Dead or alive? You hate to say that about a little girl, but if it is the latter, where is she? 

If it's the former that's the truth; who did it, how, and why?

We may never know the answers to any of those questions. The Sun reports that Operation Grange, an investigation funded by British taxpayers, will be closed. 

Madeleine Beth McCann (born 12 May 2003) is a British child who disappeared on the evening of 3 May 2007.

She vanished from her bed in a holiday apartment at a resort in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve region of Portugal. The Daily Telegraph described the disappearance as "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history."

Four years after the official probe began, London’s Metropolitan Police decided that the investigation would end when the money ran dry in the fall of 2022.

“The end of the road for Operation Grange is now in sight,” a source tells the Sun. “The team’s work is expected to be completed by autumn.”

Madeleine vanished eleven years ago. She was only three years old when she disappeared from her family’s holiday rental in Portugal. The case attracted an enormous amount of worldwide interest.

But no one has ever been charged with a crime connected to Madeleine’s disappearance.

Christian Brueckner, a convicted pedophile, and rapist, has been mentioned as a person of interest in the case. Still, no charges have ever been filed against him.

Brueckner is in a Portugal prison right now, serving time for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old woman. 

Now, Brueckner reportedly told a friend that he was involved in the case. But police could never find enough evidence to file charges against him.

So, Brueckner calls allegations that he had anything to do with Madeleine “an unbelievable scandal.”

The German national said, in June 2021, that he was being persecuted.

“Charging someone with a crime is one thing. It is something completely different, namely an unbelievable scandal, when a public prosecutor starts a public prejudicial campaign before proceedings are even opened,” he said.

And then, there is this: The Sun reports a former Metropolitan Police inspector thinks Madeleine may be still alive!

Scotland Yard, the Sun reported, was still conducting the investigation as a “missing person” case until unearthing firm evidence of the little girl’s death.

The source that told the Sun of the end of the investigation also said the case would be reopened if new evidence came to light.

Back in December 2021, a McCann family spokesperson told the Sun, “It may be, sadly, that we may never know what happened to Madeleine. But we hope to find out. We keep hoping after all these years.”

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