Sinister letters and drawings by Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner revealed

The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been undertaking an extraordinary letter writing campaign to try and persuade the world that he had no involvement in her disappearance.

Police suspicions of convicted sex offender Christian Brueckner this week sparked a major new development in the case as officers searched a reservoir he frequented at the time of her disappearance 16 years ago.

Now we can reveal that desperate and obsessive Brueckner, 45, has written a string of letters hoping to get publicity for his campaign to exonerate himself of anything to do with the mystery.

One letter was sent just days before the start of this week’s search for her at the Barragem do Arade reservoir near Silves, just 35 miles from the Algarve holiday village of Praia da Luz, from where she disappeared in May 2007 while on a family holiday.

The neat, pencil-written letter gives a fascinating insight into convicted rapist Brueckner’s mind and clearly shows his obsession with trying to persuade the authorities and public, via the media, that he is innocent of involvement in Madeleine’s abduction.

MailOnline can reveal Christian Brueckner, 45, has written a string of letters hoping to get publicity for his campaign to exonerate himself of anything to do with the mystery

Madeleine McCann went missing from her room at the Portuguese holiday resort of Praia da Luz on the Algarve on 3 May 2007

Convicted sex offender Brueckner has accused police of 'attempting to create a monster' out of him over the disappearance of Madeleine 16 years ago

Madeleine McCann went missing from her room at the Portuguese holiday resort of Praia da Luz on the Algarve on 3 May 2007. Convicted sex offender Brueckner has accused police of ‘attempting to create a monster’ out of him over her case

A graphologist, who examined the letters and Brueckner's neat handwriting for MailOnline, says they show he was 'distorted, deluded' and his 'fantastical views are constant, unchanging.'

A graphologist, who examined the letters and Brueckner’s neat handwriting for MailOnline, says they show he was ‘distorted, deluded’ and his ‘fantastical views are constant, unchanging.’

Brueckner's four-page letter ends with a drawing of a daisy (pictured) having its petals picked and the words ¿not guilty¿ and ¿guilty¿ circling around it and the caption ¿Spring is coming¿¿ alongside it.

Brueckner’s four-page letter ends with a drawing of a daisy (pictured) having its petals picked and the words ‘not guilty’ and ‘guilty’ circling around it and the caption ‘Spring is coming…’ alongside it. 

In one of his letters from jail in Germany, where he is serving a sentence for raping an elderly lady, Brueckner does a pencil sketch of the long, dark corridor of a prison wing. Perhaps the isolation wing where he is being held at Oldenburg jail

In one of his letters from jail in Germany, where he is serving a sentence for raping an elderly lady, Brueckner does a pencil sketch of the long, dark corridor of a prison wing. Perhaps the isolation wing where he is being held at Oldenburg jail

Graphologist Tracey Trussell, who examined the latest missive and others he’s sent over the last two years, said they showed Brueckner was ‘distorted, deluded’ and his ‘fantastical views are constant, unchanging.’

She said his letters indicated someone who wanted to ‘command and control’ and she added the ‘long extended endstroke on the reclining letter S is symbolic of ‘someone who suffers with feelings of guilt’.

She went on: ‘In some cases, this symbol is seen where a violent death has taken place close to the writer, and they are trying to come to terms with it.

‘Whatever the truth, there is a need to continually feed his ego, and his ultimate aim is to get some sort of recognition’ before concluding that he was on a ‘short fuse’.

Investigators who are probing Brueckner, who is currently serving seven years in jail for rape, insist however that they have ‘concrete evidence’ that Madeleine is dead – and believe he killed her.

He addresses this in the May letter, writing: ‘You can never imagine how it is when the whole world believes you are a child murderer, and you are not.’

He almost seems to gloat in the knowledge he will not face a judge and says: ‘I got told a long time ago that the prosecutor’s office was closing the Maddie case because there is not even the smallest evidence. There will never be a trial.

‘The prosecutors are not saying anything to the public because they must give the files to my lawyers – and they contain many (sic) material which confirms my innocence.’

Brueckner adds that police and prosecutors are ‘attempting to create a monster’ to ‘divert and let people think that I am the right one’.

Portuguese police at the request of the German authorities searched Barragem do Arade Reservoir in Silves on the Algarve this week. The area is around 25 miles north of the holiday apartment where Madeleine disappeared from in Praia da Luz

Portuguese police at the request of the German authorities searched Barragem do Arade Reservoir in Silves on the Algarve this week. The area is around 25 miles north of the holiday apartment where Madeleine disappeared from in Praia da Luz

Prime suspect Brueckner is believed to be at the centre of this search at the behest of the German authorities. According to an informant to the German authorities, Brueckner was known to spend time at the reservoir when Madeleine went missing

Prime suspect Brueckner is believed to be at the centre of this search at the behest of the German authorities. According to an informant to the German authorities, Brueckner was known to spend time at the reservoir when Madeleine went missing

A map shows the movements of Brueckner around the Algarve at the time Madeleine disappeared while on a family holiday

A map shows the movements of Brueckner around the Algarve at the time Madeleine disappeared while on a family holiday

Police are searching a Portuguese lake for the pink pyjamas Madeleine McCann was wearing when she vanished in 2007, sources close to the investigation have said.

Officers are searching the Barragem do Arade reservoir in Portugal for any fragments of clothing or old rags that could be related to Madeleine’s disappearance, according to reports.

