The disappearance of Madeleine McCann

A couple's grief over their daughter's disappearance is compounded by a frenzied media and a detective's mistaken belief that they played a part.Madeleine Beth McCann (born 12 May 2003) is a British missing person who disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on the evening of 3 May 2007, at the age of 3. The Daily Telegraph described the disappearance as "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". Madeleine's whereabouts remain unknown,[although German prosecutors believe she is dead.