On the evening of May 3, 2007, three children slept in a ground-floor holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, a resort village on Portugal's Algarve coast. Their parents were having dinner nearby with friends. The apartment was not far away. The distance was part of why the arrangement felt manageable.

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