Fans at a London soccer match on May 13 showed their support for the McCanns.
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Investigators admitted that they had no idea whether Madeleine was alive or dead. They had received no ransom demand, and they were operating on the possibility that she may have been abducted for the purpose of sexual abuse. At press time police had questioned many people, but only formally declared one man a suspect: a 33-year-old British citizen living near the resort with his mother. Officials released him anyway – and it wasn't clear what connection, if any, he might have with the case. All of which only increased the sense of tension and dread. "We're just praying and praying and praying," says the youngster's grandmother Susan Healy, "and hoping that we'll get Madeleine back."
• By Bill Hewitt. Reported by Margaret Roberts in Portugal, Sara Hammel in Lucerne, Ellen Tumposky in London and Courtney Rubin in Rothley
