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Madeleine was a very strange case

because they usually never go after
middle-class or high-class people.

They usually go for lower-class kids,
third world countries.

That's the main supplier
of all these gangs.

So my idea, it's that the value
that Madeleine had was really high

because if they took her, it's because
they were gonna get a lot of money.

Brian Kennedy or the McCanns
contracted Método 3.

Método 3 were passionate,

fearless, focused,

and they attacked it.

Francisco Marco was
the director of the agency.

He was my boss.

This case for Método 3 was
the biggest case they have done, ever.

We have the description of the woman
and the man involved.

Maddie was alive
two days after the kidnapping.

Madeleine was in a car

and she was given to another person
inside Portugal.

I'm not saying we are maybe, no, no, no.

We are very, very close
to find the kidnapper.

My phone started going off.

There was unknown callers and
my siblings were trying to reach me,

my kids were trying to reach me,
and I knew something had happened.

I care about reality,
not about fiction.

The lies and the untruths
will be acted upon very rapidly.

I started working

and getting into
different chats and different pages.

And I started getting myself
inside that world.

These websites
that are on the deep web,

they are not indexed
so nobody can find them.

Basically, no one can access
if you are not a friend

that trusts you and that give you
access to those websites.

I tried to obtain anything
related with Madeleine

and that's my final goal
and my final question was that,

always, "Do you know anything
about Madeleine? Have you seen any videos?

Do you... have heard of any videos?"

Finally, I reach a person

that had deep contacts inside that world.

He sent me several videos, uh, files.

Little by little, I was asking for more,
for more, for more.

What I was doing, the police usually,
uh, works the same way.

All the information that I was collecting,
I was gonna share with the police.

I went into the darkest places
of the human being.

I've seen things that I have to
live with that all my life,

that's things that
you cannot forget or erase.

In the early 2000s,

the US government created a tool
to enable people

to use the internet anonymously.

It was to protect
intelligence communications,

to protect political dissidents,
and journalists.

What apparently nobody contemplated

was that these same tools would be used
by paedophile organisations,

by human traffickers, by drug traffickers,

by weapons traffickers,

by terrorist organisations.

There's a tsunami
of indecent images online.

Current estimates are in the UK alone,

that 100,000 IP addresses,

computer IP addresses,

can be downloading indecent images
of children at any given moment in time.

In tragic cases
like Madeleine McCann's,

you should never rule out
a commercial motive.

We have a very, very
safe country,

but we cannot forget
that we are not alone in the world.

We have the information
that our country is used

by traffickers to pass children
to other countries.

They enter the country
through Algarve

and then they go to Spain, to France,

to Germany to be exploited.

They have a very strong structure

that allows them to move human beings
from one country to another

in a matter of hours.

It's very easy.

It's frightening because it is very easy.

Portugal's population
knew that there had been cases

of child abuse and abductions

that were sent to
international paedophilia networks.

There was a case

called Casa Pia. The João Pedro case.

It was a problem

that worried society a lot.

It's the bogeyman,
it's the fear factor.

You've got to remember,
there are paedophiles in every country

and every country has its story,

the Beast of Belgium, you know,
and keeping children trapped

for many years in cells
that you build within your home.

The lead of Belgian paedophile network
is also very possible.

There are people who kidnap kids
for the account of other people.

This has happened over the years.

On internet, on this topic,

there are catalogues with children,

with ages, blond, this, that.

They are on sale.

What are the police doing?

Why this is even possible?

Why, when there is money missing

from somebody who has
a tax evasion status,

everybody's on alert,

we find the money, we find the person,
we find everything.

But when there are kids,

there is no one.

Human trafficking on the planet today
is a $150-billion-a-year enterprise.

While only two per cent

of so-called dark websites
are paedophile sites,

they account for more than
80 percent of dark web traffic.

Infiltration is
the primary investigative technique,

but it is time-consuming, it's expensive,

and one of the criteria for participation
in these dark web groups

is you have to provide images of children
that nobody's ever seen before.

