. >> what do we know about christian brookner?he left germany and traveled to portugal. he broke in houses. he was a criminal in portugal. >> what crime is brookner currently serving time for? >> he's in pretty for raping an older american woman. he got a sentence of seven years for this crime, and at the moment half of the sentence is over. >> this is german prosecutor hans christian walters. while he is fluent in english, he sometimes answers in his native german due to the precise legal nature of the case. >> what makes you so certain that madeleine mccann is dead? >> we have some evidence for this. we have no forensic evidence but we have other evidence, but i'm not allowed to speak about this at the moment. >> you wouldn't come out and say that madeleine mccann was dead if you thought there was a chance that she wasn't, correct? >> yes. >> so to be clear the formal suspect in madeleine mccann's case is a convicted rapist and a known pedophile? >> yes. >> shockingly, authorities received their first tip on brookner back in 201

a german national named christian brookner. officials here refer to him as christian b. the suspect lived in this house in portugal. they also say a cell phone listed under his name has been located to have been in the area at the time of maddie's disappearance. authorities released pictures of the vehicles he used at the time. another include, british officials say he tried to reregister one after maddie vanished. >> the news continues. let's hand it over to the laura let's hand it over to the laura coates and "cnn tonight". -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> thank you so much and have a great weekend. i'm laura coates and this is "cnn tonight." it's another frustrating night for the teachers and families of people massacred in uvalde, along with the survivors of the attack. they're heading into yet another weekend without answers about law enforcement's extremely delayed response just last tuesday. the department of public safety is no longer issuing a preliminary report that was expected to be released today. there is new information trickling out pertaining not