The apparent discrepancies contributed to the view of the PJ that there had been no abduction.David Brown, "Puzzles and mysteries at the very heart of the investigation" , The Times, 10 September 2007. Kate's shout of "they've taken her" was viewed with suspicion, as though she had been trying to lend credence to a false abduction story. Particularly from August onwards, these suspicions developed into the theory that Madeleine had died in apartment 5A as a result of an accident—perhaps after being sedated to help her stay asleep—and that her parents had hidden her body for a month, before retrieving her and driving her to an unknown place in a car they had hired over three weeks after the disappearance.Victoria Burnett, "As a Child Disappears, Old Headlines Howl Again" , The New York Times, 18 September 2007. In 2010, Carlos Anjos, former head of the Police Detectives Union in Portugal, told the BBC programme Panorama that most Portuguese investigators still believed Madeleine had died as a result of an accident in the apartment.Richard Bilton, "Madeleine: The Last Hope?" , BBC Panorama, 25 April 2012, 00:14:33.
