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Offline Brietta

From the ‘Observer’ which is behind a paywall

The perfect criminal? How Brueckner passed alongside the investigation and 13 years later seems to be the key to maddie's mystery
The phone number of the German, now suspected of Maddie's disappearance, was on the list of 74,000 numbers given to the PJ by the operators. But it was ignored. For many reasons.

21 jun 2020, 15:03

https://observador.pt/especiais/o-criminoso-perfeito-como-brueckner-passou-ao-lado-da-investigacao-13-anos-depois-parece-ser-a-chave-do-misterio-maddie/

According to the Observer, the PJ  criteria for the selection of the calls to be investigated was made taking into consideration the time/duration/frequency/direction” of each call and deciding to focus attention on what was called the “critical period”, between 20:00 and 22:00 which the investigation considered was the relevant time indicated by the process.

Brueckner’s half hour call ended at 8:02 which was precisely two minutes past the threshold established by the investigation.

But the PJ apparently ignored that call in preference to prioritising other numbers which apparently led nowhere or we would have heard about it and it was only when the German investigators noticed the omission in 2017 that Brueckner’s name fell into place.
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"All I'm going to say is that we've conducted a very serious investigation and there's no indication that Madeleine McCann's parents are connected to her disappearance. On the other hand, we have a lot of evidence pointing out that Christian killed her," Wolter told the "Friday at 9"....

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My first thought is to wonder where they got that information about the PJ's strategy? My second one is that the Germans knew the number first, then looked at the call records. Even if the PJ had seen the record of the call would they have found it suspicious? If they did, would they have been able to trace the user?
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Here is the full article, pinched from STM

Observador June 2020





Perfect criminal?How Brueckner escaped the PJ


The phone number of the German, now suspected of Maddie's disappearance, was on the list of 74,000 numbers given to the PJ by the operators.But it was ignored.For many reasons.

21 jun 2020, 15:0338
The cell phone number Christian Brueckner used when Maddie disappeared was one of the 74,000 records provided to the Judiciary Police by the operators at the time, TMN, Optimus and Vodafone, as being active on the antennas serving Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, between May 2 and 4, 2007. However, and despite the fact that the PJ tried to select the longest duration calls in the period before the disappearance of the English child, the phone call received by the German passed by the investigation because it was not made within the time interval established by the inspectors.This evidence was only recovered in 2017, ten years after the case, when the German police contacted the Portuguese, realizing that this man could be a suspect in the crime and what number he was using at the time.



(00351) 912 730 680 received a call between 19:32 and 20:02 on that day 3 May 2007 from another Portuguese number, (00351) 916 510 683. He activated the antennas that serve the area where the McCann couple was on vacation with the two younger twins and Madeleine, who was almost four years old and, with a duration of 30 minutes, would attract some interest to investigators.

However, having in their hands thousands of other numbers that had to be investigated, the PJ inspectors — at the time led by the coordinator Gonçalo Amaral — had to define selection criteria for the investigation.First, they started by analyzing the three-day calls made by the McCann couple and their friends.And also Robert Murat — one of the first suspects and defendants in the case, after his overly helpful behavior with the authorities and the media raised suspicions to a journalist — and his inner circle.They then decided to extend that time period for all of them.

In addition to these calls, the PJ also decided that one of the ways to select the thousands of telephone records would be made according to the “time/duration/frequency/direction” of each one, focusing attention on what it called the “critical period” , between 20:00 and 22:00, that is, until the moment when the crime will have happened, as shown in the report in the process.And that was how he let slip the call to Brueckner, which ended precisely at 8:02 pm that day, two minutes past the threshold established by the investigation.



According to this report, however, there was another record considered important for the PJ: a number from an unknown user — similar to the number used by Brueckner, a prepaid card that was deactivated shortly afterwards.This contact activated the antennas between 9:39 pm and 9:15 pm, with five communications with a number that turned out to be a real estate agency.He also received two calls from an Irish operator shortly before 10 pm — the time at which a group of witnesses said they saw a man leaving the enterprise with a child in his arms (which led to the creation of the famous robot portrait of a male child. .70 m (about 30 years old, which in the field of hypotheses fits almost all suspects, even Maddie's father).

