flight risk and danger to the community. and said the evidence against him is strong. now, investigators say not only did christiansen attend the vigil, he was also captured on a recording picking out other potential victims. it is interesting to note, authorities didn t reveal how these recordings were obtained, and did not play them in court. they also say christiansen threatened one close to the case, that provided evidence against him. but they did not say who that person was. now, during the roughly 30-minute hearing, which members of the missing woman s family attended, christiansen showed no reaction, and didn t speak. but his attorneys interest plenty to say afterwards, saying it is not really evidence at all yet. one of the founding principles of the american justice system is the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses in front of you.
hardest to face by for. it s important, though, because despite how difficult these days are, just keep income mind how much progress we have made, although there is no evidence to give us any negative news that hope is still there. they have made such an emphasis of the point that time is the enemy. we ve done too good of a job of doing that, because now the public thinks, if you don t recover a child in the first days or weeks or months, that there is no hope. and there are a growing number of cases that demonstrate that there is hope. we get lucky. we get kids back alive. but the not knowing is what kills you. the not knowing. reporter: because without knowing, you are forced to consider the most heart breaking possibilities. i think the major scenario, because the data tells us, is that whoever took her, took her
little madeleine mccann was gone. look. oh, wow. desperate to get her out, kate and gerry mccann shared their daughter with the world. why do you think this case captured the world s attention? her smile, her laugh, was accessible to all of us. so we all felt we knew her a little bit. these are what madeleine was wearing when she was taken. but the massive amounts of publicity came with some criticism. how much is too much publicity when a child s life is at stake? the media, particularly the print media, a complete innocent
for sexual reasons. reporter: between 2004 and 2010, a string of sexual assaults were reported in the region. almost always houses or apartments that were rented or owned by british people with young children. she probably was taken in a crime of opportunity just the chance for a pedophile to get her, probably without a doubt raped her, more than likely murdered her and buried her somewhere. reporter: a theory which british investigators have yet to eliminate. but there are others. a whole series of additional scenarios come into play. younger children can be taken for purposes of plaque market adoption. they can be taken for trafficking purposes. they can be taken for a variety of purposes in which the child may not be taken and killed.
a child that was about the same age as madeleine mccann, didn t have any shoes on, and wearing pink pajamas very similar to madeleine s pajamas. at the time, she didn t think much of it. then about 9:30, 9:25, matthew olefield was going upstairs and said to kate, i ll go and check on your three. he went into the mccann s apartment. he went to the door of the children s bedroom but did not go in. he looked in and saw the twins through the door in cots but he didn t put his head around to the left where he would have seen if madeleine was there or not. i m sure it s something he regrets massively. less than 30 minutes later, it was kate mccann s turn. i went back at 10:00 and noticed that the door to the children s bedroom was quite far open, and just as i was about to