The Public Psychology of Madeleine McCann (Chap 3 - Public Psychology)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Berto, chapter three, the final chapter. |
| 0:02.7 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:03.4 | What do you say? |
| 0:04.0 | Let's do it. |
| 0:04.7 | This is the Psychology and Saddle podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | I am your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm a therapist and a professor, and I'm trying to enunciate my words better. |
| 0:14.3 | Who are you? |
| 0:16.3 | My name is Umberto Castaneda, and I sell eggless shells for Easter. Okay. So what's the next chapter |
| 0:24.1 | going to be about? Okay, so we discussed basically what happened, you know, the chronology of what |
| 0:29.2 | happened and the horrible reality that was that this little girl, Madeline, went missing and |
| 0:34.3 | has never been found. We also discussed the main theories, like the main suspects. |
| 0:39.3 | There's not as many as there are that they were in the Jean-Binet case, but we discussed the main. |
| 0:45.0 | And of course, the parents have been for the longest time suspected by both the police, |
| 0:49.5 | as well as the public at large. |
| 0:52.0 | But more recently, as we discussed, there was a suspect that came into light |
| 0:56.5 | by the German authorities. But throughout all this thing, this whole thing that started in 2007, |
| 1:02.9 | in my opinion, other than the tragic real disappearance of the little girl, the biggest story |
| 1:09.4 | has been the media obsession, the police |
| 1:11.8 | mismanagement bumbling at different parts and biases and things like that. And that has sort of |
| 1:17.7 | overshadowed the reality. I mentioned in one of the previous episodes that sadly a lot of people |
| 1:23.3 | go missing, a lot of little girls go missing. But none of them, or most of them, don't have this |
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