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Hello, and welcome.

I'm Jesse L. Martin.

The southern coast of Portugal.

Beautiful beaches, perfect weather, picturesque towns.

It's the ideal setting for a getaway.

But for one British family, the perfect vacation became an unimaginable horror.

May, 2007.

Three-year-old Madeline McCann disappeared from her bed at the Ocean

Club Resort.

What went on in Apartment 5A?

The answer would remain a mystery for years.

This is how it really happened.

Kate and Jerry McCann had two adorable twins. They were two years old.

Madeline was almost four.

Madeline had a stuffed animal that was her comfort toy she brought everywhere

with her.

Cuddle Cat.

They wanted to go on a great vacation with their three children.

Praia da Luz is a beautiful little town in Portugal.

The Ocean Club was basically like a small hotel where you would rent a

little apartment.

They had a nice pool there.

It's close to the beach.

I think it's fair to say that Kate and Jane McCann had no idea.

what they were in for when they stayed at the Ocean Club back holiday in 2007.

We've always had a routine with the kids. Twins usually went to bed about

seven and Madeline used to have a little bit of extra time.

Pretty much took them into the bedroom, read them a story and tucked them into

their cot for the twins and Madeline into her 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.

The tapas restaurant where the McCanns would go with their friends was in the

resort, right across the swimming pool from the family apartment.

It's only about 50 metres away.

For me, you know, if your children are sleep-ups there 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.

The McCanns and their friends, every half hour, would check on everyone's

kid.

So at 10 o'clock, around 10 o'clock, it was Kate's turn to go and check on the

apartment.

I went through the patio doors at the bath.

I just noticed that the children's bedroom was quite far open.

So I went to close over the children's door.

Just as I was about to close it, the gust of wind shut it.

And then I went back to open the door again a little bit. Just glanced at

Madeline's bed.

And she thought Madeline was gone.

Cuddle Cat was still there.

If Madeline would have gone away by herself, she would have taken Cuddle

Cat.

She freaked, you know, absolutely freaked.

Groups were going around the whole resort, just shouting her name, looking

for her.

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

that window pushed wide open and the shutter up, which we'd left down the

whole week, it was horrible.

And the club phoned the police.

It took them quite a while to figure out, hey, this is an abduction.

There was almost no evidence to follow.

It was almost as though the little girl had vanished into thin air.

Words cannot describe.

The anguish and despair that we are feeling as the parents of our beautiful

daughter, Madeline.

And then a potential break in the case from the night Madeline went missing.

Jane Tanner was 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.

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.

There is a sketch here of this man who was seen carrying a child away wearing

identical pyjamas to Madeline shortly after I checked on him.

The Tanner sighting became one of the most scrutinised aspects of the case,

but it was always unclear...

what exactly Jane Tanner really thought and who that was.

Eventually, the lead went cold.

Jerry was invested in the idea that his child needed to be everywhere,

her photo everywhere.

Her parents have mounted an international campaign to keep her name

in front of the international public. They have toured Europe, North Africa,

and the United States.

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

beyond the borders of England and Portugal.

It wasn't long before there were theoretical sightings of Madeleine all

over the world.

This investigation has not been short of tips. Police have received hundreds.

Tantalizing frame of CCTV footage has emerged from Dunedin on the South Island

of New Zealand. It shows a little girl with a striking resemblance to Madeleine

McCann. Authorities say that they are looking at a picture of the little girl,

or a little girl that looks a lot like her. Take a look for yourself.

Here's the photo.

A Spanish couple says they took it about a month ago while they were on vacation

in Morocco.

There have been lots of sightings in Morocco and in other countries, and no

matter how well-intentioned the people who reported them were, none of them so

far have come to anything.

Three months after Madeline's disappearance.

Something occurred that no one saw coming.

Cadaver dogs can smell the smallest particles of blood.

So they brought two dogs over and were sent into the apartment.

Portuguese media has been reporting blood traces found in the family's

holiday apartment might indicate Madeline was killed there.

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

tested at a laboratory in Britain.

This begged the question, were Jerry and Kate responsible for Madeline's

disappearance? Could she have actually died in the apartment and they tried to

cover it up?

We welcome you back now to a story that turned on a dime this morning, and it

seems people all over the world are talking about it.

Police are focusing their attention on two suspects, Madeline's mom, And dad.

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

for a second straight day of questioning.

