reversal “Only swat her“. By this we know Kate McCann struck Madeleine. “Only” suggests the end result of this act was accidental.
Kate said in a reversal, “Fell over sofa.” Madeleine was on a sofa when Kate swatted her. Madeleine was knocked off the sofa by the blow.
Kate said in a reversal, “Slay with fists, Madeleine.” When Kate “swatted” her, she used her hand, and by her hand Madeleine was killed.
Gerry said, “If the mess could talk, message that would stand out her hair is bloody.” The reversal is an indication that Madeleine’s cause of death was hitting her head when she fell over the sofa, after being struck by Kate. A blood dog alerted to blood behind a sofa. The blood was determined to be Madeline’s. The sofa was found to have been oddly pushed against the wall. A cadaver dog alerted under where the sofa had been as well.
Jane Tanner was one of the 7 friends on vacation with the McCann’s. She has a reversal where she indicates all 7 know what happened. In another reversal Jane said, “With iced, filled up.” By definition “iced” means to preserve by placing on ice. What was “iced”? With the topic of discussion, it would presumably be Madeleine. Portuguese investigator, Gonçalo Amaraland, is quoted as saying “…probably the most correct conclusion is that it was kept in a place where it could be preserved in the cold.”
As to the second part of Jane’s reversal “filled up“, what was filled up? The answer is in the next reversal from her where she said, “Show the suitcase.” In a crime scene photo of a closet in the McCann’s bedroom apartment, there can be seen what has been referred to as a sports bag. Later this bag was missing, and the McCann’s spokesperson claimed Gerry did not have a bag. In spite of photographic evidence to the contrary. It’s not a stretch to say the “suitcase” being referenced by Jane is the sports bag in question. Cadaver dogs alerted to the same shelf where the sports bag had been. It would appear her body was placed in the sports bag on the shelf.
Gerry said in a reversal, “She’s near a trestle.” By definition a “trestle” is a framework consisting of vertical, slanted supports and horizontal crosspieces supporting a bridge. In order for him to know her body is near the support of a bridge, as indicated in the reversal, he would have to have brought her there himself. So how did he do it?
The cadaver dogs also alerted to the outside of a window where Madeleine had slept. A cadaver dog reportedly gave an alert inside a car, rented by the McCann’s, 24 days after Madeleine went missing too. DNA of Madeleine was found in the rental car. Which means the movement of the bag, “suitcase”, went from the shelf to the outside of the apartment via the window, and later to the car.
There is a gap of at least 24 days from what happened between the movement of Madeleine’s body from the time it was placed outside the window, and to the car, where her body was disposed near a bridge. Which brings back to her body had to be preserved by being “iced”, as Jane Tanner indicated, and the investigator had surmised.
In conclusion, with the combined reverse speech analysis, physical evidence, and the alerts to certain areas of cadaver and blood dogs, it would appear by the McCann’s own words, including their friend, Jane Tanner, that Madeleine was accidentally killed by Kate. And Madeleine’s body was disposed of by Gerry near a bridge.
I think it all can be summed up by Kate when she said in a reversal, “A thousand ways, make this sad.“
Click on the reversal to hear the audio.
Sky News 5-6-07
Gerry McCann:
We are pleased that the family liaison officers from Leicestershire are now working closely with the Portuguese police and are keeping us informed. I should tell more of this.
We have no further information regarding the investigation… I’ve been ashamed, was never the fool by you.
Sky News 5-6-07
Kate McCann:
I couldn’t ask for more. I just want to say thank you. Yes I messed it up. Won’t surrender.
Gerry McCann:
The thing we are going to take from this is strength, and courage, and hope, and we continue to hope for the best possible outcome from this for us. We are so upset with all this.
Unknown Credit 5-07
Kate McCann:
We would like to say a few words. Slay with fists, Madeleine.
To the person who is with Madeleine, or has been with Madeline. Madeleine is a beautiful bright, funny, and caring little girl. It was unbelievable.
Por favor {continues in Portuguese}… Someday I want this all over.
Sky News 6-12-07
Kate McCann:
The work that we have been doing over the lasts few weeks has certainly helped Gerry. It’s helped us both and that has kept us focused and… Isn’t it sick we’re (the) suspects?