The PJ's attention was tied to these two numbers, which ended up extending the period of time previously defined for the analysis to a later date.But only for these numbers.The call that Brueckner would have received remained in the records, but it was not even analyzed, like thousands of others.



Suspect had help from another?
In addition to the family who saw a man with a child in his arms, at 10:00 pm, a friend of the McCann couple also gave an identical report to the PJ, although she assured that she saw him at 9:15 pm — about 45 minutes before the other witnesses and in an opposite location.These two pieces of information led the PJ to suspect that, given the discrepancy in the time and location of the two witnesses, they could be facing two different suspects who helped each other.

This led inspectors to create yet another criterion for analyzing telephone records: all calls whose sender and receiver activated the antenna at the same time.Brueckner's call, now I suspect, would also escape this criterion, since the number that called him activated an antenna outside Praia da Luz.

To analyze the more than 70 thousand calls, the PJ decided to select telephone records according to the "time/duration/frequency/direction" of each one, focusing attention on what it called the "critical period", between 8 pm and 10 pm in the May 3.
The numbers of the telephone booths, reception of the development, and its owner were also investigated.But, according to the conclusions of the police, nothing was found."These data only served, like the remaining 74 thousand records of the operators, to eliminate possible suspects", the report reads.Suspects that, apparently, already existed in the case.

The two lines of inquiry that set Brueckner apart
As an inspector from the PJ who worked on the case reminded the Observer, shortly after Maddie's disappearance, two lines of investigation were defined: the child had either been kidnapped or killed at home.

In the first hypothesis, that of abduction, the PJ concluded that the McCanns' routine had not changed much during the holidays.During the day the children were usually taken with nannies, so that the couple could do various activities (the main one being playing tennis with friends).At night, the couple bathed the children, fed them, laid them down and stayed with them until they fell asleep and then went to dinner at a restaurant near the apartment where they were staying, within the complex, the Tapas Bar — but where not it was possible to see the house with the naked eye.So they and their friends took turns going to see the children every half hour.On the day of the disappearance, between 9 pm (when Gerry went to the apartment) and 10 pm (when it was Kate), the British girl will have disappeared.The friend who made the 9.30 pm visit only listened at the door and window, but did not go inside.The children were silent, so he concluded that they were sleeping and everything was fine.

In August of that year of 2007, the PJ had the collaboration of a retired policeman from England who brought two dogs: one detected the odor of blood, the other a dead body.Its results led the McCanns to be appointed defendants.
This routine, fed by witnesses heard by the PJ who realized they had seen someone hanging around the apartment days before the disappearance, reinforced the hypothesis that Maddie had been kidnapped.A suspect was quickly found: Murat, whose house he lived in, his mother's, was searched by investigators, who even excavated in the garden.The mother always insisted that the son had not even left the house on the night of the alleged crime.Even so, Murat was constituted a defendant.

The homicide thesis and the hundreds of traces that came to nothing
In August of that year, 2007, the thesis of death began to gain strength.The PJ had the collaboration of a retired policeman from England.He presented himself as a professional with 35 years of experience, some of which was with the South Yorkshire Police, where he had worked as a senior dog trainer.Martin Grime arrived at the village of Luz with two animals: Eddie, trained to detect dead bodies, and Keela, a specialist in finding human blood.Eddie marked an area by the window of the Ocean's Club apartment, which was found open the night of the disappearance.He also marked a zone in the McCanns' car, rented almost a month after their eldest daughter disappeared.Keela marked yet another area inside the apartment.



The PJ lifted the tiles in the area that Keela marked as having traces of blood and sent the window curtain and part of a plastic from the car for analysis, where Eddie detected a dead body odor.Hundreds of traces were also sent, such as hair found, and oral swabs from Maddie's family and friends, as well as employees, in order to be able to select who was and was not a suspect.