Kate and Jerry, because of their suspect status being imposed on them, they

thought it best to go back to the UK.

I flew back with Kate and Jerry yesterday.

I was on the plane that brought them back to England from Portugal.

Kate was just looking out of the aircraft window.

quietly sobbing, and you can just imagine the emotion for her coming back

home without Madeline.

But then the blood samples that were sent to the lab came back.

Because those lab results were inconclusive, it led to the winding up

of the police investigation.

The McCanns were no longer suspects.

Why? Because there was no evidence against them. At the most point, I

thought her family was going to be destroyed.

But ultimately, the overwhelming objective that we have is to find

Madeline. Despite all the rumors and reports, one fact remains painfully

clear. Madeline is still missing.

I will never forget them driving up to their home after being gone in Portugal

for a month.

I'm looking at this throng of international media waiting outside

their home.

And the one thing that really stuck with me is that the front window of their

home is filled with stuffies and children's toys.

And it is just a reminder that just months ago, this was a house that was

bursting with the energy of three children.

And these parents are coming home without one of those three children.

Just after noon, the McCanns step in front of the cameras for the first time

since Sunday to take their twins to play at an undisclosed location.

Despite the McCanns being clear to suspects, the innuendo about the family

did not fade.

Every day, Madeline's picture was on the cover of tabloids. And the British

people, half of them thought, absolutely, they did it.

And the other half thought, there's no way.

Eventually, the Portuguese investigation came to an end without any conclusion.

The Portuguese police had looked into the leads, found nothing, and closed the

file.

I conducted CNN's first interview with Kate and Jerry McCann, and I will

never forget it. It was haunting to see these two people.

Nearly a year later, still struggling with their daughter's disappearance.

Obviously there's been a lot written and a lot of criticism about us eating at

the tapas restaurant and checking on the children, as we did. I mean, and I've

said many a times, you know, there's a limit to how much you can be persecuted.

But if there was a second of doubt in my head that I was placing my children at

risk, it wouldn't have happened.

The problem with that, and there's been a lot of focus on it, is you can't

change it.

And if you dwell on, why didn't you do this, why didn't I, you know, why didn't

I stay in, it would destroy you.

One of the things that I remember most vividly is what happened after the

interview.

Jerry got up and left the room and Kate went over to the window and just gazed

out and...

You could just see the unthinkable grief on her face.

She just looked like the loneliest woman in the world in that moment.

Things started to pour out, strange things.

There was a very deep unknown reality in Algarve.

And it's frightening in retrospect when you hear that.

Despite Kate and Jerry McCann being ruled out as suspects in the

disappearance of their daughter, Portuguese police coordinator Gonzalo

Amaral insisted they were guilty, even publishing a book accusing the couple of

playing a role in their daughter's disappearance.

By this time, Amaral had been taken off the case after doing the interview,

accusing British authorities of protecting the McCanns.

The accusations and litigation between the McCanns and Amaral would continue

for years.

In 2009, the McCanns managed to have his book banned.

But in 2017, Portugal's highest court upheld his right to freedom of

expression and dismissed the couple's libel case against the former police

coordinator.

The girl with that special mark in her eye is still nowhere to be seen.

We would like to play a few words.

The person who is with Madeline or has been with Madeline.

Madeline is a beautiful, bright, funny and caring little girl.

The McCanns must have been really desperate that the case would just go

unsolved and her daughter would be forgotten.

We are determined to find Madeline and we will do anything to do that.

So they went after every single lead and every sort of help they could get.

Even before their Arguido status was lifted, Kate and Jerry were going

outside traditional channels to find their daughter.

One way they tried was by going to private investigators.

The first team of investigators that were hired were a Spanish outfit from

Barcelona, Matodo 3, who came with lots of promise. They were very experienced.

The parents began learning information few knew about.

It turns out that Praia da Luz, in the Algarve region, was not the quiet little

place that the Bacan thought they were going to when they went on vacation.

Here, Gary, we're on holiday.

There was a very deep unknown reality in Algarve that was hidden

from the news.

Those ears.

when Madeleine disappeared, 2007, it was a place not only unsafe,

but very dangerous.

What the McCanns didn't know, and I think what almost any vacationer

wouldn't have known, in this very beautiful, quiet resort area, is there

had been a string of burglary.