… you know not dwelling on Madeleine herself so much. Only swat her. (“Only” suggests it was accidental.)
Gerry McCann:
We never ever wanted this to be a long term campaign… My wife has said there’s no other avenue.
…What we hoped was that by taking positive action it would speed things up. That hasn’t happened. There are some contingency plans, but um you know I think we are looking at event driven… Never. Never. And they still don’t. So it’s alright. Messed up.
…things to keep the profile up and…. Not while I afford to beat this.
Kate McCann:
Certainly no evidence to the contrary. I mean you said before obviously we’ve considered all scenarios… Maybe you’re shocked if this isn’t the one we loose.
…but I think the fact that it was nothing to suggest otherwise. Then gives us great hope really. Um it’s important we cling to that as well. You won’t understand why we leave her here.
BBC 2007
Kate McCann:
(Question: …Did you as a mother Kate, sometimes think I’ve got to go out there to be with them, I want to go and just physically look as well?) I mean I did. I mean we’ve been working really hard really apart from the first 48 hours as Gerry said are incredibly difficult… That search is a lie. So observe them all, it is lie. (She knows her child is dead. For people to be searching for an abducted child is a lie.)
…but after that you get strength from somewhere. We’ve certainly have had loads of support and that’s given us strength and it’s been able to make us focus really so we have actually in our own way it might not be physically searching but we’ve been working really hard and doing absolutely everything we can really to get Madeleine back. Maybe we should calm these people.
BBC – World Service 6-22-07
Gerry McCann:
The important thing at this time is that we don’t have Madeleine. And that’s the only result that will clearly make Kate and I happy, and the rest of the family. My honesty scandalous.
(Question: How do you think Madeleine herself would be coping?) You know that’s somewhere where we can’t really go… He remembers that night. (eversals are known to occur in the third person.)
We’ve absolutely no idea who’s taken her. And where she is, and what sort of surroundings she’s in… She’s near a trestle. (Trestle: A framework consisting of vertical, slanted supports and horizontal crosspieces supporting a bridge.)
We’ve had tremendous support from the local community particularly through the church here. Which really left it as, particularly those very few first days where it was not, you know it was just awful really. Now we look forward to survive.
The phase of the campaign now is very different to that which we have undertaken in the last few weeks with Kate and I. Traveling to different areas um either to raise awareness in countries in close proximity to Portugal… If the mess could talk, message that would stand out her hair is bloody. (The reversal is an indication that Madeleine’s cause of death was hitting her head when she fell over the sofa. See reference to the sofa below during Kate’s interview – Interview With Reporter Sandra Felgueiras 11-3-09. A Cadaver dog alerted to blood behind a sofa. The blood was determined to be Madeline’s. The reversal occurs where he is talking about countries in close proximity to Portugal. Was Madeleine’s body moved to a location in one of those countries?)
The campaign really started with electronic media. And my sister Phil took the first campaign type action. And that was to start a chain email. I just go on the air.
There is no evidence to date that Madeleine has been harmed physically. And that means that we will always have hope. And the hope is what drives us on our determination to be reunited with our daughter. Leave this machine. The rest is going to know this fiasco.
There’ll be a card with Madeleine’s image and the details of the numbers to call if anyone has information. Someone did for us.
BBC – Radio 4 Woman’s Hour 8-8-07
Kate McCann:
Obviously I can’t talk too much about the investigation. The option was lost in our case.
We’re just trying to get through one day at a time. To be honest Jenny. Annoyed this master has no respect. {Master; would be the one in charge. In this case it could be the interviewer.}
…speculation is upsetting and it doesn’t help us. This house wasn’t cheerly kept. {House; may be a metaphor for the thoughts in her mind.}
… and Madeleine wouldn’t have walked out on her own. I know that. Are there not flaws to our involvement?
(Question: We’ve read repeatedly that you and you are someone who really does hate being in the public eye, you’re a very private sort of person. Why then did you and your husband launch such a high profile publicity campaign after Madeleine disappeared?) I mean what you said about me Jenny is absolutely true… I seen as involved with this.
We’ve just done what we felt was the right thing to do, and that was to publicize Madeleine’s disappearance. I’m that wears this myth.
