>> WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS IN ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST INFAMOUS
MISSING PERSONS MYSTERIES.
>> A GERMAN PRISONER HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A NEW SUSPECT
IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MADELEINE McCANN
FROM A HOLIDAY RESORT IN PORTUGAL 13 YEARS AGO.
>> Reporter: IT IS EVERY PARENT'S GREATEST FEAR...
>> PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT HURTHER.
PLEASE TELL US WHERE TO FINDHER.
>> Reporter: THREE-YEAR-OLDMADELEINE McCANN TAKEN FROM HER
BED, WITH NO CLUE LEFT BEHIND.
[ HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]>> WE DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE IS.
WE DON'T KNOW WHO'S TAKEN HER.
WE DON'T KNOW WHY.
>> Reporter: A MASSIVE SEARCH...
[ INDISTINCT CHATTER]...A GLOBAL MEDIA STORM, AND AN
INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION.
DAYS TURNED INTO MONTHS, TURNEDINTO YEARS, WITH NO ANSWERS.
>> THAT HOPE IS STILL THERE.
THERE'S STILL HOPETHAT WE CAN FIND MADELEINE.
>> Reporter: IT'S A MYSTERYTHAT HAS BEEN COMPARED
TO A JIGSAW PUZZLEWITH TOO MANY PIECES MISSING.
UNTIL NOW.
>> [ SPEAKING GERMAN]>> [ translated]: THE ACCUSED
IS A SEX OFFENDER WITH SEVERALPREVIOUS CONVICTIONS WHO HAS
ALREADY BEEN CONVICTED OF SEXUALABUSE OF CHILDREN.
>> Reporter: HIS NAME ISCHRISTIAN BRUECKNER.
>> HE ABSOLUTELY MATCHESTHE PROFILE OF A PERSON WHO
COULD POTENTIALLY ABDUCT AND/ORKILL A LITTLE GIRL LIKE
MADELEINE McCANN.
>> Reporter: WAS HE ANYWHERENEAR THE RESORT WHERE THIS CRIME
TOOK PLACE?
>> HE LIVED IN A HOUSERIGHT ABOUT ONE MILE AWAY
FROM WHERE MADELEINEWAS POTENTIALLY ABDUCTED.
>> IT'S ONE PART OF THE PUZZLE,YOU CAN SAY, BUT THERE ARE SOME
PIECES MISSING FOR THIS PUZZLETO COMPLETE IT.
>> HIS CELL PHONE WAS TRACKEDAT THE CRIME SCENE, OR AT LEAST
NEXT TO THE CRIME SCENE, THENIGHT MADDIE DISAPPEARED.
>> THAT CALL PUTS HIM IN THEAREA AT THE TIME THE CRIME WAS
COMMITTED.
>> ON HIS PROPERTY IN GERMANY,THEY FOUND U.S.B. DRIVES WITH
PICTURES AND VIDEOS OF CHILDABUSE.
>> IT'S WHEN YOU PUT THOSETHINGS TOGETHER THAT YOU GET
THAT CLEARER FOCUS WHERE THEJIGSAW BECOMES MUCH, MUCH MORE
COMPLETE.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 13 YEARS,I HAVE TO SAY, I ACTUALLY FELT,
HERE IS A CREDIBLE SUSPECT.
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>> WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY A FEWWORDS TO THE PERSON WHO IS WITH
MADELEINE.
MADELEINE IS A BEAUTIFUL,BRIGHT, FUNNY, AND CARING LITTLE
GIRL.
SHE IS SO SPECIAL.
WE NEED OUR MADELEINE, ANDMADELEINE NEEDS US.
PLEASE GIVE OUR LITTLE GIRLBACK.
>> Reporter: IT'S BEEN MORETHAN A DECADE OF WAITING FOR
KATE AND GERRY McCANN.
>> WE WILL LEAVE NO STONEUNTURNED IN THE SEARCH FOR OUR
DAUGHTER, MADELEINE.
>> Reporter: YEARS OF SEARCHINGSINCE THEIR DAUGHTER DISAPPEARED
ON MAY 3, 2007.
>> WE HAVE TO BE HOPEFUL.
IT'S WHAT KEEPS US GOING ANDKEEPS US FOCUSED.
>> Reporter: NOW, THEY FINALLYMAY BE CLOSER TO FINDING OUT
WHAT HAPPENED TO MADELEINE.
THIS PAST JUNE, IN BRAUNSCHWEIG,GERMANY, PROSECUTOR HANS
CHRISTIAN WOLTERS HELD A PRESSCONFERENCE AND MADE A STUNNING
ANNOUNCEMENT: GERMAN POLICE HADA SUSPECT, 43-YEAR-OLD CHRISTIAN
BRUECKNER.
HE ALSO HAD DEVASTATING NEWS.
>> Reporter: HE DECLARED THATMADELEINE McCANN WAS LIKELY
DEAD.
IT'S BEEN SAID THAT GERMANPROSECUTORS ARE ALWAYS VERY
TIGHT-LIPPED.
YOU MUST HAVE SOME STRONGEVIDENCE THAT ALLOWED YOU TO
MAKE THAT STATEMENT TO THEPUBLIC.
>> WE HAVE STRONG EVIDENCETHAT CHRISTIAN B. KILLED MADDIE
McCANN.
>> Reporter: BUT YOU DON'T HAVEA BODY, CORRECT?
THERE'S NO BODY?
>> NO, WE HAVE-- WE HAVE NOFORENSIC EVIDENCE.
>> Reporter: THEN, HOW CAN YOUBE SO CERTAIN?
>> WE HAVE OTHER EVIDENCE.
>> Reporter: JUST AS GERMAN LAWDOES NOT ALLOW WOLTERS TO USE
BRUECKNER'S FULL NAME, HE ALSOCANNOT SAY WHAT THAT EVIDENCE
IS.
>> I HEARD THE NEWS THAT THEGERMANS HAD A CREDIBLE SUSPECT,
AND MY FIRST THING WAS, HERE WEGO AGAIN.
>> Reporter: JIM GAMBLE WAS HEADOF THE U.K.'S CHILD EXPLOITATION
AND ONLINE PROTECTION CENTERAND INVOLVED IN THE EARLY
INVESTIGATION.
MADELEINE'S CASE WAS COMPLEX.
OVER THE YEARS, HE HAS SEENCOUNTLESS LEADS END UP AS DEAD
ENDS.
BUT THIS TIME, HE BELIEVES THEGERMANS MAY BE ON THE RIGHT
TRACK.
>> EVERYONE, INCLUDING MYSELF,WHO'S TOUCHED THIS CASE IS MORE
HOPEFUL WITH THE GERMAN CASETHAN-- THAN WE'VE BEEN IN 13
YEARS.