I had to comment with them,
how good they were.

It's like any kind of relationship,
little by little, gaining the trust.

It marks you or it changes your way
of thinking about things, of course.

Francisco Marco,

a Spanish investigator
hired by a supporter of the McCanns,

is making even more startling claims.

We are very, very close
to finding the kidnapper.

When pressed, Marco claimed he could
say no more when working on the case.

It's the kind of news the McCanns
have heard before, but they're hopeful.

The day that Francisco Marco,

director of Método 3, made his claim,

the statement was,
"We know who took Madeleine,

We know where she is,

and we know how he did it."

Francisco Marco didn't know anything

about what was happening
with the Madeleine McCann case.

At the end,
it was only me working on this,

having a direct relation
with Brian Kennedy.

It was unbelievable.
We didn't have a single clue.

We didn't know who took her,

where she was, nothing.

I was ashamed, of course.

Uh, I was shocked and ashamed.

It was a difficult situation

and I knew Brian was
really, really, really mad.

Imagine you are the McCanns
and you are home and you see that.

The director of your private investigation
says something like that.

"Where's Madeleine? Who took her?"

"I don't know."

That was his answer.
That's the only answer he had.

We had dinner and I went outside
with Francisco Marco to have a cigarette,

and he told me, "The benefit
that I'm gonna get from this,

it's publicity."

For him, this was business.

This was, uh, something good
for his company.

He didn't care about Madeleine McCann.

Brian Kennedy got mad.
The McCanns also asked for an explanation.

I know Método 3
said some silly things

that they shouldn't have said.

I lost the plot a bit towards the end
and you can understand why.

After months of looking,
going down dead ends,

you can understand why
people lose the plot.

I think the same happened to Método 3.

My ex-boss called me
and he told me

that Brian Kennedy wanted to stop working
with Método 3

and that it was... it was over.

The McCanns
were becoming frustrated

so they contracted with
an American company

called Oakley International,

who had a reputation as being among
the big boys in investigations.

They were promised
all sorts of things,

that the people working for Oakley
were former FBI, CIA, and MI6,

that they had the latest
investigative tools, techniques,

the technology available to them,
that they could do all sorts of things

that Método 3, their previous
investigators, could not do.

There comes a point where you decide to,
"Let's up the game a bit.

Let's try and bring in someone...
someone else,

someone who's gonna approach this
from a different angle."

So we took them on for
a very expensive contract,

part-paid them,

and they went about their business.

I found out about the case
from a mutual friend

and he says,
"Expect a call from Kevin."

Kevin Halligen was the president
and head of Oakley.

In fact, he personified Oakley.

Everyone, even his partners,
recognised Kevin was Oakley.

It's common that
you code name your project,

you code name, uh, certain suspects.

One of the code names used
was Project Omega.

Kevin had access to a dream team that
would impress the daylights out of you.

Top in their field.

They had skills.

They certainly
did have experience.

Oakley were more secretive, you know,

a lot more kind of secret agent
kind of stuff, you know?

We've all heard of polygraphs
or lie detectors.

How about a truth detector

that tells investigators
a lot more than you say?

Uh, the last vacation you took.

Essentially,
the technology is computer-based

and it listens to
the frequencies of the voice.

And you asked me about my shoes

and I said, "They were a great deal,"

and it showed up as inaccurate.

I did several analyses for him,

conducting interviews and recording them,

and I analysed suspects.

When you said you wear them a lot, you're
using a commonly understood language

that people know what you mean,

but you know what the true meaning
of the language is

and to your mind,
that was an inaccurate statement.

And we can see down
to five levels of your subconscious.

I can see if they're thinking
from their memory or their imagination.

As well as whether
your statement is deceptive.

Rich Parton, thanks very much,
and we would just like to say

Headline News, of course, does not endorse
any of the technology we showcase,

we just bring you some of
the latest things that are out there.

I just remember feeling
a little bit sceptical about them

and, you know, they were checked out.

Ultimately, it wasn't my decision
on who we brought in.

