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Timeline of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

Timeline

3 May - Madeleine McCann disappears from her bedroom between 21.30 and 22.00 while her parents are having dinner at Mark Warner Ocean Club in Praia da Luz. She was sleeping there with her two siblings.

4 May - Members of the family and the British press criticize the local police because of a "slow initial response", because of not having notified in time the port and frontiers authorities of the disappearance and not having secured the crime scene.

5 May - The police indicated that they think Maddeleine is still alive and captive in a radius of 2 miles around the crime scene.

8 May - The police says that they investigated 350 suspicious motions but still does not know where she could be.

The newspaper 'Correio de Manha' says she could have been kidnapped by a paedophile network. Cristiano Ronaldo, player of Manchester United, sums up to the appeal asking for her release.

10 May - The research around the hotel in the Algarve is reduced. The attention concentrated in a blonde woman who acted suspiciously before the disappearance.

11 May - Businessman Stephen Winyard offers a million dollars in reward. David Beckham appears in television asking for help.

12 May - Madeleine's fourth birthday.

13 May - Richard Branson, president of Virgin, writer J.K. Rowling and footballer Wayne Rooney offer a reward that sums up to 2,5 million pounds.

14 May - The McCanns announce that they will not come back home until they find her, but think she is alive. The police registers a estate next to the hotel where Maddeleine disappeared and take a British man, Robert Murat, to police for interrogation. He is free afterwards.

15 May - The police says that they identified a suspect but they do not have enough evidence to arrest him.

16 May - The British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott says that the government is making everything possible to assist the parents. The Portuguese police interrogated a computer scientist, who the local press identifies as a Russian citizen. They take computers to proceed with the investigation.

17 May - www.findmadeleine.com website is launched.

25 May - Gerry y Kate McCann speak of their fault on the dissappearence of Madeleine.

28 May - Gerry y Kate McCann use a video they recorded at the place when coming to Portugal to find their daughter.

30 May - Gerry y Kate McCann meet Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican.

1 June - Gerry y Kate McCann travel to Spain to ask the Spanish police for help.

13 June - The police begins to search at a deserted area in the forest, 20 km away from Praia da Luz, following the advice of a Dutch newspaper who got a letter with the possible place where the dead body of Madeleine could be. It resembles information that arrived to the same newspaper that helped the police find two other missing girls in Belgium. Nothing is found.

20 June - During a visit to London, Gerry McCann's wallet is stolen with photos of Madeleine.

21 June - The police investigates in Malta after two sightings.

29 June - A couple in Cadid, Spain, is arrested after tring to claim the reward.

6 July - The Dutch police arrests a man who tried to extort McCann's, claiming he knew of the whereabouts of Madeleine.

10 July - Murat is interrogated for 8 hours and then released.

22 July - Gerry McCann travels to USA to see experts of disappeared children. The press asks him why they left their kids alone that night.

3 August - Belgian authorities carry out DNA tests of a bottle and straw where Madeleine was claimed to be seen, in Tongren.

5 August - The police finishes an investigation lasting two days of Murat's house.

7 August - They find blood in the flat where Madeleine disappeared according to the newspaper 'Diario de Noticias'.

8 August - The DNA tests of the bottle and straw indicate it was not Madeleine who drank from them.

11 August - 100 days of the disappearance of Madeleine.