What the Madeleine McCann documentary didn't include.

Since ‘The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann’ aired on Netflix a week ago, the eight-part series has reignited discussion and theories about what happened to the three-year-old girl on the evening of May 3, 2007.

Photos of the wide-eyed little girl have circulated for years, making her one of the most recognisable missing children in the world. Everyone wants to know: What happened to Maddie?

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The Netflix documentary takes an in-depth look at many of the possible suspects and theories, but has also received criticism for bringing nothing new to the investigation as well as leaving out some key conjecture about what happened.

A twitter thread by user @joshrfrd has gone viral after he condemned the series before presenting some of the theories that the documentary left out.

The Maddie McCann thing on Netflix is shit so I’m gonna do my own thread

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 17, 2019

However, some of the speculation put forward has been debunked by official investigators, whilst others remain still possible.

The Podestas brothers

Clement Freud was friends with Kate and Gerry McCann and regularly spoke via phone/email. Clement invited K&G for dinner at his holiday home in Praia Da Luz (less than 10 minutes away from the apartment Maddie was taken from) https://t.co/3FoWirRsrC

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 17, 2019

On March 16th 2016, John Podesta’s personal gmail account was compromised in a data breach. Some of the emails were obtained by Wikileaks, which published over 20k pages of emails. In said emails John was communicating using FBI certified paedophile code

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 17, 2019

If he is NOT talking in a code that these emails make no sense at all and are complete gibberish.
Feel free to take a look at some, it goes v deep

https://t.co/6D5azBGNob

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 17, 2019

This coding conjecture was part of a conspiracy called “Pizzagate” which has been largely debunked and discredited.

Alright so a confirmed paedophile let’s two of his possible paedophile mates stay at his holiday home in Praia da Luz at the same time Maddie went missing.. could be a coincidence???

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 17, 2019

You can see the e-fit in the crimewatch special in the bottom left pic.twitter.com/7GMBzFwg3R

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 17, 2019

There is no confirmation by any credible sources that the Podestas brothers were in “Praia da Luz at the same time Maddie went missing”.

As for the suspect images, this was part of the Pizzagate conspiracy and has also been proved as false. According to Snopes, these pictures circulated by police in 2013 in relation to the Madeleine McCann disappearance were actually only of one man wanted for the alleged kidnapping, not two as suggested.

Kate and Gerry McCann

Kate and Gerry McCann refused to take part in the documentary, stating that it could impede the ongoing police investigation. Hence the documentary, although it contains voiceovers of the parents speaking in some places, does not have any exclusive interviews with Maddie’s parents.

A statement on their website reads: “We did not see and still do not see how this programme will help the search for Madeleine and particularly given there is an active police investigation, could potentially hinder it.”

The twitter user talks about the theory that Kate and Gerry McCann could know more about the abduction of their daughter than they’re revealing.

There is a PLETHORA of clips of the McCans avoiding reasonable questions and also there has been alot of changes and contradictions in their version of accounts early on

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 17, 2019

The McCans described Madeleine in a very weird and strange way, I know that all parents will gloat about their child’s beauty/cuteness (idk how to put videos on twitter but here’s a few quotes of Kate describing Maddie) “her perfect little form, her perfectly shaped head”

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 17, 2019

This is a DIRECT quote from Kate’s book “I told [Gerry] about the awful pictures that scrolled through my head of her body, her perfect little genitals torn apart” (page 129)

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 17, 2019

This was in her AUTOBIOGRAPHY, not an accidental slip up during an interview, I’m just scratching the surface of things that suggest the McCans vvvv strange and possible predators

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 18, 2019

The intial story has changed multiple times, Kate claimed that the abductor jemmied the window/blinds open and climbed in through the window and kidnapped Maddie, there were no signs of a break in and only Kate’s DNA was found at the scene pic.twitter.com/RHsN0EMoS7

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 18, 2019

They then tried to pin the kidnapping on a hotel staff member and when that didn’t work their story changed a little more and they blamed it on the maintenance man; both men were later cleared.

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 18, 2019

Kate and Gerry have vehemently denied any wrongdoing in the disappearance of their daughter and say they have never given up hope of finding Madeleine. They continue in their fight for information that might lead them to her.

Although the theory is very interesting, its also contains multiple factual errors, which is the most likely reason as to why the theories were not included in the Netflix documentary.

However in relation to their refusal to take part in the documentary, some have argued, that the McCanns would surely welcome any resurgence in interest in their daughter’s case, given she is still missing.

A list of questions that Kate McCann refused to answer during police questions has recently reemerged, published first by The Independent. Kate used her right to silence in 2007.

The Twitter user did emphasise that he is not an expert and the thread is purely to open up discussion on areas that the documentary left out.

“Please do your own research and come to your own conclusions,” @joshrfrd said. “I have no idea what actually went on this thread is purely speculation and I’m just pointing out information I haven’t seen be discussed that much.”

Please do your own research and come to your own conclusions— I have no idea what actually went on this thread is purely speculation and I’m just pointing out information I haven’t seen be discussed that much

— ???? (@joshrfrd) March 18, 2019