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Post by Admin on Mar 14, 2019 17:21:15 GMT
Netflix has released a trailer for its long-gestating documentary series The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann about the missing British child, the day before its release. The SVOD is to launch the multi-part series on 15 March. It tells the story of the disappearance of 3-year-old McCann, who vanished from the seaside resort of Praia de Luz in Portugal, while on holiday with her family. Directed by Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened and Jim & Andy director Chris Smith, the series is produced by Pulse Films and Paramount Television and exec produced by Emma Cooper and Thomas Benski. The doc series, which was commissioned in 2017, blends interviews with more than 40 contributors, 120 hours of interviews, archival news footage and reenactments. While it will feature interviews with investigators, journalists and friends of the McCann family, it does not feature contributions from Kate or Gerry McCann. According to Netflix, the eight-part series of hourlong episodes will take "a detailed look" at the case of McCann, who disappeared more than a decade ago and would now be a teenager. "By blending new interviews with more than 40 contributors, 120 hours of interviews, archival news footage and reenactments, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann goes beyond the headlines and takes a unique look at the facts of the case as well as its impact on media standards around the world," a spokesperson for the streaming service said. One of the most headline-worthy claims to emerge reportedly comes from senior child protection officer Jim Gamble, who hints that McCann could still be alive and found with the help of improved technology. "There’s huge hope to be had with the advances in technology. Year on year DNA is getting better. Year on year other techniques, including facial recognition, are getting better," he says. "And as we use that technology to revisit and review that which we captured in the past, there’s every likelihood that something we already know will slip into position." Why now? Netflix commissioned the long-awaited documentary from the London-based Pulse Films in 2017 following the success of true crime programs like Making a Murderer, but the series has been repeatedly delayed because key figures involved in the case refused to take part. As such, there has been speculation that it will "lean heavily on interviews with the Portuguese officials who originally investigated the case, many of whom have since established media careers discussing the incident," as the Guardian reported. Are McCann's parents involved? Kate and Gerry McCann refused to participate in the documentary, saying they failed to see how it would contribute to their efforts to find their daughter and even claiming it could jeopardize the ongoing case. "Kate and Gerry and their wider family and friends were approached some months ago to participate in the documentary," the family’s former spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, who still responds to media inquiries, told the Guardian. "Kate and Gerry didn’t ask for it and don’t see how it will help the search for Maddie on a practical level, so they chose not to engage."
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Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2019 17:32:26 GMT
In March 2019, two works are delving back into one of the most perplexing disappearances in recent history: The Australian podcast Maddie, and an eight-part Netflix series called The Disappearance Of Madeleine McCann, out March 15. There will be no definitive answers here — but we can go over the main theories clinging to this crime. On April 28, 2007, Kate and Gerry McCann flew from England to the Algarve region of southwestern Portugal with their children, 3-year-old Madeleine and 2-year-old twins Sean and Amelie. The McCanns, both physicians, were meeting their friends for the holiday: David and Fiona Payne, Fiona's mother Dianne, Matthew and Rachael Oldfield, and Russell O'Brien and his girlfriend Jane Tanner. During the day, the group's eight kids played in the resort's day care while their adults pursued their own activities. Then, each evening at 8 p.m., the friends — now branded the "Tapas Seven" — ate dinner at a tapas restaurant of the Ocean Club resort, while their eight children were left unattended in a hotel 80 meters away. Compared to the other resorts' far-flung restaurant offerings, the tapas restaurant was close. Every half-hour, one of the friends would return to check on the kids. A first-hand account of the night Maddie disappeared, given by a waiter who worked at the Ocean Club, recalled the scene that erupted when Kate returned to the table and announced Maddie wasn't in the apartment. "It was chaos. People were running around the resort shouting for Madeleine, and we all started to help looking for her. I've never seen anything like it," the waiter, who chose to remain anonymous, told The Daily Mail. Immediately, police were contacted and a massive search effort began, eventually stretching into Spain. Tips soon come in about potential Maddie sightings in other resorts, supermarkets in central Portugal, gypsy camps, and a gas station in Lagos, Nigeria. Further tips came in throughout the summer. In June 2007, a tourist said she was in Morocco; another, in Malta. These global sightings continued for years. The story became an international phenomenon and a fixture in international news. Amid all this, investigators went back to what happened at the hotel the evening of Maddie's disappearance, and what the McCanns really knew. In September 2007, the McCanns were declared suspects ("arguidos") by the Portuguese police. Members of the so-called "Tapas Seven" have stuck by their friends' account of that evening. After the McCanns were named suspects, their friends issued a statement denying that they had banded together to support the McCanns in what they called a "pact of silence." "I was there on the night. I spent time with Gerry and Kate during the week before 3 May and after. Their emotions and their reactions were just agonizing. There's just no way they were involved in anything to do with Madeleine's disappearance," Rachael Oldfield told BBC Radio 4's Searching for Madeleine program in 2012. Oldfield also criticised the Policia Judiciaria, Portugal's police service, for not letting the Tapas 7 set the record straight as the drama was unfolding. Apparently, they were told they could face two years in prison for speaking to the press. In addition to the McCanns, Portuguese police also named British expat Robert Murat, who lived next to the resort, an "arguido" in the case. In the trailer for the Netflix series, Murat says he felt like he was being framed.
