New Bombshell Lead in Maddie McCann Disappearance?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A British man has come forward claiming his German wife ran over Madeleine McCann. He reports his wife was drunk, hitting the girl then the couple hid, then disposed of the body. According to an new report, sister of the man submitted a tip to police in the UK in 2018 which was reportedly not investigated. This tip came at a time when German national Christian Brueckner had been named a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann,

Brueckner, 44, was convicted in Germany of raping an elderly American woman in 2005. He served 7 years. Three-year-old Maddie went missing from a vacation rental while on a family holiday in Portugal.

A Portuguese prosecutor in Braunschweig, Germany, has been pursuing a case against Brueckner since June 2020.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

Darryl Cohen - Former Assistant District Attorney, Fulton County, Georgia, Defense Attorney, Cohen, Cooper, Estep, & Allen, LLC, www.ccealaw.com
Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA www.angelaarnoldmd.com, Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women, Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University, Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital
Greg Smith - Special Deputy Sheriff, Johnson County Sheriff's Office (Kansas), Executive Director of the Kelsey Smith Foundation, www.kelseysarmy.com
Charlie Lankston - FeMail Editor, DailyMail.com, Twitter/Instagram:@charlielanks

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.8	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:11.0	A little girl goes missing from a wonderful vacation with her parents practically right under their noses in the last hours, a very disturbing and new
0:25.4	Maddie McCann claim.
0:28.5	What happened to the little girl?
0:31.6	I'm Nancy Grace.
0:32.4	This is Crime Stories.
0:33.6	Thank you for being with us.
0:35.7	That's right.
0:36.8	In the last days, a very disturbing new Maddie McCann
0:41.3	claim that a drunken wife of a British man ran over the little girl before the couple dumped her body at sea. This has just emerged. Prosecutors have been accused by the
0:59.2	media of failing to properly investigate a claim. Madeline Maddie McCann was run over by a drunk
1:07.1	driver. Now, Portuguese officers allegedly get a tip about a British man who was covering
1:14.4	up a secret about his German wife, who reportedly ran over Maddie while the wife is drunk,
1:22.4	and then to cover it up, they hid the little girl's body. Okay, that's another claim in the search for Maddie McCann, but it was decided at that time
1:32.0	to continue solely investigating suspect Christian Bruchner.
1:37.8	Joining me an all-star panel to make sense of what we know right now.
1:41.3	High profile lawyer joining me out of the Atlanta jurisdiction, former prosecutor of felony crimes just like this one.
1:47.6	Now defense attorney Daryl Cohen, Dr. Angela Arnold, renowned psychiatrist, joining us also from the Atlanta jurisdiction.
1:54.9	And you can find her at her website, Dr. Angela Arnoldm.D.com, special deputy sheriff, Johnson County Sheriff's Office,
2:05.1	executive director of the Kelsey Smith Foundation, Greg Smith, joining us but first to Charlie Langston,
2:11.9	editor Dailymail.com. Charlie, thank you for being with us. Charlie, what a long time we've waited for
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