The main theme throughout his letters – all written in near perfect English – is how he is being ‘persecuted’ by prosecutors, and he even accuses them of ‘fitting’ him up.

In the latest one Brueckner – who is due for release in 2026 – also makes eyebrow raising sexual allegations about key members of the investigating team which cannot be repeated as they are a legal minefield, but MailOnline is aware of them.

Hinting at what he claims, he writes: ‘I mean a gay investigator who is in love with a big criminal. Outrageous. Have you ever heard that a hunter is xxxxing his prey?’

Then complaining about the psychological battle he is going through Brueckner adds: ‘The torture I’m going through is the best evidence I can have.

‘If somebody would have told me things like that before I would have said ‘No, I don’t believe you. This is Germany and not Pakistan.

‘I’m not able to tell the real treatment I get because I don’t have the right words for it. Of course, this all happens by the orders of the BKA (German criminal police).’

Then in a dig at the investigators he adds: ‘They will never understand that the idea they had was brilliant – I said already that Hollywood couldn’t do it better – but they choosed (sic) the wrong leading actor – me.

‘I’m almost sure that some other persons in my situation, under all the pressure, the insults and the threatenings (sic) would have capitulated a long time ago.

‘They would have asked where they can sign the death judgement. But not me. I’m tough as old boots.’

Officers were searching the lake in Portugal for the pink pyjamas Madeleine was wearing when she vanished, sources close to the investigation said. Her parents Kate and Gerry were pictured hold similar ones up at a press conference in 2007

Officers were searching the lake in Portugal for the pink pyjamas Madeleine was wearing when she vanished, sources close to the investigation said. Her parents Kate and Gerry were pictured hold similar ones up at a press conference in 2007 

Investigators searching for Madeleine at a remote reservoir in Portugal are hoping to find evidence of other potential victims targeted by the prime suspect. They have collected samples, which have been sent for forensic testing in Germany

Investigators searching for Madeleine at a remote reservoir in Portugal are hoping to find evidence of other potential victims targeted by the prime suspect. They have collected samples, which have been sent for forensic testing in Germany

Scientists are expected to have initial results of what they found next week but it is feared it could take months for a full analysis to be completed. Pictured: Investigators at the Algarve on Thursday

Scientists are expected to have initial results of what they found next week but it is feared it could take months for a full analysis to be completed. Pictured: Investigators at the Algarve on Thursday

Brueckner ends his letter complaining once again that he is being scapegoated by the BKA who he accuses of errors in their case but he remains unswervingly convinced that eventually time will prove that he is innocent.

He says: ‘Like I told you already. The responsibilities are not strong enough to admit the mistakes they made in the Maddie case. So they try despairingly to accuse me of other weird stuff.

‘It doesn’t matter that I have a completely different look like the victims are saying. I really would like to know what they tell them to convince them that it was me nevertheless.’

Closing his latest letter Brueckner defiantly says: ‘I’m writing this without self-pity and my self-confidence and self-control was never at a higher level.

‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Chin up! Better days are coming.’

The four-page letter ends with a drawing of a daisy having its petals picked and the words ‘not guilty’ and ‘guilty’ circling around it and the caption ‘Spring is coming…’ alongside it.

The previous letter MailOnline obtained from Brueckner, a few weeks earlier, saw him moan about being treated worse than feared Nazi war criminal Joseph Goebbels while serving his sentence in Oldenburg jail in northern Germany.

He described how he was being deprived of his ‘prison rights’ on outside visitors because authorities feared he would get ‘sexual satisfaction’ from interacting with other people – and how as a result he was being kept in solitary confinement.

Brueckner wrote: ‘I even have to ask for the weekly jam and margarine that other inmates get automatically.

‘It is against human rights to get isolated for such a long time and in this way. Not even Goebbels and his war crimes friends were isolated like me when they were awaiting their death penalty in Nuremberg prison.

A timeline shows Brueckner's life from birth in 1976 in Germany to being jailed for raping a pensioner on the Algarve

A timeline shows Brueckner’s life from birth in 1976 in Germany to being jailed for raping a pensioner on the Algarve

Brueckner (pictured) led a nomadic existence while he was in the Algarve, living most of the time roaming around in a campervan

In his letters  convicted sex offender Brueckner insists he is innocent over the disappearance of Madeleine (pictured)

Brueckner (left) led a nomadic existence while he was in the Algarve, living most of the time in a campervan. In his letters Brueckner insists he is innocent over the disappearance of Madeleine (right) 

‘It is the right of prisoners to receive visitors – except for me. All I see is my lawyer and the guards, they say if anyone else visits me I will get sexual satisfaction.’

His rant came after a similar missive last year in which he compared the German prosecutor investigating him, Hans Christian Wolters, to Adolf Hitler.

In 2019 Brueckner, was jailed for seven years in his native Germany for raping a 72-year-old America woman, at her home in 2005 in Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve coast, close to the holiday complex from where Madeleine vanished two years later.

He was convicted after his DNA was found at the scene, but he insists he was framed and while in an earlier letter he admits ‘making mistakes’ in his life he denied ‘raping or torturing anyone’.

Prosecutors in Germany have inked him to at least three rapes on the Algarve and a series of indecent exposures on children in the area during a period from December 2000 up to June 2017.

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