😢 Torn Dreams #9 - Madeleine McCann 👪

On May 3, 2007, it was nine days before Madeleine McCann turned four. Of British origin, she was the eldest daughter of a marriage of doctors, Kate and Gerry McCann, who left her sleeping with her twin brothers in a hotel room in Portugal while they dined and drank with friends. After this point, one of the most mediatic and intriguing cases of child disappearance began to take place.

With contradictory testimonies, suspects that were left without legal charges, presumed viewings of the girl in other continents, millionaire fundraising campaigns, massive worldwide dissemination and even appeals of famous figures, such as David Beckham, the writer JK Rowling and Benedict XVI , Madeleine McCann starred in the hope of thousands of people who wished to find her alive.

McCann left traces of blood and other bodily fluids in the bedroom from which she was never seen again, as well as traces of sedative medications in samples of hair that police found in the car rented by her parents.

This complicated fact, with so many lines of research, kept many experts in the field confused, but one in particular said he was well on track in his hypotheses, as reflected in his book.

"Maddie: the truth of the lie" was written by Gonçalo Amaral, a retired inspector who coordinated, at the time, the search for Madeleine, and it was published in 2008. The work clarifies that the girl died accidentally and the parents, terrified by the consequences that this negligence would bring, buried or cremated the corpse, explaining why Kate and Gerry defended the possibility of a "materially impossible" abduction.

Today, more than eleven years without Maddie, what happened to her will not be forgotten for the victims or for those involved.