Search for Maddy still alive

Heartache in paper files. That’s what the parents of Madeleine McCann were handed when the Portuguese police officially closed their books on the Maddy search last month. That the people who cared most about her had to wait until long after the trail ran cold before getting any tangible evidence of the police search has to be one of the most tragic aspects of the missing Maddy case. Potentially crucial information reported to Portuguese police only one month after Maddy disappeared, is only now only public information with the release of previously secret police files. “Investigators for Kate and Gerry McCann are probing claims that a girl calling herself “Maddy” was seen in the Netherlands after their child vanished,” (BBC, Aug. 6, 2008).