Remember Little Madeleine? the Little Blond Girl that Disappeared Years Ago? They May Have Found Her Kidnapper!

Madeleine McCann

Christian Brueckner is facing investigations over the deaths or disappearance of at least three other children.

The Madeleine McCann suspect drove regularly between his native Bavaria and the Algarve in Portugal and police are now tracing his movements to investigate if he could be linked to other cold case files.

Prosecutors in Belgium have confirmed they are investigating if he was connected to the murder of 16-year-old Carola Titze, whose body was found in sand dunes in De Haan, near Ostend, in 1996.

The teenager was said to have met a German man while she was on holiday in the town and was seen with him at a disco just days before her murder. Police in Germany have reportedly told the family of a missing boy they are to reopen the inquiry into his disappearance.

Police in Germany are also investigating whether Brueckner was involved in the disappearance of five-year-old Inga Gehricke in 2015, after it emerged he had been nearby.

Inga Gehricke

Often referred to as 'the German Maddie', she vanished from a family barbecue in Stendal, northern Germany, after going to collect firewood.

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In Portugal, police face pressure to re-examine the case of Joana Cipriano, eight, who disappeared in 2004 from Figueira, seven miles from Praia da Luz. Her mother and uncle allegedly confessed to her killing but her mother has since said she was forced to admit to the crime by police who beat her.

Her lawyers called for the case to be reopened after Madeleine, left, vanished, because of similarities between the two disappearances. Joana's body was never found.   

Brueckner, 43, is currently languishing in a German prison in Kiel on a drug-related sentence.

The family of German six-year-old René Hasse, who went missing in the Algarve in 1996, revealed police are re-investigating the case for the first time in 20 years.

Rene Hasse

It was revealed yesterday that Brueckner could also be linked to the mysterious killing of 16-year-old Carola Titze in 1996.

Carola Titze

Carola vanished on the morning of July 5 while holidaying with her parents at a Flemish resort in De Haan, West Flanders.

The German teenager was missing for six days before her body was found violently mutilated on the sand dunes.

In the days before her disappearance, she was allegedly seen at a disco with a German man, who policed tried to track down but failed.

Prosecutors in Bruges confirmed to local media they are now probing the possible connection between Titze's death and Brueckner.

Six-year-old René Hasse went missing in the Algarve 24 years ago.

The boy's father Andreas Hasee told his local newspaper that an investigator from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) phoned him yesterday, for the first time in 20 years and said they were re-investigating the case.

The six-year-old from Elsdorf, Germany, was on holiday with his family in Aljezur - just 25 miles from Praia da Luz, in the Algarve - when he vanished on June 21, 1996. 

He went missing after running towards the sea and his family and the authorities had previously accepted René drowned in a tragic accident.

He had been running ahead of his mother and step-father during a walk on the beach. After losing sight of him, they never saw him again, with just his clothes left lying on the beach.

René's grandparents have previously insisted their grandson would never have wandered into the sea by himself and said 'his footprints stopped in the middle of the sand'.

Prosecutors have also re-opened the investigation into whether Brueckner abducted Inga Gehricke after she was grabbed from Diakoniewerk Wilhelmshof in Saxony-Anhalt during a family outing five years ago.

Her disappearance on May 2, 2015 - almost eight years to the day after Madeleine vanished in Portugal on May 3, 2007 - was only 48 miles away from where Brueckner lived on the ramshackle five-acre in the isolated of village of Neuwegersleben, south-east of Hanover.

More than 100 officers descended on an old box factory in February 2016, digging holes looking for Inga's body.

The little girl wasn't found but Brueckner's USB stash of child sex abuse images was discovered on a USB stick hidden under 'animal bones' with police now set to return, according to German tabloid Bild.

Brueckner was prosecuted over the child porn but he was never charged with Inga's disappearance when the probe was dropped after four weeks.

But prosecutors confirmed this week that they have reopened a preliminary investigation into whether he was involved in the unsolved Inga case.  

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