
Rui Pedro was 11 years old when he went missing in Portugal in 1988. He has never been found.
The little boy’s disappearance is mentioned in the new Netflix documentary about Madeleine McCann, as a way of explaining why the Portuguese people were feeling unsettled about the attention Madeleine’s case garnered in 2007.
Madeleine’s case is still to this day, the most famous missing child’s case in the world, and has had millions and millions of pounds poured into an investigation trying to find her.
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“I can assure you the money police spent on the Portuguese children is not even 1% of what they spent on Maddie,” former detective Paulo Pereira Cristovao told the doco-series.
“Just one girl? There are lots of people, lots of kids kidnapped,” footage of a Portuguese local is also shown in the documentary. His comment reflects the sentiment of many living in the European city at the time.