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[Ellmau]

Childminder/nanny from the resort speaks out:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/what-really-happened-night-madeleine-10245222

 

[Ellmau]

Police say they are pursuing a potentially significant lead:

He said UK and Portuguese detectives were doing "a critical piece of work and we don't want to spoil it by putting titbits of information out publicly".

But he added that "there was no reason whatsoever" to suspect Madeleine's parents were involved in her disappearance.

"However she left that apartment, she's been abducted," he said. "This is a young girl who is missing."

He said: "We've got some thoughts on what we think the most likely explanations might be and we are pursuing those."

Possible suspects brought forward in 2013 have now all been ruled out.

He said the enormity and complexity of the case had brought challenges. But the relationship with Portuguese investigators was "better than ever" and that was paying dividends in the progress made.

He said: "In a missing child inquiry every day is agony and an anniversary brings this into sharp focus.

"Our thoughts are with Madeleine's family at this time - as it is with any family in a missing person's inquiry - and that drives our commitment to do everything we can for her."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39706194

 

[JerseyGirl]

10 years later, UK police still pursuing missing girl case

http://fox6now.com/2017/04/26/10-years-later-uk-police-still-pursuing-missing-girl-case/

 

[JerseyGirl]

Madeleine McCann could found by FACEBOOK: Facial recognition software could locate her thanks to the unusual blemish in her right eye

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4450648/Madeleine-McCann-FACEBOOK.html#ixzz4fS3CwGHV

 

[Morag]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...adeleine-disappearance-portugal-a7710111.html

 

[Alethea]

Scotland Yard closing in on female person of interest.

http://www.crimeonline.com/2017/05/...ugely-significant-person-of-interest-a-woman/

 

[skibaboo]

'Woman in purple' is prime suspect in Madeleine McCann disappearance after witness saw her outside apartment

A police insider said they were ready to “move in” and arrest the mystery women, who is not currently living in Portugal, in the latest “hugely significant line of inquiry”.

It is understood from sources close to the investigation that the woman had a connection to a worker at the Ocean Club resort – now renamed the Garden Club – where the McCanns were staying.

 

[Deleted member 39678]

Madeleine McCann: 10 years later, FBI profiler says case 'solvable'

To Mary Ellen O'Toole, a former FBI agent, the case is "solvable" a decade later.

O'Toole, who is not involved in the investigation, said authorities must carry out two actions: re-examine old forensic evidence using new technology and re-interview key invidivuals at the resort on the night Madeleine disappeared.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/0...rs-later-fbi-profiler-says-case-solvable.html

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

CNN Special Report: Missing: Madeleine McCann

http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/04/26/exp-cnn-creative-marketing-missing-madeleine-mccann.cnn

 

[gregjrichards]

"Detectives hunting for Madeleine McCann will ask for more money to pursue a 'final line of inquiry' as their £11million investigation fund runs out.

Funding will have run out by September, with officers set to appeal to the Government for further support."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Madeleine-McCann-ask-money.html#ixzz4qSdOeKxL

 

[Morag]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...aking-eight-Madeleine-McCann-documentary.html

The McCanns have refused to be involved.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have been given extra funding to trace a 'critical witness' missing from Portugal.

Officers believe the woman, who is reportedly East European, could hold the key to discovering what happened to Madeleine.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-detectives-handed-extra-11307563

 

[Bohemian]

Waitress DENIES she is the 'woman in purple' being hunted by Madeleine McCann investigators
By Paddy Dinham and Gareth Davies For Mailonline and Neil Tweedie for the Daily Mail
17:50 AEDT 24 Nov 2017, updated 02:01 AEDT 25 Nov 2017

• A 'woman in purple' is keeping Operation Grange alive - the search for Maddie
• She was seen by British expat Jenny Murat before the youngster went missing
• Criminologist Heriberto Janosch Gonzalez cited her as Luisa Todorov, 48
• But the former resort worker has 'already spoken to police and knows nothing'

‘A waitress has denied she is 'the woman in purple' at the centre of the investigation into missing Madeleine McCann.

Detectives searching for the youngster have been scouring Europe in an attempt to locate the mysterious figure, who was the main lead keeping the investigation alive.

Luisa Todorov, who worked in the resort, was recently cited by criminologist Heriberto Janosch Gonzalez as being the 'woman in purple' and still lives less than a mile away from site where Maddie disappeared from.

At about 8pm on the evening of May 3, 2007, Jenny Murat, a British expatriate living in the coastal village of Praia da Luz on Portugal's Algarve, and another separate witness noticed a woman staring intently at an apartment block next to the Ocean Club, a small holiday complex popular with British families.

Sometime during the next two hours, three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared from an apartment in that same block as her parents dine with friends nearby.

Mrs Todorov, 48, worked there with her husband, Stefan, who has since returned to his homeland of Bulgaria.

She says she was quizzed within days of Maddie's disappearance and would be willing to co-operate further, but is unsure of how useful she would be.’

Read more at:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5113205/Maddie-McCann-Waitress-DENIES-woman-purple.html

 

[byo]

Madeleine McCann private detective Kevin Halligen dies
14 January 2018

A Surrey Police spokesman said: "We were called to an address in Cobbett Hill Road, Normandy, on Monday following a report of a man in his 50s having been taken unwell, who subsequently died.

"The death is being treated as unexplained and a file will be passed to the coroner's office in due course."

(. . .)

:rose:

 

[Ellmau]

A childcare worker who helped care for Madeleine talks abut the immediate aftermath of M's disappearance:

She is still constantly quizzed by people about the case who ask if “the parents did it”.
She said: “I tell them no, there’s no way at all. A, timings and B, where it was, their r*eactions, the whole thing. Not a chance.”
The woman also told how Madeleine was a favourite among the child minders. Her allocated nanny was Catriona Baker, but others also got the chance to look after her.
The carer added: “I remember her character and *temperament. She was slightly shy, very sweet. Not loud or precocious.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/what-really-happened-night-madeleine-10245222

 

[Morag]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Home-Office-approves-Met-Polices-funding.html

Only £150,000 more.

 

[Ellmau]

Gerry McCann to talk about grief and mental health: Maddie McCann's dad opens up about 'painful' struggle since daughter disappeared

 

[Ellmau]

Gerry's interview: Father describes 'terror' of Madeleine case

 

[Ellmau]

Further extension of funding: Madeleine McCann detectives granted further £150,000

 

[Ellmau]

Senior police officer suspected GM initially, but now believes family innocent: Documentary reveals senior police officer suspected Madeleine McCann’s father over her disappearance | Daily Mail Online