1 00:00:14,034 --> 00:00:18,033 >> WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS IN ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST INFAMOUS 2 00:00:18,068 --> 00:00:20,274 MISSING PERSONS MYSTERIES. 3 00:00:20,309 --> 00:00:22,033 >> A GERMAN PRISONER HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A NEW SUSPECT 4 00:00:22,068 --> 00:00:26,033 IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MADELEINE McCANN 5 00:00:26,068 --> 00:00:31,000 FROM A HOLIDAY RESORT IN PORTUGAL 13 YEARS AGO. 6 00:00:31,033 --> 00:00:35,378 >> Reporter: IT IS EVERY PARENT'S GREATEST FEAR... 7 00:00:35,412 --> 00:00:38,000 >> PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT HURTHER. 8 00:00:38,033 --> 00:00:41,310 PLEASE TELL US WHERE TO FINDHER. 9 00:00:41,344 --> 00:00:43,240 >> Reporter: THREE-YEAR-OLDMADELEINE McCANN TAKEN FROM HER 10 00:00:43,274 --> 00:00:49,000 BED, WITH NO CLUE LEFT BEHIND. 11 00:00:49,033 --> 00:00:50,448 [ HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]>> WE DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE IS. 12 00:00:50,481 --> 00:00:52,000 WE DON'T KNOW WHO'S TAKEN HER. 13 00:00:52,033 --> 00:00:53,930 WE DON'T KNOW WHY. 14 00:00:53,965 --> 00:00:55,310 >> Reporter: A MASSIVE SEARCH... 15 00:00:55,344 --> 00:01:00,000 [ INDISTINCT CHATTER]...A GLOBAL MEDIA STORM, AND AN 16 00:01:00,033 --> 00:01:04,000 INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION. 17 00:01:04,034 --> 00:01:12,034 DAYS TURNED INTO MONTHS, TURNEDINTO YEARS, WITH NO ANSWERS. 18 00:01:12,067 --> 00:01:13,034 >> THAT HOPE IS STILL THERE. 19 00:01:13,067 --> 00:01:14,688 THERE'S STILL HOPETHAT WE CAN FIND MADELEINE. 20 00:01:14,724 --> 00:01:16,033 >> Reporter: IT'S A MYSTERYTHAT HAS BEEN COMPARED 21 00:01:16,067 --> 00:01:20,033 TO A JIGSAW PUZZLEWITH TOO MANY PIECES MISSING. 22 00:01:20,067 --> 00:01:22,171 UNTIL NOW. 23 00:01:22,206 --> 00:01:24,033 >> [ SPEAKING GERMAN]>> [ translated]: THE ACCUSED 24 00:01:24,067 --> 00:01:28,343 IS A SEX OFFENDER WITH SEVERALPREVIOUS CONVICTIONS WHO HAS 25 00:01:28,379 --> 00:01:35,067 ALREADY BEEN CONVICTED OF SEXUALABUSE OF CHILDREN. 26 00:01:35,103 --> 00:01:39,310 >> Reporter: HIS NAME ISCHRISTIAN BRUECKNER. 27 00:01:39,343 --> 00:01:43,171 >> HE ABSOLUTELY MATCHESTHE PROFILE OF A PERSON WHO 28 00:01:43,206 --> 00:01:44,343 COULD POTENTIALLY ABDUCT AND/ORKILL A LITTLE GIRL LIKE 29 00:01:44,378 --> 00:01:50,000 MADELEINE McCANN. 30 00:01:50,033 --> 00:01:52,343 >> Reporter: WAS HE ANYWHERENEAR THE RESORT WHERE THIS CRIME 31 00:01:52,378 --> 00:01:53,826 TOOK PLACE? 32 00:01:53,861 --> 00:01:56,000 >> HE LIVED IN A HOUSERIGHT ABOUT ONE MILE AWAY 33 00:01:56,033 --> 00:02:06,137 FROM WHERE MADELEINEWAS POTENTIALLY ABDUCTED. 34 00:02:06,171 --> 00:02:08,000 >> IT'S ONE PART OF THE PUZZLE,YOU CAN SAY, BUT THERE ARE SOME 35 00:02:08,033 --> 00:02:14,620 PIECES MISSING FOR THIS PUZZLETO COMPLETE IT. 36 00:02:14,655 --> 00:02:18,793 >> HIS CELL PHONE WAS TRACKEDAT THE CRIME SCENE, OR AT LEAST 37 00:02:18,826 --> 00:02:26,275 NEXT TO THE CRIME SCENE, THENIGHT MADDIE DISAPPEARED. 38 00:02:26,310 --> 00:02:28,516 >> THAT CALL PUTS HIM IN THEAREA AT THE TIME THE CRIME WAS 39 00:02:28,550 --> 00:02:34,206 COMMITTED. 40 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,171 >> ON HIS PROPERTY IN GERMANY,THEY FOUND U.S.B. DRIVES WITH 41 00:02:38,206 --> 00:02:41,930 PICTURES AND VIDEOS OF CHILDABUSE. 42 00:02:41,965 --> 00:02:44,033 >> IT'S WHEN YOU PUT THOSETHINGS TOGETHER THAT YOU GET 43 00:02:44,067 --> 00:02:48,033 THAT CLEARER FOCUS WHERE THEJIGSAW BECOMES MUCH, MUCH MORE 44 00:02:48,067 --> 00:02:50,103 COMPLETE. 45 00:02:54,586 --> 00:03:00,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 13 YEARS,I HAVE TO SAY, I ACTUALLY FELT, 46 00:03:00,033 --> 00:03:03,343 HERE IS A CREDIBLE SUSPECT. 47 00:03:16,068 --> 00:03:28,033 ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 48 00:03:28,068 --> 00:03:29,068 ♪ ♪♪ ♪ 49 00:03:57,033 --> 00:04:00,000 >> WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY A FEWWORDS TO THE PERSON WHO IS WITH 50 00:04:00,033 --> 00:04:01,205 MADELEINE. 51 00:04:01,241 --> 00:04:06,000 MADELEINE IS A BEAUTIFUL,BRIGHT, FUNNY, AND CARING LITTLE 52 00:04:06,033 --> 00:04:08,000 GIRL. 53 00:04:08,033 --> 00:04:09,000 SHE IS SO SPECIAL. 54 00:04:09,033 --> 00:04:14,205 WE NEED OUR MADELEINE, ANDMADELEINE NEEDS US. 55 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:21,000 PLEASE GIVE OUR LITTLE GIRLBACK. 56 00:04:21,033 --> 00:04:23,206 >> Reporter: IT'S BEEN MORETHAN A DECADE OF WAITING FOR 57 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:24,379 KATE AND GERRY McCANN. 58 00:04:24,413 --> 00:04:28,000 >> WE WILL LEAVE NO STONEUNTURNED IN THE SEARCH FOR OUR 59 00:04:28,033 --> 00:04:29,310 DAUGHTER, MADELEINE. 60 00:04:29,343 --> 00:04:33,000 >> Reporter: YEARS OF SEARCHINGSINCE THEIR DAUGHTER DISAPPEARED 61 00:04:33,033 --> 00:04:36,103 ON MAY 3, 2007. 62 00:04:36,137 --> 00:04:37,103 >> WE HAVE TO BE HOPEFUL. 63 00:04:37,137 --> 00:04:39,550 IT'S WHAT KEEPS US GOING ANDKEEPS US FOCUSED. 64 00:04:39,586 --> 00:04:41,137 >> Reporter: NOW, THEY FINALLYMAY BE CLOSER TO FINDING OUT 65 00:04:41,172 --> 00:04:44,723 WHAT HAPPENED TO MADELEINE. 66 00:04:49,067 --> 00:04:53,033 THIS PAST JUNE, IN BRAUNSCHWEIG,GERMANY, PROSECUTOR HANS 67 00:04:53,067 --> 00:04:59,240 CHRISTIAN WOLTERS HELD A PRESSCONFERENCE AND MADE A STUNNING 68 00:04:59,274 --> 00:05:01,033 ANNOUNCEMENT: GERMAN POLICE HADA SUSPECT, 43-YEAR-OLD CHRISTIAN 69 00:05:01,067 --> 00:05:05,033 BRUECKNER. 70 00:05:05,067 --> 00:05:08,379 HE ALSO HAD DEVASTATING NEWS. 71 00:05:08,413 --> 00:05:12,103 >> Reporter: HE DECLARED THATMADELEINE McCANN WAS LIKELY 72 00:05:12,137 --> 00:05:13,240 DEAD. 73 00:05:13,274 --> 00:05:15,550 IT'S BEEN SAID THAT GERMANPROSECUTORS ARE ALWAYS VERY 74 00:05:15,586 --> 00:05:17,033 TIGHT-LIPPED. 75 00:05:17,067 --> 00:05:20,310 YOU MUST HAVE SOME STRONGEVIDENCE THAT ALLOWED YOU TO 76 00:05:20,343 --> 00:05:24,103 MAKE THAT STATEMENT TO THEPUBLIC. 77 00:05:24,137 --> 00:05:26,862 >> WE HAVE STRONG EVIDENCETHAT CHRISTIAN B. KILLED MADDIE 78 00:05:26,896 --> 00:05:27,896 McCANN. 79 00:05:27,930 --> 00:05:29,274 >> Reporter: BUT YOU DON'T HAVEA BODY, CORRECT? 80 00:05:29,310 --> 00:05:30,274 THERE'S NO BODY? 81 00:05:30,310 --> 00:05:32,930 >> NO, WE HAVE-- WE HAVE NOFORENSIC EVIDENCE. 82 00:05:32,965 --> 00:05:36,447 >> Reporter: THEN, HOW CAN YOUBE SO CERTAIN? 83 00:05:36,481 --> 00:05:37,723 >> WE HAVE OTHER EVIDENCE. 84 00:05:37,757 --> 00:05:41,000 >> Reporter: JUST AS GERMAN LAWDOES NOT ALLOW WOLTERS TO USE 85 00:05:41,033 --> 00:05:44,862 BRUECKNER'S FULL NAME, HE ALSOCANNOT SAY WHAT THAT EVIDENCE 86 00:05:44,896 --> 00:05:46,103 IS. 87 00:05:46,137 --> 00:05:49,310 >> I HEARD THE NEWS THAT THEGERMANS HAD A CREDIBLE SUSPECT, 88 00:05:49,343 --> 00:05:53,033 AND MY FIRST THING WAS, HERE WEGO AGAIN. 89 00:05:53,067 --> 00:05:56,930 >> Reporter: JIM GAMBLE WAS HEADOF THE U.K.'S CHILD EXPLOITATION 90 00:05:56,965 --> 00:06:01,033 AND ONLINE PROTECTION CENTERAND INVOLVED IN THE EARLY 91 00:06:01,067 --> 00:06:01,862 INVESTIGATION. 92 00:06:01,896 --> 00:06:03,067 MADELEINE'S CASE WAS COMPLEX. 93 00:06:03,103 --> 00:06:05,067 OVER THE YEARS, HE HAS SEENCOUNTLESS LEADS END UP AS DEAD 94 00:06:05,103 --> 00:06:07,689 ENDS. 95 00:06:07,723 --> 00:06:09,033 BUT THIS TIME, HE BELIEVES THEGERMANS MAY BE ON THE RIGHT 96 00:06:09,067 --> 00:06:12,516 TRACK. 