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We have treated the McCanns as if they were Big Brother contestants

Madeleine’s disappearance sparked a grotesque media circus

issue 15 September 2007

Madeleine’s disappearance sparked a grotesque media circus

Did Kate McCann inadvertently kill her daughter Madeleine and then confect a four-month long parade of grief and concern for the benefit of the media, in order to avoid being done for the crime? This seems to be what the Portuguese police have come to either believe or hazard.

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