Everything seemed to point to a murder, possibly accidental, inside the house.At this point, the McCanns were also under surveillance, until the beginning of September they ended up being accused.The process then had three defendants: Murat, in the abduction thesis, and the McCanns in the thesis of the murder of their own daughter.

While these lines of inquiry were pursued, all others fell to the ground.If before the PJ came to question an English citizen, who a month before Maddie's disappearance had lived in the car and who was seen several times in the vicinity of the Ocean's Club, the thesis that someone from outside could be involved in the abduction or in the crime quickly lost steam.

"These data only served, like the remaining 74 thousand records of the operators, to eliminate possible suspects".
PJ Report
“It was never understood very well.Other lines of investigation were abandoned, such as that someone had been prowling the apartment days before.And all of a sudden, without any traces of evidence, they are constituted as defendants”, a source who participated in the investigation stated to the Observer and who pointed out to him some flaws.

The material collected on site was sent to the Genetics and Forensic Biology Service of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine.It was here that, in two different phases, 25 samples and 447 traces arrived, a piece of Maddie's bed quilt, two parts of the Renault Scénic and 444 hairs.Much of the material was contaminated because the area was not properly protected and among the analyzed hairs there was even dog hair.A crime scene was not guarded as it is now.

In 2017, when the German police contacted the Portuguese Judiciary Police to confirm that Brueckner's number was in the process as active at the time of the disappearance, the PJ ended up locating the call.
The investigation coordinator fired and the evidence that remains
A month after the McCann couple was made a defendant, the coordinator of the investigation was dismissed from his post, after publicly saying that the British police were only following clues provided by the McCann couple.Months later, Gonçalo Amaral would end up submitting his own PJ's resignation, at just 48 years of age, announcing that he would write a book about the case — which resulted in another legal battle brought by the McCanns, and which they won.

Two months before this announcement, in February, and while the collected material was being analyzed, a team of independent researchers from Lisbon headed to the Algarve and took the process to see what had been done to date.The list of thousands of numbers containing Brueckner's contact details was re-analyzed.But the inspectors adopted a strategy that would turn out to be equally beneficial to the one who is now the main suspect in the case: they cross-referenced all the messages and phone calls with the witnesses from the process to see if there were any contradictions or loose ends that could unravel the mystery. that still endures today.

▲Gonçalo Amaral wrote the book "A Verdade da Mentira" which was the target of a lawsuit by the McCanns



In the end, the recommendations of this team were: in the case of murder, wait for the results of the traces sent to England, as well as understand the reliability of the results obtained through the dogs of the English trainer;on the other hand, in the case of abduction, they proposed, in the absence of evidence, to wait for new elements that could reach the process and that could open other lines of investigation.

The laboratory results both in Portugal and in England would arrive shortly afterwards to show that the biological traces collected in the car could be as much from Maddie as from her brothers.In Portugal, after analyzing all the evidence, there was only one left, which may now be crucial to understand whether Brueckner was in the Ocean's Club apartment.The one that didn't match the date at all: a saliva stain found on Maddie's bedspread.



Process ended up filed and no suspects
The case would end up being filed, without any charges against Murat or the McCanns.In 2013, however, a new suspicion would cause the case to be reopened.At the time, British and Portuguese researchers collaborated, there were even new searches in England.But the suspicions ended up bumping into a wall.“There have been more silent lines of investigation” since then, a PJ source admitted to the Observer.The same source recalls that all of them were investigated and that none of them bore fruit.Furthermore, after Gonçalo Amaral, many other investigators were involved in the case, and they never managed to solve the mystery of Maddie's disappearance.

In 2017, when the German police contacted the Portuguese Judiciary Police to confirm whether the number of Brueckner, who lived in the Praia da Luz area at the time, was in the process as active at the time of the disappearance, the PJ ended up locating the call.As well as the number that called you.Problem: both numbers were prepaid and in 2010 they changed hands.But there were images of the car and motorhome used by him, which could serve as a reference for anyone who knew him and could help the police.