97 00:06:12,550 --> 00:06:16,654 >> EVERYONE, INCLUDING MYSELF,WHO'S TOUCHED THIS CASE IS MORE 98 00:06:16,689 --> 00:06:21,000 HOPEFUL WITH THE GERMAN CASETHAN-- THAN WE'VE BEEN IN 13 99 00:06:21,033 --> 00:06:22,930 YEARS. 100 00:06:26,654 --> 00:06:29,033 >> Reporter: BACK IN MAY OF2007, BRITISH DOCTORS GERRY AND 101 00:06:29,067 --> 00:06:32,550 KATE McCANN WERE ON VACATIONWITH THEIR FAMILY IN PRAIA DA 102 00:06:32,586 --> 00:06:39,896 LUZ, A RESORT TOWN IN THEALGARVE REGION OF PORTUGAL. 103 00:06:39,930 --> 00:06:41,000 >> THE COASTLINE'S BEAUTIFUL. 104 00:06:41,033 --> 00:06:42,274 THE SUNSHINE'S BEAUTIFUL. 105 00:06:42,310 --> 00:06:44,965 >> Reporter: JANE HILL IS A BBCNEWS ANCHOR WHO COVERED 106 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,206 MADELEINE'S STORY. 107 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,689 >> IT WAS JUST A REGULAR,RELAXED WEEK IN THE SUN. 108 00:06:49,723 --> 00:06:52,447 >> Reporter: THE FIVE MEMBERSOF THE McCANN FAMILY, INCLUDING 109 00:06:52,481 --> 00:06:54,654 MADELEINE AND HER YOUNGER TWINBROTHER AND SISTER, STAYED AT 110 00:06:54,689 --> 00:06:56,413 THE OCEAN CLUB. 111 00:06:56,447 --> 00:07:01,033 THEY WERE JOINED BY SEVERALOTHER FAMILIES. 112 00:07:01,067 --> 00:07:03,723 >> THE OCEAN CLUB RESORT WASSEEN AS A PLACE WHERE FAMILIES 113 00:07:03,757 --> 00:07:04,516 WENT. 114 00:07:04,550 --> 00:07:06,000 THEY'D GONE THEREFOR GENERATIONS. 115 00:07:06,033 --> 00:07:09,620 IT WOULD SEEM TO BE FAMILY-FRIENDLY AND SAFE. 116 00:07:09,654 --> 00:07:12,103 >> WE WERE HAVING A GREATHOLIDAY. 117 00:07:12,137 --> 00:07:13,033 IT WAS-- WE HAD LOTS OF FUN. 118 00:07:13,067 --> 00:07:16,310 >> Reporter: ESPECIALLY FUN FORMADELEINE. 119 00:07:16,343 --> 00:07:18,689 >> SHE MIGHT LOOK LIKE KATE,BUT, IN TERMS OF PERSONALITY, 120 00:07:18,723 --> 00:07:19,550 SHE'S MUCH MORE OF A McCANN. 121 00:07:19,586 --> 00:07:21,033 SHE'S VERY EXTROVERTED ANDLIVELY. 122 00:07:21,067 --> 00:07:23,447 SHE'S VERY SOCIABLE. 123 00:07:26,550 --> 00:07:29,033 >> Reporter: BUT THEIR IDYLLICHOLIDAY WOULD SOON COME TO AN 124 00:07:29,067 --> 00:07:33,033 END. 125 00:07:33,067 --> 00:07:37,033 ON MAY 3, AT AROUND 8:30 P.M.,THE McCANNS LEFT THEIR SLEEPING 126 00:07:37,067 --> 00:07:41,033 CHILDREN ALONE IN THEIR UNLOCKEDAPARTMENT AND WENT TO MEET 127 00:07:41,067 --> 00:07:44,826 FRIENDS AT THE RESORT'S TAPASBAR ABOUT 50 YARDS AWAY. 128 00:07:44,862 --> 00:07:47,723 >> THAT WAS THEIR ROUTINEBEHAVIOR. 129 00:07:47,757 --> 00:07:48,654 THEY HAD BEEN DOING IT ALL WEEK. 130 00:07:48,689 --> 00:07:51,172 >> AND THE-- THE FRIENDS WOULDTAKE TURNS. 131 00:07:51,206 --> 00:07:53,033 SO, EVERY 15 MINUTES OR SO, ONEOF THE ADULTS FROM THE GROUP 132 00:07:53,067 --> 00:07:56,033 WOULD-- WOULD GO BACK AND JUSTCHECK ON THEIR SLEEPING CHILDREN 133 00:07:56,067 --> 00:07:58,757 AND-- AND CHECK THAT EVERYTHINGWAS OKAY. 134 00:07:58,793 --> 00:08:01,033 >> Reporter: AT 10:00 P.M., WHENIT WAS KATE'S TURN, SHE FOUND 135 00:08:01,067 --> 00:08:04,103 THE TWINS SOUND ASLEEP. 136 00:08:04,137 --> 00:08:08,930 BUT THIS BED-- MADELEINE'S BED--WAS EMPTY. 137 00:08:08,964 --> 00:08:11,620 >> KATE SAID TO ME, "JANE,MADELEINE'S GONE. 138 00:08:11,654 --> 00:08:12,757 MADELEINE'S GONE." 139 00:08:12,793 --> 00:08:16,067 >> Reporter: JANE TANNER WASONE OF THE FRIENDS WHO WAS 140 00:08:16,103 --> 00:08:17,240 DINING WITH THE McCANNS. 141 00:08:17,274 --> 00:08:19,654 IT'S THE LEAST THING YOU'DEVER THINK IN A MILLION YEARS 142 00:08:19,689 --> 00:08:21,172 THAT, YOU KNOW, A CHILDIS GOING TO BE ABDUCTED 143 00:08:21,206 --> 00:08:24,862 IN A SAFE FAMILY RESORT. 144 00:08:24,896 --> 00:08:27,896 >> Reporter: WHEN TANNER HEARDTHAT MADELEINE HAD DISAPPEARED, 145 00:08:27,930 --> 00:08:30,757 SHE SAYS SHE REMEMBERED THAT,EARLIER IN THE EVENING, 146 00:08:30,793 --> 00:08:33,172 AS SHE WALKED NEAR THE OCEANCLUB, SHE PASSED A MAN WHO HAD 147 00:08:33,206 --> 00:08:36,447 CAUGHT HER ATTENTION. 148 00:08:36,481 --> 00:08:38,931 >> AS I WAS WALKING UP THE ROAD,THIS MAN WAS WALKING ACROSS THE 149 00:08:38,965 --> 00:08:43,240 TOP OF THE ROAD, CARRYING ASMALL CHILD. 150 00:08:43,274 --> 00:08:45,102 THING THAT I NOTICED THE MOSTWAS HE WAS HOLDING HER, AND I 151 00:08:45,136 --> 00:08:49,033 COULD SEE THE BARE-- HER BAREFEET AND THE BOTTOM OF THE 152 00:08:49,067 --> 00:08:50,240 PAJAMAS. 153 00:08:50,274 --> 00:08:53,000 >> Reporter: TANNER TOLD THEPORTUGUESE POLICE WHAT SHE HAD 154 00:08:53,033 --> 00:08:57,000 WITNESSED THAT NIGHT, BUTINVESTIGATORS DIDN'T APPEAR TO 155 00:08:57,033 --> 00:08:58,586 TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION. 156 00:08:58,620 --> 00:09:00,895 >> THERE WAS QUITE A LAISSEZ-FAIRE ATTITUDE. 157 00:09:00,931 --> 00:09:01,481 "SHE'S WANDERED OFF SOMEWHERE. 158 00:09:01,517 --> 00:09:03,551 SHE'S PROBABLY GOT LOST. 159 00:09:03,586 --> 00:09:05,033 WE'LL FIND HER. 160 00:09:05,067 --> 00:09:06,136 SHE'LL COME BACK." 161 00:09:06,172 --> 00:09:08,000 AND THAT WAS ONE OF THECRITICISMS, THAT-- THAT THE 162 00:09:08,033 --> 00:09:11,758 POLICE ACTIVITY DIDN'T REALLYGET GOING UNTIL THE NEXT DAY. 163 00:09:11,793 --> 00:09:14,172 >> POLICE IN PORTUGAL AREINVESTIGATING CLAIMS THAT A 164 00:09:14,206 --> 00:09:17,000 THREE-YEAR-OLD BRITISH GIRL HASBEEN ABDUCTED. 165 00:09:17,033 --> 00:09:19,379 >> Reporter: BY THAT TIME,MADELEINE'S DISAPPEARANCE 166 00:09:19,413 --> 00:09:23,000 WAS MAKING HEADLINES ACROSS THEWORLD. 167 00:09:23,033 --> 00:09:27,000 >> I'M JANE HILL, LIVE IN THEALGARVE, WHERE THERE IS STILL NO 168 00:09:27,033 --> 00:09:28,551 SIGN OF... 169 00:09:28,586 --> 00:09:30,344 MY EDITOR TOOK ME OFF-AIR THEDAY AFTER SHE DISAPPEARED AND 170 00:09:30,379 --> 00:09:32,861 SAID, "GET ON A PLANE TOPORTUGAL." 171 00:09:32,895 --> 00:09:36,102 >> Reporter: HILL WAS ONE OF THEFIRST BRITISH JOURNALISTS AT THE 172 00:09:36,136 --> 00:09:37,688 SCENE. 173 00:09:37,724 --> 00:09:40,826 WHY DID THIS CAPTURE PEOPLE'SATTENTION SO? 174 00:09:40,861 --> 00:09:45,931 >> IT IS EVERY PARENT'SNIGHTMARE, ISN'T IT? 175 00:09:45,965 --> 00:09:49,102 >> Reporter: IN SOME WAYS,MADELEINE WAS MORE THAN A 176 00:09:49,136 --> 00:09:49,931 DAUGHTER TO THE McCANNS. 177 00:09:49,965 --> 00:09:51,517 SHE WAS THEIR MIRACLE. 178 00:09:51,551 --> 00:09:54,379 UNABLE TO CONCEIVE, THE COUPLEENDURED A SERIES OF GRUELING IN 179 00:09:54,413 --> 00:10:00,379 VITRO FERTILIZATION PROCEDURES,UNTIL KATE FINALLY BECAME 180 00:10:00,413 --> 00:10:01,620 PREGNANT WITH MADELEINE. 181 00:10:01,654 --> 00:10:05,481 WHAT WAS IT LIKE FOR GERRY ANDKATE WHEN MADELEINE WAS BORN? 182 00:10:05,517 --> 00:10:07,758 >> WELL, THEY WERE WALKING ONAIR, QUITE FRANKLY. 183 00:10:07,793 --> 00:10:10,274 >> Reporter: FAMILY FRIENDJON CORNER SPOKE TO "48 HOURS" 184 00:10:10,309 --> 00:10:13,274 BACK IN 2007. 185 00:10:13,309 --> 00:10:17,931 THE BOND BETWEEN KATE ANDMADELEINE WAS-- IS SOMETHING 186 00:10:17,965 --> 00:10:20,240 AMAZING, REALLY. 187 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,965 >> PLEASE, IF YOU HAVEMADELEINE, LET HER COME HOME TO 188 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:32,861 HER MUMMY, DADDY, BROTHER ANDSISTER. 189 00:10:32,895 --> 00:10:34,965 >> [ SPEAKING PORTUGUESE]>> Reporter: WITHIN DAYS, 190 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,654 MADELEINE'S FACE FUELED ONE OFTHE LARGEST INTERNATIONAL 191 00:10:37,688 --> 00:10:41,861 SEARCHES FOR A MISSING CHILD INHISTORY. 192 00:10:41,895 --> 00:10:45,586 >> MADELEINE'S FACE BECAMESO FAMILIAR. 193 00:10:45,620 --> 00:10:46,033 SHE BECAME UBIQUITOUS. 