The Disappearance Of Madeleine McCann In 2007, a three-year-old girl went missing from her holiday apartment in Portugal. Madeleine McCann was on a holiday with her parents, younger twin siblings, and a group of family friends. They had rented a ground floor apartment to spend their holiday in. On the evening of May 3rd, 2007, the McCann 's left their sleeping children in the apartment to go to a restaurant and bar fifty meters away. There, the McCann 's met up with their family friends. The parents checked on their children every thirty minutes. However, when Madeleine 's mother came to check on her at 10:00 pm, she was missing. This left many people wondering about what could have happened to Madeleine. The first theory is Madeleine 's parents murdered her in the apartment. The second theory is an unknown man kidnapped her. In the rest of this essay, you will find different evidence on these theories. The first theory is Madeleine 's parents killed her inside their holiday apartment. According to the website Liverpoolecho, they believe that the McCann 's could have possibly hid Madeleine 's dead body in an unknown woman 's coffin that was going to be cremated the next day. They believe this because they later found the McCann 's were keeping a key that could open this woman 's coffin. The Telegraph stated that English police brought in dogs to sniff around the McCann 's holiday apartment. These dogs were trained to smell the trace of blood or a human corpse. They