>> Reporter: BACK IN MAY OF2007, BRITISH DOCTORS GERRY AND
KATE McCANN WERE ON VACATIONWITH THEIR FAMILY IN PRAIA DA
LUZ, A RESORT TOWN IN THEALGARVE REGION OF PORTUGAL.
>> THE COASTLINE'S BEAUTIFUL.
THE SUNSHINE'S BEAUTIFUL.
>> Reporter: JANE HILL IS A BBCNEWS ANCHOR WHO COVERED
MADELEINE'S STORY.
>> IT WAS JUST A REGULAR,RELAXED WEEK IN THE SUN.
>> Reporter: THE FIVE MEMBERSOF THE McCANN FAMILY, INCLUDING
MADELEINE AND HER YOUNGER TWINBROTHER AND SISTER, STAYED AT
THE OCEAN CLUB.
THEY WERE JOINED BY SEVERALOTHER FAMILIES.
>> THE OCEAN CLUB RESORT WASSEEN AS A PLACE WHERE FAMILIES
WENT.
THEY'D GONE THEREFOR GENERATIONS.
IT WOULD SEEM TO BE FAMILY-FRIENDLY AND SAFE.
>> WE WERE HAVING A GREATHOLIDAY.
IT WAS-- WE HAD LOTS OF FUN.
>> Reporter: ESPECIALLY FUN FORMADELEINE.
>> SHE MIGHT LOOK LIKE KATE,BUT, IN TERMS OF PERSONALITY,
SHE'S MUCH MORE OF A McCANN.
SHE'S VERY EXTROVERTED ANDLIVELY.
SHE'S VERY SOCIABLE.
>> Reporter: BUT THEIR IDYLLICHOLIDAY WOULD SOON COME TO AN
END.
ON MAY 3, AT AROUND 8:30 P.M.,THE McCANNS LEFT THEIR SLEEPING
CHILDREN ALONE IN THEIR UNLOCKEDAPARTMENT AND WENT TO MEET
FRIENDS AT THE RESORT'S TAPASBAR ABOUT 50 YARDS AWAY.
>> THAT WAS THEIR ROUTINEBEHAVIOR.
THEY HAD BEEN DOING IT ALL WEEK.
>> AND THE-- THE FRIENDS WOULDTAKE TURNS.
SO, EVERY 15 MINUTES OR SO, ONEOF THE ADULTS FROM THE GROUP
WOULD-- WOULD GO BACK AND JUSTCHECK ON THEIR SLEEPING CHILDREN
AND-- AND CHECK THAT EVERYTHINGWAS OKAY.
>> Reporter: AT 10:00 P.M., WHENIT WAS KATE'S TURN, SHE FOUND
THE TWINS SOUND ASLEEP.
BUT THIS BED-- MADELEINE'S BED--WAS EMPTY.
>> KATE SAID TO ME, "JANE,MADELEINE'S GONE.
MADELEINE'S GONE."
>> Reporter: JANE TANNER WASONE OF THE FRIENDS WHO WAS
DINING WITH THE McCANNS.
IT'S THE LEAST THING YOU'DEVER THINK IN A MILLION YEARS
THAT, YOU KNOW, A CHILDIS GOING TO BE ABDUCTED
IN A SAFE FAMILY RESORT.
>> Reporter: WHEN TANNER HEARDTHAT MADELEINE HAD DISAPPEARED,
SHE SAYS SHE REMEMBERED THAT,EARLIER IN THE EVENING,
AS SHE WALKED NEAR THE OCEANCLUB, SHE PASSED A MAN WHO HAD
CAUGHT HER ATTENTION.
>> AS I WAS WALKING UP THE ROAD,THIS MAN WAS WALKING ACROSS THE
TOP OF THE ROAD, CARRYING ASMALL CHILD.
THING THAT I NOTICED THE MOSTWAS HE WAS HOLDING HER, AND I
COULD SEE THE BARE-- HER BAREFEET AND THE BOTTOM OF THE
PAJAMAS.
>> Reporter: TANNER TOLD THEPORTUGUESE POLICE WHAT SHE HAD
WITNESSED THAT NIGHT, BUTINVESTIGATORS DIDN'T APPEAR TO
TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION.
>> THERE WAS QUITE A LAISSEZ-FAIRE ATTITUDE.
"SHE'S WANDERED OFF SOMEWHERE.
SHE'S PROBABLY GOT LOST.
WE'LL FIND HER.
SHE'LL COME BACK."
AND THAT WAS ONE OF THECRITICISMS, THAT-- THAT THE
POLICE ACTIVITY DIDN'T REALLYGET GOING UNTIL THE NEXT DAY.
>> POLICE IN PORTUGAL AREINVESTIGATING CLAIMS THAT A
THREE-YEAR-OLD BRITISH GIRL HASBEEN ABDUCTED.
>> Reporter: BY THAT TIME,MADELEINE'S DISAPPEARANCE
WAS MAKING HEADLINES ACROSS THEWORLD.
>> I'M JANE HILL, LIVE IN THEALGARVE, WHERE THERE IS STILL NO
SIGN OF...
MY EDITOR TOOK ME OFF-AIR THEDAY AFTER SHE DISAPPEARED AND
SAID, "GET ON A PLANE TOPORTUGAL."
>> Reporter: HILL WAS ONE OF THEFIRST BRITISH JOURNALISTS AT THE
SCENE.
WHY DID THIS CAPTURE PEOPLE'SATTENTION SO?
>> IT IS EVERY PARENT'SNIGHTMARE, ISN'T IT?
>> Reporter: IN SOME WAYS,MADELEINE WAS MORE THAN A
DAUGHTER TO THE McCANNS.
SHE WAS THEIR MIRACLE.
UNABLE TO CONCEIVE, THE COUPLEENDURED A SERIES OF GRUELING IN
VITRO FERTILIZATION PROCEDURES,UNTIL KATE FINALLY BECAME
PREGNANT WITH MADELEINE.
WHAT WAS IT LIKE FOR GERRY ANDKATE WHEN MADELEINE WAS BORN?
>> WELL, THEY WERE WALKING ONAIR, QUITE FRANKLY.
>> Reporter: FAMILY FRIENDJON CORNER SPOKE TO "48 HOURS"
BACK IN 2007.
THE BOND BETWEEN KATE ANDMADELEINE WAS-- IS SOMETHING
AMAZING, REALLY.
>> PLEASE, IF YOU HAVEMADELEINE, LET HER COME HOME TO
HER MUMMY, DADDY, BROTHER ANDSISTER.
>> [ SPEAKING PORTUGUESE]>> Reporter: WITHIN DAYS,
MADELEINE'S FACE FUELED ONE OFTHE LARGEST INTERNATIONAL
SEARCHES FOR A MISSING CHILD INHISTORY.
