It has taken fifteen years ~ is Madeleine's case close to being solved?

[Brietta]

Did he go missing?  By all accounts he was drifter. Where was he supposed to be to your satisfaction at any particular time?

Madeleine McCann: Police tried to quiz suspect in 2007 ‘but he wasn’t at home’
Portuguese detectives visited home of Christian Brueckner in Praia da Luz, says disgraced former official Goncalo Amaral
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/madeleine-mccann-police-tried-to-quiz-suspect-in-2007-but-he-wasn-t-at-home-a9582266.html

If a convicted paedophile cannot be located  while a search is being conducted for a missing child I think he could well be described as being "missing".

If your attitude reflects that of the then investigators it seems not only one of the reasons why it took fifteen years to locate the guy they wanted to interview.  The miracle being that he was able to be found at all at such a remove.

[Wonderfulspam]

Madeleine McCann: Police tried to quiz suspect in 2007 ‘but he wasn’t at home’
Portuguese detectives visited home of Christian Brueckner in Praia da Luz, says disgraced former official Goncalo Amaral
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/madeleine-mccann-police-tried-to-quiz-suspect-in-2007-but-he-wasn-t-at-home-a9582266.html

If a convicted paedophile cannot be located  while a search is being conducted for a missing child I think he could well be described as being "missing".

If your attitude reflects that of the then investigators it seems not only one of the reasons why it took fifteen years to locate the guy they wanted to interview.  The miracle being that he was able to be found at all at such a remove.

It's a bit of a stretch, maybe he'd gone out to buy shopping or sell weed, no big deal anyway, Brueckner had already murdered Maddie by then.

[Wonderfulspam]

How could he go missing ? He wasn't subject to any restriction of movement order, was he?

I'm sure he knew where he was.

Well he must have been somewhere, it doesn't really matter anyway, he'd already murdered Maddie by the time police looked for him, they've caught him now so no harm done really, catching him any earlier wouldn't bring Maddie back.

[G-Unit]

Well he must have been somewhere, it doesn't really matter anyway, he'd already murdered Maddie by the time police looked for him, they've caught him now so no harm done really, catching him any earlier wouldn't bring Maddie back.

I don't know which home they went to anyway. At the time he was of no fixed abode.

[Vertigo Swirl]

I don't know which home they went to anyway. At the time he was of no fixed abode.

The police didn’t try very hard to find him now, let’s be honest.

[G-Unit]

The police didn’t try very hard to find him now, let’s be honest.

Why would they? Drifters were a common feature of the area imo.

[Brietta]

Why would they? Drifters were a common feature of the area imo.

I would have imagined they might have wanted to find out what had happened to a child missing in their jurisdiction and perhaps recover her which sometimes does happen when the child is looked for.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Why would they? Drifters were a common feature of the area imo.

Why wouldn’t they?  They obviously thought he was someone they needed to talk to and as he was well known in the area it surely wouldn’t have been that difficult to track him down if they could have been bothered (which they clearly weren’t).

[Wonderfulspam]

I don't know which home they went to anyway. At the time he was of no fixed abode.

I think the idea is that as soon as Maddie was reported missing the police should have beat a path directly to Brueckner's door, wherever that was.
But then, Jane Tanners sighting of the abductor didn't appear all that similar to Brueckner if you ask me, so maybe that's why they didn't.
Blame Jane really.

[Wonderfulspam]

Why wouldn’t they?  They obviously thought he was someone they needed to talk to and as he was well known in the area it surely wouldn’t have been that difficult to track him down if they could have been bothered (which they clearly weren’t).

Why?

Where was he then?

[Wonderfulspam]

I forget, they also had Tasmin Silence's sighting of some ugly bloke wearing a leather jacket, & since Brueckner was the only ugly bloke in Luz who ever owned & wore a leather jacket, it should have been obvious it was him straight away really.

[G-Unit]

Why wouldn’t they?  They obviously thought he was someone they needed to talk to and as he was well known in the area it surely wouldn’t have been that difficult to track him down if they could have been bothered (which they clearly weren’t).

His name wasn't mentioned by anyone in their statements. His record was for fuel theft, dealt with by the GNR. I can think of no reason why the PJ would be interested.

[Vertigo Swirl]

His name wasn't mentioned by anyone in their statements. His record was for fuel theft, dealt with by the GNR. I can think of no reason why the PJ would be interested.

Oh dear never mind, however according to the case co-ordinator they WERE interested enough in him to knock on his door, even though you can’t think of a reason why they did.

[Brietta]

His name wasn't mentioned by anyone in their statements. His record was for fuel theft, dealt with by the GNR. I can think of no reason why the PJ would be interested.

He was a convicted child molester who was returned to Germany via the Portuguese court system.  Of course the PJ wouldn't be interested in checking the records particularly when Amaral writes in his book about his solving of the case by identifying the perpetrators before his feet had touched the bedroom floor the morning after Madeleine's abduction.

[Wonderfulspam]

He was a convicted child molester who was returned to Germany via the Portuguese court system.  Of course the PJ wouldn't be interested in checking the records particularly when Amaral writes in his book about his solving of the case by identifying the perpetrators before his feet had touched the bedroom floor the morning after Madeleine's abduction.

What abduction?