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What if!

The McCann’s keen to get to the dinner party couldn’t get Madeleine settled and asleep before they left? Kids don’t always go to sleep on command. Sometimes they like to play it up a bit or they are not tired. They could hardly leave whilst the child was still awake so Mr Mc says to Mrs Mc lets give her some xxxxxx. After all they are both doctors and would have something to hand for emergencies.

What if Mr Mc gave the child a sedative and then Mrs Mc did the same without realising that Mr Mc had already done so. They come back from dinner, check on the kids and find Madeleine dead from an accidental overdose.

Panic! What to do? Answer! Hide the body away from the apartment. Stage a break in. Call in the police with the abduction story. Eventually hire a car and take the body away to some remote place and bury it. A putrefying body could easily transfer bloody material to Mr or Mrs McGann’s clothes to then rub off in the hired car.

In the meantime make their concern as high profile as possible to establish what bereaved parents they were.

As Sherlock Holmes used to state something to the effect of, “if you discard all the evidence leaving only the highly improbable then that must be it.”

Fanciful? Probably but in the light of events it has to be considered and not discarded until proven to be inaccurate.