‪‪Disappearance of Madeleine McCann‬‬: After 9 Years, Detectives Believe Missing 3-Year-Old Could Still Be Found

In April, the Madeleine McCann operation was given an additional 95,000 pounds ($136,700), funding the search for a further 6 months.

A photo of British girl Madeleine McCann aka Maddie is displayed on a TV screen at an apartment in Berlin, on October 16, 2013. AFP

Flashback to the last time 3-year-old Madeleine McCann was seen: 10:14 p.m. on May 3, 2007, in Praia da Luz, Portugal.

Although many of the facts surrounding her 9-year disappearance remain unclear, investigators have resurfaced their efforts to locate the now teen.

“There is ongoing work,” Mick Duthie, head of Scotland Yard’s Homicide and Major Crime Command told Evening Standard. “There is always a possibility that we will find Madeleine and we hope that we will find her alive.”

Named “Operation Grange,” the British team launched thorough investigations up until 2015, when the team size was scaled back from 29 to just 4. This month, the operation was given an additional 95,000 pounds ($136,700), funding the search for a further 6 months.

“That’s what we want and that’s what the family and the public want, and that is why the Home Office continues to fund it,” Duthie said. “There is work that still needs to be done.”

Parents of Madeleine McCann, Kate and Gerry McCann, hold an artist's impression of how their daughter might look at the age of 9, ahead of a press conference in central London in 2012, 5 years after Madeleine's disappearance. Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images