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foreign [Music] we have breaking news in one of the world's most infamous missing persons
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Mysteries a German prisoner has been identified as a new suspect in The Disappearance of
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Madeleine McCann from a holiday Resort in Portugal 13 years ago it is every parent's greatest fear
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please please do not hear so please don't scare her please tell us where to find her
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three-year-old Madeleine McCann taken from her bed with no clue left behind we don't know where she is we don't know
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who's taking her and we don't know why a massive search a global media storm and an international investigation
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days turned into months turned into years with no answers that hope is still there still hope that
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we can find Madeleine it's a mystery that has been compared to a jigsaw puzzle with too many pieces missing
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until now the accused is a sex offender with several previous convictions who has already been convicted of sexual
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abuse of children his name is Christian Bruckner he absolutely matches the profile of a
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person who could potentially abduct and or kill a little girl like Madeleine McCann
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was he anywhere near the resort where this crime took place he lived in a house around about one mile away from
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where Madeleine was potentially abducted it's one part of the puzzle you can say
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but there are some pieces missing for these puzzle to complete it his cell phone was tracked
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at the crime scene or at least next to the crime scene the night Maddie disappeared
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that call puts him in the area at the time the crime was committed on USB drives with pictures and videos
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of child abuse it's when you put those things together you get that clearer Focus where the
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jigsaw becomes much much more complete [Music] for the first time in 13 years I have to
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say I actually felt here is a credible suspect [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign
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[Music] Madeline is a beautiful bright funny and caring little girl she is so special
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we need our Madeline and Madeline needs us please give our little girl back thank you
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it's been more than a decade of waiting for Kate and Jerry McCann We Believe North Stone Unturned and the search for
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her daughter Madeline years of searching since their daughter disappeared on May
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3rd 2007. we have to be hopeful that's what keeps us going and keeps us focused now they finally may be closer to
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finding out what happened to Madeline in June 2020 in Braunschweig Germany prosecutor Hans Christian vultures held
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a press conference and made a stunning announcement German police had a suspect 43-year-old Christian Bruckner he also
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had devastating news he declared that Madeleine McCann was likely dead it's been said that German
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prosecutors are always very tight-lipped you must have some strong evidence that
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allowed you to make that statement to the public we have strong evidence that Christian B killed Maddie McCann but you
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don't have a body correct there's no body no we have we have no forensic evidence then how can
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you be so certain we have other evidence just as German law does not allow vultures to use
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bruckner's full name he also cannot say what that evidence is I heard the news that the Germans had a credible suspect
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and my first thing was Here We Go Again Jim gamble was head of the UK's child exploitation and online protection
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Center and involved in the early investigation Madeleine's case was complex over the years he has seen
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countless leads end up as dead ends but this time he believes the Germans may be
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on the right track everyone including myself who's touched this case is more hopeful
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with the German case then then we've been in 13 years [Music] May of 2 -7 British doctors Jerry and
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Kate McCann were on vacation with their family in Pria de luge a resort town in The Algarve region of Portugal
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this Line's beautiful The Sun Shines beautiful Jane Hill is a BBC news anchor who covered Madeline's story it was just
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a regular relaxed week in the Sun the five members of the McCann family including Madeline and her younger twin
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brother and sister stayed at The Ocean Club they were joined by several other families
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The Ocean Club resort was seen as a place where families went they'd gone there for Generations it was seen to be
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family friendly and safe we're having a great holiday we had lots of fun especially fun for Madeleine she
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might look like cat but in terms of Personality she's much more of a McCann she's very extroverted and Lively she's
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very sociable but their idyllic holiday would soon come to an end on May 3rd at around 8 30 PM the McCants
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left their sleeping children alone in their unlocked apartment and went to meet friends at the Resort's tapas bar
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about 50 yards away that was their routine Behavior they'd been doing it all week and the friends
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would take turns so every 15 minutes or so one of the adults from the group would would go back and just check on
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their sleeping children and check that everything was okay at 10 pm when it was Kate's turn she found the twins sound
