for this crime, and at the moment half of the sentence is over. this is german prosecutor hans christian walters. while he is fluent in english, he sometimes answers in his native german due to the precise legal nature of the case. what makes you so certain that madeleine mccann is dead? we have some evidence for this. we have no forensic evidence but we have other evidence, but i m not allowed to speak about this at the moment. you wouldn t come out and say that madeleine mccann was dead if you thought there was a chance that she wasn t, correct? yes. so to be clear the formal suspect in madeleine mccann s case is a convicted rapist and a known pedophile? yes. shockingly, authorities received their first tip on brookner back in 2013, but as a witness in the mccann case, not a suspect. he allegedly lied and told authorities he wasn t in
worked around the ocean club. prosecutors say the suspect lived in this house in praia da luz, portugal. they also say a cell phone listed under his name has been located to have been in the area at the time of maddie s disappearance. authorities also released pictures of these two vehicles he used at the time. another clue, british police say he tried to reregister one of them after maddie vanished. most intriguing is he reregistered the car on may 4th. this is a day after madeleine went missing. two years after german authorities went public, bruckner still has not been formally charged, and he denies any involvement in the mccann case. his attorney did not respond to cnn s request for comment, but spoke in this discovery + documentary in 2021.
disappearance of our lovely daughter madeleine. 14 months passed since madeleine s disappearance with no progress and no charges filed. in july 2008, stunning news. the portuguese attorney general was closing the case. translator: at a certain point, i realized that there were no reliable clues that were any more solid than others. it reminded me of a cat trying to catch its own tail. we were running around in circles without any success. his decision cleared all suspects, including robert murat. i think he was more of a victim. the victim? yeah, they needed someone to blame. this left me completely destroyed. not only myself, my family. it s hard to describe how utterly despairing it was to be named arguido and subsequently
portugal at the time of the disappearance. this may have been the biggest mistake in this case. in the letter inviting him nor kind of interview, they explained to him that this was about the maddie mccann case, and if he s guilty, this gave him all the time in the world to destroy evidence. when you have this man who was living about a mile away from the ocean club. he has a clear criminal record. why did it take so long? that s one of the big questions in this case. christian b. was hiding in plain sight. he lived next to the place, and he was a known child molmoleste. it should have been possible to identify him earlier. in the days right after mad madeleine disappeared, went back to germany. it wasn t until 2017 that german authorities started to really look into christian brookner s past. they searched multiple
these are my shoes. are they new? little madeleine mccann was gone. oh, wow. desperate to get her back, kate and gerry mccann shared their daughter with the world. these are actually the pajamas that madeleine was wearing when she was taken. but the massive amountses of publicity came with some criticism. you know, how much is too much publicity when a child s life is at stake? the media and particularly the media, they lost sight what a real family has been a heinous crime and a completely innocent little girl is missing. from the beginning, the british media had a ferocious appetite for anything related to the mccann case.