Things started to pour out, strange things like guys that were knocking the

doors. Around Friday, Lou's asking for money for an orphanage.

Maybe four, maybe five, maybe six of them are going door to door asking,

raising money for an orphanage. Now, what's interesting is there's no

orphanage in this area.

And it's frightening in retrospect when you hear that.

It'd be more frightening that you wouldn't have known that.

Do you have any blame that you would attach to the resort itself?

You can argue, well, maybe we should have known about burglaries. Maybe that

would have changed our behaviour.

And if you'd known there had been a number of burglaries there, that

probably would have changed your thinking. It may have, but, you know, I

don't think it's constructive from our own point of view. We made the mistake.

We felt safe.

We didn't have a heightened awareness. The resort was incredibly quiet.

One tourist had said a guy had come to the door and she'd chatted to him for a

while and he'd looked through and seen her child playing on the floor of the

apartment and she felt here that it kind of had quite an uncanny sort of look at

her, quite fixated look at the child and it concerned her.

Then we cut to the following day. The child was playing downstairs in the

sitting room and she came down the stairs and the door was open.

And she saw someone fleeing.

She's certain the same person had been there the day before. And she felt the

person could have snatched her child very easily.

You have to realize that Algarve is the main touristic point in Portugal.

It's not good information for Algarve to say abroad that it's not a safe place.

The level of criminality there was brushed under the carpet by the tourist

board. In light of the new information about burglaries and possible scam

artists, fresh questions were raised about the fate of Madeleine McCann.

Well, there were lots of theories that were explored at various times. One was

that she could have been the victim of human trafficking.

Southern Spain and southern Portugal are heavily influenced by the drugs trade,

people smuggling, people trafficking.

You could get in a boat and go to Africa, go to other parts of Europe very

quickly.

It's remarkable how easy it is to move out of the Algarve through Spain into

France.

Borders are not manned. There's lots of places that you can cross and very

quickly.

Now British police say they have new leads.

I still genuinely believe that there is a possibility that she's alive.

Her face is unmistakable, the face of a missing child and heartbreaking mystery.

Her parents have worn the grief and anguish on their faces day after day.

We beg you to let Madeline come home.

We need our Madeline. Sean and Emily need Madeline and Madeline needs us.

Please give our little girl back.

Despite the efforts of the private investigation, the McCanns were no

closer to finding out what happened to the daughter.

I think eventually the McCanns just lost patience that no progress was being made

and then cast around for better organizations that they thought might do

more to find Madeline.

And they really didn't have much luck.

It seemed like the trail was going cold.

With no one actively looking for their daughter, Kate and Jerry knew they had

to do something to reignite the investigation.

So, about four years after the daughter disappeared, Kate comes out with a book

about her daughter, about the investigation.

Why have you done the book?

I suppose it's always been the end.

To get the truth out there, obviously, when there's been so many stories

written, but we've always had things to weigh up.

I mean, ultimately, Madeleine's fund was running out, and I knew that we'd need

to raise money, really, to continue to serve.

And they ultimately appealed to the then British Prime Minister, David Cameron.

And they touched a nerve. He understood that nothing officially... was being

done to find Madeleine. And so he asked Scotland Yard to do a review of

everything that had been done to date.

Now British police say they have new leads and are reopening the

investigation called Operation Grange.

They were starting from day one.

The Portuguese were very nervous because with a fresh look on the evidence and on

the investigation, many of the blunders that had been made, especially in the

first 48 hours of the investigation.

were shown to the public.

Did not search streets near the hotel, did not interview all the hotel guests,

didn't check video of vehicles leaving the resort, did not check motorway cams.

These pictures of police on the Spanish border are deeply worrying. The officers

are supposed to be checking vehicles leaving Portugal.

Instead, for 40 minutes, they sit in their own cars, out of the rain.

Given that there was nothing to go on, British investigators investigated

everything from scratch and appealed to the public.

We believe this is what Madeleine will look like today as she approaches her

ninth birthday next weekend.

With regards to the age progression, if you have seen a little girl who looks

like this, please contact the police immediately.

Please don't hesitate.

One thing working in a family's favour.

that law enforcement could build upon the work that had already been done by

the private investigators.

All the information held by our private investigation team, everything has been

handed over. British police say their help from private investigators has made

a difference.

This included a report of men accepting donations for an orphanage that

apparently did not even exist.