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asleep but this bed Madeleine's bed was empty okay so to me Jane Madeleine's gone
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Madeline's gone Jane Tanner was one of the friends who was dining with the mccanns it's the
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least thing you'd ever think in a million years that you know a child is going to be abducted in a safe family
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resort when Tanner heard that Madeleine had disappeared she says she remembered that
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earlier in the evening as she walked near the ocean Club she passed a man who had caught her attention who has us
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walking up the road this man was walking across the top of the road and carrying
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a small child thing that I noticed the most was he was holding her and I could see the birth her bare feet and the
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bottom of the pajamas Tanner told the Portuguese police what she had witnessed that night but investigators didn't
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appear to take immediate action there was quite a laissez-faire attitude she's wandered off somewhere she's probably
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got lost we'll find her she'll come back and that was one of the criticisms that
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the police activity didn't really get going until the next day police in Portugal are investigating
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claims that a three-year-old British girl has been abducted by that time Madeleine's disappearance was making
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headlines across the world I'm Jane Hill live in The Algarve where there is still
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no sign my editor took me off air the day after she disappeared and said get on a plane to Portugal Hill was one of
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the first British journalists at the scene why did this capture people's attention so it is every parent's
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nightmare isn't it in some ways Madeleine was more than a daughter to the mccanns she was their
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Miracle unable to conceive the couple endured a series of grueling in vitro fertilization procedures until Kate
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finally became pregnant with Madeline what was it like for Jerry and Kate when Madeline was born
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and well they were walking on air quite frankly family friend John Corner spoke to 48 hours back in 2007. the bond
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between Kate and Madeleine Musa is something amazing really foreign let her come home to her mommy daddy
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brother and sister within days Madeleine's face fueled one of the largest International searches
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for a missing child in history Madeleine's face became so familiar she became ubiquitous
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oh it was heartbreaking because photographs were released that the family had taken
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on that holiday it's obviously extremely difficult every day me and my team were there we just
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watched The Press pack grow and grow and grow as the cameras followed the mccanns
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everywhere it seemed Kate was never without Madeleine's pink stuffed animal well it's something that Madeline has of
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it every night and if she's obsessed or not well then she has cuddle cats and so
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it provided me with a little bit of comfort something of modeling close to me days passed and the mccanns grew
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frustrated as the Portuguese police conducted their investigation and shared very little
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Portuguese police are not allowed to reveal any details of an ongoing investigation not just to people like me
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to the family involved [Music] and what happens when you have no information you get rumor gossip speculation
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there was no proof of anything that's the trouble [Music] it's almost a week since Madeleine was
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abducted from her holiday apartment the expab community in The Algarve were the first to join the search for
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Madeleine and Six Days on they still feel compelled to carry on the hunt crud yesterday
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crying now I'm just very upset upset about it there were rumors circulated all the
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time I can't tell you what a rumor Millet was and you would think where is this coming from
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a week after Madeleine's disappearance suspicion fell on a man who lived just down the street from where Madeleine had
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vanished well you just saw me the one journalist tell me who is Robert Murat Robert Murat is a British expat who
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lives in in prayer de Luz so he had local knowledge and he spoke Portuguese and engaged with a number of reporters
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and others in proximity to the investigation and offered himself up to provide help by
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way of translation or advice police quickly named Marat a suspect Witnesses say Marat showed up at the Ocean Club
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after Madeleine disappeared and claimed he was acting suspiciously marat's mother said that wasn't possible they
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couldn't have seen him it was almost like then the public began to turn on the mccanns for leaving their daughter alone
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did it go from we feel so sorry for you too how could you have done that there were people saying that I recorded an
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interview with a man from The Algarve tourist board he said I mean you keep an eye on your suitcase why would you not
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keep an eye on your child it's a question Jane Hill had to raise when she became the first reporter to interview
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Kate and Jerry McCann a lot of people in the last three weeks have said I can't imagine doing such a thing I wouldn't be
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able to leave three children in that situation how do you deal with those sort of comments I think you know no one
