Missing Madeleine McCann: new suspect 'highly significant'

Aug. 7, 2009
The new suspect being hunted in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is a "highly significant person of interest" to the investigation the family's spokesman Clarence Mitchell said.
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