Just a few nights ago a major breakthrough in the 10 year old Madeleine McCann case aired on primetime television. An Australian television series, Sunday Night on Channel 7, aired a documentary which included fascinating testimony from the original lead investigator on the case, Goncalo Amaral. To date, the disappearance of Madeleine McCann remains "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".

Goncalo Amaral, a Portuguese detective who led the case for six months, said he believed that British secret agents 'for sure had an involvement' when Maddie went missing at the age of 3 in 2007. He claimed MI5 helped to hide her body and that even former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was involved in the cover up.

Interestingly, Goncalo Amaral was previously sued by the McCanns after his resignation from the case. Amaral wrote a book using police files with the theory that Madeleine had died in her family's apartment. The McCanns took legal action, saying there was no evidence and his work was defamatory. Amaral would actually win this case, however.

The documentary itself is available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVUVF3gGFw8

In response to this documentary, Pat Brown, a criminal profiler featured in the film, is now suing Channel 7 for their release of her statements which were also suggestive that Madeleine's body had been hidden.

In addition to information on the case available at The Pizzagate Wiki , here is a timeline of important dates and events to Madeleine's disappearance:

• May 3, 2007 - Madeleine McCann is missing, last photograph taken at 2:29pm, children go to bed at 7pm, policed called at 10:30pm
• May 4, 2007 - News breaks of the disappearance (7:45am), and (Gerry) McCanns appeals to abductor (10pm)
• May 5, 2007 - police back abduction theory
• May 7, 2007 - police statement & Kate McCanns first television appeal
• May 10, 2007 - police stop searching
• May 15, 2007 - Robert Murat is made the first formal suspect
• May 18, 2007 - no trace of Madeleine at Murat's house
• May 30, 2007 - McCanns meet the Pope
• June 2, 2007 - Lancet (online?) "McCann family has asked health professionals to look out for Madeleine McCann" published
• June 6, 2007 - Press conference in Germany
• July, 2007(?) - McCanns visit Sir Clement Freud (Sigmund Freud's grandson) weeks after Madeleine's disappearance & sniffer dogs flown in from Britain
• August 6, 2007 - McCanns apartment researched
• August 8, 2007 - British DNA analysis
• August 16, 2007 - New forensic results (blood and hair)
• September 5, 2007 - McCanns become official suspects
• September 6, 2007 - Kate McCann questioned
• September 7, 2007 - Gerry McCann questioned
• September 9, 2007 - McCanns return home to Lestershire, England
• September 11, 2007 - multiple headlines about McCanns continue in the UK
• October, 2007 - Investigation co-ordinator removed from his post (Goncalo Amaral, wrote a book about the investigation called The Truth of the Lie)
• 2008 - (questionable) Research/investigation headed by Kevin Halligen entitled Operation Omega funded by the Madeleine McCann foundation
• July 21, 2008 - Portuguese investigation closed, Robert Murat cleared as formal suspects
• August 7, 2008 - (article) Reports that Belgian paedophile ring 'stole Maddy to order' are flawed
• April 15, 2009 Clement Freud (shared an office with Cyril Smith) dies
• May, 2009 - New age-forwarded pictured created of Madeleine
• 2010 - McCanns spoke with Ray Wyre, a pedophile expert who was on the guest list at Elm Guest House, a notorious paedophile brothel, said that he knew Madeleine had been abducted by a paedophile & Kate and Gerry McCann released a plea to then-Prime Minister David Cameron when the Portuguese police shut down the enquiry
• 2011 - police in Portugal smashed a trafficking ring snatching young women and underage girls in the Algarve and Aveiro, in the north of the country
• May 12, 2011 - Kate McCann's book published - Published on Madeleine's birthday, Kate McCann puts 100% of the money raised by book sales into replenishing the fund investigating her daughter's disappearance
• May 22, 2011 - Operation Grange - Scotland Yard launches an investigative review into the disappearance, financed by a government contingency fund. The team's focus is on uncovering "a criminal act by a stranger", according to then-senior investigator DCI Andy Redwood.
• July 4, 2013 - Officers say they have identified 38 “persons of interest” including 12 Brits. Top cop Andy Redwood says he believes Madeleine is still alive.
