
The world has been obsessed with Madeleine McCann ever since the three-year-old vanished on a family holiday to Portugal in 2007.
Madeleine went missing from her family’s holiday apartment, while her parents and their friends were having dinner at the Ocean Club restaurant in the same hotel.
Twelve years later, in the year that little Maddie would have turned fifteen, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann documentary series has dropped on Netflix.
Brimming with detail, the documentary is an emotional rollercoaster for any viewer. But there’s a small detail that’s revealed so quietly, almost at the end of the documentary, that you may have missed it.
But according to Robbyn Swan, who co-wrote Looking for Madeleine in 2014 and is featured throughout the show, when Madeleine’s mum Kate McCann discovered this particular piece of information, she could never get it out of her mind. In fact, it was “the stuff of nightmares” for Kate and Gerry McCann, Swan said in the documentary.
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann trailer. Post continues after video.
In her own 2011 book about the case, Madeleine: Our daughter’s disappearance and the continuing search for her, Kate reveals that because the group’s children would be asleep in their hotel apartments at dinner time, they requested that they dine at the same table every night – the one with the best view of the apartments.
It was only after Madeleine disappeared without a trace, Kate discovered that the person who took the booking wrote that information in the reservation book – meaning it became clear to anyone working at the restaurant, or any prying member of the public, that the children would be unsupervised in their rooms.
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Everyone knows they sold Maddie to the Podestas.
I get why you are writing this and a lot of people still care and should. I think that is my point however. Why just this case of a missing child. Tens of thousands of kids go missing every year. Some kidnapped and their parents murdered for example. It makes people very suspicious of the whole story and wonder if there is something even more insidious. If that is even possible. Maybe it is just caring parents trying to keep it in the stoplight so they can one day get her back. I hope they do.