Baby Grace is Madeline McCann? New Questions in Baby Grace Case

Several callers believe that the child's body may be that of Madeleine McCann, a 4-year-old British girl whose disappearance from a resort hotel in Portugal in May has made international headlines, Tuttoilmondo said.< (AP Photo)


Is Baby Grace Madeline McCann?

The strange sad case of the little girl found floating in Galveston Bay has taken another turn. Investigators have now said it's now possible that the body of Baby Grace could be that of McCann, who was abducted during a trip to Portugal earlier this year. Earlier reports had ruled out McCann.

More on this sad case and it's developments from the Galveston Daily News:

Investigators haven't formally ruled out the possibility that Baby
Grace is Madeline McCann, the 4-year-old British girl who went missing from her parent's Portuguese hotel room in May, Tuttoilmondo said. But he said despite an Internet effort to link the two, officers are fairly confident the child wasn't McCann. Sheriff's office detectives are collaborating with officials in Great Britain and Portugal to see if dental records and DNA tests can confirm the two cases are
separate.

"She's not off the radar yet," Tuttoilmondo said.

The cases are scattered across the country, he said. Detectives are also looking into the potential that the case could be international, even though the child was found wearing Target-brand clothing only sold in the United States.

Investigators haven’t formally ruled out the possibility that Baby Grace is Madeline McCann, the 4-year-old British girl who went missing from her parent’s Portuguese hotel room in May, Tuttoilmondo said. But he said despite an Internet effort to link the two, officers are fairly confident the child wasn’t McCann. Sheriff’s office detectives are collaborating with officials in Great Britain and Portugal to see if dental records and DNA tests can confirm the two cases are separate.

“She’s not off the radar yet,” Tuttoilmondo said.

Officers continue to receive hundreds of tips, something Tuttoilmondo said he hopes doesn’t stop.

“I’m just waiting for someone to make that call that tells us something that seems incredibly insignificant to them,” he said. “That could be the call that leads us to answers.”

Learning about how Baby Grace died is secondary to finding out who she is, Tuttoilmondo said. The final autopsy report is not yet complete, but once it is, the cause of death will be kept secret to prevent harm to the investigation, Tuttoilmondo said.

Preliminary reports said she had a skull fracture but did not identify that as what killed her.

The case has drawn worldwide attention as the authorities search for the whereabouts of one little girl whose name is known. And try to put a name to the yet-unknown little girl called "Baby Grace".

Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 409-766-2222, the agency’s tip line at 866-248-8477 or any Crime Stoppers organization.

by Little Baby Ginn



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The Heartbreaking Story Of Baby “Grace”

She wore a little pinkish red shirt and skirt; her sneakers were white with little pink flower decorations that lit up. A little blonde girl somewhere between the ages of three and five, her body was stuffed in a storage bin floating on the salty blue green waters of Galveston Bay, her skull fractured. The Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled that she had been dead for at least two weeks.

No one knows who she is or where she came from. The Galveston authorities have named her “Baby Grace” and have asked for anyone with information about this case to contact them.

Where are this little girl’s parents? No one has come forward to claim his or her precious missing little girl. To me, if her mother were alive, she would have gone to the police when her baby went missing unless, unless… the mother is involved in her baby’s death or the mother is also dead, perhaps the victim of foul play?

My prayers go out to Baby Grace and to the good people of Galveston who are faced with dealing with not only the heinous crime of the murder of an innocent little child but also the mystery of who she was and who the monster, or monsters were that did this to her.

by Little Baby Ginn
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NOTE: The phone number for the Galveston Police, Jamaica Beach station is 409-766-2100.



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