194 00:10:46,067 --> 00:10:47,240 >> MADELEINE! 195 00:10:47,274 --> 00:10:48,000 MADELEINE! 196 00:10:48,033 --> 00:10:50,000 MADELINE! 197 00:10:50,033 --> 00:10:51,309 MADELEINE! 198 00:10:51,344 --> 00:10:53,758 >> IT WAS HEARTBREAKINGBECAUSE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE 199 00:10:53,793 --> 00:10:57,551 RELEASED THAT THE FAMILYHAD TAKEN ON THAT HOLIDAY. 200 00:10:57,586 --> 00:11:01,586 [ BELL TOLLING]>> IT'S OBVIOUSLY EXTREMELY 201 00:11:01,620 --> 00:11:02,895 DIFFICULT. 202 00:11:02,931 --> 00:11:06,033 >> EVERY DAY ME AND MY TEAM WERETHERE, WE JUST WATCHED THE PRESS 203 00:11:06,067 --> 00:11:08,067 PACK GROW AND GROW AND GROW. 204 00:11:08,102 --> 00:11:11,000 >> Reporter: AS THE CAMERASFOLLOWED THE McCANNS EVERYWHERE, 205 00:11:11,033 --> 00:11:14,965 IT SEEMED KATE WAS NEVER WITHOUTMADELEINE'S PINK STUFFED ANIMAL. 206 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,240 >> WELL, IT'S SOMETHING THATMADELEINE HAS WITH HER EVERY 207 00:11:16,274 --> 00:11:17,413 NIGHT. 208 00:11:17,447 --> 00:11:22,136 AND IF SHE'S UPSET OR NOT WELL,THEN SHE HAS CUDDLE CAT. 209 00:11:22,172 --> 00:11:24,240 AND SO, IT PROVIDED ME WITH ALITTLE BIT OF COMFORT, SOMETHING 210 00:11:24,274 --> 00:11:27,102 OF MADELEINE CLOSE TO ME. 211 00:11:29,793 --> 00:11:32,102 >> Reporter: DAYS PASSED, ANDTHE McCANNS GREW FRUSTRATED 212 00:11:32,136 --> 00:11:36,240 AS THE PORTUGUESE POLICECONDUCTED THEIR INVESTIGATION 213 00:11:36,274 --> 00:11:41,172 AND SHARED VERY LITTLE. 214 00:11:41,206 --> 00:11:43,344 >> PORTUGUESE POLICE ARE NOTALLOWED TO REVEAL ANY DETAILS 215 00:11:43,379 --> 00:11:47,379 OF AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION--NOT JUST TO PEOPLE LIKE ME, 216 00:11:47,413 --> 00:11:48,379 TO THE FAMILY INVOLVED. 217 00:11:48,413 --> 00:11:52,274 AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVENO INFORMATION? 218 00:11:52,309 --> 00:11:56,274 YOU GET RUMOR, GOSSIP,SPECULATION. 219 00:11:56,309 --> 00:12:00,274 THERE WAS NO PROOF OF ANYTHING. 220 00:12:00,309 --> 00:12:01,309 THAT'S THE TROUBLE. 221 00:12:24,033 --> 00:12:25,172 [ HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]>> IT'S ALMOST A WEEK 222 00:12:25,206 --> 00:12:28,758 SINCE MADELEINE WAS ABDUCTEDFROM HER HOLIDAY APARTMENT. 223 00:12:28,793 --> 00:12:32,654 >> THE EXPAT COMMUNITY IN THEALGARVE WERE THE FIRST TO JOIN 224 00:12:32,688 --> 00:12:36,793 THE SEARCH FOR MADELEINE, AND,SIX DAYS ON, THEY STILL FEEL 225 00:12:36,826 --> 00:12:39,240 COMPELLED TO CARRY ON THE HUNT. 226 00:12:39,274 --> 00:12:40,758 >> I CRIED YESTERDAY. 227 00:12:40,793 --> 00:12:44,793 I'VE-- I'M CRYING NOW. 228 00:12:44,826 --> 00:12:46,551 I'M JUST VERY UPSET ABOUT IT. 229 00:12:46,586 --> 00:12:48,586 >> THERE WERE RUMORS CIRCULATED,ALL THE TIME. 230 00:12:48,620 --> 00:12:51,517 I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT A RUMORMILL IT WAS. 231 00:12:51,551 --> 00:12:56,586 AND YOU WOULD THINK, WHERE ISTHIS COMING FROM? 232 00:12:56,620 --> 00:12:58,793 >> Reporter: A WEEK AFTERMADELEINE'S DISAPPEARANCE, 233 00:12:58,826 --> 00:13:00,758 SUSPICION FELL ON A MAN WHOLIVED JUST DOWN THE STREET FROM 234 00:13:00,793 --> 00:13:04,379 WHERE MADELEINE HAD VANISHED. 235 00:13:04,413 --> 00:13:05,826 >> WHY ARE YOU JUST TALKINGTO ONE JOURNALIST? 236 00:13:05,861 --> 00:13:08,826 >> Reporter: TELL ME, WHO ISROBERT MURAT? 237 00:13:08,861 --> 00:13:15,033 ROBERT MURAT IS A BRITISH EX-PATWHO LIVES IN-- IN PRAIA DA LUZ, 238 00:13:15,067 --> 00:13:16,793 SO HE HAD LOCAL KNOWLEDGE. 239 00:13:16,826 --> 00:13:18,826 AND HE SPOKE PORTUGUESE ANDENGAGED WITH A NUMBER OF 240 00:13:18,861 --> 00:13:20,861 REPORTERS AND OTHERS INPROXIMITY TO THE INVESTIGATION 241 00:13:20,895 --> 00:13:24,000 AND OFFERED HIMSELF UP TOPROVIDE HELP BY WAY OF 242 00:13:24,033 --> 00:13:25,517 TRANSLATION OR ADVICE. 243 00:13:25,551 --> 00:13:27,965 >> Reporter: POLICE QUICKLYNAMED MURAT A SUSPECT. 244 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,793 WITNESSES SAY MURAT SHOWED UPAT THE OCEAN CLUB AFTER 245 00:13:31,826 --> 00:13:35,102 MADELEINE DISAPPEARED ANDCLAIMED HE WAS ACTING 246 00:13:35,136 --> 00:13:36,033 SUSPICIOUSLY. 247 00:13:36,067 --> 00:13:39,965 MURAT'S MOTHER SAID THAT WASN'TPOSSIBLE. 248 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,688 THEY COULDN'T HAVE SEEN HIM. 249 00:13:43,724 --> 00:13:44,895 HE WAS AT HOME ALL NIGHT. 250 00:13:44,931 --> 00:13:47,172 >> Reporter: THEN, THE PUBLICBEGAN TO TURN ON THE McCANNS 251 00:13:47,206 --> 00:13:52,413 FOR LEAVING THEIR DAUGHTERALONE. 252 00:13:52,447 --> 00:13:55,965 DID IT GO FROM "WE FEEL SO SORRYFOR YOU" TO "HOW COULD YOU 253 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,965 HAVE DONE THAT?">> THERE WERE PEOPLE SAYING 254 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,379 THAT. 255 00:14:02,413 --> 00:14:05,447 I RECORDED AN INTERVIEWWITH A MAN FROM THE ALGARVE 256 00:14:05,481 --> 00:14:06,517 TOURIST BOARD. 257 00:14:06,551 --> 00:14:08,102 HE SAID, "I MEAN, YOU KEEPAN EYE ON YOUR SUITCASE. 258 00:14:08,136 --> 00:14:11,379 WHY WOULD YOU NOT KEEP AN EYEON YOUR CHILD?" 259 00:14:11,413 --> 00:14:15,861 >> Reporter: IT'S A QUESTIONJANE HILL HAD TO RAISE WHEN SHE 260 00:14:15,895 --> 00:14:20,033 BECAME THE FIRST REPORTER TOINTERVIEW KATE AND GERRY McCANN. 261 00:14:20,067 --> 00:14:23,481 >> A LOT OF PEOPLE, IN THE LASTTHREE WEEKS, HAVE SAID, "I CAN'T 262 00:14:23,517 --> 00:14:24,551 IMAGINE DOING SUCH A THING. 263 00:14:24,586 --> 00:14:27,172 "I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO LEAVETHREE CHILDREN IN THAT 264 00:14:27,206 --> 00:14:28,136 SITUATION." 265 00:14:28,172 --> 00:14:32,000 HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THOSE SORTOF COMMENTS? 266 00:14:32,033 --> 00:14:34,033 >> I THINK, YOU KNOW, NO ONEWILL EVER FEEL MORE GUILTY THAN 267 00:14:34,067 --> 00:14:35,654 US. 268 00:14:35,688 --> 00:14:39,102 IF YOU THOUGHT FOR A MINUTE THATSOMEONE COULD ABDUCT YOUR CHILD, 269 00:14:39,136 --> 00:14:41,172 OF COURSE, YOU WOULD NEVER HAVELEFT THEM. 270 00:14:41,206 --> 00:14:43,965 >> Reporter: PORTUGUESEINVESTIGATORS ALSO BEGAN EYEING 271 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,931 THE McCANNS. 272 00:14:46,965 --> 00:14:48,067 [ DOGS BARKING]THREE MONTHS AFTER MADELEINE 273 00:14:48,102 --> 00:14:51,000 VANISHED, SPECIALLY TRAINEDSNIFFER DOGS WERE FLOWN IN 274 00:14:51,033 --> 00:14:55,931 TO SCOUR THE FAMILY'S VACATIONRENTAL. 275 00:14:55,965 --> 00:14:59,620 TRACES OF BLOOD WERE DETECTEDINSIDE THE APARTMENT AND IN THE 276 00:14:59,654 --> 00:15:03,965 TRUNK OF THE McCANNS' RENTALCAR. 277 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,931 PARTIAL SAMPLES OF THE BLOODWERE RECOVERED AND SENT TO A 278 00:15:07,965 --> 00:15:11,895 BRITISH LAB FOR D.N.A. TESTING,BUT THE RESULTS INDICATED THAT 279 00:15:11,931 --> 00:15:17,413 THE BLOOD FOUND IN THE APARTMENTDID NOT BELONG TO MADELEINE, 280 00:15:17,447 --> 00:15:19,067 AND THE RESULTS FROM THE D.N.A. 281 00:15:19,102 --> 00:15:23,481 IN THE RENTAL CAR WEREINCONCLUSIVE. 282 00:15:23,517 --> 00:15:27,793 >> WELL, I'VE SEEN THE LETTERFROM THE FORENSIC SCIENCE LAB. 283 00:15:27,826 --> 00:15:29,895 THE FORENSIC TESTS DIDN'T SAY,"THIS D.N.A. IS MADELEINE 284 00:15:29,931 --> 00:15:32,379 McCANN'S" BECAUSE, ACTUALLY,THE FULL ANALYSIS OF THAT SAYS 285 00:15:32,413 --> 00:15:35,931 THAT UP TO HALF THE FORENSICSCIENTISTS IN THE LAB WOULD HAVE 286 00:15:35,965 --> 00:15:37,620 HAD SIMILAR D.N.A. 287 00:15:37,654 --> 00:15:38,274 CHARACTERISTICS. 