work that had already been done by the private investigators. all the information held by our private investigation team, everything has been handed over. british police say their help from private investigators has made a difference. this included a report of men accepting donations for an orphanage that apparently did not even exist. british police say portuguese burglars operating a bogus charity may have been linked with a string of robberies in the area at the time. 17 days before madeleine went missing, there were two separate break-ins near the apartments where the mccanns were staying on holiday. one of the very strong theories that scotland yard pursued was the idea that somebody had been breaking into the apartment, madeleine had woken up, and the burglar, for some reason, had decided to leave but take madeleine with him.
there was a good deal of information about strange men, for want of a better word, who were seen hanging around the mccanns apartments in the days before she disappeared, on the day she disappeared. there are two witnesses who say, independently of one another, that they saw what they described as a very ugly, pockmarked or spotty-skinned man watching apartment 5a. another witness reported having seen suspicious men on a balcony near the mccanns apartment just hours before madeleine disappeared. one of the strong theories that emerged was based on a series of incidents over several years, in various resorts, of men who were seemingly targeting young children, particularly young daughters of british families.
mccanns were no closer to finding out what happened to their daughter. i think, eventually, the mccanns just lost patience that no progress was being made and then cast around for better organizations that they thought might do more to find madeleine. and they really didn t have much luck. it seemed like the trail was going cold. with no one actively looking for their daughter, kate and gerry knew they had to do something to reignite the investigation. so about four years after their daughter disappeared, kate comes out with a book about her daughter, about the investigation. why have you done the book? i suppose there s always been the urge to get the truth out
their daughter. one way they tried was by going to private investigators. the first team of investigators that were hired were a spanish outfit from barcelona, metodo 3, who came with lots of promise. they were very experienced. the parents began learning information few knew about. it turns out that praia da luz and the algarve region was not the quiet little place that the mccanns thought they were going to when they went on vacation. cheer up, gerry, we re on holiday. there was a very deep, unknown reality in algarve that was hiding from the news. those years when madeleine disappeared, 2007, it was a place not only unsafe, but very dangerous. what the mccanns didn t know, and i think what almost any vacationer wouldn t have known in this very beautiful, quiet
he s a deeply, deeply troubling man, a very dangerous individual. the local prosecutor also says that children s bathing suits were found on the premises. there was a person. there was a face. there is a profile. the mccanns are finally cleared of suspicion in the disappearance of their daughter, madeleine, but they are no closer to finding her than the night she went missing. shocking revelations, terrifying theories, and a mysterious lead that may finally hold the answers that s next, in part two. i m jesse l martin. thanks for watching. good night. one, two, three.