Madeleine McCann Assumed Dead, Prosecutors Suspect Sex Offender

Kate and Gerry McCann pose for the media with a missing poster depicting an age progression computer generated image of their still missing daughter Madeleine during a news conference in London on May 2, 2012. Sang Tan/AP Photo

Madeleine McCann, a British girl who vanished while her family was vacationing in Portugal in 2007, is believed to be dead, a German prosecutor announced Thursday.

“We assume that the girl is dead,” Braunschweig state prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said. “The public prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig is investigating a 43-year-old German national on suspicion of murder.”