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Originally Posted by Zizu

The news people are suggesting the police only recently came across this latest evidence..

The article in the OP says :

A hard drive found at a disused factory bought by the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann investigation contains evidence she is dead, it has been claimed.

German prosecutors believe Christian Brueckner killed the three-year-old after she vanished during a family holiday in Praia De Luz, Portugal, in 2007.

The drive was discovered in 2016 at a disused factory which Brueckner bought for £20,000 in 2008, according to The Sun.

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German police also discovered six USB sticks and two memory cards in a wallet. The evidence was detected by a dog in 2016.