Portugal MADELEINE McCANN: Missing from Praia da Luz, Portugal - 3 May 2007 - Age 3

Madeleine Beth McCann (born 12 May 2003) disappeared on the evening of 3 May 2007 from her bed in a holiday apartment at a resort in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve region of Portugal. Her whereabouts remain unknown.[3] The Daily Telegraph described the disappearance as "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".[4]

Madeleine was on holiday from the UK with her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann; her two-year-old twin siblings; and a group of family friends and their children. She and the twins had been left asleep at 20:30 in the ground-floor apartment, while the McCanns and friends dined in a restaurant 55 metres (180 ft) away.[5] The parents checked on the children throughout the evening, until Madeleine's mother discovered she was missing at 22:00.

Disappearance of Madeleine McCann - Wikipedia

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Scotland Yard Reveal Latest Findings in Search for Madeleine

In a world exclusive with the BBC, Scotland Yard reveals their latest findings in the search for Madeleine McCann

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MADELEINE McCANN: Missing from Praia da Luz, Portugal - 3 May 2007 - Age 3

Madeleine Beth McCann (born 12 May 2003) disappeared on the evening of 3 May 2007 from her bed in a holiday apartment at a resort in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve region of Portugal. Her whereabouts remain unknown.[3]

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Missing Madeleine McCann's parents 'await a breakthrough' in toddler's kidnapping

Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann, said they "await a breakthrough" in a Tuesday statement marking 16 years since their daughter disappeared.

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Published May 3, 2023 11:01am EDT
By Audrey Conklin | Fox News

The parents of Madeleine McCann, a British toddler who went missing from a family vacation 16 years ago Tuesday, released a statement 16 years after their daughter's disappearance.

Madeleine was abducted from the family's ground-floor apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007, when she was 3 years old.

"The police investigation continues, and we await a breakthrough. Thank you to everyone for your support - it really helps," Kate and Gerry McCann said in a Tuesday statement posted to the "Official Find Madeleine Campaign" Facebook page.


The bereaved parents shared a poem that "resonates strongly" with them called "The Contradiction" by Clare Pollard about simultaneously feeling someone's physical absence and emotional presence after that person is gone.

 

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'We're Never Going to Give Up': Madeleine McCann's Parents Post Tribute on Missing Girl's 20th Birthday

Madeleine McCann disappeared from a vacation villa in Portugal on May 3, 2007, when she was 3-years-old

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By Corin Cesaric
Published on May 12, 2023 12:22 PM

The parents of Madeleine McCann shared a heartfelt message to their missing daughter on her 20th birthday on May 12.

"Happy birthday Madeleine," they wrote on the Official Find Madeleine Campaign Facebook page. "Still very much missed. Still looking. For as long as it takes…"

Along with the note, they shared the link to a 3 minute and 50 second YouTube video full of photos of young Madeleine as well as missing posters that were circulated after the British girl vanished while vacationing with her family in Portugal in 2007.

 

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German police looking for Madeleine McCann’s body to search Algarve reservoir that suspect Christian Brueckner used to visit

Story by Gerard Couzens • 30m ago

German police looking for Madeleine McCann’s body are about to begin a major search of a remote Algarve reservoir suspect Christian Brueckner used to visit.

Portuguese police are closing off roads leading to the man-made dam near the town of Silves ahead of the official start of the search tomorrow.

Scotland Yard detectives are understood to have travelled to the area but only with a “watching brief.”

The search is set to last for at least two days and beyond that if anything of relevance is found.

It will be the first major operation of its kind since June 2014 when British police were given permission to do digs in Praia da Luz that involved sniffer dogs trained in detecting bodies and ground-penetrating radar.

This time round expert divers are set to explore the murky depths of the dam but digs will also take place in woodland by the water.

 

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Portugal police end latest search for clues into missing McCann child case, no results released

Police in Portugal have ended the latest search for clues into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British child who went missing in 2007 in southern Portugal

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BY HELENA ALVES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MAY 25, 2023 10:06 AM PT

LISBON, Portugal —
Police in Portugal have ended the latest search for clues regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British child who went missing in 2007 in southern Portugal.

Authorities gave no details about the results of the search Thursday. A statement by Portugal’s Judiciary Police said some material had been collected and would be handed over to German authorities for examination.

 

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Police gives update after reservoir search in Madeleine McCann disappearance case

Large section of Barragem do Arade reservoir was cordoned off in May, about 30 miles from where three-year-old Madeleine went missing in Praia da Luz 16 years ago

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Madeleine McCann news – latest: Soil from reservoir compared to samples from prime suspect’s van​

Soil from a reservoir in Portugal searched by police last month is being compared with samples from main suspect Christian Brueckner’s camper van, it has been reported.

