This case, oh, honestly, what do I even say? How many people are in the world nowadays? How many people are existing in today's day and age?

8.2 billion people, 8.2 billion people, and you're telling me that not one single person on this entire world knows what happened to Madeline McCann.

Right, yeah, okay. No, wrong. Next question. Madeline McCann, three-year-old little

girl from the UK, she goes on vacation with her family to Portugal in 2007, disappears from her

hotel room, from her apartment room. What do you mean? If you've never heard of this case, first of all,

shocked. Second of all, you may be lying because there's no way that you have not heard of it. This is one of the biggest missing people cases up there with John Bonae Ramsey. And again, it's one of those where it's still, to this day, one of the biggest mysteries that people continue to talk about year after year. And we have so much information to go through. So let's just get

into it. I hope you guys are having the best week. So excited to get to chat to you today. And I'm so

excited to hear your thoughts about this case because I know that you have them. Welcome to this

episode of I Wish You Were Here. Grab a snack, grab a drink. We'll be here for a while.

Before the disappearance that made them a household name, the McCann family was by all accounts an ordinary happy British family.

The parents were known to be well-educated individuals. They were devoted to their three young

children and they were creating a very happy, close-knit family.

It was the year 1993 when Kate McCann and Jerry McCann met while they were both working as junior doctors in Glasgow, Scotland.

Kate specialized in general practice and she had a reputation for being quiet but also very determined.

She was a hard worker. She also had this

natural caring aura about her. She was known as the kind of person that in today's age, we would

call an empath. She just had this very caring, very loving, very compassionate personality for the

people around her, especially toward children. Jerry, on the other hand,

he was trained as a cardiologist, and he was known for his intelligence and his confidence. He was

the kind of guy that walked around with a certain certainty about him. Does that sound like a weird

sentence? Certain certainty. He was very confident, but not in a

cocky way. He was just very sure of himself. The couple got married in 1998. They settled into a

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