How Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has protested his innocence in series of sinister letters and drawings sent from jail as he is cleared in sex crimes trial
Madeleine McCann suspects Christian Brueckner has protested his innocence in a series of letters to MailOnline since he was linked to her disappearance.
In the first five-page letter, written from the prison in Oldenburg where he was sent after being convicted of rape in 2019 and jailed for seven years, he mocked authorities for suggesting he was responsible.
German authorities sensationally named him in June 2020 as the man behind the ‘kidnapping and murder’ of Madeleine in 2007, when she was just three, but no charges have been filed since.
The neat letters provide a fascinating insight into the mind of convicted rapist Brueckner and clearly reveal his obsession with trying to convince the authorities and the public, through the media, that he is innocent of involvement in Madeleine’s kidnapping.
Brueckner wrote: ‘Welcome to the greatest adventure you can imagine. “I’m the most famous bad person in the world and I’ve done nothing – well, almost nothing.”
Madeleine McCann suspects Christian Brueckner has protested his innocence in a series of letters to MailOnline since he was linked to her disappearance
A graphologist who examined Brueckner’s letters and neat handwriting for MailOnline says they show he was ‘distorted and misguided’ and that his ‘fantastic views are constant and unchanging’.
Brueckner’s four-page letter ends with a drawing of a daisy (pictured) with its petals plucked and the words “not guilty” and “guilty” circling it and the caption “Spring is coming…” next to it.
He added: “I didn’t kidnap anyone and of course I didn’t kill anyone. I’ll go even further, I’ll tell you that I didn’t attack anyone after I was 18.
“I made some stupid mistakes when I was younger, but who hasn’t?”
Then, referring to the Madeleine case, he said, “Maybe I was a suspect after all they found out about me.
‘Drug dealer, breaking into houses, living in cars and there was a thing about kids when I was 17.
‘But they didn’t have even one piece of evidence that I was involved in the McCann case. And they still don’t have it.
‘I know why. Since they don’t have Maddie’s hair or anything like that, it means no one can put something like that in my stuff and find it.
“The idea behind all that was perhaps to make the BKA (German Police) and the German Prosecutor’s Office famous as well, and known all over the world as the smartest organization ever.”
Brueckner led a nomadic existence while in the Algarve, living in a camper most of the time
He added: “They (German authorities) have manipulated the truth in such an unprofessional way that it makes me laugh.
‘I still haven’t lost my sense of humor. Even in this critical situation. This is what keeps me alive.’
The penciled letters sent to MailOnline are notable for Brueckner’s characteristically neat and small script – which one graphologist said was ‘distorted and misguided’.
In one of his letters from prison in Germany, where he is serving a sentence for raping an elderly lady, Brueckner makes a pencil sketch of the long, dark corridor of a prison wing. Perhaps the isolation wing where he is being held in Oldenburg prison
Handwriting expert Tracey Russell added that they also showed that his “fantastic views were constant and unchanging.”
She said his letters indicated someone who wanted “command and control” and added that the “long extended finish line on the horizontal letter S is symbolic of” someone suffering from guilt.
She continued, “In some cases, this symbol is seen where a violent death has occurred close to the writer, and they are trying to come to terms with it.
“Whatever the truth is, there is a need to constantly feed his ego, and his ultimate goal is to gain some kind of recognition” before concluding that he had a “short fuse.”
Another letter in almost word-perfect English, sent to MailOnline, contained a drawing of a daisy with its petals being plucked and the words ‘guilty’ and ‘not guilty’ surrounding it.
In an apparent campaign to clear his name, Brueckner wrote before his current trial: “You can never imagine what it’s like when the whole world believes you are a child murderer, and you are not.”
Madeleine McCann was three years old when she disappeared from her parents’ room while sleeping on holiday in Praia da Luz in May 2007
Then he brags, “I was told a long time ago that the District Attorney’s Office was closing the Maddie case because there isn’t even the slightest bit of evidence. There will never be a trial.
“The prosecutors are not saying anything to the public because they have to give the files to my lawyers – and they contain a lot of material that confirms my innocence.
Brueckner – who describes the investigation as a “Brothers Grimm fairy tale” added: “The police and prosecutors are trying to create a monster to distract people and make them think I’m the right one.”
Christian Brueckner was pictured pulling up in a prison van outside the courtroom in Brunswick, Lower Saxony, at the start of his trial.
He continued: ‘They (researchers) will never understand that the idea they had was brilliant – I said Hollywood couldn’t do it better – but they chose (sic) the wrong lead actor – me.
‘I’m almost certain that some other people in my situation, under all the pressure, insults and threats (sic), would have capitulated long ago.
‘They would have asked where they could sign the death warrant. But not me. I’m as strong as old boots.’
Brueckner again complained that he is being made a scapegoat in both the Madeleine investigation and his current trial, adding: “The accountability is not strong enough to admit the mistakes they made in the Maddie case.
‘So they’re desperately trying to accuse me of other strange things. It doesn’t matter that I look very different, as the victims say.
‘I would really like to know what they say, to convince them that it was me after all.’
Concluding the letter, Brueckner said, “I write this without self-pity and my self-confidence and self-control have never been at a higher level.
‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Chin up! Better days are coming.’