>> MADELEINE'S FACE BECAMESO FAMILIAR.
SHE BECAME UBIQUITOUS.
>> MADELEINE!
MADELEINE!
MADELINE!
MADELEINE!
>> IT WAS HEARTBREAKINGBECAUSE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE
RELEASED THAT THE FAMILYHAD TAKEN ON THAT HOLIDAY.
[ BELL TOLLING]>> IT'S OBVIOUSLY EXTREMELY
DIFFICULT.
>> EVERY DAY ME AND MY TEAM WERETHERE, WE JUST WATCHED THE PRESS
PACK GROW AND GROW AND GROW.
>> Reporter: AS THE CAMERASFOLLOWED THE McCANNS EVERYWHERE,
IT SEEMED KATE WAS NEVER WITHOUTMADELEINE'S PINK STUFFED ANIMAL.
>> WELL, IT'S SOMETHING THATMADELEINE HAS WITH HER EVERY
NIGHT.
AND IF SHE'S UPSET OR NOT WELL,THEN SHE HAS CUDDLE CAT.
AND SO, IT PROVIDED ME WITH ALITTLE BIT OF COMFORT, SOMETHING
OF MADELEINE CLOSE TO ME.
>> Reporter: DAYS PASSED, ANDTHE McCANNS GREW FRUSTRATED
AS THE PORTUGUESE POLICECONDUCTED THEIR INVESTIGATION
AND SHARED VERY LITTLE.
>> PORTUGUESE POLICE ARE NOTALLOWED TO REVEAL ANY DETAILS
OF AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION--NOT JUST TO PEOPLE LIKE ME,
TO THE FAMILY INVOLVED.
AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVENO INFORMATION?
YOU GET RUMOR, GOSSIP,SPECULATION.
THERE WAS NO PROOF OF ANYTHING.
THAT'S THE TROUBLE.
[ HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]>> IT'S ALMOST A WEEK
SINCE MADELEINE WAS ABDUCTEDFROM HER HOLIDAY APARTMENT.
>> THE EXPAT COMMUNITY IN THEALGARVE WERE THE FIRST TO JOIN
THE SEARCH FOR MADELEINE, AND,SIX DAYS ON, THEY STILL FEEL
COMPELLED TO CARRY ON THE HUNT.
>> I CRIED YESTERDAY.
I'VE-- I'M CRYING NOW.
I'M JUST VERY UPSET ABOUT IT.
>> THERE WERE RUMORS CIRCULATED,ALL THE TIME.
I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT A RUMORMILL IT WAS.
AND YOU WOULD THINK, WHERE ISTHIS COMING FROM?
>> Reporter: A WEEK AFTERMADELEINE'S DISAPPEARANCE,
SUSPICION FELL ON A MAN WHOLIVED JUST DOWN THE STREET FROM
WHERE MADELEINE HAD VANISHED.
>> WHY ARE YOU JUST TALKINGTO ONE JOURNALIST?
>> Reporter: TELL ME, WHO ISROBERT MURAT?
ROBERT MURAT IS A BRITISH EX-PATWHO LIVES IN-- IN PRAIA DA LUZ,
SO HE HAD LOCAL KNOWLEDGE.
AND HE SPOKE PORTUGUESE ANDENGAGED WITH A NUMBER OF
REPORTERS AND OTHERS INPROXIMITY TO THE INVESTIGATION
AND OFFERED HIMSELF UP TOPROVIDE HELP BY WAY OF
TRANSLATION OR ADVICE.
>> Reporter: POLICE QUICKLYNAMED MURAT A SUSPECT.
WITNESSES SAY MURAT SHOWED UPAT THE OCEAN CLUB AFTER
MADELEINE DISAPPEARED ANDCLAIMED HE WAS ACTING
SUSPICIOUSLY.
MURAT'S MOTHER SAID THAT WASN'TPOSSIBLE.
THEY COULDN'T HAVE SEEN HIM.
HE WAS AT HOME ALL NIGHT.
>> Reporter: THEN, THE PUBLICBEGAN TO TURN ON THE McCANNS
FOR LEAVING THEIR DAUGHTERALONE.
DID IT GO FROM "WE FEEL SO SORRYFOR YOU" TO "HOW COULD YOU
HAVE DONE THAT?">> THERE WERE PEOPLE SAYING
THAT.
I RECORDED AN INTERVIEWWITH A MAN FROM THE ALGARVE
TOURIST BOARD.
HE SAID, "I MEAN, YOU KEEPAN EYE ON YOUR SUITCASE.
WHY WOULD YOU NOT KEEP AN EYEON YOUR CHILD?"
>> Reporter: IT'S A QUESTIONJANE HILL HAD TO RAISE WHEN SHE
BECAME THE FIRST REPORTER TOINTERVIEW KATE AND GERRY McCANN.
>> A LOT OF PEOPLE, IN THE LASTTHREE WEEKS, HAVE SAID, "I CAN'T
IMAGINE DOING SUCH A THING.
"I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO LEAVETHREE CHILDREN IN THAT
SITUATION."
HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THOSE SORTOF COMMENTS?
>> I THINK, YOU KNOW, NO ONEWILL EVER FEEL MORE GUILTY THAN
US.
IF YOU THOUGHT FOR A MINUTE THATSOMEONE COULD ABDUCT YOUR CHILD,
OF COURSE, YOU WOULD NEVER HAVELEFT THEM.
>> Reporter: PORTUGUESEINVESTIGATORS ALSO BEGAN EYEING
THE McCANNS.
[ DOGS BARKING]THREE MONTHS AFTER MADELEINE
VANISHED, SPECIALLY TRAINEDSNIFFER DOGS WERE FLOWN IN
TO SCOUR THE FAMILY'S VACATIONRENTAL.
TRACES OF BLOOD WERE DETECTEDINSIDE THE APARTMENT AND IN THE
TRUNK OF THE McCANNS' RENTALCAR.
PARTIAL SAMPLES OF THE BLOODWERE RECOVERED AND SENT TO A
BRITISH LAB FOR D.N.A. TESTING,BUT THE RESULTS INDICATED THAT
THE BLOOD FOUND IN THE APARTMENTDID NOT BELONG TO MADELEINE,
AND THE RESULTS FROM THE D.N.A.
IN THE RENTAL CAR WEREINCONCLUSIVE.
>> WELL, I'VE SEEN THE LETTERFROM THE FORENSIC SCIENCE LAB.
THE FORENSIC TESTS DIDN'T SAY,"THIS D.N.A. IS MADELEINE
McCANN'S" BECAUSE, ACTUALLY,THE FULL ANALYSIS OF THAT SAYS
THAT UP TO HALF THE FORENSICSCIENTISTS IN THE LAB WOULD HAVE
HAD SIMILAR D.N.A.
