On the evening of May 3, 2007, a three-year-old girl disappeared into thin air at a resort in the southern part of Portugal, Praia de Luz. Madeleine McCann was on vacation with her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann and her twin two-year-old siblings…..plus a collection of their doctor friends and their kids. The grown-ups dined every evening at Tapas, the restaurant at the resort, and Madeleine and the 2-year-old twins had been left alone asleep at 8:30 in the ground-floor apartment, while the McCanns and their friends had dinner. The parents checked on the children throughout the evening, until Madeleine's mother discovered she was missing between 9:45 and 10:00. The Portuguese police were coming under fire from the public, the British police and the British press to make some progress on this case. There was also incredible internal pressure to solve this case. The Madeleine McCann case grew in it's media coverage and at one point was getting more attention than the death of Princess Diana. The number of sightings were growing, most of which turned out not to be Madeleine. The resentment on the part of the Portuguese public was growing because local children who went missing didn't get 1/10 of the attention and resources that the Madeleine McCann case was garnering. The Portuguese police brought in cadaver and blood dogs and they searched the McCann's holiday apartment. The cadaver dog found evidence of human decomposition in 2 places in the apartment. The blood dog found evidence of blood in one of the same places, behind the couch. Then they searched the car and both dogs found evidence of human decomposition and blood on the drivers door of the McCann's rental car and in the boot of that car. That was the turning point in the case. The Portuguese police were convinced that the parents had something to do with the disappearance. The theory was that the McCann's had sedated their children before they went to dinner, and unfortunately they oversedated Madeleine and then devised this elaborate plan to cover her death.