Can I just point out before people take this thread in wild directions:
1. Blood isn't proof of death. Contamination (accidental transference of blood from one place to another) happens.
2. The parents were both doctors. It's entirely possible that they came into contact with corpses as part of their jobs, either directly or indirectly. In addition, if a cadaver dog can smell a corpse on a toy after it was washed, then the smell on the McCann's clothing and other sources could all have been from the aforementioned corpses that they came into contact with as doctors.
3. Behavior of parents after a tragedy involving one of their children, especially a young child, should be given the benefit of the doubt. I highly doubt any of us would behave in entirely rational ways if we found our child missing, in a foreign country. The fact that they left one of the doors to the apartment unlocked, potentially allowing an abductor into the apartment, provides an additional cause for a feeling of guilt and further irrational behavior.
1. Blood isn't proof of death. Contamination (accidental transference of blood from one place to another) happens.
2. The parents were both doctors. It's entirely possible that they came into contact with corpses as part of their jobs, either directly or indirectly. In addition, if a cadaver dog can smell a corpse on a toy after it was washed, then the smell on the McCann's clothing and other sources could all have been from the aforementioned corpses that they came into contact with as doctors.
3. Behavior of parents after a tragedy involving one of their children, especially a young child, should be given the benefit of the doubt. I highly doubt any of us would behave in entirely rational ways if we found our child missing, in a foreign country. The fact that they left one of the doors to the apartment unlocked, potentially allowing an abductor into the apartment, provides an additional cause for a feeling of guilt and further irrational behavior.
