Word: mccanns
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...myriad emotions Britons Kate and Gerry McCann have experienced since the disappearance 14 months ago of their daughter Madeleine, add a tinge of relief: not at any breakthrough in the mystery over what happened to the toddler - who vanished nine days before her fourth birthday while vacationing with her parents in Portugal - but to news, instead, that they're no longer suspected of involvement in her disappearance...
...case to prosecutors, Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro, the country's Attorney General, announced Monday that the investigation would be shelved, owing, a statement from his office said, to a "lack of evidence that any crime was committed by the persons placed under formal investigation." Comfort, then, for the McCanns - named by Portuguese police as official suspects in the case last fall - as well as for Robert Murat, the Portuguese-based Briton named as a suspect almost immediately after Madeleine's disappearance in May 2007. The three, who strenuously denied any involvement, are now cleared of suspicion. "We welcome the news...
...vacation apartment in the southern Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luz - parents Kate and Gerry were eating at a tapas bar in the resort complex at the time - a high-profile push to find Madeleine was launched. Soccer star David Beckham appealed for information. Kate and Gerry McCann even secured a brief audience with the Pope. And while reported sightings came to nothing, millions of dollars poured into a fund to help track down the couple's daughter...
...Much more painful for the McCanns, though, is the fact that months of police investigation have left them no nearer to finding their daughter. Kate McCann on Monday lamented the "detrimental effect" suspicions of the parents' involvement may have had on the hunt. The release later this week of a book on the case by Goncalo Amaral, the police officer who led the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance until he was removed from the position in October, won't help; Amaral claims there's evidence that Madeleine died in the family's apartment. Meanwhile, any further investigation of the case...
...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...