64 m. ago Is this the end of the road in the hunt for Madeleine McCann? How the desperate new search unfolded in Portugal

After a three-day search effort drew to a close without any sign of a breakthrough, crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin reports from Praia da Luz on the latest attempt to give the McCann family answers

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73 m. ago Madeleine McCann suspect ‘told police questions about him can never be answered’

‘Was I or my vehicle clearly seen near the crime scene on the night of the crime?’ the man reportedly wrote

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13 h. ago Inside abandoned farm buildings where cops held new search for Madeleine McCann

A latest Madeleine McCann search carried out by German and Portuguese teams has taken place in scrubland and derelict buildings near to where she disappeared in Praia da Luz

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17 h. ago ‘Every parent’s nightmare’: after 18 years, was this the final search for Madeleine McCann?

As visitors pose for selfies in the Portuguese resort where the British child disappeared, a breakthrough seems further away than everThe police have packed up, the diggers and radar scanners gone from the Algarve scrubland. The latest search for Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment 2007, has ended quietly without any apparent breakthrough.After 18 years of intermittent searches, this one, led by German police, may well be the last. In Praia da Luz, a seaside town etched into the world’s memory by the tragedy, that realisation lands with a mix of relief and weariness. Locals barely speak about the case now, if at all. The McCann investigation brought an unrelenting glare of media attention that many here would prefer to forget. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago What police found during Madeleine McCann search and what happens next in race against time

A team of German and Portuguese investigators have finished an extensive search

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25 h. ago Bombshell new Madeleine McCann theory: 6 claims about mystery Brit man and wife

A fresh search for missing Madeleine McCann ended this week with no new information seemingly found - however today a new bombshell theory about her disappearance emerged

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27 h. ago Madeleine McCann search latest: Animal bones among limited findings as police hunt ends in Praia da Luz

The three-day search was called off after limited findings including animals bones were unearthed in Praia da Luz

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28 h. ago German police brand search for Madeleine McCann a 'waste of time' as sources claim three

Rainer Grimm, boss of the BKA, Germany's equivalent of the FBI, is in Portugal overseeing the search which ended yesterday.

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29 h. ago Madeleine McCann detective's haunting final words to friend before 'last throw of dice'

The head of the German force leading the fresh searches for Madeleine McCann confided in a friend before this week's search and shared a candid four word statement

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33 h. ago Revealed: The four words a top German detective said before 'last

Rainer Grimm, boss of the BKA, Germany's equivalent of the FBI, is in Portugal overseeing the search which ended yesterday.

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36 h. ago Madeleine McCann search latest: Animal bones among limited findings as third day of police hunt ends in Praia da Luz

The three-day search was called off after limited findings including animals bones were unearthed in Praia da Luz

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36 h. ago Madeleine McCann search update as £300k police operation comes to an end

Investigators applauded and shook hands after three days of searching.

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37 h. ago Madeleine McCann suspect, Christian Brueckner was 'nasty piece of work', says neighbour

As the search for evidence in the case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann comes to an end, a neighbour who spoke to prime suspect Christian Bruekner said he was a 'really nasty piece of work'

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38 h. ago Madeleine McCann update as officers embrace after concluding £300,000 search

It is now 18 years since the three-year-old's disappearance and police have been carrying out a number of searches this week

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38 h. ago Madeleine McCann search in Algarve called off after three days finding ‘nothing of consequence’

Scores of police have been searcing scrubland and an abandoned building near Praia da Luz with JCBs, radar and fingertip searches

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39 h. ago ‘Everybody’s fed up’: Inside the Algarve resort haunted by the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

Eighteen years after Madeleine McCann went missing from an apartment block in Praia Da Luz, the Independent’s crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin discovers a coastal resort desperate to move on

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41 h. ago Madeleine McCann search called off after just three days as police pack up

German and Portuguese police began searching properties on Tuesday.

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41 h. ago Maddie McCann search in Algarve called off after three days finding ‘nothing of consequence’

Scores of police have been searcing scrubland and an abandoned building near Praia da Luz with JCBs, radar and fingertip searches

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41 h. ago New search for Madeleine McCann ENDS with dozens of police seen packing up equipment at remote Portuguese site

The new search for clues related to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has ended, after dozens of police were seen packing up investigative equipment at the Portuguese site. 

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42 h. ago Madeleine McCann search ends after just three days as police pack up

A renewed search into missing Madeleine McCann, 18 years after her disappearance, has been called off - the search came to an end a day earlier than expected

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