The van that the now suspect German was using at the time of the disappearance
3 pictures
Two years after this sharing of information, the German police suggested that the Portuguese and the English do what is done in the so-called “cold cases”, that is, in the archived cases that have been unresolved for years: ask the public for help.The habit is uncommon in Portugal but, as the Observer found out, the PJ ended up choosing to join the plan, because it knew that the Germans would come forward with statements in the media anyway.Two conditions were put in place: Maddie's parents would be notified by the British police first and the suspect's name would not be released.

In less than 24 hours, however, Brueckner's name was released in the German press."This is one more possibility that has to be followed, but if the German authorities continue to say what they say, this investigation could be a flop", the same source from the PJ tells the Observer, who guarantees that there is more evidence besides the calls and cars.And that the suspect's own personality is compatible with Maddie's abduction and probable murder.

“There are several signs that point in that direction and it's not just the fact that he raped an elderly woman.There are more signs that could strengthen or fade away”, said the PJ source, who believes that Brueckner is more than a mere possibility and that it is the new line of investigation.

So far the German Public Ministry has shown that it is convinced that Maddie is dead, but without showing any proof.And following the same logic he used, that of looking for other crimes that the suspect may have committed in the places where he lived, other countries have started to reopen unresolved cases that may eventually be linked to him.In Portugal, the case of the disappearance of an English boy in Aljezur and the sexual attack on a woman, who has only just complained, have already been discarded from her role of crimes.But in Belgium and Germany there are still investigations into the murders and abductions of children in which he may be involved.

After 13 years of mystery, can we finally find out what happened to Maddie and how the suspect always managed to escape?Or will this be an unsolved crime?
"Surely the fact that their accounts were different reinforces their veracity rather than diminishes it? If they had colluded in protecting ........ surely all of their accounts would be the same?" - Faithlilly

Offline Brietta

My first thought is to wonder where they got that information about the PJ's strategy? My second one is that the Germans knew the number first, then looked at the call records. Even if the PJ had seen the record of the call would they have found it suspicious? If they did, would they have been able to trace the user?

The PJ broke the system they were using.

The Brueckner call at two minutes after eight came within the imposed threshold for investigation.  TWO MINUTES!
"All I'm going to say is that we've conducted a very serious investigation and there's no indication that Madeleine McCann's parents are connected to her disappearance. On the other hand, we have a lot of evidence pointing out that Christian killed her," Wolter told the "Friday at 9"....

Offline Venturi Swirl

My first thought is to wonder where they got that information about the PJ's strategy? My second one is that the Germans knew the number first, then looked at the call records. Even if the PJ had seen the record of the call would they have found it suspicious? If they did, would they have been able to trace the user?
According to Amaral the PJ paid a visit to Bruckner’s last known address in the days following the disappearance.  The question I have is - why? 
"Surely the fact that their accounts were different reinforces their veracity rather than diminishes it? If they had colluded in protecting ........ surely all of their accounts would be the same?" - Faithlilly

Offline G-Unit

The PJ broke the system they were using.

The Brueckner call at two minutes after eight came within the imposed threshold for investigation.  TWO MINUTES!

Is the threshold supplied in the article a fact then? I can't see anything in the files supporting it. I wonder why the article reads like a google translation?
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Is the threshold supplied in the article a fact then? I can't see anything in the files supporting it. I wonder why the article reads like a google translation?

It is, the Observador is Portuguese.

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Offline Venturi Swirl

Is the threshold supplied in the article a fact then? I can't see anything in the files supporting it. I wonder why the article reads like a google translation?
The article reads to me like a good piece of investigative journalism.  It would stretch credulity to breaking point to imagine it was all made up.
"Surely the fact that their accounts were different reinforces their veracity rather than diminishes it? If they had colluded in protecting ........ surely all of their accounts would be the same?" - Faithlilly

Offline Brietta

Here is the full article, pinched from STM

Observador June 2020





Perfect criminal?How Brueckner escaped the PJ


The phone number of the German, now suspected of Maddie's disappearance, was on the list of 74,000 numbers given to the PJ by the operators.But it was ignored.For many reasons.

