In 2007, three-year-old Madelaine disappeared without a trace during a family vacation. The fact that a suspect has now been identified is probably also due to the efforts of many ZDF viewers. After the broadcast of “Case number XY”, the police receive numerous reports.
With their renewed call for witnesses to the Madeleine “Maddie” McCann case, the investigators achieved an important goal. The ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY … unresolved” was well received, said Hans Christian Wolters from the Braunschweig public prosecutor’s office. “A lot of information has been received that is currently being evaluated.”
The then three-year-old British girl disappeared without a trace on May 3, 2007 from a holiday resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal. At the same time as the ZDF broadcast, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the public prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig announced on Wednesday evening that this was the case a 43-year-old German suspected of murder is advised.
According to the investigators, the man has multiple criminal records, including for sexual offenses and child abuse. He is currently serving an old prison sentence from 2011 dealing with drug trafficking in a prison in Kiel.
According to their own statements, the investigators tracked down the now suspect by referring to the ZDF program on the case in October 2013. “The information at the time was not sufficient for an investigation and certainly not for an arrest,” said BKA investigator Christian Hoppe in the show. Another reference to the suspect in 2017 was still not enough. On Wednesday, more than 5.2 million viewers watched the ZDF wanted broadcast.
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