All language subtitles for How It Really Happened s07e01 Madeline McCann 1

Okay, spin around, darling.

Right round. Oh, yes. I can see your
wings.

Big smile.

Oh, yes. One more. Big smile.

That's it.

Hello, and welcome.

I'm Jesse L. Martin.

It was a shocking story that captured
the world's attention.

Three-year-old Madeline McCann
disappeared while on vacation with her

family in Portugal.

Few clues were left behind.

It was almost as if she'd vanished into
thin air.

From the first day, there were more
questions than answers.

Was she taken?

Or was something bigger and even more
terrifying at play?

This is how it really happened.

Kate and Jerry McCann were a British
couple, normal couple, middle upper

class. Kate and Jerry had twins.

They were very young.

Madeline was almost four.

Madeline McCann is a particularly
beautiful child.

She talked a lot. She was very lively.

She liked to play.

She looks like Kate, but she's got a
McCann personality, and if you've seen

the rest of my family... She's loud.

Yeah, she's loud, and she's a real
extrovert, and her wonderful young, she

can express herself so well.

Madeline had a stuffed animal that she
called Cuddle Cat.

She adored, and she was never without...
Kate and Jerry.

They were hard workers.

Wanted to go on a great vacation with
their three children and with seven of

their friends. And between seven
friends, they had five children. So it

was a really big, fun, family and friend
outing to a great place of Portugal.

Oopsie, you all right?

It's the first time I've ever been to
Portugal, but all the family and friends

I knew that I'd been there said, you
know, lovely country and it's really

safe and it's for family.

Cheer up, Jerry, we're on holiday.

Praia da Luz, it's this idyllic place.
It's beautiful. It's marvelous.

The Ocean Club is a very family-friendly
place. It has a swimming pool.

It has a tennis court where Jerry McCann
liked to play.

They would go to the beach. They would
leave the kids in the kindergarten every

now and then.

They had this tapas restaurant and just
tranquil places to walk.

Apartment 5A, where the McCann family
was staying, was on the ground floor and

right next to a street. And the window
was easily accessible for everybody who

passed. The first five days of the
McCann family vacation was a lot of fun.

They were having a great time. But on
May 3rd, Madeline seemed distressed.

Madeline McCann was upset because she
was being left alone with her brother

and sister systematically through that
week.

And she was complaining herself to Kate,
saying that she didn't like to be left

alone.

Kate, Jerry and their friends came up
with a routine where they would be able

to go out nearby and be without the
kids, but not be too far away.

We always had a routine where the kids,
the twins usually went to bed about

seven, and Madeline used to have a
little bit of extra time, pretty much

took them into the...

the bedroom, read them a story and
tucked them into their cot for the twins

and made them into a bed.

And then we got changed and ready and
we'd arranged to have dinner with our

friends.

They would leave the kids in the
apartments by themselves.

They decided to go to the tapas bar with
their close friends and have dinner.

They had a reservation for this table
where they could see the apartments.

That restaurant where they used to go
was a straight shot across the swimming

pool from the apartment where their
children were.

It's only about 50 metres away.

For me, if your children are asleep
upstairs in a bedroom and you're dining

in the garden, you're out of sight and
you can't hear them.

And that's the similar thing to me. And
they had...

instituted an agreement that every half
hour or so, one of them would check on

their children.

One person from the group would leave
the table, go through the apartment, and

then go back to the restaurant just to
check if everything was all right.

If you've been to the Ocean Club, it is
completely understandable that you would

leave your children alone in this
apartment because it's so close.

It's very common in many parts of
Europe.

You see strollers outside restaurants
and babies in the strollers while

parents are in the restaurant.

It's not unusual.

On May 3rd, 2007, it was the second to
last day of their vacation.

Madeline went to the daycare center, so
did the little ones.

The children had been swimming in the
pool.

Madeline told her mom, this is one of
the best days I've ever had. She tends

to be the ringleader with the younger
kids.

And during the holiday, she was the
oldest of the eight children here, and

she just loved every minute. Every
waking minute, she was having a ball.

