pored over 40,000 document, and spent in excess of $15 million in their search for madeleine. there has been a fair amount of criticism about how much money has been spent on the investigation into finding madeleine mccann. also, they ve been criticized for getting preferential treatment by british authorities. what s your response to that? if those people who are doing the criticism, it was their child who was missing, would they say the same? they would wish that every other missing child case would get a similar level of resourcing. british investigators chased down multiple leads, from botched burglaries to follow-ups on eyewitness accounts and suspicious sightings. for years, operation grange toiled on and still no formal suspects and no charges filed. and in 2017, on the tenth anniversary of little madeleine s disappearance, her parents still searched and prayed for answers. inevitably on the
mccann and their friends started trying to reach out to the press. they are well educated, middle class people with lots of friends and contacts. just hours after madeleine s disappearance, her image was broadcast and emailed around the world. she was arguably the first missing child case of the nether ra within minutes of her going missing, relatives were able to send high quality definition video of her, posting them on websites, facebook pages, and sending them to news desks. just hearing a search is under way for 3-year-old british girl. she went missing last night. hundreds of people have been searching. by the next morning, the news carried the first reports from praia da luz of a little girl having disappeared. we begin with the case of madeleine mccann. she has gone missing in the algarve area of portugal. within 24 hours, the tiny village was swarming with media, and the mccanns gave their first press conference. please, if you have
search. don t know where she couldn t be. the shocking twists. police are focusing their attention on two suspects, madeleine s mom and dad. the theories. somebody knows what s happened. more than a dozen years after her disappearance, an investigation spans across europe and leads to a major break in the case. the first since the mccanns were cleared. international authorities focusing on one man. a new twist. a german prosecutor says he is now sure that he knows who killed madeleine mccann. portuguese authorities have said they have now named a suspect. so to be clear, the formal suspect in madeleine mccann s case is a convicted rapist and a known pedophile. a cnn special report, missing: madeleine mccann.
responsible for what happened to their daughter. how do you deal with the fact that more and more people seemed to be pointing the finger at you? in july 2007, british sniffer dogs trained to detect the scent of blood and cadavers were sent here to port gal to help with the investigation. what they found led to a major shift in the case. the dogs alerted to tiny specks of blood in apartment 5a. she will find anybody s blood, any human blood. according to its handler, one dog reacted to potential blood or human remains in the trunk of the mccanns rental car. even though they didn t rent the car until three weeks after madeleine went missing. whether rightly or wrongly, the portuguese concluded at that time that madeleine mccann had died in the apartment, and that the parents had sought to cover it up and remove the body,
anniversaries and her birthday, they are by far the hardest days, by far. i think it is important, though. because despite how difficult these days are, just keeping in mind how much progress we have made. and whilst there is no evidence to give us any negative news, that hope is still there. there is a major new development this morning in the case of madeleine mccann. the suspect has an extensive rap sheet. in june 2020, a major breakthrough in the case, but this time in germany. more than 1500 miles away from the crime scene. prosecutors name the first formal suspect in the case since the mccanns were cleared. madeleine beth mccann a german national named christian bruckner. due to german privacy law, officials here refer to him as christian b. a convicted rapist and known child abuser who lived and