Tuesday marks the 15th anniversary of toddler Maddie McCanns shocking disappearance from a resort in Portugal never to be seen again.
What Madeleine McCann’s life would have been like today is anyone’s guess. The smiling little girl never had the opportunity to fill in the years.
“I can’t imagine what they are experiencing, probably pain without measure,” Chief Insp. Olegario Sousa told reporters in 2007, referring to Maddie’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann.METROPOLITAN POLICELike a lot of British families, the McCanns found the Algarve coast in Portugal a cheap and cheerful vacation. On the evening of May 3, 2007, Madeleine McCann, three years old at the time, was tucked into bed with her two-year-old twin siblings.
But for a time, local police and the British press zeroed in on the McCanns, literally breaking them.“I’ve been a detective at the most senior level for 30 years and have never seen such a witch-hunt, or one based on such flimsy evidence,” former Metropolitan Police Chief Lord Stevens said.