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Oct 14, 2013 · London Police in London have released computer-generated images of a new suspect in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal six years ago. The images were based on ...
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Police sketches of Madeleine McCann's alleged kidnappers are a perfect match for Tony and John Podesta. One version of the rumor provided an account from a witness claiming that Gerry McCann closely resembled the suspect police had been seeking:
In November 2016, the Pizzagate conspiracy theory grew to encompass many other claims, one of which was that Tony and John Podesta (the latter Hillary Clintons campaign manager, the former his brother) had a connection to the abduction of missing British girl Madeleine McCann:
It is true that some reports referenced the man (singular) as a suspect, but reports also listed a number of other factors that didnt match the Podestas:
John Podesta was 67 in December 2016, mearing he was between 58 and 59 at the time of McCanns disappearance, while the man depicted in the efits was described as being between the ages of 20 and 40. Mistaking a man of 40 for one of 58 is already a stretch, and mistaking a 60-year-old man for a 20-year-old one is exceedingly unlike.
Some versions of the rumor claimed that John Podesta was in Portugal around the time of the incident, but referenced an e-mail about a trip which occurred several months after Madeleine McCann vanished. In another version, Podesta was placed in Portugal at the time of the disappearance by an unnamed law enforcement source, information that was as i...
Such rumors disregarded the fact that law enforcement agents had access to both the sketches they themselves generated as well as to Gerry McCann. More than one or two people claimed that Gerry McCann was the man depicted in police sketches, incredibly suggesting that years of law enforcement work on the case had simply failed to reach that obvious...
A British tabloid published an article about the widespread rumors that McCann and the suspect were one and the same, which kicked up after an October 2013 episode of Crimewatch:
Mar 16, 2019 · After the disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann from a holiday apartment bedroom in Praia da Luz back in 2007, police circulated a simple sketch of the suspect. Very simple. In the new docu-series streaming on Netflix, "The Disappearance Of Madeleine McCann," archival news footage shows a shop owner describing the suspect sketch.
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Jun 4, 2020 · A person has been declared an official suspect by Portuguese prosecutors investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.. Here is a look back at the search for Madeleine, who has been missing ...
Oct 14, 2013 · Left and center, undated e-fit images issued by the Metropolitan Police believed to be of the same man seen in Praia da Luz at the time of the disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann in 2007.
May 26, 2023 · Reporting from London. May 26, 2023. The case of Madeleine McCann, a British girl who disappeared 16 years ago at the age of 3 from a vacation apartment in Portugal, returned this week to saturate ...
