Archive for the 'Madeleine McCann' Category
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Kate and Gerry McCann appeared on Oprah this week to remind the world that they are still seaching for their daughter, Madeleine McCann, who disappeared two years ago from a resort in Praia da Luze, Portugal. They showed an age-progressed sketch of Madeleine, whose sixth birthday is this month. “We’re looking for a six-year-old-girl,” Gerry [...]
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
update, via KCRA3:
Police have not named any suspects in the case and Sgt. Tony Sheneman insisted Tuesday that Lawless “is not at the center of the investigation and never was.” He added that he was dismayed to hear media reports that the pastor was a main suspect.
“He has been interviewed as have hundreds of [...]
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
469 days after Madeleine McCann went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, Kate and Gerry McCann continue to hold out hope that she is alive. Following the opening of the case files in recent weeks, there seems to be more reason than ever to believe that Madeleine was likely abducted [...]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
A year has passed since three-year-old Madelein McCann disappeared from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia de Luz, Portugal. Despite the massive international campaign to find her, there have been very few clues as to what may have happened to her. Although local police action has centered on implicating the McCanns in Madeleine’s disappearance, I [...]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Police in the Algarve are preparing to do a re-enactment of the events that might have occurred on May 3, the night that Madeleine McCann went missing, according to The Telegraph:
They will spent several hours in the ground-floor apartment from which Madeleine vanished and at one point an officer will push a bundle out through [...]
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
In a new interview on Spanish television, Kate and Gerry McCann reiterate that, while the speculation in the press about their guilt is disheartening, the most important issue remains the search for their daughter, Madeleine McCann, whom they believe is still alive. View the interview here.
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
New toxicology tests commissioned by the McCann family show that the McCann twins, Sean and Amelie, were not sedated on May 3, the night Madeleine McCann went missing. If the tests prove to be truly objective, this puts a hole in the Portuguese police theory that Kate McCann sedated Madeleine to make her go to [...]
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Miguel Matias, the owner of a restaurant at the resort where Madeleine McCann went missing on May 3, has described a happy family playing and dancing together just a few hours before the disappearance. The article appears in The Telegraph:
He said she enjoyed an early evening meal with her father, mother Kate and younger twin [...]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Here are a few video clips of interviews with Gerry and Kate McCann, parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine. From the beginning, I have felt that a terrible thing happened to the McCann family. Surely, few horrors can begin to compare to that of having one’s child disappear with no trace. And it seems almost impossible [...]
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Sky News reports that the number 3 investigator on the Madeleine McCann case in Portugal is facing charges of torture for trying to force the mother of a missing eight-year-old girl to confess to killing her in 2004:
But to compound the Madeleine investigation further, a senior detective in the hunt is one of the five [...]
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