Today, I would like to tell you about a disappearance that has caused a sensation in europe, which is known as the biggest mystery case in the 21st century, and it is the largest number of participants and the largest cost in European history. He was made the madeleine missing.
Case Brief
The three-year-old girl mysteriously disappeared in her sleep, more than 8,600 people in 101 countries claimed to have seen her, 1338 confessions, more than 100 million funds, took 13 years to find fruitless. So how did the girl go missing? What really happened back then? Let's go back in time to 2007 and explore the beginning and end of the case together.
Out on vacation
Madeleine. McCann was born in 2003 in a middle-class family in Leicester, England, Madeleine's father was named Jerry, her mother was called Kate, both parents were doctors, Jerry was a cardiologist, Kate was a general practitioner and anesthesiologist, the couple had three children, in addition to the eldest daughter Madeleine, there was a pair of two-year-old dragon and phoenix fetus, the original happy family, but in a trip let the family fall from heaven to hell.
On April 28, 2007, Jerry and Kate arrived by flight with their three children to the famous tourist mecca of Portugal, the town of Luce, where they were ready to spend their eight-day holiday.
Three other families who came on holiday with madeleine's family were friends of their parents and brought their own children. The apartment building they lived in was next to an ocean club. The relationship between the four families is very good, they will play with their children during the day, and at night, after the children are asleep, the adults will gather in the restaurant directly opposite the apartment to eat, drink, chat and enjoy the rare nightlife.
The restaurant is a short straight-line distance from the apartment, only about 55 meters or so, and the living room can be viewed through the glass doors on the apartment's balcony. If a child sleeping in the bedroom runs out, they can see it at a glance
On May 3, 2007, at about 7 p.m., mother Kate put her three children to sleep and prepared to go to the restaurant to have dinner with her friends.
The child is missing
At about 8:30 p.m., Kate and her husband Jerry arrived at the restaurant, and at exactly nine o'clock in the evening, they went back to check on the children for the first time. Madeleine's father saw that the three children were still asleep and went back to drinking.
At 9:30 p.m., it was the turn of mother Kate to return to the apartment, she just wanted to get up, she was stopped by her colleague Matthew, the other party said, you don't have to go, I am going to go back, anyway, it is next door, just by the way to help you see it. Kate gladly accepted, and soon Matthew returned, telling Kate that the kids were sleeping soundly.
At exactly ten o'clock in the evening, Kate decided to go back and see for herself. When she reached the living room, she saw the bedroom door open, when a cold wind blew up, and with a snap, the door closed. Kate clearly remembers the bedroom window clearly closed as she left. So she reopened the door, only to find that something was wrong, only to see that the bedroom window had been opened and Madeleine was gone.
A panicked Kate couldn't take care of the other two children in the bedroom at all, and ran straight to the dining room, shouting that Madeleine was gone and someone had taken her away. The restaurant partner listened and immediately looked for it separately.
Alarms are searched
At 10:10 p.m., Madeleine's father Jerry asked his friend Matthew to go to the resort front desk to call the police, while he and his wife, Kate, continued to look around. At 10:30 p.m., the management mobilized 60 employees and tenants to help search for Madeleine.
At 11:10 p.m., two police officers arrived at the scene, briefly asked for information, and then worked together to help find the child. It was not until 1 a.m. the next day that two officers reported to the Portuguese Judicial Police. Ten minutes later, the criminal police rushed to the scene for reinforcements.
On this night, the whole town of Ross was full of voices calling out to Madeleine, but Madeleine seemed to have evaporated from the human world, and there was no news. The disappearance of their daughter is deeply sad for the Jerrys, and the Portuguese police's attitude has made them even more angry and dissatisfied.
The reason was that Madeleine disappeared at ten o'clock that night, and it was not until 11:10 that two police officers arrived at the scene, giving the reason that they did not receive a report until 10:40. In addition, at 10 o'clock the day after the crime, the police set up barricades at the main intersection of entry and exit to Ross, rather than immediately after the disappearance that night, so that the golden time for the best search was missed and more time was created for the criminals to escape.
Forced to use their personal resources to contact many British journalists, soon there were relevant reports in the United Kingdom, a British girl disappeared in Portugal, but did not get a timely response and follow-up from the police. Rendering madeleine's disappearance an international event, the Portuguese Judicial Police, under pressure, began to fully intervene in the investigation.
Check one by one
In questioning madeleine's parents and nine other people, one of them revealed that he had left his room between 09:05 and 09:15 that night and saw a suspicious man near the apartment building, holding a girl in pink pajamas, about 170 centimeters tall, roughly between 35 and 40 years old, wearing a dark top and beige pants. Another smiths from Ireland claimed to have met him as well.
The Smiths told police that at about 10 p.m. that night, they saw a man walking toward the beach about 500 metres from the apartment carrying a girl on his back. The man is in his 30s and is between 175 and 180 cm tall. With short brown hair and beige pants, the man didn't look like a tourist, and the way he carried the child was uncomfortable.
Shortly after the case, police identified the first suspect. The man, Robert, 34, was found because he had appeared at the scene of the crime several times, not only interviewed reporters, but also helped find Madeleine and even asked the police about the progress of the case. Such a warm-hearted behavior attracted the attention of the police, so the police investigated Robert, but it turned out that she was really just a warm-hearted person. The police then targeted Madeleine's parents. Why would the police suspect the couple? What secrets are they hiding?
The length is too long, and the next issue will continue to explain it for you...