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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2016 22:47:03 GMT
Peggy Knoblock disappeared in broad daylight 15 years ago while walking home from school. DNA tests have now ruled that the human bones found at the weekend belonged to the schoolgirl, who vanished in May 2001. The discovery marks a breakthrough in a case that mirrors the tragic search for missing Madeline McCann. Witnesses last saw nine-year-old Peggy around 50 yards away from her front door. Hundreds of police officers and military troops were called in to scour the area for weeks. Tornado surveillance aircraft were also involved in the hunt with thermal imaging cameras. The search for the missing schoolgirl even spread as far as Turkey and the Czech Republic over fears she had been kidnapped. But no trace of her body was found until Saturday when a mushroom-picker stumbled upon remains in woods just ten miles from Peggy’s home in Bavaria.
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Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2016 22:33:49 GMT
The fading police hunt to find Madeleine McCann could be revived by Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May . The former Home Secretary has wholeheartedly backed Maddie’s parents Kate and Gerry McCann over the past five years. Scotland Yard’s £12million pound investigation into the girl’s disappearance -codenamed Operation Grange - is due to be axed within months. But it's thought Mrs May could make a U-turn giving the family fresh hope. A source close to the McCann’s said yesterday: “Kate and Gerry know the inquiry has to end one day but it is possible more time could be granted by Mrs May and her new Home Secretary Amber Rudd. "Theresa has met the couple in the past and has been very supportive.”
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Post by Admin on Jul 25, 2016 21:30:31 GMT
Online trolls have made sick 'jokes' that Madeleine McCann can be found while playing Pokemon Go. Thousands of players have been roaming streets and parks in a bid to find Pokemon in the new augmented reality smartphone game. But the innocent fun has already turned nasty as people have compared the hunt for the fictional characters with the struggle to find the girl who went missing in 2007.
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Post by Admin on Aug 6, 2016 21:31:34 GMT
British police hunting for missing Madeleine McCann have made the decision to stop all forensic work. The Sunday Mirror can reveal the final scientific tests on the case were completed three months ago as part of Scotland Yard’s £12million inquiry. Operation Grange was launched by ex-PM David Cameron five years ago to find the doctors’ daughter, who vanished, aged three, during a holiday to Portugal in 2007. But it is expected to be shelved in the autumn amid concerns about its spiralling cost while other areas of policing face budget cuts.
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Post by Admin on Aug 8, 2016 21:39:27 GMT
IN Ireland, Mary Boyle – an angel-faced child who vanished 39 years ago – is known as the country’s own Madeleine McCann. In Britain the little girl, just six when she disappeared, failed to generate press interest many decades ago. Yet Mary, red-haired and with a sunshine smile, was from Birmingham. And today her twin sister, backed by leading Irish investigative reporter Gemma O’Doherty, appeals for help in a bid to find the answers she craves. Ann Doherty said: “I really hope the people of Birmingham and Britain will support our fight for justice for her so that her remains can finally be laid to rest in a decent grave and her killer and all those who have shielded him are brought to justice.”
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