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Today is Monday, February 3rd, 2020.

On this day in 2008, an interview with Alipio Ribeiro,

then head of Portuguese police, was published. He admitted that law enforcement had been too

hasty to name Jerry and Kate McCann as suspects in their daughter Madeline's

disappearance. Not that that did anything to stem the tide of hate

directed at them.

Welcome to Today, in True Crime, a Parcast original. Today we're covering the investigation into the disappearance of 3-year-old Madeline McCann.

Her parents, Jerry and Kate McCann, faced intense scrutiny after her disappearance and for a period

of time were considered suspects. Eventually they were cleared by

Alipio Ribeiro, the chief of police. In order to understand the meaning behind

Ribeiro's comments on February 3rd 2008, we have to go back to the day Madeline

McCann disappeared.

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