Things seemed to be going
pretty well.

Oakley had set up a hotline
to accept tips.

They had people on the ground
in Praia da Luz,

good people who were working hard
and trying to develop contacts.

Oakley sat down with an Irishman
named Martin Smith and his family,

who had been witnesses in Praia da Luz
on the night of Madeleine's disappearance

who, at around 10 p.m. that evening,

had seen a man carrying a little girl
wearing pyjamas in the street

not far from the Ocean Club.

This is an interview that was conducted
with the Smiths in August.

The reason that their time
is important is that it hasn't changed.

Maybe it's because they had a few of them
that noticed this event all together.

What they did was that
they sent their police sketch artist

to work with the family
and develop two sketches,

um, e-fits or identikit sketches

of the man they saw,

and these are now in circulation still

as the sighting of a man
of potential interest.

Oakley also had
Jane Tanner's description

and the Cooperman sketch.

Oakley began a manhunt in the area

and came up with some other suspects

who had similar appearance to the drawings
that came from each person's description.

They interviewed them,
some they released,

but one man they tracked back to a van.

I do remember
Kevin was mentioning

that, uh, they were tracking a van

One of the suspects
that was seen in PDL that night,

they had tracked him
to where he's living in a van

and they had, um, all kinds
of surveillance on this individual.

Looking exhausted but resolute,

Kate and Gerry McCann returned with
their three-year-old twins

to the Liverpool church where they married

to mark the one-year anniversary of
the day a light went out for their family.

The mother of Madeleine McCann

has sent a message of thanks
to the people of Praia da Luz in Portugal

on the anniversary of
her daughter's disappearance.

Where there is good in the world,
let this good unite.

Where there is strength, let us be giants
in the face of darkness.

Where there is hope, let our hearts long
for Madeleine's return.

Cleared as suspects,
the investigation shelved,

the parents of Madeleine McCann say
they're relieved to be cleared

of any involvement
in their daughter's disappearance.

The decision has been
reached that Kate and Gerry McCann

and Robert Murat's arguido status
will be lifted...

We welcome the news today,
although it is no cause for celebration.

It's hard to describe
how utterly despairing it was

to be named arguido and subsequently
portrayed in the media

as suspects in
our own daughter's abduction.

When the prosecutor
decided not to charge them,

both Polícia Judiciária
and the prosecutors said

that there was nothing
against the father and mother.

We look forward to
scrutinising the police files

to see what has actually been done

and, more importantly,
what can still be done

as we leave no stone unturned
in the search for our little girl.

For me, it was of course
a victory and a joy.

My mission is accomplished here.

Madeleine McCann's parents are expected

to be given access to
the official police files

on their daughter's disappearance
by the end of this week.

Kate and Gerry McCann
and a third Briton, Robert Murat,

are no longer formal suspects
in the investigation

and Portuguese officials say
they are now shelving the case.

The prosecutors in the case
said that the McCanns had suffered enough.

The disappearance of the child
was not a mystery novel.

It wasn't a Sherlock Holmes.

At that point, they said they were going
to stop further investigation

until such a time that more productive
lines of inquiry might be developed.

With that, they shelved the case,
and the arguido status

that had hung over Gerry and Kate McCann
and Robert Murat was lifted.

Just over there is where I, in 2007,

was brought for the first time to the PJ
in that building over there.

I spent 19 hours.

It was a long, painful day.

I was in a world of my own, I suppose.
It was just absolutely...

Um, I didn't know what was going on.

I had absolutely no idea what was
going on in my life at that time.

After being dropped off,
I had to climb over the wall here

and then get back into the house

because the front of the property
was covered in journalists.

It was horrible being completely
constrained inside this house.

We had people trying to climb over
the fences and walls

and helicopters over the top.

When the case was closed
and the arguido status was lifted,

I felt that it would make
a big difference,

um, and it didn't.

Having the words of something being lifted
is one thing.

Actually having something firm and final
is something else.

And that wasn't firm and final.

