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Madeleine was a very strange case
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because they usually never go after
middle-class or high-class people.
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They usually go for lower-class kids,
third world countries.
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That's the main supplier
of all these gangs.
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So my idea, it's that the value
that Madeleine had was really high
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because if they took her, it's because
they were gonna get a lot of money.
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Brian Kennedy or the McCanns
contracted Método 3.
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Método 3 were passionate,
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fearless, focused,
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and they attacked it.
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Francisco Marco was
the director of the agency.
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He was my boss.
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This case for Método 3 was
the biggest case they have done, ever.
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We have the description of the woman
and the man involved.
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Maddie was alive
two days after the kidnapping.
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Madeleine was in a car
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and she was given to another person
inside Portugal.
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I'm not saying we are maybe, no, no, no.
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We are very, very close
to find the kidnapper.
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My phone started going off.
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There was unknown callers and
my siblings were trying to reach me,
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my kids were trying to reach me,
and I knew something had happened.
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I care about reality,
not about fiction.
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The lies and the untruths
will be acted upon very rapidly.
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I started working
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and getting into
different chats and different pages.
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And I started getting myself
inside that world.
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These websites
that are on the deep web,
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they are not indexed
so nobody can find them.
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Basically, no one can access
if you are not a friend
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that trusts you and that give you
access to those websites.
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I tried to obtain anything
related with Madeleine
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and that's my final goal
and my final question was that,
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always, "Do you know anything
about Madeleine? Have you seen any videos?
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Do you... have heard of any videos?"
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Finally, I reach a person
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that had deep contacts inside that world.
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He sent me several videos, uh, files.
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Little by little, I was asking for more,
for more, for more.
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What I was doing, the police usually,
uh, works the same way.
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All the information that I was collecting,
I was gonna share with the police.
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I went into the darkest places
of the human being.
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I've seen things that I have to
live with that all my life,
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that's things that
you cannot forget or erase.
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In the early 2000s,
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the US government created a tool
to enable people
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to use the internet anonymously.
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It was to protect
intelligence communications,
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to protect political dissidents,
and journalists.
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What apparently nobody contemplated
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was that these same tools would be used
by paedophile organisations,
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by human traffickers, by drug traffickers,
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by weapons traffickers,
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by terrorist organisations.
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There's a tsunami
of indecent images online.
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Current estimates are in the UK alone,
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that 100,000 IP addresses,
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computer IP addresses,
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can be downloading indecent images
of children at any given moment in time.
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In tragic cases
like Madeleine McCann's,
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you should never rule out
a commercial motive.
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We have a very, very
safe country,
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but we cannot forget
that we are not alone in the world.
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We have the information
that our country is used
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by traffickers to pass children
to other countries.
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They enter the country
through Algarve
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and then they go to Spain, to France,
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to Germany to be exploited.
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They have a very strong structure
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that allows them to move human beings
from one country to another
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in a matter of hours.
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It's very easy.
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It's frightening because it is very easy.
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Portugal's population
knew that there had been cases
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of child abuse and abductions
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that were sent to
international paedophilia networks.
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There was a case
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called Casa Pia. The João Pedro case.
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It was a problem
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that worried society a lot.
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It's the bogeyman,
it's the fear factor.
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You've got to remember,
there are paedophiles in every country
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and every country has its story,
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the Beast of Belgium, you know,
and keeping children trapped
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for many years in cells
that you build within your home.
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The lead of Belgian paedophile network
is also very possible.
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There are people who kidnap kids
for the account of other people.
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This has happened over the years.
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On internet, on this topic,
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there are catalogues with children,
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with ages, blond, this, that.
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They are on sale.
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What are the police doing?
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Why this is even possible?
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Why, when there is money missing
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from somebody who has
a tax evasion status,
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everybody's on alert,
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we find the money, we find the person,
we find everything.
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But when there are kids,
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there is no one.
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Human trafficking on the planet today
is a $150-billion-a-year enterprise.
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While only two per cent
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of so-called dark websites
are paedophile sites,
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they account for more than
80 percent of dark web traffic.
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Infiltration is
the primary investigative technique,
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but it is time-consuming, it's expensive,
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and one of the criteria for participation
in these dark web groups
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is you have to provide images of children
that nobody's ever seen before.
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I had to comment with them,
how good they were.
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It's like any kind of relationship,
little by little, gaining the trust.
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It marks you or it changes your way
of thinking about things, of course.
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Francisco Marco,
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a Spanish investigator
hired by a supporter of the McCanns,
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is making even more startling claims.