But it's possible they were being
watched.

Someone was watching them, and somebody
was watching Madeline McCann.

I'd played tennis that evening, and Kate
had got the kids ready.

They gave dinner to the kids, and they
put them to bed at around...

Half past seven?

We kind of had time to sit down and just
chill for half an hour before we went

out.

Kate was pretty sure that the window and
the shutters were closed when they left

the apartment to go to have dinner.

In around 8.30, they then met their
seven friends at the tapas restaurant.

Jerry McCann took his turn and went to
check on all the kids.

And when he got to his own apartment, he
said that the bedroom door wasn't as

they'd left.

He and Kate left the bedroom door
slightly open before they left for

dinner. The door was ajar, but it's
wider open when he gets there.

But he didn't think anything of it. In
fact, he hardly even noticed it.

He saw Madeline in her bed with her
cuddle cat, and he saw the twins in

their bed.

And everybody seemed safe, and he left.

At 9.30, Kate's about to go to check on
the children. Another parent offers to

do it for her, so he goes back to check
on the kids.

He went by McKenna's apartment.

But doesn't actually go into the room.

He peered through the door, and he saw
the sleeping twins.

But due to the angle of the door, he did
not see Madeline directly.

Of course, he just assumed she was
sleeping.

Well, I went back to do a check at 10
o'clock.

I went through the patio doors at the
bath and I just noticed that the door to

the children's bedroom was quite far
open.

So I went to close over the children's
door and just as I was about to close

it, a gust of wind stopped it.

And then I went back just to open the
door again a little bit.

Just glanced at Madeline's bed, which
was by the wall, and it was really dark

and I couldn't quite make her out.

And then I thought, so she'd gone
through to our bedroom.

You know, that explained why the door
was open as well.

So I just quickly looked in our room and
she wasn't there and that was probably

the first time that panic started to
build. So Nancy ran back into her room

and just as I did that, the curtains
which were closed just kind of blew

open.

And as we did that, I noticed that the
shutter was up and the window was open.

That was...

Obviously, the moment that all hell
broke loose.

At 10 o'clock, Kate McCann went back to
check on Madeline and her twins.

And when she got into the apartment, she
felt that breeze.

And then she noticed that the shutters
were slightly open.

And she saw that Madeline's bed was
empty.

She saw the cuddle cat.

that her daughter was never without, she
knew something terrible had occurred.

I basically quickly whizzed around the
apartment for 15 seconds.

I don't know why. In my head, I was just
thinking, if someone's been in and she's

cowering somewhere.

And then I just flew out through the
back, down the stairs to the restaurant.

And as soon as their table was in sight,
I just started screaming, Madeline's

gone.

Naturally, the whole dinner party
erupted, got up.

Ran round the waiters, immediately
started looking, all the other tables

started looking.

And then they all jumped up and we found
she must be there, she must be there,

but that's the way I knew.

I went into the bedroom and I found it
just as Kate described.

Then when I saw that window pushed wide
open and the shutter up, which we'd left

down the whole week, it was horrible.

Every bypasser, every tourist that heard
about it was looking for her.

The club phoned the police.

The first police who show up at the
scene are not investigators for this

kind of case.

Local police didn't prevent people from
coming into the house.

It is extremely important when a child
is abducted to preserve the crime

scene immediately.

You leave it pristine because you need
to look for evidence.

There were at least 20 people who came
into the apartment itself after Madeline

was missing.

So you had 20 pairs of footsteps, 20
pairs of feet, lots of fingerprints.

They saw what the situation was and they
called the major crime police, which is

Polizia Judiciaria, PJ.

The PJ is a more kind of serious crime
unit.

A team of detectives was assembled just
before midnight.

By then, the crime scene was spoiled.

It is widely understood that in the 24
hours after Madeline's disappearance,

there were a lot of mistakes made by the
Portuguese police.

There were no house-to-house searches.

There were no roadblocks put out until
morning.