CHARACTERISTICS.
IT WAS NOT A COMPLETE D.N.A.
SAMPLE.
>> Reporter: WHAT'S MORE...
>> THE CAR WASN'T ACTUALLYRETAINED BY THE McCANNS UNTIL
WEEKS AFTER MADELEINE HAD GONEMISSING.
AND IF YOU ARE TO BELIEVE THATMADELEINE WAS IN THE BOOT OF THE
CAR, THEY MUST HAVE EITHERKILLED HER AND/OR HIDDEN HER
SOMETIME EARLIER, RECOVERED HERBODY WHILST THE MEDIA WERE
SURVEILLING THEM, HIDDEN IT INTHE CAR, THEN MOVED IT TO A
PLACE WHERE THEY COULD DISPOSEOF IT WHERE NO ONE COULD SEE
THAT HAPPEN, AND THEN BRING THECAR BACK.
IT JUST DOESN'T ADD UP.
THE FORENSICS DON'T ADD UP.
>> Reporter: AND YET, FOURMONTHS AFTER MADELEINE
VANISHED...
>> TODAY, KATE McCANN HASRETURNED TO PORTIMAO TO BE
QUESTIONED BY THE PORTUGUESEPOLICE.
>> Reporter: ...PORTUGUESEPOLICE DECLARED THE McCANNS
"ARGUIDOS," SUSPECTS, IN THEIROWN DAUGHTER'S DISAPPEARANCE.
THE ENORMOUS MEDIA COVERAGEIN THIS, DO YOU BELIEVE, IN SOME
WAYS, THAT PRESSURED PORTUGUESEAUTHORITIES TO SAY, "WE HAVE OUR
REAL SUSPECTS.
IT IS KATE AND IT IS GERRY"?
>> WELL, I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT.
YOU'D HAVE TO TALK TO THE SENIORINVESTIGATING OFFICER FROM THE
PORTUGUESE POLICE.
BUT, IN MY OPINION, DO I THINKTHAT THAT TYPE OF PRESSURE WOULD
FOCUS THE ATTENTION OF A SENIORINVESTIGATING OFFICER?
OF COURSE.
>> Reporter: "48 HOURS" REACHEDOUT TO THE PORTUGUESE POLICE
FOR COMMENT, BUT THEY DID NOTREPLY.
>> THE McCANNS SHOULD HAVE BEENSUSPECTS DAY ONE, MINUTE ONE,
HOUR ONE.
AND I DON'T BELIEVE FOR ONESECOND THE McCANNS COMMITTED
THIS CRIME, BUT WHAT I'M SAYINGIS, YOUR ATTENTION SHOULD BE,
FIRST OF ALL, TO LOOK AT THEPARENTS AND ACTUALLY TO RULE
THEM IN OR RULE THEM OUT, NOT TOWAIT UNTIL YOU'RE MONTHS DOWN
THE LINE WHERE YOU HAVEEXHAUSTED ALL OF YOUR OTHER
IDEAS AND TO THEN SAY, "WELL,ACTUALLY, IT MUST BE THE
PARENTS."
'CAUSE THAT'S NOT FAIR ONANYONE.
>> Reporter: SURPRISINGLY,ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER BEING
DECLARED SUSPECTS, THE McCANNSWERE ALLOWED TO FLY TO THE U.K.,
RETURNING HOME FOR THE FIRSTTIME WITHOUT THEIR DAUGHTER.
>> WE HAVE PLAYED NO PARTIN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF OUR
LOVELY DAUGHTER, MADELEINE.
>> Reporter: KATE McCANN TOLDHER FAMILY THAT PORTUGUESE
INVESTIGATORS HAD PRESSURED HERTO SIGN A CONFESSION IN WHICH
SHE WAS TO ADMIT THAT MADELEINEHAD DIED ACCIDENTALLY AND THAT
MADELEINE'S DISAPPEARANCE HADBEEN STAGED.
KATE REFUSED.
"48 HOURS" SPOKE TO KATE'SMOTHER IN 2007.
>> KATE SAID, "WHY-- WHY WOULD ISIGN THAT CONFESSION?"
YOU KNOW?
IF AN ACCIDENT HAD HAPPENED,MADELEINE HAD FALLEN, KATE AND
GERRY WOULDN'T HAVE HIDDEN THAT.
[ INDISTINCT SHOUTING]>> KATE! KATE!
>> GERRY...
>> Reporter: WHEN THE McCANNSWERE NAMED AS SUSPECTS IN
PORTUGAL, WERE THEY SEEN ASSUSPECTS IN THE U.K., AS WELL?
>> I'M SURE THERE WERE PEOPLEIN THE U.K. WHO DID THINK THAT
THEY HAD HAD SOME INVOLVEMENT,AND THAT WAS REFLECTED
PARTICULARLY IN THE BRITISHTABLOID PRESS.
>> Reporter: SOME BRITISHNEWSPAPERS BEGAN RUNNING
UNSUBSTANTIATED, SENSATIONALSTORY LINES.
>> AND WHAT HAPPENED IS, THE WAROF THE TABLOIDS BEGAN TO TAKE
PLACE.
>> Reporter: THE ONSLAUGHT OFWILD ACCUSATIONS CONTINUED FOR
MONTHS, EFFECTIVELY PORTRAYINGTHE McCANNS AS KILLERS.
>> AND THEN, YOU GET THEARMCHAIR DETECTIVES.
WITH SOCIAL MEDIA, YOU'VE GOTTHE GEEKS, FREAKS AND MORONS.
BUT WHEN YOU'VE GOT THIS WORLDOF BILE BEING CREATED ONLINE,
THEN PEOPLE CONTINUALLY FEED IT.
>> Reporter: IT WASN'T UNTILTHE FOLLOWING SUMMER, IN JULY
2008, THAT PORTUGUESEINVESTIGATORS CLEARED THE
McCANNS.
BY THEN, GERRY AND KATE HADSPENT NEARLY A YEAR UNDER A
CLOUD OF SUSPICION.
>> IT'S HARD TO DESCRIBE HOWUTTERLY DESPAIRING IT WAS TO BE
NAMED ARGUIDOAND SUBSEQUENTLYPORTRAYED IN THE MEDIA AS
SUSPECTS IN OUR OWN DAUGHTER'SABDUCTION.
>> Reporter: THE POLICE ALSOCLEARED ROBERT MURAT.
BUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO LITTLEMADELEINE?
THE McCANNS REMAINED SINGULARLYFOCUSED ON FINDING OUT.
I THINK THERE'S A REALLY GOODCHANCE SHE'S STILL ALIVE.
I GUESS I FEEL SHE'S OUT THERE.