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We are very, very close
to finding the kidnapper.
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When pressed, Marco claimed he could
say no more when working on the case.
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It's the kind of news the McCanns
have heard before, but they're hopeful.
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The day that Francisco Marco,
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director of Método 3, made his claim,
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the statement was,
"We know who took Madeleine,
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We know where she is,
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and we know how he did it."
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Francisco Marco didn't know anything
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about what was happening
with the Madeleine McCann case.
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At the end,
it was only me working on this,
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having a direct relation
with Brian Kennedy.
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It was unbelievable.
We didn't have a single clue.
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We didn't know who took her,
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where she was, nothing.
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I was ashamed, of course.
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Uh, I was shocked and ashamed.
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It was a difficult situation
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and I knew Brian was
really, really, really mad.
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Imagine you are the McCanns
and you are home and you see that.
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The director of your private investigation
says something like that.
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"Where's Madeleine? Who took her?"
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"I don't know."
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That was his answer.
That's the only answer he had.
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We had dinner and I went outside
with Francisco Marco to have a cigarette,
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and he told me, "The benefit
that I'm gonna get from this,
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it's publicity."
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For him, this was business.
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This was, uh, something good
for his company.
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He didn't care about Madeleine McCann.
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Brian Kennedy got mad.
The McCanns also asked for an explanation.
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I know Método 3
said some silly things
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that they shouldn't have said.
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I lost the plot a bit towards the end
and you can understand why.
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After months of looking,
going down dead ends,
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you can understand why
people lose the plot.
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I think the same happened to Método 3.
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My ex-boss called me
and he told me
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that Brian Kennedy wanted to stop working
with Método 3
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and that it was... it was over.
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The McCanns
were becoming frustrated
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so they contracted with
an American company
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called Oakley International,
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who had a reputation as being among
the big boys in investigations.
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They were promised
all sorts of things,
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that the people working for Oakley
were former FBI, CIA, and MI6,
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that they had the latest
investigative tools, techniques,
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the technology available to them,
that they could do all sorts of things
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that Método 3, their previous
investigators, could not do.
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There comes a point where you decide to,
"Let's up the game a bit.
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Let's try and bring in someone...
someone else,
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someone who's gonna approach this
from a different angle."
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So we took them on for
a very expensive contract,
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part-paid them,
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and they went about their business.
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I found out about the case
from a mutual friend
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and he says,
"Expect a call from Kevin."
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Kevin Halligen was the president
and head of Oakley.
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In fact, he personified Oakley.
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Everyone, even his partners,
recognised Kevin was Oakley.
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It's common that
you code name your project,
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you code name, uh, certain suspects.
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One of the code names used
was Project Omega.
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Kevin had access to a dream team that
would impress the daylights out of you.
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Top in their field.
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They had skills.
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They certainly
did have experience.
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Oakley were more secretive, you know,
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a lot more kind of secret agent
kind of stuff, you know?
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We've all heard of polygraphs
or lie detectors.
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How about a truth detector
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that tells investigators
a lot more than you say?
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Uh, the last vacation you took.
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Essentially,
the technology is computer-based
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and it listens to
the frequencies of the voice.
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And you asked me about my shoes
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and I said, "They were a great deal,"
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and it showed up as inaccurate.
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I did several analyses for him,
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conducting interviews and recording them,
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and I analysed suspects.
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When you said you wear them a lot, you're
using a commonly understood language
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that people know what you mean,
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but you know what the true meaning
of the language is
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and to your mind,
that was an inaccurate statement.
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And we can see down
to five levels of your subconscious.
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I can see if they're thinking
from their memory or their imagination.
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As well as whether
your statement is deceptive.
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Rich Parton, thanks very much,
and we would just like to say
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Headline News, of course, does not endorse
any of the technology we showcase,
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we just bring you some of
the latest things that are out there.
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I just remember feeling
a little bit sceptical about them
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and, you know, they were checked out.
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Ultimately, it wasn't my decision
on who we brought in.
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Things seemed to be going
pretty well.
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Oakley had set up a hotline
to accept tips.
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They had people on the ground
in Praia da Luz,
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good people who were working hard
and trying to develop contacts.
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Oakley sat down with an Irishman
named Martin Smith and his family,
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who had been witnesses in Praia da Luz
on the night of Madeleine's disappearance
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who, at around 10 p.m. that evening,
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had seen a man carrying a little girl
wearing pyjamas in the street
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not far from the Ocean Club.
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This is an interview that was conducted
with the Smiths in August.
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The reason that their time
is important is that it hasn't changed.