(Question: How much do you worry, as some people have suggested, that it may be counter productive, that it could motivate her abductors to hide her away?) I mean we always knew that was a slight risk of that… I’ll fix the rest of it.
We couldn’t sit and do nothing. And we honestly felt this is the best thing to do. Isn’t this sad, this isn’t life I used to know.
We’ve got strengths and weaknesses and you know we reach different points at different times I guess. But we’re managing to keep together, and pull each other through when we need to. But we’re still the shield of murder.
Sky News 8-10-07
Kate McCann:
I mean the main thing for us is knowing if the sighting is credible, or not really. To be honest we don’t go through the… Are these trick motives to lives?
...Um emotional rollercoaster with regards to the sightings. We take a little shame in that.
(Question: Is that something that you’d done on other nights {leave the children alone}? Is something you were getting the feel other holiday makers were doing?) …I’ve had so many supportive letters from families from other mothers. And they’ve said Kate you know we’ve done that, we do that, you know who would of ever thought that something as horrible as that would happen? The others knew on the trip.
Sky News 8-25-07
Gerry McCann:
(Question: …but that hasn’t been the case in some sections of the Portuguese media they’re writing the most terrible things about you. Why?) Well that’s a difficult question um I think that are uh I there’s a law of speculation, innuendo, there’s clearly some absolute outright smears… I try to get some money.
Sky News 10-24-07
Kate McCann:
If people know something. If they can just, I guess search the heart really. He leave on her dress.
And they, they do ask about Madeleine. I wish they didn’t know her.
You know we know the truth. They find no body.
We’re innocent. We’re totally innocent. They surely arrest us.
Gerry McCann:
Four months since Madeleine disappeared. And nothing, nothing that’s happened to us in this time has come close to upsetting us they way felt when we discovered Madeleine missing. I send example of that’s the decision what I feel.
Kate McCann:
(Reporter: On Allegations the couple had sedated their children the night Madeleine disappeared, Kate McCann refused to be drawn.) You know I’m not even going to… And they giving our money.
…answer that question I’m afraid. Steer from all this trouble.
Gerry McCann:
…and we shouldn’t be giving them the time of day. It’s the last time I’m going to make it an issue.
There is absolutely no suggestion… Initiate the suing mill.
…that Madeleine or the children were drugged. Outcome was worse.
Kate McCann:
I feel, as Madeleine’s mommy I feel, in my heart really that she’s there and I don’t, I don’t believe Madeleine has been taken away from us permanently. Was not us. He shouted it wrong.
Panorama – Mystery of Madeleine McCann 11-19-07
(Jane Tanner is one of the seven friends that were on vacation with the McCann’s. The friends are known as the Tapas 7. Tapas is the name of the restaurant at the resort where they were dining when Madeleine was declared missing. Jane Tapper’s official eyewitness testimony is crossing paths with a man carrying a child near the McCann’s rented apartment.)
Translator for investigator: What happened that night in the dinner, at the end of the dinner in the Tapas bar, and everything that happened that night? What was said between those people? It leaves us somewhat perplexed in the ways I’ve been saying since the beginning. That not all of their statements match up exactly with each other. There are some things where between what one says, and what the other says, they don’t match up with each other.
Jane Tanner:
Well if you ask nine people [about an events of a night, you]’re probably going to get slightly different stories. And you’re not clock watching, you’re not, you know we were having a meal. The yarn of seven is private. (Yarn: a story that is so surprising, or unusual, that it is difficult to believe. All seven know what happened, but are going to keep it among themselves.)
Jane Tanner: We’ve never been in contact with the police to say we want to change our story.
Reporter: So you said you were prepared to answer questions.
Jane Tanner: Yah.
Reporter: In some ways would you like to?
Jane Tanner: [I’d love to yah. I think] we, you know, actively want to be re-interviewed. If there, if, if there is a feeling that what we’re saying is wrong, you know, interview what we know, and we can clarify that it’s, it’s not wrong, you know, not making things up. It’s just what happened. With iced, filled up. (Iced: to preserve by placing on ice. What was “iced”, and what was filled up?)
Reporter: Have you been ever asked to return to be questioned?