288 00:15:38,309 --> 00:15:39,551 IT WAS NOT A COMPLETE D.N.A. 289 00:15:39,586 --> 00:15:40,206 SAMPLE. 290 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,309 >> Reporter: WHAT'S MORE... 291 00:15:43,344 --> 00:15:45,654 >> THE CAR WASN'T ACTUALLYRETAINED BY THE McCANNS UNTIL 292 00:15:45,688 --> 00:15:50,102 WEEKS AFTER MADELEINE HAD GONEMISSING. 293 00:15:50,136 --> 00:15:51,688 AND IF YOU ARE TO BELIEVE THATMADELEINE WAS IN THE BOOT OF THE 294 00:15:51,724 --> 00:15:55,447 CAR, THEY MUST HAVE EITHERKILLED HER AND/OR HIDDEN HER 295 00:15:55,481 --> 00:15:59,517 SOMETIME EARLIER, RECOVERED HERBODY WHILST THE MEDIA WERE 296 00:15:59,551 --> 00:16:03,965 SURVEILLING THEM, HIDDEN IT INTHE CAR, THEN MOVED IT TO A 297 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,965 PLACE WHERE THEY COULD DISPOSEOF IT WHERE NO ONE COULD SEE 298 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,793 THAT HAPPEN, AND THEN BRING THECAR BACK. 299 00:16:10,826 --> 00:16:11,965 IT JUST DOESN'T ADD UP. 300 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,033 THE FORENSICS DON'T ADD UP. 301 00:16:14,067 --> 00:16:15,931 >> Reporter: AND YET, FOURMONTHS AFTER MADELEINE 302 00:16:15,965 --> 00:16:18,067 VANISHED... 303 00:16:18,102 --> 00:16:20,481 >> TODAY, KATE McCANN HASRETURNED TO PORTIMAO TO BE 304 00:16:20,517 --> 00:16:23,688 QUESTIONED BY THE PORTUGUESEPOLICE. 305 00:16:23,724 --> 00:16:27,136 >> Reporter: ...PORTUGUESEPOLICE DECLARED THE McCANNS 306 00:16:27,172 --> 00:16:33,067 "ARGUIDOS," SUSPECTS, IN THEIROWN DAUGHTER'S DISAPPEARANCE. 307 00:16:33,102 --> 00:16:36,274 THE ENORMOUS MEDIA COVERAGEIN THIS, DO YOU BELIEVE, IN SOME 308 00:16:36,309 --> 00:16:39,895 WAYS, THAT PRESSURED PORTUGUESEAUTHORITIES TO SAY, "WE HAVE OUR 309 00:16:39,931 --> 00:16:43,688 REAL SUSPECTS. 310 00:16:43,724 --> 00:16:44,413 IT IS KATE AND IT IS GERRY"? 311 00:16:44,447 --> 00:16:46,172 >> WELL, I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT. 312 00:16:46,206 --> 00:16:47,895 YOU'D HAVE TO TALK TO THE SENIORINVESTIGATING OFFICER FROM THE 313 00:16:47,931 --> 00:16:50,724 PORTUGUESE POLICE. 314 00:16:50,758 --> 00:16:53,586 BUT, IN MY OPINION, DO I THINKTHAT THAT TYPE OF PRESSURE WOULD 315 00:16:53,620 --> 00:16:55,895 FOCUS THE ATTENTION OF A SENIORINVESTIGATING OFFICER? 316 00:16:55,931 --> 00:16:57,136 OF COURSE. 317 00:16:57,172 --> 00:16:58,724 >> Reporter: "48 HOURS" REACHEDOUT TO THE PORTUGUESE POLICE 318 00:16:58,758 --> 00:17:03,136 FOR COMMENT, BUT THEY DID NOTREPLY. 319 00:17:03,172 --> 00:17:07,964 >> THE McCANNS SHOULD HAVE BEENSUSPECTS DAY ONE, MINUTE ONE, 320 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,136 HOUR ONE. 321 00:17:09,172 --> 00:17:11,172 AND I DON'T BELIEVE FOR ONESECOND THE McCANNS COMMITTED 322 00:17:11,205 --> 00:17:14,240 THIS CRIME, BUT WHAT I'M SAYINGIS, YOUR ATTENTION SHOULD BE, 323 00:17:14,275 --> 00:17:18,034 FIRST OF ALL, TO LOOK AT THEPARENTS AND ACTUALLY TO RULE 324 00:17:18,067 --> 00:17:20,964 THEM IN OR RULE THEM OUT, NOT TOWAIT UNTIL YOU'RE MONTHS DOWN 325 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,517 THE LINE WHERE YOU HAVEEXHAUSTED ALL OF YOUR OTHER 326 00:17:24,550 --> 00:17:27,931 IDEAS AND TO THEN SAY, "WELL,ACTUALLY, IT MUST BE THE 327 00:17:27,964 --> 00:17:28,826 PARENTS." 328 00:17:28,862 --> 00:17:31,931 'CAUSE THAT'S NOT FAIR ONANYONE. 329 00:17:31,964 --> 00:17:34,378 >> Reporter: SURPRISINGLY,ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER BEING 330 00:17:34,413 --> 00:17:39,481 DECLARED SUSPECTS, THE McCANNSWERE ALLOWED TO FLY TO THE U.K., 331 00:17:39,517 --> 00:17:47,654 RETURNING HOME FOR THE FIRSTTIME WITHOUT THEIR DAUGHTER. 332 00:17:47,689 --> 00:17:51,931 >> WE HAVE PLAYED NO PARTIN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF OUR 333 00:17:51,964 --> 00:17:54,550 LOVELY DAUGHTER, MADELEINE. 334 00:17:54,586 --> 00:17:57,862 >> Reporter: KATE McCANN TOLDHER FAMILY THAT PORTUGUESE 335 00:17:57,895 --> 00:18:02,792 INVESTIGATORS HAD PRESSURED HERTO SIGN A CONFESSION IN WHICH 336 00:18:02,826 --> 00:18:04,309 SHE WAS TO ADMIT THAT MADELEINEHAD DIED ACCIDENTALLY AND THAT 337 00:18:04,344 --> 00:18:07,964 MADELEINE'S DISAPPEARANCE HADBEEN STAGED. 338 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,792 KATE REFUSED. 339 00:18:10,826 --> 00:18:13,205 "48 HOURS" SPOKE TO KATE'SMOTHER IN 2007. 340 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,964 >> KATE SAID, "WHY-- WHY WOULD ISIGN THAT CONFESSION?" 341 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,619 YOU KNOW? 342 00:18:18,654 --> 00:18:23,931 IF AN ACCIDENT HAD HAPPENED,MADELEINE HAD FALLEN, KATE AND 343 00:18:23,964 --> 00:18:25,000 GERRY WOULDN'T HAVE HIDDEN THAT. 344 00:18:25,034 --> 00:18:27,448 [ INDISTINCT SHOUTING]>> KATE! KATE! 345 00:18:27,481 --> 00:18:28,619 >> GERRY... 346 00:18:28,654 --> 00:18:31,413 >> Reporter: WHEN THE McCANNSWERE NAMED AS SUSPECTS IN 347 00:18:31,448 --> 00:18:35,895 PORTUGAL, WERE THEY SEEN ASSUSPECTS IN THE U.K., AS WELL? 348 00:18:35,931 --> 00:18:39,378 >> I'M SURE THERE WERE PEOPLEIN THE U.K. WHO DID THINK THAT 349 00:18:39,413 --> 00:18:41,586 THEY HAD HAD SOME INVOLVEMENT,AND THAT WAS REFLECTED 350 00:18:41,619 --> 00:18:45,964 PARTICULARLY IN THE BRITISHTABLOID PRESS. 351 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,034 >> Reporter: SOME BRITISHNEWSPAPERS BEGAN RUNNING 352 00:18:50,067 --> 00:18:51,931 UNSUBSTANTIATED, SENSATIONALSTORY LINES. 353 00:18:51,964 --> 00:18:54,931 >> AND WHAT HAPPENED IS, THE WAROF THE TABLOIDS BEGAN TO TAKE 354 00:18:54,964 --> 00:18:56,172 PLACE. 355 00:18:56,205 --> 00:18:59,931 >> Reporter: THE ONSLAUGHT OFWILD ACCUSATIONS CONTINUED FOR 356 00:18:59,964 --> 00:19:05,654 MONTHS, EFFECTIVELY PORTRAYINGTHE McCANNS AS KILLERS. 357 00:19:05,689 --> 00:19:08,240 >> AND THEN, YOU GET THEARMCHAIR DETECTIVES. 358 00:19:08,275 --> 00:19:11,964 WITH SOCIAL MEDIA, YOU'VE GOTTHE GEEKS, FREAKS AND MORONS. 359 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,964 BUT WHEN YOU'VE GOT THIS WORLDOF BILE BEING CREATED ONLINE, 360 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,000 THEN PEOPLE CONTINUALLY FEED IT. 361 00:19:19,034 --> 00:19:23,481 >> Reporter: IT WASN'T UNTILTHE FOLLOWING SUMMER, IN JULY 362 00:19:23,517 --> 00:19:26,309 2008, THAT PORTUGUESEINVESTIGATORS CLEARED THE 363 00:19:26,344 --> 00:19:27,481 McCANNS. 364 00:19:27,517 --> 00:19:31,964 BY THEN, GERRY AND KATE HADSPENT NEARLY A YEAR UNDER A 365 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,344 CLOUD OF SUSPICION. 366 00:19:34,378 --> 00:19:39,378 >> IT'S HARD TO DESCRIBE HOWUTTERLY DESPAIRING IT WAS TO BE 367 00:19:39,413 --> 00:19:42,344 NAMED ARGUIDOAND SUBSEQUENTLYPORTRAYED IN THE MEDIA AS 368 00:19:42,378 --> 00:19:46,205 SUSPECTS IN OUR OWN DAUGHTER'SABDUCTION. 369 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:49,034 >> Reporter: THE POLICE ALSOCLEARED ROBERT MURAT. 370 00:19:49,067 --> 00:19:51,931 BUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO LITTLEMADELEINE? 371 00:19:51,964 --> 00:19:56,240 THE McCANNS REMAINED SINGULARLYFOCUSED ON FINDING OUT. 372 00:19:56,275 --> 00:19:59,931 I THINK THERE'S A REALLY GOODCHANCE SHE'S STILL ALIVE. 373 00:19:59,964 --> 00:20:02,826 I GUESS I FEEL SHE'S OUT THERE. 374 00:20:28,034 --> 00:20:30,000 >> Reporter: MORE THAN TWO YEARSHAD PASSED SINCE MADELEINE 375 00:20:30,034 --> 00:20:31,895 McCANN'S MYSTERIOUSDISAPPEARANCE, AND PORTUGUESE 376 00:20:31,931 --> 00:20:35,895 INVESTIGATORS WERE NO CLOSER TOKNOWING WHAT HAPPENED TO HER. 377 00:20:35,931 --> 00:20:39,895 AS HEAD OF THE U.K.'S CHILDEXPLOITATION AND ONLINE 378 00:20:39,931 --> 00:20:46,000 PROTECTION CENTER, JIM GAMBLEKNEW HE HAD TO TAKE ACTION. 