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Maybe it's because they had a few of them
that noticed this event all together.
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What they did was that
they sent their police sketch artist
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to work with the family
and develop two sketches,
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um, e-fits or identikit sketches
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of the man they saw,
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and these are now in circulation still
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as the sighting of a man
of potential interest.
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Oakley also had
Jane Tanner's description
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and the Cooperman sketch.
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Oakley began a manhunt in the area
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and came up with some other suspects
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who had similar appearance to the drawings
that came from each person's description.
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They interviewed them,
some they released,
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but one man they tracked back to a van.
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I do remember
Kevin was mentioning
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that, uh, they were tracking a van
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One of the suspects
that was seen in PDL that night,
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they had tracked him
to where he's living in a van
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and they had, um, all kinds
of surveillance on this individual.
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Looking exhausted but resolute,
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Kate and Gerry McCann returned with
their three-year-old twins
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to the Liverpool church where they married
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to mark the one-year anniversary of
the day a light went out for their family.
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The mother of Madeleine McCann
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has sent a message of thanks
to the people of Praia da Luz in Portugal
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on the anniversary of
her daughter's disappearance.
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Where there is good in the world,
let this good unite.
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Where there is strength, let us be giants
in the face of darkness.
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Where there is hope, let our hearts long
for Madeleine's return.
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Cleared as suspects,
the investigation shelved,
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the parents of Madeleine McCann say
they're relieved to be cleared
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of any involvement
in their daughter's disappearance.
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The decision has been
reached that Kate and Gerry McCann
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and Robert Murat's arguido status
will be lifted...
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We welcome the news today,
although it is no cause for celebration.
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It's hard to describe
how utterly despairing it was
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to be named arguido and subsequently
portrayed in the media
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as suspects in
our own daughter's abduction.
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When the prosecutor
decided not to charge them,
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both Polícia Judiciária
and the prosecutors said
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that there was nothing
against the father and mother.
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We look forward to
scrutinising the police files
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to see what has actually been done
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and, more importantly,
what can still be done
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as we leave no stone unturned
in the search for our little girl.
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For me, it was of course
a victory and a joy.
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My mission is accomplished here.
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Madeleine McCann's parents are expected
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to be given access to
the official police files
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on their daughter's disappearance
by the end of this week.
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Kate and Gerry McCann
and a third Briton, Robert Murat,
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are no longer formal suspects
in the investigation
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and Portuguese officials say
they are now shelving the case.
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The prosecutors in the case
said that the McCanns had suffered enough.
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The disappearance of the child
was not a mystery novel.
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It wasn't a Sherlock Holmes.
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At that point, they said they were going
to stop further investigation
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until such a time that more productive
lines of inquiry might be developed.
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With that, they shelved the case,
and the arguido status
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that had hung over Gerry and Kate McCann
and Robert Murat was lifted.
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Just over there is where I, in 2007,
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was brought for the first time to the PJ
in that building over there.
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I spent 19 hours.
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It was a long, painful day.
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I was in a world of my own, I suppose.
It was just absolutely...
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Um, I didn't know what was going on.
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I had absolutely no idea what was
going on in my life at that time.
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After being dropped off,
I had to climb over the wall here
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and then get back into the house
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because the front of the property
was covered in journalists.
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It was horrible being completely
constrained inside this house.
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We had people trying to climb over
the fences and walls
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and helicopters over the top.
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When the case was closed
and the arguido status was lifted,
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I felt that it would make
a big difference,
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um, and it didn't.
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Having the words of something being lifted
is one thing.
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Actually having something firm and final
is something else.
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And that wasn't firm and final.
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That was just closing a case
because they hadn't...
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They couldn't find anything else,
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not closing the case because
they had discovered the truth.
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Mr Amaral is publishing a book
to make money
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and all of this publicity
surrounding it...
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Two weeks,
three editions sold out.
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A fourth now available.
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Many interested reading in Portugal
and the United Kingdom alike...
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The book I wrote
was a defence of a number of attacks.
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I was called so many things...
Incompetent, drunkard, fat,
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and so on.
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And during that time, I appealed to the
National Director of Policia Judiciária
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to defend my team and me.
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And this didn't happen
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so that's when I made the decision
to publish the book.
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Whether it's truth or lies,
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this is now a matter of public knowledge.
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Usually when they ask me about the books
of Gonçalo Amaral,
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my answer is always the same.
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"I care about reality, not about fiction."
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To write a book for
your own personal gain,
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you know, for your own
personal fame and celebrity,
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which maligns and directly accuses
individuals of being guilty of a crime,
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is simply not on.