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will ever feel more guilty than us if you thought for a minute that someone could abduct your child of course she
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would never have left them Portuguese investigators also began eyeing the mccanns
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three months after Madeleine vanished specially trained sniffer dogs were flown in to scour the family's vacation
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rental traces of blood were detected inside the apartment and in the trunk of the
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McCann's rental car partial samples of the blood were recovered and sent to a British lab for
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DNA testing but the results indicated that the blood found in the apartment did not belong to Madeleine
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and the results from the DNA in the rental car were inconclusive well I've seen the letter from the
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forensic science lab the forensic test didn't say this DNA is modeling McCann's because actually the full analysis of
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that says that up to half the forensic scientists in the lab would have had similar DNA characteristics it was not a
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complete DNA sample what's more the car wasn't actually retained by the mccanns until weeks after Madeleine had gone
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missing and if you were to believe that Madeleine was in the boot of the car they must have either killed her and or
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hidden her sometime earlier recovered her body whilst the media were surveilling them hidden it in the car
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then moved it to a place where they could dispose of it where no one could see that happen and then bring the car
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back it just doesn't add up the forensics don't add up and yet four months after Madeleine
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vanished today Kate McCann has returned to portamau to be questioned by the Portuguese police Portuguese police
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declared the mccanns are guidos suspects in their own daughter's disappearance enormous media coverage in this do you
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believe in some ways that pressured Portuguese authorities to say we have our real suspects it is Kate and it is
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Jerry well I can't speak to that but you'd have to talk to the senior investigating officer from the
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Portuguese police but in my opinion do I think that that type of pressure would focus the attention of a senior
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investigating officer of course 48 Hours reached out to the Portuguese police for
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comment but they did not reply the mccanns should have been suspects day one minute one R1
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and I don't believe for one second the McCann's committed this crime but what I'm saying is your attention should be
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first of all to look at the parents and actually to rule them in a rural amount not to wait until your months down the
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line where you have exhausted all of your other ideas and to then say well actually it must be the parents
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because that's not fair on anyone surprisingly almost immediately after being declared suspects the mccanns were
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allowed to fly to the UK returning home for the first time without their daughter
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we have played no part and The Disappearance of our lovely daughter Madeline Kate McCann told her family that
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Portuguese investigators had pressured her to sign a confession in which she was to admit that Madeleine had died
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accidentally and that Madeleine's disappearance had been staged Kate refused 48 Hours spoke to Kate's mother in 2007.
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okay so what what would I sign that confession you know if an accident had happened Madeleine had fallen
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Kate and Jerry wouldn't have hidden that [Music] [Applause] when the McCants were named as suspects
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in Portugal were they seen as suspects in the UK as well I'm sure they were people in the UK who did think that they
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had had some involvement and that was reflected particularly in the British tabloid press
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some British newspapers began running unsubstantiated Sensational storylines and what happened is the war of the
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tabloids began to take place the onslaught of wild accusations continued for months effectively
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portraying the mccanns as killers and then you get the armchair detectives with social media you've got the Geeks
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Freaks and morons but when you've got this world of bile at being created online then people continually feed it
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it wasn't until the following summer in July 2008 that Portuguese investigators cleared the mccanns by then Jerry and
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Kate had spent nearly a year under a cloud of Suspicion it's hard to describe how utterly
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despairing it was to be named arguido and subsequently portrayed in the media as suspects in our own daughter's
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abduction [Music] the police also cleared Robert moratt but what had happened to little
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Madeleine the mccanns remained singularly focused on finding out I think there's a really good chance she's
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still alive um I guess I feel that she's out there [Music] laughs foreign [Music]
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two years had passed since Madeleine McCann's mysterious disappearance and Portuguese investigators were no closer
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to knowing what happened to her as head of the UK's child exploitation and online protection Center Jim gamble knew
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he had to take action Madeleine disappeared on the 3rd of May 2007 while on holiday with her family in Portugal
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we produced a viral video called a minute for Madeleine McCann if you know who is involved and you're keeping the
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secret the video that said it's never too late to do the right thing and if you know something go to your local
