A hotline set up in the hunt for Madeleine McCann was flooded with 347 calls after her parents made a televised plea for information regarding the missing 4-year-old 's whereabouts. A private detective company hired by Gerry and Kate McCann, who both remain suspects in the case, will investigate the new tips, the Telegraph reports.
The televised appeal, which aired around the world, included previously unaired footage of Madeleine opening Christmas gifts in 2006. Madeleine "should not be spending Christmas away from her loving family," Gerry McCann wrote in his blog, beseeching the person who took his daughter "to end our suffering" so as to appease his or her conscience. (More Madeleine McCann stories.)