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A single theory about it
being the parents
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is unprofessional and in my opinion,
and it's only my opinion, unforgivable.
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The evidence that the child
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very likely died in that apartment,
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as a result of an accident,
a domestic accident,
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and that the body doesn't turn up,
the cadaver is concealed.
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What do you believe to be the truth?
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I think the little girl was killed.
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A round of applause for Mr Amaral.
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- What for?
- Because he figured it all out.
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Almost one year and two months
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and we still can't reach any conclusion.
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My name is Gonçalo Amaral.
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I've been an investigator with
the Polícia Judiciária for 27 years.
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I coordinated the investigation into
the disappearance of Madeleine McCann
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on the 3rd of May 2007.
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I watched Gonçalo Amaral's
Truth of the Lie the night it was aired
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in Portugal with some Portuguese friends.
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There was a big anticipation
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that Truth of the Lie
was coming out on television.
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Lots of people were watching it.
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According to the testimony
of the Ocean Club's manager...
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when the GNR patrol
arrived on location,
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the child's father threw himself
at the officer's feet,
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like a praying Arab,
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completely out of control
over his daughter's disappearance.
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The same scene was repeated,
according to the officers,
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in the couple's bedroom.
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Oh, God!
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No, I don't have
that scene in the book
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of having knelt and prayed.
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It's an exaggeration.
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Apart from that, it's pretty well produced
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and overall factual.
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What I know tells me that Madeleine McCann
died in apartment 5A
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on the 3rd of May 2007.
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The investigation was brutally interrupted
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and a political and hurried archiving
took place.
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If you connect them
with the fact that,"Oh, uh,
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our police has suffered pressure
363
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from the British police
just to help the McCanns," et cetera,
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you are creating...
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Let me tell you a story.
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One day, I was in my office
and I receive a call,
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a telephone call from a journalist,
368
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and he asked me to confirm.
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00:26:47,365 --> 00:26:51,885
"Is it true that there was a meeting
between you and the British Ambassador
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to avoid that Gonçalo Amaral
could run for mayor
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in a small village in Algarve?"
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Gerry McCann came here
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to meet with the leader
of the Social Democrats,
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putting pressure on them to deny
allowing me to become a candidate.
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And in the end, I was not a candidate
because the party denied me.
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"Yes, it's true.
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00:27:17,885 --> 00:27:21,485
And in that same meeting
were also the Batman
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uh, and the Superman and the Flintstones.
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They are all there."
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The mystery persists.
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The former inspector believes
that someday, the truth will be known.
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When the film finished,
I felt totally deflated.
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I was like,
"Half the country's watched tonight."
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I thought, "That's it. We've lost
the general population's support." Yeah.
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A brand new
billboard poster of Madeleine
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with "help me" in Portuguese
has been splattered with paint.
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00:28:04,725 --> 00:28:06,525
The stop sign just down
from our home,
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00:28:06,605 --> 00:28:09,005
and underneath, they spray painted
"the McCanns,"
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like "stop the McCanns."
390
00:28:10,805 --> 00:28:13,845
I live here so I just wish it'd go away,
to be honest,
391
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'cause it's...
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00:28:15,845 --> 00:28:16,965
it's no good for us.
393
00:28:17,565 --> 00:28:22,245
If they don't... can't find,
why they have to... to keep searching?
394
00:28:22,325 --> 00:28:24,765
People have sympathy
for only so long
395
00:28:24,845 --> 00:28:26,045
and then it stops.
396
00:28:26,925 --> 00:28:28,645
People just get tired.
397
00:28:29,525 --> 00:28:32,245
They get tired of grief
and they get tired of not knowing.
398
00:28:34,365 --> 00:28:36,685
You have a professional like Amaral
399
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who actually feeds,
feeds what's going on.
400
00:28:43,885 --> 00:28:47,205
What you basically do is
you close down the search for Madeleine.
401
00:28:47,285 --> 00:28:51,365
You close down the eyes and ears
of the public or the minds of the public
402
00:28:51,645 --> 00:28:53,885
because you say,
"Look, I was in a position to know.
403
00:28:53,965 --> 00:28:56,245
This is who did it,"
so we all stop looking
404
00:28:56,325 --> 00:29:00,485
and then we simply begin to focus
on this miscarriage of justice
405
00:29:00,565 --> 00:29:03,165
because the right people
aren't being held to account.