379 00:20:46,034 --> 00:20:49,344 >> MADELEINE DISAPPEARED ON THETHIRD OF MAY 2007 WHILE ON 380 00:20:49,378 --> 00:20:52,000 HOLIDAY WITH HER FAMILY INPORTUGAL. 381 00:20:52,034 --> 00:20:56,034 WE PRODUCED A VIRAL VIDEO CALLED"A MINUTE FOR MADELEINE 382 00:20:56,067 --> 00:20:57,172 McCANN..." 383 00:20:57,205 --> 00:20:59,309 >> IF YOU KNOW WHO'S INVOLVEDAND YOU'RE KEEPING THIS 384 00:20:59,344 --> 00:21:00,550 SECRET... 385 00:21:00,586 --> 00:21:01,172 >> ...A VIDEO THAT SAID, "IT'SNEVER TOO LATE TO DO THE RIGHT 386 00:21:01,205 --> 00:21:02,758 THING. 387 00:21:02,792 --> 00:21:05,448 AND IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING,GO TO YOUR LOCAL POLICE." 388 00:21:05,481 --> 00:21:08,481 >> Reporter: I UNDERSTAND THATTHE VIDEO WAS IN SEVEN DIFFERENT 389 00:21:08,517 --> 00:21:09,103 LANGUAGES. 390 00:21:09,136 --> 00:21:10,136 IS THAT RIGHT? 391 00:21:10,172 --> 00:21:11,862 >> YES. 392 00:21:11,895 --> 00:21:13,205 IT WAS IN CHINESE, IN ARABIC, INSPANISH. 393 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:17,136 >> [ MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]>> IT WAS DOWNLOADED IN EVERY 394 00:21:17,172 --> 00:21:20,862 PART OF THE WORLD. 395 00:21:20,895 --> 00:21:24,964 >> Reporter: AND AS THE VIEWSTICKED UP, SO, TOO, DID THE 396 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,240 NUMBER OF POTENTIAL LEADS. 397 00:21:26,275 --> 00:21:29,136 GIVE ME A SENSE OF THE NUMBER OFSIGHTINGS THAT WERE POURING IN 398 00:21:29,172 --> 00:21:33,136 FROM ALL OVER THE WORLDDURING THESE YEARS. 399 00:21:33,172 --> 00:21:36,344 >> THERE'S BEEN A NUMBER OFSIGHTINGS OF MADELEINE McCANN, 400 00:21:36,378 --> 00:21:40,240 YOU KNOW, IN AUSTRALIA,IN PARTS OF AFRICA, 401 00:21:40,275 --> 00:21:43,378 ACROSS SPAIN,PORTUGAL AND BEYOND. 402 00:21:43,413 --> 00:21:45,103 >> ALL TURN OUT TO BE NOTHING. 403 00:21:45,136 --> 00:21:48,034 THE TRAIL WENT COLD. 404 00:21:48,067 --> 00:21:51,172 >> Reporter: BUT THINGS WEREABOUT TO HEAT UP. 405 00:21:51,205 --> 00:21:53,517 IN 2010, GAMBLE WAS ASKED BY THEBRITISH GOVERNMENT TO OFFICIALLY 406 00:21:53,550 --> 00:21:57,067 REVIEW THE CASE. 407 00:21:57,103 --> 00:21:59,309 WHEN PORTUGUESE POLICE BEGANTHIS INVESTIGATION, YOU BELIEVE 408 00:21:59,344 --> 00:22:01,275 THEY MADE SOME FUNDAMENTALERRORS. 409 00:22:01,309 --> 00:22:05,172 >> I DO THINK THEY MADE SOMECRITICAL ERRORS. 410 00:22:05,205 --> 00:22:08,413 >> Reporter: GAMBLE SAYSPORTUGUESE INVESTIGATORS FAILED 411 00:22:08,448 --> 00:22:13,172 TO TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT EVERYONESTAYING NEAR THE OCEAN CLUB AT 412 00:22:13,205 --> 00:22:15,517 THE TIME. 413 00:22:15,550 --> 00:22:17,172 >> IT WAS CLEAR THAT, YOU KNOW,THE SEARCHES WERE AD HOC. 414 00:22:17,205 --> 00:22:20,205 THE FACT IS THAT ALL OF THEDETAILS OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE 415 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:25,136 WHO'D STAYED IN THAT APARTMENTBLOCK OR BEEN IN PROXIMITY AT 416 00:22:25,172 --> 00:22:26,792 THE TIME HADN'T BEEN CAPTURED. 417 00:22:26,826 --> 00:22:29,136 >> Reporter: GAMBLE ALSO FOUNDTHAT CELL PHONE DATA AROUND THE 418 00:22:29,172 --> 00:22:33,136 OCEAN CLUB THE DAY MADELEINEWENT MISSING HADN'T BEEN 419 00:22:33,172 --> 00:22:36,275 PROPERLY ANALYZED. 420 00:22:36,309 --> 00:22:39,931 >> THE TELEPHONE COMPANIESCAPTURED ALL OF THAT INFORMATION 421 00:22:39,964 --> 00:22:43,000 IN 2007, YET THERE WASABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE THAT ANY 422 00:22:43,034 --> 00:22:50,964 OF THAT CELL SITE DATA HAD BEENINVESTIGATED. 423 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,172 >> Reporter: IN JUNE 2010,GAMBLE FINISHED HIS CASE REVIEW 424 00:22:53,205 --> 00:22:56,275 AND SUBMITTED RECOMMENDATIONS TOTHE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, BUT, FOR 425 00:22:56,309 --> 00:22:57,172 ALMOST A YEAR, NOTHING HAPPENED. 426 00:22:57,205 --> 00:23:01,172 UNTIL... 427 00:23:01,205 --> 00:23:05,172 >> GERRY McCANN WROTE AN OPENLETTER ON THE FRONT PAGE OF A 428 00:23:05,205 --> 00:23:08,240 POPULAR TABLOID TO THE PRIMEMINISTER, AND, IN A DAY, 429 00:23:08,275 --> 00:23:15,344 OPERATION GRANGE WASCOMMISSIONED. 430 00:23:15,378 --> 00:23:17,172 >> Reporter: OPERATION GRANGEBECAME ONE OF THE LARGEST AND 431 00:23:17,205 --> 00:23:21,136 MOST EXPENSIVE INVESTIGATIONSIN BRITISH HISTORY. 432 00:23:21,172 --> 00:23:25,136 THE FULL WEIGHT OF SCOTLAND YARDWAS NOW BROUGHT IN TO ASSIST THE 433 00:23:25,172 --> 00:23:28,586 PORTUGUESE INVESTIGATION. 434 00:23:28,619 --> 00:23:29,826 >> THERE WAS A SENSE IN THE U.K. 435 00:23:29,862 --> 00:23:35,103 THAT THIS WAS ALMOST A FRESHSTART-- LET'S REGROUP, LET'S SEE 436 00:23:35,136 --> 00:23:37,000 WHAT WASN'T LOOKED AT, LET'S GOTHROUGH WITNESS STATEMENTS, 437 00:23:37,034 --> 00:23:41,136 LET'S SEE WHETHER WE CAN MAKEFRESH APPEALS FOR INFORMATION 438 00:23:41,172 --> 00:23:44,172 AND REALLY REVITALIZE THIS. 439 00:23:44,205 --> 00:23:48,205 >> Reporter: THAT MEANT TAKINGANOTHER LOOK AT EVERY POSSIBLE 440 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,378 SCENARIO OF WHAT MIGHT HAVEHAPPENED THAT NIGHT. 441 00:23:51,413 --> 00:23:53,172 >> COULD THIS BE THAT THE CHILDSIMPLY WALKED AWAY? 442 00:23:53,205 --> 00:23:54,103 COULD IT BE AN ABDUCTION? 443 00:23:54,136 --> 00:23:55,931 COULD IT BE A BURGLARY THAT'SGONE WRONG? 444 00:23:55,964 --> 00:24:00,034 COULD SOMEONE HAVE BROKEN INTOTHE ROOM, AND MIGHT THEY HAVE 445 00:24:00,067 --> 00:24:01,275 BEEN DISTURBED BY MADELEINE? 446 00:24:01,309 --> 00:24:04,654 AND COULD THEY HAVE RESPONDED,YOU KNOW, OUT OF FEAR, OUT OF 447 00:24:04,689 --> 00:24:12,481 ANGER AND NERVOUSNESS AND TAKENHER AWAY? 448 00:24:12,517 --> 00:24:15,000 >> Reporter: THERE WAS ONE DARKSCENARIO THAT WEIGHED MOST 449 00:24:15,034 --> 00:24:17,172 HEAVILY: THE POSSIBILITY THATMADELEINE HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED 450 00:24:17,205 --> 00:24:21,172 BY A SEX OFFENDER. 451 00:24:21,205 --> 00:24:22,689 >> OBVIOUSLY, THAT WAS OURBIGGEST FEAR. 452 00:24:22,723 --> 00:24:25,172 BUT JUST THE THOUGHT OF SOMEONESO LOVELY AND BEAUTIFUL, OUR 453 00:24:25,205 --> 00:24:29,172 CHILD, BEING SUBJECTED TOSOMETHING LIKE THAT WAS-- THAT 454 00:24:29,205 --> 00:24:31,448 WAS ENOUGH TO DESTROY US. 455 00:24:35,205 --> 00:24:37,103 >> Reporter: OPERATION GRANGESOLVED ONE EARLY MYSTERY: THE 456 00:24:37,136 --> 00:24:41,136 IDENTITY OF THE MAN SEEN IN THISPOLICE SKETCH WHOM THAT FAMILY 457 00:24:41,172 --> 00:24:44,586 FRIEND HAD REPORTED SEEING. 458 00:24:44,619 --> 00:24:49,067 SCOTLAND YARD DETERMINED IT WASJUST A MAN ON VACATION WITH HIS 459 00:24:49,103 --> 00:24:50,964 CHILD. 460 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,378 AGE-PROGRESSION TECHNOLOGY WASALSO USED AT THE TIME TO FURTHER 461 00:24:53,413 --> 00:24:56,862 THE INVESTIGATION. 462 00:24:56,895 --> 00:25:00,862 >> I HAVE ON MANY OCCASIONSLOOKED AT IMAGES OF CHILDREN WHO 463 00:25:00,895 --> 00:25:04,240 HAVE BEEN FOUND, AND THELIKENESS SOMETIMES IS 464 00:25:04,275 --> 00:25:05,517 REMARKABLE. 465 00:25:05,550 --> 00:25:09,205 >> Reporter: BY 2016, THE NUMBEROF ALLEGED MADELEINE SIGHTINGS 466 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,413 HAD GROWN TO MORE THAN 8,600,SPANNING MORE THAN 100 467 00:25:13,448 --> 00:25:15,619 COUNTRIES. 