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police I understand that the video was in seven different languages is that right yes it was in Chinese in Arabic in
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Spanish I mean it was downloaded in every part of the world and and as the views ticked
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up so too did the number of potential leads give me a sense of the number of sightings that we're pouring in from all
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over the world during these years there's been a number of sightings of Madeleine McCann you know Australia in
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parts of Africa across Spain Portugal and beyond all turned out to be nothing the trail went cold
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but things were about to heat up in 2010 gamble was asked by the British government to officially review the case
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when Portuguese police began this investigation you believe they made some fundamental errors I do think they made
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some critical errors gamble says Portuguese investigators failed to take a close look at everyone staying near
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the ocean Club at the time and it was clear that you know the searches were ad hoc the fact is that
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all of the details of all of the people who'd stayed in that apartment block or had been in proximity at the time hadn't
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been captured gamble also found that cell phone data Around The Ocean Club the day Madeleine went missing hadn't
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been properly analyzed the telephone companies captured all of that information in
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2007. yet there was absolutely no evidence that any of that cell size data had been investigated
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in June 2010 gamble finished his case review and submitted recommendations to the British government
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but for almost a year nothing happened until Jerry McCann wrote an open letter on the front page of a popular tabloid
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to the Prime Minister and in a day operation Grange was commissioned operation Grange became one of the
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largest and most expensive investigations in British history the full weight of Scotland Yard was now
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brought in to assist the Portuguese investigation there was a sense in the UK that this was almost a fresh start
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let's regroup let's see what wasn't looked at let's go through witness statements let's see whether we can make
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fresh appeals for information and really Revitalize this that meant taking another look at every
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possible scenario of what might have happened that night could this be that the child simply walked away could it be
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an abduction could it be a burglary that's gone wrong could someone have broken into the room and might they have
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been disturbed by Madeleine and could they have responded you know out of fear out of anger and nervousness and taking
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her away there was one dark scenario that weighed most heavily the possibility that
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Madeleine had been kidnapped by a sex offender obviously that was our biggest fear but just the thought of someone so
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lovely and beautiful our child being subjected to something like that was I was enough to destroy us
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operation Grange solved one early mystery the identity of the man seen in this police sketch whom that family
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friend had reported scene Scotland Yard determined it was just a man on vacation with his child
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age progression technology was also used at the time to further the investigation
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I have on many occasions looked at images of children who have been fond and the likeness sometimes is remarkable
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by 2016 the number of alleged Madeleine sightings had grown to more than 8 600 spanning more than 100 countries
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Scotland Yard investigated every credible lead but none LED anywhere how could it be that years later there was
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still no trace of this little girl how was that possible nothing what we're waiting for over these years
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is all these bits start to fall into place the sell site data information about suspects other sex offenders in
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the area we're waiting for that last piece to fall into place then in June 2020 from a small German
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City some startling news German police revealing that a convicted sex offender currently serving a jail sentence is now
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the prime suspect after years of dead ends finally a promising suspect this 43 year old
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German man a look into his past would reveal a monster [Music] foreign [Music] in 2017 Jerry and Kate McCann marked a
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grim anniversary it had been 10 years since their daughter disappeared whatever it takes for as long as it
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takes but there's still hope that we can find Madeleine so I've sent that from my
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point of view you know somebody knows what's happened did the McCants know more than 500 miles
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away in Braunschweig Germany police had received a game-changing new tip German prosecutor Hans Christian vultures in
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2017 a person contacted the German police and gave us the name of Christian B according to news reports Bruckner who
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German authorities refer to as Christian B allegedly made a drunken confession to
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a friend that he knew what had happened to Madeline Germany's highest police agency
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conducted an investigation and what they uncovered was that Bruckner had a long and disturbing background of crime
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spanning three decades who is Christian B Christian B is a criminal who committed a lot of financially motivated