Those are the so-called sort of golden
hours after a crime when significant

headwinds could have been made.

Nobody knew whether it was a missing
person's case or an abduction, least of

all the police in Portugal.

I've had no doubt that she'd been
abducted.

When this happened in 2007, it wasn't
like your cell phone would beep when

there was a missing child.

There were no amber alerts.

Social media was not yet advanced. We
didn't all have a cell phone that was

connected to the internet in our
pockets. Really, any parent knows that

feeling. The momentary, where's my
child?

In a supermarket, in a park, in the
fleeting, even if it's a minute and

you're suddenly looking for them. And
then the realisation that she had been

taken.

Every minute felt like an hour and every
hour felt like a day.

I mean, you can't... Any parent can
imagine, but you'll probably never be

able to truly feel that desperation,
really.

That fear.

The McCanns felt...

very strongly that the right things
weren't being done fast enough to find

their child.

Jerry was calling everybody he knew. He
was weeping to his sister.

They knew that she was gone.

When I've arrived, I saw what I've never
seen in my life.

A lot of British reporters, a lot of
cameras coming from abroad, not typical

in Portugal.

There were police vans, journalists,
television cars, you know, with the

antennas to do the live broadcast.

There are camera crews from right across
Europe. We're talking about the

disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the
four-year-old British girl. Local police

are called. There's a search of the
resort that's expanded to surrounding

areas.

We were very conscious of searches that
were looking for this little girl, the

hope that she may be in a house across
the street.

She may be in a house across the town.

My thoughts went to, where am I going to
get information?

I tried to figure out if we could speak
with the family, of course, but, well, I

was told they were secluded.

The first time I saw the McCanns
face-to-face was when they gave this

press conference outside the apartment.

Words cannot describe the anguish and
despair that we are feeling as the

parents of our beautiful daughter,
Madeline.

We request that anyone who may have any
information related to Madeline's

disappearance, no matter how trivial,
contact the Portuguese police and help

us get her back safely.

They were in distress, especially Kate.
She was on the point of crying.

Please, if you have Madeline, let her
come home to her mummy, daddy, brother

and sister.

One of the aspects of this
investigation, which people felt could

help her be identified and found, is
that one of her eyes was a bit unusual,

had a mark on it.

So authorities were hoping that could
help get her return facilitated.

We saw so many small children, and I
kept thinking, is that Madeline?

If you saw a little blonde girl, you
would think, is that her?

Hopefully this could end up being a
happy ending.

She saw a man carrying a child across
the street into the night.

Sounded suspicious.

Sounded like a lead.

Please, please do not hurt her. Please
don't scare her.

Please tell us where to find her.

Or put her in a place of safety and let
somebody know where she is.

We beg you to let Madeleine come home.

After May 3rd, Kate was constantly
holding the step-son wherever she went

because it was a connection she could
still have to her daughter.

This morning, a distraught Kate McCann
with extraordinary courage emerged into

public again.

This time to join a vigil held at the
local church.

Everyone here still praying for
Madeleine's safe return.

Before Madeleine McCann went missing,
her family lived a quiet, ordinary life

here, about two and a half hours north
of London.

We came here to the village of Rothley,
England, to learn more about Madeleine

McCann's parents.

They're extremely good for each other.
They bounce off each other.

They're excellent parents.

They form a really good family unit.

Jerry met Kate when they were students,
medical students.

She is a shy woman, and he is a very
voluble man, very sporty, very

sociable.

He was keen on her from the beginning.
We can't say the same about Kate.

She flew to New Zealand.

Kate planned to continue her medical
studies there.

Jerry followed Kate to New Zealand,
courted her there, and finally she

consented to marry him.

The couple married in Kate's hometown of
Liverpool at this church in 1998.

Both Kate and Jerry McCann came from
working-class backgrounds. They worked

their way up. They became doctors, very
successful doctors.

The McCanns reached their career dreams,
but what they really wanted more than

anything was a family.

They had some problems getting their
first kid, Madeline.

It did not come easily to them. They
needed in vitro fertilization.

