Divers trawl lake

Divers trawl lake for Maddie body
4 February 2008
Evening Herald

Marcos Aragão Correia

Barragem do Arade reservoir search

• Marcos Correia
• funding search - estimated 1,800 per day
• received tip-off from top criminal in area that Madeleine abducted and dumped in the lake
• identified site on Dec 10 2007, told detectives but was ignored

• "This lead is quite credible. I don't believe Kate and Gerry did it. It could have been a single madman or a gang, I don't know."

• Barragem do Arade Reservoir
• 150ft deep in places
• short journey from Silvea - where truck driver claimed saw woman and man with child on May 5 2007
• six 'frogmen' searching by touch alone due to murky water
• sits beside a derelict hilltop diner and car park used as a camping site
• Jeremy Vargas
• went missing in Gran Canaria two months before Madeleine
• Vargas family said police believe cases may be linked
• Clarence Mitchell
• welcomed breakthrough

• "We're grateful to anyone who feels they have important information in the search for Madeleine. "If his search produces significant results he must, of course, share that information with the police and our investigators."

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