 Police who spent days searching near a dam for Madeleine McCann's body have warned not to 'expect too much' from their finds. Detectives from the Federal Criminal Police (BKA), Germany's equivalent of the FBI searched land next to the Arade Dam in Portugal last month. They used sniffer dogs, radar and search teams to scour the location just 31 miles from where three-year-old Maddie vanished in 2007. Prime suspect Christian Brueckner, 45, once referred to the location as his 'little paradise'. However detectives are set to confirm they have not found anything of note. German public prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters told Bild: 'Please don't expect too much.' It remains unclear as to why investigators decided to search the land near the dam so thoroughly. Portugues authorities started the search around the Arade dam, in Silves, near Praia da Luz in May (Picture: Getty) Maddie has been missing since 2007 and police are still trying to find her (Picture: AP) Helge claims that, while the pair were drinking beers, Brueckner said 'she didn't scream' in relation to Madeleine and her kidnapping. The two men had the interaction at a music festival in 2008. Mr Busching told German outlet Bild: 'The topic [of Madeleine's disappearance] came up and I said: 'Anyway, I don't understand how the little one could have disappeared without a trace.' Portuguese sources point to an informant giving police a specific tip-off that Brueckner visited the site just days after Maddie went missing from her room in Praia da Luz. It was claimed they were searching for a camcorder and a gun tossed into the water but Portuguese police sources were quick to dismiss that. Regardless of what is found at the site, top German criminal profiler Axel Petermann, says the cops were right to dig at a place so close to Brueckner's heart. He told The Mirror: 'The criminal){kind=link}
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Police who spent days searching near a dam for Madeleine McCann’s body have warned not to ‘expect too much’ from their finds.
Detectives from the Federal Criminal Police (BKA), Germany’s equivalent of the FBI searched land next to the Arade Dam in Portugal last month.
They used sniffer dogs, radar and search teams to scour the location just 31 miles from where three-year-old Maddie vanished in 2007.
Prime suspect Christian Brueckner, 45, once referred to the location as his ‘little paradise’.