>> Reporter: MORE THAN TWO YEARSHAD PASSED SINCE MADELEINE
McCANN'S MYSTERIOUSDISAPPEARANCE, AND PORTUGUESE
INVESTIGATORS WERE NO CLOSER TOKNOWING WHAT HAPPENED TO HER.
AS HEAD OF THE U.K.'S CHILDEXPLOITATION AND ONLINE
PROTECTION CENTER, JIM GAMBLEKNEW HE HAD TO TAKE ACTION.
>> MADELEINE DISAPPEARED ON THETHIRD OF MAY 2007 WHILE ON
HOLIDAY WITH HER FAMILY INPORTUGAL.
WE PRODUCED A VIRAL VIDEO CALLED"A MINUTE FOR MADELEINE
McCANN..."
>> IF YOU KNOW WHO'S INVOLVEDAND YOU'RE KEEPING THIS
SECRET...
>> ...A VIDEO THAT SAID, "IT'SNEVER TOO LATE TO DO THE RIGHT
THING.
AND IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING,GO TO YOUR LOCAL POLICE."
>> Reporter: I UNDERSTAND THATTHE VIDEO WAS IN SEVEN DIFFERENT
LANGUAGES.
IS THAT RIGHT?
>> YES.
IT WAS IN CHINESE, IN ARABIC, INSPANISH.
>> [ MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]>> IT WAS DOWNLOADED IN EVERY
PART OF THE WORLD.
>> Reporter: AND AS THE VIEWSTICKED UP, SO, TOO, DID THE
NUMBER OF POTENTIAL LEADS.
GIVE ME A SENSE OF THE NUMBER OFSIGHTINGS THAT WERE POURING IN
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLDDURING THESE YEARS.
>> THERE'S BEEN A NUMBER OFSIGHTINGS OF MADELEINE McCANN,
YOU KNOW, IN AUSTRALIA,IN PARTS OF AFRICA,
ACROSS SPAIN,PORTUGAL AND BEYOND.
>> ALL TURN OUT TO BE NOTHING.
THE TRAIL WENT COLD.
>> Reporter: BUT THINGS WEREABOUT TO HEAT UP.
IN 2010, GAMBLE WAS ASKED BY THEBRITISH GOVERNMENT TO OFFICIALLY
REVIEW THE CASE.
WHEN PORTUGUESE POLICE BEGANTHIS INVESTIGATION, YOU BELIEVE
THEY MADE SOME FUNDAMENTALERRORS.
>> I DO THINK THEY MADE SOMECRITICAL ERRORS.
>> Reporter: GAMBLE SAYSPORTUGUESE INVESTIGATORS FAILED
TO TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT EVERYONESTAYING NEAR THE OCEAN CLUB AT
THE TIME.
>> IT WAS CLEAR THAT, YOU KNOW,THE SEARCHES WERE AD HOC.
THE FACT IS THAT ALL OF THEDETAILS OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE
WHO'D STAYED IN THAT APARTMENTBLOCK OR BEEN IN PROXIMITY AT
THE TIME HADN'T BEEN CAPTURED.
>> Reporter: GAMBLE ALSO FOUNDTHAT CELL PHONE DATA AROUND THE
OCEAN CLUB THE DAY MADELEINEWENT MISSING HADN'T BEEN
PROPERLY ANALYZED.
>> THE TELEPHONE COMPANIESCAPTURED ALL OF THAT INFORMATION
IN 2007, YET THERE WASABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE THAT ANY
OF THAT CELL SITE DATA HAD BEENINVESTIGATED.
>> Reporter: IN JUNE 2010,GAMBLE FINISHED HIS CASE REVIEW
AND SUBMITTED RECOMMENDATIONS TOTHE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, BUT, FOR
ALMOST A YEAR, NOTHING HAPPENED.
UNTIL...
>> GERRY McCANN WROTE AN OPENLETTER ON THE FRONT PAGE OF A
POPULAR TABLOID TO THE PRIMEMINISTER, AND, IN A DAY,
OPERATION GRANGE WASCOMMISSIONED.
>> Reporter: OPERATION GRANGEBECAME ONE OF THE LARGEST AND
MOST EXPENSIVE INVESTIGATIONSIN BRITISH HISTORY.
THE FULL WEIGHT OF SCOTLAND YARDWAS NOW BROUGHT IN TO ASSIST THE
PORTUGUESE INVESTIGATION.
>> THERE WAS A SENSE IN THE U.K.
THAT THIS WAS ALMOST A FRESHSTART-- LET'S REGROUP, LET'S SEE
WHAT WASN'T LOOKED AT, LET'S GOTHROUGH WITNESS STATEMENTS,
LET'S SEE WHETHER WE CAN MAKEFRESH APPEALS FOR INFORMATION
AND REALLY REVITALIZE THIS.
>> Reporter: THAT MEANT TAKINGANOTHER LOOK AT EVERY POSSIBLE
SCENARIO OF WHAT MIGHT HAVEHAPPENED THAT NIGHT.
>> COULD THIS BE THAT THE CHILDSIMPLY WALKED AWAY?
COULD IT BE AN ABDUCTION?
COULD IT BE A BURGLARY THAT'SGONE WRONG?
COULD SOMEONE HAVE BROKEN INTOTHE ROOM, AND MIGHT THEY HAVE
BEEN DISTURBED BY MADELEINE?
AND COULD THEY HAVE RESPONDED,YOU KNOW, OUT OF FEAR, OUT OF
ANGER AND NERVOUSNESS AND TAKENHER AWAY?
>> Reporter: THERE WAS ONE DARKSCENARIO THAT WEIGHED MOST
HEAVILY: THE POSSIBILITY THATMADELEINE HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED
BY A SEX OFFENDER.
>> OBVIOUSLY, THAT WAS OURBIGGEST FEAR.
BUT JUST THE THOUGHT OF SOMEONESO LOVELY AND BEAUTIFUL, OUR
CHILD, BEING SUBJECTED TOSOMETHING LIKE THAT WAS-- THAT
WAS ENOUGH TO DESTROY US.
>> Reporter: OPERATION GRANGESOLVED ONE EARLY MYSTERY: THE
IDENTITY OF THE MAN SEEN IN THISPOLICE SKETCH WHOM THAT FAMILY
FRIEND HAD REPORTED SEEING.
SCOTLAND YARD DETERMINED IT WASJUST A MAN ON VACATION WITH HIS
CHILD.
AGE-PROGRESSION TECHNOLOGY WASALSO USED AT THE TIME TO FURTHER
THE INVESTIGATION.
>> I HAVE ON MANY OCCASIONSLOOKED AT IMAGES OF CHILDREN WHO
HAVE BEEN FOUND, AND THELIKENESS SOMETIMES IS
REMARKABLE.
