How Come All That Excitement About Finding Madeleine McCann Has Evaporated?

But at some point a bizarre detail about Scotland Yard’s investigation was mentioned in passing: it was revealed that the cops singled out a man who may have kidnapped Maddy, a disgruntled employee of the holiday home where the McCanns were staying. And the interesting thing of all was that the man was dead by then. So no one could question him and become any wiser. A nice little option to wrap up the investigation at some point in the future.

And who can forget those six different images of men who, as we were told, were actually one and the same man who was supposedly seen carrying a small girl on the night Madeleine had vanished. That was a pretty surreal piece of police work: to reveal six totally different images and insist it was actually the same man on all of them.