The German Federal Criminal Police announced this Friday that he had in his possession new evidence that is linked to the main suspect in the disappearance and alleged murder of Madeleine McCannwhich could further complicate your situation.
Authorities said they found a email account of Hotmail “related to the murder”, since it belonged to Christian Brueckner, the main suspect. There were multiple evidence of child abuse what were eliminated mostly. Titus Stampa, police investigator, said he could “remember that things were massively deleted in the inbox.” “There was nothing there since January 2007”he specified in a suspicious tone.
Madeleine disappeared during a vacation she was enjoying with her family in Praia da Luz, in Portugalin 2007. One night, exactly the one on May 3, her parents left her sleeping with her two-year-old twin brothers in the apartment they had rented while they enjoyed dinner at a restaurant about 50 meters away. However, when she returned, five minutes before ten at night, the girl had disappeared.
A search operation was immediately mounted with the local police as well as with the collaboration of the residents of the complex where they were staying. He also participated Interpolwhich decided to close the border with Spain and both Spanish and Portuguese airports.
At first, his parents were accused of his disappearance but were acquitted after verifying his innocence. In 2020, investigators verified that recordings from the building’s security cameras showed a man carrying a package that could have been the girl – asleep or even already dead. Furthermore, they were able to verify that Brueckner was in the area that night and received a phone call that lasted about thirty minutes, which fueled this theory.
In any case, this evidence was not enough to present a formal accusation although the man faces other processes in Justice: in 2019 he was convicted of raping an American woman in Portugal in 2005 and is being tried for a case of rape and sexual abuse. to minors.
For all these reasons, he is serving a seven-year sentence but denies being related to the girl’s disappearance.
Last year it seemed that the case would take an unexpected turn after a young Polish woman claimed to be Maddie. Julia Wendell, 21, expressed doubts about her own identity and age, which she said could be 21, similar to the age the girl would be today. “I think I can be Madeleine. I need a DNA test. Police investigators in the UK and Poland try to ignore me. I will tell my story in posts here. Help me,” he said then.
The test taken confirmed that it was not Maddie. Although it was not compared with the genetic information of McCann’s biological parents – because they refused to participate in the examination – it did show that the woman had Polish ancestry and had Lithuanian and Romanian roots.
However, heMadeleine’s parents remain convinced that their daughter may be alive somewhere in the world. and they persistently refuse to consider her as deceased.
