A documentary showed a re-enactment of a rape the victim claims was carried out by Christian Brueckner, a suspect in the ...

Brueckner — whose real name is Christian Fischer, according to The Times — was born in 1976 and adopted as a baby, but his adoptive parents allegedly sent him away.

Christian Brueckner, a 48-year-old German, is the main suspect in the case, and he is currently behind bars for raping an American woman in the Algarve area where Maddie went missing.

Christian Brueckner, right, a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal, speaks with his lawyer Friedrich Fuelscher as they wait for the verdict in a trial on ...

German police believe that Christian Brueckner, a convicted child abuser and drug trader, killed the three-year-old after she vanished during a family holiday in Praia De Luz, Portugal in 2007.

Christian Brueckner has been serving a seven-year sentence for the 2005 rape of a woman in Portugal’s Algarve region, in the area where Madeleine went missing.

Brueckner has yet to be charged in connection to McCann's disappearance, but German authorities noted their belief in his involvement in 2020. "We opened a murder investigation against the 43-year ...