>> Reporter: BY 2016, THE NUMBEROF ALLEGED MADELEINE SIGHTINGS
HAD GROWN TO MORE THAN 8,600,SPANNING MORE THAN 100
COUNTRIES.
SCOTLAND YARD INVESTIGATED EVERYCREDIBLE LEAD, BUT NONE LED
ANYWHERE.
>> HOW COULD IT BE THAT, YEARSLATER, THERE WAS STILL NO TRACE
OF THIS LITTLE GIRL?
HOW WAS THAT POSSIBLE?
NOTHING.
>> WHAT WE'RE WAITING FOR OVERTHESE YEARS AS ALL THESE BITS
START TO FALL INTO PLACE--THE CELL SITE DATA, INFORMATION
ABOUT SUSPECTS, OTHER SEXOFFENDERS IN THE AREA.
WE'RE WAITING FOR THAT LASTPIECE TO FALL INTO PLACE.
>> Reporter: THEN, THIS PASTJUNE, FROM A SMALL GERMAN CITY,
SOME STARTLING NEWS:>> GERMAN POLICE REVEALING THAT
A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERCURRENTLY SERVING A JAIL
SENTENCE IS NOW THE PRIMESUSPECT.
>> Reporter: AFTER YEARS OF DEADENDS, FINALLY, A PROMISING
SUSPECT: THIS 43-YEAR-OLD GERMANMAN.
A LOOK INTO HIS PASTWOULD REVEAL A MONSTER.
>> ON ANNIVERSARIES AND HERBIRTHDAY, THEY ARE BY FAR THE
HARDEST DAYS.
BY FAR.
>> Reporter: IN 2017, GERRY ANDKATE McCANN MARKED A GRIM
ANNIVERSARY.
IT HAD BEEN TEN YEARS SINCETHEIR DAUGHTER DISAPPEARED.
>> WHATEVER IT TAKES, FOR ASLONG AS IT TAKES.
BUT THERE'S STILL HOPE THAT WECAN FIND MADELEINE.
>> SO, CERTAINLY, FROM MY POINTOF VIEW, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY
KNOWS WHAT'S HAPPENED.
>> Reporter: LITTLE DID THEMcCANNS KNOW, MORE THAN 500
MILES AWAY IN BRAUNSCHWEIG,GERMANY, POLICE HAD RECEIVED
A GAME-CHANGING NEW TIP.
GERMAN PROSECUTOR HANS CHRISTIANWOLTERS.
>> IN 2017, A PERSON CONTACTEDTHE GERMAN POLICE AND GAVE US
THE NAME OF CHRISTIAN B.
>> Reporter: ACCORDING TO NEWSREPORTS, BRUECKNER, WHO GERMAN
AUTHORITIES REFER TO ASCHRISTIAN B., ALLEGEDLY MADE
A DRUNKEN CONFESSION TO A FRIENDTHAT HE KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED
TO MADELEINE.
GERMANY'S HIGHEST POLICE AGENCYCONDUCTED AN INVESTIGATION, AND
WHAT THEY UNCOVERED WAS THATBRUECKNER HAD A LONG AND
DISTURBING BACKGROUND OF CRIMESPANNING THREE DECADES.
WHO IS CHRISTIAN B.?
>> CHRISTIAN B. IS A CRIMINALWHO COMMITTED A LOT OF
FINANCIALLY MOTIVATED CRIMESLIKE BURGLARY OR DRUG
TRAFFICKING.
>> Reporter: MARK HOFMANN ISA CRIME AND INTELLIGENCE ANALYST
BASED IN GERMANY WHO HAS STUDIEDCHRISTIAN BRUECKNER.
>> HE ALSO HAS A DARKER SIDE.
>> Reporter: AUTHORITIES SAY HEHAD A HISTORY OF TARGETING
LITTLE GIRLS.
>> HE IS A VERY LIKELYPSYCHOPATH WITH NO EMPATHY AND
NO DEEP FEELINGS WHO ISINTERESTED IN FEELING SOME SENSE
OF POWER OVER DEFENSELESSVICTIMS, ESPECIALLY YOUNG
CHILDREN.
SO, HE ABSOLUTELY MATCHESTHE PROFILE OF A PERSON WHO
COULD POTENTIALLY ABDUCT AND/ORKILL A LITTLE GIRL LIKE
MADELEINE McCANN.
>> Reporter: OFFICIAL DOCUMENTSOBTAINED BY "48 HOURS" SHOW THAT
BRUECKNER'S LIFE OF CRIME BEGANWHEN HE WAS ARRESTED FOR THEFT
AT THE AGE OF 15.
TWO YEARS LATER, IN 1994, HESEXUALLY ABUSED A CHILD IN
GERMANY.
BRUECKNER FLED TO PORTUGAL TOESCAPE SERVING HIS SENTENCE.
>> HE MOVED FROM JOB TO JOB.
HE MOVED FROM CRIME TO CRIME.
>> Reporter: UNTIL 1999, WHEN HEWAS EXTRADITED TO GERMANY TO
SERVE HIS SENTENCE.
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BUT HE WOULD SOON RETURNTO PORTUGAL, WHERE BRUECKNER
LIVED OUT OF A V.W. CAMPER VANBEFORE EVENTUALLY MOVING TO THIS
HOUSE.
>> HE LIVED IN A HOUSE RIGHTABOUT ONE MILE AWAY FROM THE
CRIME SCENE WHERE MADELEINE WASABDUCTED.
>> Reporter: WHILE LIVING INPRAIA DA LUZ, INVESTIGATORS SAY
BRUECKNER HAD RETURNED TO A LIFEOF CRIME, OFTEN STEALING FROM
HOTELS AND HOLIDAY APARTMENTS.
>> HE WAS KNOWN FOR BURGLARYIN HOTEL RESORTS.
AND MADDIE DISAPPEARED FROM AHOTEL RESORT.
SO, IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THISCRIME MAYBE STARTED AS A HOTEL
BURGLARY, AND IT ENDED AS THEPOTENTIAL KIDNAPPING AND/OR
KILLING OF MADDIE McCANN.
>> Reporter: JIM GAMBLE SAYSTHAT THEORY IS CERTAINLY
POSSIBLE.
>> THE HYPOTHESIS THAT IT WAS ABURGLAR WHO RESPONDED IN AN
OPPORTUNISTIC WAY IS ONE THATI'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT
IS CREDIBLE.
>> Reporter: IN FACT, JUST ONEYEAR BEFORE MADELEINE
DISAPPEARED, BRUECKNER WASARRESTED IN PORTUGAL FOR THEFT,
BUT IT IS UNKNOWN WHAT THEPORTUGUESE POLICE KNEW ABOUT HIS
PAST SEXUAL OFFENSE IN GERMANY.
"48 HOURS" REACHED OUT TO THEMTO FIND OUT, BUT THEY DID NOT
RESPOND.