406
00:29:03,245 --> 00:29:05,485
Mr Amaral needs to be well aware
407
00:29:05,565 --> 00:29:08,765
that the libel lawyers
who are representing Kate and Gerry
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00:29:08,845 --> 00:29:12,045
are examining every word
that he is saying in his book
409
00:29:12,485 --> 00:29:14,925
and they will not hesitate
from taking action,
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00:29:15,005 --> 00:29:16,805
legal action against Mr Amaral.
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Any lies, any untruths,
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00:29:19,325 --> 00:29:21,805
any defamation will be acted upon...
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00:29:21,885 --> 00:29:23,885
It was so important
for Kate and Gerry
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00:29:23,965 --> 00:29:26,965
to have the judicial system
in Portugal say,
415
00:29:27,285 --> 00:29:28,685
"There's no proof to this."
416
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The trial opposing
the McCann couple
417
00:29:31,765 --> 00:29:33,525
and Gonçalo Amaral began this morning.
418
00:29:33,605 --> 00:29:36,045
Maddie's parents call for the destruction
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00:29:36,125 --> 00:29:39,205
of all copies of the book
The Truth of the Lie,
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authored by the former inspector
who investigated the case.
421
00:29:42,925 --> 00:29:45,725
They also demand
that Gonçalo Amaral be prevented
422
00:29:45,805 --> 00:29:47,965
from carrying on with his accusations.
423
00:29:48,325 --> 00:29:52,725
Mr Amaral's central thesis has
no evidence whatsoever to support it.
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To claim, as he did,
that Madeleine is dead
425
00:29:56,885 --> 00:30:00,445
and that we, her parents, were somehow
involved in her disappearance
426
00:30:01,085 --> 00:30:03,765
has caused our family incredible distress
427
00:30:03,845 --> 00:30:05,045
and continues to do so.
428
00:30:06,205 --> 00:30:09,005
They could take
the character damning that it was,
429
00:30:09,085 --> 00:30:10,405
they could stand up to that,
430
00:30:10,485 --> 00:30:14,765
but if people in Portugal
actually believe Gonçalo Amaral's book,
431
00:30:14,845 --> 00:30:16,565
then they wouldn't be looking
for Madeleine.
432
00:30:16,605 --> 00:30:19,165
Well, we're just here to continue
the search for Madeleine
433
00:30:19,245 --> 00:30:21,525
and to protect our own family
434
00:30:21,605 --> 00:30:25,005
and their human rights
and I think it's fairly clear, you know.
435
00:30:25,405 --> 00:30:29,125
No one should be allowed to say
that our daughter cannot be found
436
00:30:29,205 --> 00:30:31,045
without very good evidence
to the contrary,
437
00:30:31,125 --> 00:30:33,965
and that's what the court case is about.
438
00:30:34,045 --> 00:30:37,205
So they had to get the book off the shelf.
They had to fight.
439
00:30:37,285 --> 00:30:42,405
The McCanns are the ones
who should have had a different attitude.
440
00:30:42,485 --> 00:30:44,965
There is no evidence
that Madeleine is dead.
441
00:30:45,045 --> 00:30:47,445
That is what you heard yesterday.
You heard that, didn't you?
442
00:30:47,485 --> 00:30:49,621
This is just raking up
old ground, isn't it, Gerry?
443
00:30:49,645 --> 00:30:52,245
No. Today, we are here...
444
00:30:52,325 --> 00:30:53,925
- But the police...
- No, hang on.
445
00:30:54,005 --> 00:30:55,581
They're not raking it up.
This is a legal...
446
00:30:55,605 --> 00:30:59,685
- are you satisfied...
- All those... Allow me to just finish.
447
00:30:59,765 --> 00:31:05,045
All those people who laboured
away from their homes and families...
448
00:31:05,125 --> 00:31:07,085
They never heard a word of thanks.
449
00:31:07,485 --> 00:31:10,685
This is a legal process
which we are going through
450
00:31:11,005 --> 00:31:12,885
to protect our daughter and our family.
451
00:31:12,965 --> 00:31:14,821
There's nothing new
being said by the police, is it?
452
00:31:14,845 --> 00:31:15,925
Of course there's not.
453
00:31:16,005 --> 00:31:18,061
What do you expect from this hearing?
454
00:31:18,085 --> 00:31:23,525
For justice to be done.
Now it's up to the court to decide.
455
00:32:02,485 --> 00:32:05,485
The police investigation
had been closed down.
456
00:32:06,285 --> 00:32:11,325
So Brian Kennedy was principally funding
the McCanns' investigation at that point.