21 jun 2020, 15:0338
The cell phone number Christian Brueckner used when Maddie disappeared was one of the 74,000 records provided to the Judiciary Police by the operators at the time, TMN, Optimus and Vodafone, as being active on the antennas serving Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, between May 2 and 4, 2007. However, and despite the fact that the PJ tried to select the longest duration calls in the period before the disappearance of the English child, the phone call received by the German passed by the investigation because it was not made within the time interval established by the inspectors.This evidence was only recovered in 2017, ten years after the case, when the German police contacted the Portuguese, realizing that this man could be a suspect in the crime and what number he was using at the time.



(00351) 912 730 680 received a call between 19:32 and 20:02 on that day 3 May 2007 from another Portuguese number, (00351) 916 510 683. He activated the antennas that serve the area where the McCann couple was on vacation with the two younger twins and Madeleine, who was almost four years old and, with a duration of 30 minutes, would attract some interest to investigators.

However, having in their hands thousands of other numbers that had to be investigated, the PJ inspectors — at the time led by the coordinator Gonçalo Amaral — had to define selection criteria for the investigation.First, they started by analyzing the three-day calls made by the McCann couple and their friends.And also Robert Murat — one of the first suspects and defendants in the case, after his overly helpful behavior with the authorities and the media raised suspicions to a journalist — and his inner circle.They then decided to extend that time period for all of them.

In addition to these calls, the PJ also decided that one of the ways to select the thousands of telephone records would be made according to the “time/duration/frequency/direction” of each one, focusing attention on what it called the “critical period” , between 20:00 and 22:00, that is, until the moment when the crime will have happened, as shown in the report in the process.And that was how he let slip the call to Brueckner, which ended precisely at 8:02 pm that day, two minutes past the threshold established by the investigation.



According to this report, however, there was another record considered important for the PJ: a number from an unknown user — similar to the number used by Brueckner, a prepaid card that was deactivated shortly afterwards.This contact activated the antennas between 9:39 pm and 9:15 pm, with five communications with a number that turned out to be a real estate agency.He also received two calls from an Irish operator shortly before 10 pm — the time at which a group of witnesses said they saw a man leaving the enterprise with a child in his arms (which led to the creation of the famous robot portrait of a male child. .70 m (about 30 years old, which in the field of hypotheses fits almost all suspects, even Maddie's father).

The PJ's attention was tied to these two numbers, which ended up extending the period of time previously defined for the analysis to a later date.But only for these numbers.The call that Brueckner would have received remained in the records, but it was not even analyzed, like thousands of others.



Suspect had help from another?
In addition to the family who saw a man with a child in his arms, at 10:00 pm, a friend of the McCann couple also gave an identical report to the PJ, although she assured that she saw him at 9:15 pm — about 45 minutes before the other witnesses and in an opposite location.These two pieces of information led the PJ to suspect that, given the discrepancy in the time and location of the two witnesses, they could be facing two different suspects who helped each other.

This led inspectors to create yet another criterion for analyzing telephone records: all calls whose sender and receiver activated the antenna at the same time.Brueckner's call, now I suspect, would also escape this criterion, since the number that called him activated an antenna outside Praia da Luz.

To analyze the more than 70 thousand calls, the PJ decided to select telephone records according to the "time/duration/frequency/direction" of each one, focusing attention on what it called the "critical period", between 8 pm and 10 pm in the May 3.
The numbers of the telephone booths, reception of the development, and its owner were also investigated.But, according to the conclusions of the police, nothing was found."These data only served, like the remaining 74 thousand records of the operators, to eliminate possible suspects", the report reads.Suspects that, apparently, already existed in the case.

The two lines of inquiry that set Brueckner apart
As an inspector from the PJ who worked on the case reminded the Observer, shortly after Maddie's disappearance, two lines of investigation were defined: the child had either been kidnapped or killed at home.

