Madeleine McCann case:
Truck driver accused of kidnapping being questioned

Praia da Luz, Portugal - Investigators looking into the Madeleine McCann disappearance are now attempting to determine if a Portuguese truck driver facing charges of child kidnapping had anything to do with Madeleine's case.

Little Madeleine -- who was about to turn four -- vanished on May 3, 2007 while on vacation with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, had been dining with friends and left the girl and her twin siblings in the villa where the family was staying. When the McCanns returned, Madeleine was gone.

In March 1998, Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonca, 11, disappeared from his home town of Lousado. Police in the area believe he was abducted while walking home from school and then taken to a prostitute who was paid to have sex with him, according to the Daily Express.

Later, unconfirmed reports indicated the boy had been seen in Paris at Disneyland with a middle-aged man -- which meant he could have been moved to the area by a gang of pedophiles, the Express reports.

The private detectives working on Madeleine's case are now tracing the steps of the accused kidnapper over the past 13 years.

According to the Express, the man admitted three years ago that he was with the Rui on the day he went missing and said, 'As far as Rui Pedro is concerned, the thing I want most in the world is that he appears' I never denied being with him. But I never saw him again after we parted company that day and I haven't a clue what happened to him.'

Anyone with any information regarding Madeleine's case should contact the McCanns through their website, www.findmadeleine.com, or call their investigation line at 0-845-838-4699.