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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zable" data-source="post: 133070" data-attributes="member: 47">^ And if we do that, I would add: beware two things.Beware what we think to be evidence. It might not be at all as seen through the eyes of experts or the court. Question what we have been taking for granted.Example: Say, a picture touted as being the last photograph ever taken of Madeleine McCann is published for the world to see and know. We'll believe that’s true because a Voice of Authority has said it is and they must know better.Therefore, as investigators we bank on that photograph being good evidence that Maddie was alive at the date and time stated on it and proceed full tilt with our investigations with that as a reference point of knowing when she was last seen. But, what if we are wrong? Hypothetically, an expert can come along later  and say they can't rule out the possibility that the date and time on the photograph have been altered, even though the photograph itself is genuine (ie, not manipulated in its composition/photo-shopped). That photograph can't be relied on.Beware false assumptions, too.An example: The last video I posted on this thread had the title Who Died in the McCann’s Apartment?Since the bouquet of death was detected in Apartment 5A by a highly trained and top-rated human cadaver dog, the presumption was that the dog was not wrong. From there the assumption flowed that someone died in that apartment. Hence the question in the video title.But, hang on. Couldn’t someone have died elsewhere, and their body brought into the apartment before being moved again?As I’ve said, the title of the video was Who Died in the McCann’s Apartment?  How many of you assumed that “McCann’s” was referring to Maddie’s family?Yes, blink. Er, wot?Sure, that was the apartment that Maddie’s family rented in the Mark Warner-owned Ocean Resort complex. But it’s possible they were not the “McCann’s” being referred to.How many of you know that the actual owner of Apartment 5A was a woman who’d married a McCann, and whose late husband was not in any way related to the family of Dr Gerald McCann?I didn’t, until I stumbled across that tid-bit of info yesterday. Apparently, the odds of Maddie’s family renting a place from a stranger who turned out to share the same family name as them was 7,500: 1, according to Sky News Crime Correspondent Martin Blunt.</blockquote>

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