A German prosecutor claims to have evidence Madeleine McCann is no longer alive.
Speaking with Sky News, prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said, "After all the information we got, the girl is dead".
Three-year-old Madeleine disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia Da Luz in Portugal in May 2007. She has been missing for 13 years and her parents have been trying to piece together how she vanished ever since.
Parents Kate and Gerry left Madeleine and her twin siblings sleeping while dining out with friends at a nearby bar. After checking on their sleeping children throughout the evening, when they returned at the end of the night Madeleine was gone.
Christian Brückner, the new suspect in the case, was thought to be living near the resort in Portugal around the time Madeleine went missing. Although, police can not pinpoint his location as it is alleged he lived in a campervan.
The prosecutor believes police need more information about where Brückner lived, so they can search for the missing British girl's body.
Two vehicles and two phone numbers linked to Brückner at the time he lived in Portugal are under investigation. Brückner received a phone call from 7.32pm to 8.02pm on the evening of Madeleine's disappearance. Police have released the phone number as they believe it is critical to the case.
Brückner also took a call from another number not in the area, which police are interested in. The campervan he was living in at the time of Madeleine's disappearance was a 1980s VW T3 Westfalia. The other car which is under investigation is a 1993 Jaguar XJR6, which Brückner re-registered in someone else's name in Germany the day after Madeleine vanished.
Since the Metropolitan Police in London appealed to the public with this new information, they have received over 200 tip-offs about Madeleine's disappearance.
The case, 'Operation Grange', is still being treated as a missing persons case and has cost GBP£11.75 million, (NZ$22.8 million) after being open for 13 years.
Wolters admitted he does not have enough hard evidence for Brückner to go to trial.
"The hard evidence we don't have, we don't have the crucial evidence of Madeleine McCann's body."
Wolters said police needed help from tourists who visited the Praia da Luz in the years around the time Madeleine vanished.
Wolters believes Brückner could have committed more crimes against other British people and wants them to get in touch with the police.
