Madeleine McCann is the three-year-old girl who was snatched from a Portugal holiday resort. Follow breaking news on the Madeleine McCann story, and hope for the best as authorities search for clues and try to find the young girl.
........................................................ ........................................................ Was there a blue tennis bag or wasn't there a blue tennis bag and did said tennis bag disappear? The saga of the bag has been around for as long as there have been forums discussing the Maddie case and at some point any official mention of it seemed to have disappeared, like Maddie herself, without a trace and no evidence it had ever been there . This video is from December 23rd... Read Full Story
A private detective, who disappeared after being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to search for Madeleine McCann, has been arrested in Oxford, media reports said on Wednesday. The man, identified by The Sun as Kevin Halligen, is also wanted by American authorities on unrelated fraud charges. Halligen, who runs a Washington-based private investigations company, was hired last year by the McCanns to search for their daughter Madeleine who went missing in Portugal in 2007, the paper said... Read Full Story
Thanks to a few helpful folks, who suggested where I might find the appropriate photos, I now have the photo from the PJ files of the inside of a wardrobe in apartment 5A, the McCanns' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz. This is one of the images from the PJ's first visit immediately after Madeleine disappeared. As you can see, there is a rather large holdall, which could be described as a sports bag, sitting on one of the shelves. The photo is from the following section of the PJ files... Read Full Story
...................... ..................... During the night of May 3rd/May 4th 2007, Gerry McCann contacted various family and friends, who, in later interviews stated that Gerry had told them that the shutters to Madeleine's bedroom window had been 'jemmied,' and the window opened from the outside. This is a report from Duarte Levy and Paulo Reis on the SOS Madeleine McCann blog in August 2008. "Witnesses have taken apart the McCanns' version about the apartment's shutters." 4/08/08 ttp... Read Full Story
................................. ................................... In April 2008, members of the group which came to be known as 'The Tapas 9,' were interviewed in the UK, as a result of rogatory letters sent from Portugal. I am re-posting a report about Russell O'Brien's interview as I think there is a very important principle at stake here. Russell O'Brien was allowed to read statements from another witness, his partner, Jane Tanner, prior to being interviewed. Surely there is something... Read Full Story
A businessman paid to help search for girl Madeleine McCann was arrested after a hotel manager recognised him as an alleged fraudster wanted by US authorities, police said Wednesday. Kevin Halligen, 48, was arrested Tuesday at a luxury hotel in Oxford where he had been staying for several months under an assumed name. He was arrested following an argument over his bill. The hotel's manager recalled his face from a newspaper report last weekend about the alleged fraud. The US Department of... Read Full Story
ROTHLEY, England, Dec. 18 (UPI) --
The parents of Madeleine McCann said in a holiday appeal they long for the safe return of their missing daughter to their home in England.
Sky News said Friday that Kate and Gerry McCann paired their message on their Find Madeleine Web site with photographs of their daughter, who vanished in Portugal in May 2007 when she was 3 years old.
the two parents, both 41, said online.
"If you know anything -- do the right thing and help us fill it.
Kate... Read Full Story
CASH funding the search for missing Madeleine McCann will run out in three months.
Maddie's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, are now preparing to open talks with multimillionaire businessman Brian Kennedy to extend his backing.
The couple had feared the fund set up to trace their little girl, who has now been missing for 31 months, would be exhausted by the end of this month.
But they have boosted it with payouts won in legal actions against newspapers in Britain and abroad... Read Full Story
LISBON (AFP) – A libel trial against a policeman in Portugal who claimed missing British girl Madeleine McCann was dead and that her parents could have hidden the corpse opened on Friday but was immediately postponed.
The case in Lisbon against former Algarve police officer Goncalo Amaral, who led the early stage of the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, was adjourned until January 12 due to the absence of his lawyer.
Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, attended... Read Full Story
