True Crime Cases in Portugal
1 documented case spanning 2007–2007 — including 1 still unsolved. Each case is researched from public sources, with locations, perpetrators, victims and video coverage.
Portugal's place in the true-crime record is defined here by a single case, but one that traveled further than almost any other. In 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve while her parents dined nearby.
The disappearance became one of the most heavily reported missing-child investigations in the world, drawing years of searches, theories, and renewed inquiries across more than one country. I research each case I map by hand, and this one remains open.
The case mapped here points to a quiet coastal town rather than to any pattern. You can open it on the map to read the timeline and the details I have documented.
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