LONDON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- London's Metropolitan Police are investigating abusive Internet posts and death threats directed at the family of Madeleine McCann.
The missing British girl's parents were initially considered suspects when the 3-year-old disappeared while on vacation with her family at a Portuguese resort in 2007, but were cleared by Portuguese police in 2008. When McCann's parents became the target of inflammatory press coverage in the U.K. suggesting they were responsible for Madeleine's death, Kate and Gerry McCann successfully sued four newspapers.