BUT IT IS CLEAR THAT BRUECKNERSHOULD HAVE BEEN LOOKED AT
MORE CLOSELY BY THE PORTUGUESEAUTHORITIES FROM THE BEGINNING.
GERMAN INVESTIGATORS NOW BELIEVETHEY HAVE DISCOVERED A KEY PIECE
OF EVIDENCE.
ON MAY 3, 2007, A CALL WAS MADETO BRUECKNER'S CELL PHONE
APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR BEFOREMADELEINE DISAPPEARED.
THE CELL PHONE INFORMATIONTHAT YOU RECEIVED, DO YOU
BELIEVE THAT PLACED HIM AROUNDTHE RESORT AREA AT THE TIME
THAT MADDIE McCANN DISAPPEARED?
>> THE PHONE NUMBER PLACEDCHRISTIAN B. TO THE OCEAN CLUB,
BUT WE HAVE TO FIND OUT WHICHPERSON USES THIS PHONE AT THIS
TIME.
NORMALLY, IT WAS USED BYCHRISTIAN B, BUT WE DON'T KNOW
WHICH PERSON USED IT ON THETHIRD OF MAY IN 2007.
>> Reporter: GAMBLE SAYS THISLEAD COULD HAVE BEEN PURSUED
AT THE TIME IF PORTUGUESE POLICEHAD ONLY ANALYZED THE CELL PHONE
DATA.
>> I BELIEVE THE INFORMATIONTHAT NOW TIES THE PRESENT
SUSPECT'S PHONE TO THE AREAWOULD HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE AT
THAT TIME IF SOMEONE HAD LOOKEDFOR IT.
>> Reporter: AND GERMANINVESTIGATORS ALSO LEARNED THAT
IMMEDIATELY AFTER MADELEINE WENTMISSING, BRUECKNER DID SOMETHING
SUSPICIOUS.
HE PUT HIS CAR IN SOMEONE ELSE'SNAME.
>> HE DEREGISTERED HIS CARONE DAY AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE.
>> Reporter: SHORTLY AFTER THAT,HE QUIETLY SLIPPED OUT OF
PORTUGAL AND RETURNED TO GERMANYONCE AGAIN.
BRUECKNER EVENTUALLY SETTLEDIN BRAUNSCHWEIG AND BRIEFLY RAN
A SMALL GENERAL STORE BY ASCHOOL AND KEPT A LOW PROFILE.
>> PRETTY OFTEN, THESE CHILDMOLESTERS, THIS IS LIKE THEIR
DIRTY LITTLE SECRET.
THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT ITTO ANYONE, BUT THEY TALK ABOUT
THEIR CRIMES AND FANTASIES QUITEOPENLY TO OTHER CHILD MOLESTERS.
>> Reporter: AS IT TURNS OUT,WOLTERS AND HIS TEAM LEARNED
BRUECKNER WAS STILL OPERATINGIN THE DARKEST SHADOWS OF
SOCIETY.
IN 2013, HE POSTED IN APEDOPHILE CHAT ROOM ON SKYPE.
>> THIS WAS A SKYPE CHAT WHEREHE OPENLY DISCUSSED HIS
FANTASIES OF TORTURING LITTLECHILDREN AND USING THEM AND
RAPING THEM FOR A COUPLE OFDAYS.
>> Reporter: ALTHOUGHBRUECKNER'S POSTS MADE NO
MENTION OF MADELEINE McCANN, THESEARCH OF AN ABANDONED FACTORY
ONCE OWNED BY BRUECKNER WOULDUNCOVER PHOTOS AND VIDEOS THAT
WOULD RAISE MORE QUESTIONS.
>> Reporter: AS WOLTERS AND HISTEAM CONTINUED THEIR
INVESTIGATION INTO CHRISTIANBRUECKNER'S PAST, THEY LEARNED
THAT NOT LONG BEFORE THATALLEGED DRUNKEN CONFESSION IN A
BAR, HIS NAME HAD BEEN LINKEDTO MADELEINE McCANN'S.
IN 2013, GERMAN POLICE HADRECEIVED THEIR FIRST TIP THAT
CHRISTIAN BRUECKNER COULD BEINVOLVED IN HER DISAPPEARANCE.
>> THERE WAS A FIRST HINT TO OURSUSPECT IN 2013, BUT THE POLICE
CONTACTED CHRISTIAN B., ANDTHERE WAS NOTHING FOUND TO
INVESTIGATE IT ANY LONGER.
>> Reporter: WHILE IT DIDN'T PANOUT, JUST ONE YEAR LATER, HE WAS
BACK ON POLICE RADAR.
ACCORDING TO DOCUMENTS OBTAINEDBY "48 HOURS," IN 2014, 391
PHOTO FILES AND 68 VIDEO FILESOF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY WERE
CONFISCATED FROM BRUECKNER'SHOME WHILE HE WAS LIVING IN
BRAUNSCHWEIG.
DURING THIS TIME, HE WAS ALSOCHRGED WITH SEXUALLY ABUSING
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD.
HE WAS SENTENCED TO 15 MONTHS INPRISON FOR COMMITTING BOTH
OFFENSES.
BUT BEFORE SERVING HIS SENTENCE,HE FLED ONCE AGAIN TO PORTUGAL.
>> IF I LOOK AT HIS LIFE ANDCRIMINAL RECORD, IT SEEMS A
LITTLE BIT LIKE HE WAS ALWAYSFLEEING AND TRYING TO ESCAPE LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
SO, WHENEVER HE COMMITTED ACRIME, WHENEVER HE WAS
INVESTIGATED IN CONNECTION WITHSOME CRIMES, HE LEFT THE
COUNTRY.
>> Reporter: BRUECKNER WOULDLATER BE EXTRADITED TO GERMANY
ONCE AGAIN TO SERVE HISSENTENCE.
AND THEN, IF THERE IS A HOUSE OFHORRORS IN THIS TRAGIC MYSTERY,
IT MAY BE THIS ONE: A DESERTEDFACTORY DEEP IN THE WOODS OF
SAXONY-ANHALT, GERMANY, THATCHRISTIAN BRUECKNER ONCE OWNED.
IN 2016, INVESTIGATORS CONDUCTEDMULTIPLE SEARCHES OF THIS
PROPERTY.
"48 HOURS" HAS LEARNED THESESEARCHES WERE PART OF A BROADER
INVESTIGATION INTO CHILDPORNOGRAPHY, AND WHAT THEY FOUND
WAS TROUBLING.
>> LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFIRMEDTHAT THEY FOUND AT LEAST THREE
GIRLS' SWIMSUITS IN HIS CAMPERVAN.
SO, OF COURSE, YOU NEED TO ASKTHE QUESTION, WHO DO THESE
SWIMSUITS BELONG TO?
>> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS HAVENOT REVEALED IF THEY KNOW THE
ANSWER, BUT THAT'S NOT ALL THEYFOUND.
>> ON THIS PROPERTY, THEY FOUNDU.S.B. DRIVES CONTAINING
PICTURES AND VIDEOS, INCLUDINGVIDEOS AND PICTURES OF CHILD
ABUSEAND ALSO VIDEOS WHICH HE
PRODUCED HIMSELF.
AND THESE U.S.B. DRIVES WERE INA PLASTIC BAG BURIED UNDER HIS
DEAD DOG IN THE GROUND.
>> Reporter: IT SEEMS THATBRUECKNER HAD A LONG FASCINATION
WITH RECORDING HIS CRIMES.
IN 2018, A WITNESS CAME FORWARDSAYING THEY HAD SEEN A VIDEOTAPE
FROM 2005 OF BRUECKNER RAPING A72-YEAR-OLD AMERICAN WOMAN AT
HER HOME IN PORTUGAL.
UP UNTIL THEN, THE ATTACKER'SIDENTITY HAD NOT BEEN KNOWN.
>> THIS WAS NOT JUST RAPE.
THIS WAS THE MOST BRUTAL FORM OFRAPE I EVER HEARD OF.
>> Reporter: THAT ASSAULT HADTAKEN PLACE CLOSE TO THE OCEAN
CLUB AND TWO YEARS BEFOREMADELEINE McCANN DISAPPEARED.
BRUECKNER WAS CHARGED ANDCONVICTED FOR THESE CRIMES
IN 2019.
HIS D.N.A. MATCHED D.N.A. FOUNDAT THE SCENE.
>> HE IS DEFINITELY A BAD GUY,HE'S DEFINITELY A PSYCHOPATH,
AND HE IS DEFINITELY A FULL-TIMECRIMINAL.
BUT THE QUESTION IS, IS HEREALLY GUILTY IN THE MADDIE
McCANN CASE?
>> Reporter: WOLTERS WILL NOTREVEAL DETAILS ABOUT HIS CURRENT
INVESTIGATION INTO CHRISTIANBRUECKNER, BUT HE IS ADAMANT
ABOUT ONE THING.
>> WE'RE SURE THAT CHRISTIAN B.
MURDERED MADELEINE McCANNBECAUSE OF THE EVIDENCE WE HAVE.
>> Reporter: AND MAY I SPECULATETHAT THAT EVIDENCE MAY INCLUDE
PHOTOGRAPHS OR VIDEO OF MADDIEMcCANN?
>> YOU MAY SPECULATE, BUT I'MNOT ALLOWED TO TELL YOU IF YOU
ARE RIGHT OR IF YOU ARE WRONG.
>> Reporter: BUT DESPITE THEEVIDENCE HE SAYS HE HAS, WOLTERS
ADMITS HE NEEDS MORE OF IT INORDER TO CHARGE BRUECKNER.
>> AND IN GERMANY, WE CHARGESOMEONE ONLY IF WE ARE SURE THAT
HE WILL BE SENTENCED BY THECOURT.
IF THERE ARE DOUBTS, WE DON'TCHARGE HIM.
>> Reporter: WOLTERS SAYS ONEPIECE OF EVIDENCE THEY NEED IS
TO FIND THE PERSON WHO MADE THATCALL TO BRUECKNER'S CELL PHONE
APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR BEFOREMADELEINE DISAPPEARED ON MAY 3,
2007.
>> THIS MIGHT BE THE ONLY PERSONWHO COULD CONFIRM THAT, INDEED,
CHRISTIAN B. WAS HOLDING HISCELL PHONE IN HIS HAND THAT
NIGHT.
AND THIS WOULD BE PROOF THAT NOTJUST HIS CELL PHONE WAS AT THE
CRIME SCENE BUT THAT HE WAS ATTHE CRIME SCENE.
>> Reporter: ALTHOUGHINVESTIGATORS MADE AN APPEAL TO
THE PUBLIC, THEY HAVE BEENUNABLE TO IDENTIFY THE MYSTERY
CALLER.
>> THE PHONE WHICH WAS USED FORTHE CALL TO CHRISTIAN B. WAS A
PREPAID PHONE, SO WE ARE NOTABLE TO-- TO FIND THIS PERSON
IN AN EASY WAY.
>> Reporter: THE McCANNS HAVENOT COMMENTED ON CHRISTIAN
BRUECKNER, BUT THEY POSTED THISON THEIR WEB SITE:
"WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP HOPE OFFINDING MADELEINE ALIVE.
BUT WHATEVER THE OUTCOME MAY BE,WE NEED TO KNOW AS WE NEED TO
FIND PEACE."
MEANWHILE, BRUECKNER HASREMAINED SILENT BEHIND PRISON
WALLS, WHERE HE IS SERVING ASEVEN-YEAR SENTENCE FOR RAPING
THAT 72-YEAR-OLD AMERICAN WOMAN.
BRUECKNER'S LAWYER SPOKE TO NINENEWS AUSTRALIA.
>> HE IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVENGUILTY.
>> Reporter: WOLTERS ADMITS THATWITHOUT A BODY OR FORENSIC
EVIDENCE, THIS CASE WILL BE HARDTO SOLVE, BUT HE IS NOT BACKING
DOWN.
AND DO YOU BELIEVE THERE AREPEOPLE OUT THERE, WHETHER IT BE
IN PORTUGAL OR IN GERMANY, WHOHAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CASE
THAT IS IMPORTANT?
>> WE THINK THAT THERE AREPEOPLE WHO CAN HELP US, AND WE
HOPE THAT THESE PEOPLE WILLCONTACT US OR THE POLICE.
>> I HAVE SPENT MANY YEARSHOPING THAT THERE WILL BE
A RESOLUTION.
>> Reporter: BBC NEWS ANCHORJANE HILL, WHO COVERED
MADELEINE'S STORY FROM THESTART, HOPES THIS NEW
INVESTIGATION WILL FINALLYPROVIDE ANSWERS, AS PAINFUL AS
THEY MAY BE, FOR THE McCANNS.
>> I HOPE THAT THERE CAN BECLOSURE IN SOME WAY FOR A FAMILY
THAT HAS SPENT 13 AND A HALFYEARS NOT KNOWING WHAT HAPPENED
TO THEIR LITTLE GIRL, NOTKNOWING WHAT THEY CAN SAY TO HER
YOUNGER BROTHER AND SISTER ABOUTWHERE SHE'S GONE.
>> MADELEINE IS A BEAUTIFUL,BRIGHT, FUNNY AND CARING LITTLE
GIRL.
SHE IS SO SPECIAL.
WE BEG YOU TO LET MADELEINE COMEHOME.
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