Prosecutor Thinks Madeleine McCann Was Killed
German authorities believe Madeleine McCann, the 3-year-old British girl who went missing from her family vacation in Portugal in 2007, was killed shortly after she was abducted, the Times of London reported.
The suspect has been identified as a 43-year-old man who received a seven year sentence in December 2019 for raping a 72-year-old American woman in 2005 in Portugal, according to court documents. He is appealing that sentence but is currently serving a 21-month sentence behind bars for dealing drugs, the Times reports.
In an interview with the Times, Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters of the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor’s Office, who is leading the investigation into the suspect, said, “My private opinion is that he relatively quickly killed the girl, possibly abused her and then killed her.”
Wolters added, “We believe our suspect committed further crimes, especially sexual crimes, in Portugal possibly but also elsewhere like Germany.”
