When this story broke it sounded like Chris and Les drove all the way to Portugal through their own efforts to help the McCanns. It really did sound like they went to extraordinary lengths to help. We can reveal on MadeleineMcCann.org that Chris and Les were simply doing their job. The inflatable billboard was not the brainchild of Mr Lennox or Mr Harley and the pair of them didn’t pay for it either. The whole thing was engineered by Dr Gerald McCann’s brother John.
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Dr. Gerry McCann updated a daily blog soon after Madeleine’s disappearance. Read them all here.
The story of Madeleine’s disappearance is complex. Read about the story in this series of articles.
In July 2008, the Portuguese Police released thousands of files on the case. Find the important evidence here.
It was in May 2007 that Madeleine McCann — a British girl who was about to turn four — vanished while she and her parents were on holiday in Portugal. Her disappearance quickly became one of the year’s top news stories.
She began her CBC career in 1976 as a roving radio reporter with Metro Morning in Toronto. In 1979 she became co-host of Information Morning in Fredericton. In 1981 she returned to Toronto to join the CBC Radio newsroom. In 1984 Durham moved to the UK continuing to report for CBC Radio. She also became a regular contributor to the BBC.
(CBS) Peter Van Sant first joined CBS News in 1984. He was based in Atlanta for six years, where he was a correspondent for the CBS Evening News, covering the south, the space program, and specializing on the aviation industry. Van Sant’s investigative report on the high number of medical helicopter crashes earned him his first Emmy Award in 1986.
Francisco Marco Fernández is the Services and Quality Director. A Doctor in criminal law by the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, he is also member of the Intercomunitary Association of Private Detectives, Master specialist in laws for societies, speaker at many university lessons and author of several legal books for the Aranzadi Editorial. He holds Private Detective Licence Nº: 769.
