Hopes of closure fade as police wrap up Madeleine McCann search16 hours ago Share Save Daniel Sandford UK correspondent Reporting from Algarve, Portugal Share SavePA MediaFrom the moment I arrived in Praia da Luz on Monday the word on everyone's lips was "closure". From the English woman who lived at the time above the apartment from which Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, to the former neighbour of the main suspect in the case. For 13 years there was no single theory as to what happened to Madeleine McCann. The Metropolitan Police investigation that began in 2011 built to a peak in 2014, with substantial searches near Praia da Luz - but they did not appear to have any identifiable suspects. Since 2019, Brückner has been in prison in Germany for raping a 72-year-old American woman in Praia da Luz in 2005.