That was just closing a case
because they hadn't...

They couldn't find anything else,

not closing the case because
they had discovered the truth.

Mr Amaral is publishing a book
to make money

and all of this publicity
surrounding it...

Two weeks,
three editions sold out.

A fourth now available.

Many interested reading in Portugal
and the United Kingdom alike...

The book I wrote
was a defence of a number of attacks.

I was called so many things...
Incompetent, drunkard, fat,

and so on.

And during that time, I appealed to the
National Director of Policia Judiciária

to defend my team and me.

And this didn't happen

so that's when I made the decision
to publish the book.

Whether it's truth or lies,

this is now a matter of public knowledge.

Usually when they ask me about the books
of Gonçalo Amaral,

my answer is always the same.

"I care about reality, not about fiction."

To write a book for
your own personal gain,

you know, for your own
personal fame and celebrity,

which maligns and directly accuses
individuals of being guilty of a crime,

is simply not on.

A single theory about it
being the parents

is unprofessional and in my opinion,
and it's only my opinion, unforgivable.

The evidence that the child

very likely died in that apartment,

as a result of an accident,
a domestic accident,

and that the body doesn't turn up,
the cadaver is concealed.

What do you believe to be the truth?

I think the little girl was killed.

A round of applause for Mr Amaral.

- What for?
- Because he figured it all out.

Almost one year and two months

and we still can't reach any conclusion.

My name is Gonçalo Amaral.

I've been an investigator with
the Polícia Judiciária for 27 years.

I coordinated the investigation into
the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

on the 3rd of May 2007.

I watched Gonçalo Amaral's
Truth of the Lie the night it was aired

in Portugal with some Portuguese friends.

There was a big anticipation

that Truth of the Lie
was coming out on television.

Lots of people were watching it.

According to the testimony
of the Ocean Club's manager...

when the GNR patrol
arrived on location,

the child's father threw himself
at the officer's feet,

like a praying Arab,

completely out of control
over his daughter's disappearance.

The same scene was repeated,
according to the officers,

in the couple's bedroom.

Oh, God!

No, I don't have
that scene in the book

of having knelt and prayed.

It's an exaggeration.

Apart from that, it's pretty well produced

and overall factual.

What I know tells me that Madeleine McCann
died in apartment 5A

on the 3rd of May 2007.

The investigation was brutally interrupted

and a political and hurried archiving
took place.

If you connect them
with the fact that,"Oh, uh,

our police has suffered pressure

from the British police
just to help the McCanns," et cetera,

you are creating...

Let me tell you a story.

One day, I was in my office
and I receive a call,

a telephone call from a journalist,

and he asked me to confirm.

"Is it true that there was a meeting
between you and the British Ambassador

to avoid that Gonçalo Amaral
could run for mayor

in a small village in Algarve?"

Gerry McCann came here

to meet with the leader
of the Social Democrats,

putting pressure on them to deny
allowing me to become a candidate.

And in the end, I was not a candidate
because the party denied me.

"Yes, it's true.

And in that same meeting
were also the Batman

uh, and the Superman and the Flintstones.

They are all there."

The mystery persists.

The former inspector believes
that someday, the truth will be known.

When the film finished,
I felt totally deflated.

I was like,
"Half the country's watched tonight."

I thought, "That's it. We've lost
the general population's support." Yeah.

A brand new
billboard poster of Madeleine

with "help me" in Portuguese
has been splattered with paint.

The stop sign just down
from our home,

and underneath, they spray painted
"the McCanns,"

like "stop the McCanns."

I live here so I just wish it'd go away,
to be honest,

'cause it's...

it's no good for us.

If they don't... can't find,
why they have to... to keep searching?

People have sympathy
for only so long

and then it stops.

People just get tired.

They get tired of grief
and they get tired of not knowing.

You have a professional like Amaral

who actually feeds,
feeds what's going on.

What you basically do is
you close down the search for Madeleine.

You close down the eyes and ears
of the public or the minds of the public

because you say,
"Look, I was in a position to know.