Detectives believe Brueckner visited the remote Barragem do Arade reservoir in Portugal’s Algarve region days after Madeleine disappeared.

Officials now believe they can prove that Brueckner’s van was in the area at the time the three-year-old was abducted , sources told The Daily Mirror.

The insider claimed that if the soil sample analysis reveals a “positive match”, police may be able to further “close the net” around Brueckner, 45, who has not yet been charged.

Earlier, a forensics expert warned that “traditional” evidence will be difficult to find after 16 years have passed since Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

Dan Matthews said that investigators would have searched the remote reservoir in Portugal for “things that could’ve stood the test of time and not been destroyed by its passage”, such as clothing fragments or jewelry.

 

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Police gives update after reservoir search in Madeleine McCann disappearance case

Large section of Barragem do Arade reservoir was cordoned off in May, about 30 miles from where three-year-old Madeleine went missing in Praia da Luz 16 years ago

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Madeleine McCann news – latest: Soil from reservoir compared to samples from prime suspect’s van​

Soil from a reservoir in Portugal searched by police last month is being compared with samples from main suspect Christian Brueckner’s camper van, it has been reported.

Detectives believe Brueckner visited the remote Barragem do Arade reservoir in Portugal’s Algarve region days after Madeleine disappeared.

Officials now believe they can prove that Brueckner’s van was in the area at the time the three-year-old was abducted , sources told The Daily Mirror.

The insider claimed that if the soil sample analysis reveals a “positive match”, police may be able to further “close the net” around Brueckner, 45, who has not yet been charged.

Earlier, a forensics expert warned that “traditional” evidence will be difficult to find after 16 years have passed since Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

Dan Matthews said that investigators would have searched the remote reservoir in Portugal for “things that could’ve stood the test of time and not been destroyed by its passage”, such as clothing fragments or jewelry.

How do they know when soil was transferred to a van sixteen years ago? In sixteen years the guy hasn't washed the van? Even if they find some that does match, when was it deposited in the last 16 years?

 

[GrandmaBear]

How do they know when soil was transferred to a van sixteen years ago? In sixteen years the guy hasn't washed the van? Even if they find some that does match, when was it deposited in the last 16 years?

Doesn't seem like it would be very solid evidence but maybe they need just some other things like this to add to something else they already have....? They were also looking for evidence of her remains and clothing, etc. The things combined together would be bigger but no word on that yet...

 

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Results of Madeleine McCann dam search offer 'no new clues'

German police have been analysing a number of items that were found during the search in Portugal.

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Liam Coleman
Sunday 25 Jun 2023 8:29 pm

Items found by police in the search for new evidence in the Madeleine McCann case are said to have not thrown up any new clues, sources have said.

German prosecutors are said to have hit a ‘roadblock’ it has been reported.

Police have spent the last two weeks analysing items discovered during the search in the Barragem do Arade reservoir in Portugal, 30 miles from where Madeleine went missing.

Prosecutor Christian Wolters said the individual items seized as part of searches would be evaluated over the coming days and weeks.

None of the item can yet be linked with the investigation into the missing girl’s disappearance.

The materials were later sent to Germany for testing.

Police were given the go-ahead to search the area after German prosecutors received ‘certain tips’ about the case.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I personally am not expecting anything new and of great excitement for evidence 16 years after the fact. Short of finding her or her body, even if they found something "possible" that's all it would be, nothing they'd charge with imo. I somehow doubt her parents are either.

Imo this little girl was dead not long after she disappeared. I guess there may be a rare abductor who kept her and what, she is now an adult living with him or he let her go? Or she is an adult he sold or gave to someone who kept her? I guess in a wanting to believe the best it is possible she was taken or sold to someone in another country but even if it was not some pedophile that did the usual which is to take them, harm them for whatever their fantasy (I don't need to use the other terms, we all know what they want them for) and then they kill and dispose of them as if nothing, in the years after if she was kept, the interest and heat was so much that I don't think they'd have kept her. I just don't believe she is alive.

There are serious real things that bother me about the parents and their choices but no matter what happened, I think this child is dead and any perp has had well over a decade to dispose of any evidence and cover any tracks. They may well know who likely did this in the investigation (LE I mean) but not enough proof to charge but I don't know that I even believe that.

If all of a sudden in this one they said they found solid evidence and had a slam dunk and arrested a perp, I don't think I'd buy it. I wouldn't in Jon Benet either.

