On 3 may 2007, the world was shocked by a disturbing message: the three-year-old British Maddie McCann disappeared during her family holiday in the Portuguese Algarve. The parents had their children left alone to be with friends to go eat at a nearby restaurant. She was alone in the hotel room in Praia da Luz, but there were afterwards no traces of burglary or kidnapping. In the years thereafter followed various investigations, reconstructions and insinuations, but still without much result. The Netflix documentary casts a new light on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing Maddie, have refused to cooperate with the documentary.
Read also the Parents of Maddie McCann want “nothing to do” with a new Netflix documentary about the disappearance daughter New methodsAlthough the series is already on the streamingsplatform, running the rumor mill now in full swing, after viewers a new element discovered. In the case comes after the fact shows that police dogs at the time, a lijkgeur have found in the bedroom of the parents and in the living room. In addition, a trained dog on the same spot in the living room determined that there was traces of blood were.
the Same dogs also have research to the corpse and bloedgeur on the clothing and belongings of the family McCann. There were traces found on the clothing of Kate McCann and on the lievelingsknuffel of Madeleine, in her bed. Also in the car that the family 25 days after the disappearance of Madeleine hired, even DNA traces found.
the report on the DNA traces was then drawn up in English. Then it was translated into Portuguese for the local services. But the Portuguese detectives only received a summary see, that is incomplete and where not all the findings are correct in being displayed. Alipio Ribeiro, head of the Portuguese judicial police, said later that the traces in the car the McCanns were found, not with certainty could be attributed to the missing girl Maddie. He claimed, furthermore, that the messages in the media that the traces for the 100% match with the DNA of Maddie - not correct. The parents were not indicted, nor arrested.
In the year 2019, the technology, however, much further. There are meanwhile a lot of new techniques and methods in the field of DNA research, and the documentary is now only paid to the fact that there may be new evidence to light, if the steel at the time to be re-examined. It would be the entire investigation in a new direction, if today prove that the traces indeed of Madeleine were.
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