Overview

• Teams used ground-penetrating radar, diggers and chainsaws across a 120-acre site but recovered only animal bones and fragments of adult clothing.
• Christian Brueckner sent letters from prison mocking investigators and insisting decisive questions about sightings, DNA and a body “can never be answered.”
• Brueckner is due to be released from a German prison in September 2025 if no new charges are brought, heightening urgency for fresh evidence.
• Former flatmate Thomas Hertel urged police to expand searches of properties linked to Brueckner, claiming crucial evidence remains hidden.
• Kate and Gerry McCann maintain their determination to uncover the truth nearly 18 years after Madeleine’s disappearance, supported by locals seeking closure.