From Victims to Suspects

Could Kate and Gerry McCann have had a hand in their own child's disappearance? In a shocking twist, the Portuguese police now consider them suspects body

Originally posted Thursday September 13, 2007 12:00 PM EDT

Madeleine McCann Photo by: Everton FC / AP

For the past four months Gerry and Kate McCann repeatedly insisted on one thing: They would not be leaving Portugal with-out their daughter Madeleine, 3, who vanished on the night of May 3 from their rented holiday apartment. But by the early morning hours of Sept. 9 that brave front lay in ruins, as the McCanns, trailed by reporters, exited to England from the town Praia da Luz without their child – and suddenly and stunningly...