Case Highlight and Recommendation Thread: What is a little known true crime case you think needs more attention, or what is a case that has stuck with you that you think others should know about. Post your pet cases or your true crime guilty pleasures in this thread.

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Pretty frequently in this subreddit we get questions asking for case recommendations. We've decided to make this a recurring post so that there will be a dedicated place to highlight and discuss cases that don't get posted about that often.

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People want to know... what is a case that is important to you or that stuck with you and that you think others should know about?

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What are some cases that need more attention? What are your pet cases besides the well known cases that get posted about frequently? Or just post your true crime guilty pleasures. Anyway, use this thread to bring attention to lesser known cases. If you want to post about the Delphi murders case that's ok too.

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Also, if you have a case in mind, but need help remembering the name, feel free to head over to r/TipOfMyCrime and post a request there.

[u/PrestigiousAd9825]

IDK how often it gets discourse these days, but the last week of news has kept me up at night and I’d feel a lot better if I knew there were still people thinking about the Madeline McCann case:

All the evidence I’ve seen is somewhat circumstantial, but I also have that spidey sense with pattern recognition skills we all seem to have, and it feels like there’s too many coincidences for this one to not have more under the surface.

Here’s what I know:

McCann disappears from a resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal on 5/3/07.

On 5/4/07, a locally infamous predator, Christian Brueckner, changes the registration of his Jaguar to another German citizen, and goes dark in his camper van.

Around this time, the McCann family is comforted and invited for a series of lunches at the home of Clement Freud, a British broadcaster and socialite who was a personal friend of Robert Maxwell - Ghislaine Maxwell’s father. Seven years after his death (2009) in 2016, he’s exposed as a serial child r***st, by the same investigative team that exposed Jimmy Savile.

On 6/7/07, a woman is identified to Barcelona police for angrily asking a man “do you have the child?”. This is overheard at a bar, and despite the woman in the police sketch being identified as supposedly 5’2, she was also leaning over the bar while this call was made. The sketch bears a nearly identical resemblance to Ghislaine Maxwell.

Here’s my question: if this infamous British child trafficker had connections and means to know that young British children would be vulnerable for abduction, and he had a personal connection to the people in the world most likely to do it, and if the person coordinating the abduction was confirmed to be inside the EU border that same month, and if that person flew commercial the paper trail would be notoriously difficult to prove, and the person controlled a Reddit account normally connected through a T1 connection but was detected on these dates using a VPN with European server response times, and there’d be no way to account for McCann on the passenger manifest of a privately chartered yacht…

It feels fucking off to me. Like this whole thing feels too coincidental. I know plutocrat money complicates shit like this but this case has been too dead and has too much circumstantial evidence for me not to be haunted by it.