MURDERED: Madeleine McCann
Madeleine McCann was just three years old in 2007 when she disappeared from her family’s room during a resort vacation in Portugal. The whole world watched with bated breath for the last 13 years while authorities searched, chased leads and named potential suspects. Most assumed we’d never know the truth about what happened to Madeleine. But you know what they say about assumptions…
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Episode Source Material
- The Maddie Case Files website: Witness statements
- BBC News: Madeleine McCann disappearance: A timeline
- The Guardian: What happened on the day Madeleine disappeared?
- Sky News: How events unfolded in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, by Connor Sephton
- New Zealand Herald: Inside the depraved world of Christian Brueckner, suspect in Maddie McCann case, by Shireen Khalil
- Independent: Madeleine McCann: A timeline of events in disappearance as police identify new suspect, by Andy Gregory
- Inside the secret lair of prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance | 60 Minutes Australia
- The Sun: MADDIE DOC Who is Robert Murat and what is his involvement in the Madeleine McCann case? By Dan Hall
- The Tab: These are the nine theories about what happened to Maddie McCann, by Hayley Soen
- The Sun: BLOOD HOUND Madeleine McCann Netflix documentary shows moment sniffer dog signals ‘scent of blood’ in Praia Da Luz apartment, by Charlie Parker
- Entertainment Daily: Why were Madeleine McCann’s parents suspects? Kate and Gerry were accused of killing their daughter, by Nicola Aguis
- The New Daily: Christian Brueckner: The prime suspect in ending the Madeleine McCann mystery, by Cait Kelly
- New Zealand Herald: Inside the depraved world of Christian Brueckner, suspect in Maddie McCann case, by Shireen Khalil
- The Sun: FIEND’S ‘BRAG’ German paedo suspect ‘boasted to a friend in a pub about snatching Madeleine McCann’, by Mike Sullivan
- The Mirror: ‘German Madeleine McCann’ Inga Gehricke’s heartbreaking last act before disappearance, by Jane Lavender
- Daily Mail: Two fair-haired little girls who vanished on a family trip… with the same man now under scrutiny: How similarities between Madeleine McCann and missing German girl Inga Gehricke are too hard to bear, by Claire Duffin and Sam Greenhill
- iNews: Inga Gehricke: What happened in case of missing German girl as Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner investigated, by Alex Finnis
- The Scottish Sun: DISPOSE OF THE EVIDENCE Madeleine McCann suspect Christian B buried USB sticks filled with child abuse images next to dead dog at rubbish dump, by Christy Cooney
- Daily Mail: Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner faces probes over FIVE child murder victims as police in Portugal are urged to re-examine case of Joana Cipriano, eight, who disappeared in 2004 seven miles from Praia da Luz, by Jemma Carr and Vanessa Allen
- Extra.ie: Children’s swimsuits found in motorhome of German Maddie suspect, by Eva Wall
- FR24 News: Christian Brueckner has been linked to the murder of a German schoolgirl
- The Telegraph: Madeleine McCann: Apartment was not made crime scene for two months, by Caroline Gammell
- The Sunday Telegraph: Inga Gehricke by Phoebe Southworth and James Crisp
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