This is who did it,"
so we all stop looking

and then we simply begin to focus
on this miscarriage of justice

because the right people
aren't being held to account.

Mr Amaral needs to be well aware

that the libel lawyers
who are representing Kate and Gerry

are examining every word
that he is saying in his book

and they will not hesitate
from taking action,

legal action against Mr Amaral.

Any lies, any untruths,

any defamation will be acted upon...

It was so important
for Kate and Gerry

to have the judicial system
in Portugal say,

"There's no proof to this."

The trial opposing
the McCann couple

and Gonçalo Amaral began this morning.

Maddie's parents call for the destruction

of all copies of the book
The Truth of the Lie,

authored by the former inspector
who investigated the case.

They also demand
that Gonçalo Amaral be prevented

from carrying on with his accusations.

Mr Amaral's central thesis has
no evidence whatsoever to support it.

To claim, as he did,
that Madeleine is dead

and that we, her parents, were somehow
involved in her disappearance

has caused our family incredible distress

and continues to do so.

They could take
the character damning that it was,

they could stand up to that,

but if people in Portugal
actually believe Gonçalo Amaral's book,

then they wouldn't be looking
for Madeleine.

Well, we're just here to continue
the search for Madeleine

and to protect our own family

and their human rights
and I think it's fairly clear, you know.

No one should be allowed to say
that our daughter cannot be found

without very good evidence
to the contrary,

and that's what the court case is about.

So they had to get the book off the shelf.
They had to fight.

The McCanns are the ones
who should have had a different attitude.

There is no evidence
that Madeleine is dead.

That is what you heard yesterday.
You heard that, didn't you?

This is just raking up
old ground, isn't it, Gerry?

No. Today, we are here...

- But the police...
- No, hang on.

They're not raking it up.
This is a legal...

- are you satisfied...
- All those... Allow me to just finish.

All those people who laboured
away from their homes and families...

They never heard a word of thanks.

This is a legal process
which we are going through

to protect our daughter and our family.

There's nothing new
being said by the police, is it?

Of course there's not.

What do you expect from this hearing?

For justice to be done.
Now it's up to the court to decide.

The police investigation
had been closed down.

So Brian Kennedy was principally funding
the McCanns' investigation at that point.

Over time,

things started to filter back
to the McCanns that seemed odd.

The trust got tired of
the continuous invoices they were sending

and they just were not making the progress
they'd promised to make.

Kevin did what he usually does.

He throws out juicy tidbits
and things that would inspire hope.

Kevin told Brian Kennedy that
because of his work with US intelligence

that he had access
to satellite photos of Portugal

on the night Madeleine went missing,

and that he could access those spy photos

and be able to see if there's any suspects
in the area, maybe see what happened.

When they were finally produced,

they were only Google Earth images
of the town,

um, so it was all a bit
of a terrible letdown.

We had nothing

and we're still looking for the child,

so you can understand why we'd say
if somebody comes in and says,

"Look, we can do this and we can do that

and we can reveal these GPS satellite
pictures of the particular evening

'cause we have a link with the FBI

that will give us all
of this information,"

you listen because where else
is there to go?

Brian Kennedy started
getting complaints

that people weren't being paid,

and he was deeply concerned by the things
he was hearing back.

Kevin told me and other people

that he sent a team in,
a man-and-woman team,

with a child
similar to the age of Madeleine

and put the kid up as bait.

He said at one time, he had
a drunken priest, uh, undercover.

When I think of credible
intelligence-gathering tools,

my mind immediately jumps to,
"Where's my drunken priest?"

What he said just didn't make sense.

Yeah, the van guy didn't do it.
He's been cleared.

And, uh, neither did anyone else

that looked like that
that they found in the area.

There's very little evidence
that he did what he said he did.

Kevin's only effort was to create a report

that indicated they did something.

Halligen had started
to become threatening,

threatening to do this about the family
and say this about the family

and expose stuff,
just an absolute nonsense.

Then it emerged that
the tips coming into the hotline

weren't actually being answered
or acted upon.

