The E-Mails.

Subject: Re: Your Writings on the McCann Files Website
> From: Martin Roberts robertsm@newschool.edu
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:56:16 -0500
> To:***********.com
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> Hello,
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> I am not the author of the articles you refer to and have no idea what you are talking about. You might be more careful in future about making sure you are speaking to the right person before delivering messages to total strangers.
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> Best regards,
>
> Martin Roberts
>
> On Jan 18, 2010, at 12:02 PM, ******** wrote:
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> > Dear Dr. Roberts:
> >
> > I assume that you are the Dr. Martin Roberts who has authored pieces on the McCann family for the website "The McCann Files." If you are not, please note that they are spreading word that you are in fact the author of the pieces found here: http://www.mccannfiles.com/id260.html, disregard this email, and accept my apologies for taking up your time.
> >
> > Your writings on the McCann case are ill-informed pieces of personal animosity.
> >
> > I assume you know from the files that both police dogs signal to blood. I assume you know then, that a key-fob that a test revealed had Gerry McCann's blood and DNA on it was hidden inside the car at the spot where the infamous Eddie alert occurred.
> >
> > Are you aware that dog alerts without physical evidence are meaningless? That this particular set of dogs alerted to a coconut shell while on duty in Jersey? That there is so such thing as an EVRD dog; that the "E" is something their handler made up, ostensibly as a "marketing tool" to distinguish them from dogs with the very same training and history, but with, we can assume, more scrupulous handlers?
> >
> > Are you aware that in the Jaycee Lee Dugard case, dogs alerted at the backyard of her captor, backing up the detectives' thesis that he had killed other girls, but when the backyard was dug up and nothing found, the detectives explained that they were back at square one and that dog alerts without physical evidence mean nothing? That the dogs are nothing more an an investigative tool?
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> > Why, Dr. Roberts, was the dream not in the files? This is the incident that Paiva testifies was the turning point in the case, the thing that made the police suspect the McCanns -- and there is no hint of it in the files. Not the files that are publicly released and certainly not in the full files, which the McCanns and their lawyers have had access to for some time now. They would have been aware of the dream claim.
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> > As a self-identified media expert I would think you'd be aware of the fact that because members of the public have been so conditioned by TV shows and movies to expect people suffering through terrible tragedy to react in a certain perfect, Hollywood-style way, the public now responds to real, human shock with suspicion and fear. That you'd be aware that police officers and departments now have to beg the public to remember that these are regular people going through a terrible ordeal and that everyone reacts to shock differently. I would think you would be interested in writing about how impossible standards of perceived "likability" is now the standard by which the public decides whether a crime and a family deserve their support and attention.
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> > What I do not trust, Dr. Roberts, is a man who bandies about his Ph.D. in French Literature as credentials to slam a missing child and her family. A man whose field of study and Ph.D. have nothing to do with criminal profiling, who demonstrates no understanding of evidence, who has no academic background whatsoever in criminal investigations, criminal studies, or criminology; yet brandishes his "Dr." on dodgy websites to further the grief and pain of a missing child and her family. Who takes potshots and still, at the end of his article, covers his behind with the claim that even if the McCanns are innocent of Madeleine's death, they are still responsible for Madeleine's disappearance even if an abductor broke into their apartment (as it is still, in the eyes of the law, breaking and entering when you enter an abode with no permission) and took their sleeping daughter from her bed. Because they had the audacity to leave their children asleep in their apartment, the one they could see from where they were sitting, and check on them periodically.
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> > I hope that allows you to sleep at night. It comes awfully close to me as admitting you know that the McCanns didn't come across a dead Madeleine and dump her body, but you'd like to carry on with your personal dislike of her family without feeling guilty about the possibility that she was, in fact, abducted (masquerading as cultural transnational media analysis, of course.)
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> > I would gladly write this email from my personal account and sign my name, but unfortunately the websites that you have chosen to associate yourself with are notorious for "outing" posters, dissenters, and critics, and I do not wish to become yet another victim.