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. praia da luz is one of the villages in portugal that had long been just a little fishing village. it attracts a lot of ex patriot tourists, particularly from germany, holland, the uk. it s an easy, safe, relaxed place. quite a small community. a
portuguese resident of praia da luz who lived in 2007 in the home owned by his mother only some 100 yards or so from apartment 5a. she went missing last night. after madeleine s disappearance made the morning use, robert walked out to his yard. that s when i met an english guy that had known the family and i asked if he had spoken portuguese, so i asked if he minded lending a hand. i had a daughter the same age, and if it happened to me, i would want and expect everybody to help me. one of the british newspaper reporters who was there became suspicious of robert marat s behavior and called and alerted. those suspicions snowballed after three of the mccanns friends reported seeing him near 5a the night of the disappears.
we have played no part in the disappearance of our lovely daughter, madeleine. 14 months pass 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 there were no reliable clues any more solid than others. it reminded me of a cat trying to catch its own tail. his decision cleared all suspects, including robert marat. he was more of a victim. he needed someone to blame. just left me completely destroyed. not only myself, my family. it s hard to describe how despairingly it was to be named