457
00:32:12,125 --> 00:32:13,605
Over time,
458
00:32:13,685 --> 00:32:18,485
things started to filter back
to the McCanns that seemed odd.
459
00:32:20,205 --> 00:32:26,445
The trust got tired of
the continuous invoices they were sending
460
00:32:27,805 --> 00:32:31,285
and they just were not making the progress
they'd promised to make.
461
00:32:37,005 --> 00:32:39,645
Kevin did what he usually does.
462
00:32:39,725 --> 00:32:44,365
He throws out juicy tidbits
and things that would inspire hope.
463
00:32:47,485 --> 00:32:52,725
Kevin told Brian Kennedy that
because of his work with US intelligence
464
00:32:53,605 --> 00:32:59,605
that he had access
to satellite photos of Portugal
465
00:32:59,685 --> 00:33:02,965
on the night Madeleine went missing,
466
00:33:03,165 --> 00:33:06,605
and that he could access those spy photos
467
00:33:07,405 --> 00:33:12,165
and be able to see if there's any suspects
in the area, maybe see what happened.
468
00:33:12,925 --> 00:33:15,725
When they were finally produced,
469
00:33:16,725 --> 00:33:19,765
they were only Google Earth images
of the town,
470
00:33:19,845 --> 00:33:24,005
um, so it was all a bit
of a terrible letdown.
471
00:33:26,405 --> 00:33:27,605
We had nothing
472
00:33:28,365 --> 00:33:30,125
and we're still looking for the child,
473
00:33:30,565 --> 00:33:33,845
so you can understand why we'd say
if somebody comes in and says,
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00:33:33,925 --> 00:33:35,725
"Look, we can do this and we can do that
475
00:33:35,805 --> 00:33:41,365
and we can reveal these GPS satellite
pictures of the particular evening
476
00:33:41,445 --> 00:33:43,525
'cause we have a link with the FBI
477
00:33:43,605 --> 00:33:45,685
that will give us all
of this information,"
478
00:33:45,765 --> 00:33:48,525
you listen because where else
is there to go?
479
00:33:50,205 --> 00:33:52,165
Brian Kennedy started
getting complaints
480
00:33:52,245 --> 00:33:53,765
that people weren't being paid,
481
00:33:54,085 --> 00:33:57,165
and he was deeply concerned by the things
he was hearing back.
482
00:33:57,845 --> 00:34:00,645
Kevin told me and other people
483
00:34:01,085 --> 00:34:04,925
that he sent a team in,
a man-and-woman team,
484
00:34:05,005 --> 00:34:08,725
with a child
similar to the age of Madeleine
485
00:34:08,845 --> 00:34:10,845
and put the kid up as bait.
486
00:34:12,925 --> 00:34:17,965
He said at one time, he had
a drunken priest, uh, undercover.
487
00:34:19,565 --> 00:34:23,405
When I think of credible
intelligence-gathering tools,
488
00:34:23,605 --> 00:34:27,365
my mind immediately jumps to,
"Where's my drunken priest?"
489
00:34:28,885 --> 00:34:30,885
What he said just didn't make sense.
490
00:34:34,685 --> 00:34:37,325
Yeah, the van guy didn't do it.
He's been cleared.
491
00:34:38,685 --> 00:34:41,245
And, uh, neither did anyone else
492
00:34:41,325 --> 00:34:43,805
that looked like that
that they found in the area.
493
00:34:46,525 --> 00:34:50,365
There's very little evidence
that he did what he said he did.
494
00:34:51,125 --> 00:34:54,325
Kevin's only effort was to create a report
495
00:34:54,965 --> 00:34:56,885
that indicated they did something.
496
00:35:03,565 --> 00:35:07,285
Halligen had started
to become threatening,
497
00:35:07,365 --> 00:35:11,165
threatening to do this about the family
and say this about the family
498
00:35:11,245 --> 00:35:14,805
and expose stuff,
just an absolute nonsense.
499
00:35:16,485 --> 00:35:19,645
Then it emerged that
the tips coming into the hotline
500
00:35:19,725 --> 00:35:21,685
weren't actually being answered
or acted upon.
501
00:35:23,325 --> 00:35:27,285
I had the opportunity
to sit with Kevin several times
502
00:35:27,365 --> 00:35:30,485
and we talked about his relationships.
503
00:35:30,565 --> 00:35:32,965
We talked about his alleged background.
504
00:35:33,285 --> 00:35:35,405
None of these elements were consistent.
505
00:35:36,485 --> 00:35:39,485
I have a vast number of people
506
00:35:39,845 --> 00:35:42,165
who are vouching for this man,
507
00:35:42,485 --> 00:35:44,885
but nothing is matching up.
