More recently, investigators searched the remote Barragem do Arade Reservoir, which lead suspect Brückner called a “little piece of paradise” and is 30 miles away from where Maddie was last seen.
“I called Scotland Yard in 2008, on the Maddie hotline. I told them I knew someone who had something to do with it and gave them his name. They wrote down my personal details, my phone number, but nothing happened. Nothing! They never even called me back. I thought to myself: I think at some point they will get in touch,” the German man, identified only as Helge B, told tabloid Bild from his home in Corsica.