In the first hypothesis, that of abduction, the PJ concluded that the McCanns' routine had not changed much during the holidays.During the day the children were usually taken with nannies, so that the couple could do various activities (the main one being playing tennis with friends).At night, the couple bathed the children, fed them, laid them down and stayed with them until they fell asleep and then went to dinner at a restaurant near the apartment where they were staying, within the complex, the Tapas Bar — but where not it was possible to see the house with the naked eye.So they and their friends took turns going to see the children every half hour.On the day of the disappearance, between 9 pm (when Gerry went to the apartment) and 10 pm (when it was Kate), the British girl will have disappeared.The friend who made the 9.30 pm visit only listened at the door and window, but did not go inside.The children were silent, so he concluded that they were sleeping and everything was fine.

In August of that year of 2007, the PJ had the collaboration of a retired policeman from England who brought two dogs: one detected the odor of blood, the other a dead body.Its results led the McCanns to be appointed defendants.
This routine, fed by witnesses heard by the PJ who realized they had seen someone hanging around the apartment days before the disappearance, reinforced the hypothesis that Maddie had been kidnapped.A suspect was quickly found: Murat, whose house he lived in, his mother's, was searched by investigators, who even excavated in the garden.The mother always insisted that the son had not even left the house on the night of the alleged crime.Even so, Murat was constituted a defendant.

The homicide thesis and the hundreds of traces that came to nothing
In August of that year, 2007, the thesis of death began to gain strength.The PJ had the collaboration of a retired policeman from England.He presented himself as a professional with 35 years of experience, some of which was with the South Yorkshire Police, where he had worked as a senior dog trainer.Martin Grime arrived at the village of Luz with two animals: Eddie, trained to detect dead bodies, and Keela, a specialist in finding human blood.Eddie marked an area by the window of the Ocean's Club apartment, which was found open the night of the disappearance.He also marked a zone in the McCanns' car, rented almost a month after their eldest daughter disappeared.Keela marked yet another area inside the apartment.



The PJ lifted the tiles in the area that Keela marked as having traces of blood and sent the window curtain and part of a plastic from the car for analysis, where Eddie detected a dead body odor.Hundreds of traces were also sent, such as hair found, and oral swabs from Maddie's family and friends, as well as employees, in order to be able to select who was and was not a suspect.

Everything seemed to point to a murder, possibly accidental, inside the house.At this point, the McCanns were also under surveillance, until the beginning of September they ended up being accused.The process then had three defendants: Murat, in the abduction thesis, and the McCanns in the thesis of the murder of their own daughter.

While these lines of inquiry were pursued, all others fell to the ground.If before the PJ came to question an English citizen, who a month before Maddie's disappearance had lived in the car and who was seen several times in the vicinity of the Ocean's Club, the thesis that someone from outside could be involved in the abduction or in the crime quickly lost steam.

"These data only served, like the remaining 74 thousand records of the operators, to eliminate possible suspects".
PJ Report
“It was never understood very well.Other lines of investigation were abandoned, such as that someone had been prowling the apartment days before.And all of a sudden, without any traces of evidence, they are constituted as defendants”, a source who participated in the investigation stated to the Observer and who pointed out to him some flaws.

The material collected on site was sent to the Genetics and Forensic Biology Service of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine.It was here that, in two different phases, 25 samples and 447 traces arrived, a piece of Maddie's bed quilt, two parts of the Renault Scénic and 444 hairs.Much of the material was contaminated because the area was not properly protected and among the analyzed hairs there was even dog hair.A crime scene was not guarded as it is now.

In 2017, when the German police contacted the Portuguese Judiciary Police to confirm that Brueckner's number was in the process as active at the time of the disappearance, the PJ ended up locating the call.
The investigation coordinator fired and the evidence that remains
A month after the McCann couple was made a defendant, the coordinator of the investigation was dismissed from his post, after publicly saying that the British police were only following clues provided by the McCann couple.Months later, Gonçalo Amaral would end up submitting his own PJ's resignation, at just 48 years of age, announcing that he would write a book about the case — which resulted in another legal battle brought by the McCanns, and which they won.