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Post by Admin on Mar 17, 2019 17:30:48 GMT
Somebody knows exactly what happened to Madeleine McCann, the 3-year-old Briton who disappeared without a trace from her bed in a holiday resort on a family vacation with friends in Praia Da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007. But it clearly isn’t the makers of the new Netflix series The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The little girl was sleeping in a back bedroom of a self-catered holiday apartment with her young twin siblings as her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, ate and drank at a tapas bar about 180 feet away with friends. The doors were closed, but not locked. And the group of friends took turns checking on the sleeping children at regular intervals. At 9:05 pm, Gerry McCann took his turn checking on the kids. At 10:00, when Kate McCann went to take a peek, she noticed the door to the kids’ bedroom was open, and so was the screenless window. Madeleine was gone. And so began one of the most high-profile cold missing persons cases in modern history. Hundreds of sightings, scores of arrests and investigations—including into the McCanns themselves—have all turned up empty. If two months before the 12-year anniversary of the disappearance seems like an odd time for a slog through the tedious details of the case, that’s because it is—at least for the obsessed who surely can’t be bothered watching eight hours of a story they already know.
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Post by Admin on Mar 18, 2019 17:59:27 GMT
MADELEINE McCann asked her mum Kate "why didn’t you come when I cried last night?" just hours before she went missing while on holiday. The three-year-old's comments raise fears an abductor might have entered her room the night before she was taken. Maddie disappeared from her bed on May 3, 2007, while on holiday with her parents and family friends at a resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal. Her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, had left her sleeping with her siblings while they had dinner at the hotel's restaurant - only realising about 10pm that she was gone. The youngster's disappearance is the subject of a new eight-part Netflix documentary, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. But in 2011 Kate also wrote her own account of what happened that evening for a book titled "Madeleine: Our daughter's disappearance and the continuing search for her". In it, Kate reveals Maddie's haunting words to her the day before her disappearance. She wrote about how Maddie asked her: "Why didn't you come when Sean and I cried last night?"
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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2019 2:57:27 GMT
Many recent true-crime documentaries have focused on violent crimes that made scandalous headlines in real life. However, Netflix's new documentary The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann tackles a different approach: it focuses on an unsolved disappearance from over a decade ago. Madeleine McCann was only 3 years old when she was kidnapped from the villa where she and her family were staying on vacation. The case drew international attention, not just because of its tragic nature, but because of its international location. The McCann family, who lived regularly in England, was on a spring break vacation in Praia da Luz, Portugal, a popular resort town in the south of the country, when Madeleine disappeared in May 2007. The town was especially popular among British expats and tourists, like the McCanns. They were staying at a privately owned apartment, 5A Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva, owned by a British landlord, that was being rented through a travel company, Mark Warner Ltd. Along with some other British guests, the family stayed in that apartment in a non-gated complex called Waterside Village, which sat along the perimeter of the company's Ocean Club Resort. Madeleine was in the bedroom she was sharing with her two younger siblings when she disappeared on the night of May 3, 2007. Her parents left her and her siblings sleeping in their room while they went to the resort's restaurant, less than 200 feet away from their apartment, to have dinner with their friends. Although the McCanns returned to their room every half hour to check on the children, when they conducted one of their checks, they found the window and children's bedroom door open and Madeleine gone. They never saw her again. Madeleine's disappearance case remains open to this day. Back in 2007, The Guardian reported that Portuguese authorities had conducted a very scattered search with large gaps and missed opportunities, which likely diminished the likelihood of recovering Madeleine. There are multiple theories as to what, exactly, happened that night and how the kidnapper got to her, many of which are explored in the new documentary.
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