On the night of May 3, 2007, Madeleine McCann disappeared from her family’s vacation apartment at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal. Authorities in Germany believe that Madeleine was murdered, while officials in Portugal and the United Kingdom treat her as a missing person. A number of theories have been proposed to explain what happened. Some have speculated that Madeleine’s parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, gave their daughter a sedative to sleep, that she accidentally died, and that the parents then staged a cover-up. However, no evidence was found to indicate that the parents were involved. Others allege that a botched robbery resulted in Madeleine’s murder, while some believe she was abducted by human traffickers. Another theory is that Madeleine left the apartment looking for her parents and was killed in an accident, possibly struck by a car. One of the more widely cited scenarios is that Madeleine was taken by a sexual predator.
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