468 00:25:15,654 --> 00:25:20,448 SCOTLAND YARD INVESTIGATED EVERYCREDIBLE LEAD, BUT NONE LED 469 00:25:20,481 --> 00:25:21,723 ANYWHERE. 470 00:25:21,758 --> 00:25:25,172 >> HOW COULD IT BE THAT, YEARSLATER, THERE WAS STILL NO TRACE 471 00:25:25,205 --> 00:25:27,826 OF THIS LITTLE GIRL? 472 00:25:27,862 --> 00:25:29,172 HOW WAS THAT POSSIBLE? 473 00:25:29,205 --> 00:25:32,654 NOTHING. 474 00:25:32,689 --> 00:25:34,792 >> WHAT WE'RE WAITING FOR OVERTHESE YEARS AS ALL THESE BITS 475 00:25:34,826 --> 00:25:37,136 START TO FALL INTO PLACE--THE CELL SITE DATA, INFORMATION 476 00:25:37,172 --> 00:25:43,067 ABOUT SUSPECTS, OTHER SEXOFFENDERS IN THE AREA. 477 00:25:43,103 --> 00:25:47,034 WE'RE WAITING FOR THAT LASTPIECE TO FALL INTO PLACE. 478 00:25:47,067 --> 00:25:49,275 >> Reporter: THEN, THIS PASTJUNE, FROM A SMALL GERMAN CITY, 479 00:25:49,309 --> 00:25:54,758 SOME STARTLING NEWS:>> GERMAN POLICE REVEALING THAT 480 00:25:54,792 --> 00:25:57,550 A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERCURRENTLY SERVING A JAIL 481 00:25:57,586 --> 00:26:04,895 SENTENCE IS NOW THE PRIMESUSPECT. 482 00:26:04,931 --> 00:26:06,654 >> Reporter: AFTER YEARS OF DEADENDS, FINALLY, A PROMISING 483 00:26:06,689 --> 00:26:09,205 SUSPECT: THIS 43-YEAR-OLD GERMANMAN. 484 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:10,240 A LOOK INTO HIS PASTWOULD REVEAL A MONSTER. 485 00:26:36,034 --> 00:26:39,517 >> ON ANNIVERSARIES AND HERBIRTHDAY, THEY ARE BY FAR THE 486 00:26:39,550 --> 00:26:40,689 HARDEST DAYS. 487 00:26:40,723 --> 00:26:44,309 BY FAR. 488 00:26:44,344 --> 00:26:48,689 >> Reporter: IN 2017, GERRY ANDKATE McCANN MARKED A GRIM 489 00:26:48,723 --> 00:26:50,344 ANNIVERSARY. 490 00:26:50,378 --> 00:26:54,067 IT HAD BEEN TEN YEARS SINCETHEIR DAUGHTER DISAPPEARED. 491 00:26:54,103 --> 00:26:56,689 >> WHATEVER IT TAKES, FOR ASLONG AS IT TAKES. 492 00:26:56,723 --> 00:26:59,136 BUT THERE'S STILL HOPE THAT WECAN FIND MADELEINE. 493 00:26:59,172 --> 00:27:03,654 >> SO, CERTAINLY, FROM MY POINTOF VIEW, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY 494 00:27:03,689 --> 00:27:04,654 KNOWS WHAT'S HAPPENED. 495 00:27:07,034 --> 00:27:10,103 >> Reporter: LITTLE DID THEMcCANNS KNOW, MORE THAN 500 496 00:27:10,136 --> 00:27:14,895 MILES AWAY IN BRAUNSCHWEIG,GERMANY, POLICE HAD RECEIVED 497 00:27:14,931 --> 00:27:15,792 A GAME-CHANGING NEW TIP. 498 00:27:15,826 --> 00:27:19,481 GERMAN PROSECUTOR HANS CHRISTIANWOLTERS. 499 00:27:19,517 --> 00:27:23,723 >> IN 2017, A PERSON CONTACTEDTHE GERMAN POLICE AND GAVE US 500 00:27:23,758 --> 00:27:27,000 THE NAME OF CHRISTIAN B. 501 00:27:27,034 --> 00:27:29,481 >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO NEWSREPORTS, BRUECKNER, WHO GERMAN 502 00:27:29,517 --> 00:27:34,413 AUTHORITIES REFER TO ASCHRISTIAN B., ALLEGEDLY MADE 503 00:27:34,448 --> 00:27:37,862 A DRUNKEN CONFESSION TO A FRIENDTHAT HE KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED 504 00:27:37,895 --> 00:27:39,654 TO MADELEINE. 505 00:27:39,689 --> 00:27:43,448 GERMANY'S HIGHEST POLICE AGENCYCONDUCTED AN INVESTIGATION, AND 506 00:27:43,481 --> 00:27:46,792 WHAT THEY UNCOVERED WAS THATBRUECKNER HAD A LONG AND 507 00:27:46,826 --> 00:27:51,654 DISTURBING BACKGROUND OF CRIMESPANNING THREE DECADES. 508 00:27:51,689 --> 00:27:53,792 WHO IS CHRISTIAN B.? 509 00:27:53,826 --> 00:27:55,654 >> CHRISTIAN B. IS A CRIMINALWHO COMMITTED A LOT OF 510 00:27:55,689 --> 00:27:59,172 FINANCIALLY MOTIVATED CRIMESLIKE BURGLARY OR DRUG 511 00:27:59,205 --> 00:28:00,413 TRAFFICKING. 512 00:28:00,448 --> 00:28:03,550 >> Reporter: MARK HOFMANN ISA CRIME AND INTELLIGENCE ANALYST 513 00:28:03,586 --> 00:28:07,689 BASED IN GERMANY WHO HAS STUDIEDCHRISTIAN BRUECKNER. 514 00:28:07,723 --> 00:28:09,792 >> HE ALSO HAS A DARKER SIDE. 515 00:28:09,826 --> 00:28:11,826 >> Reporter: AUTHORITIES SAY HEHAD A HISTORY OF TARGETING 516 00:28:11,862 --> 00:28:14,964 LITTLE GIRLS. 517 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:19,378 >> HE IS A VERY LIKELYPSYCHOPATH WITH NO EMPATHY AND 518 00:28:19,413 --> 00:28:23,034 NO DEEP FEELINGS WHO ISINTERESTED IN FEELING SOME SENSE 519 00:28:23,067 --> 00:28:27,689 OF POWER OVER DEFENSELESSVICTIMS, ESPECIALLY YOUNG 520 00:28:27,723 --> 00:28:28,862 CHILDREN. 521 00:28:28,895 --> 00:28:31,654 SO, HE ABSOLUTELY MATCHESTHE PROFILE OF A PERSON WHO 522 00:28:31,689 --> 00:28:35,654 COULD POTENTIALLY ABDUCT AND/ORKILL A LITTLE GIRL LIKE 523 00:28:35,689 --> 00:28:39,136 MADELEINE McCANN. 524 00:28:39,172 --> 00:28:42,481 >> Reporter: OFFICIAL DOCUMENTSOBTAINED BY "48 HOURS" SHOW THAT 525 00:28:42,517 --> 00:28:47,275 BRUECKNER'S LIFE OF CRIME BEGANWHEN HE WAS ARRESTED FOR THEFT 526 00:28:47,309 --> 00:28:48,413 AT THE AGE OF 15. 527 00:28:48,448 --> 00:28:51,654 TWO YEARS LATER, IN 1994, HESEXUALLY ABUSED A CHILD IN 528 00:28:51,689 --> 00:28:54,481 GERMANY. 529 00:28:54,517 --> 00:28:58,723 BRUECKNER FLED TO PORTUGAL TOESCAPE SERVING HIS SENTENCE. 530 00:28:58,758 --> 00:28:59,654 >> HE MOVED FROM JOB TO JOB. 531 00:28:59,689 --> 00:29:03,275 HE MOVED FROM CRIME TO CRIME. 532 00:29:03,309 --> 00:29:06,654 >> Reporter: UNTIL 1999, WHEN HEWAS EXTRADITED TO GERMANY TO 533 00:29:06,689 --> 00:29:07,826 SERVE HIS SENTENCE. 534 00:29:07,862 --> 00:29:11,723 [ BELL TOLLING][ BELL TOLLING] 535 00:29:11,758 --> 00:29:15,275 BUT HE WOULD SOON RETURNTO PORTUGAL, WHERE BRUECKNER 536 00:29:15,309 --> 00:29:18,654 LIVED OUT OF A V.W. CAMPER VANBEFORE EVENTUALLY MOVING TO THIS 537 00:29:18,689 --> 00:29:19,826 HOUSE. 538 00:29:19,862 --> 00:29:23,619 >> HE LIVED IN A HOUSE RIGHTABOUT ONE MILE AWAY FROM THE 539 00:29:23,654 --> 00:29:25,862 CRIME SCENE WHERE MADELEINE WASABDUCTED. 540 00:29:25,895 --> 00:29:28,136 >> Reporter: WHILE LIVING INPRAIA DA LUZ, INVESTIGATORS SAY 541 00:29:28,172 --> 00:29:35,689 BRUECKNER HAD RETURNED TO A LIFEOF CRIME, OFTEN STEALING FROM 542 00:29:35,723 --> 00:29:37,172 HOTELS AND HOLIDAY APARTMENTS. 543 00:29:37,205 --> 00:29:41,654 >> HE WAS KNOWN FOR BURGLARYIN HOTEL RESORTS. 544 00:29:41,689 --> 00:29:46,689 AND MADDIE DISAPPEARED FROM AHOTEL RESORT. 545 00:29:46,723 --> 00:29:50,205 SO, IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THISCRIME MAYBE STARTED AS A HOTEL 546 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:55,654 BURGLARY, AND IT ENDED AS THEPOTENTIAL KIDNAPPING AND/OR 547 00:29:55,689 --> 00:29:58,895 KILLING OF MADDIE McCANN. 548 00:30:00,378 --> 00:30:02,931 >> Reporter: JIM GAMBLE SAYSTHAT THEORY IS CERTAINLY 549 00:30:02,964 --> 00:30:04,172 POSSIBLE. 550 00:30:04,205 --> 00:30:07,034 >> THE HYPOTHESIS THAT IT WAS ABURGLAR WHO RESPONDED IN AN 551 00:30:07,067 --> 00:30:11,000 OPPORTUNISTIC WAY IS ONE THATI'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT 552 00:30:11,034 --> 00:30:13,000 IS CREDIBLE. 553 00:30:13,034 --> 00:30:15,964 >> Reporter: IN FACT, JUST ONEYEAR BEFORE MADELEINE 554 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,448 DISAPPEARED, BRUECKNER WASARRESTED IN PORTUGAL FOR THEFT, 555 00:30:19,481 --> 00:30:24,000 BUT IT IS UNKNOWN WHAT THEPORTUGUESE POLICE KNEW ABOUT HIS 556 00:30:24,034 --> 00:30:25,481 PAST SEXUAL OFFENSE IN GERMANY. 557 00:30:25,517 --> 00:30:27,964 "48 HOURS" REACHED OUT TO THEMTO FIND OUT, BUT THEY DID NOT 558 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,964 RESPOND. 559 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,758 BUT IT IS CLEAR THAT BRUECKNERSHOULD HAVE BEEN LOOKED AT 560 00:30:34,792 --> 00:30:39,172 MORE CLOSELY BY THE PORTUGUESEAUTHORITIES FROM THE BEGINNING. 