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DNA From Café Does Not Match Missing Maddy

Sighting in Belgium leads to cold trail; search continues

(Newser) - DNA taken from a bottle found at a Belgian café is not missing British 4-year-old Madeleine McCann's, say local police. Tests were ordered after a child therapist said she was "100% sure" she saw the girl sitting with an English-speaking woman and a Dutch man in his 40s whose...

Search of Maddy Suspect's Home Strikes Out

Cops comb Portuguese villa; possible evidence turns up elsewhere

(Newser) - Authorities turned up nothing this weekend while searching the home of the only suspect in 4-year-old Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. A dozen officials scoured Robert Murat’s Portuguese villa while Murat and a lawyer looked on, the Guardian reports. Named 10 days after the child went missing, the suspect is...

Belgians Test DNA After Maddy Sighting

Restaurant patron spots child resembling missing 4-year-old

(Newser) - Belgian authorities have taken DNA from a bottle after a child therapist said she was “100% sure” she’d spotted Madeline McCann, who has been missing for exactly 3 months. The Guardian reports that the child was seen with a Dutch man and English-speaking woman at a restaurant. The...

Husband Is Suspect in Disappearance
Husband Is Suspect in Disappearance
Jul 13, 2007 9:20 AM CDT

Husband Is Suspect in Disappearance

Case of missing Chicago woman embroiled fired TV anchor

(Newser) - Police named a suburban Chicago man a “person of interest” yesterday in the disappearance of his estranged wife, citing his lack of cooperation and their fears of foul play. Craig Stebic, who reported last seeing his wife on April 30, twice refused to let investigators talk to their children...

Missing Lake Mystery Solved
Missing Lake Mystery Solved
Jul 5, 2007 4:58 AM CDT

Missing Lake Mystery Solved

A crack in the ice wall's to blame, scientists say

(Newser) - A Chilean lake that mysteriously went missing between March and May was a casualty of global warming, says the lead scientist investigating its disappearance. Melting glaciers created a stream of water that cracked one of the lake's ice walls, sending the water pouring into an adjoining fjord and, eventually, out...

Police Arrest Two in Case of Missing Maddy

Held in alleged plot to claim reward money

(Newser) - Police in Spain have arrested two people in an extortion plot connected to the disappearance of British tot Madeleine McCann. The pair, one of them an Italian man wanted in France for child abuse, were arrested near Gibraltar after trying to blackmail the McCann family, the Guardian reports. The four-year-old...

Police Track Grim New Clue in Maddy Search

Anonymous letter names burial spot, links to murdered girls

(Newser) - Police are following a disturbing tip that may link the kidnapping of Madeleine McCann to two girls murdered last year. A Dutch newspaper has received an anonymous letter, accompanied by a map marked with crosses, claiming Madeleine is buried in a rocky area near the Portuguese resort where she disappeared...

Haitian Teens Ditch Soccer Team in NYC

13 players enroute to youth World Cup flee JFK during stopover; some reappear

(Newser) - The bulk of a Haitian youth team en route to the under-17 World Cup in South Korea vanished during a stopover at JFK early yesterday, the AP reports. Thirteen out of 18 went missing; by the late afternoon, five or six had returned to the airport and rejoined team officials.

Missing Teen Found Alive in Hidden Closet

Connecticut girl abducted a year ago "physically ok" after rescue

(Newser) - A 14-year-old Connecticut girl missing for almost a year was discovered alive yesterday, hidden in the house of family friends. Police arrested the owner of the house, who they say has a history of improprieties with minors, along with his common-law wife and a third female resident. The girl, a...

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