• October 24, 2013 - Portuguese police, working in co-operation with Scotland Yard, reopened the investigation. Portugal’s Attorney General reveals there is “new elements of evidence”.
• May 22, 2014 - British police go to the Algarve to follow up new leads. Cops start digging up resort where she vanished seven years earlier.
• June, 2014 - Ground-penetrating radar used on three sites
• April 28, 2015 - McCanns win libel case - Former investigator Gonçalo Amaral is ordered to pay €500,000 to the McCanns for alleging in his book that they faked their daughter's abduction
• October 28, 2015 - UK (Operation Grange) investigation scaled down. However, Operation Grange still has funding until April 2016.
• December 20, 2015 - McCanns to fund their own investigation (No Stone Unturned appeal fund)
• April, 2016 - Operation Grange funding ended, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe says he believes there is “one final lead” in the case.
• April 29, 2016 - Madeleine McCann latest: are police any closer to knowing the truth?
• May 31, 2016 - ‘Everyone should just back off!’ : Vicky Pattison defends the McCanns in wake of Sharon Osbourne brands them ‘insane’ - The Geordie Shore star said the couple had been through enough already
• June 5, 2016 - How Clement Freud invited Kate and Gerry McCann for lunch after Madeleine disappeared
• June 14, 2016 - Clement Freud - child abuser: Ex-Liberal MP's widow says she is 'profoundly sorry' as TV documentary reveals he molested girls as young as 10 - 'National Treasure' Clement Freud has been accused of being a paedophile - One alleged victim claims the former MP began grooming her from age 10 - Another said he abused her from 14 and violently raped her once aged 18 - Sir Clement's secret past will be revealed in an ITV Exposure documentary
• June 16, 2016 - MADDIE LEAD Madeleine McCann cops ‘did nothing’ about Clement Freud connection… Despite victim warning them TWO years ago - Rape victim Vicky Hayes told Suffolk police she was concerned about Clement's link to the McCanns in 2014
• June 20, 2016 - Emails between 'paedophile' Clement Freud and Madeleine McCann's parents to be probed for child sex abuse inquiry - The ex-MP and TV and radio star had a villa in the resort Madeleine McCann vanished from and befriended her parents in the weeks after she went missing
• June 22, 2016 - 'IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME' Chilling echoes of Madeleine McCann as mum tells how an intruder tried to snatch her from her cot at Portugal resort - Nicole Shuttleworth was aged three when her parents foiled Algarve kidnapper 13 years before McCann case
• August 7, 2016 - MADDIE SEARCH END GAME Brit cops confirm end of forensic work in hunt for missing Madeleine McCann - Operation Grange has so far cost the taxpayer £12 million since its launch five years ago by David Cameron
• September 18, 2016 - MADDIE HOPE - Madeleine McCann fund given £100k of government money to keep search alive until April - Reports say the police hunt will now be able to continue until the spring
• October 4, 2016 - FRESH MADDIE SCANDAL - Ex-cop who accused McCann’s of faking Maddie’s abduction plans second book slamming Brit cops - Goncalo Amaral has almost finished his second book with his first having caused ripples through the missing person's case
• October 17, 2016 - WORLD'S HUNT FOR MADDIE We reveal the 8,685 ‘sightings’ of Madeleine McCann across 101 countries as desperate parents Kate and Gerry McCann continue search - The Met police has collated reported sightings under Operation Grange, but not all details have been released
• December 4, 2016 - Scotland Yard given extra funding to probe ‘important’ new lead over theory that Madeleine McCann was kidnapped by trafficking gang - A new lead suggests Maddie snatched after traffickers took photos of her - Extra funding has been allocated to the Met to probe the latest information - Line of inquiry is said to be the 'last throw of the dice' in search for Maddie - Youngster disappeared in Portugal in 2007, when she was three years old
• December 4, 2016 - Maddie gang probe - Cops given cash to probe ‘important’ new lead that Maddie was snatched by people trafficking gang
• December 23, 2016 - THE HUNT GOES ON Why did people think Madeleine McCann had been found, what age would she be now and how many alleged sightings have there been? - How a mystery woman in Rome sparked speculation missing Brit girl had been found

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