Belfast Telegraph  Thursday 13 March 2014  Madeleine: why we are
watching the detectives  Lindy McDowell, Belfast Telegraph  The
case of the little Madeleine McCann has unleashed two distinct
responses in the millions who have been following this story
worldwide. An innate compassion. And, in very many of us, our
inner Dalziel and Pascoe.  In taxis, buses, bars, supermarket
queues, factory floors, offices and homes throughout the land
each reported shred of evidence - real, imagined, leaked or
rumoured - is meticulously reviewed and dissected with an
attention to detail that would do Gil Grissom proud.  Kate and
Gerry McCann. What are we to make of them?  Innocent parents
doubly wronged?  Or is there an even more unthinkable option ...
?  Almost everybody has a theory about what happened on that
fateful night in Portugal. And the thought processes that have
led us there are as individual as the methods of TV cops.  But
the television 'tecs generally get it easy compared to real
life. They collate the evidence