So they got in vitro, and Kate finally
got pregnant with Madeline McCann.

And they were really happy when they had
Madeline.

After

Madeline

was born...

Kate became pregnant again through in
vitro fertilization, this time with

twins, a boy and a girl.

They had everything they thought they
needed.

Love, a family, a beautiful home,
gorgeous kids.

She's the little girl with the sparkling
blue-green eyes.

For disappearance, every parent's worst
nightmare.

Madeline McCann had disappeared without
a trace.

No one knew where she was.

But

soon

there would be a revelation about the
night that Madeline went missing while

all the parents were having dinner at
the resort.

one of the other parents in the party.

Around 9.15, Jane went back to check on
her own children, and

she reports that she saw a man carrying
a child across the street into

the night.

Holding her like this with both arms
forward, and the kid was lying on his

arm. And the kid had pajamas similar to
the ones Madeline had.

You don't see everything perfectly
clearly at night, but she did see that.

I know what I saw and I think it's
important that people know what I saw

because, you know, I believe Madeline
was abducted. To her horror, Tanner says

she didn't realise the significance of
what she saw until it was too late.

Madeline's bed was discovered empty just
45 minutes later.

There is a sketch here of this man.

who was seen carrying a child away
wearing identical pyjamas to Madeline

shortly after I'd checked on her.

Sounded suspicious.

It sounded like a lead.

We feel sure that this sighting of a man
with what appeared to be a child in his

arms is both significant and relevant to
Madeline's abduction.

And we would appeal, once again, to
anyone who may have seen him.

or anything else suspicious on or around
the 3rd of May to come forward and tell

the police.

But in the days following Madeline's
disappearance, no man matching Jane

Tanner's description could be located.

After Madeline McCann disappeared, days
went by and she wasn't found.

There was just this incredible fear in
this community.

Parents there with their children.

Weren't taking their eyes off them, as
you might expect.

But everyone was looking.

We'd heard it on the news. My sister had
called from the UK and told us that

something had happened in Luz and that a
little girl had gone missing.

Robert Murat was a neighbor.

He lived in a house very near the
apartment where Madeleine was.

Robert Marat is a classic expat who
moved here, who enjoyed the life on the

Algarve. He had been partly grown up in
Portugal, so he spoke good Portuguese.

I met the McCann probably 20, maybe 30
seconds, nothing more than that.

And then helped out with trying to
translate, basically.

They were having problems.

getting their point across to the police
initially.

I have a daughter, same age, and if it
happened to me, I would want and expect

everybody to help me. Right.

He was actually incredibly helpful and
very friendly.

And he kind of filled me in a lot on
what was going on, who these people

were. He took me around the place,
showed me where the McCann apartments

were. He showed me everything.

There were...

times during the day that you had
nothing to do and you were just sitting

there. And he would come by, he would
speak with us.

He was always trying to know what was
happening.

Was it normal that the person was so
willing to help that was always in the

crime scene, always wanted to have
information from the crime scene?

Who is this guy, they're asking
themselves.

What's he doing so close to the
incident?

He seemed to be hanging around a little
bit too much and asking too many

questions.

Welcome back to How It Really Happened.

As the search for Madeline continues,
Kate and Jerry McCann work desperately

to find their daughter.

In Portugal, they find support from the
local community.

No one is more helpful than Robert
Marat.

a British expat who offered his services
as translator.

But it's not long before people start
asking questions.

Why is Murat so interested in
Madeleine's disappearance?

He was, at the time, very interested in
the case.

It seemed like he was trying to fish
constantly for information.

It didn't help that his house was in a
direct line of sight, the McCann

apartment.

Eleven days after Madeline went missing,
investigators decided they needed more

answers.

It was taken in the early hours from his
mother's house, and it was taken into

the PJ building to be questioned.

He was absolutely adamant he had nothing
to do with it. His alibi was that he was

at home.

But while Morat was being questioned...

The investigator's attention looked at
the home that he shared with his mother.

His mother's home was ransacked by
police.