 

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Madeleine McCann witness claims suspect in her kidnapping drunkenly confessed to crime

A German man with apparent information about Madeleine McCann's disappearance told a newspaper this week that suspect Christian Brueckner had confessed to kidnapping her.

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Published June 30, 2023 1:12pm EDT
By Audrey Conklin | Fox News

A German man who was reportedly friends with the only suspect in missing British toddler Madeleine McCann's disappearance spoke out for the first time this week to a German newspaper.

The man identified only as Helge B. told Bild in an interview that Christian Brueckner, 45, had accidentally confessed to kidnapping Madeleine years ago while they were talking over drinks.

During their conversation, the topic of her disappearance came up, and Helge told Brueckner, "I don't understand how the little one could have disappeared without a trace."

"Christian had drunk two or three beers and then said, 'She didn't scream,'" Helge told the newspaper.

Helge recalled thinking that if Brueckner knew that fact, "he has something to do with" Madeleine's disappearance.

 

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Madeleine McCann news: Artist creates pictures of what she thinks missing girl would look like now, aged 20​

An artist has created pictures of what she believes Madeleine McCann would look like now, 16 years after she disappeared - and she believes she would look like her younger sister Amelie.

The age progression images of Madeleine, who went missing at the age of three in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, have been created by Simone Malik.

Malik believes Madeleine, who would now be aged 20, would look like her 18-year-old younger sister, Amelie. The teenager was pictured for the first time since being a toddler in May this year, when she attended a vigil for the 16th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance and gave a short statement.

Simone, who calls herself a 'super recogniser', said she has created the image to help find the missing child and believes Madeleine and Amelie have a similar mouth. The former NHS worker also thinks the siblings have the same eyebrow and eye area and the same square chin.

Simone added: "Madeleine's jawline is more angular and a bit more chiselled compared to her sisters. She also possibly has dimples at the bottom half of her cheeks, which Amelie does not have. Madeleine McCann has a similar mouth to Amelie McCann, however Madeleine's upper lip is thinner and the gap from between her nose and lip is also longer.”

 

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https://www.nationalworld.com/news/madeleine-mccann-artist-creates-pictures-missing-girl-look-like-now-aged-20-4334027

Madeleine McCann news: Artist creates pictures of what she thinks missing girl would look like now, aged 20​

An artist has created pictures of what she believes Madeleine McCann would look like now, 16 years after she disappeared - and she believes she would look like her younger sister Amelie.

The age progression images of Madeleine, who went missing at the age of three in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, have been created by Simone Malik.

Malik believes Madeleine, who would now be aged 20, would look like her 18-year-old younger sister, Amelie. The teenager was pictured for the first time since being a toddler in May this year, when she attended a vigil for the 16th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance and gave a short statement.

Simone, who calls herself a 'super recogniser', said she has created the image to help find the missing child and believes Madeleine and Amelie have a similar mouth. The former NHS worker also thinks the siblings have the same eyebrow and eye area and the same square chin.

Simone added: "Madeleine's jawline is more angular and a bit more chiselled compared to her sisters. She also possibly has dimples at the bottom half of her cheeks, which Amelie does not have. Madeleine McCann has a similar mouth to Amelie McCann, however Madeleine's upper lip is thinner and the gap from between her nose and lip is also longer.”

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Not sure what a "super recognizer" is supposed to be but I guess pictures can't hurt anything and may help. A seemingly nice gesture I suppose.

I did not know her sister spoke at a recent vigil/anniversary thing or had ever been pictured as an adult.

 

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Madeleine McCann suspect to face trial on five new charges over sex offences committed in Portugal

Suspect Christian Brueckner is now eligible to be charged in Germany

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By Holly Bishop

Updated: 20/09/2023

The man suspected of abducting and killing Madeline McCann is set to face trial on five new charges in Germany.

Christian Brueckner is eligible to be charged in his home country of Germany over separate charges that were committed in Portugal.

He was charged in Germany last year with the rape of a 72-year-old American tourist in Portugal, and now could face a trial over a number of additional sexual offences that were allegedly committed between 2000 and 2017.

Brueckner, 45, was initially told by a court in Braunschweig that it had no responsibility to hear the new trial because the suspect’s last place of residence was elsewhere in the country.

It meant that it would be the responsibility of a court in Saxony-Anhalt, where Breuckner last lived, to prosecute him.

However yesterday, a higher regional court in Braunschweig overruled the initial decision made in April, meaning Brueckner can now be charged in Germany for the charges committed in Portugal.