Jane Tanner: No.
Reporter: Would you do that?
Jane Tanner: Ye[s. Yah. Of course we would]. Yah, I mean, you know we, if it helps to find Madeleine it would be tomorrow. You know, we’re obviously key witnesses. Show the suitcase.
(“Show” may be a metaphor for: a performance; disassociation; seeing life like a movie; more contrived than a movie; it is like we have created the conditions; more grandiose.
Police photos taken the night of Madeleine’s disappearance of Kate & Gerry’s bedroom show the partial view of a blue bag in a closet. It has been referenced as a sports bag. Later the bag was unaccounted for. A spokesperson for the McCann’s stated Gerry McCann never owned a blue sports bag. A cadaver dog alerted to a shelf in the closet where the blue bag had been.
Is the “suitcase” a reference for the blue bag in question? Was Madeleine’s body frozen, and then placed into a “suitcase”?
A cadaver dog reportedly gave an alert inside a car, rented by the McCann’s, 24 days after Madeleine went missing. DNA of Madeleine was found in the rental car. Former lead investigator on the McCann case Gonçalo Amaral theorizes Madeleine’s body must have been frozen to help preserve it. Otherwise if her body were in the vehicle after being moved from another location the body would have been mummified, which would mean no body fluids would have been found in the rental car.
If her body was frozen, and placed into a suitcase, was the rental car used to transport her body to the trestle?)
Sky News 12-21-07
Kate McCann:
I’d also liked to thank our friends in Portugal. Who have stayed with us… Sort out the answer
… and continue to support us, since those very early desperate and vulnerable days. Deny your obsessions.
RTP Television
Gerry McCann:
(Question: In that evening did you give your something like Corprol (sp) to help them sleep?) You know we’re not going to comment on anything, but you know there is absolutely no way we used any sedative drugs or anything like that. An answer you may want.
Sky News 5-1-08
Gerry McCann:
(Question: So Gerry you are saying you will go back for a reconstruction?) We’re not the only people that have been asked to go. So the process isn’t dependent on Kate and I saying yes or no it’s dependent on other people. I’m not saying yes you are mistaken on it.
Kate McCann:
(Question: …he says “Why did the McCann’s think it was OK to leave their child alone…”?) I mean you’re right. We’ve answered this so many times. I feel like I’ve gone over all grounds. Obviously I felt it was incredibly safe. It was not good when they make her leave her.
Gerry McCann:
(Question: Was Madeleine upset the night before she had been left alone?) ….There was one night where Madeleine had come through and one of the twins was crying… We are certainly upset.
Sky News 2008
Kate McCann:
(Question: How do you cope with not knowing what people you as people, as parents?) I mean, I think you don’t realize how much you value your anonymity really… Must salient ready.
…almost feel like your, you know stripped bare in some ways, you know that people know so much about you… We obviously must fend off people that are shameless.
(Question: What is your greatest hope of what might have happened to her this year?) …my hope is that Madeleine is safe and well, and is being looked after. I’m convinced in that I will not face this sin.
Gerry McCann:
(Question: How do you keep your mind from that worst place, that worst case scenario?) …It doesn’t help find Madeleine. We’re absolutely certain about that. We are under stress. It will spiral.
Kate McCann:
(Question: If for whatever reason Madeleine could hear you now what would you say to her?) I Love you Madeleine. Hold on. We’re still looking. We always will. How do I make all this up?
Unknown Credit – Brussels 2008
Gerry McCann:
(Question: How strange was it to come here as arguidos, still as suspects, talking about a case where you are still suspects?) Hopefully it will be not for too much longer. As you know the penal code in Portugal has changed and that suspects should uh, druids should only be enforced for 8 months with a 3 month extension. As this helps us.
Kate McCann:
…but I think it is important to think, you know it’s important for people to Know just exactly what we have gone through. We can only imagine what Madeleine’s gone through. There’s more to heal.
Oprah Wnfrey Show 5-4-09
Brackets [ ] indicate where reversal occurs.
Kate McCann:
It was on the third check. Which was my check, and I went and I discovered Madeline had been taken. [And I just ran to say “Not] Madeline, not Madeline, not Madeline”. I can just remember saying that over, and over again. On this, emotional.
