Madeiline McCann coverup

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Just cataloguing more thoughts:

The smell of death follows the McCanns around. And only them.

Even if the sniffer dogs were somehow off kilter, they are clearing following something. The McCanns, and only them, left a trail all around them for Eddy to follow. This is not just random misfires. How could they manage to repeatedly fool this dog, if nothing untoward had happened? That’s a serious question. I don’t know the answer. Maybe something could fool him, and somehow this "thing" gets all over their clothes, her toy, their apartment and their rental car.

I would expect innocent people to explain it that way. They don’t know what it is, but obviously something is leading the dogs to them, time and time again. I would expect them to want to know what, and if it’s of any relevance to the case. They didn’t, though. They just scoffed and wanted it to not be talked about.

In the first place though, I'd expect innocent people to be overcome with despair at the news of the smell of death being found in the apartment. This would appear to be new information, that their child might actually have died before being removed. They’d want to know what that meant. Did an intruder try and kidnap her, and it went wrong, and she died? And then they smuggled her out anyway?

Although I’d expect this reaction, it would still come up against the problem of why the smell persisted on their own clothing, and in their rental car two weeks later, when they apparently had been no where near a corpse.