If they had killed her then no way would they have kicked up such a fuss about finding her.
They would have slowly let the whole episode disappear from the public domain and get on with their lives.
( girlinthehole, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 9:59, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

you are assuming that they aren't mad bastards
if they had killed her, or been in the habit of giving their kids a little something to keep them quiet while they nip out for dinner then they can't exactly be considered to be particularly sane
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:03, Reply)

I don't dispute that they were wrong in dosing up and leaving the kids, if that's what happened.
I very much doubt they killed her is all. If they disposed of the body in what amounted to a short space of time, then I think it would have been found by now.
( girlinthehole, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:05, Reply)

that is a good point
they won't have had a lot of time to dump or bury a body, can't have gone far or spent much time away before raising the alarm.

fuck knows what did happen though. we'll never know, and it's pretty fucking unlikely that she'll turn up
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:07, Reply)

They ate the corpse.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:23, Reply)

After a meal out and booze.
I can't even manage toast let alone a small child.
( girlinthehole, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:24, Reply)

It was only tapas, don't forget
They were probably fucking starving.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:29, Reply)

they were probably on PCP

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:31, Reply)

She does look
permanently hungry
(Halfy By light alone, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:36, Reply)

hungry FOR COCK.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:37, Reply)

*guffaw*

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:38, Reply)

I don't think that's right at all.
If they had done it, they might well think that making a big hoo-ha about still looking for her would be the best cover ever.

If you assume that in most cases the parents haven't done it, and don't make the fuss that these two have made, then you can state that their behaviour is abnormal for parents of abductees.

Perhaps it's abnormal for a reason.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:08, Reply)

If they were 'abnormal parents' then it would have been noticed by other people before this happened.

( girlinthehole, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:15, Reply)

I'm not suggesting a Fred West-style set up
(actually, yes I am, how about it? You and me?)

I think the accidental overdose theory is potentially valid, and that the abnormal behaviour may have been a panic stricken reaction to having accidentally offed their kid.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:17, Reply)

I concur. See my wild speculation above.

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:21, Reply)

Aren't they Catholics?
The guilt would definitely have got to the wife by now.
( girlinthehole, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:24, Reply)

Well, as Cancer said, she has always looked "guilty of something," whatever that might be,
Perhaps she's so doo-lally by now she's convinced herself that her daughter was abducted*.

*_{NB: This response may contain potentially dangerous levels of speculation, or have been made in a factory where speculation is present.}
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:28, Reply)

Guilty of being a filthy bitch, I reckon
*cracks one off over the news*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:30, Reply)

there is something about her that just screams
"I want you to slip me a length"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:31, Reply)

The more scurrilous newspapers
ran with the story that her and her hubby were active swingers, and she enjoyed nothing more than getting 'airtight' of an evening.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:40, Reply)

they certainly look the type
wouldn't want your kids waking up and coming downstairs to find your neighbours balls deep in their mother's dirtbox, hence the practice of slipping them a bit of a sleep aid
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:42, Reply)

then maybe upgrading what they get slipped to something a little more profitable

(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:48, Reply)

I think we're on to something here
normally I'd take this stuff to the Mail, but they are firmly in the McCann's camp...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:49, Reply)

McCann's camp?
No wonder his wife's GAGGING FOR IT.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 11:07, Reply)

She takes special pills that negate her gag reflex
That's why she has a wonky mouth, her facial muscles have been pounded to fuck.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 11:10, Reply)

Firmly buried deep in McCann's camp.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 11:08, Reply)

I bet she's a right goer, the guilty bitch.
On balance, it wasn't just the Portuguese "wot thought they dunnit." My uncle lived in Leicestershire at the time, and it apparently got round that nobody back home in Rothley trusted them either...*

*_{Edit: This response may contain traces of malicious rumour, or have been concocted in a factory where malicious rumour is present.}
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:34, Reply)