Madeleine Beth Mccann, born on May 12th 2003, disappeared on her family holiday on May 3rd 2007. She was only 3 years of age, she was taken from her bed in the holiday apartment. Her family were on holiday in Praia da Luz, a resort in the Algarve region of Portugal. She was labeled “the most heavily reported missing person case in modern history”. Her location still remains unknown.
Madeleine was on a holiday away from the UK with her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, her two year old siblings, and a group of family friends and their children. She and her siblings had been let asleep at 8:30pm in the ground- floor apartment, while the McCann’s and their family friends dined in a restaurant 55 meters away, where they could still see the apartment their children were in. All of the parents checked on their children throughout the night, and then at 10:00pm Madeleines mother, Kate McCann, realised she was missing. Over the following weeks , particularly after misinterpreting a British DNA analysis, the Portuguese police came to believe that the Madeleine had died in an accident in the apartment, and that her parents had covered it up. The McCann’s were given suspect status in September 2007, which was lifted when portugal's attorney general archived the case in July 2008 because there wasn’t enough evidence provided.
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I also think it’s really interesting how many people have different theories on what happened to Madeleine, such as her parents ‘accidently’ killed her and had to cover up the