Suspected Stalker Questioned: 'However Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'
A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly left her a recorded message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and data recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and is still unresolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
Another phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.
The panel was told that via electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who compiled the data, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.
On October 9th, 2024, the father responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."
During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will persist and I will prove my point."
The court heard the co-defendant developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in December 2024.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the time preceding the appearance to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.
The court was told communications between the two defendants, in November 2024, planning trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a dining venue.
"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to investigators. I wanted to do this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The case ongoing.