British police say Portuguese burglars operating a bogus charity may have been

linked with a string of robberies in the area at the time.

17 days before Madeline went missing, there were two separate break-ins near

the apartments where the McCanns were staying on holiday.

One of the very strong theories that Scotland Yard pursued was the idea that

somebody had been breaking into the apartment, Madeline had woken up, and

the burglar, for some reason, had decided to leave but take Madeline with

him.

And the fact that the McCanns and their friends spent each evening at the tapas

bar may have made them a target.

Reservations were made for them every evening.

They block-booked a table, the same table, by the pool within the holiday

complex, and they kept to a pretty rigid timetable. They would eat more or less

at the same time each night.

And of course the maitre d' would have been like, great, okay, reservation

book, scribble at the top.

You know, the McCanns and friends will eat every night at this table.

There's a belief that maybe the abductor or the person who took her saw that

note, knew she was sleeping back there.

Operation Grange was spending a lot of money trying to do all the efforts to

find Madeline.

There are lots of opportunities, lots of new leads and new information crucially

emerging, which will be incredibly useful for taking us forward.

And after 16 visits to Portugal and reviewing more than 30,000 documents,

police are hopeful.

There is no clear definitive proof that Madeleine McCann is dead.

And so on that basis, I still genuinely believe that there is a possibility that

she's alive.

Praia da Luz, a beach resort town in Portugal, now partially cordoned off as

British police dig in the wasteland.

Investigators are using sniffer dogs and ground-penetrating radar.

that can detect disturbed earth.

Welcome back to How It Really Happened.

When Scotland Yard launched Operation Grange, investigators were hopeful.

Could the disappearance of Madeleine McCann finally be solved?

The new information seems promising, but there's so much more that remains

unanswered.

The last two years of children and young women being found after having been

taken and held for very long periods of time, we've always had hope. And as

parents, we wouldn't accept Madeline is dead until we see evidence, clear

evidence, that that is the case.

Investigators from Operation Grange interviewed people all over Praia da

Luz, and they discovered some very interesting details.

There was a good deal of information about...

Strange men, for want of a better word, who were seen hanging around the

McCann's apartments in the days before she disappeared, on the days she

disappeared.

There are two witnesses who say, independent one another, that they saw

what they described as a very ugly, pockmarked or spotty-skinned man

watching apartment 5A.

Another witness reported having seen suspicious men on a balcony near the

McCann's apartment, just hours before Madeline disappeared.

One of the strong theories that emerged was based on a series of incidents over

several years in various resorts of men who were seemingly targeting

young children, particularly young daughters of British families.

Police have identified a series of 12 potentially linked crimes that took

place between 2004 and 2010 in the western Algarve area of Portugal. In

four of the cases, little girls between the ages of 7 and 10 were sexually

assaulted in their beds while their parents were home.

This all happened just a few kilometres away from where the then three-year-old

was last seen.

Now police are trying to find the suspect who they describe as having tan

skin, short, dark, unkempt hair. He spoke English with a foreign accent.

We need to be able to prove or disprove whether these offences and that offender

is connected to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

In all of those cases that have been reported, no child had been abducted.

But sexual predators often up the level of their offending.

And it's quite feasible that somebody who started by going into an apartment

to sexually attack a child might, to get a bigger thrill, decide that one day he

was going to steal a child.

Scotland Yard, for a while, focused very much on that idea.

While Scotland Yard was revisiting the case, the Portuguese investigation

remained shelved.

Given the large amount of investigative opportunities and the new information

that has recently come to light, we hope that Madeleine's case is formally

reopened in Portugal in the near future.

And sure enough, in October 2013, the Portuguese authorities reopened their

investigation. Both forces started looking back.

at what they'd done and looking for opportunities to continue the

investigation. After seven years searching for Madeleine McCann, this is

the area of Portuguese scrubland now being scoured for any trace.

Whenever a new trace came up or something that was regarded as a new

trace by Operation Grange, a new search would pop up. This news would come. They

were searching another field. They were searching the area again.

British and Portuguese investigators are using sniffer dogs and ground

-penetrating radar that can detect disturbed earth.

I know from the very beginning that people had said, in Portugal, if I

wanted to make a kid disappear around here, I'd throw him in a well, because

every second house has a well in the backyard.

Praia da Luz, a beach resort town in Portugal, now partially cordoned off as

British police dig in the wasteland.

