OTrue Crime Discussion- Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

I have trouble sleeping some nights and usually kill time by going deep into rabbit holes about various true crime stories

I figured there’s gotta be plenty of posters who love the subject as well so I thought I’d start a thread about a case and see if we can’t get some good discussion/theories going. If it’s a success I can start a new thread every week or 2 covering a different case

For the first (and possibly only) thread, I decided to go with the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

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Madeleine Beth McCann disappeared on the evening of 3 May 2007 from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, a resort in the Algarve region of Portugal, sparking what one newspaper called "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". Her whereabouts remain unknown.

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Madeleine was on holiday from the UK with her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann; her two-year-old twin siblings; and a group of family friends and their children. She and the twins had been left asleep at 20:30 in the ground-floor apartment, while the McCanns and friends dined in a restaurant 55 metres (180 ft) away.[5] The parents checked on the children throughout the evening, until Madeleine's mother discovered she was missing at 22:00. Over the following weeks, particularly after misinterpreting a British DNA analysis, the Portuguese police came to believe that Madeleine had died in an accident in the apartment and that her parents had covered it up. The McCanns were given arguido (suspect) status in September 2007, which was lifted when Portugal's attorney general archived the case in July 2008 because of a lack of evidence.

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Both of the above quoted parts are just a quick summary of the case I took from the wiki page. There’s plenty more to the story and to this day it seems like everyone is split on what they think happened. One unique thing about this case is that the British media was very much pro McCann family while the Portuguese authorities thought the parents were hiding something. As a result, many of the articles detailing the story are portrayed with a strong bias towards whatever the author believes happened, so I highly recommend looking into all theories and details as opposed to just believing the first thing you read