Police say they removed numerous items
during their search of Robert Murat's

home. Witnesses saw personal computers
and mobile phones being taken.

They have found a room, a basement room.

I spoke with the architect that designed
Robert Murat's house, and he told me

that there was this empty space under
the house.

Officers also took away clothes and
samples of forensic material. Police say

they completely searched the villa, but
detectives spent less than a full day

collecting material and then allowed the
family to return, leading some to

question how thorough they actually
were.

A significant development out of
Portugal in the case of missing girl

Madeleine McCann. Police there now have
a suspect.

He is British man Robert Marat.

He was considered an arguido, which
means a suspect.

Is it true that he suddenly wanted a
rental car right around the time of her

disappearance and told the rental agency
he needed it fast?

That's right. He already had two cars.
He lives with his mother. His mother has

a van. He has his own gold Kia.

And then suddenly on Saturday, he called
a car rental agency and said, I need a

car and I need it fast.

The people here, well, it's a bit of an
emotional roller coaster for them. They

say... They really hope, they
desperately hope this is the development

that will cut this, break this wide
open.

Any information that we get from
Portugal just gives us that bit of lift

that we need.

Now, Mr Marat's status officially under
Portuguese law is now that of suspect,

but he has not been arrested.

But as time went on, investigators could
not tie Marat to Madeleine McCann

whatsoever, aside from the fact that he
lived nearby.

I did call my source in the PJ and asked
him, so is this suspect going to prison?

Is he going to be kept by you guys?
What's going to happen?

My source told me, nobody is being taken
in. We don't have nothing to point at

him.

Police tape still marks the outer limits
of his gardens and the driveway here,

but police have been very clear. They
don't have enough evidence even to

continue questioning Robert Murat.

let alone arrest him.

But Morat's questioning by detectives,
it turns out that it did not go as most

people expected.

I was blasted with air conditioning and
just felt very threatened.

I was in the police station for 19 hours
for the first time with no food.

And they never found anything that could
say, this is the man that we are looking

for. We have nothing to do with it.

I mean, your life is normal on a normal
track.

You've got your responsibilities as a
husband, a parent.

You're doing the things that you do
normally every day.

And then to be accused of what I was
accused of, I couldn't comprehend it. It

just left me completely destroyed.

Not only myself, my family.

Portuguese media has been reporting
blood traces.

found in the family's holiday apartment.

Dog nipped the back of the couch and
felt that there was something there.

It was a very crazy moment.

In Portugal, members of Madeline's
family now call themselves Team McCann.

They've announced their target is to
ensure every person in Europe has an

image of their daughter.

They set up something called Madeline's
Fund.

Tens of millions of hits on the
computer.

58 million was the reported number.

They were intent on publicizing this as
much as possible, not only through their

own efforts as parents, but through the
efforts of very famous people.

David Beckham, one of the greatest
soccer players ever, did a public

service announcement on behalf of the
continued search for Madeline.

As I'm sure you understand, You need to
do everything possible to help the

police with their inquiries in finding
her.

Madeline became one of the most covered
missing persons in

modern history.

There were comparisons of the press
coverage surrounding her disappearance

to the death of Princess Diana.

The Pope talked with Madeleine's parents
at the end of a weekly general audience,

but it was a photo opportunity in which
the anguish was plain to see. The Pope

now the latest player in a relentless
media campaign that has grown beyond the

borders of England and Portugal.

With all this publicity, tips were
pouring in from all over the world.

There have been 400 sightings of
Madeleine reported since she

disappeared.

Belgian police described a reported
sighting of Madeleine McCann at this

cafe near the Dutch border.

As serious.

One of the leads that came out in the
weeks after Madeline's appearance was

that someone claimed to have seen a girl
that looked like Madeline at a gas

station. By the time the investigators
got there, the tape in the petrol

station had been wiped.

There was another sighting of Maddie in
the Rift Mountains in Morocco.

Blonde hair, blue-eyed girl being
carried.

When you looked at this photo...

