Portugal: New search launched 18 years after UK toddler vanished

Source: CBS News

“A fresh search effort has been launched for Madeleine McCann, a British toddler who disappeared from her family’s vacation rental in Portugal more than 18 years ago. Police haven’t disclosed any evidence to explain why they decided to carry out a new search almost two decades later, but they were focusing Tuesday on land around a cottage previously used by the only suspect in the girl’s disappearance, a German man currently jailed in his home country for unrelated rape and sexual assault charges. … Madeleine was just 3 years old when she vanished from an apartment on the Algarve coast where she was on holiday with her family, sparking unprecedented media coverage and a global campaign to find her. … The new searches — carried out at the request of German authorities investigating Christian Brueckner, a convicted rapist who is suspected of having killed Madeleine — are expected to last until Friday.” (06/03/25)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/madeleine-mccann-new-search-portugal-christian-brueckner/