561 00:30:39,205 --> 00:30:42,654 GERMAN INVESTIGATORS NOW BELIEVETHEY HAVE DISCOVERED A KEY PIECE 562 00:30:42,689 --> 00:30:43,964 OF EVIDENCE. 563 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,931 ON MAY 3, 2007, A CALL WAS MADETO BRUECKNER'S CELL PHONE 564 00:30:47,964 --> 00:30:51,931 APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR BEFOREMADELEINE DISAPPEARED. 565 00:30:51,964 --> 00:30:55,931 THE CELL PHONE INFORMATIONTHAT YOU RECEIVED, DO YOU 566 00:30:55,964 --> 00:30:59,931 BELIEVE THAT PLACED HIM AROUNDTHE RESORT AREA AT THE TIME 567 00:30:59,964 --> 00:31:03,275 THAT MADDIE McCANN DISAPPEARED? 568 00:31:03,309 --> 00:31:07,517 >> THE PHONE NUMBER PLACEDCHRISTIAN B. TO THE OCEAN CLUB, 569 00:31:07,550 --> 00:31:11,000 BUT WE HAVE TO FIND OUT WHICHPERSON USES THIS PHONE AT THIS 570 00:31:11,034 --> 00:31:12,136 TIME. 571 00:31:12,172 --> 00:31:16,000 NORMALLY, IT WAS USED BYCHRISTIAN B, BUT WE DON'T KNOW 572 00:31:16,034 --> 00:31:22,895 WHICH PERSON USED IT ON THETHIRD OF MAY IN 2007. 573 00:31:22,931 --> 00:31:25,758 >> Reporter: GAMBLE SAYS THISLEAD COULD HAVE BEEN PURSUED 574 00:31:25,792 --> 00:31:27,964 AT THE TIME IF PORTUGUESE POLICEHAD ONLY ANALYZED THE CELL PHONE 575 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,448 DATA. 576 00:31:31,481 --> 00:31:35,550 >> I BELIEVE THE INFORMATIONTHAT NOW TIES THE PRESENT 577 00:31:35,586 --> 00:31:37,448 SUSPECT'S PHONE TO THE AREAWOULD HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE AT 578 00:31:37,481 --> 00:31:39,964 THAT TIME IF SOMEONE HAD LOOKEDFOR IT. 579 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,517 >> Reporter: AND GERMANINVESTIGATORS ALSO LEARNED THAT 580 00:31:43,550 --> 00:31:46,895 IMMEDIATELY AFTER MADELEINE WENTMISSING, BRUECKNER DID SOMETHING 581 00:31:46,931 --> 00:31:47,758 SUSPICIOUS. 582 00:31:47,792 --> 00:31:51,964 HE PUT HIS CAR IN SOMEONE ELSE'SNAME. 583 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,964 >> HE DEREGISTERED HIS CARONE DAY AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE. 584 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,448 >> Reporter: SHORTLY AFTER THAT,HE QUIETLY SLIPPED OUT OF 585 00:31:59,481 --> 00:32:03,550 PORTUGAL AND RETURNED TO GERMANYONCE AGAIN. 586 00:32:03,586 --> 00:32:08,000 BRUECKNER EVENTUALLY SETTLEDIN BRAUNSCHWEIG AND BRIEFLY RAN 587 00:32:08,034 --> 00:32:14,240 A SMALL GENERAL STORE BY ASCHOOL AND KEPT A LOW PROFILE. 588 00:32:14,275 --> 00:32:16,000 >> PRETTY OFTEN, THESE CHILDMOLESTERS, THIS IS LIKE THEIR 589 00:32:16,034 --> 00:32:18,136 DIRTY LITTLE SECRET. 590 00:32:18,172 --> 00:32:22,792 THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT ITTO ANYONE, BUT THEY TALK ABOUT 591 00:32:22,826 --> 00:32:27,275 THEIR CRIMES AND FANTASIES QUITEOPENLY TO OTHER CHILD MOLESTERS. 592 00:32:27,309 --> 00:32:30,034 >> Reporter: AS IT TURNS OUT,WOLTERS AND HIS TEAM LEARNED 593 00:32:30,067 --> 00:32:31,964 BRUECKNER WAS STILL OPERATINGIN THE DARKEST SHADOWS OF 594 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,964 SOCIETY. 595 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:41,067 IN 2013, HE POSTED IN APEDOPHILE CHAT ROOM ON SKYPE. 596 00:32:41,103 --> 00:32:43,964 >> THIS WAS A SKYPE CHAT WHEREHE OPENLY DISCUSSED HIS 597 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,240 FANTASIES OF TORTURING LITTLECHILDREN AND USING THEM AND 598 00:32:49,275 --> 00:32:54,240 RAPING THEM FOR A COUPLE OFDAYS. 599 00:32:54,275 --> 00:32:55,964 >> Reporter: ALTHOUGHBRUECKNER'S POSTS MADE NO 600 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,826 MENTION OF MADELEINE McCANN, THESEARCH OF AN ABANDONED FACTORY 601 00:32:59,862 --> 00:33:03,931 ONCE OWNED BY BRUECKNER WOULDUNCOVER PHOTOS AND VIDEOS THAT 602 00:33:03,964 --> 00:33:05,964 WOULD RAISE MORE QUESTIONS. 603 00:33:33,034 --> 00:33:35,000 >> Reporter: AS WOLTERS AND HISTEAM CONTINUED THEIR 604 00:33:35,034 --> 00:33:39,413 INVESTIGATION INTO CHRISTIANBRUECKNER'S PAST, THEY LEARNED 605 00:33:39,448 --> 00:33:41,619 THAT NOT LONG BEFORE THATALLEGED DRUNKEN CONFESSION IN A 606 00:33:41,654 --> 00:33:45,240 BAR, HIS NAME HAD BEEN LINKEDTO MADELEINE McCANN'S. 607 00:33:45,275 --> 00:33:49,550 IN 2013, GERMAN POLICE HADRECEIVED THEIR FIRST TIP THAT 608 00:33:49,586 --> 00:33:56,205 CHRISTIAN BRUECKNER COULD BEINVOLVED IN HER DISAPPEARANCE. 609 00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:01,034 >> THERE WAS A FIRST HINT TO OURSUSPECT IN 2013, BUT THE POLICE 610 00:34:01,067 --> 00:34:05,240 CONTACTED CHRISTIAN B., ANDTHERE WAS NOTHING FOUND TO 611 00:34:05,275 --> 00:34:07,550 INVESTIGATE IT ANY LONGER. 612 00:34:09,240 --> 00:34:12,550 >> Reporter: WHILE IT DIDN'T PANOUT, JUST ONE YEAR LATER, HE WAS 613 00:34:12,585 --> 00:34:13,793 BACK ON POLICE RADAR. 614 00:34:13,827 --> 00:34:21,206 ACCORDING TO DOCUMENTS OBTAINEDBY "48 HOURS," IN 2014, 391 615 00:34:21,240 --> 00:34:25,275 PHOTO FILES AND 68 VIDEO FILESOF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY WERE 616 00:34:25,309 --> 00:34:29,275 CONFISCATED FROM BRUECKNER'SHOME WHILE HE WAS LIVING IN 617 00:34:29,309 --> 00:34:30,481 BRAUNSCHWEIG. 618 00:34:30,516 --> 00:34:33,275 DURING THIS TIME, HE WAS ALSOCHRGED WITH SEXUALLY ABUSING 619 00:34:33,309 --> 00:34:36,034 A FIVE-YEAR-OLD. 620 00:34:36,068 --> 00:34:37,309 HE WAS SENTENCED TO 15 MONTHS INPRISON FOR COMMITTING BOTH 621 00:34:37,344 --> 00:34:41,240 OFFENSES. 622 00:34:41,275 --> 00:34:45,757 BUT BEFORE SERVING HIS SENTENCE,HE FLED ONCE AGAIN TO PORTUGAL. 623 00:34:45,793 --> 00:34:49,413 >> IF I LOOK AT HIS LIFE ANDCRIMINAL RECORD, IT SEEMS A 624 00:34:49,447 --> 00:34:53,240 LITTLE BIT LIKE HE WAS ALWAYSFLEEING AND TRYING TO ESCAPE LAW 625 00:34:53,275 --> 00:34:55,757 ENFORCEMENT. 626 00:34:55,793 --> 00:34:59,965 SO, WHENEVER HE COMMITTED ACRIME, WHENEVER HE WAS 627 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,240 INVESTIGATED IN CONNECTION WITHSOME CRIMES, HE LEFT THE 628 00:35:01,275 --> 00:35:02,965 COUNTRY. 629 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,240 >> Reporter: BRUECKNER WOULDLATER BE EXTRADITED TO GERMANY 630 00:35:05,275 --> 00:35:07,275 ONCE AGAIN TO SERVE HISSENTENCE. 631 00:35:15,103 --> 00:35:19,000 AND THEN, IF THERE IS A HOUSE OFHORRORS IN THIS TRAGIC MYSTERY, 632 00:35:19,034 --> 00:35:22,172 IT MAY BE THIS ONE: A DESERTEDFACTORY DEEP IN THE WOODS OF 633 00:35:22,206 --> 00:35:27,724 SAXONY-ANHALT, GERMANY, THATCHRISTIAN BRUECKNER ONCE OWNED. 634 00:35:27,757 --> 00:35:31,724 IN 2016, INVESTIGATORS CONDUCTEDMULTIPLE SEARCHES OF THIS 635 00:35:31,757 --> 00:35:33,034 PROPERTY. 636 00:35:33,068 --> 00:35:35,757 "48 HOURS" HAS LEARNED THESESEARCHES WERE PART OF A BROADER 637 00:35:35,793 --> 00:35:39,724 INVESTIGATION INTO CHILDPORNOGRAPHY, AND WHAT THEY FOUND 638 00:35:39,757 --> 00:35:43,724 WAS TROUBLING. 639 00:35:43,757 --> 00:35:47,655 >> LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFIRMEDTHAT THEY FOUND AT LEAST THREE 640 00:35:47,688 --> 00:35:50,309 GIRLS' SWIMSUITS IN HIS CAMPERVAN. 641 00:35:50,344 --> 00:35:51,827 SO, OF COURSE, YOU NEED TO ASKTHE QUESTION, WHO DO THESE 642 00:35:51,862 --> 00:35:57,724 SWIMSUITS BELONG TO? 643 00:35:57,757 --> 00:35:59,655 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS HAVENOT REVEALED IF THEY KNOW THE 644 00:35:59,688 --> 00:36:03,447 ANSWER, BUT THAT'S NOT ALL THEYFOUND. 