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
needed it fast? that s right. he already had two cars. he lives with his mother. his mother has a van. he has his own gold kia. and then, suddenly, on saturday, he called a car-rental agency and said, i need a car and i need it fast. the people here, well, it s a bit of an emotional roller coaster for them. they say they really hope, they desperately hope, this is the development that will cut this, break this wide open. any information that we get from portugal just gives us that bit of lift that we need. now, mr. murat s status, officially under portuguese law, is now that of suspect, but he has not been arrested. but as time went on, investigators could not tie murat to madeleine mccann whatsoever, aside from the fact that he lived nearby. i did call my source in the pj and asked him, so, is this suspect going to prison? is going to be kept by you guys? what s going to happen? my source told me, nobody is
by police. police say they removed numerous items during their search of robert murat s home. witnesses saw personal computers and mobile phones being taken. they have found a room, a basement room. i spoke with the architect that designed robert murat s house, and he told me that there was this empty space under the house. officers also took away clothes and samples of forensic material. police say they completely searched the villa, but detectives spent less than a full day collecting material and then allowed the family to return, leading some to question how thorough they actually were. a significant development out of portugal in the case of missing girl madeleine mccann. police there now have a suspect. it is british man robert murat. he was considered an arguido, which means a suspect. is it true that he suddenly wanted a rental car right around the time of her disappearance and told the rental agency he
madeleine s disappearance, no man matching jane tanner s description could be located. after madeleine mccann disappeared and days went by and she wasn t found, there was just this incredible fear in this community. parents there with their children weren t taking their eyes off them, as you might expect. but everyone was looking. we d heard it on the news. my sister had called from the uk and told us that something had happened in luz and that a little girl had gone missing. robert murat was a neighbor. he lived in a house very near the apartment where madeleine was. robert murat is a classic expat who moved here, who enjoyed the life on the algarve, and he d been partly grown up in portugal, so he spoke good portuguese. i met the mccanns probably 20, maybe 30 seconds, nothing more than that and then helped out with trying to translate,
being taken in. we don t have nothing to point at him. police tape still marks the outer limits of his gardens and the driveway here. but police have been very clear they don t have enough evidence even to continue questioning robert murat, let alone arrest him. but murat s questioning by detectives, it turns out that it did not go as most people expected. i was blasted with air-conditioning and just felt very threatened. i was in the police station for 19 hours the first time, with no food. and they never found anything that could say, this is the man that we are looking for. he had nothing to do with it. i mean, your life is normal, on a normal track. you ve got your responsibilities as a husband, a parent. you re doing the things that you