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crimes like burglary or drug trafficking Mark Hoffman is a crime and intelligence
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analyst based in Germany who has studied Christian Bruckner he also has a DACA site
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authorities say he had a history of targeting little girls he is a very likely psychopath with no
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empathy no deep feelings who is interested in feeling some sense of power of a defenseless victims
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especially young children so he absolutely matches the profile of a person who could potentially abduct
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and or kill a little girl like Madeleine McCann official documents obtained by 48 Hours
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show that bruckner's life of crime began when he was arrested for theft at the age of 15. two years later in 1994 he
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sexually abused a child in Germany Bruckner fled to Portugal to escape serving his sentence he moved from job
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to job he moved from crime to Crime until 1999 when he was extradited to Germany to serve his sentence
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but he would soon return to Portugal where Bruckner lived out of a VW Camper van before eventually moving to this
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house he lived in a house around about one mile away from the crime scene where Madeleine was abducted
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while living in Pria Deluge investigators say Bruckner had returned to a life of crime often stealing from
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hotels and holiday Apartments he was known for burglary in hotel resorts and Maddie disappeared from a hotel
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resort so it's possible that this crime may be started as a hotel burglary and it ended
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as the potential kidnapping and or killing of Maddie McCann Jim gamble says that theory is certainly
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possible the hypothesis that it was a burglar who responded in an opportunistic way is one that that I've
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always thought is credible [Music] in fact just one year before Madeleine disappeared Bruckner was arrested in
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Portugal for that but it is unknown what the Portuguese police knew about his past sexual offense in Germany 48 Hours
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reached out to them to find out but they did not respond but it is clear that Bruckner should
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have been looked at more closely by the Portuguese authorities from the beginning German investigators now
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believe they have discovered a key piece of evidence on May 3rd 2007 a call was made to bruckner's cell phone
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approximately one hour before Madeleine disappeared the cell phone information that you received do you believe that
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placed him around the resort area at the time that Maddie McCann disappeared the
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phone number placed Christian B to The Ocean Club but we have to find out which person uses this phone at this time
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normally it was used by Christian B but we don't know which person used it on the 3rd of May in 2007.
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gamble says this lead could have been pursued at the time if Portuguese police had only analyzed the cell phone data I
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believe the information that not ties the present suspect's phone to the area would have been available at that time
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if someone had looked for it and German investigators also learned that immediately after Madeleine went missing
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Bruckner did something suspicious he put his car in someone else's name he deregistered his car one day after the
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disappearance shortly after that he quietly slipped out of Portugal and returned to Germany
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once again Bruckner eventually settled in Braunschweig and briefly ran a small General Store by a school and kept a low
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profile pretty often this child molesters this is like that dirty little secret they
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don't talk about it to anyone but they talk about the crimes and Fantasies quite openly to other child
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molesters as it turns out vultures and his team learned Bruckner was still operating in
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the darkest Shadows of society in 2013 he posted in a pedophile chat room on Skype
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this was a Skype chat where he openly discussed his fantasies of torturing little children and using them and
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raping them for a couple of days although bruckner's posts made no mention of Madeleine McCann the search
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of an abandoned Factory once owned by Bruckner would uncover photos and videos that would raise more questions
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[Music] do you think Christian Bruckner is responsible for The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
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see what makes Bruckner a compelling suspect at 48hours.com [Music] [Music] as vultures and his team continued their
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investigation into Christian bruckner's past they learned that not long before that alleged drunken confession in a bar
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his name had been linked to Madeleine mccanns in 2013 German police had received their first tip that Christian
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Bruckner could be involved in her disappearance there was a first hint to our suspect in
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2013 but the police contacted Christian B and there was nothing found to investigate any longer
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while it didn't pan out just one year later he was back on police radar according to documents obtained by 48
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hours in 2014 391 photo files and 68 video files of child pornography were confiscated from
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bruckner's home while he was living in Braunschweig during this time he was also charged with sexually abusing a
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five-year-old he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for committing both offenses but before serving his sentence
