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Private Maddy Probe Yields Sketch of Suspect

Man watched family for days: witnesses

By Ambreen Ali,  Newser User

Posted May 7, 2009 11:19 AM CDT

(Newser) – Madeleine McCann's parents say they hope a new artist's sketch of a pockmarked, frail man seen lurking around their Portugal apartment before the child disappeared will yield fresh clues. Detectives the couple hired interviewed witnesses and combed police files to produce the image, People reports. Gerry and Kate McCann will appear in a UK film about the closed case as they ramp up efforts to find their daughter.

"She could be speaking a different language, she might have her hair different, she might have different interests, but you know she's still our daughter," Kate McCann says in the film.

Gerry, left, and Kate McCann talk with Oprah Winfrey, right, about the search for their missing daughter Madeleine.
Gerry, left, and Kate McCann talk with Oprah Winfrey, right, about the search for their missing daughter Madeleine.   (AP Photo/Harpo Productions, Inc., George Burns)
An artist's impression of a suspicious man seen by a witness apparently watching the McCann family's apartment Portugal the day before Madeleine McCann went missing.
An artist's impression of a suspicious man seen by a witness apparently watching the McCann family's apartment Portugal the day before Madeleine McCann went missing.   (AP Photo/ Channel 4)
This illustration shows a photo, left, and an age-progressed image, right, of Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who was 4 when she disappeared in Portugal.
This illustration shows a photo, left, and an age-progressed image, right, of Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who was 4 when she disappeared in Portugal.   (AP Photo/Harpo Productions Inc., National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)
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COMMENTS
Showing 3 of 3 comments
bacimom
May 8, 2009 12:49 PM CDT
It looks like Abe to me as well
Shannonals
May 8, 2009 9:16 AM CDT
Darn, someone already beat me to the Abe joke
littleoopie
May 7, 2009 8:43 AM CDT
Ha, that's what I thought, too. Lincoln did it.

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