Everyone who has followed the Madeleine McCann case has learned that the police have carried out new searches at the Arade Dam in Portugal, looking for new information about the girl who went missing 16 years ago.

Madeleine McCann case: altar and letters written by suspect in girl’s murder uncovered – Photo: Reproduction/ND

The site was searched for more clues to Madeleine McCann’s whereabouts after several photos, complaints and even an altar, according to The Independent.

British couple Ralph and Anne have said they found a makeshift altar for missing Madeleine McCann in a reservoir.

The two said they found a “very strange” type of shelter seven months after the child’s disappearance, in 2007. The couple said they reported the hideout to the Portuguese police, but they never received a response.

According to Ralph and Ann, they stumbled across a row of rocks that point to a spot with a bouquet of white lilies and a photograph of a missing child.

Altar, letters and flowers: the search for the shrine of Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann disappeared on 3 May 2007 at the age of 3 in Praia da Luz in southern Portugal. Photo: reproduction/Instagram.

Last week, the local police raided the place. Evidence packages that have not been made public are pending in Germany.

At the same time, a series of letters were discovered written by Christian Brückner, the prime suspect in Madeleine’s murder. “The world thinks I killed Maddie, but I didn’t,” he wrote.

The letters are written by a man arrested for raping an elderly woman in Praia da Luz. In his testimony, he calls himself innocent and even tried to claim that he had nothing to do with the disappearance of the British girl.

“You can never imagine what it’s like when the whole world thinks you’re a child killer and you’re not,” he says.

German police say they have “concrete evidence” that the British girl is dead, but nothing has been proven yet. Despite denials, German authorities said in May this year that they had found new evidence linked to Madeleine in a van owned by a German.