Suspected Stalker Asked: 'However What If I Am Madeleine?'
A female charged with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a voicemail message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the court learned communication data and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout that period.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most covered investigations and remains unsolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
Another voicemail, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I believe."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Isn't that significant for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the recording stated.
The jury was informed that via emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.
The investigator, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."
During that incident Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."
The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.
Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time before the trip to Rothley, Leicestershire, in December 2024.
The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in last November, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.
"We must take action," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the visit to their residence, the defendant dispatched a communication which expressed: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The case ongoing.