The girl, it was uncanny. She looked
just like Madeleine McCann. Everyone

felt this has to be her.

Tonight, a journalist from the Evening
Standard, a newspaper here in London,

believes he has found her. And indeed,
she is not Madeleine while she bears a

striking resemblance to Madeleine.

Oddly, all this attention worldwide had
its dark side.

And the McCanns eventually became
targets of resentment.

I do believe that some of that animosity
was because the parents were very

successful.

Kate, for example, she, like her
husband, was a doctor.

Pretty woman.

Blonde.

And people took it out on her that she
had all those qualities.

One thing that works against Madeline's
parents is that they didn't seem very

emotional. Kate or Jerry.

These are doctors. They have to give bad
news to people on a daily basis.

These are people who are used to dealing
with emotions.

Kate McCann particularly was told by
child abduction experts, do not let

anyone see you cry in public because
whoever took Madeleine McCann might get

off on that.

The result of that was, of course, the
newspapers and the television stations

were going, the normal mother would be
weeping if her child was abducted.

Well, she couldn't weep. She was told
her kid was at risk.

She had to be strong.

The fact that they had left their
children in the room alone led them to

believe these were already irresponsible
people.

In Portugal, this is not normal.

So the questioning about their behavior
started there.

Oh, how can these people leave the kids
alone?

They were neglecting the danger.

I think it's quite similar to on a
summer evening at home, eating in your

garden while the children are in your
bed.

You know, it's that close.

But the claim that the parents had been
dining right near their children might

have been slightly exaggerated.

It is absolutely true that it was sort
of a straight shot to the tapas bar from

the apartment, but you couldn't do it
because there was a swimming pool in

between.

So you have to walk around on a public
road before you get to the apartment.

It hasn't happened yet, but yes,
legally, they could be charged with

neglect. In June 2007, the Portuguese
newspaper Sol published

an article suggesting very strongly that
the McCanns were responsible for their

own daughter's disappearance.

This was an unsubstantiated theory that
police coordinator Gonzalo Amaral was

privately advocating.

And it all went back to the moment when
Kate discovered her daughter missing.

Kate McCann told police that Madeline
was gone.

The window to the bedroom opened.

She says in that moment she saw the
window slightly opened.

And she says, I didn't left it open.

But then the policeman that went there
said, no, no, the window was shut.

And she created a scene.

tried to create a new scenario to
convince everybody of an abduction.

We've had people asking, what really
happened in apartment 5A that night?

Can you just reassure people in Britain
that you've been completely candid with

the police about events on May 3rd? We
have left absolutely nothing out that we

have known about at any point.

At the request of the Portuguese police,
who had been talking to a search

expert from Britain, they brought two
dogs over. One of them is trained to

detect human remains and the other is
trained to detect human blood.

So they were brought over and sent into
the apartment.

What the dog found was described as
something shocking.

There have been some traces of blood
found in the apartment behind me. Its

investigative significance is not at all
yet clear. That blood is being tested at

a laboratory in Britain.

In the last week, Portuguese media has
been reporting blood traces found in the

family's holiday apartment might
indicate Madeline was killed there.

They felt very strongly because the dogs
nipped the back of the couch and felt

that there was something there.

that maybe Kate or Jerry had hidden the
body of their child in the apartment

somewhere.

Kate and I strongly believe that
Madeline was alive when she was taken

from the apartment.

Obviously, what we don't know is what
happened to her afterwards.

The dogs also barked when they were
taken to the garage where the McCann's

rental car was parked.

The McCanns had rented that car a week
after the disappearance of Madeline.

The dog that was trained to sense death,
to perceive the sense

of death, pointed to the car that the
McCanns were using.

It's obvious they must have put Marty's
body in there and the press went nuts.

It was a very crazy moment. The public
opinion turned.

All along, the McCanns have never been
under a cloud of suspicion, until now.

When children of tender years, such as
Madeline, disappear, around 75% of the

time, the person responsible for that is
the parent.

Now the McCanns were under scrutiny like
never before.

What an amazing turn of events.

