'The guide is obsessed': Twisted tour into the disappearance of Maddie McCann
A man fixated on the 2007 disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann has been slammed for conducting tours based on her final known movements.
Nearly ten years have passed since the three-year-old girl vanished from the Ocean Club Summer Beach Resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
While her decade long investigation has been the topic of much scrutiny, not many envisioned a twisted sight seeing tour that places her disappearance squarely on her parents.
“The guide is obsessed with Maddie. He’s written thousands of words about the case and pored over maps, photographs and police transcripts,” one British national living in Praia Du Luz told the Sun.
The disturbing tour, dubbed “Luz Challenge”, takes people to the apartment in Praia Da Luz, the bar where parents were the night she went missing and through the streets near their holiday home.
It took nearly three months for the first person to sign up for the despicable tour, which asked participants to speculate whether they think Kate and Gerry McCann were responsible for her alleged death.
The tour also made its way to Our Lady of the Light church in Luz, where earlier information had suggested that the toddler’s body may have been put in someone else’s coffin.
“You have to come up with a way in which the McCann's, for whatever reason, disposed of Madeleine’s body, and the body was not found in searches,” the unnamed tour guide wrote on his blog.
“I think of this as the Luz Challenge. Our version of Mission Impossible.
“If you can visit Luz, please get in touch with me, because I would like you to show you the reality.”
The nine-year police investigation into Maddie’s disappearance was extended by six-months and $180,000 in April this year, meaning the search could come to an end later this month.
The McCann’s do have the option of pursuing a private investigation should they wish to do so. It is estimated they have more than $1.4 million at their disposal, most of which came from their book about Maddie’s disappearance.
