and it didn t help that the portuguese authorities shared almost no information. until the summer of 2008. portuguese police, who had been working under conditions of quite extreme secrecy, because that is their judicial law, released the files to the public and the press. so suddenly, there was a tidal wave of thousands of pages of police files, all in portuguese, that anyone could examine. the mccanns spent more than $100,000 to translate the files to english. and then countless hours pouring through them. and i was desperate to go through this myself, because i knew that i d be going through with a fine-tooth comb. the open case files meant vindication for the mccanns. the dna that was found in the trunk of the vehicle, it was ininconclusive. there is no question that the
brought a lot of joy into our family. a family gerry and kate mccann desperately wanted. they met in medical school in the 1990s. he was a cardiac specialist, and kate a family doctor. the mccanns married in december 1998, but struggled to conceive. the mccanns tried very, very hard to have a child. what did they go through? they needed to go through ivf. they had a few problems before madeleine arrived, which made her all the more special in their eyes. i mean, this is a child they really wanted? absolutely. less than two years after madeleine, twin siblings sean and amelie were born. together like one, two, three i just can t believe after five years of desperately trying to have children, to suddenly have three, it was great.
betrayeded in the media as suspects in our daughter s own abduction. look in the police files and see what actually is being done. coming up, the mccanns go it alone. aspercreme arthritis. full prescription-strength. reduces inflammation. don t touch my piano. kick pain in the aspercreme.
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.