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,
that is the parents. now the mccanns are under scrutiny like never before. what an amazing turn of events. there was also speculation that they gave the kids sleeping medication to put them to sleep so that they could go have their dinner at the tapas bar. and i think the thought that these parents might give something to their children, you know, led some people to believe that maybe these were bad people or not good parents. we all used to do that in england, legal drugs, obviously, that will help your child sleep. the thought process, at the time, was that they might have given her something stronger to effectively knock her out and that she might have then died. some thought that the reason the sniffer dog that was brought to the apartment started barking is because it apparently detected blood. some of the portuguese
madeleine. they are suspects. they have both been today declared arguidos with no bail conditions, and no charges have been brought against them. after they were declared suspects by the portuguese authorities, the mccanns made the decision to go back to the united kingdom. they may have been afraid that they were going to be arrested and felt like they needed to go back home. we have played no part in the disappearance of our lovely daughter, madeleine. while the mccanns urged authorities to keep looking for the actual perpetrator, lab results from the blood found in the apartment began coming in. firstly, the investigators thought this is madeleine s blood, but it turned out to be inconclusive. there were people who had lived in the apartment before the mccanns. one of them had a daughter who
we re talking about the disappearance of madeleine mccann, the 4-year-old british girl. local police are called. there s a search of the resort that s expanded to surrounding areas. we were very conscious of searches that were looking for this little girl the hope that she may be in a house across the street. she may be in a house across the town. my thoughts went to, where am i going to get information? i tried to figure out if we could speak with the family, of course, but, well, i was told they were secluded. the first time i saw the mccanns face-to-face was when they gave this press conference outside the apartment. words cannot describe the anguish and despair that we are feeling as the parents of our beautiful daughter madeleine. we d request that anyone who may have any information related to madeleine s disappearance, no matter how trivial, contact the
driving up to their home after being gone in portugal for months and looking at this throng of international media waiting outside their home. and the one thing they really stuck with me is that the front window of their home is filled with stuffies and children s toys. and it is just a reminder that just months ago, this was a house that was bursting with the energy of three children. and these parents are coming home without one of those three children. just after noon, the mccanns step in front of the cameras for the first time since sunday to take their twins to play at an undisclosed location. despite the mccanns being cleared as suspects, the innuendo about the family did not fade. every day, madeleine s picture was on the cover of tabloids. and the british people, half of