82 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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90 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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3 h. ago Madeleine McCann suspect sent letter about case to police, reports say

He reportedly said 'decisive questions can never be answered'

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7 h. ago Six major questions raised by Madeleine McCann suspect's letter

In his latest bid to clear his name, and gloat at police, Christian Brueckner has sent a letter to police which highlights six major questions in relation to the case

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11 h. ago Madeleine McCann suspect ‘told police decisive questions can never be answered’

Christian Brueckner is due to be released from jail in September if no further charges are brought.

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12 h. ago Madeleine McCann suspect makes sick taunt in letter about police investigation as German paedophile's prison release date draws closer

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has disturbingly taunted police in a new sickening letter about the toddler's disappearance as his prison release date looms closer.

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12 h. ago Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner writes chilling letter from jail

Christian Brueckner, who is currently serving time for raping a woman in 2005, wrote a sick letter from his jail cell mocking cops for their inability to find a body

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13 h. ago Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner taunts cops with sick letter from jail

Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, has penned a sickening letter from prison in which he questions the evidence against him

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13 h. ago Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner writes sick new letter from jail

Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect in Madeleine McCann's missing case, has penned a vile letter where claimed police wouldn't find evidence linking him to the case

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13 h. ago Madeleine McCann prime suspect gloats he will never be charged without a body in chilling letter

In a chilling letter, the 48-year-old convicted paedophile said “the dropping of the investigation will hit the world like a bomb”

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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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18 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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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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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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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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39 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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41 h. ago Investigators congratulate themselves as Madeleine McCann searches end

Search teams wound down the operation in Atalaia, near Lagos, Portugal, on Thursday, after three days of scouring scrubland and abandoned structures.

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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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