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Kate and Gerry McCann have to wait a week to see the police files on the Madeleine case, but a summary has already been leaked to a Portuguese website
It explains why the couple were made arguidos... because of the "scent of death" detected by the cadaver dog and their own reluctance to answer police questions.
According to the leak, the dog found the smell of a corpse in the couple's bedroom at apartment 5a and behind a sofa in the living room.
The dog detected the same on Madeleine's soft toy Cuddle Cat and on the key fob in the family's hire car.
The police report says the couple were made arguidos "due to the slight possibility of connection to a corpse".
The second animal - a blood dog - found traces of Madeleine's blood behind the couch, on two items of Kate McCann's clothes and on the key fob and in the car boot, according to the leak.
It also says there was a DNA match to Madeleine's on samples taken from the car but later forensic results did not confirm that initial finding.
Robert Murat was made a suspect after a British Sunday newspaper reporter gave his name to police because of his "inquisitive" behaviour.
Suspicions were fuelled by friends of the McCanns who claimed he helped in the search for Madeleine on the night she vanished, contradicting his alibi that he was at his nearby home with his mother all night.
The report says detectives found no one else who saw him on the night and telephone wires and searches provided no evidence of his involvement.
In a fascinating glimpse of the kind of information fed to police, one witness said he had overhead Gerry McCann talking into his mobile phone in nearby Lagos and saying "please don't hurt Madeleine".
Detectives did cell site analysis on Gerry's phone and established he was elsewhere at the time. The witness was wrong.
