PART TWO: (salient parts only)
In a pedophile chatroom …
Unknown other: How’s it going?
Brueckner: Bad with me. Want to f*ck a little girl
UO: Who doesn’t want that?
Brueckner: Catch something small and use it for days
UO: It is not without danger
Brueckner: Oh, if the evidence is destroyed after .. I will document exactly how they will be tortured
UO: Cool
Brueckner: Well let’s see. Not only talking but also doing it!
Expert: He is very clear about his fantasy about not only abducting children but torturing them and using them for days. So these are very clear words.
In reality they don’t start with murder or rape, this is the end of a long process of an escalating fantasy. Because, if you think about it, murder or homicide is like the purest form of domination, because they choose if the victims live or die. They play God.
Presenter: Christian Brueckner left Portugal in 2007, during the desperate search for Madeleine McCann. He moved to the German city of Brunswick (Braunschweig). An informant speaking anonymously said Brueckner rented a kiosk right next to a Kindergarten.
Informant: There is a Kindergarten and Junior School right next to the kiosk, they spent their pocket money on sweets here. He gave the kids lollies for free. He talked of creating a dungeon in this, a rented cottage. It has a cellar and he wanted to line it with heavy plates.
Presenter: This was in 2013, when police say he was fantasising in a pedophile chatroom. Then in 2015, just 2 hours drive from where Brueckner was living, another little girl, Inga Gehricke, disappeared. A dark van, similar to one Brueckner was driving at the time, is seen leaving the abduction site.
And Hans Christian Wolters says he believes there are others (victims).
GP: I think there are more victims of our suspect. There are other investigations all over Germany In every case the prosecutors will check if our suspect is the suspect in the other case. I don’t know, I don’t know (if they are dealing with a serial killer). I am not able to judge this.
Presenter: The McCann’s appeared on German TV two times. Each time there were tip offs. First the name Christian Brueckner, then in 2017 reports that Brueckner made a drunken confession to a friend. Police searched a deserted factory owned by Brueckner and made a grim discovery. Hard drives and USB sticks hidden in a bag buried with his dog.
Expert: It is on the property of Christian B they found material, which according to the current information, is like 8,000 pieces of videos and pictures and this is quite typical for this kind of offender. They are filming what they do, and sometimes they are fantasising about their crimes every day and every night – over and over and over and over again.
Presenter: Brueckner’s lair uncovered many secrets. And not only his ghastly videos, there was more. In his camper van, police discovered the swimsuits of little girls.
How on earth do the McCann family recover, if this man took their daughter?
Expert: I can just imagine how they feel right now. And being in the state of uncertainty, some people, some parents of missing children, say this uncertainty is worse than the fact or knowing that their child is dead.
Presenter: Do you suspect that Maddie McCann is one of the people who features in the videos or pictures?
Expert: I am quite sure that they have some good evidence. It could be videos. I mean, he was into child











and torture, and he did crimes against children at a very early age, and according to current information he also filmed his offences so you can clearly say what happened there, if it’s on tape.
Presenter: Officer Wolters may have given us a clue.
Presenter: We do know that police recovered thousands of files of disturbing videos and pictures that you believe belong to Christian Brueckner. Is there evidence on those videos of Madeleine McCann?
GP: At the moment I am not allowed to… umm … contend that, so I am not able to say if there are pictures or if there are no pictures of Madeleine.
Presenter: If the authorities do have video proving Madeleine’s death, together with the phone trace showing Brueckner was in the area, then evidence from a witness or photograph putting Brueckner at the Ocean Club between 9 and 10pm on the night of May 3rd 2007 would be the last piece of the puzzle. And for Kate and Gerry McCann, the final terrible truth. It is painful information that perhaps only the parent of another missing child can understand.
https://www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2020/episode-21