645 00:36:03,481 --> 00:36:07,309 >> ON THIS PROPERTY, THEY FOUNDU.S.B. DRIVES CONTAINING 646 00:36:07,344 --> 00:36:10,793 PICTURES AND VIDEOS, INCLUDINGVIDEOS AND PICTURES OF CHILD 647 00:36:10,827 --> 00:36:15,688 ABUSEAND ALSO VIDEOS WHICH HE 648 00:36:15,724 --> 00:36:17,000 PRODUCED HIMSELF. 649 00:36:17,034 --> 00:36:19,757 AND THESE U.S.B. DRIVES WERE INA PLASTIC BAG BURIED UNDER HIS 650 00:36:19,793 --> 00:36:23,034 DEAD DOG IN THE GROUND. 651 00:36:23,068 --> 00:36:26,655 >> Reporter: IT SEEMS THATBRUECKNER HAD A LONG FASCINATION 652 00:36:26,688 --> 00:36:27,965 WITH RECORDING HIS CRIMES. 653 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,344 IN 2018, A WITNESS CAME FORWARDSAYING THEY HAD SEEN A VIDEOTAPE 654 00:36:32,378 --> 00:36:39,275 FROM 2005 OF BRUECKNER RAPING A72-YEAR-OLD AMERICAN WOMAN AT 655 00:36:39,309 --> 00:36:40,481 HER HOME IN PORTUGAL. 656 00:36:40,516 --> 00:36:47,206 UP UNTIL THEN, THE ATTACKER'SIDENTITY HAD NOT BEEN KNOWN. 657 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:48,344 >> THIS WAS NOT JUST RAPE. 658 00:36:48,378 --> 00:36:53,585 THIS WAS THE MOST BRUTAL FORM OFRAPE I EVER HEARD OF. 659 00:36:53,619 --> 00:36:55,724 >> Reporter: THAT ASSAULT HADTAKEN PLACE CLOSE TO THE OCEAN 660 00:36:55,757 --> 00:37:00,000 CLUB AND TWO YEARS BEFOREMADELEINE McCANN DISAPPEARED. 661 00:37:00,034 --> 00:37:06,000 BRUECKNER WAS CHARGED ANDCONVICTED FOR THESE CRIMES 662 00:37:06,034 --> 00:37:08,000 IN 2019. 663 00:37:08,034 --> 00:37:11,585 HIS D.N.A. MATCHED D.N.A. FOUNDAT THE SCENE. 664 00:37:11,619 --> 00:37:14,034 >> HE IS DEFINITELY A BAD GUY,HE'S DEFINITELY A PSYCHOPATH, 665 00:37:14,068 --> 00:37:16,619 AND HE IS DEFINITELY A FULL-TIMECRIMINAL. 666 00:37:16,655 --> 00:37:20,965 BUT THE QUESTION IS, IS HEREALLY GUILTY IN THE MADDIE 667 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,550 McCANN CASE? 668 00:37:23,585 --> 00:37:25,034 >> Reporter: WOLTERS WILL NOTREVEAL DETAILS ABOUT HIS CURRENT 669 00:37:25,068 --> 00:37:28,931 INVESTIGATION INTO CHRISTIANBRUECKNER, BUT HE IS ADAMANT 670 00:37:28,965 --> 00:37:31,172 ABOUT ONE THING. 671 00:37:31,206 --> 00:37:32,827 >> WE'RE SURE THAT CHRISTIAN B. 672 00:37:32,862 --> 00:37:36,619 MURDERED MADELEINE McCANNBECAUSE OF THE EVIDENCE WE HAVE. 673 00:37:36,655 --> 00:37:39,619 >> Reporter: AND MAY I SPECULATETHAT THAT EVIDENCE MAY INCLUDE 674 00:37:39,655 --> 00:37:43,619 PHOTOGRAPHS OR VIDEO OF MADDIEMcCANN? 675 00:37:43,655 --> 00:37:48,931 >> YOU MAY SPECULATE, BUT I'MNOT ALLOWED TO TELL YOU IF YOU 676 00:37:48,965 --> 00:37:51,585 ARE RIGHT OR IF YOU ARE WRONG. 677 00:37:52,965 --> 00:37:56,757 >> Reporter: BUT DESPITE THEEVIDENCE HE SAYS HE HAS, WOLTERS 678 00:37:56,793 --> 00:38:00,931 ADMITS HE NEEDS MORE OF IT INORDER TO CHARGE BRUECKNER. 679 00:38:00,965 --> 00:38:04,931 >> AND IN GERMANY, WE CHARGESOMEONE ONLY IF WE ARE SURE THAT 680 00:38:04,965 --> 00:38:08,206 HE WILL BE SENTENCED BY THECOURT. 681 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:12,619 IF THERE ARE DOUBTS, WE DON'TCHARGE HIM. 682 00:38:12,655 --> 00:38:14,757 >> Reporter: WOLTERS SAYS ONEPIECE OF EVIDENCE THEY NEED IS 683 00:38:14,793 --> 00:38:16,965 TO FIND THE PERSON WHO MADE THATCALL TO BRUECKNER'S CELL PHONE 684 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,965 APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR BEFOREMADELEINE DISAPPEARED ON MAY 3, 685 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,965 2007. 686 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:30,413 >> THIS MIGHT BE THE ONLY PERSONWHO COULD CONFIRM THAT, INDEED, 687 00:38:30,447 --> 00:38:32,965 CHRISTIAN B. WAS HOLDING HISCELL PHONE IN HIS HAND THAT 688 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,965 NIGHT. 689 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,447 AND THIS WOULD BE PROOF THAT NOTJUST HIS CELL PHONE WAS AT THE 690 00:38:38,481 --> 00:38:43,447 CRIME SCENE BUT THAT HE WAS ATTHE CRIME SCENE. 691 00:38:43,481 --> 00:38:45,172 >> Reporter: ALTHOUGHINVESTIGATORS MADE AN APPEAL TO 692 00:38:45,206 --> 00:38:48,931 THE PUBLIC, THEY HAVE BEENUNABLE TO IDENTIFY THE MYSTERY 693 00:38:48,965 --> 00:38:51,034 CALLER. 694 00:38:51,068 --> 00:38:56,309 >> THE PHONE WHICH WAS USED FORTHE CALL TO CHRISTIAN B. WAS A 695 00:38:56,344 --> 00:39:00,931 PREPAID PHONE, SO WE ARE NOTABLE TO-- TO FIND THIS PERSON 696 00:39:00,965 --> 00:39:03,309 IN AN EASY WAY. 697 00:39:06,619 --> 00:39:08,378 >> Reporter: THE McCANNS HAVENOT COMMENTED ON CHRISTIAN 698 00:39:08,413 --> 00:39:12,000 BRUECKNER, BUT THEY POSTED THISON THEIR WEB SITE: 699 00:39:12,034 --> 00:39:16,585 "WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP HOPE OFFINDING MADELEINE ALIVE. 700 00:39:16,619 --> 00:39:20,965 BUT WHATEVER THE OUTCOME MAY BE,WE NEED TO KNOW AS WE NEED TO 701 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,206 FIND PEACE." 702 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,034 MEANWHILE, BRUECKNER HASREMAINED SILENT BEHIND PRISON 703 00:39:28,068 --> 00:39:32,965 WALLS, WHERE HE IS SERVING ASEVEN-YEAR SENTENCE FOR RAPING 704 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,137 THAT 72-YEAR-OLD AMERICAN WOMAN. 705 00:39:35,172 --> 00:39:38,965 BRUECKNER'S LAWYER SPOKE TO NINENEWS AUSTRALIA. 706 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:44,931 >> HE IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVENGUILTY. 707 00:39:44,965 --> 00:39:48,516 >> Reporter: WOLTERS ADMITS THATWITHOUT A BODY OR FORENSIC 708 00:39:48,550 --> 00:39:51,413 EVIDENCE, THIS CASE WILL BE HARDTO SOLVE, BUT HE IS NOT BACKING 709 00:39:51,447 --> 00:39:52,896 DOWN. 710 00:39:52,931 --> 00:39:56,309 AND DO YOU BELIEVE THERE AREPEOPLE OUT THERE, WHETHER IT BE 711 00:39:56,344 --> 00:40:00,931 IN PORTUGAL OR IN GERMANY, WHOHAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CASE 712 00:40:00,965 --> 00:40:04,931 THAT IS IMPORTANT? 713 00:40:04,965 --> 00:40:07,309 >> WE THINK THAT THERE AREPEOPLE WHO CAN HELP US, AND WE 714 00:40:07,344 --> 00:40:12,931 HOPE THAT THESE PEOPLE WILLCONTACT US OR THE POLICE. 715 00:40:12,965 --> 00:40:16,862 >> I HAVE SPENT MANY YEARSHOPING THAT THERE WILL BE 716 00:40:16,896 --> 00:40:19,413 A RESOLUTION. 717 00:40:19,447 --> 00:40:23,447 >> Reporter: BBC NEWS ANCHORJANE HILL, WHO COVERED 718 00:40:23,481 --> 00:40:24,965 MADELEINE'S STORY FROM THESTART, HOPES THIS NEW 719 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,137 INVESTIGATION WILL FINALLYPROVIDE ANSWERS, AS PAINFUL AS 720 00:40:29,172 --> 00:40:34,000 THEY MAY BE, FOR THE McCANNS. 721 00:40:34,034 --> 00:40:39,619 >> I HOPE THAT THERE CAN BECLOSURE IN SOME WAY FOR A FAMILY 722 00:40:39,655 --> 00:40:43,862 THAT HAS SPENT 13 AND A HALFYEARS NOT KNOWING WHAT HAPPENED 723 00:40:43,896 --> 00:40:46,931 TO THEIR LITTLE GIRL, NOTKNOWING WHAT THEY CAN SAY TO HER 724 00:40:46,965 --> 00:40:56,931 YOUNGER BROTHER AND SISTER ABOUTWHERE SHE'S GONE. 725 00:40:56,965 --> 00:41:01,275 >> MADELEINE IS A BEAUTIFUL,BRIGHT, FUNNY AND CARING LITTLE 726 00:41:01,309 --> 00:41:04,931 GIRL. 727 00:41:04,965 --> 00:41:07,172 SHE IS SO SPECIAL. 728 00:41:09,619 --> 00:41:11,619 WE BEG YOU TO LET MADELEINE COMEHOME. 729 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,000 Captioning sponsored by CBS>> PURE HELL TO NOT KNOW 730 00:41:29,034 --> 00:41:29,965 WHERE YOUR CHILD IS. 731 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:31,793 >> ANIAH HALEY BLANCHARD DISAPPEARED. 732 00:41:31,827 --> 00:41:36,000 >> BLANCHARD IS THE STEPDAUGHTEROF U.F.C. 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