The Public Psychology of Madeleine McCann (Chap 2 - Suspects)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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00:00 Who is Robert Murat?18:24 The McCann family history and inconsistencies
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Burdo chapter two in your deep dive on the case of Madeline, what's her name? |
| 0:06.8 | McCann. |
| 0:07.4 | Madeline McCann. Take it away, Burdo. |
| 0:10.0 | All right. Yeah, so we last left off, we'd given an overview of the backdrop where they were. |
| 0:15.9 | The McCanns were traveling. They were on vacation in Portugal and the sad disappearance of their little three-year-old |
| 0:23.1 | Madeline McCain. Well, there are theories, of course, like what happened to Little Madeline. |
| 0:29.7 | So the first thing that happened is, remember, we talked about how Jane, their friend, had seen |
| 0:34.6 | the golden pants man walking with a child, right? |
| 0:38.0 | And then we said that that was later ruled out as like explainable by some other British |
| 0:43.6 | tourists that had a dar. |
| 0:45.2 | However, the direction in which this person was walking towards led toward a house where a person |
| 0:54.0 | named Robert Murat lived. |
| 0:56.5 | Now, Robert was actually a British expatriate. |
| 1:01.0 | So remember I said this was a destination for a lot of British expatriates? |
| 1:04.4 | He was one of them. |
| 1:05.5 | He was British, but he was living. |
| 1:07.1 | He was a resident there in Praia Daluus. |
| 1:14.6 | And he had volunteered when this happened and he heard that this girl was missing. He actually volunteered to help translate because he said he had |
| 1:22.2 | a daughter about the same age back in England and he was separated from her. He was living here |
| 1:27.2 | without her. uh so he wanted |
| 1:29.6 | to help he volunteered to help well no good deed goes unpunished because this became suspicious to |
| 1:37.0 | folk including both the police and the seven the top of seven also found it a little odd that he |
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