Cold Cases in Portugal
ColdCaseIndex documents 2 cases in Portugal, dated 1998 to 2007. 1 is recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Rui Pedro (1998) and the most recent is Madeleine McCann (2007).
Regions covered: Algarve (1).
Status of the 2 cases in this index
- Unsolved 1 (50%)
- Partly resolved 1 (50%)
By type
All Portugal cases
Unsolved
2007
Madeleine McCann
Three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while her parents dined at a nearby restaurant.
Partially Solved
1998
Rui Pedro
Eleven-year-old Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça disappeared from Lousada, Portugal on March 4, 1998. Afonso Dias, acquitted at a first trial in 2012, was later convicted of kidnapping and sentenced to three years in prison; he was…