There was also speculation that they
gave the kids sleeping medication to put

them to sleep so that they could go have
their dinner at the topics bar.

And I think the thought that these
parents might give something to their

children, you know, led some people to
believe that maybe these were bad people

or not good parents.

We all used to do that in England.

Legal drugs, obviously, that helped your
child sleep. The thought process at the

time was that they might have given her
something stronger to effectively knock

her out and that she might have then
died.

Some thought that the reason the sniffer
dog that was brought to the apartment

started barking is because it apparently
detected blood.

Some of the Portuguese investigators
took the dog's reaction almost as

evidence. that Madeleine had died in the
apartment and somehow her parents had

concealed her death and then concealed
her body.

Some people speculated the McCann
friends assisted the McCanns in

disposing the body and covering up the
crime.

This was a rumor members of the group
vehemently denied.

A family spokesperson gave a press
briefing this morning saying that Kate

and Jerry McCann have become very
uncomfortable with the level of media

scrutiny. However, they did address the
one theory that Madeline had been killed

by sleeping pills, saying that they
categorically deny ever giving any

sleeping pills to their children.

Philomena McCann, did your
sister-in-law, Kate, say anything to you

about the possibility that she would be
charged?

She just said that it remained a
possibility, but that was all she knew.

Kate McCann experienced hours and hours
of interrogation by the Portuguese

police, and guess what?

Most of them didn't speak English.

They simply said to her, if you can
confess to killing Madeleine, we can

guarantee that you'll have two or three
years in prison. And Kate just... Was

shocked by that and she sees it as
emotional blackmail, as intimidation.

Whistles and boos greeted Kate McCann as
she entered a Portuguese police station

for a second straight day of
questioning.

Her husband, Jerry, followed a short
time later for his latest official

interview.

Eleven hours yesterday for Kate McCann,
another five hours today. And for her

husband, he's been spending about eight
hours before he came out.

Their lawyer finally told them, you
don't have to continue this if you don't

want to.

And they did not.

Tonight, we can confirm both are no
longer witnesses in the disappearance of

their daughter Madeline. They are
suspects.

bail condition.

And no charges have been brought against
them.

After they were declared suspects by the
Portuguese authorities,

the McCanns made the decision to go back
to the United Kingdom.

They may have been afraid that they were
going to be arrested and felt like they

needed to go back home.

We have played no part in the
disappearance of our lovely daughter,

Madeline.

While the McCanns urged authorities to
keep looking for the actual perpetrator,

lab results from the blood found in the
apartment began coming in.

Firstly, the investigators thought this
is Madeline's blood, but it turned out

to be inconclusive.

There were people who had lived in the
apartments before the McCanns. One of

them had a daughter who had cut her
chin, so that may have explained the

presence of blood.

Ultimately, the decision was made that
they were no longer suspects.

Why? Because there was no evidence
against them.

In the meantime, the fate of Madeline
McCann remained as baffling as it did

the day she disappeared.

The mystery of what happened behind
these shutters that fateful evening of

May the 3rd is only increasing.

Everybody wants to know where is
Madeline, and the truth is we don't know

whether she's dead or alive.

And we don't know what the headline is
going to be tomorrow.

Things started to pour out, strange
things.

There was a very deep unknown reality in
Algarve that was hiding from the

news.

They were searching another well, they
were searching another piece of forest.

At least two other locations in the area
may also be searched.

With the help of the public, we have
every chance of bringing closure to this

case. Now there's a new suspect in her
disappearance.

He's a deeply, deeply troubling man, a
very dangerous individual.

The local prosecutor also says that
children's bathing suits were found on

the premises.

There was a person, there was a face,
there was a profile.

The McCanns are finally cleared of
suspicion in the disappearance of their

daughter, Madeline.

But they are no closer to finding her
than the night she went missing.

Shocking revelations, terrifying
theories, and a mysterious lead that may

finally hold the answers.

That's next in Part 2.

I'm Jesse L. Martin.

Thanks for watching.

Good night.