Investigators in Portugal and the U.K. say they have two of the strongest leads they have found in recent years.
48 year old German pedophile Martin Ney told a prison inmate in Germany something only Madeleine ’s kidnapper could know. He is serving a life sentence in a German prison for the murder of three prepubescent boys between 1992 and 2001. He is also under investigation for the suspected murder of two other children, whose bodies have never been found, and the sexual abuse of a dozen others. He resembles the photo composite released by Portuguese police based on witness accounts at the time Madeleine disappeared.
When Ney would steal children, he would wear a black ski mask and sneak into their rooms while they slept when their parents had stepped out. He often sedated the children to remove them quietly. He was working at a homeless center run by an evangelical church in the same area where Madeleine disappeared.
The second suspect they are investigating is an alleged accomplice of Ney. After watching a Netflix documentary about Madeleine's disappearance, a retired worker of Praia Da Luz resort recognized the man in the footage. She said that she had a run in with the unnamed suspect, who she says she caught stealing from the Ocean Club resort. When she confronted the man, he threatened her.
Investigators think that the second suspect may have been working with Ney as part of a sex-trafficking ring that preyed on children in the area at the time. A number of resort employees have given evidence over the years that they recognized both Ney and someone who is now believed to be the second man in and around the resort.
The second man was still working in the area when authorities brought him in for questioning.
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