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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:
May 25, 2023 · May 25, 2023. The Portuguese authorities confirmed on Thursday evening that a search in the case of Madeleine McCann, a British girl who was 3 when she disappeared in 2007 from her family’s...
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May 23, 2023 · 02:55 - Source: CNN. CNN — “We’re never going to give up.” Those were the words earlier this month from the parents of Madeleine McCann, who vanished as a toddler without a trace while on...
May 5, 2022 · CNN —. A German prosecutor has said he is “sure” that Madeleine McCann – the British girl who disappeared from a resort in Portugal in 2007 at the age of three – was killed by suspect ...
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May 22, 2023 · BBC. Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, then aged three. Three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment 16 years ago. In the intervening years, a huge,...
Over the following weeks, particularly after misinterpreting a British DNA analysis, the Portuguese police came to believe that Madeleine had died in an accident in the apartment and her parents had covered it up.