So, whenever there was a search, There must have been something they thought

might take us further.

They were searching another well.

They were searching another piece of forest.

Media reports at least two other locations in the area may also be

searched in a renewed effort to discover the toddler's whereabouts.

But again, it didn't throw up what police hoped they would find.

Three days of searching by radar, by dog and by dig.

Still no sign of Madeleine McCann's body along the Portuguese coastline.

But that's not surprising after so long.

It is ridiculous. After seven years, to come back here to dig and to ask

questions, they are only ruining tourism.

It is ridiculous.

Operation Grange cost more than $13 million.

And still, after spending the money, all that time, all these investigators, they

really haven't found out anything.

A lot of people were criticizing the millions of pounds spent on this

investigation.

The investigation clearly hadn't achieved the results that they'd hoped

for. They were nowhere nearer finding out the explanation for her

disappearance than they were when they started.

Despite the monumental effort in trying to find Madeline, hope was dwindling

once again.

Now there's a new suspect in her disappearance.

There was a person. There was a face.

There was a profile.

Madam McCann has been gone for 13 years, the little blonde girl with blue-green

eyes. I think the strangest part of the case is that there was never any real

evidence. No DNA, no blood, no trace, no nothing.

And it's just hard to believe that someone could cover their track so

expertly. I thought the case would never be solved.

It had been so long since Madeleine disappeared.

But then in 2020, something very significant happened. German authorities

say they have someone who's in prison on another crime who they believe might be

the person responsible for the disappearance.

of Madeline McCann.

Now there's a new suspect in her disappearance.

He's a German pedophile, authorities say. A 43-year-old man who is currently

serving a long jail sentence.

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

CNN has confirmed his name to be Christian B.

Prosecutors say the suspect lived in this house in Praia da Luz, Portugal, at

the time the then three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared from this

tourist resort in 2007.

Journalists learned the suspect's full name was Christian Bruckner.

Investigators theorized he was closely watching visitors who came to the area,

hoping for criminal opportunities that might arise while their defenses were

down. He's a deeply, deeply troubling man.

a very dangerous individual that we only really know probably around a fraction

of his crimes that he's committed.

1% of all human beings are what we call psychopaths. And I see many of these

traits in Christian Beats. No empathy, no deep feelings and no conscience,

having a very strong desire for power. He lives a nomadic lifestyle in

all aspects.

So he basically moves from one place to another, he moves from one relationship

to another, he moves from one job to another, and also from one crime to

another. There is a connection between Christian B. and the Ocean Club, and

there was some evidence that he knew that area quite well.

And he rented a small house just in the hills outside Pravaloosh, looking down

on the village.

He was just living on his wits, really.

I think he cleaned some pools.

People suggest that he might have even cleaned inside the Ocean Club. I knew

the Ocean Club quite well.

Others say that even when Madeline disappeared, he was going in and out

because he knew people working there.

By the time Madeline disappeared, he had become a full-time criminal, breaking

into apartments, stealing things.

There was one aspect which is interesting. He committed a lot of

crimes in Germany, and whenever he got in trouble with law enforcement in

Germany, he went to Portugal. And then he committed a lot of crimes in

Portugal, and whenever he got in trouble, he came back to Germany.

Just two years before Madeleine went missing, a 72-year-old woman was raped

in Praia da Luz.

Now, what happened, the night in question, was that she was in the house,

and in came Mr. Bailiff, who set up a camera, carefully, filmed.

Everything he did.

Friend of Brückner back in the day and another friend broke into Brückner's

apartment to steal valuables. So we can, you get an idea of their friendship,

right? And they stole a video camera and a couple of other things and this

witness claimed that they watched the tape that were taken by the video

camera.

Eventually, some of Bruckner's acquaintances turned it in to the

police.

There's this hair that was found in the house of the victim.

Now it was analyzed in Germany, and they got the conclusion that DNA is from

Christian Bruckner.

This led to Christian Bruckner being tried for rape and being sentenced to

seven years.

He began serving his time in 2019, but German investigators were curious.

about what else he'd done.

They believe Christian B. has harmed more people, the prosecutor tells me.

According to the information available to us, it is almost certain that there

will be further victims, he says.

And as they looked into his past, they discovered he might be tied to the one

crime that even some members of law enforcement thought might be unsolvable.

