Police take DNA of girl tourists believe could be missing Madeline McCann

They're not in the clear (and never will be) but they're safe enough that unless one of them admits fault they won't get caught. They're just need to keep looking innocent, the book is basically a PR stunt.

Either that, or maybe they're just not that bright/massive attention whores.

But I'd almost forgotten about the whole issue until the book came out. As in, it wouldn't come up in day to day conversation and obviously if someone brought it up I'd remember it and comment, etc, but since the book came out (which I haven't bought) it brought it back to my attention.

Why would they bring it back into the public attention if they had something to do with it? Surely they'd just want to get out of the limelight? And that goes for the initial buzz about it all too. If they did something, why on earth would they go and see the pope, etc. It doesn't add up.

Obviously I'm not ruling it out; I don't know what happened but one only hopes people aren't sick enough to do something dreadful to their own children...

Just because you don't think about it, doesn't mean no-one does. There are a lot of suspicious people who they need to contend with.

And I don't believe they did something dreadful. I reckon it was an accident that they tried to cover up & it all just got out of control.

i believe the parents had something to do with it..