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he fled once again to Portugal If I look at his life and criminal record it seems
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a little bit like he was always fleeing and trying to escape law enforcement so whenever he committed a crime whenever
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he was investigated in connection with some crimes he left the country Bruckner would later be extradited to Germany
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once again to serve his sentence [Music] and then if there was a house of horrors
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in this tragic mystery it may be this one a deserted Factory deep in the woods of Saxony on halt Germany that Christian
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Bruckner once owned in 2016 investigators conducted multiple searches of this property 48 Hours has
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learned these searches were part of a broader investigation into child pornography and what they found was
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troubling foreign confirmed that they found at least three girls swimsuits in his camper van so of
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course you need to ask the question who do these swimsuits belong to investigators have not revealed if they
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know the answer but that's not all they found on this property they found USB drives containing pictures and videos
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including videos and pictures of child abuse and also videos which he produced himself
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and these USB drives were in a plastic bag buried under his dead dog in the ground it seems that Bruckner had a long
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fascination with recording his crimes in 2018 a witness came forward saying they
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had seen a videotape from 2005 of Bruckner raping a 72 year old American woman at her home in Portugal up until
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then the attacker's identity had not been known this was not just rape this was the most brutal form of rape I ever
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heard of that assault had taken place close to the Ocean Club and two years before
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Madeleine McCann disappeared Bruckner was charged and convicted for these crimes in 2019. his DNA matched
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DNA found at the scene he is definitely a bad guy he's definitely a psychopath and he is definitely a full-time
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criminal but the question is is he really guilty in the medical case vultures will not reveal details about
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his current investigation into Christian Bruckner but he is adamant about one thing we're sure that Christian being
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murdered Madeleine McCann because of the evidence we have and may I speculate that that evidence may
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include photographs or video of Maddie McCann you may speculate but I'm not allowed to
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tell you if you are right or if you are wrong but despite the evidence he says he has
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vultures admits he needs more of it in order to charge Bruckner and in Germany we charge someone only if we are sure
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that he will be sentenced by the court if there are doubts we don't charge him Walter says one piece of evidence they
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need is to find the person who made that call to bruckner's cell phone approximately one hour before Madeline
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disappeared on May 3rd 2007. this might be the only person who could confirm that indeed Christian B
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was holding his cell phone in his hand that night and this would be a proof that not just his cell phone was at the
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crime scene but that he was at the crime scene although investigators made an appeal to
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the public they have been unable to identify identify the mystery caller the phone which was used for the call to
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Christian B was a prepaid phone so we are not able to to find this person in an easy way
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[Music] the mccanns have not commented on Christian Bruckner but they posted this
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on their website we will never give up hope of finding Madeline alive but whatever the outcome may be we need to
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know as we need to find peace meanwhile Bruckner has remained silent behind Prison Walls where he is serving
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a seven year sentence for raping that 72 year old American woman right bruckner's
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lawyer spoke to nine news Australia he is innocent until proven guilty Walters admits that without a body or
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forensic evidence this case will be hard to solve but he is not backing down and
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you believe there are people out there whether it be in Portugal or in Germany who have information about this case
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that is important we think that there are people who can help us and we hope that these people will contact us or the
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police [Music] I have spent many years hoping that there will be a resolution BBC news anchor Jane Hill
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who covered Madeline's story from the start hopes this new investigation will finally provide answers as painful as
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they may be for the McCants I hope that there can be closure in some way for a family that has spent 13 and a
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half years not knowing what happened to their little girl not knowing what they can say to her
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younger brother and sister about where she's gone [Music] Madeline is a beautiful bright
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funny and caring little girl [Music] she is so special we beg you to let Madeline come home
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[Music] I'm Nora O'Donnell in our nation's capital we're here at the White House
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with the president of the United States thanks for having me our exclusive access to the presidential
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platform we will witness yet another moment in history CBS Evening News with Noah O'Donnell
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from Washington D.C