(Oprah: Do you let yourself go to the worst place sometimes?) I do. I think it’s natural. I know people mean well when they say “Don’t let yourself go there, and it’s not going to help going there”, but as a mom [inevitably there are times when I do]. There’s been a time I thought about surrender.
(Oprah: In this past two year cycle, so much has happened. What has been the worst for you? Were there times when you thought you wouldn’t get through it?) I think nothing is going to be worse than those early days really. It was horrific. [It was awful. And I, I don’t believe th]ere can be a greater pain. To be able admit that I am at all cause of it.
(Oprah: Did he {Matthew Oldfield} see her in the bed at nine thirty?) [No. He just went in and listened], and there was no crying. Until then there’s no see the crime.
She’s not in bed. And then I thought well maybe she’s wondered through to our bed, and that’s why the door’s open. [So I went there through to our bedroom, and she wasn’t there]. And then I kind of, see that, I’m starting to panic a bit. And I ran back into their room and literally as I went back into their room the curtains that were drawn over just flew open. And that’s when I saw that the shutter was right up and the window was pushed right open. And that was then I just knew someone had taken her. Have the solution which devolved, search the loss. (Devolved: To be transferred or passed on from one to another. Notice the sentence right after the reversal. She then begins to tell of the story that has the answer for her to begin the transfer of responsibility of the crime to someone else in the search of her daughter.)
Gerry McCann:
(Oprah: You made a decision an effort to try and get her picture out try to engage the media. Is that true?) Wasn’t so much a conscious decision. After a few hours some of her friends were saying “Contact the media, contact the media”. Portuguese police were saying “No. No media, no media”. We were [desperate at that point]. Your partner upset. (Reverse speech is known to occur in the third person.)
Kate McCann:
(Oprah: Well the tabloids used that press conference against the McCanns. Saying Kate’s lack of emotion implied that she was guilty. So, first of all tell us why you seemed not as emotional.) There were two aspects really. I’d [spent seventy two hours I think] crying, and suddenly you feel almost a little bit numb. It’s really hard to describe. It was a large investment. (Investment: a devoting of emotional energy as for a purpose to achieve something.)
Gerry McCann:
(Oprah: How has your marriage been through all of this? Because a lot of marriages, a lot of people get pulled apart.) I think a child abduction, I think could destroy any family. There’ no doubt about it. It’s one of the most devastating things, and then if you looked what’s happened subsequently that we’ve been sup[ported tremendously well]. And I think that’s helped us stay strong and together. I wish to manage this toll.
Kate McCann:
(Oprah: Her birthday is May 12th. will you celebrate that birthday? Will there be an acknowledgement of that birthday?) We haven’t planned anything yet. [Certainly last year] we had a party. I shall do this.
[If I was so consumed with the], the pain and grief, I wouldn’t be doing my job as a mother to Sean and Emily, and not for Madeline. A thousand ways, make this sad.
Interview With Reporter Sandra Felgueiras 11-3-09
(Sandra Felgueiras: When you get into the apartment at ten pm. You didn’t see Madeleine. You just run to shouting that she was missing? Weren’t you afraid to leave Sean and Emily behind? What crossed your mind?) [Well first of all I] just walk in and noticed she’d gone. Fell over sofa. (Madeleine’s blood was found behind a sofa. The sofa was found to have been oddly pushed against the wall. A cadaver dog alerted under where the sofa had been)
BBC 4-30-17
Gerry McCann:
We don’t tend to go back to the time because it’s so draining. But inevitably on anniversaries, and her birthday, [they are the by far the] hardest. I’ve helped, her lie.
Reporter:
How different is your life now to what you must have imagined all those years ago?
Kate McCann:
It’s a hard one isn’t it, because it’s been such [a long time but]. Unmasked mother. (The reversal follows Gerry’s reversal, “I’ve helped, her lie.”, and seems to indicate he had just called her out for what she did.)
I obviously have to think about what age she is, and something like that. You know whenever we find her, still be appropriate. So it’s a lot of, a lot of thought goes into it. But I couldn’t [not, you know, she’s still our daught]er, she’ll always be our daughter. Was bollocks she’s shining on.
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