Parents’ Worst Nightmare: The Story of Madeleine McCann

An Evening of Regret

On the morning of May 3, 2007, little Madeleine made a strange comment at breakfast. She asked her parents why they didn’t come when she and Sean cried the previous night. Her mother brushed aside the comment, thinking nothing of it at the time although she did note that there was a strange brown stain on Madeleine’s pajama shirt. That night the “tapas seven”, the group of adults on the trip with the McCann’s, went out for dinner at the nearby tapas restaurant at the resort. The McCann’s left their children asleep in the apartment, tucked away. The doors were only able to be locked from the inside so the McCann family left them unlocked.