kate: give us a big smile. [ laughs ] okay, spin around, darling. right round. oh, yes! i can see your wings. give us a big smile. ah, yes. one more, big smile. that s pretty! hello and welcome. i m jesse l. martin. it was a shocking story that captured the world s attention. 3-year-old madeleine mccann disappeared while on vacation with her family in portugal. few clues were left behind. it was almost as if she had vanished into thin air. from the first day, there were more questions than answers. was she taken? or was something bigger and even more terrifying at play? this is how it really happened. kate and gerry mccann were a british couple, normal couple, middle upper class. clap your hands together, 1, 2, 3. kate and gerry have twins. they were very young. madeleine was almost 4. madeleine mccann is a particularly beautiful child. she talked a lot. she was very lively. she liked to play. santa must have bring all these toys! she looks like kate, but
getting their first kid, madeleine. it did not come easily to them. they needed in vitro fertilization. so they got in vitro, and kate finally got pregnant with madeleine mccann. and they were really happy when they had madeleine. she was our first. but she was hopefully our little star. i mean, she was absolutely incredible, a real character, and she brought an incredible amount of joy into our lives and our extended family. after madeleine was born, kate became pregnant again through in vitro fertilization, this time with twins, a boy and a girl. they had everything they thought they needed love, a family, a beautiful home, gorgeous kids. she s the little girl with the sparkling blue-green eyes. her disappearance, every parent s worst nightmare. madeleine mccann had disappeared without a trace. no one knew where she was. i have no facts that sustain the child is alive or not.
portuguese police and help us get her back safely. they were in distress, especially kate. she was on the point of crying. please, if you have madeleine, let her come home to her mommy, daddy, brother, and sister. one of the aspects of this investigation which people felt could help her be identified and found is that one of her eyes was a bit unusual. it had a mark on it. so authorities were hoping that could help get her return facilitated. we saw so many small children, and i kept thinking, is that madeleine? if you saw a little blond girl, you would think, is that her? hopefully this could end up being a happy ending. she saw a man carrying a child across the street, into the night. it sounded suspicious. it sounded like a lead.
we re talking about the disappearance of madeleine mccann, the 4-year-old british girl. local police are called. there s a search of the resort that s expanded to surrounding areas. we were very conscious of searches that were looking for this little girl the hope that she may be in a house across the street. she may be in a house across the town. my thoughts went to, where am i going to get information? i tried to figure out if we could speak with the family, of course, but, well, i was told they were secluded. the first time i saw the mccanns face-to-face was when they gave this press conference outside the apartment. words cannot describe the anguish and despair that we are feeling as the parents of our beautiful daughter madeleine. we d request that anyone who may have any information related to madeleine s disappearance, no matter how trivial, contact the