Explore published stories from Praia da Luz, Algarve, Portugal and nearby.
On 3 May 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal. Investigations across three countries, repeated searches and a damaging media frenzy have yet to establish what happened to her.
467 km · Lousada
Rui Pedro vanished at 11 in Lousada in 1998. An abduction conviction followed more than fifteen years later, but the courts did not establish the child’s fate. This dossier traces witnesses, appeals, unconfirmed leads, and his family’s continuing search.
762 km · Atlântico Norte
In 1872, a brigantine was found without any of its ten people aboard, although it could still sail. This dossier reconstructs the voyage, survey and Gibraltar hearing, separating the physical traces from the fiction that turned the case into a legend.
1,271 km · Nantes
Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès and her four children were found dead beneath the terrace of their Nantes home in April 2011. Xavier, husband and father, became the main suspect and disappeared after staying in hotels in southern France. This dossier traces the records, letters explaining the family’s absence, the last confirmed sighting and the public mistakes that kept the mystery alive.