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Post by Admin on Mar 27, 2019 18:17:32 GMT
Clarence Mitchell spoke after McCann, 3, went missing in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007. The case has been thrust back into the headlines after the publication of Netflix documentary The Disappearance of Madeline McCann. And this week Mitchell has given his take on what likely happened. He told The Telegraph: "I asked the British authorities what they think happened and if there was any family involvement, and they assured me it was just a rare case of stranger abduction. “It’s very rare, but it can happen. A sexual motive is an obvious possibility." He added: "A child was taken to order from that room."
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Post by Admin on Apr 3, 2019 18:02:57 GMT
Twelve years after she disappeared, we’ve forgotten who Madeleine McCann is. The pretty three year old would now be approaching her 16th birthday. She’d be a young woman revising for GCSEs, thinking about A-levels and adulthood. She’d probably be dating and doing odd things to her hair, like most teenagers. Instead she has become a theory. A thing to be waved for headlines by politicians and other windbags. Reduced to a soundbite on the morning shows, and subject of a Netflix documentary which pretends to be doing something a £12million British police investigation couldn’t. Madeleine is used as an excuse for the Portuguese cops who failed in every aspect of modern policing, contaminated the scene in that Praia da Luz holiday apartment and left the nearest border post open. Her parents have been victims of incredible vitriol, despite their grief and misery being plain to see, and their alibi rock-solid. Their determination to keep the hunt for Madeleine going so long is proof enough for me of their innocence; a murderer would have let their crime fade.
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Post by Admin on Apr 4, 2019 23:17:38 GMT
Madeleine McCann was just 3 years old when she disappeared from bed while she and her family were on vacation at the Praia da Luz resort in the Algarve region of Portugal in May 2007. Her disappearance led to a worldwide investigation that garnered countless tips, but McCann has never been found. One of those tips came from a man named Martin Smith, who claimed he and his family saw something “suspicious” on the night McCann vanished. “They encountered a white man carrying a child, who was wearing what looked like pinkish pajamas,” Anthony Summers, the author of Looking for Madeleine, recalls in the upcoming Investigation Discovery docuseries Madeleine McCann: An ID Murder Mystery. “The man who was carrying the child looked somehow awkward, as though he wasn’t used to carrying children.” Summers explains that Smith’s recollection “immediately changed the investigative situation because it meant that there were two sightings of a man with a child who resembled Madeleine.” Jane Tanner, one of the McCann family’s friends who with them on the night their daughter went missing, corroborated Smith’s story. However, detective DCI Andy Redwood later told Crimewatch U.K. that the sighting was likely not accurate Opens a New Window. . Celebrity Mugshots Kate and Gerry McCann, Madeleine’s parents, have asserted multiple times in the past that they will never give up their search. In December 2018, Kate, 51, said during an event for missing people in London: “Maybe tomorrow will be the day we find something Opens a New Window. to lead us back to Madeleine and to know what happened.” To learn more about Madeleine’s disappearance and the crucial information given by tipsters, tune into Madeleine McCann: An ID Murder Mystery Opens a New Window. , which premieres Sunday, April 7, at 9 p.m. ET on Investigation Discovery.
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Post by Admin on Apr 7, 2019 17:57:47 GMT
Kate McCann was reportedly offered a deal by Portuguese police to accept a deal and admit killing her in order to allow her husband Gerry to walk free. Police allegedly told Kate that if she "confessed" killing her daughter, she would only serve "around two years in jail". The same lawyer, who was helping the McCann's during the investigation, is understood to have told the distraught parents not to answer any questions they were asked by Portuguese police during a later interrogation session. The Netflix documentary "The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann" has inspired renewed interest after re-examining the facts of the 2007 case. Maddie was nearly four when she disappeared from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz while her parents Kate and Gerry, went out to a tapas restaurant nearby with a group of friends.
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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2019 17:42:59 GMT
Madeleine McCann: An ID Murder Mystery (9 p.m., Investigation Discovery) - This new true crime special looks at the disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann from her parents’ hotel room while on vacation in Portugal in 2007.
Parents Kate and Gerry McCann make pleas to the public for their daughter’s safe return, but authorities are suspicious of them. This documentary dissects the timeline leading to the baby’s disappearance and features new interviews with key players in the case, including law enforcement, criminal experts and journalists who have followed the case. (And if you’re interested in this case and haven’t already watched the Netflix series “The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann,” you’ll want to do that.)
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