A German police officer testified on Tuesday that they discovered an email account linking a convicted rapist to the unsolved 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The Telegraph reported that detective Titus Stampa said police located Christian Brückner’s Hotmail account and a hard drive which was related to the McCann case. McCann was three when she …
Senior officers from the Portuguese police travelled to London earlier this year to apologize to the parents of missing toddler Madeleine McCann for how they handled the case. As CrimeOnline has reported, the 3-year-old disappeared from her parents’ rental apartment in Praia da Luz, where they were on holiday, on May 3, 2007. Gerry and …
Portuguese authorities have named German national Christian Brueckner a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann. Brueckner, 44, is currently serving a 7-year prison sentence in Germany for raping an elderly American woman in 2005, as CrimeOnline has previously reported. The Portuguese Public Ministry in the district of Faro, where Maddie and …
German prosecutors say they are “100 percent sure” convicted pedophile Christian Brueckner kidnapped and killed Madeleine McCann, but they admit they do not have proof the toddler is dead. Madeleine, 3 years old at the time, was vacationing with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007 when she vanished from her hotel …
The prime suspect in the disappearance and presumed murder of Madeleine McCann is believed to be taunting German prosecutors while serving jail time for a rape conviction. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Christian Brueckner, a convicted felon with a violent criminal history that includes pedophilia, was named a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of then-three-year-old “Maddie” …
Investigators trying to link convicted German pedophile Christian Brueckner to the disappearance and probable death of toddler Madeleine McCann in 2007 say they have uncovered a secret compound that belonged to Brueckner’s former girlfriend. The compound came to light recently when German authorities interviewed Nicole Fehlinger’s father for a second time, the UK tabloid The …
The top suspect in the disappearance of toddler Madeleine McCann in 2007 is set to be charged with the rape of an Irish woman in the same Portuguese resort area where the little girl was kidnapped. Hazel Behan was working in Praia da Rocha in June 2004 when she was attacked just two weeks short …
The German man accused of kidnapping Madeleine “Maddie” McCann was seen outside prison walls since the first time he was named a suspect in the 17-year-old missing persons case. According to the Daily Mail, 43-year Christian Brueckner was in a courthouse in Braunschweig, Germany, awaiting a hearing on a case unrelated to Maddie’s disappearance when …
The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann may have left possible evidence at a second location in Germany, according to residents who rented allotments in Braunschweig, about 40 miles from a property that German police have been searching this week. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police discovered a hidden cellar at an allotment connected …
A Portuguese family was robbed of their life savings just six months after British tot Madeleine McCann disappeared in the same town in 2007, and the family believes McCann suspect Christian Brueckner did the deed with the help of an alleged girlfriend — Nicole Fehlinger. Could she have also helped him nab the 3-year-old girl? …
Police have been searching wells in the southernmost district of Portugal for the body of Madeleine McCann, the 3-year-old British girl who vanished from the resort where her family was staying 13 years ago. The Daily Mail said that rescue firefighters, including a team of expert divers, searched a third well in the area on …
The new suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann could be out of prison as early as next week, sources have said. Citing a report in The Sun, the New York Post reports that a source close to the investigation told the British newspaper that Christian Brueckner, who is in prison in Germany on a …
