MADELEINE McCANN UPDATE 36

**UPDATE**
SCRUBLAND SEARCH CALLED OFF
Last updated at 15:23pm on 14th June 2007 UK TIME ZONE

The scrubland search for missing Madeleine McCann has been called off, following no trace of the four-year-old, police have said.

Police officers searched the area after Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf published an anonymous letter, purporting to contain the location of the girl's body.

Gerry McCann said he was upset by De Telegraaf publishing the letter, saying it should have been passed on to Portuguese police before publication.

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INVESTIGATORS SEARCH FOR MADELEINE MCCANN

NEW EVIDENCE IN MADELEINE CASE
14-06-2007


MADELEINE MCCANN

Portuguese police are interviewing two Dutch newspaper reporters who have found a towel in the area identified as the possible burial location of four-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann in a tip-off from a Dutch source.

Wrapped in towels
According to their newspaper De Telegraaf, another tip-off has come in from a different source claiming that a man was seen carrying a child wrapped in towels near the place where Madeleine disappeared. Five Portuguese detectives accompanied the Dutch reporters to the spot where they found the towel, followed by a Portuguese TV camera crew.

Letter
It was De Telegraaf which received the anonymous letter containing clues regarding the whereabouts of the missing child. Both Dutch and Portuguese police are taking the letter very seriously, because it seems to have been written by the same person who last year sent a letter providing the exact location of the two murdered Belgian girls Stacey and Nathalie. WIKIPEDIA ON NATHALIE AND STACY

Shrubland
The letter said Madeleine could be found not far from the hotel room she was abducted from on 3 May this year near Praia de Luz, Portugal. It says that she lies buried "north of the road under branches and rocks, around six to seven metres off the road" in a barren and deserted hilly landscape.

Crosses on a map that came with the letter show the alleged location of her body. De Telegraaf handed the letter over to Dutch police who sent a full colour scan to detectives in Portugal. A full-scale search of the area with sniffer dogs is taking place today.

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UPDATE FROM REUTERS


POSSIBLE BLANKET OR TOWEL DISCOVERED

LINK TO ORIGINAL PICTURE

**NOTICE THE SHOE WEAR OF SAID FORENSIC TECHNICIAN - SAME ATTIRE GENERALLY WORN BY KLPD INVESTIGATORS ON ARUBA** LOOKS UNPROFESSIONAL AND COULD CROSS CONTAMINATE A CRIME SCENE WITH DEBRIS FROM HER HOME.