German authorities say Christian Bruckner lived under the radar prior to

Luz. But in 2019, after he went to prison for the rape of an elderly

American woman, they began discovering more disturbing details about him.

His name popped up when one of his former friends said that Christian

Bruckner had confessed to killing Madeleine McCann.

This witness used to hang out with Bruckner in the days of Madeleine

McCann.

And this man alerted police and said they know something about the Madeleine

McCann case.

News reports claim that as police probed further, they discovered more

indications he might have hurt Madeleine.

Praia da Luz, the Portuguese resort from where then three-year-old Madeleine

McCann vanished in 2007.

Investigators believe the man they now think murdered her, 43-year-old German

Christian B., lived in this house less than a mile away at the time.

Police raided his house, and amongst the things they found in his laptop were

various chats, talking openly about snatching something small, trapping it,

keeping it for days, and abusing it.

Cellphone tracking puts him near the crime scene the night Maddy disappeared.

And this, of course, is a very interesting circumstantial piece of

evidence.

Once you have taken this opportunity, once you have committed this crime, you

will have to finally decide what to do with the child you have taken. And then

you must either bring it back or kill it and dispose of it.

What makes you so certain that Madeleine McCann is dead?

We have some evidence for this. We have no forensic evidence, but we have other

evidence. But I'm not allowed to speak about this in detail at the moment.

Is that strong evidence?

I think it's strong.

You wouldn't come out and say that Madeleine McCann was dead if you thought

there was a chance that she wasn't, correct?

Yes.

At the time Madeleine McCann disappeared, Christian Bruckner was

driving a dark red Jaguar with German number plates.

And for some reason that are not really clear, he re-registered the car the day

after Madeleine McKenna disappeared.

He asked a friend back in Germany to go to the office and have the car re

-registered. What the motive for that is, we don't know.

If a vehicle is involved in the crime, it's a very good idea to get rid of any

kind of evidence.

Prosecutors say Christian B. also bought this abandoned factory about 100 miles

away. Police conducted several searches here in the past years.

As you can see, there's still a lot of stuff laying around here. But the

authorities say that it wasn't until they started digging on this property

that they found several data carriers with lots of pornographic material,

including child porn, on them.

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

the premises.

He sent a couple of letters to media outlets.

He pretty much said, you are after the wrong person.

I am not guilty.

Bruckner says he was somewhere else on the night that Madeline disappeared.

But in April 2022, Portuguese authorities declared Bruckner an

arguido. in Madeline's disappearance.

How sure are you that you have named the right man?

At the moment, we think we have the right person.

He's our only suspect in this case.

We found some things. I can't speak about this in detail at the moment.

Like other Arguidos, though, Bruckner had yet to be charged with any crime

in the Madeline McCann case.

In May 2022,

Bruckner's lawyer said that the prosecution had not released any

evidence that it supposedly had and reiterated that Bruckner denies any

involvement in the crime.

But it's obvious Mr. Bruckner is a horrible man, okay? He's raped a woman.

He is a child molester. We know these things.

Has he attacked Madeline? Did he?

Capture her? Did he hide her? Did he kill her? We don't know.

In a statement, the McCanns added that even though the possibility is slim,

they still hoped Madeline was alive and that they would see her again.

Madeline would legally be an adult today.

There have been different suspects, different theories.

Different types of investigations.

But still, there's not one piece of evidence.

Forensic, physical, just ideas.

It's just a horrifying mystery.

It's likely she's dead, but we haven't confirmed it.

And that's why the interest in this case endures.

Spin around, darling.

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

Big smile.

Oh, yes.

One more. Big smile.

I think a lot of good's come from the case. The McCanns should be very, very

proud of the awareness they've raised to the very thorny issue of child sex

trafficking.

They've always said this is not about our child. This is about any children

that have gone missing.

We don't know exactly how this is going to end.

One thing we do know for sure is that Jerry and Kate McCann will

never stop looking for the daughter.

Do you ever think, how long can we do this? When do we stop?

You have moments where you feel absolutely exhausted and you just think,

you know, can't do this anymore.

You can't give up. Who would ever give up on their child?

The world is a different place than when Madeleine McCann disappeared.

Technology has advanced, awareness has been raised, but there's still so much

we don't know about the case.

But like the McCanns, we continue to hold out hope.

I'm Jesse L. Martin.

Thanks for watching.

Good night.

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