508
00:35:46,285 --> 00:35:47,685
And at that moment,
509
00:35:49,285 --> 00:35:51,965
everything, everything came into focus.
510
00:35:53,245 --> 00:35:54,765
He was a fraud.
511
00:35:58,165 --> 00:36:01,221
People think we're talking about
an investigation of a missing child.
512
00:36:01,245 --> 00:36:03,845
We're not. You're talking about a conman.
513
00:36:05,205 --> 00:36:07,005
You're not talking about an investigation.
514
00:36:08,245 --> 00:36:10,445
In fact, he hopped on a flight to Rome.
515
00:36:12,685 --> 00:36:15,205
My reaction to him skipping out
without paying?
516
00:36:15,965 --> 00:36:17,005
Not happy.
517
00:36:18,965 --> 00:36:20,965
No, he wasn't gonna run.
518
00:36:24,445 --> 00:36:27,805
I used every known
associate he had,
519
00:36:28,405 --> 00:36:32,125
every resource available to track him.
520
00:36:32,725 --> 00:36:36,125
I hired special staff in, uh, the UK
521
00:36:36,205 --> 00:36:38,365
just to dig into his past life.
522
00:36:39,045 --> 00:36:42,965
Halligen was revealed
to be a grotesque fraud.
523
00:36:43,245 --> 00:36:44,765
He was really an Irishman
524
00:36:44,965 --> 00:36:49,245
who had been largely masquerading,
um, as an investigator.
525
00:36:49,765 --> 00:36:52,165
He had set up a bogus marriage
for himself,
526
00:36:52,245 --> 00:36:53,845
even though he was already married.
527
00:36:53,925 --> 00:36:56,765
He had made friends
with the Washington elite
528
00:36:56,845 --> 00:36:58,045
and was living the high life
529
00:36:58,125 --> 00:37:01,765
off the back of what seemed to be
the money for the search for Madeleine.
530
00:37:03,325 --> 00:37:06,205
His intelligence credentials
were fraudulent,
531
00:37:06,285 --> 00:37:08,205
his birth date is fraudulent.
532
00:37:08,285 --> 00:37:11,445
In some respect, it was easy to find him
when he changed hotels
533
00:37:11,525 --> 00:37:16,005
because Kevin loved accumulating,
uh, hotel reward points
534
00:37:16,085 --> 00:37:18,085
so the search became easier and easier.
535
00:37:19,525 --> 00:37:21,845
He sent me what he considered
to be a threat.
536
00:37:22,205 --> 00:37:25,245
He sent me the lyrics
of "Gangsta Paradise,"
537
00:37:25,685 --> 00:37:30,725
and it was funny because this is
who he sees himself as being.
538
00:37:32,085 --> 00:37:36,045
Oakley had ended in tears.
539
00:37:36,685 --> 00:37:37,685
Clearly...
540
00:37:38,165 --> 00:37:40,885
Clearly an unscrupulous character
541
00:37:41,085 --> 00:37:43,085
he had proven to be over the months.
542
00:37:47,885 --> 00:37:51,005
Kevin Halligen was convicted
of fraud in another case
543
00:37:51,285 --> 00:37:53,565
and spent time in prison
in the United States.
544
00:37:55,765 --> 00:37:58,845
He eventually died
of a brain haemorrhage in 2018.
545
00:38:08,645 --> 00:38:13,845
The ultimate victims have to be
Madeleine and her family.
546
00:38:15,125 --> 00:38:18,685
This is almost a year's worth of hope.
547
00:38:20,205 --> 00:38:25,565
I just can't begin to understand the pain
548
00:38:26,325 --> 00:38:29,005
that the McCanns must be feeling.
549
00:38:37,405 --> 00:38:40,645
And it's surprising
how unlucky they were
550
00:38:40,845 --> 00:38:44,485
on choosing the people
for their investigations.
551
00:38:47,925 --> 00:38:49,525
There were, in this case,
552
00:38:50,245 --> 00:38:53,045
just an extraordinary number
553
00:38:53,125 --> 00:38:58,445
of such... what to us seemed...
Bizarre instances
554
00:38:58,525 --> 00:39:00,965
of people trying to involve themselves
in this case.
555
00:39:03,885 --> 00:39:05,405
For 18 months,
556
00:39:05,485 --> 00:39:10,205
no police agency anywhere
had been actively searching for Madeleine.
