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Article: The search for Madeleine: is there no hope left? With no new leads, the Portuguese police are winding down their inquiry, the missing girl is barely mentioned in Praia da Luz and even the McCanns must move on.
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- November 25, 2007
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It was the kind of claim that, six months ago, would have filled
Kate and Gerry McCann with fresh hope. Bristling with bravado before
the television cameras last week, Francisco Marco, the portly boss
of the Spanish-based detective agency Metodo 3, sneeringly dismissed
the Portuguese police investigation into the disappearance of the
couple's daughter, Madeleine, as "bumbling", and boasted: "We know
who the kidnappers are and we are very, very close to catching
them." Off camera, he admitted: "No, I can't disclose any more yet.
But I will be proved right."
A source close to the couple says: "There was a time when Kate
and Gerry would have been wildly buoyed by such news. But I imagine
Gerry ...