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Throughout the torturous official investigation into the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal on May 3, 2007, her parents, Kate and Gerry, have learned of their status in the ordeal from anonymous leaks rather than through official channels. That precedent held again Monday night: unconfirmed reports from Portuguese media claim that police are closing the case and abandoning any plans to charge the McCanns with Madeleine's disappearance...
...McCanns remain silent as they await official confirmation from Portuguese authorities, but their blog activity in recent weeks hints at their resolve to keep the search alive. In an entry entitled Day 407, Gerry McCann appealed for people to download Madeleine posters from the Find Madeleine website to take with them on their travels this summer. And in an entry written the day before Madeleine's fifth birthday on May 12, he wrote, "We will do everything to try and ensure Madeleine does not spend another birthday separated from her family." In this ongoing saga of rumors, heartache and loss...
...mind-boggling. Whether TIME's editors like him or not, the spiritual leader of more than a billion Catholics worldwide exercises more moral and spiritual influence on Rome's followers and on our wider world than many of your other interesting, but quite unheard of, candidates. Michael J. McCann, Celbridge, Ireland...
...Like most nightmares, it began innocently enough: Madeleine and her younger twin siblings were left asleep in the apartment while their parents dined with friends at a nearby restaurant. When Kate McCann went to check on them, Madeleine was gone. The story quickly hit the front pages in Britain and much of Europe, and remained a top story all summer. The McCanns - both physicians - proved adept at putting together a well-publicized global campaign to help find Madeleine. They enlisted the help of pop and sports stars, and even had an audience with Pope Benedict...
...matter how efforts to solve the crime end, Greenslade says, Kate and Gerry McCann will never escape their unwanted, toxic celebrity. "They are media fodder for life. Every event in their life will be a reason for media intrusion," he says. "This will not be a forgotten case." That will remain true even in the increasingly unlikely event that Madeleine's fate is finally discovered...