Two months before this announcement, in February, and while the collected material was being analyzed, a team of independent researchers from Lisbon headed to the Algarve and took the process to see what had been done to date.The list of thousands of numbers containing Brueckner's contact details was re-analyzed.But the inspectors adopted a strategy that would turn out to be equally beneficial to the one who is now the main suspect in the case: they cross-referenced all the messages and phone calls with the witnesses from the process to see if there were any contradictions or loose ends that could unravel the mystery. that still endures today.

▲Gonçalo Amaral wrote the book "A Verdade da Mentira" which was the target of a lawsuit by the McCanns



In the end, the recommendations of this team were: in the case of murder, wait for the results of the traces sent to England, as well as understand the reliability of the results obtained through the dogs of the English trainer;on the other hand, in the case of abduction, they proposed, in the absence of evidence, to wait for new elements that could reach the process and that could open other lines of investigation.

The laboratory results both in Portugal and in England would arrive shortly afterwards to show that the biological traces collected in the car could be as much from Maddie as from her brothers.In Portugal, after analyzing all the evidence, there was only one left, which may now be crucial to understand whether Brueckner was in the Ocean's Club apartment.The one that didn't match the date at all: a saliva stain found on Maddie's bedspread.



Process ended up filed and no suspects
The case would end up being filed, without any charges against Murat or the McCanns.In 2013, however, a new suspicion would cause the case to be reopened.At the time, British and Portuguese researchers collaborated, there were even new searches in England.But the suspicions ended up bumping into a wall.“There have been more silent lines of investigation” since then, a PJ source admitted to the Observer.The same source recalls that all of them were investigated and that none of them bore fruit.Furthermore, after Gonçalo Amaral, many other investigators were involved in the case, and they never managed to solve the mystery of Maddie's disappearance.

In 2017, when the German police contacted the Portuguese Judiciary Police to confirm whether the number of Brueckner, who lived in the Praia da Luz area at the time, was in the process as active at the time of the disappearance, the PJ ended up locating the call.As well as the number that called you.Problem: both numbers were prepaid and in 2010 they changed hands.But there were images of the car and motorhome used by him, which could serve as a reference for anyone who knew him and could help the police.


The van that the now suspect German was using at the time of the disappearance
3 pictures
Two years after this sharing of information, the German police suggested that the Portuguese and the English do what is done in the so-called “cold cases”, that is, in the archived cases that have been unresolved for years: ask the public for help.The habit is uncommon in Portugal but, as the Observer found out, the PJ ended up choosing to join the plan, because it knew that the Germans would come forward with statements in the media anyway.Two conditions were put in place: Maddie's parents would be notified by the British police first and the suspect's name would not be released.

In less than 24 hours, however, Brueckner's name was released in the German press."This is one more possibility that has to be followed, but if the German authorities continue to say what they say, this investigation could be a flop", the same source from the PJ tells the Observer, who guarantees that there is more evidence besides the calls and cars.And that the suspect's own personality is compatible with Maddie's abduction and probable murder.

“There are several signs that point in that direction and it's not just the fact that he raped an elderly woman.There are more signs that could strengthen or fade away”, said the PJ source, who believes that Brueckner is more than a mere possibility and that it is the new line of investigation.

So far the German Public Ministry has shown that it is convinced that Maddie is dead, but without showing any proof.And following the same logic he used, that of looking for other crimes that the suspect may have committed in the places where he lived, other countries have started to reopen unresolved cases that may eventually be linked to him.In Portugal, the case of the disappearance of an English boy in Aljezur and the sexual attack on a woman, who has only just complained, have already been discarded from her role of crimes.But in Belgium and Germany there are still investigations into the murders and abductions of children in which he may be involved.

After 13 years of mystery, can we finally find out what happened to Maddie and how the suspect always managed to escape?Or will this be an unsolved crime?