I had the opportunity
to sit with Kevin several times

and we talked about his relationships.

We talked about his alleged background.

None of these elements were consistent.

I have a vast number of people

who are vouching for this man,

but nothing is matching up.

And at that moment,

everything, everything came into focus.

He was a fraud.

People think we're talking about
an investigation of a missing child.

We're not. You're talking about a conman.

You're not talking about an investigation.

In fact, he hopped on a flight to Rome.

My reaction to him skipping out
without paying?

Not happy.

No, he wasn't gonna run.

I used every known
associate he had,

every resource available to track him.

I hired special staff in, uh, the UK

just to dig into his past life.

Halligen was revealed
to be a grotesque fraud.

He was really an Irishman

who had been largely masquerading,
um, as an investigator.

He had set up a bogus marriage
for himself,

even though he was already married.

He had made friends
with the Washington elite

and was living the high life

off the back of what seemed to be
the money for the search for Madeleine.

His intelligence credentials
were fraudulent,

his birth date is fraudulent.

In some respect, it was easy to find him
when he changed hotels

because Kevin loved accumulating,
uh, hotel reward points

so the search became easier and easier.

He sent me what he considered
to be a threat.

He sent me the lyrics
of "Gangsta Paradise,"

and it was funny because this is
who he sees himself as being.

Oakley had ended in tears.

Clearly...

Clearly an unscrupulous character

he had proven to be over the months.

Kevin Halligen was convicted
of fraud in another case

and spent time in prison
in the United States.

He eventually died
of a brain haemorrhage in 2018.

The ultimate victims have to be
Madeleine and her family.

This is almost a year's worth of hope.

I just can't begin to understand the pain

that the McCanns must be feeling.

And it's surprising
how unlucky they were

on choosing the people
for their investigations.

There were, in this case,

just an extraordinary number

of such... what to us seemed...
Bizarre instances

of people trying to involve themselves
in this case.

For 18 months,

no police agency anywhere
had been actively searching for Madeleine.

To the McCanns,

that was horrendous
and it was totally unacceptable.

There was the surprise announcement
in London this morning

of a possible break in the long-running
search for little Madeleine McCann.

The witness became aware
of a well-dressed woman

who he describes as appearing agitated.

Two years after
Madeleine disappeared,

private detectives working for the McCanns

brought forward an incident
that had only just recently emerged.

A British citizen, an executive,

had come forward to remember
that at two o'clock in the morning,

shortly after Madeleine disappeared,

he had been in Barcelona

and he had been approached by a woman

who said to him, "Have you come
to deliver my new daughter?

Have you come to deliver my new daughter?
Have you got the child?"

She asked him three times,

then realised that he wasn't the man
that she thought he was,

and walked away.

The witness has described the woman as,
in the witness's own words,

"a bit of a Victoria Beckham lookalike."

She spoke English
with what the witness has described

as possibly an Australian accent.

This conversation was
potentially significant

to the investigation
into Madeleine's disappearance.

A British man
has provided an e-fit of a woman...

Two former detectives,

David Edgar and Arthur Cowley,

were the last private investigators
hired to work on the case.

They handed over their work to the Met,

highlighting what seemed to them
significant leads.

But perhaps
the most telling sighting of all

is that of a woman called Carole Tranmer,

who had been out to see her aunt

who was living in the apartment
immediately above the McCanns.

Carole was looking out of the window.

I'd like to quote it directly.

She said,
"Looking down below the McCann flat,

I saw someone come out
of the ground floor apartment,

closing the gate very carefully
and quietly.

It looked very strange to me.

He looked to one side and the other,

shut the gate,
and walked very quickly below us."

This is on the afternoon of
the day Madeleine is going to disappear.

What had struck her as peculiar, she said,

"was the way the man had closed
the little gate down there.

It was his furtiveness
that got my attention.

The man had moved stealthily,

as if he didn't want anyone to know
he was coming and going."

That has to be significant
in any investigation of this case.