What "searching" have the McCanns actually done?

Question

All I saw was a round the world trip. Personally I would be ACTUALLY searching.

Answer 1

Agreed.

Answer 2

do you really want to know

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRvgK6M2_7...

Answer 3

Maybe they have been privately searching.

the world is a big old place, they can't check every single square inch of it. And how can you be sure any searching they do will be shown on television?

Answer 4

How ignorant of you. You should be ashamed of yourself.  They have been through so much-leave them alone unless you have something positive to say.

I honestly can't believe your attitude.  It brings me to tears.

Answer 5

Nice one Kit Kat  Just where you you start looking ? Africa, Asia, Europe, the America's or perhaps even in your own back garden.?

Answer 6

What would you do?

What doors would you knock on?

How far would you get doing that?  Not very far.

If you have any sense you would appeal to people to look for her, you would employ professionals, you would assume the police were looking for your daughter to despair when you find out they are looking for proof to back a THEORY that you killed your daughter not looking for her or the person who took her.

So once again.  What would you do and where would you search - the world is a big place when you have a head start to hide in it.

Answer 7

they have been everywhere to try and find their daughter, they have vigorously campaigned for all missing children in the world. just cos u didt see them combing the streets on the telly, u think they havent looked? im sure u ar a good parent, but so are they. are u saying u have never let ur kids go out and play? its the same thing. if they are out of ur sight atall, then go missing, then the media love to blame the parents. the fact is, they thought it was safe and they never ever would have intentionally done aything to jeopardise their daughters safety. no parent would. everyone seems to be forgetting that if she was abducted then there is only one person to blame, and that person knows exactly where she is and wot has hapened. just leave the parents alone, they have to live with this for maybe the rest of their lives. and the only reason the madeleine fund got so big was cos people care, and they donated in theur millions, wihout passing judgement, like u obviously are. do u know them? hav u ever spoken to them? if the answer is no then u should stop speculating on wot they have or havent done. rather u should be hoping she returns safely one day and feel absolute sympathy for her parents, not rubbishing their efforts to satisfy your own opinion. just imagine if u were them and hd to read stuff like this? if u try and think for a second u may actually empathise with wot they must be going thru everyday. just leave them alone, it does them no good or helps with finding madeleine.

I, likemost of the worlds population, wish for madeleines safe return.

Answer 8

Under the bed??....dunno.......

Answer 9

well I think there was a tip off that she was in the white house so Gerry went to have a look and meet the president and stuff. ummm...I think there were rumours that the pope had her so they went to see him too...

...they went jogging a lot, maybe they were hoping they would find her along their route?

Answer 10

The night she went missing they searched long in to the night.The authorities took over from there and then they hired their own people to search as well.As arguidos I doubt they'd have been allowed to search themselves.

In reality you searching yourself would be a pretty fruitless and unrealistic exercise.The McCanns searching would have entailed the inevitable press scrum in hot pursuit.If someone hid her or has her then all they'd have to do is turn on the news to know when to change the location.

Chances are if they had searched the anti-McCann stance would be 'Look at them,who do they think they are fooling?' or the usual purile bile.

Answer 11

Well they did go the Pope, there was the European Tour, Gerry went to see Oprah and there was something else in Britain, did they not meet gordon brown, so as yuo can see they have tried reall yhard to be seen by the world`s press to be looking for Maddie.

Answer 12

They could try under the patio. The police are experts in looking under patio's and they usually find something.

Answer 13

I think the only looking they have done is in the 'leaving no stone unturned' but not in the way they would have us believe.........

Answer 14

They have employed highly trained people to do that.

What should they do, buy a helicopter, some sniffer dogs, a grenade launcher and a compass and get out there?

Get real love. Metado 3, criminal investigators and ex-sas are employed by the Madeleine fund to do the searching. It would appear that up till now, they have been slightly hindered by the Secrecy Laws in Portugal, but now it's free reign. These people can get the files, use the information or lack of and actually LOOK for her. Something the oh so bloody wonderful Portuguese Police did not do.

!!! So don't pay the mortgage and lose the roof from over the twins head is that it?

Come off it. REALITY has got to sink in soon, surely?

Answer 15

I don't think they've actually ever taken part in any search themselves.  The night Madeleine went missing and the immediate days afterwards, they were slated by the locals in Portugal for not moving out of their apartment, understandable if you're distraught, but wait, they did leave only to go jogging and that was on the morning after Madeleine "disappeared" !

Answer 16

They have hired a private detective and are trying to get the portugease police to relise files to them regarding the case and evidence, so the detective can use them. I'm pretty sure they have searched the country high and low themselves. But they can't get every where in the world in one life time, thats why they ahve and are appealing to the public to help find her.

Answer 17

What do you mean????

they went to see the pope

they met Gordon Brown

they went to the USA

they fled Portugal the day after being made arguido's (after saying they would never leave without Madeline)

they sold clothing and wristbands on the internet

Gerry wrote a blog on the internet

I could go on

So of course they searched

(Paul C now removes tongue from cheek)

Answer 18

All they have been searching for is more money