557
00:39:10,965 --> 00:39:12,045
To the McCanns,
558
00:39:12,565 --> 00:39:15,725
that was horrendous
and it was totally unacceptable.
559
00:39:24,045 --> 00:39:26,301
There was the surprise announcement
in London this morning
560
00:39:26,325 --> 00:39:29,965
of a possible break in the long-running
search for little Madeleine McCann.
561
00:39:30,045 --> 00:39:33,325
The witness became aware
of a well-dressed woman
562
00:39:33,405 --> 00:39:35,925
who he describes as appearing agitated.
563
00:39:43,045 --> 00:39:45,245
Two years after
Madeleine disappeared,
564
00:39:45,525 --> 00:39:47,845
private detectives working for the McCanns
565
00:39:47,925 --> 00:39:52,045
brought forward an incident
that had only just recently emerged.
566
00:39:52,565 --> 00:39:55,165
A British citizen, an executive,
567
00:39:55,245 --> 00:39:59,565
had come forward to remember
that at two o'clock in the morning,
568
00:40:00,285 --> 00:40:02,365
shortly after Madeleine disappeared,
569
00:40:03,365 --> 00:40:05,165
he had been in Barcelona
570
00:40:05,245 --> 00:40:08,405
and he had been approached by a woman
571
00:40:09,365 --> 00:40:13,325
who said to him, "Have you come
to deliver my new daughter?
572
00:40:14,485 --> 00:40:18,045
Have you come to deliver my new daughter?
Have you got the child?"
573
00:40:18,445 --> 00:40:20,045
She asked him three times,
574
00:40:20,125 --> 00:40:24,125
then realised that he wasn't the man
that she thought he was,
575
00:40:24,725 --> 00:40:26,165
and walked away.
576
00:40:28,885 --> 00:40:33,405
The witness has described the woman as,
in the witness's own words,
577
00:40:33,485 --> 00:40:36,165
"a bit of a Victoria Beckham lookalike."
578
00:40:36,725 --> 00:40:39,965
She spoke English
with what the witness has described
579
00:40:40,045 --> 00:40:42,565
as possibly an Australian accent.
580
00:40:42,645 --> 00:40:45,325
This conversation was
potentially significant
581
00:40:45,685 --> 00:40:48,605
to the investigation
into Madeleine's disappearance.
582
00:40:50,085 --> 00:40:53,005
A British man
has provided an e-fit of a woman...
583
00:40:53,085 --> 00:40:54,325
Two former detectives,
584
00:40:54,365 --> 00:40:56,365
David Edgar and Arthur Cowley,
585
00:40:56,445 --> 00:40:59,805
were the last private investigators
hired to work on the case.
586
00:41:00,685 --> 00:41:02,485
They handed over their work to the Met,
587
00:41:02,565 --> 00:41:05,485
highlighting what seemed to them
significant leads.
588
00:41:12,205 --> 00:41:14,885
But perhaps
the most telling sighting of all
589
00:41:15,405 --> 00:41:17,645
is that of a woman called Carole Tranmer,
590
00:41:17,725 --> 00:41:20,325
who had been out to see her aunt
591
00:41:20,845 --> 00:41:25,925
who was living in the apartment
immediately above the McCanns.
592
00:41:26,525 --> 00:41:28,525
Carole was looking out of the window.
593
00:41:29,285 --> 00:41:30,765
I'd like to quote it directly.
594
00:41:30,845 --> 00:41:34,805
She said,
"Looking down below the McCann flat,
595
00:41:34,885 --> 00:41:38,485
I saw someone come out
of the ground floor apartment,
596
00:41:38,565 --> 00:41:41,765
closing the gate very carefully
and quietly.
597
00:41:42,045 --> 00:41:44,045
It looked very strange to me.
598
00:41:44,325 --> 00:41:46,725
He looked to one side and the other,
599
00:41:46,805 --> 00:41:49,485
shut the gate,
and walked very quickly below us."
600
00:41:50,365 --> 00:41:54,965
This is on the afternoon of
the day Madeleine is going to disappear.
601
00:41:55,565 --> 00:41:58,485
What had struck her as peculiar, she said,
602
00:41:58,725 --> 00:42:01,925
"was the way the man had closed
the little gate down there.
603
00:42:02,205 --> 00:42:05,005
It was his furtiveness
that got my attention.
604
00:42:05,085 --> 00:42:07,285
The man had moved stealthily,
605
00:42:07,845 --> 00:42:11,085
as if he didn't want anyone to know
he was coming and going."
606
00:42:12,445 --> 00:42:15,805
That has to be significant
in any investigation of this case.
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