Netflix doc shows moment sniffer dogs 'picked-up blood scent' in Madeleine McCann holiday apartment

Interesting the ladbible should choose now to publish this, a gentle reminder of something a bit closer to truth than what's being reported elsewhere? This report contains video clips but nothing that hasn't been seen before.

https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/netflix/madeleine-mccann-sniffer-dogs-blood-apartment-netflix-documentarty-590395-20240425



Chilling footage captured the moment a sniffer dog picked up the scent of blood in the apartment where Madeleine McCann was snatched from in May 2007.

The alarming development in the notorious cold case, which unfortunately did not lead anywhere, left investigators combing through the holiday rental in the Portuguese resort of Praia Da Luz with more questions than answers.

Video of the shock discovery reared its head again in 2019, after it featured in the Netflix documentary The Disappearance Of Madeleine McCann which was released that year.

The eight-part series aimed to re-examine the infamous disappearance of Madeleine, the media coverage of the case and the investigation conducted by authorities, as well as how her parents Kate and Gerry dealt with her vanishing.

Months after the three-year-old first vanished on 3 May, 2007, puzzled Portuguese cops were struggling to find a lead and decided to bring in their canine counterparts for assistance.

Expert dog handler Martin Grime, who has lent himself and his animals to help with crime scene investigations across the globe, travelled from the UK with his two spaniels, Eddie and Keela, to see if they could make any progress.

They headed to the resort where the McCann family had been staying in apartment 5A, to see if the dogs could pick up on anything which the human eye or forensics could not.

Explaining the abilities of his highly-trained pooches during an episode of The Disappearance Of Madeleine McCann, Martin said: "When the dog indicates in the field, it will either be human decomposition or human blood.

"The human decomposition is very persistent, very pungent to the point where we've been able to locate, in blind searches, graves 40 years after the body has been removed and the body was only there for a short period of time.

"With blood, crime scene investigators have been to the house and somebody has cleaned the blood up to the point you can no longer see it. That doesn't mean there isn't any there to find.

"It might drip through the gap and run around the back of the floorboard, but odour will still be coming through the gap in the floorboards and the dog will pick it up and respond to it."

Although this means that is unlikely the animals will bypass any key evidence, it also suggests that they may have been detecting the scent of blood which may have been spilled long before the McCann's fateful family holiday.

Eddie - who was trained to smell traces of human corpses - was the first dog sent on a reconnaissance mission around the apartment.

US journalist Robbyn Swan said that the spaniel's 'behaviour changed the moment he came through the door'.

"He became tense and aware," she explained. "The dog handler said Eddie didn't alert in any other situation except when he scented that which he was seeking: the scent of a human cadaver."

The footage from the Netflix doc shows Eddie wandering around the room, sniffing, before going over to a wardrobe and then turning to his handler and barking. He barks again when he sniffs behind a couch.

Keela - who was trained to only alert her handler only when she smelt human blood - then headed in alone for round two.

She also stopped in the same spot behind the couch.

Both of the dogs were then brought outside to inspect the Renault Scenic hire car the McCanns had used during their trip.

The pair again both indicated to Martin that they had picked up on scents of human blood and a corpse in the boot and outside of the driver's door.

Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry were named as persons of interest by Portuguese police shortly after the dogs were brought in, however, this was voided in 2008 when the case was archived.

When asked about the dogs findings that year, cardiologist Gerry said: "I can tell you that we've obviously looked at the evidence about cadaver dogs and they're incredibly unreliable."

Is this the golden opportunity needed to prompt interest?

I don't know where to stick it, apart from the obvious, so here because the man was deeply involved in the Netflix documentary. I always thought his to be an integral part of the intrigue being appropriately situated. Hope it's ok to copy over the whole report. For those who don't already know, the man worked for the private dick agency metodo3.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/crime/madeleine-mccann-pria-da-luz-return-b2542375.html

‘The people I know won’t talk to the police’: Madeleine McCann investigator to return to Praia da Luz

Private investigator Julian Peribañez can’t let go of the Madeleine McCann case

The original private investigator hired by the McCann family is returning to the scene of the world’s biggest missing child case - the infamous holiday apartment in Praia da Luz.

This week will be Madeleine’s 21st birthday but the mystery of her disappearance appears to be no closer to being solved.

Julian Peribañez was part of the original private investigation firm Metodo 3 hired by the McCann family to explore leads that weren’t being considered by police in Portugal.

He revealed he is heading back to the family’s holiday apartment in Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva, Praia da Luz, in the Algarve where Madeleine vanished on the penultimate day of her family holiday in 2007.

He is returning to chase leads some stemming from the underworld to seek answers he claims police would be unable to get.

The McCanns admitted they left the then three-year-old and her younger twin siblings asleep in their apartment while they went out to dinner with friends.

Mr Peribañez spoke after the Metropolitan Police was handed £192,000 by the Home Office for Operation Grange - their continuing investigation into the disappearance.

MrPeribañez told The Independent: “The problem is that the only way to obtain information, in my opinion, is from certain people that would never speak to the police.

“The kind of person that knows what happened lurks in the underground of every city or town. I'm no one to say what to do to Operation Grange.

“I think it is good each one carries his own investigations. It would be great to be able to share between us, but I know how police forces work and I understand they won't disclose any information.

“I'm happy to say if I find something relevant I will take that information personally to them.”

He presses on with the 17-year search using money from his own pocket and ruled out accepting any public donations.

He said: “I wouldn't want people to think I do this with any economic interests.

“You know how people are and specifically in this topic and with the things that have happened, almost everyone who came near this case was acting in their own interest. Either to obtain fame, money or publicity.”

On the latest Home Office funding which sees Operation Grange top £13.2 million to investigate the high-profile case, he said: “I think they will spend it correctly from their point of view as this is public money that is put under surveillance.

“But I know it’s hard to believe for people that this is money well spent. So many years have passed and they haven't provided any further evidence in the case.

“Someone in Portugal has to know something. I will keep on looking for personal reasons, it’s a case that got deep on me for several reasons.”

The prime suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance is currently on trial in Germany charged with unrelated sex offences, allegedly committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.

The 47-year-old German, only known as Christian B because of the country’s privacy laws, spent many years in Portugal – including in Praia da Luz around the time of Madeleine’s disappearance.

He is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for the rape of an elderly woman at her home in the resort town in 2005. He had denied all the charges against him and any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance.

The case of Maddie's disappearance has never been solved, why have people lost interest?

I think that the worldwide Covid scam made lesser scams fade into insignificance.