Investigating the disappearance of a British girl at a Portuguese resort, police is now considering the possibility that she might be dead.
Investigators say Madeleine McCann vanished May 3 from an apartment where she was sleeping with her two-year-old twin siblings in a tourist complex on Portugal's southern Algarve resort coast while her parents were dining in the hotel's restaurant.
Three days after she went missing, a Portuguese police spokesman based in the regional capital Faro said evidence pointed to a possible abduction which could have had "sexual" motives.
Investigators were analyzing if the blood was Madeleine's. It also said there was evidence someone tried to wipe away specks of blood off a wall.
Police in Britain are reportedly testing samples to determine if it is blood, and the find has fueled speculation that the child could have been harmed or murdered in the room.
Using rakes and hedge cutters, police cleared vegetation from the grounds of the house where Murat lives, which is about 100 yards from where Madeleine was last seen.
Dozens of journalists and curious tourists crowded the approaches to the town's small church as the McCann family arrived for the service, one of several events planned to mark 100 days of the British girl's disappearance...
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I can't even imagine her parent feelings.