These charges include the alleged rape of a 14-year-old German girl, as well as allegedly molesting an 11-year-old girl.

The 45-year-old has denied all charges.

 

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Madeleine McCann: Woman who falsely claimed she was missing girl apologises and regrets Instagram claim | The Independent

Woman who said she was missing Madeleine McCann ‘regrets’ false claim​

A woman who said she was missing Madeleine McCann last year has said she regrets the false claim and insists she never meant to hurt anyone.

Julia Wandelt, 22, made headlines last year after posting a video to Instagram in which she claimed to be the British girl who disappeared, aged three, on a family holiday in Portugal. The search for Madeleine has been ongoing since she went missing in 2007 after she vanished from her hotel room while her parents were out for dinner.

Ms Wandelt had said she was not related to her parents and ordered her genes be tested to show that she had British ancestry.

Her claims sparked a media frenzy, but were proved to be false after she took a DNA test in April last year that proved she was not Madeleine.

She was criticised for causing further pain for the McCanns, and the Polish national has since apologised for setting up the social media account that shared the claims.

“I never meant to hurt anyone - including [the] McCanns,” she told the BBC. “I really wanted to know who I am.”

She added that if she could, she never would have made the social media profile, adding: “I would never go on social media. It can destroy you.”

Appearing on the BBC Radio 4 podcast series ‘Why Do You Hate Me?’, she explained she first became suspicious of her identity when she was 20-years-old and her family could not fill in gaps she had in her memories about her childhood.

She then turned to the internet to scour missing person cases and came across the Madeleine McCann case and became convinced she was the missing girl - driven by similarities of them both in sketches and also the fact they both had a rare eye abnormality that makes the iris appear keyhole shaped.

 

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Yeah I don't doubt she regrets it (for how it turned out and what people think of her) but then if she does, stay off the "hate me" show and shut up and stand down and go get a life.

Is it even true she is not her parents' child or this is just some fanciful bunch of b.s... I don't doubt she hurt them either if that isn't true.

She's young, I would hope she learns a lesson, grow yourself up girl and get a life and not some fantasy one looking for attention and wishing to be someone else. Or alternatively get yourself some help.

I hope she was young and dumb and learned a lesson and finds a real path and the right way in life.

 

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Madeleine McCann kidnapping suspect goes on trial over unrelated sexual offense charges

A 47-year-old man who is a suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance has gone on trial in Germany for unrelated sexual offenses in Portugal from 2000 to 2017.

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Published February 16, 2024 9:42am EST
Associated Press

• Christian Bruckner, 47, a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, has gone on trial for unrelated sexual offenses in Portugal.
• The charges include three counts of rape and two of sexual abuse of children.
• Bruckner, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for a 2005 rape in Portugal, denied involvement in Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

A man who is also a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann went on trial Friday over several unrelated sexual offenses he is alleged to have committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017. The trial was quickly adjourned until next week.

The 47-year-old German, who has been identified by media as Christian Bruckner, faces three counts of rape and two of sexual abuse of children in the trial at the Braunschweig state court in northern Germany. The start of the trial was delayed because of long queues to get into the courthouse, German news agency dpa reported.

The proceedings were quickly adjourned until next Friday after defense lawyer Friedrich Fülscher filed a challenge against a lay judge on the panel hearing the case who was once alleged to have spread a call to kill former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on social media. Prosecutors joined that challenge.

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/europe/germany-madeleine-mccann-suspect-rape-trial-intl-hnk/index.html

German prosecutors seek 15-year jail term for Madeleine McCann suspect in a separate rape trial​

The 47-year-old German national, who has been identified by local media as Christian Brueckner, is on trial at the Braunschweig state court in northern Germany over offenses he is alleged to have committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.

Closing arguments in the trial that opened in February started on Wednesday. Prosecutor Ute Lindemann argued that he should be convicted of two counts of rape and two of sexual abuse, and should be kept in preventive detention after he has served a 15-year sentence, German news agency dpa reported. Lindemann said he should be acquitted of a third count of rape.

The defense is expected to make its case on Monday, and a verdict could follow on Tuesday.

The suspect hasn’t been charged in the McCann case, in which he is under investigation on suspicion of murder. He spent many years in Portugal, including in the resort of Praia da Luz around the time of Madeleine’s disappearance there in 2007. He has denied any involvement in her disappearance.

He is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for a rape he committed in Portugal in 2005.

 

[Regina]

The program below aired several years ago but is informative as to why Brueckner fits as a suspect.