2023-05-23 10:52:08
Portuguese police search for remains of Madeleine McCann in the Arade dam, about 50 kilometers from the Ocean Club Resort in Praia Da Luz (where she was vacationing with her family when she was kidnapped), at the request of the German authorities. the place was frequented by Christian Brueckner, the main suspect and sole defendant in the case, when he lived in the Algarve. He was sighted in the area in the days after the disappearance of the little girl and the investigators believe that he could have dumped his body there.
The new crawl has started first thing in the morning. this Tuesday in the presence of British agents. Its objective is to locate vestiges that could shed light on the kidnapping and probable murder of the minor in May 2007 and even his bones -if it is confirmed that his captor ended his life-, taking advantage of the fact that the level of accumulated water has dropped and favors the search. This will be carried out 80% on land, although the researchers have the help of a boat that runs along the shore.
Based on the data known to date and once the involvement of the girl’s close environment in her disappearance has been ruled out, the main hypothesis of the agents handling the case is that someone entered through the window and took the little girl. The German police are convinced that this person is Christian Brueckner, a German sexual predator who lived in the Algarve -specifically 3 kilometers from the McCanns’ apartment- when the British girl was kidnapped.
Madeleine and her brothers slept while their parents ate dinner in a restaurant near the house. The minors were alone and everything indicates that whoever took maddie knew. As explained by her own mother, this point was noted in the reservation book of the establishment. They requested to have the same table every night because it had better views of the apartments, to control the children. A mistake that Kate McCann and her husband they will mourn “until the end of our days”.
Brueckner, the main suspect
The German was in the spotlight from the beginning, but he was not the only pedophile (Brueckner not exclusively) who was in the area coinciding with the summer period. It is not until last year – 15 years after the disappearance of the minor – when he is formally charged in the Madeleine case. Among other crimes, the man has been convicted of raping in 2005 to a 72-year-old American woman (whom he tied up, beat, sexually assaulted, and robbed) precisely in Praia da Luz.
The suspect resided there from 1995 to 2007. He went to Germany after Maddie’s disappearance. He was investigated as possibly responsible for other disappearances occurred on the Portuguese coast at that time. Among them is that of René Hesse, a 6-year-old boy who was allegedly taken away in 1996 while playing on the beach. The press named it in 2020, when the German police discovered that had a hole in a plot de Brunswick.
The basement was hidden under a cabin that had already been torn down. But under the rubble they found a pen drive (portable storage device) with pedophile material. In 2016, the German authorities had already found 8,000 images of child pornography and large quantities of girls’ swimsuits. in the caravan where Brueckner lived, in an old abandoned factory.
Amstetten Monster Admirer
Hans Christian Wolters, the German prosecutor handling the Madeleine McCann disappearance case, believes Brueckner kidnapped and killed Maddie based on the findings so far. The study of her movements through the location of her calls —for example— they situate it in the Algarve area the night of the disappearance of the little girl.
They also discovered a chat conversation in which the suspect acknowledges that he wants to “catch a small child and use it for days” and even record on video “how I torture him”. He was “obsessed” with the children, says the prosecutor. Something that would coincide with the testimony given by another person close to him, to whom he confessed to feeling admiration for the Austrian Josef Fritzl, the amstetten monster.
His idol raped his daughter Elisabteh —with whom he had seven children/grandchildren— for 24 years (from 1984 to 2008). All that time he kept her locked in a hole. A room with boarded up windows in the attic, where she was forced to live isolated from the world. She so she had done previously with his wifeuntil he died in 1980. A terrible story that fascinated Brueckner.
Expert in sneaking out the window
The people with whom Brueckner had contact during the years in which he lived in the Algarve do not hold a very good opinion of him, according to the testimonies published by the British newspaper Mirror. Among them that of one of her ex-who preferred to keep her anonymity, for fear of possible retaliation when he gets out of jail— and whoever it was, he says he’s one of his best friends.
The first recounted that she met the German in a restaurant where they worked together and everyone knew him as Chris. At first he seemed like a kind and chivalrous guy with women, but later —once their sentimental relationship progressed— made his life hell. He was jealous of her, forced her to clean her apartment, assaulted her on several occasions, and threatened to harm her family if she was not with him.
The most disturbing passage occurs one night at his house, when he returns from work. Brueckner, with whom she had already broken up, entered the house through a window and was waiting for her under the bed. When he heard her, he came out of her hiding place, greeted her normally and left. She believes that she wanted to check if she was taking any men to sleep. She now wonders what would have happened if that had been the case.
For his part, Michael Tatschl —46 years old— said of his former friend: “i know he did“. The Austrian was Brueckner’s roommate in Praia da Luz and considers him “capable of snatching a child to force him sexually or for money.” “he was a pervert“, he sentenced in statements to the English tabloid, “all his friends thought so, he had some sexual problems.”
As explained, the suspect He had a great ability to sneak in apartments and hotel rooms to rob tourists. He thinks he could have taken Maddie and sell it to someone of his circle sexual. He is convinced that he was selling child pornography in the dark web. His friends wondered where he got so much money, especially after he bought the aforementioned caravan, with which he went to Germany and in which the German police found children’s swimsuits and pedophile material.
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