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Portugal's history was underway. >> during the first three weeks, there were thousands all over the country to rescue madeleine mccann. >> then 11 days after the d disappearance, a potential break in the case. portuguese police, also known as the p.j., named the first formal suspect. who was robert muratsome >> robert murat is a british-portuguese resident of praia da luz who lived in 2007 there with his mother, only some 100 yards from apartment 5-a. >> after madeleine's disappearance made the morning news, robert murat walked out to his yard. >> that's when i met an english guy that had know...

May 2011. four years after she vanished from a portuguese resort, madeleine mccann was still missing. and the only ones still searching were her parents. >> no law enforcement agency or police force has been looking for madeleine for three years. we've been doing it on our own. >> but kate and gerry mccann weren't giving up, they were taking action. >> i'm absolutely confident t t that -- >> kate mccann spoke and it included a plea to reopen the case. >> thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. >> a plea the mccanns would aim next at britain's prime minister. >> in a letter printed in one of...

Balcony near the mccann's apartment just hours before madeleine disappeared. >> meanwhile, an upstairs neighbor saw another mann acting very suspiciously in the little pathway between the pool garden and apartment 5-a. >> and there was more. british police released a sketch of one of the men they say approached nearby apartments, asking residents for donations to a local orphanage. >> now, there was no such orphanage. so clearly these men were involved in some kind of a crime. possibly just burglary, but possibly something else. >> we've got a lot of work to do. we've also done a lot of work. ...

4-year-old girl is missing. >> from the beginning, the british media had a ferocious appetite for anything related to the mccann case. many salacious newspaper headlines even implied the mccanns had something to do with the death or disappearance of their daughter. so in 2008, the mccanns sued several of those papers for libel and won. many issued apologies and awarded more than $1 million into a fund established to find madeleine. gerry and kate weren't the only victims of false reports. robert murat was also awarded over $1 million in libel damages. and their friends settled a case for six f...

>> it was clear he was a very methodical officer, who had pin pointed numerous, indeed thousands of things he felt in the case needed to be checked. >> just one year into redwood's review, new signs of hope. >> we believed there was a possibility that madeleine is alive. >> alive, a possibility that would quickly push investigators in a whole new direction. >> we have identified 38 persons of interest. >> in 2013, scotland yard's review of the case turned into an official investigation. but then they learned there had been an uptick in burglaries where the mccanns were staying. so could madele...