Authorities looking for answers into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann haven't given up hope, RadarOnline.com can reveal, after a new search for the little girl's body was called off after just three days.

While initially believed to have been fruitless, officials have finally sent some samples of fragments off to a lab for analysis. Article continues below advertisement

A search of longtime prime suspect Christian Brueckner 's Portugal home was initially deemed unsuccessful .

Authorities had been combing scrubland near Praia da Luz, Portugal, near where the three-year-old child vanished, with JCBs, radar, and fingertip searches, in hopes of finding vital clues.

But now, with the search called off, any chance of solving the decades-old case could lie in tiny fragment

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