Wow.  Thanks VS, well pinched - there is quite a load of information there.  I had only seen the first part re the phone call.  It will take a wee while to wade through that lot.
"All I'm going to say is that we've conducted a very serious investigation and there's no indication that Madeleine McCann's parents are connected to her disappearance. On the other hand, we have a lot of evidence pointing out that Christian killed her," Wolter told the "Friday at 9"....

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In the PJ files it says;

"an Analysis Report dated 29 May 2007, starts by saying that "competent correlations and analyses" have been done on all calls made in Praia da Luz during 2, 3 and 4 May 2007 based on information furnished by the three phone companies...two sets of calls seen during the "critical period", understood to be between 20h00 and 22h00 on 3 May 2007 immediately stand out"
https://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/MOBILE_PHONE_ANALYSIS.htm

That sounds to as if all the calls over the three days were analysed, but particular attention was paid to calls on 3rd between 20h00 and 22h00. So the calls outside that time slot weren't ignored.
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In the PJ files it says;

"an Analysis Report dated 29 May 2007, starts by saying that "competent correlations and analyses" have been done on all calls made in Praia da Luz during 2, 3 and 4 May 2007 based on information furnished by the three phone companies...two sets of calls seen during the "critical period", understood to be between 20h00 and 22h00 on 3 May 2007 immediately stand out"
https://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/MOBILE_PHONE_ANALYSIS.htm

That sounds to as if all the calls over the three days were analysed, but particular attention was paid to calls on 3rd between 20h00 and 22h00. So the calls outside that time slot weren't ignored.
What attention was given to calls outside this time period then?  Bearing in mind the PJ went so far as to knock on CB’s door and his phone number was on the list - do you believe the two things are connected? 
"Surely the fact that their accounts were different reinforces their veracity rather than diminishes it? If they had colluded in protecting ........ surely all of their accounts would be the same?" - Faithlilly

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In the PJ files it says;

"an Analysis Report dated 29 May 2007, starts by saying that "competent correlations and analyses" have been done on all calls made in Praia da Luz during 2, 3 and 4 May 2007 based on information furnished by the three phone companies...two sets of calls seen during the "critical period", understood to be between 20h00 and 22h00 on 3 May 2007 immediately stand out"
https://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/MOBILE_PHONE_ANALYSIS.htm

That sounds to as if all the calls over the three days were analysed, but particular attention was paid to calls on 3rd between 20h00 and 22h00. So the calls outside that time slot weren't ignored.

That is your opinion which seems to be wrong as far as Brueckner's number is concerned according to the report in the Observer.

I think it is obvious the PJ did not pick up on Brueckner's number for analysis for the very simple reason we would have heard from them the reason why they had eliminated him from the inquiry instead of Amaral's lame comment that the PJ had knocked at his door but he wasn't in.



   ... as shown in the report in the process.  And that was how he let slip the call to Brueckner, which ended precisely at 8:02 pm that day, two minutes past the threshold established by the investigation.

According to this report, however, there was another record considered important for the PJ: a number from an unknown user — similar to the number used by Brueckner, a prepaid card that was deactivated shortly afterwards. This contact activated the antennas between 9:39 pm and 9:15 pm, with five communications with a number that turned out to be a real estate agency.

He also received two calls from an Irish operator shortly before 10 pm — the time at which a group of witnesses said they saw a man leaving the enterprise with a child in his arms (which led to the creation of the famous robot portrait of a male child. .70 m (about 30 years old, which in the field of hypotheses fits almost all suspects, even Maddie's father).

The PJ's attention was tied to these two numbers, which ended up extending the period of time previously defined for the analysis to a later date.  But only for these numbersThe call that Brueckner would have received remained in the records, but it was not even analysed, like thousands of others.
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I can see no reason why the call received by the number allegedly belonging to Brueckner would have been seen as of interest by the PJ.
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I can see no reason why the call received by the number allegedly belonging to Brueckner would have been seen as of interest by the PJ.
And yet they went to visit him at his home.  Why?
"Surely the fact that their accounts were different reinforces their veracity rather than diminishes it? If they had colluded in protecting ........ surely all of their accounts would be the same?" - Faithlilly