Accused Stalker Inquired: 'Yet Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female indicted with stalking Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the court learned communication data and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.
'I Don't Want Money'
A separate phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.
The panel was informed that via electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.
The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the evidence, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.
On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."
During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I will prove my position."
The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.
Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to say the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be taken seriously in the period preceding the visit to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.
The court learned communications between the two accused, in last November, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.
"We must make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the trip to their home, the defendant sent a communication which expressed: "We're currently positioned outside the McCanns' home with our lights out like private investigators. I desired to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
