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  • Madeleine McCann Case Reviewed in New Book

    In May 2007 a three-year-old British girl named Madeleine McCann disappeared. She was vacationing with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal at the time. Her parents had put Madeleine and her siblings to bed one evening and walked to a nearby tapas restaurant to dine with friends. Madeleine’s mother discovered that the girl was missing when she later went to check on the children.

    McCann’s disappearance sparked a manhunt throughout southern Portugal. The girl’s parents quickly went to the media for help, leading to the incident becoming one of the most reported-on missing person stories of the new century.

    Now, more than ten years on from McCann’s disappearance, a new book is raising more questions about what may have happened the night the girl went missing.

    According to a Sky News report, the book, titled Looking for Madeleine, is due out in bookstores next week. it was co-written by Anthony Summers, an author well-known for his takes on historical topics popular with conspiracy theorists. His previous works include Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden, and Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination.

    In Looking for Madeline Summers and co-author Robbyn Swan reveal that a door-to-door charity collector may have had something to do with McCann’s disappearance. Such a person was described by a British woman who was staying in an apartment near where the McCann family was vacationing. The woman told Summers and Swan that the man had come to her door begging donations. She later saw the man watching her apartment, then happened upon someone she believed to be the man in her apartment, in a room with her child.

    The woman stated that the man ran when he saw her, but that he was dressed suspiciously, She recalls that he was wearing a surgical mask and had clothing wrapped around his feet.

    What exactly this incident has to do with the McCann case isn’t entirely clear, other than it occurred just hours before the young girl disappeared. According to Sky, Scotland Yard interviewed the woman in the wake of McCann’s disappearance. Detectives still looking into the McCann case have stated that burglars or a sexual predator are the most current theories on the case.

  • Madeleine McCann: Detectives to Interview Suspects, Key Witnesses

    Madeleine McCann was just three years old when she disappeared from a hotel room in Portugal back in 2007. Today–more than seven years later–detectives from Scotland Yard arrived back in Portugal to help Portuguese detectives interview both suspects and key witnesses in the little girl’s disappearance. Sources believe that some of those to be questioned include former employees at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, where the McCann family was staying while vacationing from England.

    Four people of interest–all men–will be interviewed by both police forces. It is said that each is attending the interrogation of his own free will. Three of the men are Portuguese and one is a Russian national.

    When Madeleine McCann disappeared in May of 2007 her parents–Kate and Gerry McCann–were dining at a nearby restaurant. They came under great scrutiny following their daughter’s disappearance, with many believing they were directly involved. The McCann’s are presently involved in a lawsuit against ex-police chief Goncalo Amaral. He wrote a book about the case and in it stated that Madeleine McCann was dead and that Kate and Gerry McCann lied about her disappearance. The case goes in front of a civil court on July 8th in Lisbon.

    Kate and Gerry McCann issued a statement regarding these new steps in the investigation of their daughter’s disappearance.

    “We are very pleased that significant activity has taken place in Praia da Luz over the last 8 days with police officers and support teams from the UK working closely with the Policia Judicial and the Guarda Nacional Republicana,” the statement on their website reads.

    Locals in Portugal have criticized this most recent facet of the Madeleine McCann investigation. Some tourists have, too.

    “The next three months are when the entire village earns its keep,” town mayor Victor Mata said in an interview with the BBC. “The timing couldn’t be worse. Summer essentially starts today. The people of Luz are not against the searches for Madeleine but seeing as it’s been seven years, they would have appreciated it if they could have started in a few months’ time.”

    A little girl has been missing for seven years and the key to her disappearance could lie with the people who are being questioned in the coming days. What a crass and heartless comment for the mayor of this town to make. It would seem the curiosity factor–as wrong as such a thing may be–would serve to draw even more people to the area.

    It would be a blessing for all involved–most especially for Kate and Gerry McCann–for information leading to the discovery of their daughter, or sadly even her remains, to result from these upcoming interviews. At the very least this poor family could lay their little girl to rest.

    Do you think Madeleine McCann is still alive?

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