If Madeleine Is Alive, She Won’t Be Found

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If Madeleine Is Alive, She Won’t Be Found

Tony Horne thinks that the hunt for Madeleine McCann may end in an unexpected but positive way and that Google will hold they key.

By Tony Horne

Another day, another sighting. Another false dawn for Kate and Gerry McCann. Did you notice how suddenly everyone said “No, this one’s different, they’re taking a DNA sample and two different people have reported it?”

My reaction was simple: “In India? Jesus.” And then once again, it turned out not to be. I suspect that like JFK’s grassy knoll, like the Australian PM Harold Holt who disappeared on the beach, like Azaria Chamberlain (“Dingo Child”), like Diana and the white Fiat Uno, this is all now stuff that our generation and the next take to the grave as unfinished business.

My current wife always says Madeleine died in the first 48 hours. The counter to that is the lack of a body, of course.

I haven’t read Kate McCann’s book by the way, though I feel sure I will. I wonder if anyone else slightly hesitated (oddly) when they saw that all profits went to the Find Madeleine Fund. My reaction was there was no point because they will never find her now.

The other side, of course, is that whilst Kate and Gerry have every right to write a book to firstly go on the record and secondly fund their lives from huge profits so they can dedicate all their time to looking for Madeleine, that does walk a moral high ground of cashing in.

I don’t see it like that. I believe they are 100% genuine and didn’t want to write the book at all other than to keep the case alive and its funding. Here’s my point.

If Madeleine McCann is alive she won’t be found. She will find herself.

I have every faith in that. The McCanns should hold every hope too that this era helps them in a way Ben Needham’s family never could crave. Think of all that brilliant police work in the last decade when cases involving rapes from 1975 suddenly got solved thirty years on because we had the technology. Nothing is gone forever anymore.

Madeleine is eight now. If she is alive she will be on a phone and on a laptop in the next three to five years unless she is at the mercy of an Amazonian tribe, which I doubt.

Some day at some point in the future, she will find her own picture on the Internet. It might be the Everton shirt, it more likely will feature her unique eye. It might start on the day she hears of another Madeleine McCann sighting and pumps her own name unwittingly into Google.

If she is alive and leading a “normal” life she will have access to technology at some point. At the age of eighteen, twenty-four, thirty, is she not going to have reclaimed her mind and do all that stuff we do like looking up ex-partners on Facebook? Of course she is.

There begins the trail. As we go forward in life, increasingly we go backwards. It may yet be a long wait, and if you think of all that you’ve done since May 3, 2007 I’m sure you agree that every day must be agony for Kate and Gerry McCann.

Somebody, of course, will write in the comments “It’s disgraceful. Who leaves their kids and goes out to dinner?” which is ridiculous on two accounts. We’ve all done it, and you miss the point of the blog.

So, I repeat, if Madeleine McCann is alive she won’t be found, she will find herself.
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I hadn't thought of that, but he's right.
I hope he is prepared to be inundated with hatespam...

I hadn't thought of that either but he is so correct.

Just like this girl did.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41163230/ns/today-today_people/t/kidnapped-girl-finds-her-own-mom-after-years/

What an amazing story, Tony!

It's a message of hope," Allen told Ann Curry Thursday. "It's a message that many more of these children are recoverable. Today Carlina White becomes a symbol that the search goes on for lots of others of America's missing children.

That is such a great story Tony. People should never give up.

I know we hope that Madeleine will be home really soon.

A mother never gives up hope, nor should anyone expect her to.

It's so obvious when it's pointed out, isn't it?

That wouldn't work for long nowadays, HB - DNA rather rules out someone trying an Anastasia.

You know what is really horrifying? Let's say Madeleine did go searching on the net. Can you imagine finding all that filth that is all over the hate sites? All the vile speculation about how you died at your parents' hands? All the obscene 'theories'? All the abuse of anyone who stood up for your right to be regarded as a living being?

It doesn't bear thinking about.

Cath wrote:Indeed Bonny it doesn't bear thinking about that.
Lets hope she's found soon or if she still can remember her name she'll find her family in the near future.
Sometimes miracles do happen.

Let's hope and pray that a miracle happens soon, Cath.

my hope and prayer too. x

If a 19 day old baby can find her birth family, then so can a three year old. And never has there been such coverage of a missing child. It just might trigger a memory if The McCanns keep it out there.